CommissarVulpin

joined 2 years ago
[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I wanna ride an arthropleura so bad

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I’d love to be able to ride an isopod

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In the typewriter community, the “holy grail” differs from person to person, but for me it was a 1930s Royal P equipped with a rare typeface called Vogue. Very, very rarely they’ll pop up from people who don’t know how significant that is, and that’s the only way to get one at a reasonable price - because those who do know what it is will ask thousands of dollars for it.

Eventually I found one for a comparatively cheap price (sub 1k), and the only reason someone else didn’t snap it up before I saw it was because the guy refused to ship it. Local pickup only. So I took the chance to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it, and it sits proudly as the crown jewel of my collection:

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

It represented pence in the pre-decimal British money system, abbreviated from Latin denarii.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

NS Savannah has entered the chat

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A coworker of mine is from Louisiana. We’re in Washington state, and he told me that all the people here bitching about wind turbines and environmental regulations don’t know how good they have it. He’s from a town on the gulf which is basically one giant oil refinery. The stink and chemical pollution is unbelievable. He showed me the “Welcome to Whatever-ville” sign in his hometown, and it’s literally attached to a gantry that carries several chemical pipes over the road.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At some point they changed the bed from being made out of steel to aluminum, and you can really tell.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve always seen tomatillos for sale in supermarkets (western US). Are they not common elsewhere?

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It looks like something that would be mounted to the side of a helmet.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Data is the new oil. Collecting it, refining it, and distributing it.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I like that name a lot

 

"[The water] rushes with great impetuosity; the foaming surges dash through the rocks with terrific violence; no craft, either large or small, can venture there safely. During floods, this obstruction, or ledge of rocks, is covered with water, yet the passage of the narrows is not thereby improved."

The rapids, along with nearby Celilo Falls, were submerged in 1957 with the construction of a dam.

 

Several years ago I leapt enthusiastically into the realm of 3D printing by buying a massive, expensive delta-type printer. I had to put it together myself, which was fun, but after that I struggled to get it to print well. Even simply trying to get the prints to stick to the bed were difficult, leading me to add huge brims to all my parts which were a pain to cut off afterward. Eventually I gave up fiddling with it and it’s been gathering dust ever since.

I know that a lot of you treat the hobby as an opportunity for endless tinkering and optimization, which is great, but I think I’ve realized that what I’d prefer is something that just works out of the box with a minimum of adjustment.

 
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