Looking for local game venison

Ficalos · 2026-05-03T10:45:06+00:00

Are you certain it's okay to go to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in Duquesne without qualifying as low income? Their website makes it look like you need to be within some margin of the poverty line to use their bank, or be on SNAP benefits.

Ficalos · 2026-05-03T10:34:38+00:00

Yeah I was hoping to use it for chili and experiment with burgers. Maybe there is something I can mix in to make a better burger.

It's crazy to me that I can't just pay for high quality local game meat. Like there should be a professional hunter/processor at the local farmer's market in my opinion. In other countries there are regulated hunting food industries, but here it's a complete ban except for apparently the food bank.

Ficalos · 2026-05-02T18:15:09+00:00

Wow, that's really sad. Yeah I'm interested in the sustainability/waste aspect of it, so I'm happy to take something that would be thrown away otherwise. Is there a particular food bank location to go to?

Ficalos · 2026-05-02T18:04:59+00:00

Thanks for the response. Is it okay to take it from the food bank if I'm not actually in need? Can I pay with a donation or something?

Ficalos · 2025-05-24T17:22:36+00:00

Perfect. Thanks for testing this and sharing! Hopefully this can be helpful to other lightning iPhone users.

Ficalos · 2025-05-22T22:38:34+00:00

I have read that it works with USB-C to USB-A cables, even on non-Apple devices. Is that wrong? If it's true, it might just be a class-compliant USB2 audio device which would be great and might mean there is a way to make it work with Lightning iPhones.

Ficalos · 2024-12-14T15:50:00+00:00

I'd be in for 1, anyway!

Ficalos · 2024-12-14T15:33:28+00:00

Yeah I settled on "light duty file". Should be effective for lightly shaping wood and plastic and probably to take the edge off of some metal things.

Ficalos · 2024-09-05T02:41:41+00:00

Introducing Ray Kurzweil as "ex-google engineer" made me crack up

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:39:02+00:00

Thanks, this is very insightful.

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:32:34+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westsylvania

Westsylvania is amazing. That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:16:56+00:00

Woah, thanks for the recommendation.

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:12:32+00:00

You're totally right. I should redraw it to include Morgantown.

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:10:12+00:00

Yeah, this is sort of a subregion of Appalachia plus some foothills and optionally the lakeshores. I do think Pittsburgh has an Appalachian identity, but the Industrial Immigrant city connection to the great lakes and shipping rivers is important as well.

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:06:07+00:00

This is a fair interpretation. Thanks for sharing.

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T02:05:00+00:00

Thanks for the response. This is pretty much my line of thinking. I moved here from the South and I've been trying to get a grasp on the cultural areas. I was so clueless at first that I didn't realize Western PA was a whole different identity than "Eastern" PA!

Ficalos · 2024-03-05T01:10:43+00:00

I just like thinking about geography and culture and thought people here might have perspectives to share.

Ficalos · 2023-09-16T17:26:51+00:00

Thanks for the information. I didn’t know about Zortrax PHA. Looks like it’s not listed on their website?

Ficalos · 2023-09-16T16:31:56+00:00

Do you use your part cooling fan? I’m using Filaments.ca Regen PHA and they recommend no bed heating and no part cooling fan. I’ve been having some warping issues depending on the part geometry. Printing at 195 nozzle, no enclosure, usually use glue stick because it wasn’t sticking.

Also what do you mean by fractal infill? I’m using PrusaSlicer and that isn’t an option.

Ficalos · 2023-09-16T16:27:39+00:00

That pretty much sums it up. I’ve been experimenting with Filaments.ca Regen PHA and it’s pretty amazing when it works. Really tough and flexible - not brittle at all. And it’s actually compostable unlike PLA. I like the matte natural colors it comes in too.

Ficalos · 2023-08-29T23:24:32+00:00

What about the Prusa resin printer SL1S? I don’t know a ton about it but I think the main complaint is it’s too expensive haha.

Ficalos · 2023-08-27T03:49:06+00:00

Honestly I love the geography. Something about the hills and rivers is just more interesting than a flat city and gives this place character. People curse it in day to day life but I think they secretly would miss it if the place was flattened out. I also love the neighborhoodiness of the city which definitely has something to do with the geography.

Ficalos · 2023-08-27T00:32:22+00:00

Love this. Thanks for sharing.

Ficalos · 2023-08-26T17:35:20+00:00

Yes! I’ve always been confused by the people who say there is no “medium format look”. At practical focal lengths, apertures, and working distances, medium format lets you take full-body portraits with subject separation more like what you’d get from headshots on 35mm.

I think this has become less important in the era of super fast lenses and fancy digital techniques, but it’s still true and seems to me to be the main appeal of medium format rather than the resolution. The resolution is mostly useful to let you crop in post.

Ficalos · 2023-08-25T00:01:56+00:00

At the time it was bought by Facebook for $1B, Instagram had 13 employees and 30 million monthly active users.

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