Yeah, I used google for the street view. It’s usually a lot more crowded than pictured, and I’ve never seen those steel barriers put up in real life.

So it’s just a street with like 3000 tourists doing their thing and drivers who thought they’d get curbside parking stuck for 30-40 minutes trying to get through.

Very specific, but driving through Pike Place in Seattle. It’s technically a road, but it’ll take you half an hour to go two blocks.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7siNFnmKZ4keczQJ9

Yup! SN 528128 Got it off eBay. Apparently the previous owner passed away and his daughter sold it. Paid $1300 for it. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever spent that much money on and I regret nothing.

It had some issues when I got it doing division. It tended to jam up turning in reverse. But I was able take it apart to get it working. One of the metal tabs wasn’t bent quite enough. Makes sense since these thing were all hand assembled and tuned.

I looked up the serial number on curtamania, and saw some checkins from various previous owners. It was pretty wild that someone even uploaded a photo. Not of a Curta calculator, but my Curta calculator.

I own a Curta Type II calculator.

I would scroll a bit after someone linked me a video. Content was fun, but after like 3 minutes, I could feel something wrong in my brain. Like just the nonstop influx of content with no breaks. You might think one video was faked, but you didn’t have enough time to contemplate it before another shows up in its place.

I have some friends who spend hours on it. I can’t imagine deciding to participate in that for so long.

I worked as a consultant at a product development firm. One of our clients had us making a kitchen appliance that would take a “pod” of some kind (like Keurig).

Their little ad video that they made before involving us had a little CG video showing the pod floating into the receiver and sliding down into the machine.

When we showed them the prototype, the first question we got is if the pod receiver thing was motorized.

Like…no. You push it down. Takes 1 second.

Anyway replacing a phone battery does not need to be automated.