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A photo of a split mechanical keyboard. The primary keys are a nice grey/blue colour, the surrounding keys (Control, Shift, spacebar, etc.) are black, and the Escape and Return keys are red. There's an LED under each key and they're busily changing colours like a rainbow.

New keyboard day, Keychron Q11! I mostly blame @damonism for this.

Also I didn't realise it had the hilariously tacky crazy RGB backlighting.

our house darkroom new toys mechanical keyboard

Posted on 28 June 2023, 16:29

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. It has hex tiles on it, and the artwork looks like the inside of a cave. Closest to the camera are Morgwaeth's Blade-coven, a five-fighter warband consisting of lithe female elves who aren't wearing a whole lot of armour. At the other end of the board are the six goatmen of Grashrak's Despoilers: two are larger and more intimidating looking, one is holding a giant axe in the air and is gripping the head of someone he just decapitated, and the other four are smaller and shabbier, wielding bows and spears.

More Warhammer Underworlds tonight, my murder-ladies versus @yayKM's filthy goatmen. We ended up calling it after the first activation of the third round because she had exactly one 2-wound character left and I was ahead 8-5. Unfortunately I think it might be time to retire the goatmen, or at least until I can get around to stealing someone's Championship format deck, they're just too weak. 😞

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer underworlds beastgrave grashrak's despoilers morgwaeth's blade coven

Posted on 25 June 2023, 22:59

A photo of a Moka Pot, which is essentially a metal jug with a handle and lid and a wide base that you put on the stove. It pressurises the water in the base which forces it up through the coffee grounds in the middle, and the resulting espresso comes out a spout into the top section, and you then pour it out into your mug.

When I was living with my roommate prior to @yayKM moving over to Australia, he introduced me to Bialetti's Moka Pot for making coffee. I bought one and loved it, but unfortunately it was one of the very few casualties of our move to an induction cooktop when we had our kitchen redone in 2017.

We were in Victoria's Basement today and it turns out they make an induction-specific model now! 🎉

our house darkroom coffee

Posted on 24 June 2023, 12:40

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his side mostly asleep in a batch of sunshine. It's taken from ground level looking directly at his face so his nose and snout look extra big.

Gotta keep the snoot warm.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 23 June 2023, 11:38

A photo of a bowl of ramen with a slice of pork in it, and half a boiled egg sitting on top.

I WAS going to go home after I'd finished work, but then some people said they were going to Ramen Zundo and I couldn't say no to that.

sydney food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 22 June 2023, 19:27

A photo of the Sydney Harbour Bridge taken from a boat. The sky is grey and mostly overcast.

I am on a boat!

Had to get up at 7am to get into the office for it, which was a bit of a shock though.

darkroom sydney harbour bridge boat

Posted on 22 June 2023, 10:26

A photo of the box of a Raspberry Pi 4B+, a bare Pi Zero W, and power supplies and SD cards for the two.

So the other reason I've been learning how to use Ansible to set up our Raspberry Pis is because I wanted both easy software configuration AND to have backup hardware in case something died. I've fully automated the setup of the two Zero Ws at the front of the house and the 3B+ that runs our e-ink display in the office, the last thing remaining is the "main" 4B+ that runs the MQTT broker, dashboard hub, Powerwall usage-reader, Homebridge, and AirPort target that all the other Pis pull their data from. I ordered another 4B+ and Pi Zero W both for backup hardware and to be able to get the Ansible automation done without accidentally breaking "production" as it were, and it arrived today, woot.

As a side note, it never ceases to astound me how SMALL micro SD cards are!

our house raspberry pi darkroom

Posted on 20 June 2023, 20:21

A wide-angle photo of a bunch of mostly empty bowls and plates from a Chinese restaurant sitting on a table.

I'm in the office for a team lunch today, we went to Mr. Wong's on Bridge Lane in the CBD and holy crap it was amazing! I am SO FULL. No regrets.

sydney work darkroom food

Posted on 20 June 2023, 15:17

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short hair, wearing a pair of sleek, dark, frameless sunglasses.

New sunglasses day!

I know this ordinarily would be completely unremarkable, but these are replacing the ones I've had for almost fourteen years that I bought on my very first trip to visit @yayKM when she was still living in the US. They were broken from a small child stepping on them when I was over playing music at my friend's house a couple of weeks ago. 😭 The original pair were the style "Dash AF" style from Native Eyewear which has since been consumed by the horrible massive conglomerate Luxottica but I managed to find an alternative (thanks to Reddit's r/sunglasses in fact) that looks almost identical and the company is still independent, "Parallel 2" from Smith Optics.

our house selfie me darkroom portrait mode

Posted on 18 June 2023, 15:08

WE. ARE. HOME.

To add to the overall cursedness of this trip, we had dinner last night in the hotel restaurant, it was EXTREMELY overpriced and not very good, and I subsequently woke up at 1:30am and spent the next two hours being sick. 😑

And just to top it all off, we've come home to a notification from our ISP saying there was a burst water main in one of the points of interconnect that ruined a bunch of networking equipment and we're not expected to have our regular internet connection working until this evening. And of course because the whole area is affected, everyone is tethering and it's all slow as hell.

our house text only

Posted on 17 June 2023, 14:47