efaardvark

Hot again. And we're on fire. Again. They're calling this one the "line" fire and some evacuations have already been ordered. Not really near me atm but it is in the national forest area and growing so I'm keeping an eye on it. I can already smell the smoke when I go outside but at these temps I don't intend to do that unless I absolutely have to.

Sometimes I build things on my own but sometimes I copy something I found on the 'Net. Lots of times I build stuff on my own plan but incorporate bits and pieces of stuff I've seen online or stuff I've built before. It really just depends on how much time I have to spend and how creative I'm feeling on any particular session. In the basic game you generally can only build stuff one block at at time. There are a few in-game features that will help you build stuff however. In "creative" mode for instance you can fly, your inventory is infinite, and monsters don't attack you. (As opposed to "survival" mode where you have to find/craft stuff to build with and can only walk around on the ground or climb something, all while possibly getting attacked by monsters.) There's also in-game build-aid items like scaffolds that are quick and easy to erect and tear down and help you move around on your build while you're building it. If your server allows them there are mods out there that will help you build stuff. Some mods will even just let you load files you've downloaded and place a build wherever you want in your world. For me that takes a lot of the fun out of it. Most build-aid mods have restrictions if you're playing in survival mode vs creative. For example, one mod that I've used before will build everything for you in creative but will only show you an outline and still force you to find and place each block yourself when you're in survival. It will also do useful things like produce a list of the number and type of all the different blocks you need for a build.

Finished the church and moved in 4 clerics.

Gak! It is even hotter here today than it was yesterday! I decided to park in the parking structure today instead of where I usually park in an open parking lot. It is about 2 blocks further away but I parked on the lower level out of the sun. As long as I don’t melt on the walk from my office to the lot at least when I get there the car should not be blazing hot like it was yesterday.

Same here. It was even hotter in my car when I got in to come home after work. The humidity is very low too. I thought I was going to dry out and turn to dust until the AC finally kicked in and brought things under control!

Hot. Just.. hot. 110 according to my car.

This is the build she's working on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3E0CRA4zPE This is a survival game too. I've been digging up a lot of deepslate lately.

Welcome!

I said the town needed a few clerics to trade with. Now my SIL is building "a place for them".

Explored an ancient city. Hi there!

Not an ocean on the planet Jupiter itself, but on one of its moons, Europa. Jupiter doesn't have an ocean of water like Earth's but Europa has an ocean that is over 150 kilometers deep and covers the whole moon! It has more than twice as much water in it as all of Earth's oceans. (The deepest part of the ocean here on Earth is the Challenger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench "only" 11 kilometers below the surface. Imagine an ocean over 10 times that deep.) Europa's ocean is covered by an ice cap that is probably around 4 or 5 kilometers thick and frozen as hard as rock. At the bottom of the ocean there are probably hydrothermal vents like at the bottom of Earth's oceans, maybe even with creatures living around them like they do here on Earth. Probably not sharks though.. maybe something like crabs or shrimp.

Been so busy! Originally Europa Clipper and the 2 Escapades were supposed to go up more than a month apart but delays now have them going within 3 days of each other. (In October - Clipper on the 10th and the Escapade on the 13th) So many last-minute reviews, tests, and planning meetings as we get closer to the date(s)!

Got a free bottle of scotch from a coworker just back from a visit to Scotland!

"Surviving the Game" is also good. (Sorry I'm on my phone or I'd include a link.)

Threshold - Hall of Echos Threshold - Let it Burn

At least it’s not isekai.

Why the fly? Fruit fly biological processes - including things like mechanisms of genetic mutation - are similar to that of humans but much simpler. Fruit flies also only live maybe a couple months but they're very prolific, growing from an egg to an adult capable of fostering another generation in only a week to 10 days, and a female is able to lay around 500 eggs in her lifetime. So if you want to see how things like the micro-gravity, high-radiation environment of space might affect humans over their entire life span, or even over the course of generations, then you can use humans, in which case it'll take a big, expensive rocket, quite a lot of supplies and life support, decades or centuries of time, and perhaps involve some awkward ethical questions if the test subjects get sick or for some other reason want out of the experiment before you're done with them. Or you can use fruit flies, which will give you several generations of data in a month or two for the price of a small rocket and a few bananas.

Based on one of my favorite books, Flatland!

From a deranged individual that I've known since HS,... "Cassette tapes had a side A and a side B so it is only natural that the successor be called a CD."

A workmate recently went to Hawaii and brought me back some coffee in bean form. I have a cheap electric juicer that can function as a coffee grinder but it doesn’t produce consistent ground sizing. Some of the coffee comes out as flour while some of the chunks are like quarter-bean size. It also takes a while, which isn’t good for the coffee, and you have to clean it especially well afterwards or the juice starts tasting like coffee. So to do things right I had to go and get a new coffee grinder. Hand-crank so it takes a little work but it is ceramic and glass and easy to adjust for consistent ground size. The coffee is good too.

Welcome!

Nacho flavoring

Just saw a video of the place I was born. It.. isn't what it once was. Made me sad.