Orbital Owl @Zuph@octodon.social

Hello World #introductions

I'm Brad, 31, he/him, in the US Midwest, and an engineer working on cool space hardware.

Stuff I like and am good at:
- Electronics
- Embedded Programming
- Cooking
- Hiking
- Tabletop Games

Stuff I like and am getting better at:
- Knitting
- Sewing
- RATS RATS RATS
- Web Programming

Stuff I want to do:
- Start a commune with all my friendos
- Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

Yoooooo

The more I learn about other languages, the more I realize how good English is at filing the serial numbers off

really wanting to just take a kayak and disappear into the woods for a while

Embarrassing admission time: Model trains? Super cool. If I had time, money, and space, I'd be super into model trains.

I'm out of sick leave at work, so I'm doing things The American Way™️: Coming in anyway and really half-assing it. Like maybe even quarter assing it.

I am FINALLY recovering from being sick for over a week. Still not better, but able to keep up with the day to day again.

Immune systems are bullshit and corporeality is a prison.

boy oh boy love 2 feel like boiled garbage after traveling

While on vacation this week I introduced my uncle to the idea of a farnsworth fusor and the next day he had ordered the glass cylinder and deuterium he needed, with everything else already in his junk pile.

Really tired of all the "Unrestrained capitalism is the only way to save the planet" takes that are coming across every other social media platform lately.

Seems like more than usual.

I'm in Puerto Rico this week, and yesterday I visited the Arecibo Observatory, the biggest single-dish telescope humanity has constructed. Owing to failing science budgets, an administrative disdain for Puerto Rico, and hurricane damage, the visitors center is now their single biggest source of income. They'll let almost anyone observe if they're able to cut a check, starting at just $500.

My Silly Mistake of the day: I've designed a battery powered device that can turn itself off after an idle time to save power.

My first bit of debugging firmware immediately pulls that pin the wrong direction.

So now my thing immediately turns itself off.

TIL: Jim Keller was an instrumental part of designing AMD's most successful microarchitectures (K8, Zen, and others). And lead Tesla's autopilot program. And is married to Jordan P*terson's sister.

That's a rollercoaster.

Poll worker: Is that a gill-o-tine on your shirt?
Me: yes, yes it is
Poll worker: Do you want to kill people?
Me: Well, no, but sometimes the symbolism of...
Poll worker, whispering: I want to kill people

god bless america

With any luck I'll never have to tear my place apart for a flash drive again