The quest to create artificial general intelligence never truly succeeds, but they do manage to make AI rats and mice that escape into the internet and spend their time quietly scurrying through data centers, chewing on little niblets of data
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
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
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.
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)
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
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?