David Hand
LightNews LightNews
banner
ptolemar.ch
David Hand
@ptolemar.ch
320 followers 180 following 160 posts
Little teapot. Laparoscopic code surgeon. Unabashed user of Gentoo. Acceded to #NAFO on 2023 Apr 25. He/him/etc.
Posts Replies Media Videos
ptolemar.ch
My first time making a #Halloween costume from scratch. Mr 5 has become a Copper Golem, from Minecraft.
A five-year-old boy stands in a driveway wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint. A five-year-old boy stands before a closed door wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint. A five-year-old boy stands in a driveway wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
ptolemar.ch
Very nice. I keep mine here.
My phone's home screen. Widgets and app icons litter the screen. Near the bottom, a row of six most-used icons: Phone, Signal, Bluesky, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Firefox, and Camera. The M-W Dictionary icon is circled in cyan.
October 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
ptolemar.ch
A clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Ford Prefect reaches for a pint as Arthur Dent says, "It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."
August 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ptolemar.ch
I appreciate the wish of good luck. Minecraft, as you can see, just mocks me.
Screenshot from Minecraft on Android. The player has just gone to bed, and a message reads, "Sleeping through the night."
July 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
ptolemar.ch
Yeah. This is indeed the better understanding of the text.
In a comic drawing (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal), two priests discuss. The first says: "Weren't the Sodomites destroyed for being gay?" The second priest replies: "Uh no? They were destroyed for trying to force sex on genderless spirits temporarily inhabiting male bodies. It's practically unrelated." In the next panel, he continues: "In fact, their main sin is considered to be inhospitality! And you know what's a nice, hospitable thing you can do for a male visitor?"
June 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
ptolemar.ch
Now be serious.
The state of Michigan is shown with the label: "Hand injury".
June 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
ptolemar.ch
A still from Starship Troopers (1997). Sgt Zim indicates the hand of Private Ace Levy, which has been transfixed by a knife.
June 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ptolemar.ch
It's important to vote in all the elections.
Your humble narrator, grinning under his moustache, wearing an "Ohio Voted" sticker.
May 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
ptolemar.ch
Clip from Star Trek VI. Klingon General Chang spins in his captain's chair while cackling: "Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war."
May 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
ptolemar.ch
My favorite sign from the #419day #FiftyFiftyOne protest today.
A protestor, laughing, carrying a sign that says, "So bad that the introverts are here".
April 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
ptolemar.ch
A 1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, black, trimmed in gold, with a gold firebird painted on its hood.
April 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
ptolemar.ch
A poor, possibly AI-enhanced, shot of the moon in total eclipse. Taken with a phone.
March 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
ptolemar.ch
March 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ptolemar.ch
I'm learning the statistical functions of my calculator, and I can confidently say that the fifth opera in Der Ring des Nibelungen would have been 5 hours, 16 minutes, and 41 seconds long.
Das Rheingold: 2 hours, 19 minutes, 26 seconds. Die Walküre: 3 hours, 39 minutes, 51 seconds. Siegfried: 3 hours, 51 minutes, 40 seconds. Götterdämmerung: 4 hours, 14 minutes, 32 seconds. Total across Der Ring des Nibelungen: 14 hours, 5 minutes, 29 seconds.
January 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM