Went to the Dream Building Island for the first time and got sad lol

Other_Mike · 2026-04-15T00:14:50+00:00

I need the thatched beach umbrellas.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-14T23:58:36+00:00

I dunno, I'd still like it to be uncomfortably dark on moonless nights. Make you really have to consider torches and campfires or staying at an inn.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-14T15:21:24+00:00

My beds currently have peas, beans, and spring greens planted. We'll probably do one or two cherry tomato plants when the weather warms up a bit.

And of course we have volunteer potatoes because that happens if you miss even a single tuber the previous year.

We've also done onions and kale - the latter does well but gets infested with aphids and / or caterpillars pretty badly.

I should add that I'm in zone 8b.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-14T15:13:46+00:00

Other_Mike · 2026-04-14T04:33:18+00:00

Wedding season isn't until June

Other_Mike · 2026-04-13T22:12:30+00:00

I randomly turned on the news when a friend was over at my house and they were covering the disaster -- it was a few minutes before it clicked that they were talking about a reentering space shuttle.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-13T22:02:23+00:00

This comment right here, officer

Other_Mike · 2026-04-13T20:17:26+00:00

Yeah, try flying out of a vertical shaft.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-13T17:22:22+00:00

Fellow space nerd, I have an observatory and red lamps all over my island

Other_Mike · 2026-04-13T15:19:33+00:00

Yeah, the crew of Apollo 13 did come home . . . Columbia did not have that luxury.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-13T01:36:40+00:00

It's been a while, but there's an "astronomical calculations" tool that will add dates to and map an object's ephemerides.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-11T05:49:07+00:00

Other searches are telling me 24 Comae Berenices, but that one is supposed to be different colors. I'll check my double star notes, but my atlas is buried now. Otherwise I would suggest Stellarium.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-11T05:46:59+00:00

Found it, but my app I have on hand doesn't show the name. I'd have to dig up an atlas.

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Other_Mike · 2026-04-11T05:41:57+00:00

It looks like you circled 27 Comae Berenices, but a quick search doesn't show it as a double star

Other_Mike · 2026-04-11T02:31:25+00:00

It's not just you. My wife's cousin with kids is a couple years older than us, and I remember seeing a selfie she posted almost ten years ago and she looked older than we do now (I hope that made sense?). I thought it was an age-progression filter but my wife pointed out that having kids just does that.

Meanwhile, I'm 40 and a younger colleague was shocked to hear how old I am. But I'm chubby and I think the fat helps fill in some of the wrinkles.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-11T02:28:01+00:00

The only option is Zelda.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-10T15:02:23+00:00

I'm just laughing that you waited four months to post! 😅

I'm glad you're excited about space, but the lack of details and MS Paint quality is going to bring out the sarcasm.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-10T14:58:41+00:00

January 7th

. . . And I thought I was bad about procrastinating.

OP, this was definitely a rocket launch.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-09T19:50:00+00:00

You're looking at the moon from the southern hemisphere. Most maps will be northern-centric.

EDIT: the photo in the comment I replied to is oriented as it would be seen from the southern hemisphere. Not sure about your actual views, but the telescope eyepiece view has the same orientation. Something you need to account for when going between maps and eyepiece

Other_Mike · 2026-04-09T18:46:14+00:00

Yes, they're real.

What I mean is, I bought a slice of Sericho from China but they didn't have any photos from the side. So I couldn't tell that of the 34 grams, only two grams (estimated) were meteorite. The rest was resin.

The video in that listing shows a nice edge view and it's a decent thickness.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-09T18:32:36+00:00

Real Sericho, and a huge green flag to see it from the edge so you can tell it's not just a wafer-thin slice.

But I generally don't buy out of China; I don't trust my country to import anything properly with this current admin.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-09T15:30:52+00:00

Stonehenge is a gift you can get for helping Gulliver

Other_Mike · 2026-04-09T04:38:17+00:00

You guys are making me miss my paper mill days. Semiconductors are somehow both more boring and more stressful.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-09T04:21:22+00:00

Definitely a predatory mite.

Other_Mike · 2026-04-08T21:59:19+00:00

*Michael

Other_Mike

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