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  1. Apple pie with whipped cream and raspberry syrup.  If you have to ask about the calories then you probably don’t want to know but soooo good. 😋

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    1. Ohayotaku

      Ohayotaku

      On a personal level, I have a much harder time restricting salt in my diet than sugar.

  2. Are there any animes that ARE NOT isekai anymore?  Okok, I know there must be.  But jeez!  WTF?

    1. Ohayotaku

      Ohayotaku

      Only 2 of the 15 series I’m currently watching are isekai, though  I dropped several from this season :P And both my keepers are more comical, one being an outright parody. That number is almost certain to increase with the upcoming season as Shield Hero & Bookworm are pretty much locks for me, not taking into account any new series.

      Part of the problem is that isekai has pretty much become synonymous with the fantasy/D&D genre. Many times the isekai aspect being tacked on for little discernible reason.

  3. Artemis's "Outbound flyby" happens tonight (pacific time)!

    https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/

     

  4. As a Californian I would like to welcome the rest of the country to the wonderful world of high gas prices.  

    So glad I have a plugable ride.

    1. Ohayotaku

      Ohayotaku

      I was lucky enough to fuel up when it was still $2.50/gallon & hope things will settle a bit before I need to again

  5. As usual Scott Manley has put together a timely compilation of the available data on the event. Though I'm sure the full analysis of the telemetry will require a bit more time before we know the root cause of the booster/starship failure, I think it's clear from video from the launch coverage that the pad is going to need major redesign and repairs before the next launch attempt, and it is quite likely that the debris from the pad at least partially contributed to the failure of the booster as well.

     

  6. Asking for a friend.  🤣

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    1. Animedragon

      Animedragon

      I don't think this one is going to 'end', it'll always be with us. As more people are vaccinated and gain a degree of immunity it will slowly join the list of other infections like the flu, we'll get our yearly jab and carry on with our lives. Like flu some will catch it and just be ill for a couple of weeks, others be hospitalised or sadly die from it.

    2. Wodahs
    3. Wodahs

      Wodahs

      im up for a orgie , i mean party

       

  7. Astronaut wings are "classy" (which I don't mean in a good way) but if we're going that route and giving anyone who crosses the Kármán line such a medal then we need a "with cluster" or something extra to distinguish the real ones who actually made orbit from the wannabes who just took an expensive rollercoaster ride.  Add another dangly bit for reaching other (lunar, Mars) orbits, and extra enhancements for actually landing on various extraterrestrial bodies.

    Silly I know, but if you're going to do it, do it right.  Right?

    1. kamomesan

      kamomesan

      Participation trophies for space travel is a concept that I wasn't expecting to think about today, but here we are.

  8. AT&T FINALLY has fiber in my neighborhood so next weekend we're upgrading our 'net connection from ~10Mb DSL ("up to 27Mb") to 300Mb fiber.  At the risk of jinxing it, I'm looking forward to the ~10x speed bump! 

  9. AT&T confirmed the install.. tomorrow is when the fiber comes.

    Still trying to get my head around 300Mb broadband.  I mean, I remember 300 baud modems, 2Mbit arcnet, and 10Mbit ethernet.  Data from NASA's Mars spacecraft comes down at around 6Mb.  My current DSL is about 10 (upgraded from 56kb dialup).  300Mb be like...FLCLsmile.gif.f3b5f684b271f685252a01cc73f16c0a.gif

    1. Ohayotaku

      Ohayotaku

      <reads first paragraph> Yes, fiber is very important at our age. spacer.png


      <reads rest of post> Oh. spacer.png

    2. Illusion of Terra

      Illusion of Terra

      The line I have just recently got upgraded from 4 (yeah I know, who knew something like that still existed) to around 50. To be honest though I didn't notice too much of a difference when it comes to downloads. Naturally I download stuff a lot faster, but I didn't really download much anyway (except for 'streaming' in a way). Biggest change that I personally noticed was in upload speed when uploading stuff for work or as online backups. Something that took hours now takes minutes, which is great 😂 
      Let us know what you think after you have used it!

    3. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      My uplink on the DSL is abysmal, relatively speaking... just 1.2Mb/s.  Ok for sending email, but that's about it.  Most of the DSL bandwidth is allocated to the downlink.

