The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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**drags his busted pterosaur wing up the beach and flops in a recliner**

"Can I please have a latté with a piccolo depth charge?"

Was that suppose to be a latte with double depth charge.....

Wouldn't that be Drambuie?... And would you stack 2 shot glasses?

More of an evening coffee... I posted that at dawn

Offers a Cheers to the Drambuie....

Ah. Off-topic. Why not.

Yesterday, I visited a friend and her dog, Roo. Yoshi, my Irish Greyhound came too. Roo is about half the size of Yoshi. As usual, they chased each other around, snarling and biting --- having fun --- until they were both totally knackered.

Flying cars are out. Last night I watched Scott Manley's latest upload to YouTube. See Archer.

I'll be watching the last two episodes of The Orville today. Then I'll get back to (re-)watching the rest of the classic Doctor Who. Or maybe I'll watch "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga".

"On Body and Soul" was excellent, as was "Made in Abyss".

Back to my (now fairly cold) coffee...

(The cookies behind the aspidestra are probably still just edible.)

There were a couple of Cafe threads on another forum I go to, but they seem to have died out in the last couple of years. This one is nice, even if I'm still struggling to drink. As a dinosaur, do I even have lips?

I'm trying to rebuild my life a bit after the 2020s happened to it. Went to my first SF convention since 2019 last weekend. I barely talked to anyone but I'm still counting it as a win, as spending 2 days in a strange city with a bunch of strangers would have been inconcievable for me this time last year.

you made that yourself?...i just thought it was a beautiful gif until i read what you wrote

edit: i read wrong...must have been memorized @_@

https://www.instructables.com/RGB-LED-Newtons-Cradle/

I'd forgotten about this. I think I had some trouble finding how it worked last time round. It took some trolling this time.

It's NOT a real Newton's Cradle. It simulates one - to a degree.

When I said I wanted to build one, I wanted to do exactly that.
I'd put an RGB LED in each ball, with an accelerometer and a small processor, and so on.

The versions one can buy from AliExpress just shine LED lights up to glass balls. I don't think they do anything clever.
Maybe I could take one of those and, in the base, use a camera to track the balls, and five servos to aim the LEDs at the balls. A Raspberry Pi would manage all that quite easily. I already have all the parts. Maybe I'll do it. I've just ordered two from AliExpress. I'll see how I get on. Maybe I'll give one as a Christmas present... if it works!

(Talk about "off topic"!)

Asks if she might Nick one of the Cookies..... , btw ,,Thought the MadMax series took some serious creativity in Costuming and acting .

Of Course , you do not have Lips .. .....but Sci Fi conventions generally are to die for.. Most all folks attending are there with a single purpose...So Not a place , I ever worried at ..So many are Aspies, known or not,..and so many are into their characters..Imagine a thug , trying to hold up a Convention goer in the Parking lot . And someone into their character as Capt America or Wonder Woman shows ip on the scene,then add multiples of these characters..
The would be Thug might find hisself surrounded rather quickly .Then add all the Star Wars Soldiers that attend. And the odds get worse for the Thug.. ...."just a thought bubble "

Is it weird that I'm in my early 40's and I don't feel great when someone older calls me "young"? I don't feel great about at least some things in my life. I don't have a paid job, I never went to college or university, I have some online friends but I don't have too many friends in have in the physical world, and I not so good at times at the start of being middle aged. Any of you in their early 40's feel that way?

I was still indestructible in my 40s.
It was my 50s when I started coming apart.
(Correction...I've always come apart... it was my 50s when I stopped coming together again afterwards)

Ouch.....guess the years past 60 ...must be picking up parts as they fall off , as , I am going on down the Road.
With the help of the Doctors have seen over these years..... Lost some functionality but still dragging these bones along . And a extra cup of coffee , everyso often.

Bilbo's 111th was just the beginning of new experiences.....

There's a joke doing the rounds about how hobbits come of age at 33 - "I used to think that was really late, but now I think they're rushing it."

It's been a while - and a month ago I had my first stroke! Interesting experience. Three days in hospital. I particularly enjoyed the 15-minute MRI. Especially the tunes it played. Halfway through came Doctor Who's TARDIS doing the "Cloister Bell" emergency warning. The last piece of music was excellent. I commented about it on the way out, and the technician/nurse said there's a competition in the US about who can produce the best compositions.