It's very very still this morning.

#politics An interesting set of motivators are now active. A group of senators have to decide if they want to use the Epstein Documents as a distraction while they exploit the multiple $500K "bonuses" they could reap or if they want to defend the Cheeto in Chief.

Sometimes circuits get too messy to manage microcontroller sleep modes (especially when using 3rd party libraries). In these cases a "load switch" and "soft latch" circuit come to the rescue. The "runtime" current hasn't changed but "sleep" has dropped from an average of 395 µA down to 0.1µA.

"Kindness is costless but also priceless." - Warren Buffett His annual letter has some gems this year and hints that time is catching up with him. www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...

Truth in advertising ... 🤔

Gradual tweaks to the laser file for these backs. Color variances are partly the photo but mostly the manual "hand crafted" finishing process.

When did you first really grasp, “just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do something”?

The modern day version of that saying about a watched pot ... Watching TPU print 🥱

The 2026 eChallengeCoin already has full support for CircuitPython 10 🤩

Introducing the 2026 eChallengeCoin ! (code name: “kiss my brass”) This is the preproduction unit and is fully functional (but not in the way Data claimed). Still lots to do but we are “go” for throttle up!

For those "a bit too young" to know the reference .... Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971)

#politics The news media seems to blame Earle-Sears' defeat on external forces rather than the candidate's position on issues ... For example, she is on the record stating "Firing someone from their Job for being gay - 'that's not discrimination'."

Nerd Power

Wait for it ...

At the time Captain America crashed the airplane into the ice, navigation was by ADF (automatic direction finder). ADF uses NDBs (non directional beacons) - often powerful AM radio stations. It wasn’t very accurate at long distances. The Tesseract was dropped somewhere near the circled location.

Duke and Northern Arizona University. "EV vs ICE" leaves out a critical metric, "Miles driven per Year". Saying an EV is "cleaner" after 2 years only is valid when the data includes (1) the pollution accrued during production and then accrued by use. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

They say they want to return to the good old days. This is a step in that direction.

Woohoo!!!

Taking a break from electronics and lasers to make an organizer insert for my Messenger Bag. The hardest step is figuring out all the things I typically carry (and the extra things for conferences). The process begins on paper 🪡

If Billy Joel was writing "We Didn't Start the Fire" today, the last verse would be 10 minutes long.

I need to sit down and weed out all the "charge only" cables from my pile. 🥵

My "iPod" ... stuck at iOS 12.5.7 🙄

I created a challenge using an Enigma encrypted message. The clues were all creative license from “Captain America, the First Avenger”. In the 4th image is the decrypted message. Can you locate the Tesseract on a map?

"In deference to you Kent, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite."

Imagine a major music artist releasing an album today that was only 36 minutes long 😎

Pooper Scooper ...

Feels a bit like a scene out of Doctor Who ...

Time to start writing a new text adventure game - map development, objects, interactions, scoring, storyline, etc. I start with the map as it lets me visualize the entire adventure. I use trizbort.io because I can export an XML which is later ingested by my development tools.

GQ and the Louvre ...

It says a lot when two images from the Associated Press, placed side-by-side, imply they are of the same content with the first is a wide shot and the second is zoomed in.

Scooping up chaff. Pooping out bales.

After processing from nova.astrometry.net we get the following ...

Starry Starry Night

The unapologetic Elizabeth Warren, “… and America does not bow down to kings”.

CAD = Cardboard Assisted Design

Would King Charles like to party like it’s 1814?

How can you have a cardiac age if you don't have a heart?

I was curious what engraving depth I was getting from my "best fast" settings. It's pretty consistently 0.032" or approximately 0.8mm ... _which is right about where I want it_ 👍🏼

Me: "Can you do animations on an ePaper display ?" Also Me: ...

Say it with a coin ...

Smoke test: The yellow arrows were a surprise until I thought more. With the top funnel, air is pulled down and then expands outward. The real test will be to inspect the inside of the housing after a couple of coins to see where the ablated brass dust sticks to the 3D printed walls.

Enjoy 33 seconds with your morning tea ...

My cast iron skillets are like Charlton Heston's flintlock.

They finished up the soybean harvesting in the field next door. Farming is not for the faint of heart. The price now is 40% lower than one year ago. Tariffs are killing farmers, small business, and consumers. Only Washington is making money on the whole deal.

If I were to summarize, it would be "voices of the reasonable majority are drowned out by the affluent minority". Sadly, the journalistic herd regurgitate the bombastic affluent minority while ignore the factually accurate reasonable majority.

Ablating brass generates a lot of (unhealthy) dust. My extractor needs better control over air flow so I am reworking the end where "the work gets done".

Most descriptions of a "weather stick" read too much into them. They just indicate humidity - up for dry and down for wet. Adding changes over time can assist with short term weather forecasting. I just use it to decide "shoes or boots" for the morning dog walk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather...

The days are shorter. The economy is down. Grain prices have tanked. ... but the crop must be harvested.

TILT: Barry Manilow’s “Could It Be Magic” has a different piano opening sequence in its original album recording vs the radio single version.