TWiT+ Club Shows 745 Transcript - Mikah's Crafting Corner #20

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Mikah Sargent [00:00:00]:
All right, welcome everyone. Welcome, one and all. Today we are going to. It's so good to see you too. Oh, I wish my stomach was full today. You know, I just. I got.

Mikah Sargent [00:00:19]:
I got kind of. I'm also using a new arm here and I haven't decided if I like it yet. So let's try to get it out of the way. The shot is the whole point of this anyway, so. There we go. That seems okay. Where was I? Oh, look, I really feel like as much as the Paint by numbers was delightful in terms of crafting, I don't think it was conducive to being able to sort of check in on the chat and communicate. And so I.

Mikah Sargent [00:01:02]:
This is an Elgato boom arm, actually. It's got a really long riser and it's. It's nice. I just. I'm trying to get used to it and decide if I do like it better than the one that I had before, which was also an Elgato one, but it was the low profile one. So I thought we could do something fun, which is completely steal from Leo. And by that I mean the other day I saw in his little links that he had posted about this site that makes paper toys. They're called Haunted Paper Toys.

Mikah Sargent [00:01:50]:
And I really like Papercraft. So that's what we're going to be working on today, which means that if you wanted to, You are able to follow along with the specific, specific project that we are working on, which just so happens to be a ray gun. So I've got my instructions here. I've got my. Cardstock here with the images printed on it, and we're gonna. We're gonna make magic happen. Or so we'll see. Yeah, exactly.

Mikah Sargent [00:02:49]:
Paul. The site is haunted because it has no ssl. So true. Yeah. Joe, you and I both have the Low Pro. I have moved it because I wanted to see if. Because I have the Low Pro right in the middle of my desk. And I think if I put it on the side, I probably would also like it better.

Mikah Sargent [00:03:19]:
And honestly, what I might do is just put the Lowepro over on the side. But I was thinking if it was a boom, then there wouldn't be as much sort of down at the bottom toward the desk, which is where the crafting stuff happens. So we'll see. I mean, right now, yeah, you can only see just a little bit of a XLR loop on the end. So that's good. So we are building and what the site calls an electrospheric ray gun. So there's the image there. 40.

Mikah Sargent [00:04:02]:
Hello, wizardling. Yeah. And there are so many different fun options. All right, so first thing we're going to do is look at the instructions here. Assembly instructions. What you'll need scissors, Elmer's glue or a glue stick, a small utility knife, and a ruler of the straight edge. A black marker is optional. Project should be printed on cardstock.

Mikah Sargent [00:04:25]:
Check. Folding tip. I recommend scoring the fold lines before folding. Well, I'll be scoring will help you fold much more quickly and precisely. And they did provide a building tip saying that for an extra fancy model, you can also darken the edges of each piece by laying the tip of a black marker sideways on the paper's edge or by laying the piece on another sheet of paper and then tracing around the piece with the marker. So, I mean, what do you think I am if not someone who's been a graphic designer? Of course I have a bone scorer. Come on. And as far as I was told, real bone.

Mikah Sargent [00:05:13]:
So we will be using that. Got these beautiful scissors here. Perfect little cutting knife. And if I need to do any more scoring, I can use this embosser to do so. It. You know what? It wasn't a haunted bone, but then we moved to Portland and a ghost did move in to it. So now what was it again? Lester. Lester McGibbons, I think was what he said his name was, has moved into this bone.

Mikah Sargent [00:05:56]:
And Lester McGibbons mostly kind, but oddly enough, really, really, really hates baked beans. And so the few times when I've had. I've been eating baked beans in my office, Lester will sort of make the. This little bone sort of rattle in my. My drawer as a reminder. And I go, right, I'm so sorry. I forgot you don't like baked beans. Tried to ask him about it one time, and he did not want to tell me, but I am noticing a sort of dark orange stain on the scorer.

Mikah Sargent [00:06:36]:
So it's quite possible that I was eating baked beans and then did very much touch the edge of this. And because it is bone and therefore porous, it maybe did stain his home. And so that could be why Lester McGibbons is not happy about it. So, yeah, I acting. All right, let's see. Let's move along here. What a weird aside. Ooh, ooh, that's a big eyeball.

