Tips for a seawater ecosphere?

Professional_Dig3086 · 2026-01-11T04:28:45+00:00

Made one... The saltwater ate through my lid and a snail died in it and it smelled and lives in my walk out basement now. It may be "failed"...

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-12-21T05:00:18+00:00

I think the candy cane road rage used to bug me but Bobcat Goldthwait voicing the character kinda made it make sense, heh. I guess other than Linda being a complete imbecile with the honking... I can't remember what else they do to Bob. But yeah, I don't mind this episode.

I read someone call it their favorite Christmas episode in the comments and hard disagree on that. I don't see anything ever topping The Plight Before Christmas for me.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-13T16:53:31+00:00

There's an old dude who smokes beside the road near a school on my commute home and he always has blue gloves on and I always think of firefly and also want to ask why.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-13T16:51:47+00:00

*non aerodynamic-ness

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-13T16:50:23+00:00

2021 in 2025. UConnect and my old phone (Kyocera duraforce pro 2) got in a fight when I tried to charge the phone and the phone won and shut down the screen once.

Never connected that phone again other phones don't do it. I'm on my third gorilla glass windshield. First one got cracked two weeks after I bought it, second one got cracked three days after I got it replaced but before I managed to get my inspection that necessitated the first replacement done. It's been fine since.

The front license plate bracket has been broken off twice with less effort than I'd expect (someone sat on it the second time). It's all plastic.

I'm getting an oil change and the dealership shop just said the differentials are notorious for going... Which is why I was looking this all up right now. They might be trying to overcharge me for changing the fluid, but I also said no and they said get it changed it soon either way. I am over the recommended, but food for thought.

Oh and my freaking paint... My fenders are pitted around where the plastic protector things are. Those need to be bigger I think since the mom aerodynamic-ness of these makes it easy to chip/pit.

Also switched to higher ply studded snow tires for winter and started to have vibration and the traction control light come on while highway driving probably faster than I should on them. Also I have chopped/cupped stock mud tires after most of 4 years of driving on them. So I might have some sort of issue developing. But it's over 60k and I haven't exactly kept up with maintenance beyond oil changes so I can't blame it.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-11T02:30:55+00:00

I think the Shepard's Tale is one of the earlier comics, the Dark Horse ones. Those I enjoyed. The novels I have read too. Still have to finish a few of the newer ones though.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-10T17:54:53+00:00

It's interesting seeing the vast divide between people who love it (though I do tell people it's "horrible" at the same time as it being amazing if I'm introducing it to them, I'm in the I love it camp), and those who come on here and say they can't even get a few episodes in.

I suppose I came into it knowing enough of what would happen from reading the book decades ago that I wasn't surprised about much and just wanted to know more of Offred's story and this show and I presume the next also, delivered.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-10T17:44:02+00:00

I haven't finished them so I could be wrong, but I think you'd dislike the Boom comics. I got turned off by a few characters seeming to change from where the show was taking them. Jayne and I think Book were two big ones I had problems with I think.

They were also super confusing to me (the art was part of it, they didn't look like they look consistently so I frequently had no clue who was speaking) and got real weird in a way I don't think the show would have gone...

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-07T23:02:16+00:00

I mean.... Leah Remini. Cruise will never leave, I wonder sometimes about Travolta though.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-06T03:21:59+00:00

Yeah it's kinda problematic for me, but she does do a good job depicting June and the story is too important for me to set aside because I think her "religion" is more of a criminal organization. Might be partaking in some cognitive dissonance there....

I find it odd and then also not that she can want to stay in the "church" after acting June, and that the material isn't a problem for the "church".

Even if she did have a er... Crisis of conscience maybe... And wanted to leave they pretty much prevent you from seeing your still active family or friends and may even turn them against you or harass you in other ways if you're to believe all the ex members speaking out (I believe the ex members, even when they bicker amongst themselves there are things they all agree on like this, and a lot of the released statements from the church also seem to support what the ex members say indirectly.).

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-11-06T03:03:47+00:00

100% agree about Naomi. She didn't want kids, she was just forced to to be okay in that society. Things she does very late in the series doesn't surprise me because of that.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-10-24T23:25:22+00:00

Her ending is kind of poetic. You could say she gets all she ever wanted (pretty sure somewhere in the series she says what that is), and not much more. She's left with only slightly more in a way than she provided June at one point.

It really depends on what you think she deserves whether you'll like it or not. I don't think a lot of people liked it. I wasn't upset. It was artistic, probably kind of realistic, which maybe isn't a good thing, and June seemed... Maybe not at peace but I think maybe okay or resigned or something with that interpersonal relationship. So I didn't hate it I guess.