      Update on the fiber install:  AT&T missed their installation window.  This means no fiber yet.  :(  I got a robocall from AT&T informing me of the news and I immediately tried calling back to see if I have to reschedule or what, but all I got was a message saying to call back during business hours.  Looks like I'll probably have to wait until Monday at least.  😿  Unless the guy just shows up tomorrow.  We'll see.

  10. Back when the place was still “Thrifty” they had some pretty good store-brand ice cream and an in-store ice cream counter where you could buy a cone with up to 5 scoops.  (Which would inevitably give you brain-freeze if you tried to eat it all before it melted.)   Used to stop there pretty much every day on the way home from school in my middle school through high school years.  They’re called RiteAid now but the brand is still around..  

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  11. Been sick since last Wednesday.  Not covid according to tests but not fun either.  Recovering now but still pretty tired and last night's / this morning's level 1 event at work - supported remotely - didn't help.  Feel like I need to sleep for a week.

    Ack thtbbft!

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    1. viruxx

      viruxx

      I came down with my obligatory annual sinus infection over the Thanksgiving holiday, so I'm kinda right there with you. Just now getting out of the woods with it. Hope you feel better soon!

  12. Being in a rush resulted in a dinner of oatmeal and a can of soda.  Not a good combination.  PSA.

  13. Best comment: "KSP space music should start played, when they passed Karman line".  :D
     

     

  14. Best compilation I've seen so far.  Gotta say, after the pretty wild first test this one went much, much better.  Not perfect of course, but that's fine at this point.  Gives me hope they might someday actually get 'Ship working as intended.  That would make the next couple decades so amazing!  It was only 13 years between the Wright Flyer @ Kitty Hawk and the first commercial cargo (mail) delivery after all, and only ~30 until the Boeing 247, the first commercial airliner.

     

  15. Between Elon's "Private beta begins in ~3 months, public beta in ~6 months, starting with high latitudes"

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1253113227095007233

    and the FCC's ratification of WIFI6 ..

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/the-fcc-ratified-wi-fi-6e-this-morning/

    .. the nerd is me is kind of getting excited.  :)

     

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    2. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      Yes.  Rural areas is his stated primary target audience since they're under-served by the AT&Ts and Comcasts and TimeWrners out there.  But any one who is disenchanted with the current monopolies is welcome as well.

      And yes, pretty much everything he does is directly or indirectly related to setting up a permanent Mars colony.  Starlink was started because he needed something big to justify all the launches he's been doing, and putting up 12,000 satellites is a good way to guarantee a steady supply of paying customers for Falcon, Falcon Heavy, and Starship.  Of course the money has to come from somewhere, so "hey, how about we sell universal broadband while we're at it?".  While putting up Starlink he'll be getting experience to do the same thing at Mars, where there's virtually no global communications infrastructure.  Same reason he's taking people to the space station.  He'll probably also be the commercial carrier for NASA when they go to the Moon.  (He's already tried to get a NASA contract for a lunar landing, but Boeing and LockMart successfully lobbied against it on the grounds that they don't believe it can be done.  Whereupon Musk said, "It may literally be easier to just land Starship on the moon than try to convince NASA that we can.")  Again, more Mars practice.  Solar panels and batteries for houses and power grids.  Tunnel diggers.  Internal combustion engines don't work on Mars, but electric cars would.  It all fits together if you assume Mars as a background context.

      The man may be crazy, but he's crazy like a fox.

  16. Blade Runner, The Wrath of Khan, E.T., Conan the Barbarian, Poltergeist, and TRON.  Some decent music too.   I also graduated high school.  '82 was a good year but... damn, now I feel old.

  17. Bonked my nose on a Model X yesterday.  :(

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    2. Deeath

      Deeath

      YIKES!!! 

      Does your insurance cover for any damages? If not, how much do you plan on spending to fix it? :,(((

    3. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      @deaaath yes I’m in California so by law I have to have insurance to drive legally on public roads.  I’ve got comp and collision so it will be covered by insurance - or at least what’s left after a $500 deductible.  The impact speed was very low and I don’t see any visible deformation of the metal.  Hopefully that means no metal/body work.  The cruise control still works too, so the radar emitter/sensor is working as well.  I’m hoping it is just the broken plastic around the radar.  Probably have to special order replacement parts from the manufacturer however so that might still get expensive.  I’ll have to see what the shop says.  The Toyota emblem that covers the radar is about $150 all by itself!