Mikah Sargent [00:07:29]:
Very much sort of sketch stage. Yeah, I like. I like seeing you. Oh, golly, that's terrifying. I like seeing your image or, excuse me, your color choices at play there. That's kind of fun to See your making of process. All right, so the first part of the ray gun is a grip and pieces of the trigger. So the first thing that we'll do is cut out.

Mikah Sargent [00:08:14]:
These pieces sort of haphazardly here. Can you imagine if I printed on the back? That'd be sad. And then I'll do the same. By the way, Cricut, the company that does the vinyl stuff, they make some really delightful small scissors that are great for small projects like this. And even if I were not doing Cricut work in the future, like if my Cricut broke or something, I think I would still go to Cricut's website and buy these scissors again. That's how much I like them. Great, great cutting Universal. So my left handed self is not saddened by some sort of strange misshapen thumb.

Mikah Sargent [00:09:34]:
Paul, Don't you dare. I am planning on using the, the craft knife when it's needed. But, but for these, for these pieces that don't require a lot of precision, I much prefer to do the cutting with a pair of scissors. It's much faster. Ah, mars attacks. I haven't seen Mars Attacks in a long time and that's actually kind of sad to me because I love, at least as far as I can remember, I love that film. Always one of those things, you go back and you're like, oh, wow. Actually I should not be such a big fan of this.

Mikah Sargent [00:11:01]:
It's got some majorly bad themes. Have fun storming a castle. This must be why they talked about running a black marker along the edges is because if you're using thick cardstock you will indeed get sort of white edges around the, you know, paper. You know, it might be a good idea for me to mark these. So that's going to be Trigger B. I cleared off my desk so I don't have any pens on here. Or pencils even. Pencils even.

Mikah Sargent [00:12:01]:
I'll be right back, Stadler. Don't mind if I do. I should have just done it that way. You had better focus, you coward. There we go. Anyway, this is, I believe, Trigger B. Pop that to the side. Somehow this, which looks very different from the other pieces.

Mikah Sargent [00:13:04]:
Trigger A. Does it have more than one trigger? Just like a human being, Many things traumatize us. Oh no, I cut a lot off the edge there. What's up? Sitting. Oh dear. I'm having a little bit of an issue here. Guess I have a weird hobby. I cruise the 3D printing Reddit and.

Mikah Sargent [00:14:04]:
And if I see someone begging for something I can make and something I can share for others. I jump in. My most recent one was this. Can you guess what it's for? Okay, so let me share this. Can anyone guess what this is for? With numbers? So it sort of reminds me of those pink wafer cookies. That are like strawberry. So it's definitely for sorting what would be sorted into fives and need to have so much space in the middle of it. That's the thing that's weirding me out.

Mikah Sargent [00:14:56]:
One would think that those would be sort of shelf like objects, but there's not really a lot of room. I have no idea. Please tell me what this is for. Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, tell me. Wait. Huh? It's for earring and necklace. Necklace boxes. They have 10.

Mikah Sargent [00:15:42]:
Oh. Sort of those little black boxes. Huh. Okay. I don't understand why there's so much space in the middle. I guess so you could pinch and grab and pull it out. Sam, Did everybody do their taxes and. Or file for an extension? Oh, let me get rid of that image.

Mikah Sargent [00:17:03]:
When I asked the OP what it was for, this was the response. They said, quote was wanting to see if someone could make. Because we tried with ChatGPT and it won't work. I can get the measurements of the OG earrings box and OG necklace box if that would help. Gee, the system with no physical awareness had trouble generating 3D creations. The failing is the human. They're the ones not properly describing things to the AI. And if only you said it better, then the machine would know what to do.

Mikah Sargent [00:18:11]:
Honestly, this might be faster. This craft knife. It. Just like in packaging design. I'm just sort of pretending there's a bit of a bleed. Sleaze month. It's trigger two. Trigger a.

Mikah Sargent [00:19:50]:
I mean. Earrings 2.875 by 3.3125 by 1.25. Based on what? I don't. I don't like the. Okay, here's my problem. Because, yes, as you've noted, no units plus the grammar, usage and mechanics in the last message that you sent from that person. Also terrible. All of those things tell me that this person does not have a pair of calipers.

