Notices by merlin / alex glow (alexglow@chaos.social)

I got impatient for #ShittyCameraChallenge and have been running around the Bay shooting #neon with this ancient digicam, which I modded for infrared ~14 years ago!

Starting a thread now because there might be lots of weird purple stuff coming down the tubes...

// #Photography #WeirdArt #art

Glad people are into this! Here are some more #infrared #BayArea photos from this weekend :D

Another fun thing about near-IR is how it can "see through" things – because paints and pigments are designed to reflect/absorb the visible spectrum. Sometimes clothes seem translucent (eep!); sometimes hair dye is invisible; sometimes you can glimpse the beehive pattern of a bygone façade.

The day after the election, I made up my mind to go see Eddie Izzard at the Paramount – an Art Deco jewel set in the Bay, lighting up Oakland since 1931. That show was last night.

Izzard is one of the capital-H Helpers – a comedian and progressive politician whose humor crosses borders and languages, steeped in history and politics, topped off with lots of absurdism and silly sound effects.

She's been making me laugh for decades, and seeing her live for the first time really was better than therapy.

🫠 https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113480347712188988

@georgetakei And then there's his response 😆

@illionas @TechConnectify @neclimdul @DoubleA I believe this is "free as in piano" 😄

On this week's #HacksterCafe , I interview Emma Fletcher – cofounder of Learn to Solder Kits and Evergreen Support, which helps small #hardware businesses succeed. (Plus, we went to high school together!)

Drop your questions in the chat on Tuesday (today) at 10am Pacific – or catch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MZUTTGfq7w&list=PLsRBa4uXjihZwcYrwwuPhsYxWtFwMBqDF&index=1

Suitcase selfie: failing any catastrophe, here's the silliness I'm bringing to #Supercon... planning to avail myself of the on-site soldering irons, and hoping to pull together my gothy Archimedes (Dark Archie / Darkimedes) this weekend. 😆

I try to always put a note in, to reduce potential issues (and hopefully reduce the chance of anything walking away...)

@tarajdactyl @AmyZenunim They do – at least in iOS! For us it's under the diamond-shaped / bottom left menu: long press on "labels", slide the "satellites" bar to the right, and cry... I saw them passing over the other night and checked it out for morbid curiosity :/