TL;DR: I tried lots of CAD stuff with an eye towards someday being able to commercialize designs. F360 would be great if I could trust Autodesk. Solid Edge, Solidworks, and Onshape all have issues too. I want to make myself like FreeCAD. Some other options like Alibre are interesting, and many get weeeeird....
None of that is on-brand for Star Wars in any way. Yes, yes, "it's a setting," but it's also a style and a tone. Andor was pushing it a little, but fundamentally it was about finding hope and meaning, and being something better than your darkest temptations want you to be. Or, barring that, about sacrifice. I can handle some...
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled media-industry meta analysis to bring you a story about football players trying to become better at football (which, btw, they need to do rather badly).
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is ridiculed for dismissing the groundwork of The Force Awakens, but it’s a great sequel that continues the story properly. Here’s why....
The Deion Sanders coaching era at Colorado begins Saturday when the Buffaloes visit No. 17 TCU. Colorado hired the charismatic Sanders away from Jackson State.
Trying out this Mastodon/Microblog thing. Had a customized TKL keyboard plate laser cut, 3D printed and painted a case, hand wired the switches, and added keycaps. Geekhack link. #mechanicalkeyboards#DIY#3dprinting
Is this maybe also the space to ruminate on what the BCS and then the playoff have done to the culture of college football? I'm (just) old enough to really remember what the pre-BCS days were like (and let's be clear... the BCS was a two-team playoff and nothing more or less). There were pluses and minuses, but it was not...
It has been an honor shitposting with you all this season, pioneers in this strange virtual land. I reckon the overlap between "people who are into college football enough to obsess over it on the internet" and "people who will bail on the top CFB discussion forum for an experiment in non-profit social media" is pretty small,...
Why yes, yes I am a Texas resident and Jacksonville Jaguars fan who has finally found the nexus between college football and the Tennessee Titans' ownership being absolute perennial dickbags about the Oilers branding.
Duke’s opening-week rout of then-No. 9 Clemson served notice that the Atlantic Coast Conference wouldn’t necessarily fall in line behind the perennial powerhouse Tigers....
Interesting insight into how NIL and free transfers have combined (and only the combination could have done it) to wreak havoc on the G5, and to some extent up and down the chain. Seems the biggest schools are even cobbling together NIL packages for "walk-ons" that mysteriously cover the cost of attendance....
A weirdo tries some major CAD suites, but also a bunch of half-baked bizarre free CAD program out there...
TL;DR: I tried lots of CAD stuff with an eye towards someday being able to commercialize designs. F360 would be great if I could trust Autodesk. Solid Edge, Solidworks, and Onshape all have issues too. I want to make myself like FreeCAD. Some other options like Alibre are interesting, and many get weeeeird....
Promotion/relegation in college football? Game-changing idea could help save Pac-12 (sports.yahoo.com)
What if the Pac-12 and Mountain West changed the way college conferences operate by borrowing an idea from European soccer leagues?
Texas A&M set to fire Jimbo Fisher? Sixth-year coach would be owed more than $75 million in buyout (www.cbssports.com)
EDIT: Baffling journalism professors everywhere, the headline asked a question that could be answered "Yes." Aggies pulled the trigger....
FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM! (blog.freecad.org)
TP is essential.
Maybe just a lukewarm (see what I did there?!) take this time: I don't want to see a hard-R Star Wars horror movie or anything focused on an unrepentant Imperial or Sith.
None of that is on-brand for Star Wars in any way. Yes, yes, "it's a setting," but it's also a style and a tone. Andor was pushing it a little, but fundamentally it was about finding hope and meaning, and being something better than your darkest temptations want you to be. Or, barring that, about sacrifice. I can handle some...
Handwired a custom layout TKL-like with elements inspired by various retro computers' keyboards
3D printed keyboard case, feet, and cable grommet.
Designed and printed an air assist nozzle for my laser cutter.
Messing around with infusible ink markers and a laser engraver.
Florida enters year 2 under Billy Napier amid lowest expectations in nearly a decade (apnews.com)
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled media-industry meta analysis to bring you a story about football players trying to become better at football (which, btw, they need to do rather badly).
Why The Last Jedi is a Great Sequel to The Force Awakens (loudandclearreviews.com)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is ridiculed for dismissing the groundwork of The Force Awakens, but it’s a great sequel that continues the story properly. Here’s why....
Big 12 Conference Adds Arizona, Arizona State and Utah (big12sports.com)
Annnnd... it's official.
Big 12′s Brett Yormark: Getting Texas, OU to leave early ‘was a big deal for us’. Openly roots for TTU versus UT. (www.dallasnews.com)
Yormark as a publicity machine is gold. Trash talks with the best, but never quite crosses the line into "AAC is P6" eyerolling.
Finished my DIY keyboard with printed case, feet, and RPi Pico "caddy". Keycaps are not 3d printed, but the labels were DIY from my laser.
What to watch? Coach Prime's debut with Colorado takes center stage, but LSU-FSU is best matchup (apnews.com)
The Deion Sanders coaching era at Colorado begins Saturday when the Buffaloes visit No. 17 TCU. Colorado hired the charismatic Sanders away from Jackson State.
Finished the DIY build. Handwired, NO STABS, 3D printed case and feet, lasercut plates, Box Jades, and (kinda "meh") laser dye-sub XDA keycaps.
OC Flair kludge using a *monkey script
LIMITATIONS/WARNINGS:...
College Football Playoff consequences from Week 2: Does Bama still have hope? (www.espn.com)
Is this maybe also the space to ruminate on what the BCS and then the playoff have done to the culture of college football? I'm (just) old enough to really remember what the pre-BCS days were like (and let's be clear... the BCS was a two-team playoff and nothing more or less). There were pluses and minuses, but it was not...
Happy Thanksgiving, weirdos.
It has been an honor shitposting with you all this season, pioneers in this strange virtual land. I reckon the overlap between "people who are into college football enough to obsess over it on the internet" and "people who will bail on the top CFB discussion forum for an experiment in non-profit social media" is pretty small,...
NFL threatens Houston with legal action over 'blatant copying' of Oilers-inspired uniforms, per report (www.cbssports.com)
Why yes, yes I am a Texas resident and Jacksonville Jaguars fan who has finally found the nexus between college football and the Tennessee Titans' ownership being absolute perennial dickbags about the Oilers branding.
In progress build: DIY layout from KLE, Laser-cut plate using files from swillkb.com, DIY laser-dye-sub DSA using a few Glyphs I did in Inkscape.
ACC still standing with presence in rankings, statistics. And with different teams up top, for now (apnews.com)
Duke’s opening-week rout of then-No. 9 Clemson served notice that the Atlantic Coast Conference wouldn’t necessarily fall in line behind the perennial powerhouse Tigers....
Matt Mitchell: SEC Roll Call - Week One (2023 Season) (www.youtube.com)
I suppose it's more of a throwaway line, but this one was my favorite......
As college football's elite is engulfed in a power struggle, G5 left just trying to survive: 'We are a farm system' (sports.yahoo.com)
Interesting insight into how NIL and free transfers have combined (and only the combination could have done it) to wreak havoc on the G5, and to some extent up and down the chain. Seems the biggest schools are even cobbling together NIL packages for "walk-ons" that mysteriously cover the cost of attendance....