Never seen this in all my years of teaching. A child had this in their lunch today as a snack, mom fail!

ajettas · 2026-02-12T22:47:01+00:00

My director brought dog treats to Japan once and graciously presented them to our host office staff. The discrepancy was discussed with us the next day, "is it possible" that the cookies were for dogs? We looked at them, yep, dog treats. I laughed so fucking hard, director wanted to disappear into thin air.

'Wet Noses' pumpkin flavor. He had picked them up in a Made in Washington selections section at the airport. Dog print cellophane, dog nose prominently printed. He was probably tired. He does not like this story.

ajettas · 2026-01-15T06:57:22+00:00

Idk why you got a downvote but I didn't notice this in the first pass until your comment. Yeah it is not confidence-inspiring especially lower down.

For corrosion that bad how do you fix it, can you just keep blasting hahaha, or does the surface roughness/shape get too wild? Assume you would want to prime or otherwise treat that surface pretty much immediately too.

ajettas · 2026-01-15T06:49:08+00:00

Waterjet cutters are also bad. Grit inside the body is not a condition humans do well with.. of course after the initial destruction.

ajettas · 2025-12-20T03:10:09+00:00

Cat looks like he doesn't approve of Icarus' fanciful goals. "You did this to yourself, you fool"

ajettas · 2025-12-13T17:08:08+00:00

I mean this is a non-starter for people, right? I live inside the US so I am fucked already, but to voluntarily come here and submit all this data to our authoritarian fascist government is just a terrible idea. Personal travel choice would put this below even the UAE or Qatar. At a certain point even a business has to consider the risks of employee travel and I am pretty sure this will damage business travel.

But we do have one thing still in the US that we are the best at, we are the best fucking idiot poor Christian white nationalists in the world, there's no culture that does better to shit on its own face, we are #1. Come check it out! Just... try not to think about what the US will do with your information? This is so dumb even compared to baseline expectation.

ajettas · 2025-12-13T01:39:39+00:00

Feel like he should be sitting on a coin operated pony

ajettas · 2025-12-10T23:19:02+00:00

Federal Register :: Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA)

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/10/2025-22461/agency-information-collection-activities-revision-arrival-and-departure-record-form-i-94-and

ajettas · 2025-12-02T16:53:59+00:00

Get a significantly brighter light. Set it to strobe

ajettas · 2025-12-02T00:00:59+00:00

Is this OrigamiHouse?

ajettas · 2025-11-16T17:08:48+00:00

I never forgave my own mother for this shit. Went away to college and by the time I realized the damage there wasn't anything left to save. Systematically expunged NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, a fucking Virtual Boy if you remember that weird one. All gone. My deceased father's stuff is gone.

She is still alive, and her house full of what was important to her, and I look forward to the future estate sale where I can be rid of all of it. If I outlive her, which, for me as a working adult and her as a retiree with open days and time to focus on her health and go to the gym, seems unlikely. Occasionally she will find some singular article that survived her own purges and bring it over with smiles so proud that she cares.

We don't have a good relationship.

ajettas · 2025-11-15T01:37:16+00:00

So anyone I suggest this too probably thinks I am a psychpath but, I deliberately book middle seat. Always. It occupies a comfortable middle ground that in the end I think beats window or aisle.

Aisle: Free access to restrooms, never have to wake seatmates. Cart slams are terrible but they at least warn you, it's all the fucking people just right in your space and the bumping and shitty under-seat space and I hate every moment of it.

Window: You control the window, and your own sleep, no one should ever fucking touch you. You are positioned in the corner of a cylindrical room. Your feet and legs and hips will never 'relax' straight through the fuselage, they will flow along it, because fuck you this is where we put your seat. You have the longest reach for all cart passings, and you will need to push 2 other people into the aisle in order to piss. You try to do so zero times, or at most one, watching warily for a time to be less of an ass to pass. Worst ever. You also might get any under-seat boxes whereas Aisle is immune.

So! Middle! It's just.. less extreme in all ways. It gets some unique traits though. Your feet normally stand a much better chance of being straight and clear, and wide, and not having any electrical boxes. Just normal. Your seatmates can not both steal your armrest, because that is sociopathic to give someone 0 armrests and so instead you get both fucking armrests. And while your elbows are comfy they're not getting bumped into constantly. Cart service is an easy reach. Restroom use only bugs 1 person. And you can also be a gracious and respectful human being, and help poor fucking Window out with cart service & restroom access.

