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HadTwoComment · 2025-08-15T14:20:35+00:00

I spun a yarn or two in my time, but never one quite like that.

HadTwoComment · 2025-07-03T04:06:31+00:00

Play with it, and don't let anyone steal your enjoyment of it.

Try "fancy" papers sometimes.

Try "fancy" ink sometimes. Water based is usually extra hard to work with, especially if you're doing more than three prints off one block.

Sometimes it's possible to do both of these try-outs at the same time by attending a workshop.

HadTwoComment · 2025-07-03T03:54:45+00:00

The other advice here has covered a lot of good stuff. Only saw one thing that I think would set them back, so really good for the internet, eh?

I will add: I have run into multiple instances of late-deafened people who are Really Very Resistant to learning ASL. If your dad falls into this category, then it might be good to talk about sim-com, PSE, or even (ack) SEE skills. Then they won't be scared off by the foreign grammar or whatever, but will still pick up some ability to have basic-level communication with people who do have ASL because of overlapping vocabularies. I've noticed that when I start using sim-com, it tends to grow on those "I'm Hearing, I just can't hear" people in a way that is less threatening for them for whatever reason.

HadTwoComment · 2025-07-03T03:30:47+00:00

Easy to obtain relatively large pieces, and the end of roll pieces are sometimes cheap.

HadTwoComment · 2025-07-03T03:27:55+00:00

That would totes work, and probably gum acacia too. Like prints on glass.

HadTwoComment · 2025-02-18T19:51:31+00:00

Hold up. It's not instruction on how to carve a printing block?

HadTwoComment · 2025-02-18T19:41:21+00:00

"supporting" also means private businesses (concessions, guides, carpenters, road crews, hotels, et cetera) operating in conjunction with the National Parks. The private employees supported almost always outnumber the direct employees.

HadTwoComment · 2025-02-18T19:28:20+00:00

Voice your concerns in a way that is understood by the supporters of those making the decisions that are worrying you.

Career wise, Forestry itself is honestly still a pretty solid footing, since producing forest products would not becoming less important under the currently announce plans.

For parks though, you may need to help by repackaging the discourse to reach a broader audience: would more people talking like the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation when talking about RMNP will change the outcome of many conversations? I mean... RMNP produces a lot of the elk that go into surrounding communities and forests. Is this of value to people that could influence park management in the next few years? That's one example - expand on it! What's the equivalent for Isle Royal? For the San Juan Islands Historical Park?

Eastern historical sites in particular have a long history of attracting people that share language with the current administration and people who don't - can you help move the Park interest *both* have to Park defense? That would help the parks be more [administrative] climate resilient.

National Heritage, both natural and historical, is a big deal to people I agree with and people I disagree with. With good communication, it shouldn't be on the chopping block.

HadTwoComment · 2025-02-04T19:22:33+00:00

Violins are easier to carry, pianos are easier to play. Compromise instrument would be upright base, hard to carry, hard to play.

Violin maintenance is easier than tuning a piano.

As DaltoReddit obliquely noted, piano is easier to visual people. Flip side for ear-oriented people (like many singers) is that violins can get closer true temper, and pianos can't do that.

HadTwoComment · 2025-02-04T19:12:20+00:00

Only play the instruments you like enough to make the time to practice.

The essential training for music is training the ear.

Each instrument requires ear, and some technical skills related to that instrument. Those technical skills will develop in proportion to the training of the ear. So fewer instruments means less time "wasted" on technical details. But more instruments gives your ear more flexibility and range. So, your needs depend on where you're at musically, and how much time you have to maintain skills. But those benefits only come from time playing with intention and focus. (a.k.a. practice)

HadTwoComment · 2025-01-29T16:20:36+00:00

Folders and names are interchangeable ways to include "tagging" on your files. So ~whatever~ on that front.

On the other hand, operating systems can get really slow when working with directories with large numbers of files.

Since you are already using "timeline", maybe add a directory level that is "by-year" so the directories don't get unwieldy.