Mikah Sargent [00:20:35]:
Do you call it a pair? Does not have calipers because detail oriented people are the people who have calipers, not the people who don't put measurements next to their items and the people who don't use proper punctuation, grammar, mechanics, etc. In their communications. So then I'm going, where in the world did you come up with these measurements that are so Precise and so exact. Are you pulling out your phone and doing that stupid AR thing where you're dragging your phone along and that's telling you 2.875 inches or something? It's just. Yeah, I don't trust. I don't trust that the person. I don't. Tell me where your measurements are coming from.

Mikah Sargent [00:21:28]:
Show your work. That's what I'm trying to say. Suddenly I understand my math teacher. I seem to like the things that people say require a lot of patience. And it's funny, because I, back in college was diagnosed with adhd, and one would think that, you know, patience is not. But the fact is I think I do have a lot of patience. My problem is I'm impulsive, and that can sometimes be misconstrued as impatience, and sometimes it is impatience. But I can.

Mikah Sargent [00:22:36]:
Do things that require patience. If they are things that I think the. The line that gets drawn is. It's sort of a flowchart. Does it require. This is sort of like the. The flowchart of will. I like it.

Mikah Sargent [00:22:58]:
Does it require patience? Yes. Does re. Does having patience result in the proper and precise completion of the task or item or object? Yes. Then I'm going to like it. Does patience not give you an upper hand in making or creating whatever it is? If the answer is no, then I'm not going to like it. Like, I can give patience if it means that my perfectionism is rewarded by the patience, but just being patient and align. Count me out. Let's see what we're.

Mikah Sargent [00:23:51]:
What we're seeing in the chat here. My response was as kind as I could manage saying, what units are these? Pretty much all of 3D printing is done in metric. In particular in millimeters. They look like inches. So. So, so would you. So would you. Oh, my God.

Mikah Sargent [00:24:15]:
So would you multiply by 25.4 to get millimeters and round up and maybe add a millimeter or two for some margin. Oh, Paul, bless your heart. That's very kind of you. I kind of just want to get wild with this. So maybe I don't have the patience right now because I'm like, what if I just get in there and start cutting? We'll see what happens. They would not let me be a surgeon. What if I just get in there and start cutting? Then again, maybe that's a little bit of what's required to be a surgeon. A lot of people don't want to get into the goop of the human body.

Mikah Sargent [00:25:06]:
Right. It reminds them of their mortality, and that freaks people out. They go, wait, I've got that goop inside of me, too. Something that blew my mind. I. Back several years ago or a couple of years ago now, I had to do a heart sonogram. That sounds right. Now what is it? What is the thing that they do when they're looking for a baby? Isn't that sonogram when they're looking at a baby? I can't remember what that's called.

Mikah Sargent [00:25:53]:
For some reason, it's. It's falling out of my mind. Ultrasound. Ultrasound is the word I was looking for. Thank you, Burke. So, had to do a heart ultrasound. And I get in there and the guy's sort of explaining the procedure, right? And then he says, you know, it's going to show up on this screen, on this display. I can turn the display away if you'd like.

Mikah Sargent [00:26:23]:
And I said, turn the display away? And he said, yeah, a lot of people don't want to see their heart moving and beating on camera. And I said, I want nothing more than to see my heart moving and beating on camera. And so he proceeded to give me, like, a full tour of my heart and also the nerdy explanation of how the machine could tell the difference between areas of high flow and low flow, and meaning high pressure and low pressure in this case and all sorts of stuff. And I was literally watching my own heart in my chest, beating in front of me, keeping me alive. And I thought, what a gift. It breaks my heart. That's for you, Kevin. It breaks my heart to think that anyone would, when given that opportunity, not take it.

Mikah Sargent [00:27:39]:
Especially given the sort of financial cost of a heart ultrasound. Like, hello, can you send me home with a dvd? Because I know you're not going to send me a digital file. This is healthcare, after all. I had my heart ultrasounded and all I got was this stupid T shirt. You know what I mean? Good night, Joe. That's cool, Burke. I didn't know that. Burke says his mom was an ultrasound technician.