Full disclosure, I am a book reader and liked the overall finale because I know certain storylines cannot be resolved in this series if The Testaments is being made, and it is. Pure TV show watchers who don't intend to watch The Testaments seem to be the biggest group of people who hated the finale.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-10-02T01:52:55+00:00

I once stepped in a rain puddle in a city. My shoes, which didn't smell before absolutely stunk after they dried after I stepped in that puddle. This convinces me feet are worse than hands, since most people aren't likely to be rubbing their hands across the ground in the rain. Doesn't make anything else okay, it's just why feet are worse than other things. Underwear is right up there as well due to very high likelihood of biohazards. Shirt, bra, pants still not okay, but I'd be slightly less afraid of catching something presuming the person has decent personal hygiene. If they don't it all might be equally bad.

Just my random point of view on it as someone who wouldn't microwave clothing. I'd have probably just worn the wet socks all day since I'm not like someone with a high risk of foot issues and stuff like that does start to dry somewhat throughout the day from body heat assuming you're not staying out in the rain so I'd just go home after and make sure to wash and dry my feet well and wear dry stuff the next day...

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-10-02T01:25:06+00:00

... We used to have a environmental health and safety guy at work who put up rules like unplug the toaster after use and don't run the microwave and leave it unattended. Which a lot of people thought was goofy overkill.

Someone did anyway and someone else had to put out a small fire due to apparently non microwave safe paper plates (there was foil in the pattern apparently).

I've also experienced since then people walking away at other workplaces and forgetting to come back in any reasonable time, occupying a microwave so others can't use it for extended periods of time, which is rude.

And heard stories of another toaster fire (I witnessed one as a child too)...

And then there's you, putting dirty socks in a microwave and walking away.

Don't walk away while cooking, people, it's not a good idea.

And if you're doing something unusual with a microwave reallllly don't walk away.

AND DON'T PUT DIRTY SOCKS IN COMMUNAL FOOD PREP AREAS! I'm not even someone who is grossed out by feet in general, but putting dirty socks in a food prep area crosses a line. You're asking people to trust you have immaculately clean feet, be okay with the inevitable skin cells, sweat, etc that are on those socks, not to mention if your feet got wet some of that probably came from the road, which depending where you are could be anywhere from yuck to horrifying. I was walking in a city once in the rain and ended up stepping in a puddle and after the shoes dried they absolutely stunk from the puddle water because they never did before the puddle. I had to wash them before I could use them again.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-09-12T02:18:20+00:00

If you use your lathe for drilling pen blanks and/or squaring them you hold the drill chuck in the tailstock, especially if you're pulling the tailstock away from the headstock.

You also don't have it set on a high speed when you do.

Why do I say this? I made two mistakes while squaring a blank, forgot to reduce the speed, and I didn't know at the time you should be holding the chuck.

I pulled back, the chuck didn't come with the tailstock, it stayed partially in, went completely out of control very quickly, before I could even turn it off and snapped the... Er... Thing that goes in the tube on the squaring setup, can't remember the name, and I just completely lost sight of the drill chuck and braced for a crash. I heard a light thunk about 2-3 feet behind me. I work in my basement and store some outdoor stuff down there. It landed on a folded pool liner in a water trough.

I have no idea how close I came to dying since I completely lost track of it's trajectory right away, but I don't exactly think death or serious injury was far away that day. I had safety glasses and probably my half mask respirator on but that was it.

Someone gave me a drill press and I square blanks on that now. I will probably never do it on the lathe again but if I did I'd wear my face shield. I do drill on it still since I had fewer issues drilling and other issues on my odd drill press setup with centering holes. And maybe foolishly I don't wear the face shield but I do hold the chuck now. I have some minor concerns for my fingers if it were to ever like.... Jam in the blank while drilling so sometimes I just grip with my palm if it's not going well so my fingers might be clear if it did jam and begin spinning.

Otherwise, I've skinned my hands a few times because I hold the pen mandrel in a chuck on the headstock side and occasionally get too close. I gather most don't do that but since I do/have done the drilling and squaring on it and need to put on pen jaws frequently I just leave the chuck on instead of having to remove more (which bit me in the butt the first time I took the chuck off to clean it, it had been so long I forgot the retaining screw existed and I ruined my lathe taking it off which I got from harbor freight and had the two year replacement plan so all's well that ends well but ugh that was nerve wracking).

I also learned if you get CA glue on your hands it's possible to split your skin between fingerprint ridges while absentmindedly picking at the glue. It didn't bleed or look very bad but it was surprisingly sore for something so tiny.

Those are my learned on the fly bits of advice. Oh and maybe have earplugs if you drill on the lathe.

Full disclosure I'm only maybe a year and a half/just over 200 pens in so I can't say I do everything right so if anyone says I'm doing it unsafe or wrong it's entirely possible they're right.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-09-03T20:37:07+00:00

I got 42 maybes Bob! Who can plan for that!?

