Evan

@threecolorable

web developer, knitter, overthinker. he/him

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Evan@threecolorable· 24d

an “i voted” sticker next to my front door to ward off political canvassers.

the sticker is on an index card slipped behind a horseshoe above the doorbell.
i love our early voting stickers—they say “i voted” at the top in english, then have a horizon with silhouettes of saguaros and other desert plants, followed by “i voted” in tohono o’odham (“a:ñi ‘ant wodalt”), and spanish (“yo voté”), and at the very bottom “pima county, az”

Evan@threecolorable· 27d

so dignified nikon coolpix 4500 (4mp) #shittycamerachallenge

Greta, an elderly mastiff, lays on a sofa. Her head is raised, looking slightly to one side of the camera, and her white forepaws dangle off the edge of the couch. The photo is a bit grainy and has a dusting of hot pixels (taken at high ISO)

Evan@threecolorable· Jul 11

Frankie the Garbage Prince. His head is framed by my hand on one side and my partner’s arm on the other. His nose is tucked under my wrist. He’s very cute but not especially remorseful about his emergency vet adventure

Evan@threecolorable· Jul 11

guess who stole the absorbent pad from a pack of meat out of the trash and ATE IT? (it’s ok, the emergency vet made him puke it up)

Mr Garbage Breath himself. Slightly high-looking white dog peeks between the front seats of a car, resting his chin on the center console (I am resting my hand on his head)

Evan@threecolorable· Jul 7

I’m more troubled by the “bread” option, tbh 🤨

Close-up of microwave “Auto Cook” options:
1. Bread
2. Soup
3. Baked potato
4. Fresh vegetables
5. Frozen vegetables

Below are “frozen pizza” and “dinner plate” buttons, then the number pad

Evan@threecolorable· Jul 6

nikon d50 (6mp), flaky sensor #shittycamerachallenge

the tops of two palm trees silhouetted against a strangely-colored sky. The sky transitions from denser bubblegum pink clouds at the top down to an unnaturally dark blue sky with scattered cyan-tinted clouds.

Evan@threecolorable· Jul 5

i’m really enjoying the intermittent sensor problems on my Nikon D50 #shittycamerachallenge

a pair of flip-flops rendered in streaky cyan and lime green on a pink background. no photoshop involved, just flaky electronics

Evan@threecolorable· Jun 28

my desk. 1960s-ish, handed down to me by an older friend. i have some books and art that are older, my partner's cast iron cookware is older. but i spend 40 hours a week sitting at this desk.

a midcentury walnut desk with drawers on each side. the top shows years of wear and is LARGE, leaving a lot of open desktop around my computer setup. in the foreground is a bent-plywood kneeling chair with blue upholstery. on the wall there is an old “216 color webmaster’s palette” poster with a hexagonal arrangement of color swatches

Evan@threecolorable· Jun 19

oddly satisfying

a shoebox of assorted medications with a rainbow of seven 2-compartment pill boxes lined up in the shoebox lid, which is precisely the right width to fit them snugly side by side.

Evan@threecolorable· Jun 8

yeah, the hrv didn’t prove useful for me. it did collect the heart rate data i wanted, but i couldn’t export it from the app or manipulate it the way i'd like to. i’m not really their target audience, though. i’m probably a market segment of one when it comes to health-monitoring widgets, tbh.

Screenshot from visible app showing my heart rate over the course of a day. 70ish bpm until 6 am, a gap where a wasn’t wearing the monitor, really high (110-130bpm) for a couple of hours in the morning, gradually tapering off to 90ish at noon and 80ish in the evening.

Evan@threecolorable· May 23

spicy chicken will bite

A feisty little budgie perched on my finger, her head tilted to one side as she schemes against me.

Evan@threecolorable· May 23

Senior Pet & Sour Cream

Two dogs laying near each other. Greta, in the foreground, is a very elderly mastiff mix with her muzzle and eyebrows going white with age (and one of her ears is flipped inside out in this photo). Behind her is Frank, a white dog who loves sour cream.

Evan@threecolorable· May 6

I had to make this map for a friend when I was explaining where to find the hummingbirds near our work 😆

A map showing some plants and walkways between two buildings. An arrow pointing to one cluster of trees is labeled “Hummingbirds!”, while an arrow pointing to a nearby group of bushes is labeled “hummingbird-sized flying beetles ⚠️”

Evan@threecolorable· May 5

a desert spiny lizard crests the top of a sunny rock, front arms in a pushup position with sharp nail tips resting on the granite. her underside is pale and the top of her head a rusty orange. the light casts shadows that emphasize the spines at the back of her cheek and head.

Evan@threecolorable· May 4

a heron trifecta today! 🪶

a green heron darts across a little patch of land towards the water, slightly blurred from its motion, with one foot lifted and its yellow eye catching the light.

a great blue heron stands tall in a shallow pond. the bird is looking to one side and seems purposeful and focused. In the background, a second great blue heron facing away from the camera stares idly off into the distance.

a black-crowned night heron stands facing towards the camera, orange eyes glaring in the general direction of the camera. the disgruntled-looking bird is surrounded by slightly hazy green and orange streaks from the out-of-focus reeds that were between me and the bird.

