Day: August 30, 2018

Cool, I managed to get a technically same-day delivery slot again đŸ€—

(Which should be 9-10 p.m., since that was the only 1-hr slot still showing as open. Saved £3 booking the rough 4-hr window, instead of specifying the hour. Doubt they’ll show up before 9:00, considering, but I should be home the whole evening anyway.)

Anyway, I’d been meaning to put in another grocery order for bulkier items plus some I can’t get within walking distance now. Even better, that should save me from having to go out tomorrow, and try to lug home more cat litter and wet cat food đŸ˜” I can also get larger sizes of both if someone else will bring it to the door.

With Mr. C gone for several days still, the litter is what finally prompted me to go ahead and schedule a delivery. Was expecting Friday at the earliest, but a pleasant surprise this time.

what-hath-science-wrought:

pomp-adourable:

tlaxxcalteca:

amuseoffirebane:

Reblogging this again because I found info!

This is 2/3 of a band called Too Many Zooz (they’re lacking their trumpeter here), the song is called ‘Flightning,’ and the genre is “brass house” (which i think they made up but hey i dig it). They have a handful of songs on Spotify and just successfully Kickstarted their first full-length album.

this song as the opening to a new anime by Shinichiro Watanabe honestly

These guys are CHARACTERS for a Watanabe anime.

I seriously love these guys, because they’re so interesting from a music-theory perspective. Their use of intense beats, syncopation, deep bass, and blaring harmonics borrows a lot from modern club music

they’re basically playing dubstep on traditional instruments. Seriously, listen to some tracks with all three of them together, and tell me that’s not what they’re doing

Their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtjXVqMVzBIgU0SO8AV0vPg

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

unrelatedtouserboxes:

today a regular customer came into my store and told me she’d ‘finished candy crush’ and tbh i didnt think that was possible. i thought it just generated levels forever, but apparently it has 4000 odd levels and it took her 4 years to complete. she even emailed them asking when there would be more levels and they told her she could play their other games or replay the existing levels jklsdkflsdf

the only true gamer

bigcatrescue:

Meet New Rehab Wild Bobcat Kitten, Alpha 

 This kitten was found all alone by a man right before a huge storm with no mother or siblings in sight.   Alpha will be in quarantine for 14 days. We are not sure if male or female. Approximately 7-8 weeks old. Alpha will be examined, vaccinated and flea treated tomorrow morning, August 30, 2018.  Follow Alpha’s journey at https://bigcatrescue.org/alpha-2/

sauntering-vaguely-downwards:

kittyknowsthings:

eilupt:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

sauntering-vaguely-downwards:

roboticsappreciationsociety:

did-you-kno:

‘The Writer,’ 1 of 3 surviving automata
from the 18th century, is a programmable
boy that uses quill and ink to write any 40
letters of custom text. This 240-year-old
automaton uses all 6,000 of its parts to
create just enough pressure for fluid,
elegant writing, and is thought by
some to be the first computer. Source

This is truly a masterpiece of engineering from an early age. So amazing!

okay LOOK. I understand that on a purely mechanical and engineering level that this is an incredible piece but if scifi and fantasy media has taught me anything it’s that this motherfucker is haunted af and probably writes out gruesome deaths that mysteriously end up coming to pass thanks but NO THANKS BYE

computer science major here, i’m with haunted guy

Writer is actually one of a set language of three! The other ones play the organ:

And draw (it produces four different drawings):

Thank you for these images. Which just might give me nightmares.

This is the worst update I could have ever been updated with, thank you.

No idea why the OP chopped it off, but that should read “One of three surviving automata from the 18th century built by Jaquet-Droz”.

The automata were designed and built by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz and Jean-Frédéric Leschot as advertisement and entertainment toys designed to improve the sales of watches among the nobility of Europe in the 18th century. They were carried around, and lost at several points. The History and Archeology society of Neuchùtel eventually bought them in 1906, for 75,000 gold francs, and gave them to the museum. (Source)