shawkin.bsky.social
@shawkin.bsky.social
I'd like to think of myself as a classic tube stereo dad.
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Portland's downtown Pioneer Square at 4pm. It's a living hell. Most lunchtime food carts closed. Starbucks out of breakfast croissants. Musician playing ambient techno won't take requests.
October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
September 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s full of scare.
June 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here is the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at NASA. Acoustically induced metal fatigue is a problem it investigates.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
There are 33 small rocket engines with complex plumbing in the Space X booster that failed 9 times in a row. Here is Werner von Braun standing next to the 5 large rocket engines in the Saturn 5 that launched men to the moon in 1969.
May 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My view from my old NYC apartment on Broadway, south of Canal.
January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Looking the other way... Sagittarius A*.
January 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Here is the perennial Dunning-Kruger chart.
January 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
December 28, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Alcohol: We’re dead enough inside.
December 28, 2024 at 7:09 AM
This is true but she wants it as part of the craft services table on an IATSE feature film shoot.
December 27, 2024 at 9:21 PM
The first one I saw was the Johnniac at RAND. The first one I touched was a IBM 1401. The first one I owned was a Macintosh 128k.
December 1, 2024 at 9:33 PM
My Festivus wreath is up early this year.
December 1, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Thanksgiving moved to Sunday.
Now, 0 elderly people, 4 adults, 2+ kids.
Ironic hipsters are now going here, a mall restaurant.
By Monday we’ll have data on the relationship of “nutrient” intake to projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea in a sub 14 year old population.
November 30, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Put this book by your bedside.
November 30, 2024 at 6:04 AM
I thought lighting the Christmas tree would be enough.
November 30, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Ice skate like you’re a blur.
November 26, 2024 at 6:06 PM
My cat got brave enough to get on my desk.
November 24, 2024 at 4:49 PM
They maintain their stupidity and certainty using anger and fear. May they die broke, alone, and diseased.
November 24, 2024 at 3:19 AM
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Indeed.
November 23, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Schrödinger and his cat.
November 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM
November 16, 2024 at 6:57 PM