Evan@threecolorable· Mar 30

finished carefully hand-washing and waxing my truck this morning, so OF COURSE now it looks like it’s about to rain 😑

Mirror selfie, but the mirror is a the shiny red tailgate of my Tacoma

Evan@threecolorable· Mar 27

if you're going to introduce your feature with a warning that it's often wrong, WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING LAUNCH IT?!

"Welcome! Hi, I'm Rufus, your shopping assistant. My answers are powered by AI, so I may not always get things right." --screenshot of amazon feature

Evan@threecolorable· Mar 23

My ex went to Switzerland with me one time and refused to believe the fountains were safe to drink from. And yeah, if they were in the US, they’d have gross, chlorinated, recirculating water. I would never drink from one here. But it’s Switzerland, so the water’s good.

The famous "child-eater fountain" in Bern, seen at night. It has a painted/gilded pillar with statue of an ogre eating a baby. metal spout from the side of the pillar pours water into an octagonal stone basin.

A piazza with a fountain. a metal spout sticks out of a stone pillar, pouring a stream of water into a wide, stone basin. You wouldn't scoop water out of the basin to drink, but you can drink from the stream.

A fountain shaped kind of like a well, but with an intricate cast-iron dome for a roof. in the middle, a stone column has two metal spouts with trickles of fresh water.

Evan@threecolorable· Mar 6

my pharmacy often has seasonal decorations crafted from pill bottles, it’s so charming

pill-bottle sculpture of a bull rider (the rodeo was last week). the cowboy is made of small, amber-colored prescription bottles with construction paper clothes; the bull is a large, wholesale-sized pill bottle with cardboard horns.

Evan@threecolorable· Mar 3

i love how our vet’s office takes such good care of our dogs they remembered that Greta has trouble standing back up from slippery floors, so they put a yoga mat in the exam room for her 🥹

An elderly mastiff’s big sweet face, originally all brown but now very gray. She’s lying on a colorful yoga mat at the vet’s office.

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 25

YES. Great game, I’m glad the last home game of the season ended on a high note.

Basketball stadium at the conclusion of the UA women’s basketball game. Final score: Arizona 75, Houston 67

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 8

to be fair, sometimes this is the bottle :-/ people shouldn’t be asking chatgpt, but manufacturers really should put dosage info somewhere more prominent

2-panel image. first photo: OTC pill bottle label with warning text, manufacturers info, and then a little “peel here” arrow pointing at the label’s corner (circled in yellow). But the warning text on the outside of the label looks like it ends before the manufacturer info starts. It’s not obvious that critical info can only be found be peeling off the label

second photo: the pill bottle with the label mostly peeled open to show the warnings and drug info continuing on the back side. dosage info (circled in yellow) is at the very end of the text, where you can’t see it until you’ve peeled it all the way open.

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 6

I don’t have many pictures of Greta playing her new trick on me (she’s too wiggly and I’m too busy petting her), but it’s adorable.

Brown mastiff rolls onto her back on the sofa. Greta has her paws in the air and a blissed-out expression on her wrinkly face. A motion-blurred hand is patting her chest.

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 4

i recently saw an apartment with this layout, and i’m still mad about it. it’s jarring to have a wall there as you enter, but forgivable if the closet opens towards the front door or even the living room—nice to have a coat closet, even if it’s awkwardly placed but this is NOT a coat closet!

sketch of floor plan with the BLANK BACK WALL OF A CLOSET (labeled “Not-Coat Closet (shelves!)”) right inside the front door, creating a claustrophobic, un-welcoming entryway with just enough space for the front door to open all the way. on entering, you have to immediately turn right into the living room.
the closet’s door doesn’t face the front door, nor the living room to the right of the front door. instead it faces towards the dining room table (which WOULD be straight ahead from the front door if the way wasn’t blocked by this ridiculous closet.

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 1

Sweet cron job, bro
Infamous misspelled “Sweet cron” sign advertising roadside produce. Behind it, a corn field. ( the words “job, bro” edited in next to the sign)

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 1

We just discovered that she loves camping!

An elderly mastiff pants happily, lying next to a camping chair in the shade of a red truck.

Evan@threecolorable· Feb 1

A can of beer (“halfway to hefen”) in a little down-jacket cozy, with a desert landscape and Greta, my mastiff, in the background.

Evan@threecolorable· Jan 27

i wasn't sure if i should get a fisheye lens--too single-purpose? i haven't even gotten out of the house with it yet, but it makes my dogs look like cartoon characters, so we're off to a great start!

greta, my elderly mastiff mix, looks pleadingly towards the camera in a photo taken through a fisheye lens. it exaggerates the size of her head so her sweet graying face dominates the photo.

frankie, my white american bulldog mix, lays on a blue rug. the fisheye lens elongates his head, making his paw look comically tiny next to his cheek.

another fisheye photo of greta on the couch, this time snoozing with her head on a textured yellow pillow and one big paw under her chin. from this persepective, her body looks tiny behind her enormous head. her eyebrows and muzzle have turned white with age.

Evan@threecolorable· Jan 21

“Flames on the side of my face” meme, altered to replace “flames” with “sewage”

Evan@threecolorable· Jan 21

I normally sat right where that pair of trash cans is. if i hadn’t gone upstairs to find the building manager i’d have been hit by the ceiling tile.