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do post!! would love to read through at least some of it. most of our (otherwise tiny amount of) biology knowledge is related to medicine, so it sounds like a fun opportunity to learn new stuff.

our start was a bit more convoluted. we have been working with various CAD softwares over time, and often still do for CNC machines, notably 3d printers. but due to circumstances, we also basically have access to an entire (architectural) drafting classroom that sees no use! so so much cool stuff. nice drafting desks, hand implements ranging in age from very contemporary to being war reparations from germany—stuff that has "Made in Germany - U.S. Zone" printed on it—lots and lots of books, boxes of ames lettering guides, and this is just the stuff in the classroom itself! we didn't want all this stuff to just sit abandoned, so we decided to learn to make use of some of it. there is so much cool technique, and given this opportunity we felt obligated to ensure it wouldn't just be lost to time.

again, it is an architectural teaching room, so we did have to procure our own engineering scales and such. still, hand drawings are so so so satisfying. there is truly nothing like sketching out an idea, putting some dimensions to it, laying it out on a nice, big sheet of paper, lettering out all those accompanying dimensions etc., and then bringing it into reality with the lathes and vertical mills and welders and other facets of the fabrication shop.

near all the fab and design stuff we do is personal hobby, so we do stuff however we feel really. again we do use CAD not infrequently! but by hand is far more gratifying.

we are trained in first aid and give a +1 to that!!! plus its very very pain and ouchie

alcohols are funny. when describing what they are chemically and their toxicity, the question of "what about drinking alcohol" always comes up, and it is fun explaining how ethanol is toxic as well! intriguingly, in the NFPA 704 classification system (basically those little yellow, blue, and red "hazard" or "fire" diamonds), ethanol is classed as more toxic than even stuff like acetone, which has a generally more "chemical-like" reputation, or some other alcohols like isopropanol, a.k.a. rubbing alcohol.

of course, these classifications have their limits. while the general toxicity may be lower, acetone is NOT fun if you drink it. off the shelf isopropanol can also have many other far more hazardous substances contained in it. drinking alcohol still absolutely is toxic too!

the normalization of it in society has always been super interesting to us in general. we don't really object to it, but the habitious consumption of a de-facto toxic substance fascinates us greatly, even when done so in a minimally hazardous manner.

tangents aside, thank you for bringing that up :)

on that note x3

HEHEHE "defenestration" made the german speakers among us giggle. a german word for window is "Fenster", so the apparent francofication (often considered a high class sounding language) put together with the deranged context makes it 10x funnier

the username Verscharrt und Ungeruhmt sorta means buried and unworthy, honestly checks out hehe

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also the arrangement of them into the common pictograph for femininity is PEAK

of course, if there was a second one, perhaps interlocking with the first... x3

FROM EVERY CANADIAN RESIDENT

if non-residents are exempt, thats one way to promote an influx of inbound travelers :3c

either that or this happens (also nsfw!)

the character's name is bernd das brot! they are a depressed bread slice tortured on late night german kids television both psychologically and physically, there are plenty of clips on youtube etc. all very fun to watch

decided to have a go at this! making the text appear right is super easy, its just matching one plane up to another, and there's plenty of straight edges. sadly not all software has these features. the hard part was cleaning up the stuff that was in the way!!

jpeg because other formats did not seem to upload?? this instance has really funky photo uploading hehe

remember, if you're gonna be annoyed at something, channel that discomfort directly back at the problem at hand :)

love the bracelets so much!!!! also you make us really want piercings now. been meaning to get some done... although on second thought what's stopping us from going out with friends this week to do them? :)

so i took the day to do my makeup! Then decided to go to the forest??

hehe, while we aren't originally born in oregon (only moved here a few years ago), we did live in a very rural, wooded part of maine, so we totally get that urge too. its a very nice place to go when stress is too much. very grateful we can just hop on our bike and be in the pines in a matter of minutes.

may we all become one with the forest

medical (I guess it’s in the range for tattoo removal, but power rating for these lasers are stated weirdly)

for those curious (you probably know this though), lots of these are pulsed, primarily to avoid excessive local heating (burning) of the tissue being lased. these can have peak powers in the kilowatt range!

watts are energy (in joules) divided by time (in seconds), and while relating energy to time is helpful for constant-power applications—and even some certain pulsed applications—the timeframe here is often small to the point of not mattering much, and a direct measure of the total energy delivered is ultimately most useful. nonetheless they are very impressive sounding and goofy, like "oh i work with multi-KILOwatt lasers on the daily :3" hehe

any kind of pointing, besides cases where you wish to permanently damage your audience.

for a single one watt beam of light, absolutely! do not bring those to the school show-and-tell. but there are absolutely lasers this (or even more) powerful used in concert settings and so forth. still, you're very right, care must be taken with them too.

also your point of output contamination is spot on! +1 to avoiding cheap "powerful" lasers :)