I too was doing an analytic chemistry course when this first popped :) Never forget!!

Hit extra hard because a friend was in a performing techno duo called Polytron.

Since getting my first fragile smartphone (HTC Hero, 2009) I’ve zero phone drops on my soul. Guess the question is why drop phones? Daddy buys new one?

Finland gets May Day fairs in cities - mostly cheap tinsel junk, masks and helium balloons for kids. Students in higher education are mandated to begin boozing morbidly around a week prior and carry on for at least a couple of weeks after. ‘Wabu ei lopu’ = May Day never ends. Communists put on parades. Families make mead and doughnuts. As a kid I thought it as the best festival of the year, I’d always get the noisiest party horn at the fair.

Back in the day: Rescue On Fractalus, Cholo and Mercenary were all pioneering 3D games that really took me away. Also Ultima V was a masterpiece of immersion.

Now: Beat Saber. One can measure the immersion with a heart rate monitor :D

Can’t but join in the fun. Meet the Egg Mini. Does all sorts of humble servitude, but the coolest thing is a webserver only accessible via Wireguard through HAproxy running on a Digital Ocean droplet.