FeynStructure

Electrician. Eternal student. Proud denizen of the Pacific Northwest, uninterested in nations and governments.

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2026-09-18 03:54:26 UTC

I went back to the place where I met my wife today. Not for sentimental reasons, but because I needed a loaf of sourdough.
We met at a bakery, you see. I was baking bread for $12 CAD an hour and renting the living room couch at a friend's place for $400 a month. It was a real low point in my life. She worked the front counter on the weekends and was the only cool person there, as far as I was concerned.
We had a very intense relationship for a couple of years, then broke up and went our separate ways for many years while we did some growing up (OK, mostly just me).
We've been married three years now, but our history goes back fifteen, all the way back to that little bakery. I ended up there because I was broke and desperate and I just needed a job, any job, to keep me off the streets. Any port in a storm. It turned out to be the most consequential job I ever worked, even though I only held it for ten months.
I don't believe in fate. I don't believe that everything happens for a reason, except in the most trivial sense of the laws of physics. Some things just turn out to be important and some things won't matter a year or two from now, and it's hard to tell sometimes in the moment which is which. Best to take it all seriously, in my opinion, but you could just as well go the other way. I'm a pretty serious guy, most of the time, so it's probably good that I ended up with a fairly silly woman.

2026-09-17 23:38:50 UTC

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Yes. That should smooth things over.

2026-09-17 14:06:56 UTC

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Nice, I'm gonna have to try that sometime. Next up, bitcoin shake with mango?

2026-09-17 14:03:36 UTC

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It's a nice piece. Simple design, well executed.

2026-09-17 08:24:51 UTC

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Palamtir, Anduril, now Eärendil...
As a LotR fan, I don't care for this trend of naming dystopian technology after things from Middle Earth 😑

2026-09-17 03:00:53 UTC

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I would like to look at that slice but you're cheese-teasing us 🤣

2026-09-15 20:04:08 UTC

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Well that's pretty fucked. Nothing good can ever last...

2026-09-15 17:19:13 UTC

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That's a nice mix. Even the sadness, in the right context.

2026-09-15 16:22:26 UTC

"Must be nice..."
The apprentices think I have a pretty cushy job, sitting at my desk while they do the actual physical labour of the job out in the elements. But the ugly truth is that I spend most of my days sedentary, in a makeshift office in a windowless, concrete room in the basement, staring at a laptop with two additional monitors blasting blue light into my eyes while my phone rings and buzzes constantly, precluding deep focus. It's terrible for me.
So days like today are nice; up on the roof, alone, wind in my hair, working with my tools again. I need more of this.
https://blossom.primal.net/83d517a953a20ef87a94b3b7b25a54fe2ae8e39d22628ccaf276b9f5babc365a.jpg

2026-09-15 16:19:22 UTC

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Ehh, my work has been killing me lately but today is going ok. And you sir?

2026-09-14 18:52:36 UTC

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You know it! I'll miss what this city once was, but not what it is now. Just a little more patience, then it's out to the country :)

2026-09-14 18:48:55 UTC

Big city life 😑
https://image.nostr.build/831c1aba9032e45fcf4784366ff0c7ebb8619457698d596ab53792b165f21f61.jpg

2026-09-14 09:45:31 UTC

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I appreciate the kind words. Just an odd little man who fancies himself a writer on the weekend sometimes ;)

2026-09-13 13:25:58 UTC

Celebrating the arrival of autumn with the cutting of the inaugural squash.
This Japanese blade has served me well for almost 20 years. I was a dirt poor teenager when I bought it; it cost me a week's wages and was the most valuable thing I owned for awhile. In the first year I owned it I dropped it and chipped the base of the handle. It didn't affect the functionality but has served as a timeless reminder to take care of my tools and treat them with respect.
https://image.nostr.build/9291175739414584b973b25cbca8c40d28d2e3933acc49a5984270fafe4b40cc.jpg

2026-09-13 02:52:11 UTC

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God: the greatest influencer of all time. Trust at your own risk.

2026-09-12 21:39:43 UTC

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I leverage physics to invisibly siphon energy from one part of the world to another. This energy has caused uncountable deaths over the past couple centuries.

2026-09-12 19:21:32 UTC

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Whoa, that's nuts!

