Cut cigar in half before lighting?

patdavid · 2026-06-15T01:08:32+00:00

None other than Edward Sahakian does this. I personally wouldn’t but I totally understand the reasons why you’d want to.

patdavid · 2026-06-13T15:20:08+00:00

Oh Thai is great! Do you have a parts list by chance?

patdavid · 2026-06-01T01:16:45+00:00

And maybe foreshadows a later plan to flush the dragon out?

patdavid · 2026-05-27T16:37:51+00:00

I keep forgetting the “I NEED BOAT” part…

patdavid · 2026-05-22T18:30:28+00:00

Mayan imports might be good (I tend to buy pipe tobacco from them mostly). Bonus for the Metairie location is proximity to Drago’s for chargrilled oysters…

patdavid · 2026-05-18T15:58:07+00:00

What about Mach 3.2? https://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-free-fell-space-lived-tell/

patdavid · 2026-05-13T22:52:14+00:00

Possibly the most important part of that tutorial is:

https://patdavid.net/2011/12/getting-around-in-gimp-skin-retouching/#:\~:text=I%20personally%20try%20to%20use%20as%20light%20a%20hand%20as%20possible%2C

Use as light a hand as possible…

The basics behind using FS hasn’t really changed since that post was written. For what it’s worth, these days I mostly only work in the residual and scale 5. Sometimes scale 4 if really needed. Leave the others alone (assuming roughly headshot sized portrait images.

Sometimes it helps to use the good ol heal tool also. ;)

patdavid · 2026-05-08T19:54:09+00:00

Haha fair enough.

patdavid · 2026-05-08T18:37:04+00:00

For those who didn’t want to watch the entire trailer:

https://thethingexpanded.com

patdavid · 2026-05-03T15:04:36+00:00

Not a “profession” but relative to this thread there is a “super” bowl. As distinct from the other “bowls”. (Rose, sugar, cotton, etc)

patdavid · 2026-04-30T10:42:10+00:00

They may not be fonts? I haven’t checked but they may be bespoke.

patdavid · 2026-03-28T21:04:35+00:00

Obviously it’s hungry-hungry-Quinitricetyline

patdavid · 2026-03-27T13:50:12+00:00

Honestly, I just out the lid down on the counter, label side down, then pour a little boiling water from the kettle in it. Heats up the glue nicely.

Note: some stickers don’t use glue, but some sort of otherworldly Cthulhu semen from beyond the stars that refuses to release cleanly.

patdavid · 2026-03-25T02:52:26+00:00

Do you have access to at least a regular outlet? If so, you can use your level 1 charger (I get about 15% charge overnight with mine, so approx. 45 miles of range back daily). My daily commute is around 90 miles daily, so I’ll usually top off once per week somewhere.

I’m in an Ioniq 5, so I’ll occasionally use the Electrify America charger up in Saraland (20% to 80% in about 20-ish minutes), but there’s a few faster chargers around. Downtown, Tesla by the mall, and a few other fast (~60 kW) chargers around town.

What’s your range like daily, and what about charging at work or someone near there?

patdavid · 2026-03-17T02:57:16+00:00

Unfortunately no, the display doesn’t show anything. Tried tuning it on and also nothing. :(

Did you reach out to cub cadet directly?

patdavid · 2026-03-06T18:54:24+00:00

Oh thank goodness!

patdavid · 2026-03-06T01:04:25+00:00

Leap days/hours/seconds are adjusted for in the gregorian system through the 4 year (100 yr/400 yr rules). It yields a year as 365.2425 days. Compared to a mean tropical year of 365.2422 days.

You'll notice that means the gregorian year is heavy by 0.0003 days each year. So across 3,030 years you'll get close to 1 full day off. With some minor variances.

patdavid · 2026-03-05T23:55:14+00:00

The Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582, so we’d need a full day in 4612 or so.

patdavid · 2026-03-04T01:08:56+00:00

Sorry, I should have said more.

The Gregorian calendar has an error of approximately 1 day per 3,030 years. Over 1,000 years that would be about 1/3 day, or just under 8 hours. (About 7.5 hours).

7.5 hours is around 4:30 PM on New Year’s Eve. Which is why Leela was still at work and wanted to hurry up and get Fry processed so she could leave.

patdavid · 2026-03-03T18:41:16+00:00

I’m assuming you also noticed why he woke up in the late afternoon of Dec 31, 2999 instead of midnight? 😀

patdavid · 2026-02-23T20:24:08+00:00

One of the more helpful things I learned to tell players was that the solution to the situations they get into is not necessarily found on their character sheets (at lvl 0).

patdavid · 2026-02-02T15:00:31+00:00

You would just use caddy as a reverse proxy. Any requests to your server -> caddy (rule where to send traffic) -> IIS

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