I can't figure out how to put the coffee beans in my new grinder.
Buying a Curta from a math dealer in a car park outside the train station while wearing "Virtual Light" style heads up display was a very @GreatDismal cyberpunk moment. I should have made a payphone call.

@th @GreatDismal other people: "OH NO LOOK HE'S GOT A BOMB!"

"oh don't worry it's just a weirdo who's about to grind his own coffee at the stoop"

you: *maths intensify*

@th @GreatDismal Wow! What heads up display is that?
@th @GreatDismal Looks like the map of Amsterdam
@th I would sure like to see the Curta!
@th more importantly, how many significant figures do you get out of a slide rule that size?
@cliffle not very many -- the classroom model is not as accurately made as the actual size sliderule.

@th awwwww

But it does at least confirm my personal bias that slide rule scales should be typeset in Futura.

@th @GreatDismal Hold up, you have a giant wall mounted slide rule?!?
@robotdeathsquad there's also one on the desk.
@th @GreatDismal I absolutely want my own math dealer now.

@th @GreatDismal

Did you recognise any patterns? 😉🤷‍♂️

@simonzerafa @th @GreatDismal I'm assuming I'm missing the joke, and if not that's a map of the centre of Amsterdam
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