A. Fresnel
@fresnel.bsky.social
An expert (? haven't actually worked in the field for a while but grad school never leaves you) in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/them)
The color of a television turned to an indistinct channel. Everybody knows that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The color of a television turned to an indistinct channel. Everybody knows that.
You interrupt my game of OpenTTD for this?
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
You interrupt my game of OpenTTD for this?
All my jazz collection is what I, who am not a jazz person at all, would call "jazz with prog rock vibes".
January 4, 2026 at 10:38 PM
All my jazz collection is what I, who am not a jazz person at all, would call "jazz with prog rock vibes".
Jazz exists in a broad spectrum between "spicy hold music" and "kicking a horn section down the stairs" and finding your niche in there is HARD.
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Jazz exists in a broad spectrum between "spicy hold music" and "kicking a horn section down the stairs" and finding your niche in there is HARD.
My list would have to include Steve Morse, imho, the most overlooked guitar legend out there. Probably also Steve Howe and Steve Vai.
The joke about all of them being named Steve aside, also Kaki King.
The joke about all of them being named Steve aside, also Kaki King.
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
My list would have to include Steve Morse, imho, the most overlooked guitar legend out there. Probably also Steve Howe and Steve Vai.
The joke about all of them being named Steve aside, also Kaki King.
The joke about all of them being named Steve aside, also Kaki King.
Here in Cleveland we have a guy whose billboards have become so ubiquitous they sometimes don't even have his name: clevelandmagazine.azureedge.net/sitefinity/i...
January 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Here in Cleveland we have a guy whose billboards have become so ubiquitous they sometimes don't even have his name: clevelandmagazine.azureedge.net/sitefinity/i...
I'm sorry a cartoon anvil fell on that kitty. ☹️
January 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I'm sorry a cartoon anvil fell on that kitty. ☹️
As long as people pay attention to my incoherent stream of consciousness posts about the Tour de France this summer I'm cool with it.
January 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
As long as people pay attention to my incoherent stream of consciousness posts about the Tour de France this summer I'm cool with it.
entering gnosis to work some chaos magic
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
entering gnosis to work some chaos magic
I saw a billboard that said "Anxious? Jesus has the cure!" and I'm still not convinced it wasn't for a grey market weed dispensary.
January 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I saw a billboard that said "Anxious? Jesus has the cure!" and I'm still not convinced it wasn't for a grey market weed dispensary.
That meme where the guy with the good idea gets thrown out the window saying, "What if we don't create a power vacuum that will immediately be filled by something worse after decades of pointless, expensive occupation?"
January 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
That meme where the guy with the good idea gets thrown out the window saying, "What if we don't create a power vacuum that will immediately be filled by something worse after decades of pointless, expensive occupation?"
I don't know if it's better or worse, but you just reminded me that this exists: youtu.be/S5kgrEjw2WU?...
Livin' Like John Travolta
YouTube video by Cledus T. Judd - Topic
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I don't know if it's better or worse, but you just reminded me that this exists: youtu.be/S5kgrEjw2WU?...
I at least want my daily literal worthless garbage but with a tiny chance to contain something that I have to respond to or I'll get arrested delivery to come in one of those Richard Scary looking electric mail trucks.
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I at least want my daily literal worthless garbage but with a tiny chance to contain something that I have to respond to or I'll get arrested delivery to come in one of those Richard Scary looking electric mail trucks.
I will go to my grave pronouncing "fsck" as "eff-suck".
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I will go to my grave pronouncing "fsck" as "eff-suck".
I'm in the honeymoon phase with a new vinyl record player and most of the relevant portion of The Moody Blues discography and a couple Wendy Carlos albums on vinyl from a local vintage store.
January 2, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I'm in the honeymoon phase with a new vinyl record player and most of the relevant portion of The Moody Blues discography and a couple Wendy Carlos albums on vinyl from a local vintage store.
Good news, you can have mine. 😆
January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Good news, you can have mine. 😆
Ginger ale writ large is... fine, albeit a pale imitation of ginger beer? Vernors tastes like it's mulch flavored.
January 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Ginger ale writ large is... fine, albeit a pale imitation of ginger beer? Vernors tastes like it's mulch flavored.
Let me know if anyone wants the info for my FTP server I upload text files to. It's going to be the wave of the future.
January 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Let me know if anyone wants the info for my FTP server I upload text files to. It's going to be the wave of the future.