Scott Helmke

The village had a drone show last night - live band ahead of time, food truck, etc. Cold, though! Anyway, it was kind of cool but reminded me of the early days of computer art. The tech is neat, but still waiting on some genuine artists to show up and make it do something unexpected.

"Sexy BMS 4924 compression driver replacement diaphragm".

Got my dad on Linux like 15 years ago, tech support calls dropped off a cliff.

Live sound business - "Oh, by the way..."

CLEs? Command Line Editors?

I am here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and good news I brought enough bubble gum for everyone! :) :) :)

Mentally he's already pretty much dead. Honestly and bluntly, I don't think it'll matter all that much. :(

Very cool! And what the heck is that Epiphone you're playing?

Two cooking pans on a stove top, with red liquid in them.

Let the saucening begin!

I still keep a paper calendar in my home office - it's mainly used to remember months-away duties and such, but also to credit myself for good activities. Excercise, biking to work, etc.

Yesterday's entry merely reads "pallet racking". That's a couple day's worth of exercise.

Congrats! Let it be a worthy challenge.

Concrete steps by loading dock. Rust stains, weeds.

Congrats on the new gig!

Finally got around to dragging the old recumbent bike up from the basement (where it lives on a trainer for winter exercise) and putting it on the street again.

Still fun!

Still not entirely practical!

Star Wars, most likely. I was a little freaked by the robot costume person they had out in the lobby.

Same story in my family. My dad gave me power of attorney years ago to help with a refinance and it’s been gold in past year to have that.

Scary stuff, hope you folks stay safe.

They have an old laptop running chatgpt, which they consult for major decisions. “We’ll have to decide your death later, when The Oracle has been charged”

That's not original, but the fun idea was that they'd vote on who did which role. And be obvious about it too. "Hang on a minute, the Violence faction is still nominating the Bad Cop. Don't worry, I'll try to protect you since I'm the designated Good Cop."

@acastelletto.bsky.social this is one of those odd fiction ideas I come up with, but I'm not a writer.

I had this idea of a near-future paramilitary group, basically new civil war America stuff, and the interesting idea was that they'd play good cop / bad cop with people they captured.

Today’s service call to a church on the south side, with weekend 1.5x labor rate, was courtesy of careless carpet installers.

“What’s the matter, Lassie?”
“Woof.”
“Little Timmy is trapped in a well and his phone battery died?!”

A row of woodworking clamps holding two strips of wood together while gluing.

Always
Be
Clamping

Happy Birthday!

An art that expects low bandwidth.

From the same crowd that would consider autism a worse fake for their kids than dying of a preventable disease.

I don't know what you do, but in my society you are welcome (as long as you aren't a Nazi asshole).

This has the nasty dangerous smell of eugenics.

The interesting question is when Rube Goldberg became a historical unknown. That "Mousetrap" board game was definitely a part of my childhood.