Had a startling (but minor) setback on the multimeter while trying to test high-amperage AC current:

I assumed it was just oddly phrased/translated— if the sentence read “... baby pandas basically only nurse, sleep, and poo...” it’d be much clearer.

Aside: the local public radio station is playing Wagner’s Ring Cycle this month and tonight is Die Walküre. That panda video is absolutely fucking hilarious backed by “Ride of the Valkyries”!

Built my oscilloscope!

Because apparently our national motto became “Fuck you, got mine” while we weren’t paying attention.

Vintage Brithorror in general is tame by modern standards and great fun. Try stuff from Hammer Studios too!

I’m sure the joke’s been made, but... why not just mainline CNN and CSPAN?

He’s basically the old lady from Blazing Saddles without the tentative change of heart.

Republicans are the epitome of hippocracy.

Bet it took you a whole tube of K-Y to come up with that one.

I wonder if it would’ve been better or worse had it been done in a patchwork fashion? Peel off a sleeve to show a different-colored arm, pull off leggings to show legs that are not the color of the original wearer or of the new arm...

Congratulations and good luck on your marriage. Sorry about your parents.

I’m so sorry. But he had a long and a good life with you.

Finished the next stage of the multimeter, but am not sure how to safely test it: it’s measuring AC voltage/amperage but most power sources (wall-warts, batteries) are DC. I suppose I could just go at it straight from a wall outlet but I’m a little uneasy about that...

Also just got a new kit from SparkFun!

It’s probably going to take that long from Wayne LaPierre to recover from the muscle spasms of the massive, convulsive orgasms today’s news gave him.

So, are we fucked or irreversibly fucked?

I found “Won’t Back Down” a comforting song to hear on September 11, 2001 and a few days after— and it’s not the only song of his I’ve enjoyed.

What a damn shame.

Well, now I feel a right idiot. Turns out I had gotten the last section of my multimeter right all along! This one has dial settings set up differently than my usual one and so muscle memory had me placing the dial at the wrong settings, compounded by the fact that I’d have to set the faceplate aside to adjust…

AVG is a decent free anti-virus (I used avast! for many years but it started getting a tad spammy with its ads.)