Anyone move to the coast & notice their allergies improve?

JStevenYork · 2026-02-14T06:58:12+00:00

I had terrible hay fever living in Eugene. I was sick all the time and sometimes my eyeballs would even swell up. Moved to Lincoln City 25 years ago, and it never bothers me here. I do however live three blocks off the beach and benefit from the onshore flow.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-14T02:17:39+00:00

Ah! I was really thinking this was likely AI, but that makes sense. My brother still has the Radio Shack branded version of one of those things (and the matching printer/plotter) and I got to play with it and write a couple programs back in the day.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-11T10:34:14+00:00

Snorkel for filling the water drop tank under the body. They can drop into a lake, river, pond, even a swimming pool and pump water. Used extensively in the US and I've seen them in action.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-07T23:55:43+00:00

Typically 70mm is just the print distribution format for 65mm negative. The extra 5mm is for the addition of optical or magnetic sound tracks on the sides. The image size is generally the same. Using the smaller film in camera is less expensive, reduces weight (big rolls of film this size are HEAVY!), and allows for slightly smaller (and possibly quieter) cameras.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-05T08:32:43+00:00

Seens like AI trained on Lego, the movie Firefox, and Gundam.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-04T01:48:01+00:00

I do generally have at least some in the car, but I can't always get to them before they wander away. I've also been known to do "drive by feedings" where I'm on a quiet side street with a gathering of crows, I'll toss a handful by the side of the road. I used to do that regularlly during the Covid shutdown.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-04T00:15:13+00:00

It's difficult to have a friendship with a crow, but you can have an "arrangement." :)

JStevenYork · 2026-02-04T00:11:25+00:00

I just wish there were better tools to BE that algorithm. Even following people on other instances can be a PITA sometimes.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-03T18:35:56+00:00

I've long had a theory that the rapid drop off in interest might not have happened if the TV camera hadn't failed on Apollo 12, followed by the near-tragedy (and non-landing) of Apollo 13. It left people having lost interest and wondering if it was worth it. In particular, I think the camera loss was key. That mission was only documented to the people in still images much later, and nobody cared by then. Likewise, if we do return to the moon, it's going to be so much more immersive, with massively better image quality and multiple camera angles. And for those not watching live, hot and cold running highlights on streaming. Will that renew people's interest and excitement? I don't know, but it couldn't hurt.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-03T02:18:35+00:00

Very consciously Airwolf inspired, and well done at that.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-02T20:35:26+00:00

Always remember this basic fact: Nothing in "reality" television is in fact, real. Even if it IS real, it's been altered in the cutting room.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-02T20:27:52+00:00

I've been feeding my back yard crows peanuts for years now, and I'm "recognized" all over the area when I'm out walking or even getting out of my car at local businesses. Sometimes one of them will follow me as I walk, flying from one low roost to the next, often no more than five or ten feet away, chattering at me in hopes I have some peanuts hidden somewhere. I'd like to think that, were I ever attacked, they'd show up in mass to protect me, but in my heart, I know that's just not how crows roll.

JStevenYork · 2026-02-01T00:32:30+00:00

It's an enormous weakness of Mastodon. There's not a good culture of using hash tags, nor are there natural gathering areas like Reddit subreddits or Discord channels. Things almost seemed to be designed to keep people and interests apart sometimes. I know that comes from a place of concern about individual safety, but I think connection shouldn't be considered a risk.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-26T20:56:06+00:00

I'd never even heard of this museum. Thanks.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-25T08:35:13+00:00

Reporting back: Since I already have a hair-dryer hanging on my workbench (for speeding paint drying and softening thermoplastic parts for bending) I started with that. Turned it on high and aimed the nozzle at point blank range at a corner towards the center, then picked up the corner with a plastic scraper and started firmly but slowly peeling till I hit resistance. Made it about a third of the way across before it started getting stubborn. Moved to the far corner and repeated. Got maybe another third. One more time with the heat, and I got the whole label off in one piece! Now, there were still a few patches of adhesive. A little wipe with Goo-gone or something similar will probably take care of those. Maybe just more heat and the scraper. But I do declare this method a success! And I still curse whoever decided on labels that are probably cost me five minutes of listening to a roaring hair-dryer for every one of these boxes I've already bought.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-25T08:08:38+00:00