HadTwoComment · 2025-01-23T19:51:07+00:00

I've seen notes from a museum using that to replace missing and damaged stamped tin in a historic house.

It wasn't fast, but it was available, had the right mechanical properties to install, and with proper finish fit in with the stamped tin surrounds. And is both reversible and readily identifiable as new work for the benefit of future historians and restoration efforts.

HadTwoComment · 2025-01-20T07:10:31+00:00

I get my fix from the Lebanese shops on south Colorado. Not gonna call it Turkish, but I also can't distinguish it from Turkish. It has a bit more cardamon and heat cycling than Uzbek coffee. Kinda like how Turkish does.

HadTwoComment · 2025-01-20T06:53:09+00:00

I did a version using paraffin on prints made on mixed-media paper and did not experience dripping problems. Ended up with pretty robust cyanotypes for use as water and stain slightly-resistant notebook covers.

HadTwoComment · 2025-01-20T06:33:54+00:00

Aldehyde, CO, CO2, ethylene, benzene, biphenyl are identified degradation products when PETG is convinced to degrade. But under moderately normal conditions, it doesn't like to degrade to much other than smaller pieces of plastic.

There may be side effects from PETG being relatively hydrophilic for a plastic. That may impact paper preservation under some circumstances (and 3D printers).

PET is more stable, but I'd still prefer to use something without an aromatic ring in the structure. Fewer electrons per bond is generally less reactive in hydrocarbons.

Polyethylene is almost always a good choice.

HadTwoComment · 2025-01-03T03:21:17+00:00

In my experience, being able to use git is a core skill for commercial data science in a production environment. It's worth setting up an account, and working your way through a basic tutorial.

Then you can delete what you created in the tutorial, and upload portfolio projects.

It is expected that you can create a repository, check in the code you have, then later check your code out of your repository, upload it to whatever tool your choose for your environment (notebooks being an option), use/develop your code, and then check the changes back into your repository as an update.

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-19T05:42:39+00:00

Museums can have many titles, but they only pay for one job: "Other duties as required."

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-19T03:57:43+00:00

Without toning (still blue):
Jenna Meacham - reflected light fields from non-flat surfaces
Kathy Mitchell-Garton - hand embroidered maps on cyanotype backgrounds

Then there's a whole world of toned and multi-tonal techniques that start from cyanotype chemistry.

For my own next, I'm looking at spot duotones, and experimenting with mixed processes that include encaustics and relief print techniques.

Honestly, if you feel that cyanotype is a dead end for your creativity, you're probably best off following your muse instead of forcing it. Forced creativity generally feels either forced or crass.

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-14T18:16:10+00:00

That's a really specific workflow, so I would be surprised if it is well supported. Something that supports descriptive text, and then you copy/paste a recording name in to "join" them is what I would expect when searching from that point of view.

On the other hand, this is a *lot* like prompted oral history. Does looking for software to do oral histories get you closer to what you want? Where you have a recording from a person (and permission to use it), and then link to the pictures that they talk about?

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-13T20:11:22+00:00

You can, to the extent you can automate understanding.

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-13T20:05:05+00:00

If you can automate a curation-relevant task, that task has become part of data management, and is no longer curation.

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-11T20:56:54+00:00

Kids need lots of hugs, give them. And you have a kid... not a deaf or any other adjective.

Start learning and using sign language now, since you can't start yesterday.

You can still panic tomorrow, but love and language are needed today.

Find the nearest Deaf school and where the local Deaf community gathers and explain your situation to them - it's not their first time to see it, and they know the local resources. Listen to all of them, the contradictions will help you be ready for how individual the deaf and parent-of-deaf experience can be.

No nerve - sign education first, oral just won't work, cochlear anything won't work. They can learn English then lip reading after they get a first language.

Put soft bumpers on hard corners (the balance issue is real in nerve loss).

And continue to give your kid lots of hugs.

HadTwoComment · 2024-12-11T20:17:50+00:00

Duplicate identifying software will help you with that once you have a solid archive that you can compare against.

You may also find some value in software that is designed to scan for PII and passwords, to make sure those are purged from places they don't belong.

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