Dan of Toasters

@doft.blue

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Oh look! DofT is on Bluesky now! The world is absurd and I have things to say about it: Musings on life and shiny things... and whatever else comes to mind.

Pizza box art with a detailed pizza chef working pizza dough on the right and a cartoonish pizza chef working the brick oven on the left.
A closeup shot of me taking a sip of rum and cola from a souvenir glass with an icon that looks like a briefcase with lines radiation from the top as if to indicate a glow coming from the briefcase as well as text in a stylized script: They speak English in What?
Final frame of a comic by Zen Pencils (full comic: http://zenpencils.com/comic/33-edgar-mitchell-a-global-consciousness/) showing a view of Earth from the surface of the moon. An astronaut representing Edgar Mitchell points to the earth and says to the various world leaders behind him "Look at that, you son of a bitch."
DofT standing in front of a rock wall with a Three Opossums in a Trench Coat Plushie designed by Oz Media perched atop his hat.
Sign on a fence reads "Please do not throw rocks at the T-Rex"
self portrait of the top half of my head showing my extremely sparse eyebrows and a shiny new headband that'll serve to keep the sweat out of my eyes when I'm working on projects
Cafe latte with milk foam vaguely resembling a smiling face with a large head of hair.
A mannequin in Target has suffered a wardrobe malfunction with a pair of drawstring shorts having fallen to just above the knee...
A rather.. uh.. phalic sample of iron pyrite on display in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum mineral collection.
Weather radar image of the Washington DC area on the afternoon of Saturday, June 14.
A miniature Jesus standing on a firehose cabinet below a no smoking sign at the airport.
screen capture of a quiz question type post from YouTube asking the question: What is a diode?
mammatus clouds looming overhead
Security camera image of my driveway with a small squirrel in the center. Lower left label reads "SW (Facing NW)". Timestamp in the upper right reads "2025-05-14 09:01:08"
Photo taken with the Raysid app showing a gamma spectrum of the rock from Poison Canyon, NM. The average count rate is ~6820 counts per second. The average dose rate is 37.0 microsieverts per hour. The Raysid app automatically matches the detected spectrum to a listing in its library identified as U-ore1 / NORM with a confidence of 92.5%. After 27 minutes and 30 seconds, it has collected over 6.6 million samples, 377005 (3.3%) of which were higher energy than it is currently configured to display. the various peaks are identified by the detected energy in keV and the probable isotope responsible for that peak. From the left is: Thorium-234 at 94 keV, Uranium-235/Radium-226 at 186 keV, Lead-214 at 242 keV, 295 keV, and 352 keV, and Bismuth-214 at 609 keV.
Two rocks on a black background. On the left, a rock picked up off the ground from the vicinity of Poison Canyon near Grants, NM. It contains layers of various yellow uranium minerals. On the right, a rock picked up from a site named Glover near a Chacoan outlier settlement we now call Casamero Pueblo near Prewitt, NM about 25 miles northwest of Grants. This one contains calcite crystals along with some yellow uranium minerals, either carnotite or uranophane.
Bald head, beardy face, glasses, and a cat named Dax standing on my shoulder.
A weather radar map with a timestamp of 5:59 PM showing some heavy weather over Albuquerque. A blue dot indicating my approximate location shows that I am currently within the affected area.
A small metal rod about 5/8 inch long and 3/32 inch in diameter in my palm next to the hole in my tire between the treads that it was removed from.
A weather radar map with a timestamp of 4:21 PM showing a storm west of Albuquerque that appears to be concentrated around I-40
Screen capture of a sponsored Facebook post by a "Visit Greenland" page.
A fortune cookie fortune from Panda Express that reads "Avoid unchallenging occupations - they waste your talents"
Ceramic vase with dark blue glaze and a slightly lighter dark blue glaze with various irregular shapes in greenish and reddish colors.
Excerpt from page 00036 of "Principia Discordia -or- How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her" depicting a template for a business card stating: THE BEARER OF THIS CARD IS A GENUINE AND AUTHORIZED POPE So please Treat Him Right GOOD FOREVER genuine and authorized by The HOUSE of APPSTLES of ERIS Every man, woman, and child on this Earth is a genuine and authorized Pope. Reproduce and distribute these cards freely • P.O.E.E Head Temple, San Francisco around the border: A =POPE= IS WHO IS NOT UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE AUTHORITIES
Photo of a glass mug containing a cafe latte. A section of the foam on top looks vaguely like a panda bear without ears. above the face, a small dot below a larger dot resembling a forming thought bubble.
Photo showing snow falling outside
The superman shield emblem shamelessly pilfered from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Superman_shield.svg and edited to 50% opacity with a second copy of the shield emblem at 50% rotated 180 degrees overlapping the original.
Screen capture of an SMSEagle interface with the following text message conversation: [Redacted sender]: Hello, it's Julie. I'm curious if you're open to the idea of liquidating [Redacted address]? Maybe we can make a deal? NMCO- Reply STOP to unsubscribe. [Redacted sender]: Hi I wanted to follow up on my last message. Would you be interested to see what I could pay to buy [Redacted address] in the as-is condition? admin (me): There is no association between this phone number and that address at this time. I mean.. we'll take whatever you're offering but it's honestly not mine to sell.
Screenshot of an amazon product listing of a TP-Link WiFi Router. Circled in red in the product specifications is the line item "Special Feature" listed as "Alcohol Free"
Screenshot of an amazon product listing of a Kegco 20 pound aluminum CO₂ tank. Circled in red in the product specifications is the value for capacity listed as 2E+1 Pounds.
View of a glass mug containing a latte in which the foam looks somewhat like a mushroom cloud.
Photo taken with Raysid app of an antique yellow glass serving dish. Overlaid in the photo is the detected gamma spectrum (yellow), the reference spectrum identified by the Raysid AutoID, the AutoID description "Th232-BlieApatite / NORM (81.6)", the average count rate of 223 CPS ±1.7%, the average dose rate 1.18 μSv/h ±1.7%, the elapsed time 00:01:01, total count of 13784, and high energy (above 1000 keV) count 561 or 4.1%
Taken with the camera function of the Raysid app showing the sharp increase in detected radiation when the Raysid is placed next to the radioactive rock in the fireplace wall. The count rate goes from ~20 CPS to over 10K CPS. The dose rate goes from around 0.1 μSv/h to around 42 μSv/h.
cropped screen capture of a sponsored post showing what appears to be a single wide mobile home offered for the low low price of one point three million dollars..
looking east from the westside of Albuquerque when it's very close to sunset makes the city all sparkly!
DofT looking suspiciously past a sign reading "Electricorp is watching (you're on camera)"
Atari 7800 console connected to an analog TV tuner with composite video output then connected to a composite to HDMI converter so that it can display on a modern TV
view from my front porch security camera of the back of my bald head as I watch a young driver back out of my driveway after attempting to use it as a turnaround a second time.
lemon pitcher with lid
On the cut and polished face you can see the metallic shine.
The Moon is supposed to be right there but all I see is sadness. and dust.
At least Comcast gave me some advance notice of the possibility of an outage.
Taken with my Raysid showing a characteristic uranium spectrum
The horror of an empty CO₂ tank...
Three 8 ounce bottles of United Nuclear caffeine on a pantry shelf behind my head.