Estate-sale leftovers being given away for free locally this morning. It looks like some potentially neat little treasures. If I didn't have work meetings, i would go look
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 01:11:01 JST Emily Velasco -
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 01:10:59 JST Emily Velasco @rose_alibi that radio and those giant analog meters are all so good
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 01:09:00 JST Emily Velasco Many people never learned to qualify their theories about things with "I think" or "maybe" and just state their speculations and hypotheses about things as though they are proven facts
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 05:47:42 JST Emily Velasco A little gardening trick I learned from my mom is to make mini greenhouses for your individual plants if you had to transplant them in such a way that their roots are highly disturbed. For a few days after being transplanted, they will be very susceptible to getting dried out because the roots have not reestablished themselves. She always uses the top half of a two liter soda bottle because she can loosen the cap or take it off completely to adjust humidity inside.
She also does this for cuttings that she's trying to establish, and she often also fills the bottom half of the bottle with soil and slides it into the top half to make an entirely enclosed container.
Don't leave your plants in the direct sun if you do this though. They will probably get too hot.
These squash, which I transplanted yesterday, had their roots all tangled up together because they grew as volunteers from a rotting squash that I threw in the compost. To separate them from each other, I had to completely remove them from the soil they were growing in. They were fine overnight, but once it got hot today, they immediately wilted, even in the shade. They're looking a lot happier now they they're under their own little domes.
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 00:47:57 JST Emily Velasco It's getting to be cool bug season again
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 00:47:56 JST Emily Velasco There were no cool bugs at all when I moved into this cottage seven years ago, but at the time, the yard was just grass, weeds, half dead taro plants, and some old roses.
I guess the big variety of plants I have out there now is a happy place for insects. I get mantises, robberflies, katydids, grasshoppers, ladybugs, and all kind of fun jumping spiders (not insects, but whatever)
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 04:24:13 JST Emily Velasco My metal milk crate, which had been stolen, reappeared on my lawn this morning. It was the gardeners who stole it. They returned it without saying anything. I guess they just wanted to borrow it for a month
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 23:30:53 JST Emily Velasco I learned about this curséd game over the weekend and I was compelled to keep playing it until I won at least once. Now I can finally rest
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 17:20:47 JST Emily Velasco A handle is a part of a tool or machine where you hand goes. A pedal is a part of a tool or machine where your foot goes.
This is linguistically inconsistent. We either need to start calling pedals "footles" instead, or we need to start calling handles "manals."
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 14:01:50 JST Emily Velasco Google maps turned the electrical transmission pylons on this hill into nightmarish towers you might see in a video game or a studio ghibli movie.
And then it added some birds flying past them
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 14:01:46 JST Emily Velasco The weirdest part is that it somehow picked up the texture of the pylon and then wrapped it around those nonsensical blobs. How did it get such fine detail of the texture if it cant see the structure clearly?
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 01:13:17 JST Emily Velasco Saw a guy skateboarding while holding a cute little orange kitten against his chest
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 19:07:06 JST Emily Velasco The year is 2042. AI "employees" are widely used in business and they are compensated better than their human counterparts because management has convinced themselves that AI employees produce higher quality work and are more productive.
An out-of-work writer gets a job by pretending to be an AI. Her work is better than what the other AIs are producing. Management is elated, thinking she's a revolutionary new model. They assign her increasingly high profile projects.
She finds it harder and harder to keep up the ruse, especially because she's fallen in love with one of her co-workers, something an AI doesn't do.
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:12:03 JST Emily Velasco According to @smellsofbikes my heat gun looks like something out of a 1980s cyberpunk manga
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:12:02 JST Emily Velasco I made a mistake yesterday, so I had to drill out the rivets and take the adapters off. By the time I got them off, the paint was all chewed up, so it gave me a good excuse to reconsider what color I wanted them.
As you can see, I changed my mind
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:12:02 JST Emily Velasco here we go
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:12:01 JST Emily Velasco I also decided to just go ahead and modify the tip of my rivet gun so it would fit this space better.
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:12:00 JST Emily Velasco Truing stand for people without the budget for truing stands
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:11:59 JST Emily Velasco I think I can live with that
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Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 03:11:58 JST Emily Velasco If I just wanted to be normal and use the hub as is, I could mount it on my bike and be done with this already, but I want to try to run the hub with a front derailleur to give myself six speeds.
Without a rear derailleur, I need some other way of taking up the slack in the chain from shifting into the smaller chain ring.
I'm going to try to make my own chain tensioner out of a piece of a junk derailleur that the guy at my local bike shop gave me for free. Testing things here