      Too bad I don’t have a 3D printer or I might just print my own replacements.  :) 

    4. Wodahs

      Wodahs

      id offer to help with the use of my 3d printer , but im half a world away in the west of australia , so not the cheaper option

      like you i have full on my MY18 Jeep GC Trailhawk and seems bout the same deductible unless im not at fault

      but it can still be a nuance

  18. But it's a dry heat.

    Or as Bill the Cat would say, "Ack, Thbbft!"

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    1. EvaUnit69

      EvaUnit69

      On my end of the world we are finally below boiling temp so everything is looking nice

    2. Ohayotaku

      Ohayotaku

      “Bill the Cat”

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      ^ also a pun because of the heat ... Tatooine? ... never mind 🤓

  19. Can't fool me!  I know what's in the green.. and it isn't "mint chocolate"!

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    1. Hällregn

      Hällregn

      I love that movie. 😆 

      You never know. 👀 Haha.

    2. Animedragon

      Animedragon

      Makes you wonder how much research companies put into their product names.

    3. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      @Animedragon I wonder too.  I think companies just look at a table of names vs sorted by the %age of people who recognize that “brand” and go with the top entry.  Otherwise, yeah.  Why pick that one?

  20. Cleaning up some of the leftover debris from last week's plumbing repairs and chopped out a ~3 foot section of pipe around the leaking section just to see how bad looked.  I could barely see down the length of the pipe due to all the mineral/rust build up!  Surprised that a) there was any flow at all through the ~25 foot stretch that I wound up replacing and b) it hadn't started leaking before this.  Well, at least I shouldn't have to worry about this particular stretch for another couple decades.

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    1. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      There were a couple of spots that were rusted and leaking in a drip, drip sort of way.  This section was the only one that was actually spraying water out a pinhole leak.

      This run has been there at least since I moved in in ‘76 and I’d actually been planning to replace it last year but I didn’t get to it before the virus hit.  After that I didn’t want contractors coming in unless it were serious.  This section is all outside along a cinderblock wall from the house to the pool area in back so a few drips here and there weren’t a problem in and of themselves.  The leak in this section was another matter however.

  21. Closest I’m going to get to Mars for a while.. 

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    ( it is actually bigger than you might expect. )

  22. Coffee is life.

    1. Ohayotaku

      Ohayotaku

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      yeah, even with all the flavorings, I still can’t stand the stuff :P

    2. Rini Akemi

      Rini Akemi

      You're not wrong <3 I just love coffee so much. >just so long as it's super, super sweet< 

    3. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      tbh I actually I prefer tea.  I've gone back and forth over the years.. sometimes drinking almost exclusively tea.  I tend to like the smell of coffee more than the taste.  Lately though I have been addicted to coffee.  Maybe it is the season.

      re: sweet... I often put sugar in my coffee too.  But I don't stir it to mix it well, just slosh it around a little so there's coffee syrup at the bottom and normal coffee at the top.  For some reason I like the bitterness to start, but there's that yummy super sweet mouthful at the bottom to finish it off.

  23. Construction work pounding on the walls at work for the last couple weeks.  At least I think it is on the walls.  Might be in my head at this point.. I've had a headache for two days straight now. 🛠️🛠️🛠️🛠️🛠️

  24. Contemplating an upgrade/refurbishment of the solar-powered lighting on the "back forty".  (This is Los Angeles so that's in square centimeters.)  There's no AC run out there so a number of years ago I installed a solar panel, battery, charge controller, and motion-controlled LED lighting system.  It has been working pretty well, but it is showing its age.  The battery is/was lead-acid (basically a motorcycle battery) and needs replacing and the LEDs were pretty dim from the get-go.  That's what was available at the time so I'm not complaining, but these days it could be done better.  I can reuse the panel and (maybe) charge controller, but I'm thinking a new, custom-built LiFePo battery (built out of 18650s or 26650s) and some modern, bright LEDs are definitely in order.  Maybe even some RGB lighting if I want to get fancy.

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  25. Cool APOD (astronomy picture of the day)

    Who needs fantasy when we have stuff like this in real life?

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