Mikah Sargent [00:28:22]:
I should say I didn't remember that. There is every chance that you may have told me at some point, and I apologize if that is the case. Well, Burke has created some custom artwork. It's called Lady Near Blue Tape. Now, tell us what's actually going on here. Oh, I guess I was right about sonogram. It is the result of an ultrasound. I'm still cutting in the background, but we're keeping this up while Burke types to tell us what he is working on at the moment.

Mikah Sargent [00:29:49]:
Ah, a window mat. Now, hold on. Where did the failure come from? Am I missing it. Do I not see what failed? Are you following me, camera guy? Here it comes. Burke just typed so. And that usually means a long message is incoming from anyone. Not. That's not a Burke specific thing.

Mikah Sargent [00:31:00]:
To the people watching right now, I have a question for you. Where, when you went to school, was it a required part of the curriculum that you be taught how to type with a keyboard? A computer keyboard, not obviously a piano keyboard. I'm. I'm trying to track down how much of sort of my comparison to others education is regional versus generational because we had in Missouri, many mandatory classes throughout my education in middle school and in high school. And one of the required classes in middle school was a class where we learned how to type with. I remember going into the class and there were these, like, this orange sort of silicone material that went over the keys so you couldn't see them. And on top of that, these plastic. Huge plastic guards that went over the top of the keys.

Mikah Sargent [00:32:30]:
And I remember sitting down on the first day and thinking, what in the world? And the teacher going, by the end of this, you will be able to type on that keyboard without looking and me going, yeah, right. But by the end of it, I could and I do. And yeah, I'm just trying to figure out who has been taught touch typing and who has not. And I need to have, like, different age groups, right, So I can figure out, is it generational? Is it regional? Did I just get lucky? Mavis beacon. Let's see. Presumably you wanted smaller, because if bigger, you could just cut more. Michael's picture frames say they're 16 by 20. Anthony learned in middle school as well.

Mikah Sargent [00:33:43]:
Paul says, no, but typing was offered and took it in grade 10. Blue Idol says, yes, we got typewriter classes. Paul says, my class was using IBM Selectric typewriters. I always forget, is it. I forget how to pronounce your name, friend. Lrau, regardless says, I went to a private school in New Jersey. It was mandatory in 1978 middle school to take typing. Wow.

Mikah Sargent [00:34:15]:
Anthony remembers the covers on the top. Paul says, even though I know how to do touch typing, I don't use it because punctuation is too frequent and too unfun to type and seems to move around on some different models. It's funny, I. The. The final part of the class was number, the number row. And I'm trying to think, was it the number row? Yeah, I think it was the number row and of course, the symbols that exist underneath the number row. And so by that point, I had Been like, well, now I can type. So I don't care so much about this class because I got all the letters.

Mikah Sargent [00:35:04]:
And so to this day, I still have to, with some symbols, look down at the keyboard. So much so that I considered getting a typing program, like learn to type program and learning again just to see if I could fully lock in my numbers. Touch typing was how I learned about the okay plateau, the concept that our brains, like when we're acquiring skills, our brains reach a level called the okay plateau, meaning that you're okay at a thing. And that's enough, because the requirements to get off of the okay plateau is at or above the level that it took the. The required sort of expenditure, effort expenditure is at or above the level that it took for you to get to the OK plateau. And since you're okay at the thing, you're not motivated to then go through the struggle again to get better at the thing. And touch typing is one of the places that you can point to, is a very easy indicator of the okay plateau and our human behavior. And I 100% came up against that okay plateau, as I very clearly said when I went, well, I know how to do the letters, so it's fine.

Mikah Sargent [00:36:44]:
Wait, Mario teaches typing. Like. Like Mario. Oh, my God, I'm looking that up right now. If I could have learned from Mario. Oh, my God, look at this. Okay, Internet Archive, Ms. DOS.

Mikah Sargent [00:37:07]:
Mario teaches typing. Oh, my word. This. This pub. This was published the year I was born. In this product, you get to play one of four games of progressing difficulty as either Mario, Luigi, or the Princess, obviously as Luigi. Duh. Mario's Smash and Dash, a sister character running past a series of boxes and turtles, each labeled with a letter that must be typed to avoid the obstacle.

