This Does Not Compute

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A Costco worker driving a floor scrubbing machine with a stack of pizza boxes on it.
A printed circuit board showing a pair of surface-mount capacitors. What, you thought I’d use the alt text to give you the answer?
A power drill with a right-angle attachment, connected to a flexible shaft, with a 3/4” spade bit at the end. Do not try this at home (not because it’s dangerous or anything, it was just a giant pain in the ass).
A rack of clothes at Costco, with suit jackets on the upper part and women’s swimsuits on the bottom.
The back end of a very beat up Honda Civic with a Student Driver sticker proudly displayed on the rear quarter panel.
A screenshot of the weather forecast for the Minneapolis-St Paul metro area, showing a current temperature of -20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Some dude at the grocery store wearing shorts, a flannel shirt and running shoes.
A sandwich board with the question “Why are iPhone chargers not called apple juice?”. I don’t know why I posted this
Screenshot of an email from YouTube saying that I now have to share ad revenue with an entity called “Revelator” that claims to own Discoholic’s music.
A Prusa Mini 3D printer showing a finished print job, with the filament spool next to it almost empty.
A wooly caterpillar cruising across the forest floor.
A babbling brook. As soothing as the babbling I do in my videos? That’s for you to decide.
Fully restored Mac SE/30 including BlueSCSI v2!
Apples on a tree gently swaying in the wind.
Four Meridian 1 phone cabinets, each the size of a refrigerator.
An absolutely wack 2020 iMac box showing the specifications. 21” 1080p (non-Retina) screen with an Intel CPU, SSD and two USB-C ports. Oh and the box has the “think different” slogan on it.
A Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard. Makes no damn sense because aren’t split keyboards supposed to also be ergonomic? This one is just split for no reason. The extra keys on the left are kinda neat though
Some bullshit from Redbubble about how they’re making more money at artists’/sellers’ expense.
An assortment of hand tools that really shouldn’t be quite as nice as they are
A box containing a magnetic phone umbrella. I don’t get it either. Probably why it was in the clearance section.
A sad Game Boy Advance with nonfunctional IPS LCD because I’m a goddamned cheapskate.
GBA shell parts. Yellow and magenta fronts, purple and black backs. Not pictured: my disappointment at not having one that’s neon green.
Bodge wires fixing the broken ribbon connector pins in the previous photo. They’re not my best work but they get the job done. The pin pitch is pretty small!
The display ribbon cable connector on a Game Boy Pocket circuit board, with two pins damaged because some idiot has been in here before. (There’s a non-zero chance that idiot was me.)
3 RAM SIMMs made into a keychain that, if put in your pocket, will stab you in the balls next to a pair of what are probably RDRAM terminators (and thus have no RAM chips on them) and no doubt will get a bunch of pedantic people to reply “tHoSe ArE rAm TeRmInAtOrS yOu IdIoT!!!!!!11!!” but little do they realize 1) I already know what they are and 2) I don’t give a shit.
Apple Watch showing a noise level of 99dB.
The container for Hearos earplugs. I would have taken a photo of the plugs themselves but I’m wearing them!
Looking out on a serene pond with birdsong and wind rustling.
Screenshot of Disney+ email informing about a price increase that takes effect in October 2024. Last time I checked were well past that. Cmon get yer shit together guys 🙄
A dumpster that wishes it were a DeLorean with a big Toyota badge on the back. Not fooling anyone buddy
Ducks swimming in a wetland area.
The cast on stage at the end of Sailor Moon: The Super Live.
A Mac Mini M4 sitting on a stand that makes it look like a duck.
Back on my bullshit with the conjoined Cheez-Its again
Two conjoined Triscuits
An upside-down Mac Studio with its air intake absolutely clogged with dust.
Apple Flat Panel Display 62W Power Adapter that looks like a translucent grey UFO
A translucent grey round plastic device with an Apple logo in the center
Hockey!!!!!!
bin with too many USB cables in it that says “too many USB cables” on it
four conjoined cheezits
Costco pepperoni pizza
Panasonic SR-TMB10 rice cooker
Two external hard drives identical in design but one is much smaller than the other.
me in a boat