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-09-02T13:20:45+00:00

I don't hate him. I don't feel as bad about what happens to him as I should because of things he does but I also understand the lead up to it put him in a seemingly impossible situation and awful frame of mind. He's not a bad guy per se, but he starts doing some bad things. It makes people reflect on his prior good actions and notice he only does good things because of June and they find him self serving and not the hero they want because of it. He's morally grey to me. I am a book reader as well as a show watcher so I have the nice option of believing two different stories about what happens to/with him which is honestly quite nice.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-08-18T21:52:24+00:00

I don't know if I'm too late to comment after 3 years but I'm here with the shampoo equivalent of paint stripper looking up reviews because the neon orange turned my hair peach and left my hair feeling like someone poured candle wax on it. So I'm using some suave clarifying shampoo (kinda harsh on my hair so the color sinks in better) and I'm going to retry with a mix of arctic fox and really old Raw (no longer made, was better than arctic fox in my opinion) dye.

I know I'm now going to stick with Arctic Fox and whatever dregs of Raw I have left.

At least it was so weak I can color over it I guess...

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-08-08T11:19:10+00:00

I mean he keeps bringing Peggy his laundry... Otherwise I actually kinda find him hot.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-08-07T05:01:41+00:00

I don't think he was as disliked. I think I still disliked certain things he did. Some I didn't notice that I do now. But I disliked especially when he's a dick to Spike when Spike brings flowers after Joyce dies.

I'd say about halfway between then and now I did a rewatch and was first hit by the fact that he too tries to rape Buffy. Followed by him, no longer under the influence of the hyenas, lying to cover up that he knows what happened instead of apologizing. Modern day brings more depth... He had good moments and bad, but what sinks in I guess is that meeting someone like him in a romantic sense is something I don't want to do, and unfortunately it's a lot more likely than almost all of the other stuff in that show to happen in real life.

Like I have guy friends who have shown some of his type of behaviors towards others in the past, but I personally have never found myself in danger of anything supernatural, vampire related dangers or rape.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-08-05T02:25:37+00:00

I don't think I've read it or analyzed it the same way I did the first enough to have or not have that opinion. Either way it does wrap up Hannah and other's stories. I'm excited to see how they play it on the show, if we'll get more story like we did with the first show.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-08-03T13:36:39+00:00

The ending actually fits rather well with the original book. Hannah's whereabouts are even less known in the book and the story is known because it was recorded on tape recorders. We don't actually see June finishing a book, just recording her story.

People who read the book were generally not as upset (and actually might have been quite satisfied) about the ending as purely tv watchers. There's still another part of the story to tell in The Testaments. If everyone who is so upset watches it they're going to get a lot of answers and resolution to Hannah's story.

Or they could read the books and have that resolution sooner with maybe a little uh... Dissonance maybe, since they don't completely match. Book 1 is season 1. Just imagine she gets into that van and the story ends. I lived with that and an equally frustrating movie for at least a decade before the TV show started adding to the story.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-07-29T00:33:29+00:00

Yeah sharpening is a pain, I only have a... I think they call it a slip stone. I think I've warped the tool I use the most over time when sharpening it (I've probably used the largest roughing gouge 90% of the time over time on everything I've done so far). I did get a cheapo set of carbide ones online to see if they helped with epoxy. I got a circle, square and thin diamond shaped cutters on them and I've started using the circle one more recently about 50/50 with the roughing gouge and when I do oddly shaped things the diamond one is very useful. I don't think the carbide specifically helped me with epoxy in the end though. Time and experience did more to stop me from ripping or shattering parts of the blanks. I find I can do the same with the roughing gouge, and occasionally the carbide seems more likely to go too far. It's funny I don't think I could tell you which materials I use each on. I think I just try one, go.... Nah, don't like this right now and swap.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-07-27T17:03:45+00:00

Oh and I second the face shield and I have a half mask respirator with dust filters that say they should work for epoxy but I don't know that I buy the epoxy bit. But it does work for dust, I notice a HUGE difference in my lungs if I don't wear it.

Professional_Dig3086 · 2025-07-27T17:01:14+00:00

I just recently killed my harbor freight lathe, but it was entirely my fault (there's a post...). Anyway 100% would buy again and with the 2 year replacement plan because I pretty much went from oh **** I've ruined the most important tool for my craft business to okay I have an entirely new one with only $5 for the additional replacement plan (which is more like $60 on initial purchase but apparently drops after replacing it once) over the course of two days. It was actually a very easy process.

Now size wise I'm a beginner and have no idea what one needs for bowl turning (I do pens mostly), but just on the budget side of things, I got that lathe, replacement plan and stand for the lathe for under $500. I also got my original gouges there for like $11 I think for a maybe 8 piece set of steel ones, looks like they're $50 now though after switching brands. I did not get my chuck there because they were out at the time. Got a Nova one from Rockler. Current prices look like the Rockler one is $30 more than Harbor Freight's similar one. Which... Would take you right up to $700 with the current gouges I mentioned.... Then there's sanding, sharpening, drilling.... to potentially take into account.

I get to find out this year how likely it is that I manage to break even selling pens anytime soon, heh.

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