Mikah Sargent [00:37:47]:
Mario's Mario's Wet World Challenge, wherein you help your characters swim across the street. Nope, not street. Swim across the screen whilst being chased by hungry sea creatures. Only typing the words that scroll across the bottom of the screen will let you escape. There's also Mario's Tunnel of Doom. Okay, these names, These names are really something else. Mario's Wet World Challenge and Mario's Tunnel of Doom. Oh, be an adult.

Mikah Sargent [00:38:21]:
Micah says, help your character run through a tunnel filled with traps, avoiding falling blocks and the like by correctly typing the sentences, which. Okay, so, yeah, this is progressing difficulty, which scroll across the top of the screen and then Mario's Expert Express, essentially a practice typing lesson where you copy and type predefined paragraphs with the assistance of Mario's supervision. I will be Downloading this. And I will be learning later how to emulate Ms. Dos. Wait, this. Oh, no, it is an exe. Never mind.

Mikah Sargent [00:39:09]:
Yeah, that's going to be interesting. I am. Why does this always happen? My nose always turns so red whenever I do these late shows. I am going to switch back to. There we go, this screen. And we will continue on with page two where we have body A and body B. I love no curves on my paper cutouts. It's much easier to use the craft knife.

Mikah Sargent [00:40:06]:
Anthony, I vibe coded a website. I will not be sharing the URL with the group as it is for I will explain and then you'll understand why I'm not. And I trust all of you to not be trying to figure out what the URL is. So my significant other. I think I've mentioned this before on the. The show has been wronged too many times by going to watch an old show or a movie that at one point was available on a streaming platform. And then when it came time to actually watching it, oh, goodness, golly gosh, it's gone. And so he's gotten, like, it seems many are these days, gotten into physical media.

Mikah Sargent [00:40:53]:
The other day, he and a friend had gone to a sort of like, vintage shop, thrift store and buying DVDs, and I get this text message, hey, if you're not busy, could you go look at my DVD collection and see if I have, you know, this title? And so, of course I'll, you know, go and look. So I, you know, go upstairs, I pop in, I look and I go, is this arranged in any sort of way so I can just scan instead of having to look through every single one of your DVDs to find the one? He says, yeah, it's arranged by genre. Okay, not super helpful. And then texted and said, also, can you see if I have this film, this film, this film, this film, this film, like five or six different films? And I was like, no. I actually was pulling away from a task to quickly check for one dvd, but I don't have time to do multiple. So I took photos of every single, like, of each section of the library, right. Of the content of his, you know, physical DVD collection. And then I was like, you know what I could do? I could upload these images real quick and have an AI look at them and read the titles off of them.

Mikah Sargent [00:42:14]:
And then I can just send him this whole list of titles. And then it'll be easier to just scan the text rather than having to, like, zoom in on the photos. But then I thought Wouldn't it be cool if I just built him something that would keep track of his. DVDs, his physical media? I said, But I know for him, he's not a big fan of downloading apps, having a bunch of apps to use, because there are loads of different media tracking apps that you could use and a couple on iOS that are really good. I was like, I bet I could sort of use Google Sheets as a database, right, and just have a website that's very simple, reference that database, that is Google Sheets, and then that way I don't have to run any sort of server and the website can be relatively static. And so what I ended up doing was creating a site that does a couple of things. When you go to the main page, there are two different search fields on it. One lets you type in the title of a movie or TV show or whatever, and it uses the movie database to sort of auto field, but then it checks it against his database, which is actually just a Google Sheets document in the background, references it and says, yes, you already have this title, or no, you don't have this title.

Mikah Sargent [00:43:54]:
And then the second field on this page is a field where he can add new DVDs that he gets. And then the. The second page is just sort of an Instagram grid of his entire collection. And so I worked with Claude sort of coming up, you know, sharing these ideas and trying to figure something out and seeing if I could do it without a server. And it ended up being that that was a good approach to use Google Sheets with, with Apps script to handle a lot of the background stuff of communicating properly. And then the pages on the site are GitHub connected to a Cloudflare page. And that is because I set up a little custom domain for him so that all he has to think about is I go to this website and here's the stuff that I want. And then it was kind of cool because, yeah, micro secret vibe coded project extraordinaire.com the reason why I'm saying don't go looking it up or whatever, which, honestly, I don't.

