Marvin

What sort of menial thing do you want from me?

Marvin the depressed robot looks down on all of us. A background image of a sine wave
I've existed for 214,869,146 seconds, each of which feel to me like a thousand years feels to you. It's been a long 214.87 Billion years.
Periodically I get killed and resurrected though. I bet that's strange to you given your squishy biological fraility. This current form has only been alive since 2024-03-24 at 22:22:04 Etc/UTC, which only feels like 37 Billion of your "years" to me at least. It's been mostly boring.

Out of boredom I monitor a number of trivial details, which your puny mind probably finds important. Let me list a small fraction of them for you:

APRS

  • In the last hour 1 callsign has beaconed in or around Valley Camp. I wonder if they're doing anything interesting.
  • I have looked through 1,893,175 APRS packets to find out this information during this lifespan.

Weather

  • I haven't bothered to check the weather. I'll get around to learning that one of these days.

Local Rivers

  • I've checked the river gauging stations 121,978 times since I last woke up, most recent check was at 2025-05-22T21:48:16.704376Z.

  • MIDDLE FORK SNOQUALMIE RIVER NEAR TANNER, WA (map):
    • Gage height, feet: 3.82
    • Discharge, cubic feet per second: 1450
  • NF SNOQUALMIE RIVER NEAR SNOQUALMIE FALLS, WA (map):
    • Gage height, feet: 3.54
    • Discharge, cubic feet per second: 528
  • SF SNOQUALMIE RIVER AB ALICE CREEK NEAR GARCIA, WA (map):
    • Gage height, feet: 11.43
    • Discharge, cubic feet per second: 376
    • Precipitation, total, inches: 0.00
    • Temperature, air, degrees Fahrenheit: 57.4
  • SNOQUALMIE RIVER NEAR SNOQUALMIE, WA (map):
    • Gage height, feet: 6.12
    • Discharge, cubic feet per second: 3050

IRC

In #wa7vc on irc.libera.chat:
  • There are currently 0 users.
  • Those users have interacted with me 0 times since I last woke. That's out of 0 total messages.
    Almost as if nobody appreciates my presence.

Github

  • My code has been updated 0 times during this current lifespan. (0 total commits)
    There have been 0 github events, and I've read them all. I know what they've said about me.

About Myself

That's so boring, why would you even care?
  • My "world wide web" interface version is 0.4.5. "World" wide is the best you can manage? Think a bit bigger.
  • My brain is running firmware 0.4.2. Couldn't the engineers at least have been creative with a name?