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Due to weather, NASA now is targeting early Wednesday, Feb. 25, to roll the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for #ArtemisII off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/23/nasa-targets-artemis-ii-rollback-on-wednesday/ - cold temperatures and high winds are expected Tuesday, and rolling on Feb. 25, gives teams enough time to complete preparations at the launch pad that were limited today by high winds in the area.

I wrote about my not so amazing experience with a QMK macro pad…
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2026/02/19/megalodon-no-macro-pad/

Megalodon (No) Macro Pad
I blame the hardware... probably the EEPROM?

For caturday here is an elderly kitty who thinks she owns the sofa. Periodically I need to go out and show her the heating pad is on so she stops howling. If I just click it and do not show her the green light she will begin to howl again shortly after I leave the room. Her main goal in life appears to be sleeping on a warm heating pad.
I want to teach her what a squirt gun is for but the wife will not allow it. Says she is to old to train. OK at 20 she is technically older than m…

Look what the intern did to this poor SOIC!
First they forgot to put a soldermask aperture on one of the pads (challenge 6). While trying to rework it, they lifted the adjacent pad (challenge 07).

The #ArtemisII stack arrived back at the pad today, with a launch on April 1st (Europe: April 2nd) still a possibility: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/03/20/nasas-artemis-ii-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad-39b/ and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/03/Artemis_II_rolls_again and many more roll-out pictures in https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72177720332614865/

FUCK YES
I finally managed to open my Steelseries Arctis Pro headset (fuck you, product manager who signed off to use the softest security torx screws known to man. Luckily a drill will solve that problem permanently...)
Headset wouldn't turn on anymore.
Because a hair thin wire broke and the power button press didn't pass through to the main PCB anymore.
Annoyingly, BT still doesn't work, because a tiny capacitor broke off at some point and took its pad wi…

I got a Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad running QMK last year, mainly for a potential project for a client which didn't pan out so I decided to start using it.
Sadly, it's a piece of shit that bricked itself for macros, so I have a macro pad that cannot macro.
I have a way to make it work (hack!) but it's a pain in the ass.
I want to blame the hardware and not the firmware for this. Seems like it might be an EEPROM issue since even reflashing does not fix it.

A the press conference #ArtemisII launch after the WDR went so well - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/nasa-begins-artemis-ii-launch-pad-ops-after-successful-fuel-test/ issued just after it had ended - but this will not be confirmed before the Flight Readiness Review late next week.

Changing NOTHING ELSE, here's what happens if I try to pad to:
- 10 mm
- 2.1 mm
- 2 mm
I must stress to you that the ONLY change I am making between these three outputs is to open the Pad editor and change the number of mm of extrusion. The solver is absolutely schizo.
Mind you that I already built a partner shape for this elsewhere in the model, which is dimensionally identical, and it went fine!

Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
De opleving die we vorige week zagen blijkt van korte duur te zijn geweest en tevens ook minder groot dan het toen leek.
Intussen is er weer een duidelijke daling zichtbaar, van 372 naar 312. Dus zitten we weer op het pad van een neergaande achttiende golf.
Er zitten 7 nieuwe dagen in de data: 2 t/m 8 januari, met 85%-15% van de meetstations.

Yo dawg, we heard you all *loved* subscription based creative software (See: Jumping ship from Adobe to Affinity) so we changed to a subscription model. Gotta pad that Services Revenue number.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/int

Maxx Crosby trade grades: Ravens address struggling pass rush with superstar, Raiders pad rebuild assets https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/baltimore-ravens/news/maxx-crosby-trade-grades-ravens-raiders/1411ab81bc801286d0b2…

How spicy do I like my food? Well...

I didn't think that it was possible to wear out the gel wrist rest on a mouse pad, but my wrist seems to disagree.

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: What happened to that rest we all needed?
AVON: It just got too damned expensive. [Shot of Scorpio revolving on launch pad]
[Belkov's quarters]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/37 B7B4

Printed a case for my Flipper Zero WiFi Board
#FlipperZero #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

Ook vandaag weer een rondje met de #trike, nu voor het eerst voorzien van steun in de nek, voor vertrek nog wat hoger gezet en bij thuiskomst weer iets lager. Door de Almeerse rand van de Oostvaardersplassen, langs de uitspanning, waar het best druk was. Voor het eerst een pet op. Ik overweeg een zonnebril op sterkte. Al dat gefietst jaagt een mens wel op kosten.