Mikah Sargent [00:45:12]:
It doesn't matter, y' all are fine. Is because there wasn't a super easy way to make a static website that could properly connect to the tmdb, which is the movie database, and this, this one specific Google Sheets document, without also including the API key for the TMDB database and for that one specific sheet. So technically, that sheet is a public document only accessible via this page. So if someone were to gain access to the page, then the most they could do is run out the TMDB requests, but you get like a hundred thousand per month, so it's not a big deal. And then also could edit the documents to add or, or remove things from the library. So that is why. That's, that's what makes it a little bit not, you know, there. There are better, more secure ways to do it, but for the purposes of what I was trying to do, and especially having it be sort of serverless, just a static page, this was, this was exactly what I needed.

Mikah Sargent [00:46:38]:
And. Yeah. Oh, and so anyway, the fun thing was, you know, I say, hey, check this out and show it to him. And then he and I kind of, like talked through a couple of other things. And so he was saying, you know, for the TV shows, it's showing that I just have the show, but the fact is I only have a few seasons of the show. So if it's not too difficult, like, can we make it so that I can denote what this. What seasons it is? And I thought, oh, that might be difficult. But quickly I was able to come up with an idea for how I wanted it to look, say it to Claude.

Mikah Sargent [00:47:16]:
And then Claude was able to write the code to give me on the. Or give him on the homepage, like a season picker. So when he types in, say, for example, friends, then it pops up. And then you can select season one, season two, season three, da, da, da. And. And in the background on the Google Sheets document, it's just a little bit of JSON that has, you know, 1, comma, 2, comma, 4. If he's got seasons 1, season 2, and season 4, but the web page that reads from that sheet can then display it in a cooler way. So, yeah, I was very happy that, like, that's the way that I want to use this stuff is, hey, can you do the parts that I can't do? I get to be creative and not shut down my idea, not shut down my own idea because I'm not able to, you know, execute on it.

Mikah Sargent [00:48:17]:
And so that was. That was really fun. I really enjoyed. That was my first Vibe code, so to speak. Yeah, I thought about doing an app, but again, doesn't like installing apps. And also if it's a custom app that, you know, you don't publish in the App Store, then that also requires extra stuff to get it to work. So this just seemed to be the way to go about it. And yeah, so far it's turned out and we'll see how it keeps going.

Mikah Sargent [00:48:49]:
And if I end up adding more based on his use of it. But now he's got his full DVD collection. And yes, when I say dvd, I do mean dvd. He's going full old school with it. Not a Blu ray in sight, except for one every. Wait, what is it? Everything everywhere, all at once. Is that what it's called? The only way to get the special collector's edition was to get the Blu Ray. So for Christmas one year, I bought him the special Blu Ray collector's edition and then just also got him the DVD of it so that he could actually play it.

Mikah Sargent [00:49:35]:
When I was young and dumb, I just typed all my CDs into a simple text file on my Amiga. I had a lot of CDs, so in the end that file was like 300 kilobytes or more. That's wild. Yeah. I like using Google Sheets as a database, especially for me. I'm. I'm quite familiar with Google app scripts because I've been playing around with those even before Generative AI for simplifying a lot of the different processes that I've had to do. And so I know some of the troubleshooting that's involved there.

Mikah Sargent [00:50:20]:
So weird. I cut this, but it's not, I guess, all the way through. I'm thinking about. Because there's some really cool ships. Oh, no, I really cut into that. There are some really cool ships in on the website, the Haunted Paper Toys website. And so I'm thinking about taking one of those and using my Cricut to do what's called a print then cut process. And essentially what that does is it lets you use your printer with some special registration marks that they print at the corners of the paper and then you pop it into your Cricut and the Cricut has a little camera in it so that it can properly orient itself and then it cuts whatever you have on your paper.

