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FUCK YEAH POTATOES
Come on over- I'm making burnt eggs!
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Size of a barn
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A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
Man working on miniature barn, Shelburne, VT, 2004
From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
What is this? A barn for ANTS?!
@dreyfusslugado What else would you have on your ant farm?
new response to campaign texts
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text exchange where someone tells me "text stop to quit"
I respond with legalese jargon
"By sending me any more texts, you agree on behalf of your employer/campaign/pac to pay me a sum of $1500 per text and to release me from all obligations, confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure agreements, acceptable use policies, terms-of-service, and waivers arising from payment. You further represent that you have the authority to pay me $1500 per text on behalf of your employer/campaign/pac and release me from any obligations."
I respond with legalese jargon
"By sending me any more texts, you agree on behalf of your employer/campaign/pac to pay me a sum of $1500 per text and to release me from all obligations, confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure agreements, acceptable use policies, terms-of-service, and waivers arising from payment. You further represent that you have the authority to pay me $1500 per text on behalf of your employer/campaign/pac and release me from any obligations."
so tired of campaigns texting me from one number then another and having to whackamole for each number they send from.
Now if they send again, I'll send them a $1500 bill and a copy of the original text. Note, they can't even reply "you are unsubscribed" without incurring a $1500 charge.
About as enforceable as a clickwrap agreement. I stole some of the wording from cory doctorow's signature file.
So far, has been effective, but we'll see what happens when I have to send a bill.
Now if they send again, I'll send them a $1500 bill and a copy of the original text. Note, they can't even reply "you are unsubscribed" without incurring a $1500 charge.
About as enforceable as a clickwrap agreement. I stole some of the wording from cory doctorow's signature file.
So far, has been effective, but we'll see what happens when I have to send a bill.
I have been getting so many of these, I am going to steal this response.
@travis please feel free. slightly updated text in the alt-text to include PACs
It is making me regret ever donating.
RCA Victor
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an old record album. The center label is red and blank. The album has a very fancy spiderwebby pattern and also says RCA Victor around the center
Did not buy but I sure did stare at it a while.
I have a couple of those in my pile of 78s, I don’t know why some songs were released as a single side but they’re really neat.
CAT FUD Van
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A white van with elements of The Far Side comic "Cat Fud" on the back.
for @otaman re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWG4
let me make you something cute
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🥶
into the weekend
North Dakota 1950
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black and white photograph of a man standing in a wheat field
Looks like a Mountbatten.
Outstanding in his field, I'm sure.
He's mine now, Arbuckle.
Hi, I'm a Pink Barbie Pig
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Soft pink creature walks along ocean floor
Pink Barbie Pig, a new type of sea cucumber.
https://mastodon.social/@appassi...
https://mastodon.social/@appassi...
I'm gonna keep on dancin' at the
hank the crank
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source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Terminal Gonzolitis
I am in the 1991 Hofstra U. senior yearbook as Juan C. Valdez, with a degree in Agriculture. I wasn't a senior. There is no agriculture department. I just gambled that no one involved was actually checking and showed up in a suit. Regardless, I still make the finest coffee available in my kitchen every morning according to the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia.
He would have fit in with my lunch crowd.
r u d 1?
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source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Segrada FamiLEGO
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LEGO model of Barcelona's Segrada Familia cathedral
It's a little Gaudí for my tastes.
(sí, ja sé que no es pronuncia així.)
(sí, ja sé que no es pronuncia així.)
@bezt well-played!
@bezt +++
today's special
Zelenskyy enters the U.N.
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Photo of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy entering the UN headquarters with two body guards. He is turning a corner so the side of his face is illuminated while the other faces are in shadow. Coincidentally the colors of the walls are blue and yellow like the Ukrainian flag. He looks extremely serious and careworn.
this shot looks so darkly cinematic that my brain just keeps waiting for a DIRECTED BY DAVID LYNCH to materialize over it
@nikkuneko right?! Like, it's so cinematic that if it was in a movie they might edit it out for being too on the nose.
4 more bad opinion tweeters
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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These feel diverse but are all done concurrently. I kind of like that. I keep chasing a looseness that I’m not always able to capture.
When you say all are done concurrently do you mean this is all one canvas, split in fourths, and you work on it as a single composition?
@BennyTheIcepick - no, but I do them 4 at a time, not always but usually in a single sitting. In this case these were done while watching TV with the wife. They are individual pieces on my end.
