"My steam just isn't working properly."
"Have you tried adjusting the valves?"
"That might work. Thanks!"
Georgetown Steam Plant, just south of Seattle. With complicated opening arrangements that mean it's only open to the public the first Sunday of each month, it's absolutely worth visiting for anyone interested in dusty old industrial machinery.
In other news, I've also acquired a midget computer. Embarrasingly, in the past I've bought entire generations of desktop PCs and dedicated GPUs with lower technical specifications than this. It's currently in use prototyping the next generation of blog-beast-oriented web systems. The wonders shall never cease.
...Prototype of Combine soldier's mind controling chip?
One of the gag pages for april fools years back had an add for Durandal B Gone, and Minerva's first bit was loosely based on Silent Cartographer.
Fair to say everybody's favorite metastable madman influenced our lady of perpetual peevishness.
can we get a big pic of your workspace? the lighting seems excellent on the R-Pi and i want to get some ideas for setting up my new working environment!
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Posted by Bolo42 at 3:48PM, Saturday May 26 2012
Drools
btw was Minerva inspired by Marathon by any chance?