I have lived long enough to see commercial humanoid robots become reality. I really wish I could properly articulate how strange it is to be Generation X.

Sometimes I have no idea what goes on behind me till reviewing the footage with CompBetty. I don't know who you were or if it was my lead messing you up but way to fight for that follow for all you are worth. As they say in Galaxy Quest, "Never Give Up, Never Surrender!" youtu.be/JjnFaINGQSs

The slider channel for the shift mech and the slider block that rides within. Insane quality for a 0.4 Bambu stainless steel nozzle fresh out of the bag. Can't wait to see this material out of the AMS HT into my professional toolhead with the MAKO hotend on a Diamondback polycrystalline nozzle.

I too was fabricated in the model year 1973. In the early 00's my body impacted a Ford F150 pickup with enough blunt force to break the driver's side A-Arm and Tie Rod. I dance with cats every AM. Things of that era were just made of stronger materials. Death comes for me, he better come hard.

Pretty much my entire 'professional' roadracing career summed up in a single YouTube Short. youtube.com/shorts/L8dmU...

Morning Cats, Coffee, and Toprock.

Pt 2. Progress on the '$30 3D Printed H-Pattern shifter.'

Pt 1. Progress on the '$30 3D Printed H-Pattern shifter.'

Lul...

Going live around 5ish - Assembling the $30 3D printed sim racing H Pattern shifter My Twitch - www.twitch.tv/moike_the_sq... BFVR Twitch - www.twitch.tv/brainfizzvr BFVR Kick - kick.com/moike-brainf... BFVR YouTube - www.youtube.com/brainfizzvrllc My Instagram - www.instagram.com/moike.the.sq...

Girl Wonder and I are on the couch filling out the California DROP bullshit for 2026. Notes: - It doesn't even go into effect until August 1st. - It feels like it has been specifically built to mainline my personal data directly to data brokers removing any mining work they'd need to do. o_O

Let's ring in the new year with vibe drifting. My Twitch - www.twitch.tv/moike_the_sq... BFVR Twitch - www.twitch.tv/brainfizzvr BFVR Kick - kick.com/moike-brainf... BFVR YouTube - www.youtube.com/brainfizzvrllc My Instagram - www.instagram.com/moike.the.sq...

Happy 2026 to my growing Spatial Reality, Maker, and Drift Families. I love and appreciate each and every single one of you. And now as is tradition in this House, we greet the morning with Cats, Coffee, and Toprock. Pardon my huffing. I forget I'm 52 and think I can still bust out hard 6-step.

Pampering a shop robot. A story in three parts. Part 3, convinced. The AMS HTs are nice. New OEM 0.4 hardened nozzle, 'cheap' prototyping carbon fiber for the first test plate. My tuned optimal baseline settings for printer-toolhead-filament-job. Not even using my good toolhead and nozzles yet.

Pampering a shop robot. A story in three parts. Part 2, that one where your initial baseline test print turns into a bullseye leaving you without words.

Pampering a shop robot. A story in three parts. Part 1, the installation coupled with a lot of skepticism.

"This contract would of course would require onsite, we're Return to Office." "I am afraid I will have to decline your generous offer as that will clash with my creative process." My Creative Process

We're house (farm) poor for a bit. Someone spot me a few stacks to buy a development chassis for BFVR Labs. racemarket.net/drift/drift-...

So, I got up to no good on Saturday ~ Part 4 For 150 dollars I get to drive like an absolute lunatic, chasing after absolute lunatics. This time my friends brother got the math wrong on the old Scandi flick. I knew it eased off just enough to watch the show unfold, giggling. youtu.be/mjOmKPt5M_s

So, I got up to no good on Saturday ~ Part 3 Raymond gave me that E-Ticket ride in the AE86, so in turn I gave his son a Pro level Taxi Ride in the ABARTH complete with a rolling stoppie down from triple digits. Not many people have experience a rolling stoppie in a car :) youtu.be/uXCjg2D8nas

So, I got up to no good on Saturday ~ Part 2 I learned drift in VR in sim on the World Drift Tour Street AE86. Hours doing drills, practice. I know that WTD Street AE86 like an old pair of shoes. Raymond gave me my first slide in the real deal / real world. It was dreams. youtu.be/KNMyAFavtus

So, I got up to no good on Saturday ~ Part 1 It was the last Valley Drift Club event for @spikely.bsky.social before she relocates to Italy for good. So we made sure she went out with a brap brap brap brap brap brap brap brap... youtu.be/nW2YAeNjIHQ

Water-cooled, two-stroke sealion.

I just realized I now own acres of private farmland, a backhoe, and hogs. Gotta say that's got me pretty bricktopped up.

