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This is an attempt to document which beer bottle labels exit the bottle with least effort. Some of the following I already know to separate terribly, some were coming off while drinking. But, a science has to start somewhere. All measurements were done badly, but this will start a discussion, not end an argument.

1/2 cup baking soda
Full sink of luke warm water
10:05am – 7pm ish

Emerald Triangle IPA – label sloughed off, little glue left
Rogue 4 Hop IPA – label was straight falling off, lots of glue
Lagunitas Stoopid Wit – label lifted off with ease, lots of glue left
10 Barrel Apocalypse IPA – label had to be scraped, but it came off
Elysian Dayglow IPA – booger glue, out turns out that baking soda doesn’t do jack against booger glue
Crux Cast Out IPA – label didn’t even move

So… results. Metallic labels or anything like it just don’t want to get give. Textured stock (Rogue and Lagunitas), the labels fall off, leaving bits of the label behind. Mild scraping with a Teflon scraper does the magic though. Cheap labels come off bit can be messier.

I’ve never seen a problem I didn’t want to fix. Now a lot of my solutions aren’t any better than the disease, but most of my solutions never get implemented anyway. The thing is, I’ll continue coming up with these solutions well post the time of usefulness. At least once a year I end up sing something and resizing it’s an even better way of removing a critical mass of snow on a roof.
So yesterday my work computer was starting to choke up a bit, so I pop open the task manager, and hello there Mr. Node.exe. It turns out that Creative Cloud uses Node for some backend.
I could totally work with that to quickly prototype some jdf/jmf integration in the workplace and get a proof-of-conc…
Oh, nevermind.

Soon the cat tree will be done. The Wif got the astroturf for the shelves, I have a few posts to clean the cuts up on, and then it’s just making it a little better. I think I’ll do the full assembly before I decide of I need more side guards. I think it’ll be strong enough as is, and I’d like the scrap for other projects.
Ooh… scraps and projects. Because I cut the round holes, that means I now have three roughly circular pieces of plywood. Chan then up a bit, and add rubber, and those sound like wheels.
Right. Assembly.

Totes was trading through wood like a mofo. I’ve decided I have a couple more cuts I’m going to go after all, and then it’s time to drill. Assembly will be waiting for the Wif to do some carpeting. We’re thinking astroturf (because she saw done I the cheap). Could more cuts for cross bars, couple cuts to even out (hand saw), rap the interior angle of the uprights, drill holes.

Worse idea? Definitively bad? Questionable bad?
How hard would it be to make a pseudo video driver that took all those beautiful shaders, textures and everything, and just pitched them?
How little of a system could ruin how intense of a game?

I was bsing about why I under but on tools with one of my coworkers. My main answer is that I take issue with other people’s work a lot of the time. I’m shorter than standard, have small hands,  not height-weight proportionate by American standard, and have a non-standard preferred aesthetic. So I boot strap.
This discussion led me to mentioning that I never had a toll that was just right. But I did. In the early 2000s I had a Sony laptop that was the bomb. Aluminum chassis before it was standard, 1440×900 display. Cammed hinges. This thing was sweet. I took it everywhere and ticked it like a hurricane.
Then the video card burned from heat. This led me to wanting to build my own laptop.
My coworker asked if I ever write this stuff down or of I just keep out bouncing around in my head.
That is why I blog.

I’m pretty sure that my Bad Idea for a keyboard is just that. I’m just not sure why. I’m pretty sure I’ll just have to bite a bullet, and write something up. Ideally I’ll fund my multimeter first do I can measure the current, otherwise I’ll throw in an LED or two as sacrifices to science.

Noun.
1. A form of music
2. The state I’ve been in
Ex. I’ve been in a funk.

So I’ve been firing up old mmos and stuff. Figure I’ll install them all, play for five minutes if I can get them slash wine to play nice. Get bored. Logout. Right now I’m doing a bit of wow, but I need Blizzard to remove my authenticator. Kinda wish I’d fine that before logging out last time.
Anyway.
I’ve been thinking of how to do my key switch test (see Bad Idea). I think I’ll grab a few stretches with the least crap still attached to the pins, slam them into a breadboard, and run two jumpers into an Arduino. That what I’ll do.
I also need to order shit on Amazon tomorrow. Get a couple carbide bits for the router. Hopefully these wrong begin to char in place.
Maybe I should do the test tomorrow and then order bits as that’s when I’ll be ordering diodes that I may or may not… wait. I have free shipping.
Throw I order bits.

So… I was thinking of this last night.
My soldering is… questionable. This means that in the best of circumstances I still have some resistance.  A measurable resistance. If I made a keyboard with no diodes, just two very long wires, would it work? If I measured the change in voltage with each key press, would I be able to get a solid enough answer to what key was pressed? The nice thing, beyond the baseline simplicity, is it should have practically infinite KRO, and no ghosting. I think.
Bad ideas. Maybe when I get home, I should try this on a small enough test scale. I’m currently stymied by the curse of shitty router bits starting to char a bit (hahaha).
When I get home. Maybe.

Got home late again, and way too tired…