The #ArtemisII stack has reached launch pad 39B at the KSC: NASA album at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72177720331471551

I read someone's post about their job where Agentic AI use is tracked for performance reviews, so they’re now dumping every question they can into the LLM just to pad their metrics and burn as many tokens as they can in the process.
All I can say is... I think maybe a lot of people have had the same idea. 😇
#AgenticAI

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Shadedlady/115994257483604253
"Maar omdat Mandy de enige Nederlander daar was, was ze daarnaast verantwoordelijk voor alle taken die normaal door verschillende mensen worden uitgevoerd."
Hoe kun je in vredesnaam eem team van -1- in zo'n situatie op pad sturen?
'...maar zodra de aanvallen vaker of dichterbij kwamen, trek je je toch terug in je eigen team. En dan moest ik het alleen zien te rooien. '

There's something about the new radiator bed that drives these two into a squidging frenzy. They don't do it on the other one. Sparky in particular slobbers all over it. Sound up if you want to hear slobbering purring cats 😄

Europa kan alles (!) wat ze nodig heeft militair op termijn ook zonder de VS ontwikkelen. Er is alleen tijd nodig. Alle opmerkingen "Europa kan niet zonder de VS" kunnen we negeren. Discussie moet gaan over het pad naar meer onafhankelijkheid.
#EU #Europa

Breakfast in Bangkok. After a week of Vietnamese food, this pad krapow is strong on the pow. Good cure for gummed-up eyes.

I wonder if trivial code libraries (like the cliché left-pad) are going to mostly disappear because it's fewer tokens for a LLM to just inline that code than to manage the dependency, and advanced/experienced programmers aren't going to use that kind of thing anyway…

Lighthouse at the end of the Cayuga Lake Inlet Near Stewart Park and the municipal golf course
#photo #photography #lake

As NASA moves closer to launch of the #Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its #SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the first time at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals: #VehicleAssemblyBuilding to Launch Pad 39B.

Meme from a good, wise friend. She just happens to still log into (PTUI) Facebook.
#Joke #Meme #Politics #KittyCat

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
TRACER: It reads that way, sir.
QUUTE: That Hunda and his rabble are becoming more than just a nuisance.
[Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/234 B7B3

I'm not saying I've got a hot ass but I've been sitting on a heating pad for two hours...

So the #ArtemisII FRR went "go" on all counts, they hope to roll out the stack to the pad again on 19 March and be ready to launch on 1 April at 22:24 UTC - the table of possible launch dates in April https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/artemis-ii-mission-availability.pdf just had another one added for 2 April.

I've been in pain (of various states) for over a month now, and I'm trying different techniques to deal with it.
Since it's not an injury I am now trying to "push through the pain" and by that I mean instead of lying on a heating pad trying to relieve the pain I get up, get moving, and do things.
And... it hurts like hell. But yesterday it only hurt like hell for like 90 minutes, so I could deal with that.
Contrast to 6 hours lying in bed the day befor…

Guess the cat is proud of herself. Wife was in the other room so I placed a fried egg and small piece of ham on a plate by her chair Cat was asleep on the sofa on her heating pad. Figured she would not notice and had never seen her express interest in eggs before.
Went into the other room and a few minutes later heard the wife yelling at the cat. Came out and found the cat had taken her egg and ran behind the sofa with it.
Kitty will be 20 in May and apparently still has some ki…

These militant geese
Staking out the gravel path
As their nesting pad.
#dailyhaikuprompt - geese
#haiku
#poem

I'm in a good mood today! Woke up at 4:30am with a bit of leg pain but took Tylenol and used a heating pad right away. I was able to lie in bed for 3 hours and the pain was only mild. Finally got out of bed and was dealing with minimal pain.
It's been well over a week since I've had this little pain when getting out of bed in the morning. I was able to do my morning stuff just fine. I even made pizza dough.
The next test will be trying to get some desk work done. (And…

The #Artemis stack on the pad in a good image from the ISS: https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2018365716181705015 - processed with IrfanView, using AutoAdjustColors and contrast adjustment. Meanwhile the Wet Dress Rehearsal is in trouble because of - you guessed it - a hydrogen leak. Since the updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ have become super-sparse it's hard to tell how serious the problem is.

A live view of the #ArtemisII stack on the pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - where the countdown for the Wet Dress Rehearsal has begun at 1:13 UTC; see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/ for the timeline and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/generalprobe-wet-dress-rehearsal-fur-artemis-ii/ for maaany Artemis-related links going back to 2023.

The Wet Dress Rehearsal for #ArtemisII has begun in earnest with the tanking of the SLS Core stage now underway as planned: frequent updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDlM8d4Q7g (the pictures here from https://images.nasa.gov/ show yesterday's sunrise and moonrise behind the stack on the pad).

20"-wide keyboard tray when a typical full-size keyboard is a bit over 17" wide and a mouse pad is about 8.5" wide. ⌨️🖱️🤦‍♂️
#design #utility #ergonomics #accessories #technology #business