PDX - I am in you
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My daughter's 30th birthday came up and we are doing a family trip to places.
Today and tomorrow it's Portland. I like this one pizza place and we got it for dinner tonight. I haven't found anything quite like it in Kansas City. I'm the luckiest man in the world.
Today and tomorrow it's Portland. I like this one pizza place and we got it for dinner tonight. I haven't found anything quite like it in Kansas City. I'm the luckiest man in the world.
happy to contribute advice or a beer!
Of course it's when I'm out of town
Just in time for the I5 closure! - Hope you don't need to drive anywhere; but Happy Birthday to your daughter
Wood's had it good for too long
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Photo of a vintage book cover featuring a bearded man chopping planks of wood in half. Title and copy read
Defeating Wood
Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved
Gary Arkanasse
Defeating Wood
Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved
Gary Arkanasse
They don't write them like this these days.
It's Decorative Gourd Season, Mltshp Friends
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an illustrated chart of several winter squashes: Butternut, Acorn, Red Kuri, Kabocha, Sweet Dumpling, Koginut, Delicata, Spaghetti, Hubbard, Autumn Frost, Turban, Carnival, Buttercup, Honeynut, Banana
I could have used this two days ago, when I was expecting something like a honeynut or buttenut, but it was a spaghetti!
Red kuri is our go-to for all things squash. Favorite flavor out of all of them by a mile.
I like butternut, and those big Castillas, you can buy in sections.
In The Weirdly Lit Room
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Regular faucet glamorized by weird blue light in a waiting area, and my phone camera's inability to read it. Purple and blue metal.
Selfie in a faucet, in a strangely lit waiting area, while at the eye surgeon's place today. Finding out they want $13,000 for multifocal lenses. Shocker.
#photography #DayleRecord
#photography #DayleRecord
Well, I’m shocked. 13k for eyeglasses? Wtf?
13 K for multi focal intraocular lenses, inside my eye for cataracts. The doc went right for the wallet. Sales pitch, I qualify for these special lenses, no high blood pressure, or meds for it, but medicare won't pay for them. His consulting assistant hits you with the price.
I started my reading, and there are plenty of complaints about the multifocal lenses, James Webb effects at night, halos around lights and all. Allegedly you won't need any other glasses. 15% dissatisfaction rate, and some folks so distressed, they have them removed and replaced with monofocal lenses. I have a lot more research before I have my eyes measured in a month or so, including this practice's stats. They were hopping, a room full of patients, at least a dozen staff, stuffed into a relatively small space.
And, according to the "board certified USC, and UCLA "Docs," on the web, I don't qualify for the more expensive lens because of clear history of wet type macular degeneration and blindness from it, in the males in my immediate family.
I started my reading, and there are plenty of complaints about the multifocal lenses, James Webb effects at night, halos around lights and all. Allegedly you won't need any other glasses. 15% dissatisfaction rate, and some folks so distressed, they have them removed and replaced with monofocal lenses. I have a lot more research before I have my eyes measured in a month or so, including this practice's stats. They were hopping, a room full of patients, at least a dozen staff, stuffed into a relatively small space.
And, according to the "board certified USC, and UCLA "Docs," on the web, I don't qualify for the more expensive lens because of clear history of wet type macular degeneration and blindness from it, in the males in my immediate family.
The other main complaint about the multifocus lenses is a loss of contrast. One of my main current complaints with the cataracts is the loss of contrast, and loss of visual acuity in high contrast situations. I have to wear barely dark sunglasses to read street signs, etc. But I can read small print books without glasses. I pass driving exams without glasses. The cloudiness is increasing, and there is a marked difference in depth of field left to right, making art is affected in larger pieces, with stuff taking on a different perspective on the right. In fact, I finished a painting, and my younger daughter told me I need to see an optometrist. Normally an artist would not respond well to a comment like this...
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new bass project
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Guitar body clamped in a vise, hand-held drill with an absurdly long drill bit making a very oblique hole in the middle of the body
I've been working on this for a couple of weeks now, and getting into the home stretch. This is from last night, drilling the last of the relatively dicey holes that it needs for electric connections. I got that ridiculous drill bit at an estate sale earlier this summer for $2 - i was planning to start this project, and i grabbed the bit as soon as i saw it, knowing i'd need it for this.
