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bk1e

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Everything is going wrong / All my songs are coming true
Software engineer - Austin, TX - he/him

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stoneymonster, to random
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I…. huh. 😒

Chat • Powered by ChatGPT | '''python import fenics as fe Chat with a human # Define mesh and function space mesh = fe.UnitSquareMesh (32, 32) V = fe. VectorFunctionSpace(mesh, 'P', # Define boundary conditions def boundary(x, on_boundary): return on_boundary bc = fe.DirichletBC(V, fe.Constant (0, 0)), boundary) # Define trial and test functions u = fe. TrialFunction(V) v = fe. TestFunction(V) Write a reply... TEXT

bk1e,
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@stoneymonster Me: What make of car did Don McLean drive to the levee, but the levee was dry?

Chevrolet of Watsonville Chat Team:
Ah, that's a classic line from the song "American Pie" by Don McLean. Unfortunately, I don't have information about the specific make of car mentioned in the song….

loriemerson, to random
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the last of today's nerd dump: look at this incredible illustration of the complexity involved in sending photos via cable across the Atlantic in 1926! I believe this is an illustration of the Bartlane Cable Picture Transmission System which translated images into variations of five-hole punches onto Baudot telegraphic tape and then transmitted, reversing the process at the other end using a teletype machine.

bk1e,
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@loriemerson That’s interesting how they used multiple prints with different exposures to digitize the brightness levels. This newsreel from 1937 about sending photos over wire domestically (not across the Atlantic) shows a simpler, more analog process: https://youtu.be/cLUD_NGE370

NanoRaptor, to random
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Some assembly required.

bk1e,
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@NanoRaptor Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

bk1e,
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@mcc One time, I tried shooting photos with Velvia 50 slide film but didn't get around to developing the film for about 11 years, and when I finally did, it turned out that I had taken the pictures on Mars.

A scraggly tree on a cliffside beneath a purplish sky
Hazy and orange shot of Austin’s Seaholm (ex-)Power Plant

bk1e, to random
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does the dog become a demon dot com

bk1e, to random
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🎵 It’s my party and I’ll become a demon if I want to 🎶

bk1e, to random
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You can use mustard instead of mayo in tuna salad and you can use mayo instead of butter on grilled cheese, so can you use mustard instead of mayo instead of butter on grilled cheese?

bk1e, to random
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Rottentail’s muttering reminds me of the character Jello Biafra played in the song “Can God Fill Teeth?” by Lard.

“Where’s the pliers? God damn it, where’s the pliers? WILMA! Where’d you put my electric drill?”

bk1e, to random
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Thinking about how the palindromic number in “99 Luftballons” by Nena sidesteps the difference in order when spelling out numbers as words in English and German.

Would this song have been as much of a worldwide hit if it used a non-palindromic number like 95? „Fünfundneunzig Luftballons“ vs. “Ninety-Five Red Balloons”?

Apparently only the German version of the song made the charts in the US, so maybe it wouldn’t have mattered.

https://journa.host/@steventdennis/109804105165491559

bk1e, to Texas
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Bloomberg is reporting that ERCOT is predicting Texas power prices will surge by 800% today, to $2500/MWh.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-power-prices-surge-800-191023828.html

bk1e, to random
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Suddenly realizing that the characters in this thing are named after Sara Lee, Famous Amos, Cadbury, Jimmy Dean, Mrs. Fields, …

bk1e, to random
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Things I Won’t Work With: Giant, Man-Eating Brains

bk1e, to random
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Death to Videodrome?

bk1e, to kaiju
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Oh, the huge-mothity!

SnoopJ, to random
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The most important lesson of the series is that Dracula's Castle is a McMansion

bk1e,
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@SnoopJ I remember enjoying the GBA Castlevanias, then not finishing Portrait of Ruin. I don’t really remember Dawn of Sorrow, but I strongly disliked the 3D Castlevania for the PS2, so I guess Castlevania DS was ok?

Symphony of the Night is the one I keep going back to. I have the PS4 Castlevania collection that includes everything up to SotN, and the older ones (pre leveling) are pretty difficult for me 😅

bk1e, to random
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They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs? This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

bk1e, to random
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I feel like this movie doesn’t really capitalize on the inherent horror potential of elevators, but to be fair it predates Poltergeist III (let alone Final Destination)

bk1e, to random
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Those look like Halloween III jack-o-lanterns

bk1e, to random
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A royalty free soundalike of London Bridge Is Falling Down?

bk1e, to random
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RIP Shane McGowan of The Pogues

Here’s a photo I took when they played Austin in 2009.

bk1e, to austin
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Texas sky update

#atxwx #Austin #aurora #solarFlare #hopeItsNotLensFlare

More pink glow, farther from streetlights
Fainter pink glow

futurebird, to random
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Peering into the future portal and recoiling in horror as I realize they have but one text from our time: an index of unicode characters, and the poor souls are trying to translate the thing, having determined it is our encyclopedia.

bk1e,
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@futurebird It’s fun to think up ZWJ (zero width joiner) sequences for these.
🐜👑
🐜🪖
🐜
🐜👑🪽
🐜♂️
🐜🐛
🐜🥚

bk1e, to random
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They haven’t gotten to Gordon Ramsay’s disastrous grilled cheese yet.

bk1e, to random
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You may not like it, but this is what peak off-camera flash performance looks like.

bk1e, to random
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Is this song over 9 minutes long? #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #GraduationDay

bk1e,
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Back to the perfectly normal house with the perfectly normal statues

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