why did technology publishers print those f*ckin enormous ass phonebook ass books on like ASP.NET. like, philosophically.

love this new trend of websites interpreting your very clear, unambiguous settings choices as “Gotcha, we’ll show you less of this for for some limited amount of time before it returns”

where do you go to buy replacement shoelaces. not like sneaker laces. like these very specific braided (?) ones:

the kinda dressy boots they came on has had any sort of branding worn away and i forgot where i bought them.

respect to anyone who can correctly identify what this is and what it’s for

(forgot about the puzzling tumblr quirk preventing adding videos to a reblog despite this being the new pdf)

tenths indicator. each tick represents one ten-thousandth of an inch movement on the plunger, and the smaller inset dial measures some even-smaller increment. starrett has two brands, the mainline one is manufactured offshore but this one (starrett USA or something) was made domestically. i’d bet there’s roughly zero difference, one is just marketed to racist blue collar uncle & racist tooling procurement specialist working for the bomb factory with strict regulations on how/where they can buy equipment

you would need this for, fuck, i don’t know, making some kind of fucked up hydraulic cylinder that uses very thin fluid that needs to be precise to a tenth

i have no reasonable explanation for owning this

i would like to show you a very nice thing i own

i love finding slight technical inaccuracies in something i’ve written and covertly (and usually sloppily) giving that inaccuracy an out through some convoluted means instead of just correcting it purely to thwart a Type Of Guy i anticipate would comment smugly about it who also does not exist nor could exist since people correctly do not read what i write more closely than they would a children’s book. this quirk is something we italians refer to as La Schizofrenico

oh and also it’s on a version of mars that has more of an atmosphere so the supersonic qualifier is more meaningful & demanding. thanks.