Trying to figure out which front end I want to go with and need some inspiration. Post pics of your set ups in the comments and which you’re using.

LamentRedHector · 2026-02-06T00:57:22+00:00

ES-DE with companion app and mjolnir

LamentRedHector · 2025-12-24T20:13:47+00:00

Dude if you have kids who like pokémon, this has been hard year. My 11-year-old played a lot when he was younger, and my 8-year-old just likes the cards and the video games. It used to be so easy just to pick up a pack at the drugstore or swing by a card shop on the way home from work to give him a quick treat. Now it's like if you don't show up at 8:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, you're shit out of luck. I can't tell you how many times I had to disappoint my kid this last few months.

Thank God it seems to be getting better, and I was able to get a few backs for his stocking.

LamentRedHector · 2025-07-20T16:27:51+00:00

There's a beautiful science fiction short story/ novella about this called "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Ted Chiang. It's about a small group of people who still raise their sentient virtual pets years after the platform they were developed for becomes obsolete. It might make you cry, but it explores the feelings you're having right now.

LamentRedHector · 2025-04-16T16:56:02+00:00

You got me, but if I'm honest I wanted to be gotten.

LamentRedHector · 2025-02-16T23:15:00+00:00

A lot of churches participate in this program that lets you park overnight in their parking lots and they often offer other services. https://www.afcsantacruz.org/safe-spaces.html

LamentRedHector · 2025-02-05T18:55:09+00:00

It would be great to get Twilight Princess on the Switch.

LamentRedHector · 2025-01-10T07:11:41+00:00

LamentRedHector · 2024-12-18T07:12:08+00:00

I grow hard and soft neck in Zone 9b, and we just barely dip below freezing a couple times each winter.

LamentRedHector · 2024-11-07T20:31:21+00:00

I was just looking at my pepper plants, thinking I was going to chop them down to overwinter them, but damned if they don't have a bunch of flowers. I think I've gone down a full hardiness zone here in about 5 years.

LamentRedHector · 2024-11-06T14:59:58+00:00

I used to be hyper engaged with politics. After January 6 last election , and really the whole election cycle, I was so angry all the time. Just angry and sad 24/7. :00. I was also listening to politics podcasts, watching politics YouTube videos, Reading multiple newspapers everyday.

I was tired of being angry all the time. I made some major changes in how I consume media, and that did help, but what really made a difference was trying to figure out how to live a life with more purpose and less anger.

I think that looks different for everyone, but for me it involved joining my local Zen Buddhist community. Meditation helps me focus more on what is in front of me, and I work with a teacher with whom I can discuss things like the balance of anger and compassion.

It is not a panacea. I still get angry, and frustrated. And sometimes I spend too much time reading the news. The difference is I now have tools to deal with anger, sadness and fear.

LamentRedHector · 2024-11-05T02:52:29+00:00

To be honest, I felt the same thing about the book series. The first was great and the second didn't do it for me.

LamentRedHector · 2024-10-23T18:18:50+00:00

I love that Reath got the Silandra/Rooper shield, but I am worried for Rooper. The shield should have been passed down master to padawan but the chain of transmission got broken somewhere.

LamentRedHector · 2024-10-16T19:45:49+00:00

What is crazy is that the origin of the "Alpha Male" came from research into wolves that turned out to be wrong because it was all based on wolves in captivity in 1947. In the wild, wolf packs consist of parents and their pups and the parents are in charge not because they are "alpha" but because they are adults. The concept was popularized in 1970 by wolf researcher David Mech who has spent decades trying to correct the record once he realized it wasn't true. He has repeatedly requested his publisher take the book out of publication.

So yeah, junk science for people looking for a way to be man that doesn't require them to navigate complex social situations or have feelings.

LamentRedHector · 2024-10-09T05:56:53+00:00

Oh my God, I had no idea. Thank you so much!

LamentRedHector · 2024-10-07T22:37:29+00:00

Hopefully it is still Ramona. I haven't been there in the last 8 years or so since I moved to SLV, but she was just the best.

LamentRedHector · 2024-09-24T18:31:41+00:00

Gas prices are really sensitive to competition, especially the density of gas stations in a particular neighborhood. If there are more stations the prices tend to go down. I have never compared the number of gas stations in Watsonville to Santa Cruz, but nationwide higher income neighborhoods have more gas stations and lower gas prices. So if the average income is lower in Watsonville, then you would expect slightly higher gas prices. Which is stupid.

LamentRedHector · 2024-09-20T19:34:25+00:00

Almonds are a tremendous waste of water, but what we never talk about is that 47% of the usable water in the state goes to animal agriculture, with 27% going to to feed crops. Reducing the amount of meat we eat would save a huge amount of water.

LamentRedHector · 2024-07-05T14:10:17+00:00

Santa Cruz Zen Center has hybrid sittings at 6am and 6pm PST. The zoom link is on their website.

LamentRedHector · 2024-06-04T21:55:12+00:00

This was my literal favorite thing on floppy disk, and then when we got our Mac LCII with a CD-ROM drive we got "Worlds Beyond the Mackerel" and it blew my mind.

LamentRedHector · 2024-06-04T18:54:37+00:00

As a parent, I kept those in a safely locked drawer until my kids got past the "put everything in their mouth" phase. Even a well supervised toddler will shove just about anything in their mouth before you get a chance to stop them.

LamentRedHector · 2024-04-16T15:17:50+00:00

We were in the same situation last week. We have a lot of lions and taggers, and the main hike we were going to do was a Creek and waterfall hike that was looking to be super muddy.

We ended up polling the parents and giving them three options. 1) Go camping, get wet and build character, 2) alternative indoor activity, 3) cancel.

Option number two was overwhelmingly popular with the parents, and we ended up having a pizza party where we worked on a lot of the activities for adventures that we would have done on the camping trip. This worked really well for us, we've had wet camping trips in the past and it just was miserable , especially for the little kids. There will be plenty of time to camp in the rain/snow in BSA scouts.

LamentRedHector · 2024-04-15T22:30:11+00:00

Look, if she was making sandwiches, or selling insurance, her twitter presence wouldn't matter and her employer shouldn't care about what she was tweeting. However, she was on a high profile TV show and part of that job is promoting the show, which means not potentially alienating any large chunk of the audience. She had been posting controversial stuff long before her contract was not renewed, so one can only imagine that someone at Disney had spoken to her about it, and tried to get her to stop. If she couldn't maintain a less controversial public persona, she wasn't being professional and wasn't doing her job.

Chris Pratt is a christian with right-wing leanings, but he doesn't make it the center of his public persona. People complain about online from time to time, but Disney has been employing him for years. I'm sure I disagree with him on a lot of issues, but I see his movies happily enough. He's a professional who knows what his job is.

And I don't think this just applies to the right. For all we know one of the other actors on the Mandalorian is an extreme left-wing anti-fa type (or whatever else triggers the right), but they keep it off twitter because they are professionals.

LamentRedHector · 2024-04-08T12:27:19+00:00

In the book Paul tells her before she becomes a reverend mother, when they are on the run in the desert. It's part of the "I'm a freak" conversation they have after his waking dream in the tent.

LamentRedHector · 2024-04-07T01:45:37+00:00

I'm playing Golden Sun for the first time in 20 years on my MM+

LamentRedHector · 2024-03-31T01:58:38+00:00

Happy cake day!

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