So I started taking Latin lessons to bolster my Italian. I had no idea that taking Latin would also lift the fog on so much of my UNIX regex skillset by cross-context knowledge gap filling. Given how my brain works it loves Latin and wonders why we have other languages? It has no fat on it at all.

Here I sit in an augmented body that sounds like a bag of ratchets covered with scars and wounds. Bonuses include bald on top and 10x the hair everywhere else. And the US Alpha Males are worried about bitch tits. Cutting off their own Big Naturals while telling my friends they can't bolt some on.

Here's a Hot Pro Gamer Strat for California and the CHP: Crack down on fixing the highways and I wouldn't have to use the same technique driving them as I used for riding my CR500 down abandoned railroads where the faster you go the smoother the ride gets over the track timbers. You cabbages.

I should not be allowed anywhere near CAD software or rapid prototyping tools. youtu.be/byLZ_fg9Vuc

I pumped so much money into this cabinet in the arcades that I should have just bought one. Golfland USA in Sunnyvale at an 8 seat competition unit and held a Grand Prix Competition weekend. I didn't just win, I devastated every single person I was put against in the bracket straight to the top.

Chungus-1100RR Edition

Lul... youtube.com/shorts/QC6DQ...

Experiments in application of simulation, digital communication, and modern virtual reality to provide a consequence free environment. In this instance the only thing missing for me was a paper plate of tacos and a soda on the roof of my 350Z. It merits further investigation. youtu.be/qvW7xYcdI-w

Hanging out on the public Voice Chat of the BFVR Labs discord server with the livestream box while I sit in the simpit working vampire hours. If you use Discord, feel to pop in and chat... it's a big empty house, it's creepy this late. Link straight to VC ~ discord.gg/8RjvtrFe

Doing some Spicy Plumbing since I'm up on Italy time. Trying to determine why I am home alone in SF House with it literally shut down to a bedroom, office, and kitchen yet the PG&E bill is stupid high. We have gas heat, gas dryer, gas stove. Nearly everything is unplugged but what I need to work.

If the original American Steelworkers who built that skyscraper saw that image they would immediately trim that beam to spec just right of frame. For safety. For all of us.

Packing the garage to move, found a lithograph, got creative... youtu.be/Gnzx2rxqGxs

So, I tried to return a motherboard I bought from a seller on ebay. DOA. No big deal, things happen. Seller provided a label for the RMA bag in the shipping bag. Apparently they provided the wrong kind of label to mail a package from San Francisco (me) to New Jersey (them).

If you're not paying attention to this govt. pentest, you need to be. They're seeing just how hard they can press us in preparation for whatever is coming down the pipe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7NG...

- Reading news today on the fresh images showing 3I/ATLAS Sun blooms looking like thrust vectors - 3I/ATLAS is supposed to be here on Dec 19th Stupid Theory: What if Jesus was an Alien and he's coming back on his Birthday to whip all our asses with the belt for letting things get so bad down here?

Leaving for Italy is sinking in, I have found myself checking off bucket list items. Spending more time with the Club has definitely been one of them and I'm glad I've made the effort. 1st Thursday of December means Club meeting. I get to fold myself up on a GSXR for a 170 mile round trip.

Ok, which one of you said Apple and Meta were ran by lizard people from outer space? Because I'm pretty sure I remember seeing this form factor in the 80's as a child...

Stand for no bullshit, call out all bullshit, drag all assholes out into the light of day. Don't be fucking polite about it.

As a GenX'er who still has nerve damage in his fingertips from childhood battles with an Atari 400 bubble keyboard.

My split personalities itch.

So, I've been sitting here in overwatch, quietly observing the XR industry for a decade. Waiting to see if a cyberspace would truly emerge. I have waited for WebVR, then WebXR, then OpenXR, and the industry to get it's shit together in terms of interoperability and real open standards. It won't.

Look man, say what you will about Kash, but any good cosplayer will tell you that when you're LARPing it is very important to have every tiny detail of your character's costume perfect to get into the role you're pretending to play. I'm just interpolating what I read in the article into the void.

23 year old me is blind drunk right now outside of a Goth Club with one eye closed trying to light the filter end of a Djarum Black... ...while cackling at fully zooted 52 year old me sitting here hitting the USB C end of a weed vape pen wondering why no smoke is coming out. Same as it ever was.

Booming Movie Narrator Voice: Bread is 30 dollars a loaf. Eggs might as well be Fabergé. You have to finance DDR5. But for the Highly Motivated Gearhead... "Life, uh, finds a way"

Man I see a photo like this and the first thing I do when I get done laughing till I wheeze because Mr. Nimoy literally looks like he's Hashing, is get sad and wonder what happened to Hashing, the hipsters in costumes that were jogging between bars to drink beer, the chaos... Guess the beer won?