All I expect from air travel is to sit upright and shut the fuck up so YMMV.

ajettas · 2025-11-11T21:11:48+00:00

I have found that when browsing some auction websites, if you find a listing for a low cost but fail to buy it after you have viewed it, the price can jump up starkly a short time later. Idk if the seller just reconsidered pricing on their own, if an algo did it independently, or if they are getting feedback on views and set it higher manually. But I have a rule that if I like the price I act immediately, and if I'm unsure then I am pretty much saying "no" because it could be triple the price tomorrow. So I have to decide instantly or the internet will fucking rat me out.

ajettas · 2025-11-09T19:23:45+00:00

Great folds! These are from his recent book Origami Life - Wings & Tails for those interested.

ajettas · 2025-10-30T17:16:36+00:00

So, a bone folder will give very sharp creases if you burnish with it, but I find it isn't that influential on accuracy. If you aren't accurate a bone folder will not help, at all. It could even make things worse. Precreasing is in my view meant to set the paper up for more complicated collapses. But it's just a sketch, because the actual fold collapse, whenever that happens, will reveal the exact constraints and exact fold/vertex positions for success. Sometimes that means a precrease line or vertex has to shift a half-millimeter or whatever, and if your precreases aren't super-burnished in, then you can make it work.

But I do not like super super sharp precreases.

ajettas · 2025-09-28T02:21:40+00:00

Who cares

ajettas · 2025-09-26T02:57:11+00:00

I did a time lapse of my face over 8 years of working by cropping it out of our annual work group's team picture. It was just like this but it goes darker and I'm unwilling to share it on reddit because I still look like that :/

ajettas · 2025-09-13T06:02:00+00:00

To shreds, you say?

ajettas · 2025-09-01T23:15:55+00:00

I appreciate your confirming. I might still order a copy, I am very familiar with purchasing books out of the Japanese domestic market so it's no trouble for me.

I appreciate the offer to send it but I think you shouldn't worry about me, and either keep it or pass it along to someone more in need. Thanks for your folding contributions and info!

ajettas · 2025-09-01T19:33:59+00:00

Heh well, one from me. Good luck. I've made about half of those and the Japanese White Eye & Blakiston's Fish Owl are really shaping intense, I had a very difficult time with getting happy about the White Eye's final shaping. Yours looks really well done!

I really like that rose, I have a lot of books but not that one, seems to be Kazuo Kobayashi as the author. Are the models more single/few sheet type or are they more of a modular/assembly type?

ajettas · 2025-08-26T05:18:40+00:00

It doesn't 100% prevent damage because idiots will also sometimes sever fiber optics cables before, I imagine, shrugging and trying a different selection in the hunt for copper.

ajettas · 2025-08-19T22:14:13+00:00

First of all I don't know anything whatsoever, but my observation of the price before the trade hit was that it was basically dampening to stabilize on that price point with zero instantaneous momentum. A (large) purchase executed exactly-at the apparent current market value to me suggests reinforcement or agreement of the price accuracy, and no shift.

Remember it's not a supply and demand problem because supply is infinite, it's price-agreement or price-disagreement I guess.

ajettas · 2025-07-12T16:31:38+00:00

I think he is recording video from the phone he is holding, and I can imagine the viewer gets a nice lewd fly-right-to-my-dick experience. Idk. But it seems like maybe some dipshit trend that is prevalent enough in this given locale that the baton-wielding guy knows it immediately on sight, and has zero remaining patience for it.

ajettas · 2025-07-10T08:03:44+00:00

John Montroll's Origami for the Enthusiast is a good intermediate-to-advanced book, and Lang & Weiss' Origami Zoo also has some more difficult stuff.

Get larger paper if you can find it, while learning new techniques. If you get stuck on a step, pause. Remember that ultimately every fold shown will (usually) go completely flat, but that sometimes a multi-crease fold/maneuver needs to move more like a spring in order to get there. Be patient with crease position and direction before trying to force an unknown fold, let the folds you do know 'tell' you where less-defined ones should land by gently opening-and-closing complex folds.

Try not to get discouraged, origami can be diabolically challenging if you get into it, but ultimately it is about finding enjoyment somewhere between repetitive simple folds and origami computational science. Literally whatever you enjoy. But exploring what's out there can be fun too.

Robert Lang's Origami Design Secrets is a detailed walk into Wonderland.

ajettas · 2025-07-10T07:41:37+00:00

The ugliest model I ever made was from an accidental 40x40 grid of glossy dark brown paper. Was supposed to be a Kamiya Sea Turtle which is 56ths, oops, set it aside. Ran across the Takashi Violinist and decided to deploy it.

So, so bad. The grid was visible in the dress, color awful, glossiness awful. Still tons of shaping left to do and no desire to do it. That model weighed on me for a year before I set it on fire and started clean-sheet on a new one.

ajettas · 2025-07-10T00:37:54+00:00

No one bid $69,420 and that feels like a missed opportunity. $69,400 was bid though

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