2026-09-12 18:45:29 UTC

Two things I've noticed recently:
1. My last two jugs of milk have gone bad well before their alleged expiry dates. Like, a week before.
2. My local grocery stores are suddenly full of microfiltered milk products ("stays fresher for longer!") that are, of course, significantly more expensive than regular milk.
Methinks these two things may be related.

2026-09-12 14:03:02 UTC

Just a solid pan of meatballs made by my mother in law. She's very insecure about her cooking, even though it's amazing. Compliments will continue until morale improves.
https://blossom.primal.net/52a3461c758fe87903fbb881c94075c279817764696b07493f9ab8a2aa648267.jpg

2026-09-11 19:47:00 UTC

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Takes me back to my childhood, wandering around mom's garden eating handfuls of random leaves. I used to just eat sage as a snack 😅
Sorrel was my favorite though, so tangy.

2026-09-11 17:00:36 UTC

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That is a really great analogy, I'm filing that for future use.

2026-09-11 16:17:45 UTC

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Hmm, perhaps I was too cynical. On the other hand, 2013 was 13 years ago. Goodness, time flies...

2026-09-11 14:52:37 UTC

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It's a minor detail, but oh how I long for the days when you could just show up to the airport with a wad of cash and fly that day.
Pretty sure you'd be water boarded for suspected terrorism if you tried that nowadays 😑

2026-09-11 13:47:27 UTC

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Fuck yeah 🤘

2026-09-10 21:03:15 UTC

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Yeah they're pretty sick. It's the music I didn't know I wanted until I heard it the first time 🤘

2026-09-10 16:50:56 UTC

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You're one of the cool ones in my books 👉 You're doing more to make nostr lively and spicy and fun than most, and I appreciate that.

2026-09-10 03:07:31 UTC

I had a cat that lived to the age of 20.
Now in my late thirties (and barring any fatal accidents or illnesses) I should live for another 2-3 cats.

2026-09-10 02:58:40 UTC

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More like Helen Hsmom, m I rite?

2026-09-10 00:47:15 UTC

Fire alarm is fine electrical work if you know what you're doing, but I do not. And yet, I am the only one on this crew who knows anything at all.
Spent an hour trying to work out how to wire this one component (in-unit horn silence button), only to find out from the technician that half the wires we pulled to it won't even be used.
We pulled them exactly as his company's riser specified. "Yeah we weren't really sure what kind of silencer you'd be using, so we went worst case scenario."
Bro, that's literal kilometers of 14-gauge copper throughout this building, all for nothing, none of it recoverable. In this fucking economy?!
https://image.nostr.build/74bd8a94fe705317d8c589a575d1a57470e6eb719fa0fae2999d9e91587c5db3.jpg

2026-09-09 21:54:00 UTC

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PipePipe to watch YouTube outside the Google panopticon.

2026-09-09 19:09:52 UTC

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What in the fuck...
I sold out to Milwaukee too, the tool brand that is, and I have been parted from much money indeed 😅

2026-09-09 14:16:34 UTC

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Underrated. If the market assigns something a price (and in this case it very much does), then the collective intelligence of society has communicated that it has value.

2026-09-09 03:38:27 UTC

This came in the mail today, addressed to the previous tenant. Pretty based.
https://image.nostr.build/e570e6f9674d9c78b5e50ac26712c37bc65c934315d653ce853c41edb35f7d39.jpg

2026-09-08 20:02:57 UTC

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Holy shit... I mean it looks like it's not fully confirmed yet but that was one of the holy grails of mathematics O_o
This is wild.

2026-09-08 12:07:58 UTC

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Welcome. As others have said, it's weird here, and initially unintuitive.
We're also having a bit of a bot problem at the moment. Watch out for Imad from Gaza, it's particularly pesky 😑

2026-09-07 20:43:12 UTC

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Eggs, omelette, etc. Tis the price of being curious 😂

2026-09-07 15:34:29 UTC

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Picked up a few more cool people to follow, thanks 🤘

2026-09-04 12:33:50 UTC

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The part about the brain and the universe reminds me that quote:
"Life is the means by which the universe understands itself."

2026-09-03 14:51:08 UTC

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Ahh OK, got it.

2026-09-03 12:46:12 UTC

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When the time, the tools, and the motivation align, repair can be such an enjoyable physical puzzle, with a real prize at the end.
Or you might just end up sweaty, frustrated, and cursing the engineer who designed the thing.
Good luck!

2026-09-03 10:28:13 UTC

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Sick, thanks for sharing 🤘