George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

I am gorgeous.

I chastise myself with, “draw bigger” but I like small. So I added some smol tips to help alleviate the wear on my usual inking brushes. I’ll start the year with a #corgi ! The new #ink I got is smooth! #brushes #dog #MastoArt #pupper #doggo #traditionalmedia

Ever see a rocket engine combustion chamber completely split in half during a hot fire test?

👇 Now you have 👇

Courtesy of the good folks at #NASA Marshall

#3dprint #rockets #metallurgy #space #additivemanufacturing

"Holy shit I'm a cat?"

I love closing out the year with this. 😊

On December 31, 1995, exactly 27 years ago today, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.

How beautiful and appropriate it was, and a timeless reminder of what we have before us in 2023. ❤️

Happy New Year, ya'll!

THIS IS YOUR REMINDER

That you are awesome.

Every problem you've ever had, you've found ways to get over, around, thru, under, one way or another you've dealt with it or are currently dealing with it, and there's no reason to believe you can't or won't continue to do so into the future.

And that's awesome.

You're awesome.

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the machines gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead quiet except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L

Hmmmmm hhhmmmmmmmm hhhhmmmmmmmmm

@futurebird @Gbudd I’m a recovering Jet Pens addict. They do have some fancier stuff too. I was all up in the bujo and sketchnotes supplies. I started shopping local when I lived in DC and found great stores there. Check https://fahrneyspens.com

“Sorry I’m late, guys. The sitter called in sick.”

No, go ahead make yourself comfortable

"It’s very often the case that when a man puts work out into the world, the world looks at the work and says, 'Is this work worthy?' And I think that when a woman puts work out into the world, the world looks at the woman and says, 'Is this woman worthy of putting out work?'" - Glennon Doyle

YUP.
(And I would add, and I expect Glennon would fully agree, that the same "are they worthy?" question is applied when the person putting work out is queer or a person of color.)

@JorgeStolfi

This is the kind of confidence you build by getting that thread back again after you've lost it a few times.

Only started to get there towards the end of grad school. Now I know that if I read some math & don't get it I'll just memorize the definitions & put it away. Come back later. Read it again. Still not there? Memorize theorems. Put it away. Come back. Still not there? Explain it to my husband or cat. (rarely gets this bad)

But this works every time.

If you're a space nerd, especially an Apollo-program nerd, drop whatever you are doing and watch this awesome video with Luke Talley.

He was an engineer for the Saturn V's IU. He explains the entire launch process.

It is AMAZING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLHIM2IPRY

"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."