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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4h

😂

It’s been sitting on the shelf for quite awhile, and I am just LEGO-brained enough that I couldn’t pull the trigger.

Yesterday it was 70% off, so it was time.

It’s got what seem like baffling pieces to accommodate some right angle builds that LEGO solves with technics, but quality is ok.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4h

“I want the LEGO gameboy set!”

“We’ve got video game legos at home.”

The Video game legos at home:

A box containing an Xbox 360 at 3/4 scale fashioned out of Mega Bloks.

The box is stylized to appear as an original 360 console box.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like an analogue to RFC1149, IP over Avian Carriers.

MIB is already a pretty heavily overloaded term in the networking space, so maybe IPoAB, for Aquatic Bottles? Keep me updated on the committee results.

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers

www.rfc-editor.org

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve added “let’s do the fucking network!” to my .sig

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve worked with him- great guy. I wasn’t a runner when we worked together, but saw him spectating while running my first marathon and I still remember that adrenaline surge.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

Wermaid Woman, surely.

A yellow belt over a tightly cinched orange shirt. There is a big chrome W where a buckle would be.

It is likely an upside down M.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a sucker for Fitgers, but the meat eaters swear by OMC smokehouse; I have heard awful big talk from former Texas residents acknowledging that the brisket is “really good”.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2d

I was with a few First Ave employees during the story about Conrad, and there were tears. It was a pretty touching story.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2d

I divide metal into two main archetypes:
Chugga-chugga
Deedly-deedly-dee

But after listening to a lot of The Sword, I think I have to acknowledge a third:
Chugga-deedly-Wah-WAH

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

I'm rubber, and you're glue

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

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Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite race day traditions is stalling the sweeper bus by offering them snacks. Anything to keep them of the back of the pack runners for another minute.

A school bus on a deserted road, with a police car behind it. There is a man with a Tupperware container walking in front of the bus.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted 20 and never got close. It’s a lot of work to drop a few minutes at that distance!

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

(And 6:15 is a 2:43 marathon. That’s fast, but elites are closer to 2:10, which is 26 sub 5 minutes !!!!

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

My mile record is 6:10 and I had a cough for a week after that. (Informally known as track hack.)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn’t translate at all.

I rode a motorcycle with a cameraman on the back in 2014 and that’s when it absolutely clicked for me. It is ridiculous.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

If you’ve never seen elite level runners in person, it is mind boggling. They have kept up 22 miles of this pace.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

The first runners came by over 90 minutes ago, but we have been handing out snacks, cheers, and high fives ever since.

Tell your runners to look for the skeleton!

Some motion blurred runners, next to a large skeleton wearing a faux racing bib.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

I designed and printed an adapter so I could use my LightBoy on my newfangled Analogue Pocket device.
I am an absolute sucker for a schtick.

A black gameboy-looking debice with a small white piece of plastic and a vintage lightboy attachment.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

It was at least manageable, unlike other handhelds that were arguably superior! (Lynx, game gear)

I had a small grey egg-sized external battery and I wrung every last bit of utility out of that thing. Fantastic investment.

A grey rectangle with rounded corners and edges. In purple letters it says “Nintendo gameboy” and there are some texture lines engraved in it. A black coil of a power cable extends out of the top of it.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

I agree that 335 would have been a disaster; just commenting that a better way to avoid that bottleneck would have been the original configuration rather than the modified 35W route.

I can’t imagine thinking nuking Nicollet would be a starter.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interst...

Interstate 335 (Minnesota) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

Destroying property for highways is a thorny situation all around.

But if the Lyndale association hadn’t won out, there’s two gross intersections that would have been avoided.

A map of Minneapolis to the north, and Richfield to the south. The highways are in yellow, and 35W takes a large jog east at 62, and then a hard turn west at 94. A red line has been drawn down lyndale, showing that the little spurs could have been completely eliminated, and 35 to 94 could have been a straight line.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

When seasonal preparation looks a little like a low budget horror movie.

What appears to be a pile of bones illuminated by a shadowy spotlight and a thin ribbon of brighter light, perhaps an open door.
The bones are stacked next to a grey brick wall and are lying on a series of slatted wood. Without any immediate sense of scale, it’s difficult to tell that this is the components to a 12 foot skeleton.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

It really does take a village to keep his noggin out of the sun.

($2.97 if anybody’s looking to stock up on late season wide-brimmed hats.)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 5d

You just watch precarious state?

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 5d

It felt like cheers walking into the room, I knew so many people.

It helps that I (literally) bought about 10% of the tickets to that showing.

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