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Guys, I'm quitting my job as a Death Camp guard. The organization's culture is broken and there are also ethical concerns I can now vaguely sense. I loved working there for three years, standing guard, and guarding, and getting paid, but recently... Anyways, I'm writing a book about my time there.

Against the backdrop of "No, my baby, my baby!" and all that stuff, I often sat down and began to think. Really think. Something about all this felt off. But what? Then one day when I saw Kommandant Klaus yelling "Ihr feedback ist Kaputt!!!" at a coworker, something clicked. It was organizational.

Can you motorize N-scale cars with just garbage? Yeah, kind of. The tricky part is getting them around the loop-wheel at the ends. It might work best to use a wider turn, and maybe dangle the metal/magnet on a drag-line so the belt can be all-belt.

Battletech sketches, going more for the vintage look, less trunky and square-plated. There's quite a bit of difference between the early designs and later "refresh", which I think became greeble and silhouette homogenized close to its detriment.

For my re-designs here I'm thinking of using three design rules: > Limbs generally have a smaller front facing area and wider side facing area, i.e squished. > Limbs have more mass closer to the torso, though foot area can still be big. > Die-cast enamel painted toy feel.

What's the name of that battletech mech with the Darth Vader neck-guard helmet? Possibly late 1980s design. I saw a painting of it but forgot to save...

I think it looked something like this... very Darthy, and from that era when they weren't so bulky.

Getting vague visual ideas for a new hardware concept: C64-cube. The front panel could be quite interesting visually, featuring a datasette unit, with counter, maybe VU-meter, 5.25" floppy drive, Cartridge slot, and blinky lights. Borrow a bit from the SX case. Carrying handle. Blue trim.

Can't be a 1541 disk drive though as it's not that great of an implementation and it's fairly deep, making it hard to cubify. Floppy drives were fairly compact just as they were phased out, as seen in e.g. Sony Mavicas and cheap USB external drives. Don't think the 5.25 inch drives were ever slim'd.

500 megawatt data center: $ 15M * 500 ? Hardened killdozer with RC controls: $ 50.000 ? Seeing it go down the server aisles: Priceless.

Just one way to hide text in text. Simply making text white will reveal the line when highlighted and the line takes up space. The hidden bit here will only show up when copypasted, scraped or read using TTS. ( visibility:hidden; does not work here. )

A few times recently I've needed an obscure Swedish word translated, both web searches and translation things would give me nonsense. Usually I just go to wikipedia and change the language to get the answer. Now it was "krevera", which ddg says is crevice and google says is demand. Both are wrong.

Anyways, krevera means to explode, like e.g. the black powder storage on a ship, or an upset person figuratively bursting. Took me a while, but Google apparently thinks it's like kräva/kräver (demand) and ddg also does some autocorrect assumption making it crevice.

Made a little test. Bleach works to remove/reduce stains on paper (a drawing or like... a mystery brown spot in a book). I dabbed some hydrogen peroxide on with a q-tip and the spot faded to 20%. Will possibly bubble/warp the paper and cause the grains and specularity to misbehave though.

Traveling back in time would probably kind of suck, especially if it happened several times. Every cultural reference you knew would be impermanent along with anything you did, making everything incredibly disorienting. Who is Arnold? Was he in Zytor Wars? Or is he in that 1-hit-wonder popband BABA?

Time-jumps back to 1983 and: A Conan movie with the Zeb Macahan guy as old Conan comes out. V keeps its name but leans heavily into comedy, and has a laugh track. It's a huge success and everyone keeps quoting lines from it. Ronald Reagan steps out of a 747 without the stairs rolled up and dies.