#garfield Logs

Oct 14 2022

12:09 AM rue_mohr: the followers is going crazy..
12:19 AM rue_mohr: 2885
12:19 AM rue_mohr: 194 likes...
12:19 AM rue_mohr: w t f
12:19 AM rue_mohr: how does twitter work?? this cant be real for a post like that
01:12 AM rue_mohr: 238
01:57 AM Tom_L: :)
03:46 AM Tom_L: 348
07:04 AM Tom_L: 408
07:05 AM Tom_L: all over a bead on a wire :)
08:09 AM rue_mohr: what?
08:19 AM rue_mohr: 424!?
08:22 AM rue_mohr: 2932, well thats starting to get intimmidating...
08:22 AM rue_mohr: followers
09:44 AM rue_mohr: does everyone who is liking that tweet even understand it?
09:44 AM rue_mohr: I'm skeptical that there are 454 people who all understand that
10:20 AM aandrew: there. I added my CAD$0.02. I actually feel pretty proud of it too. :-)
10:20 AM rue_mohr: I do not understand that attention to that post
10:20 AM rue_mohr: I think twitter just puts things on pedistals randomly
10:20 AM rue_mohr: showing it to more people than it normally would
10:31 AM aandrew: oh definitely they tweak things
10:35 AM rue_mohr: I think, every so often it kinda promotes a tweet
10:35 AM rue_mohr: which is why, every so often things radomly go crazy
10:36 AM rue_mohr: well, checking on random people liking the tweet, so far, they seem to be real
10:37 AM rue_mohr: 2947
10:40 AM rue_mohr: thought I could use a sip resistor pack to make a 5 part transistor astable osc. turns out the ratio of values needed is too high
01:52 PM rue_mohr: 2959
01:52 PM rue_mohr: things up to 536 likes
03:01 PM polprog: rue_mohr: i have no idea
03:01 PM polprog: the FPGA shitpost got like, short of 500
03:04 PM Tom_L: shitpost!
03:05 PM polprog: :D
04:19 PM Tom_L: 556
05:10 PM rue_mohr: :)
05:27 PM polprog: wow
05:27 PM rue_mohr: yea, I'm confused
05:27 PM rue_mohr: its not the content, thats for sure
05:29 PM polprog: i dont know to be honest
05:33 PM rue_mohr: 2870
05:33 PM rue_mohr: er 2970 followers so far...
05:33 PM rue_mohr: so
05:33 PM rue_mohr: would people who dont understand it give it a like?
05:34 PM rue_mohr: I have to think that *most* of these people are electronics folk
05:34 PM polprog: i have soo many people who followed me after one [shit]post
05:34 PM rue_mohr: yea
05:34 PM rue_mohr: recently? that last fpga post?
05:34 PM polprog: yeah
05:35 PM polprog: "x liked your post"
05:35 PM polprog: "x is now following you!"
05:35 PM rue_mohr: I wonder if twitter broke its 'rate limiter' again
05:35 PM polprog: good for you buddy i guess?
05:35 PM rue_mohr: I noticed a few people dug into my tweet history
05:36 PM polprog: yeah that too
05:37 PM polprog: aight, bed time
05:37 PM polprog: see you soon
05:39 PM rue_mohr: night
05:39 PM rue_mohr: stupid thing still has a slide of likes comming in...
07:21 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1260156.jpg
07:22 PM Tom_L: few air holes
07:22 PM Tom_L: or is that sand?
07:22 PM Tom_L: is that the new sand?
07:36 PM rue_mohr: its newly mixed
07:36 PM rue_mohr: I assumed it had 0% clay in it and mixed it 30/70
07:36 PM rue_mohr: used up more than a week of ground clay tho
07:37 PM Tom_L: how many is it good for?
08:01 PM rue_mohr: castings? no idea