there’s a scene in “Silo” where a character needs to repair a massive steam-powered turbine that is off-balance, scraping at the housing, and heading towards collapse. all fine and we’ll, it’s sci-fi, so whatever, they can make magic quick fixes to move the plot along.

what really bugged me, for some reason, is how characters started touching the internal components immediately after it powers down - I have to wait for significantly smaller motors to cool off before handling them, especially if they’re rotating poorly with a bad bearing, and burning from friction.

fo’ rizzle

appropriate how 88 lines up on the dial…

animale!

I never use prime, and stuff usually shows up in 2 or 3 days, anyway. They optimized their shipping abilities, and then convinced some people to pay more for it.

not with that attitude

they ratio’ing errbody out here

the ongoing July

I’ve never really thought about it, but what a great color scheme. And the saltire is definitely the winner of the bunch.

I have a feeling this era of cars won’t last long enough to become vintage

but radio will outlive everything, so those low FM station override things could make a comeback

see also: every mid-to-late 00’s car with specific iPod connection ports

I had to drive a newer Subaru recently, and it had no physical interface for any of the fan controls. I had to glance down to change temperature and speed, and that had me really uncomfortable.

Flat screen HMI don’t work in cars, and I am not on board with it as a standard.

I hate ads, with a burning passion, but when I get stuck with one that’s wildly irrelevant to my interests, I know that I’m doing something right. Feels good to be a blank spot on the algorithm.

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