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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1h

I wasn’t really expecting the Lego gameboy to be as close to 1:1 as it is.

I’m pretty impressed.

A LEGO replica of a gameboy and two cartridges, next to actual counterparts.

The stickers on the LEGO super Mario and link’s awakening are shockingly good reproductions, and r the actual gameboy and LEGO gameboy are almost identically sized. It would be tough to tell a difference in size. The LEGO gameboy is a slightly darker shade of grey.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2h

Do wish I could have made that show locally- I don’t want to hear how it was because the FOMO is already there.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3h

(I am still married; I don’t know why she puts up with me on so many fronts.)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3h

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

A rumpled man in a head to toe blue and black jumpsuit standing by a beat up grey Vespa with black stickers on it. The stickers are Star Wars related, and the scooter isn’t even a sleek pretty one, it’s just 80s hellish design.

The guy is still smiling, for some reason.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 7h

I could catch a series of busses to work and it would involve walking less than a total of 3 blocks- but it involves waiting for 3 different busses, 99 stops, and just over a two hour trip.

4 hours a day commuting is a commitment.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 7h

I guess was a .exe that cranked the volume and played a .wav

But there’s the idea for a new social engineering rickroll/virus.

South Park did the same thing with Alexa.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 7h

There used to be a video that would get sent as a prank- it had some vaguely compelling/mysterious content but the volume was super low. The user would usually crank up the volume and it would suddenly crank out “HEY EVERYONE!! IM LOOKING AT PORN OVER HERE”.

That but “CORTANA rm -rf ./*”

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 8h

If tappers offered them, a significant number of your friends would have mugs on the wall.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 10h

A book at Al’s is as close as I’ve gotten to this.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 18h

(I have that same shirt, same tour.)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 19h

I have bought other concert tickets that far out, but First Ave has never felt that planned out!

(Oddly, new order may be my record for furthest ever; bought pre-covid and rescheduled for around 2 years later!)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve got tickets to see Peter Hooke there next September; I think that was a personal record for me.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 21h

Somebody needs to make a casual sweatshirt/flannel/light coat that has a koozie sewn inside, so I can stash my drink long enough to politely clap between songs.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 22h

Minneapolis- not burning but kind of radiant

A skyline shot of downtown Minneapolis, looking up and south east.

The sky is dark and misty. Capella tower is surrounded by a halo of purple and pink lights, and Wells Fargo tower has a huge yellow glow, both mingling in the mist.

The glow in the sky is framed by strikingly dark towers and buildings that have their own rectangular windows piercing the dark.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t even get to the trinity!

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

Evangelist% vs egotistical iron man%?

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

I have been tempted to up my game with a butter wheel but it turns out that there are limits to my extravagant idiocy.

A small shallow stainless steel square dish with the word Cuisinart on the front. There is a perforated metal drum lying in the dish on an axle.

The concept is that you fill the dish with liquid butter flavored whatever, and roll the slice of bread along the wheel for a full-coverage situation. Commonly found in restaurants.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

Uncrustables on a spectrum of:

Fresh from the fridge
In your front pocket awhile
In your lunch bag all morning
In the air fryer

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe a little lower?
The edges were a bit weird, but I didn’t hate ‘em.

I’ve always loved grilled pb&js but because there’s semi-liquids on all sides of the bread, they’re a pain to make.