David Liu

When doing a hobby, it's very important to keep a tiered list of people in that hobby who are annoying so you can compare yourself favorably to them and also tell your friends "Get a load of that guy" when trying to save face

sure!
( courtesy @thedak.bsky.social )

The idea of games being art at their core is a broad cultural failure, as the idea of games being gambling at their core has been embraced instead.

Gambling is the only thing our culture produces anymore.

The average U.S. price for Grade A Large eggs was $4.15/dozen in Dec 2024, +13.6% vs. Nov 2024 🥚⬆️

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Liking for the manatee and emotional support log.

Yay thanks Tim! That Brompton rec paid off in dividends getting me to that airport.

Indiana Jones and the Plethora of Things you Smash Heads With.

Yeah just catching up with your posts. That sucks man.

Glad to hear you're being medicated esp now with antibiotics. Definitely better late than never. I know when I had chugging down my cough suppressant and decongestants, laying in bed was just heavenly...

Feel better soon Anton!

hope you're feeling better! it's been going around!! neighbor downstairs and child has it. (developed into pneumonia) and mine is just phlegmmy and hacky and i've had it for over a week now but i'm otherwise ... fine?

All this to say.

If all this still doesn’t work I’m gonna find a professional.

Picture of intumescent caulk around a pipe being pushed out while it’s still setting and curing.

Picture of the caulk creating cracks.

The worst part here is that the pipe expands and contracts in crazy large amounts and pushes the still-curing caulk out such that it sags and cracks.

I’ve had to repeat with another layer this morning. Hoping this seals before the heat comes back on.

Fire block foam spilling out of a ceiling and pipe seam

First layer of intumescent caulk over a heating pipe connected to the ceiling

How’s your holiday David? Well. Since I got my pilot’s license I have developed a crazy bronchial cold, dabbled in making blender add ons, and the hardest thing I’m doing is caulking a heating pipe in my home office with intumescent caulk and fire block foam and not making a mess

hahha yeah i had to do one of these for the exam! in much nicer winds of course.

After my checkride, I had a total 160 hours! Way longer than the average, for sure. :)

And yes, did a few crazy crosswind landings in weather with my CFI that I wouldn't ever do alone (by choice). Wish I caught those on video!

breaking my social media silence to quietly announce that after lots of stops and starts and a total of three discontinuations on my exam because of weather ...

this guy is now a licensed pilot.

woosh.

definitely echo this. starter packs are great, but like when you buy a starter pack of trading cards, you're not going to keep them all in your deck. you're going to remove some, add some others, and that's totally natural. i don't see why bluesky packs would be any different.

Those who are following/refollowing me via Starter Packs -- welcome! You might remember me from the games / VR+AR world. Sadly am less active on social media now (by design).

These days I mostly consult + advise + mentor folks. Always down to chat though. Ping me once in a while. :)

The classic Twitter Failwhale, updated for bluesky. Butterflies shaped like Bluesky icons carry a cartoon whale through a partially cloudy blue sky, holding him aloft with a net under his body

Just made this

A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "Do you like to draw with crayons. I'm not very good at it but it doesn't matter"

A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "It's the fun of doing it that's important. Now, I wouldn't have made that if I'd just thought about it."

A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "No matter how anybody says it is. It feels good to have made something. The best thing is that each person's would be different."

A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "In a way, you've already won in this world because you're the only one who can be you and that's the way it's supposed to be."

Fred Rodgers on the importance of making something even if other people don't think it's good had me crying this morning. Passing it along for anyone else that might need it.

WOO HOO well i'll be headed back to Singapore in Dec so perhaps a little exchange might be in order soonnn

This is an unsatisfactory, yet begrudgingly acceptable answer.

I mean YES.

I have been trying to stay off social media but this... this might change things if the critical mass returns

Anton's Chilli Sauce Store When?

Seeing lots of followers from the former bird site following! What just happened? A new import follower plugin?!

Breaking my social media break to exclaim that there probably is an intersection between the folks who use Dot by @newcomputer and readers of @robinsloan’s new novel Moonbound.

No spoilers but, huh. You folks feel it too?

The sourdough is real.

Lost in Translation | Suno indie rock-pop k-pop song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

One thing about music AI that I can’t decide if I hate or love right now is how it defaults to earnest cringeyness.

While trying to break it with multiple languages it instead does a somersault and came up with this: suno.com/song/676741...

I think one of the most unpleasant ways to know you don’t have COVID is when you walk into a stuffy elevator and the prior person had on too nuch perfume and most definitely farted.

Getting to the point of marginal German fluency that I can ask for directions and order food without folks lapsing into English for me … and then I’m headed home. :p