cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20166575
Don't forget the beige box that protects you from the magic happening:
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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They are always super gross though. Cleaning them is always fun, especially when you work in a bio lab.
And each of them costs about the same as a deposit on a house.
And last just as long.
The engineering department at my uni had a tensile strength testing machine which says "Made in the GDR" on it, a country that hasn't existed for 40+ years.
I too like toaster ovens.
I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don't know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.
I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite not being a scientist and having no idea what our many beige boxes do.
Excitedly getting monologued to about niche things that are like magic to me is the best. Learning just enough about someone's interest to use all the words wrong though is what really gets me going
You married the right one.
Being excited about random things you admire is a sign of genuine and great love :)
Another one
Oh I recognize these! We've got:
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The 1978 super Nintendo 5 (alternate universe)
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Lockheed Martin Bread maker
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Jeff
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HP 2400 inkjet Uranium 235 enrichment centrifuge
And you shall never offend this boxes or else they WILL hold grudges against you.
This is a repost from a month or two ago... and it's still funny the 2nd time. :)
Which is a itself a repost from a year or two ago lol.
Also, these beige boxes used to be white.
They all look like some 90ies computer device.
The designs probably haven't fundamentally changed all that much from their older versions.
That's not a fair statement. Some of the machines are gray.