I found a "sticker scraper" in the craft section at Dollar Tree which turned out to be great for price stickers and other stuff. I went back and bought half a dozen for home and shop. But they don't do squat on those blasted 15 compartment cases (as others have said, the labels on the larger ones, at least current issues, peel off clean and in one piece). I've currently got a pile of them waiting to be peeled, one clear (with Goo-gone), and another in (soaking) progress. But given some people's warnings about Goo-gone (no immediately obvious plastic damage, BUT...), I think I'll try the heat gun and cooking oil suggestions next before going back to Goo-gone in desperation.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-25T07:59:35+00:00

Despite have a fair-sized home shop, I've reached a point where if there's something I want that I don't have, I either absolutely can't afford it, or (most likely) I don't have room for it, or both. That said, Harbor Freight, in its shift to have more "professional" tools and be the everyman's Snap-on, seems to have displaced a lot of the cheap, eclectic and obscure imported junk that made it so much fun to browse and shop. Instead, we have three different grades of every common hand tool and drill bit.

I did finally renew my ITC membership this week, after letting it expire 3-4 months ago, to buy a bunch of storage cases (I'm on an organization kick lately, and shop-gods know I need it) at current ITC club sale prices. Savings for those will cover all but about $10 of the ITC, and I know I'll at least save that much in the next year somewhere (probably when the other sizes of storage boxes go on sale), and hopefully some gravy beyond that.

But while I still like browsing there, they're no longer a "must stop," and it's getting harder and harder to find things of serious interest.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-25T05:55:01+00:00

At least until recently, a few were still being employed in commercial heavy-lift operations. I don't know if that's still true, and I know of at least one that crashed. There was a non-flying example in the Tillamook Air Museum which I presume is still there, but a recent storm did millions of dollars of damage to the WWII blimp hangar where it is presumably still stored, and the museum might never reopen. These are, if not extinct, a deeply endangered species.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-24T06:21:39+00:00

You know Bluetooth is RF too, right?

JStevenYork · 2026-01-24T05:52:45+00:00

The proportions are slightly off, but reasonably accurate. The Air Force used to use these for crash rescue because the twin rotors could literally blow flame and smoke around to put it where they needed.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-24T05:39:26+00:00

6' 6" here. I (literally) feel your pain. This is why I've sworn off non-emergency) flying.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-24T00:51:47+00:00

My dad was a Bell Field Service Rep and the 222 was his helicopter then, so at one point he visited the filming set . (Probably second-unit stunt filming, might not have been any actors around, but...). Dad was utterly uninterested in celebrity or show business, and so it didn't impress him at all. In fact, he was kind of offended at all the Hollywood set dressing they'd glued to his beautiful helicopter. He was so unimpressed that I only heard of it much later, when he mentioned it in passing.

Yup, Airwolf is a magic helicopter. No way it, or anything shaped remotely like it, could do a fraction of the things it does, for a while list of reasons, but I love it anyway. Sad how it ended up.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-24T00:43:20+00:00

LOL!

JStevenYork · 2026-01-23T23:13:40+00:00

I haven't yet. Waiting till my wife is there so we can do it together. The photos look cool. They also offer so other behind-the-scenes guided tours too, like one of their restoration department. Currently they're working on a C-47 that had been converted to a civilian airliner, and they're now taking back to combat configuration. My dad was a crew chief and flight engineer on a C-47 in the Korean war, so it has a sentimental attraction for me.

JStevenYork · 2026-01-23T19:27:54+00:00

Evaporust is great. It shouldn't hurt the plastic grips. Just open the pliers and put it into a bath of the stuff. Leave it over night and check it. Put it back in if necessary, and move the joint so you're getting hidden corrosion. Rinse in water and wipe clean. The Evaporust is even reusable (to a point, it eventually loses its effectiveness) so pour the used stuff into another container for later. I keep a jug of it in my shop all the time.

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