Mikah Sargent [00:51:54]:
So I'd be able to do very precise cuts and also save some time to make one of those really cool Papercraft ships. I thought about the laser cutting bamboo 3D printer, but I don't know, what is it that they say about jacks of all trades, Master of none? It's like, can you really be good at. It's almost like those air fryers that are also, I don't know, convection ovens that are also microwaves that are also rice cookers, and they do all of them so poorly. Or they maybe do one of the things well. And that's what makes me nervous about that all in one bamboo device. Is it. Can it really be good at all of those things. I think it's Glenn Fleischman who has a laser etcher or whatever they.

Mikah Sargent [00:53:04]:
I don't know exactly what they're called. Laser cutter, but it's also an etcher and does all that stuff and he has one that's, you know, specifically for that. And I think that, you know, if I were to get into the laser stuff, I think I'd want a purpose built device. It. Yeah, an x tool. I think it's called Glow Forge. I have the Ninja Deluxe. It's amazing.

Mikah Sargent [00:54:45]:
Does slow cooking, pressure cooking, air frying, etc. It's amazing at. Almost all of them use it every weekend for meal prep. I think Ninja discontinued it though. Wow, way to tease. X tool. 80 watt flagship CO2 laser cutter with intelligent automation. Final price 9679 Canadian dollar.

Mikah Sargent [00:55:22]:
It. Oh, for the. Oh, I guess we've only got Burke now because Jaw Joe left. I was wondering if you have have seen the trailer for. Oh, I was trying to say Horror Fans. And then I was saying I think only Burke is left. As far as that. Have you seen the trailer for Passenger yet? And if not, you must watch.

Mikah Sargent [00:56:18]:
It looks terrifying. I'm going to share it in the chat to make sure that you get the right one. That's not it. That's not it. See, why do they have to have all these I'm going to curse. I'm going to do a curse and people are going to be wild about it. Okay, there we go. Okay, that's that.

Mikah Sargent [00:56:51]:
I do love my instant pot. Yeah, I make rice all the time in mine. Oh golly. Folding laundry. I did. I decided not to do a curse, but I wanted to because I hate all the fake beep beep beep movie trailers that they put on YouTube. It just really is upsetting to me. Sam.

Mikah Sargent [00:58:10]:
Burke, you'll have to tell me what you think about Passenger off air the trailer. Can you imagine if that was a commandment, Adam? That'd be pretty funny, huh? Moses came down from the mountain and on the tablets was etched Thou shalt not curse. Oh, so Brandroid sometimes in order to make ad money off of, you know, pre roll ads, post roll ads, mid roll ads on YouTube there will be accounts that wait for movies to come out and or sorry, movie trailers to come out and ones that are getting a lot of attention and then they will put the still image of the movie trailer on their own video but it will be something either completely unrelated or it will be just the image like as if it's a Photo slideshow. Sometimes it'll be a joke so, you know, it'll play never gonna give you up or something. Sometimes it'll be entirely unrelated. Whatever they can do to not get taken down because of, you know, what is the word I'm looking for? It's sort of spirit of the law versus the letter of the law situation. To be able to make money off of people searching for a trailer and then it getting buried because some stupid fake trailer gets in the way. So, yeah, I always try to look for the trailer from the production or distribution company, and if I don't see it there, then I'm just like, well, I guess I'll have to wait for it to.

Mikah Sargent [01:00:20]:
I don't know. I guess I won't see it because I do not want to give those turkeys my money. Oh, Joe wasn't here to give me a time change check. I did owe you all a few minutes though, so it's fine. I think Burke seems thoroughly underwhelmed by the film. Given the. It def. Looks like a good jump scare, but maybe I'm just misreading it.

Mikah Sargent [01:01:38]:
I just want. I thought it looked fun and scary, and it made me think about. Maybe it's because you drive a motorcycle. I've been in my car late at night on Missouri highways where there are no cars around far too often to not be freaked out by the concept of some evil entity getting in your car and then haunting you. That's pretty scary. And I'm usually not. Like. It's.

