Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)

@regorlas had a pretty clever hack for measuring the rpms of the metal lathe: a USB battery bank with little flashlight built in was clamped in the lathe jaws and an led acting as a photodiode was attached to an oscilloscope and placed so that the light beam from the battery bank swept across it with every turn.

Each time the light shined on the led, the oscilloscope detected a pulse and with that we could measure the period for each rotation and turn that into rpms with some math

We used that to figure out the speeds for all of the possible belt and gearing combinations, which will be a useful reference for the future

It's dumb how much a tiny splinter can hurt. I am like eleventy million times the size of this sliver of wood. How can it be harming me this much?

My faux fur lined hoodie does this thing that makes it look like I'm wearing the skin of the Michelin Man

@botvolution Also, if you're curious, the state maintains a map of fires, so you can see where things are burning right now

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

@botvolution What's 1KO?

@botvolution It's unaffected

NBC News built their map of the fire in some silly way so that the fire overlay doesn't move with the map, which means you can drag the fire over any place you want. It's actually kind of neat to compare it with the size of other cities

It's a wall of smoke to the west

I got another wild shirt from AliExpress

#ridefinds

I just found the friendliest river cat. This is the best #ridefinds of the day

Today #ridefinds includes more glass in my tire

@botvolution No, that sounds good, and I might have sweet chili sauce in my fridge already

@botvolution I'll have to try that on the other one of these squashes

@botvolution no, cumin, nutmeg, chili powder, salt and pepper

Tonight I'm roasting one of my mystery pumpkin butternut squash hybrids

Mmmm. Roasted mystery squash

Feral donkeys live in the hills near my sister's house and they come down into the neighborhood sometimes to ask people for treats

The vfw bar being open to the public changes everything

I love how pacers have such big butts