You've just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.
How is it that JUST NOW is the time you've decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?
I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.
I worked on Avatar 2 & 3. Babysat moviemaking in an otherwise-empty building during covid lockdowns. Long days and working weekends. Friendships strained, the odd one ruined.
I've held the Oscar which Avatar 2 won, and my name is in the credits of both.
What I have not done is watch either film in its entirety. Bits and pieces during the creation process sure, but neither from start to finish.
After close to 9 years of every work day somehow tracing back to one or the other film, the overwhelming feeling at the completion of Avatar 3 was relief, above all else.
And to be clear it's not that I remotely think they're bad films, quite the contrary. Technology was created which will define an era of visual effects, and irrespective of what anyone says about nuance of the story, they are undeniably experiences (a point on which perhaps I agree with the writer of that article, around in-theatre viewing).
Over-exposure to anything will really change your worldview.
One thing to note (for what it's worth I use Island rather than Shelter, but the end result is the same), Microsoft can't get their shit together. While most things work normally with "Work Profile" apps, a couple of things don't.
The biggest annoyance by far for me is I cannot answer Teams calls on Android Auto. Perversely, I can reply to messages (DMs or group chats, but not channels) hands-free by talking to the car, but if a call comes in the UI only appears on the phone and not the car's display.
I'm sure Microsoft could fix this, but it's been broken for the ~2 years since they started supporting Android Auto in any capacity, so I'm guessing they aren't going to.
Overall though, my favourite feature has to be the one-click toggle that disables all of the work apps. No notifications, no syncing in the background, no nothing. As soon as my phone connects to my home WiFi, an automation turns it off for me. Glorious, glorious silence.
The fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt.
Published in 1979, so nearly a half century old idea 😉
Where we were staying was fortunately right on the edge of suburbia and it was a clear night, plopped it down on the deck and apparently we're twins? Because the first picture I took was also Orion.
(this was only a couple of minutes, so doesn't look amazing)
Even just counting metric there are far too many sizes of hex bits. Adding inch sizes further complicates things, and as you say, the similarly of some of them to their metric counterparts isn't helping; is 5/32 close enough to 4mm to not break things? Who knows!
With that said, torx is really no picnic either. T6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 27, 30, and 40 all seem to be in relatively common use, and I'm not sure they all need to be. Not to mention the (relatively common) security variants of at least the 10 through 40.
I think #1 - #4 square are the only ones I've ever seen in the wild, though I'm informed security versions of at least #2 - #4 exist too.
They broke ground somewhere between 2023-05-30 (area completely undisturbed) and 2023-08-30 (only first level of houses finished construction).
The next images, a year later on 2024-08-30 is from the filming of episode 7.
There are two more from 2025-05-30 and 2025-09-30, which don't show much of anything.
Obviously they don't need to build the houses again, but clearly a heck of a lot of time went into the rest of season 1, so a similar wait for season 2 doesn't seem unexpected.
You have to dig reasonably hard, but a few articles have linked to the original EASA directive, which is allowing up to three non-passenger flights to relocate the plane to a service location.
I'm not sure if that rule would just apply in Europe where they have authority.
Price-wise, well that's a whole different story. That station is about $600 USD and change, and individual tips start at about $40.
What it does have though is damn near instant heating (it takes longer for the controller in mine to boot than it does to heat), hot-swappable tips (the metal comb-looking thing is to aid pulling the tip from the handle), and nearly 150 shapes of tips to choose from (see https://www.jbctools.com/c245-cartridge-range-long-life-tip-product-19-design-iron.html).
Their other innovation (now somewhat commonplace) is building the element into the tip, letting them put significantly larger power output into comparatively low thermal mass tips. Does wonders for temperature control.
Here's a reasonable comparison of the older-style (Hakko, Weller) separate element/tip design against the JBC's integrated: https://youtu.be/scvS2yeUH00
But also at regular checkouts.
You've just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.
How is it that JUST NOW is the time you've decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?
I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.