Jason Modisette
jpmodisette.bsky.social
Jason Modisette
@jpmodisette.bsky.social
I make computer simulations of oil, gas, water, and other sorts of pipelines. My background is in physics. I do: mountain biking, hiking, propane flame effects, TTRPGs, various art.
TIL that setscrews in door handles can be left-handed. Somehow I unscrewed the thing without realizing, then I just could not get it to seat to screw back in. Eventually I tried reverse-screwing it to see if I could get it to seat, and it started going in. Learning this took 30 minutes.
January 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It seemed like a good time to watch a David Lynch movie.

So we're watching The Straight Story with our 8yo. It's the Disney David Lynch movie. I'm enjoying it; it's the true story of an elderly fellow who drove across Iowa and Wisconsin on his riding mower to visit his sick brother.
January 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
FB suppressing the reach of article links is annoying, but it's a choice.

FB suppressing the reach of article links in a manner that's so easily subverted is offensively stupid.
January 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Million-dollar idea free to good home: you know those fireplace TV channels they have in the winter? And you know those aquarium screensavers? Combine the two - a fireplace with firefish swimming around in the flames! Be cosy AND minimally entertained!
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Jason Modisette
A set of images from October that it's taken me a while to edit, despite its being one of my best photo trips of the year. (Preview image is horribly cropped here, please click through.)
#landscapephotography #autumn #idaho #larch

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Fall Color, Falling Water
Two days of photography in the Lochsa River corridor, just as the autumn rains began: it’s not a place known for fall foliage, but subtler color in moody settings is just what I love these da…
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January 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
For ten years I worried folks would spy on me with drones, they never did. When I was a kid it was parabolic mikes - and I've never even seen anyone using a parabolic mike. Maybe "spying on Jason" is just not a thing people do.
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I asked ChatGPT for advice on a car problem: the car was doing A, so I did B to fix it. It said "probably B caused A". Seems like it might know that causes precede effects but only in a stochastic sense, not as a hard and fast rule.
January 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A squirrel's been eating palm fruits in my Jeep's engine compartment, with a side of wiring. He didn't chew actually through anything, so I taped up the chew marks. Probably be fine.
January 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I'm really enjoying Sabine Hossenfelder's Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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Post-1990-ish high-energy physics has been a loss because theorists are looking for beautiful theories, for a definition of beauty that is too complex to go into here. (1 of n)
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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January 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM