BorgHunter

@borghunter.bsky.social

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Computer whisperer, Oxford comma enjoyer, public transportation advocate, and hoopy frood. Chicago-ish.

A video of me pressure washing the concrete walkway next to my garage. The pressure washer turns the concrete from nearly black with filth, to almost brand new looking.
Star Trek: The Next Generation title card reading “Romulanes eunt domus”
A visual description of the steps of the quicksort algorithm, in the style of IKEA instructions for assembling furniture. From: https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/ Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Photo of everyone’s favorite tuxedo cat Sammy
A snake map of, like, me starting from the side of the house and doing stripes up and down the front lawn, and up and down the back yard, and some additional squiggles which were edging and leaf blowing, and then finally it goes into my house whereupon I remember what I had set into motion and end the workout. It demonstrates the precision of GPS even in consumer devices—to my eye, less than a meter, maybe even far less.
The Great Hall at Union Station in Chicago
Two panels. Panel 1 is a Five Guys, with the F and E not lit so it says “IV Guys”. Panel 2 is Captain Picard in Gul Madred’s torture room looking confused.
Picture of someone removing a slice from a deep-dish pizza which labels the crust as "the body", the tomato sauce as "the blood", and the cheese as "the holy spirit"
A shitty meme of Bender's head (from Futurama) on the front of a CTA NABI 60-LFW (ew) articulated bus, with memetext "Bender Bending Busriguez reporting for duty" Original bus image by Kelly Martin from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CTA-articulated-bus.jpg and licensed under CC by-sa 3.0
A photo of a stack of seventeen Deep Space Nine paperback novels
A modification of the famous "When You Ride Alone You Ride With Hitler!" US propaganda poster from 1943. A dapper man is driving a 1940s convertible by himself, but a ghostly Hitler is sitting on the passenger side next to him. The text reads, "When you ride TESLA you ride with Hitler! Join Public Transportation TODAY!"
Still from The Simpsons with Marge holding a potato, saying, "I just think they're neat!"
A screenshot of ComEd's "5 minute prices" page showing an average of -3.0 ¢/kWh for the 6 AM hour of January 12, 2025, and a 5 minute breakdown for the hour showing uniformly nonpositive prices. Taken from https://hourlypricing.comed.com/live-prices/five-minute-prices/
A white and black cat sitting on the floor posing for the camera
A white and black cat sleeping on a blanket
A small white and black cat lying in a bathroom sink