Listening to Birds by Dominique Fils-Aimé.
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@dillyd Yes, but are they as *loud* as Mount Saint Helens? Heard it go more than 400 miles away.
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The speakers have sparked a chain reaction at home. We had to make room for them, which ended up changing three different rooms, and I moved my home office to an adult kid's former bedroom. There's lots of blue. Too much blue. I want orange accents like these robes against this blue background.
So there was already a chain reaction that impacted three rooms. And then last week, the sprinklers malfunctioned at my husband's office at work and ruined most of the books he had there. We had been thinking for some time that we should move his home office upstairs from the basement, in case of any flooding. This was the impetus to make us finally act. So now every single room in the house has been rearranged except the kitchen.
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So there was already a chain reaction that impacted three rooms. And then last week, the sprinklers malfunctioned at my husband's office at work and ruined most of the books he had there. We had been thinking for some time that we should move his home office upstairs from the basement, in case of any flooding. This was the impetus to make us finally act. So now every single room in the house has been rearranged except the kitchen.
And in rearranging all this stuff, we made room to set up my old keyboard, that had been in a closet, unused, for several years. And I'm pretty amazed at how my fingers still remember how to play. I'm rusty, for sure, but the muscle memory takes over to an amazing extent.
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And in rearranging all this stuff, we made room to set up my old keyboard, that had been in a closet, unused, for several years. And I'm pretty amazed at how my fingers still remember how to play. I'm rusty, for sure, but the muscle memory takes over to an amazing extent.
@dillyd always amazing how change can ripple outward 😁
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And in rearranging all this stuff, we made room to set up my old keyboard, that had been in a closet, unused, for several years. And I'm pretty amazed at how my fingers still remember how to play. I'm rusty, for sure, but the muscle memory takes over to an amazing extent.
I had the same with my guitars. It is surreal.
But interestingly not with the harmonica.
Oh man, I still regret ditching guitar studies and starting football.
Oh well 🤷
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I had the same with my guitars. It is surreal.
But interestingly not with the harmonica.
Oh man, I still regret ditching guitar studies and starting football.
Oh well 🤷
@mastosalo guitar is definitely easier on the body
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The speakers have sparked a chain reaction at home. We had to make room for them, which ended up changing three different rooms, and I moved my home office to an adult kid's former bedroom. There's lots of blue. Too much blue. I want orange accents like these robes against this blue background.
I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
@dillyd That looks great! Both bright and cozy.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
Ohhhh very nice!
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
@dillyd Pleasant and welcoming.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
@dillyd Love it!
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
This looks great!
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
My own photos and a fabulous study and painting by Tamami.
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This looks great!
@TheBreadmonkey thanks! I was very pleased I managed to achieve my vision.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
@dillyd Which chair is that and do you like it? I am looking to replace my office chair currently as it's tad too hard on my back.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
@dillyd beautiful! I'd love to work from that study.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
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@dillyd Which chair is that and do you like it? I am looking to replace my office chair currently as it's tad too hard on my back.
@Rajiv
It's a Hyken chair. I like it very much. My husband and I each have one, ten years old each and still going strong.
https://www.staples.ca/products/990119-en-staples-hyken-ergonomic-mesh-swivel-task-chair-black -
My own photos and a fabulous study and painting by Tamami.
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I'm pretty well finished with my new office, and very happy with the result.
@dillyd i wish my nature was to be that orderful ... #noveauMot
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X-Cube Prism Becomes Dichoric Disco Ball
You’ve likely seen an X-cube, a dichoric prism used to split light into its constituent colours–you know, those fun little cubes you get when tearing apart a broken projector. Have you considered that the X-cube need not be a cube for its entire existence? [Matt] at “Matt’s Corner of Gem Cutting” on YouTube absolutely did, which is why he ground one into a 216-facet disco ball.
That’s the hack, really. He took something many of us have played with at our desks thinking “I should do something cool with this” and… did something cool with it that most of us lack the tools and especially skills to even consider. It’s not especially practical, but it is especially pretty. Art, in other words.
The shape he’s using is known specifically to gemologists as “Santa’s Little Helper II” though we’d probably describe it as a kind of isosphere. Faceting the cube is just a matter of grinding down the facets to create the isosphere, then polishing them to brilliance with increasingly finer grit. This is done one hemisphere at a time, so the other hemisphere can be safely held in place with the now-classic cyanoacrylate and baking soda composite. Yes, jewelers use that trick, too.
We were slightly worried when [Matt] dumped his finished disco ball in acetone to clean off the cyanoacrylate– we haven’t the foggiest idea what optical-quality glue is used to hold the four prisms of an X-cube together and were a little worried acetone might soften the joints. That turned out not to be an issue, and [Matt] now has the most eye-catching sun-catcher we think we’ve ever seen.
We actually have seen suncatchers before, though admittedly it’s not a very popular tag around here. The closest build to this one was a so-called “hypercrystal” that combined an infinitiy mirror with a crystaline shape and dicloric tape for an effect as trippy as it sounds.
We also featured a deep-dive a while back if you want to know how these colourful, hard-to-pronounce coatings work.
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Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura suggests his state join Canada. https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/28/fomer-governor-jesse-ventura-wants-minnesota-to-secede-join-canada/
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Light Following Robot Does It The Analog Way
If you wanted to build a robot that chased light, you might start thinking about Raspberry Pis, cameras, and off-the-shelf computer vision systems. However, it needn’t be so complex. [Ed] of [Death and the Penguin] demonstrates this ably with a simple robot that finds the light the old-fashioned way.
The build is not dissimilar from many line-following and line chasing robots that graced the pages of electronics magazines 50 years ago or more. The basic circuit relies on a pair of light-dependent resistors (LDR), which are wrapped in cardboard tubes to effectively make their response highly directional. An op-amp is used to compare the resistance of each LDR. It then crudely steers the robot towards the brighter light between turning one motor hard on or the other, operating in a skid-steer style arrangement.
[Ed] then proceeded to improve the design further with the addition of a 555 timer IC. It’s set up to enable PWM-like control, allowing one motor to run at a lower speed than the other depending on the ratio between the light sensors. This provides much smoother steering than the hard-on, hard-off control of the simpler circuit. [Ed] notes that this is about the point where he would typically reach for a microcontroller if he hoped to add any additional sophistication.
In an era where microcontrollers seem to be the solution to everything, it’s nice to remember that sometimes you can complete a project without using a processor or any code at all. Video after the break.
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"OK, Google. Navigate to Osaka Grill."
There is a restaurant named "Osaka Grill" that is 11 minutes away from my home.
There is a restaurant named "Osaka" that is 29 minutes away from my home.
Before Gemini, Google Assistant was smart enough to figure out that I meant the place with the stated name that is closer to me, not the place with a similar name that is farther away.
The more AI they add, the dumber it gets.
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In a pagan folk band AND a pagan metal band? I have doubts about Biko.
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I think one of the things I like about this show is that I enjoy planning and preparing for trips (or any activity, really) possibly more than I enjoy the trip itself. Planning for a survival situation? 🤌
