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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
FB suppressing the reach of article links in a manner that's so easily subverted is offensively stupid.
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
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!
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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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#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
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
frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/f...
#landscapephotography #autumn #idaho #larch
frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/f...
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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)
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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
I'm really enjoying Sabine Hossenfelder's Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Be...
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)
www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Be...
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)