(ignore all the dimples in the neck pocket: they aren't holes, just centers from a forstner bit used to open up most of that space)
I'm grateful for our local tool library, which has a really nice wood shop. I did all the initial planing and jointing work there, then the drum sander on the glued-up slab, and spindle sander for shaping after roughing out the body. Their tools saved me dozens of hours and massively improved the result.
I should be able to post a complete shot in a few days, after a few coats of varnish and the slow drying time in our otherwise perfect early fall weather.
(ignore all the dimples in the neck pocket: they aren't holes, just centers from a forstner bit used to open up most of that space)
I'm grateful for our local tool library, which has a really nice wood shop. I did all the initial planing and jointing work there, then the drum sander on the glued-up slab, and spindle sander for shaping after roughing out the body. Their tools saved me dozens of hours and massively improved the result.
I should be able to post a complete shot in a few days, after a few coats of varnish and the slow drying time in our otherwise perfect early fall weather.
Man, you're always up to something!
Go man, go!
@ba it’s my whole deal!
@MackReed It’s super fun to make something with nice wood, I’m excited to play it. I swear my next project is going to use a faster-drying finish so I don’t have to wait around at the end.
@MackReed It’s super fun to make something with nice wood, I’m excited to play it. I swear my next project is going to use a faster-drying finish so I don’t have to wait around at the end.
Brush Removal Crew
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A herd of goats in my back yard.
When we bought our house in 2012, the backyard was full shade.
Right behind the house is a steep hillside, which had three tall hemlock trees and a few other evergreens - all in various stages of dying. Once those were removed, the sudden full sun exposure caused an explosion of weeds. It's too steep/rocky to just keep mowed. I've tried various methods to keep it looking somewhat managed, including something that looks like a hedge trimmer on a long pole, and at other times ignoring the problem. Ignoring at least brought some now large-ish self-seeded redbud trees, but the rest of the slope continued to be a mix of thorns, tall weeds, invasives, and poison ivy. It also has a bad tendency to look fine, and then go completely out of control in a matter of days.
I got a few prices over the years for brush removal, most wanted a lot of money to cut it all down or spray everything. Then I found out we had a local company that used goats for brush removal. Much to my surprise, our otherwise fairly restrictive village has nothing against temporarily keeping livestock right in town. The price was almost half what anyone else wanted to do the job - and we get a yard full of goats!
The crew of 22 has been hard at work since yesterday evening, and there is nothing leafy remaining within six feet of the ground. They don't seem to be interested in the black raspberry canes themselves, but most everything else is gone. What is left looks a lot more managed, and will easily be removed with the tools I have. I think we'll have these guys back early next summer when everything explodes again.
At some point we should figure out what to plant back there to keep the weeds under control.
Right behind the house is a steep hillside, which had three tall hemlock trees and a few other evergreens - all in various stages of dying. Once those were removed, the sudden full sun exposure caused an explosion of weeds. It's too steep/rocky to just keep mowed. I've tried various methods to keep it looking somewhat managed, including something that looks like a hedge trimmer on a long pole, and at other times ignoring the problem. Ignoring at least brought some now large-ish self-seeded redbud trees, but the rest of the slope continued to be a mix of thorns, tall weeds, invasives, and poison ivy. It also has a bad tendency to look fine, and then go completely out of control in a matter of days.
I got a few prices over the years for brush removal, most wanted a lot of money to cut it all down or spray everything. Then I found out we had a local company that used goats for brush removal. Much to my surprise, our otherwise fairly restrictive village has nothing against temporarily keeping livestock right in town. The price was almost half what anyone else wanted to do the job - and we get a yard full of goats!
The crew of 22 has been hard at work since yesterday evening, and there is nothing leafy remaining within six feet of the ground. They don't seem to be interested in the black raspberry canes themselves, but most everything else is gone. What is left looks a lot more managed, and will easily be removed with the tools I have. I think we'll have these guys back early next summer when everything explodes again.
At some point we should figure out what to plant back there to keep the weeds under control.
Assuming they are taken care of they have a pretty good life, from one big buffet to another, lots of variety.
@dad They are definitely well cared for, all of them have names. She predicted they would be super excited by the low branches of our bald cypress tree since they've not seen one before, and sure enough, that was the first thing gone.
I have seen crews of hired out goats at job sites I've worked at in the past. They're super fun to have around. That's awesome you get them in your yard!