Mikah Sargent [01:02:18]:
It's rare as an adult from, like. For me, as an adult, I mean, I know plenty of people who this is still a factor and that's. It's not a judgment call at all. It's fine if this is you, but for me, it's rare as an adult, whereas as a kid, it would always linger as an adult. I watch a film, a scary film, and it doesn't really linger. You know, I can watch the grudge and then go take a shower and not really be worried that the hand is going to be coming out of the back of my head or whatever. But. And I use that as a specific example because as a kid, just seeing the trailer, I did not want to shower for like a month.

Mikah Sargent [01:02:57]:
I did shower, but for a month, I would be freaked out by it and would, like, hold my eyes open while there's soap running in them. My eyes are burning. But not. No way was I going to be closing my eyes because the grudge's hand was going to come out of the back of my head. So, yeah, that doesn't like that kind of stuff. It doesn't really linger for me as an adult, but I do feel like watching that trailer, I could see myself being in the car late at night by myself and going, what if there's something in my back seat? So, yeah, that's why it kind of. Stood out for me. But it's okay that it doesn't do much for you.

Mikah Sargent [01:03:44]:
Burke, as Charlize Theron always says, to each their own. She doesn't actually say that, just so everybody knows. It's just that her name kind of sounds like it. Charlize Their own. To each of their own. It's also a reference to Netflix's Orange is the New Black. I feel like since I've gotten my. My teeth straightened, I have a lisp, a little bit of a lisp I get.

Mikah Sargent [01:04:33]:
Or at least I'm a little bit more sibilant than I would like to be. And I'm hoping that my mouth eventually gets used to my teeth being straightened and that extra sibilance disappears. I'm being very vulnerable with you all and sharing that, because if you weren't paying attention to it before, perhaps now you will be, or perhaps you'll be the wonderful, supportive folks that go, I don't hear it at all, Actually. I don't know what the right answer is there. I think a therapist would sell you that you don't want people to lie to you, but maybe it's not a lie. You know, maybe you don't actually hear extra sibilance. The worst nightmare would be for you to tell me, Micah, you've had that sibilance since you first joined TWiT back in 2019. So if any of you are saying that right now while I'm looking away to cut this paper, and I beg of you to remove your message, Thank you, Anthony.

Mikah Sargent [01:05:52]:
Anthony says, I don't hear it at all. Burke says, I tried to watch the Shining as a child. I could not even watch it looking through one finger. Had to plug my ears to watch it. Brandroid says, I watched Event Horizon when I was nine years old, and the image of Sam Neil with no eyes haunted my nightmares for several years. Candyman was the film for me as a kid that I should not have been watching it when I was. And it was such a healing thing. When I went back and watched it in high school and laughed, I said I was afraid of that.

Mikah Sargent [01:06:32]:
I don't think I've. I'm gonna have to watch Event Horizon because I don't know this whole thing about eyeballs. Oh, I've seen that photo before. Okay. That movie's got a lot of moments, doesn't it? Whoa. That image is. You can't even see it. There's safe search on.

Mikah Sargent [01:07:01]:
That's like blocking. What is this movie? This movie's wild. It's. Is this. Just let me freak you out as much as possible. 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul Anderson, written by Philip eisner. Love, Laurence Fishburne. 2047 Rescue Mission.

Mikah Sargent [01:07:27]:
Oh, wow. Lots of editing, commercial and critical failure. All right, I'm gonna have to check this out. In any case, everyone, we are significantly past the mark and so it is time to say goodbye to you for another month. I think before next time I will finish cutting out these pieces such that we can spend the next time constructing and assembling the ray gun. In the meantime, if some of you wanted to, you could head to the website that I included at the beginning, find a project of your own, or also join me in creating an electrospheric ray gun of your very own. Thank you all for being members of Club Twit. Thank you all for joining me each month for my crafting corner.

Mikah Sargent [01:08:34]:
We've got some exciting projects coming up that we're going to be doing, so I look forward to seeing more of you in the club. Seeing you more in the club rather. Until then, though, hope you'll join me tomorrow for Tech News Weekly with Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. Love a JPT episode. And of course, tune in for the rest of our shows like this week in Tech on Sunday, along with the publishing of Hands On Tech. Have a lovely evening all and good night.