Aurimas Adomavicius

Build things.

[Aurimas Adomavicius @needoptic]

An essay on being intentional. The unintentional camera.
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@japan_nobunaga You are now my favorite account on X.

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@japan_nobunaga Instafollow Mr. Banana

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

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@dhh Had the same happen at Devbridge. Funny thing, it was always the noisy people that were pulling on these threads.

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Reds and blues in Chicago today. #LeicaMEV1 #28mm #ultron

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Leica M EV1 + Voigtlander Ultron 28mm #tahusa

[DHH @dhh]

The EU is 6% of global emissions. Committing economic harakiri in response to climate concerns is pure vanity. Europe can't save the planet because the continent doesn't have any meaningful influence on the outcome.

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@didiercatz If Porsche financials are of any consequence, one can talk oneself into loss of all profits. 🤣🤦‍♂️

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@mike_matas Evidence that gadget designers should stay away from automotive. What an absolute atrocity. 🤦‍♂️ It’s a Ferrari. It’s about passion, aggression, sex, love. You guys designed a 600K appliance.

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@hjwakerley 911 targa

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@Spoon_town The PC is ripe with sims. While arcadey, FH6 does have tracks now if you want to do time trials/etc. The more the merrier. I love and play sims all the time, Horizon is a blast to just enjoy cars, take photos, and enjoy the speed. Forza Motorsport, sadly, made no progress.

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@InfinityWard This sounds like something you're trying to convince yourself of. Actions speak louder than words. Deliver.

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@Motor1com @DillanWeb3 "Taycan recently faced a sharp decline in sales and severe depreciation, ultimately contributing to high restructuring costs and a drop in Porsche's overall profit margins". Good to know Mercedes is following the footsteps of the wise.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway."

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@carota1226 Vehicle design, tooling, and production takes longer than four months. If anything, we can hope this guy pivots the design language from the rubbish it has become.

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@MercedesBenzUSA How can you get the rear tail light proportions so wrong? Your GT concept had a much better ratio between bumper and lights.

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@AutoPap I don't like it. Also, the AMG GT tail has much cleaner lines and proportions. The light bank, especially, is too tall on this car and takes up too much vertical space. It has a throwback feel of the imapalas where the light and the bumper were of equal vertical height.

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Streets of Chicago | Leica M EV1 + 50mm F2.2 Voigtlander Color-Skopar

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Chicago | Leica M EV1 + 35mm Voigtlander Nokton 1.2

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@CarSighting I hate that the demo cars are lower poly count than the main vehicle. The wheel arches drive me nuts.