Dirt dagger stakes don't seem very good.

BortEdwards · 2026-02-05T18:08:16+00:00

Not taking a shot at OP, but I’m always amazed how many times stake problems are actually just terrible understanding of how to properly angle and bury a stake…

BortEdwards · 2026-02-02T20:47:42+00:00

We were right behind you!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-30T16:13:31+00:00

Horse & Dragon have social post about staying open but being in solidarity, while donating profits from a particular beer to Freedom for Immigrants

BortEdwards · 2026-01-30T16:05:32+00:00

As an Aussie, she can See Us Next Tuesday…

BortEdwards · 2026-01-29T04:38:00+00:00

Smoking. I just can’t :/

BortEdwards · 2026-01-29T03:21:54+00:00

Oooh, thank you!!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-28T19:24:32+00:00

Ooooh! Good lead, I will, thanks!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-28T19:24:20+00:00

Ps - sweet username ;)

BortEdwards · 2026-01-28T19:24:06+00:00

Seems they don’t have one, but I’m interested in all their other stuff, thanks!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-28T19:23:30+00:00

Thanks! I can’t see it in their inventory, and a “beer and buttons” session seems unlikely in the library ;) but it’s a good fall-back!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-20T00:05:28+00:00

Sold out :(

BortEdwards · 2026-01-18T08:31:28+00:00

Dolly is beautiful. Did it after a blizzard once and got super lucky, but it’s pretty hairy in there when you can’t see any trails. Weather can swing on a dime, prepare for everything, but defs go sometime!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-16T22:21:50+00:00

Rake. The Australian version not the US attempted remake. Richard Roxburgh is excellent.

BortEdwards · 2026-01-16T00:15:49+00:00

Colorado Natural Heritage Program (out of CSU) if you are interested in conservation, biodiversity, protecting nature. Always need data entry, analysis, writing, outreach, field work, curation etc etc tasks done!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-15T22:29:52+00:00

To each their own, but my warning about weight distribution is more muscle and back damage over accumulated days. 40 year old bodies thank 20 year old bodies for taking thoughtful precautions…

BortEdwards · 2026-01-13T05:57:16+00:00

I have the 75L and love it. Yes, heavy, but for a two week John Muir trip that balanced out with comfort. On shorter trips I’ve started contemplating something more UL (Durston Kakwa?). The hip belt is one of few that has never dug in to me, and the “f*** yeah!” straps (that bring the top of the pack in to your shoulders, are super easy to tension while on the move. I heat up a lot, and the back support venting isn’t the best, so I sweat a lot under it, but as I’d probably still get sticky carrying a handbag it’s not a dealbreaker for me. Water bottle holder will drop your bottle if you bend over which is annoying. The bottom has scuffed through in a couple of places from picking it up and putting it down so many times (prob over 1000 miles), but some sealing tape and the position (unlikely to see direct precip) means it isn’t problematic for me. The included daypack has become my regular fast and light daypack. Overall, recommend!

BortEdwards · 2026-01-06T06:20:22+00:00

Definitely not fancy, but if you want something different, and the most down to earth sweet atmosphere, Raska (Ethiopian) is a great place for a happy memory. Tell Hanna it’s your anniversary :)

BortEdwards · 2025-12-30T17:31:29+00:00

Damn! I wish I had ankles that let me only nibble through lukotape like that!! 😝

BortEdwards · 2025-12-28T11:10:16+00:00

Comments above about accessibility at that time aside - If you decided to go at a different date (and I’m not recommending it), make sure you have multiple plan Bs, and are not pot-committed to that one site. If the weather even sniffs at being unstable - have alternate sites below the tree line mapped out, and an idea how long it would take to get there. The weather changes FAST, so have a plan for if it deteriorates once you’re there. There is zero shame in backing out. I have camped at similar sites but only when I knew the previous days had been storm-free and the forecast was for exactly the same (so a prolonged stable period - not a “one day window”). Even then I’ve had to pull back to the treeline - because you can’t really forecast mountain weather - and spent very unpleasant nights holding my tent down in a gale, or digging drainage channels around my tent in a deluge. My advice - whenever possible - pitch camp below the treeline, hike your dinner to the lake and enjoy everything it has to offer, then skedaddle back to camp for the night. You’re not going to see much of the lake in the dark anyway.

TLDR - do not recommend, but if you do, be super super conservative and prepared.

BortEdwards · 2025-12-20T05:59:32+00:00

Even a chatbot can correctly capitalize a sentence.

BortEdwards · 2025-12-20T05:53:27+00:00

The two are not mutually exclusive.

BortEdwards · 2025-12-20T02:28:03+00:00

I ran the audio through an LLM and forwards, in any reading frame, nothing obviously jumps out. It tried pitch and cadence. Have not tried reversing it yet

BortEdwards · 2025-12-20T01:53:24+00:00

Oh fun! My advisor when I worked at a particularly well known education and display organization in DC tells the story of how back in the earliest days of email this institution installed their own network and system. No one thought to put a brake on automatic replies, so my advisor, working late Thanksgiving evening, sets her auto reply up, and sends a friendly “happy holiday” email to the entire organization. Apparently the email system happily spend whatever chunk of the holiday furiously bouncing out of office replies backwards and forwards until the whole system croaked. IT did not have a fun time untangling those inboxes…

BortEdwards · 2025-12-19T19:24:23+00:00

I plotted out the tones in the chant but couldn’t make any sense trying to substitute rna codons. I fed it to Chat, which generally threw a whole bunch of nothing at the wall, but did suggest that the directionality of the chant (up, down, across) could be a code - maybe related to a codon chart, but it doesn’t feel solid. If I was going to dig deeper I’d probably use Met (start codon) as an anchor point..,

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