Arakin

Mixed-up dragon-wolf-raccoon, plus software-engineer. Lover of sci-fi, books and tech.
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2026-05-13 15:13:48 CEST

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I didn't realize it was a photo until I read the text - looks great!
(Out further from the center the pollen looked like someone had dropped a bucket of yellow paint, until I saw all the puddles had it) 😅

2026-05-04 21:45:42 CEST

Let's not forget this classic Star Wars spoof starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost 😉
https://youtu.be/z5W8EBHNsLc

2026-03-29 01:21:54 CET

Organising my backups and found this fun screenshot from 2000 of the website I had built for my dad running in Internet Explorer 3 😅
The company had a small showroom and sold solar panels, novelties, water pumping systems and other such items. My Dad had been involved in various small projects in the area.
I remember creating a gif of the Sun which had the triangles spinning around it - and seeing how purple the sky is in that photo, I'm sure it had been taken on my Dad's Casio QV-100 digital camera.
https://medias.meow.social/media_attachments/files/116/309/516/268/496/860/original/3086ee2453b39a93.png

2024-09-09 11:38:25 CEST

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it's 1.7m from the middle of the shelf to the wall a the end of the bath. The space available there is 0.7 or 0.9m wide at most...
I've only played with one compact projector so far, but I had the impression few have optical zoom in that form factor?

2024-09-08 23:21:05 CEST

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I didn't bring the bath-tray with me for watching things on the trablet yet, still no internet here and I'm wondering about a mini projector, such as the Nebula capsule that @npub1jjf…jh0u had been testing recently - there's room for seeing it up behind your head and projecting on the far wall, but I wonder about how wide it is at that distance

2024-09-08 23:19:28 CEST

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oh no! And I doubt they provide a bench for setting a laptop/tablet over the bath for watching movies?

2024-09-08 23:03:52 CEST

Priorities: enjoying a proper deep bath for the first time in AGES 😊
Whilst I've been fortunate that our flat had a bath, it was extra narrow to fit in the available space. All the bathrooms in the new place are pretty cozy, with the doors and sinks coming into conflict if one isn't careful, but there's plenty of space for storage and things with the doors closed again.
https://medias.meow.social/media_attachments/files/113/103/933/910/762/720/original/749246c9056ea095.jpg

2024-07-04 11:37:17 CEST

I'd love to have been able to vote for the Lib-Dem candidate in my constituency (well - not _love_ but I'm glad it wasn't Labour), but my ballot paper only arrived in Germany on Tuesday evening :P
Yesterday was a clusterfuck of trying to see if I could hope to spend 55 euro to have it delivered by DHL Express, confounded by the local place I got up before 08:00 for undergoing new hardware and training, so it wasn't available before 13:00 and THEN the label printer still wasn't set up and wouldn't be ready the day after. The next place seemed to suggest they were looking after the place and the person responsible was out at lunch but I could leave it with them to be posted normally... and by the time I found a third place it looked like there was no hope that DHL could, or would, deliver it in time - in a safe Tory seat with FPTP🙃
So, if Surrey Heath loses to the Tories by a single vote, I'm sorry, but I really did try 😋