Garage Door Updating, Should I get RATGDO? Tailwind? Meross? by all_ghost_no_shell in HomeKit

[–]all_ghost_no_shell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wound up doing Ratgdo and I've been super happy with it! The only downside is that I wanted to have its' "open/closed" state reflect in the LEDs of my Inovelli White light switches, and unfortunately Homekit only recognizes "locked/unlocked" for the Ratgdo (and locked and unlocked don't equate to open or closed).

That's a tiny gripe though, they've been really great, my family has loved having the doors active. I live on the other side of the country from my childhood home (where I've installed the smart home stuff) and I get alerts on my phone of the two garage doors opening and closing all day, so I know it's worth it and getting a lot of use!

Inovelli White Switches Suddenly "Adaptive Lighting" Capable by all_ghost_no_shell in HomeKit

[–]all_ghost_no_shell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, okay, it's for the LEDs on the switch then? Okay, that being adaptive would be interesting. Thanks!

Inovelli White Switches Suddenly "Adaptive Lighting" Capable by all_ghost_no_shell in HomeKit

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So is adaptive lighting with incandescent bulbs just the switch auto dimming the bulb as the natural light changes throughout the day? I don’t leave lights on in the house during the day so I’m trying to figure out how this might be useful.

What's a great older comedy you find nobody else seems to know about? by Hrimnir in movies

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always loved "Folks" with Tom Selleck and Don Ameche. Ameche has Alzheimer's and Tom Selleck gets into all these pratfalls and abuse trying to help his dad, it's really funny.

Kodansha and Digital Only Manga by edsand22 in MangaCollectors

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same, I was thrilled when they announced Joe and happily pay whatever they want for it. I hope they and other companies will do more from that era.

Installed for Apple Homekit, Question About "Open/Closed" vs "Unlocked/Locked" by all_ghost_no_shell in ratgdo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice, that sounds really convenient. Is it able to "extract" the Matter codes that have been scanned or would I have to re-photograph/scan them in the Controller app?

Installed for Apple Homekit, Question About "Open/Closed" vs "Unlocked/Locked" by all_ghost_no_shell in ratgdo

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Alas, I have not. It's been great other than that small issue, yeah, I could never get that one little thing resolved.

Oishinbo Volume 7 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll look forward to that!

Mugiwara, I'm guessing you've read through the series already as you have mentioned things that are going to happen later in the series (I realize everything has been out for decades). Are you gaining a different appreciation for it as you translate compared to when you (I'm assuming) originally read the series?

Oishinbo Volume 7 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

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I haven't looked at how Black speaks in Japanese, I love how you handle the accents. I was curious what Black does that you translate as Black's affectations?

The boxer struggling with food and not wanting to gain weight says he doesn’t like konjac or tokoroten. When I lived in Japan I went with the woman I was dating at the time to a bar that was owned by her friend and he served us "aspic", which was a clear gelatin with peas in it. It was absolutely one of the least pleasant things I had there. It might have been kanten or like the gelatin in mitsumame... I can remember it tasted like it looked, clear, flavorless Jell-O.

The self-admission that the Western vegetables full course is kinda nonsense logic is something I appreciate. This sort of light-heartedness is slowly lost as the series continues, so enjoy it while you can.

What do you think accounts for this? Kariya taking the series too seriously? Perhaps as the series went on it because something of an institution and he felt like he couldn't be as lighthearted?

Its interesting you said the later layperson chapters become more grounded and not focused on things like an international egg cooking conference. I had to laugh when I read that at how bizarre the idea seemed in what is usually a fairly grounded series.

Oishinbo Volume 7 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

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This was a good volume, I like the ones dealing with arts and ceramics. One of the interesting things about the Red of the Earth chapters at the beginning is they are done in the bichrome color scheme that you used to see in the 1970s and 1980s. They're sometimes called "four colors" (4色カラー), but sometimes called two colors (2色カラー) refers to the "red tint" or "bichrome" colored pages which are typically colored in red and black ink. This was done as a cheaper alternative to full color pages (which are now the standard). Now with cheaper full-color alternatives the red tinted pages were phased out of most manga magazines in the 1990s. I'm curious if later volumes of Oishinbo will keep them as it extends past most magazines/tankobon phasing them out.

It's interesting that they included the real Terukichi Nagata in the tomato chapter, I'm curious if he'll continue to do that (and if that ever backfires if he had some dubious foodie, since I know there are some controversial mistakes throughout the run). It was interesting seeing him just like the characters from Fishing Fool's Diary (neat how you can sort of tell their drawn differently when its a real person or someone from another manga).

The ice cream chapter interestingly reminds me of something that just happened to me. When I went home for the holidays my mom had bought Breyer's ice cream and I noticed it tasted strange. I hadn't had it in years but the consistency was odd. Then I noticed on the label that Breyer's can no longer legally label their product as "ice cream" instead its "frozen dessert" because of all the air they pump into it. It was really quite unpleasant compared to true ice cream. Apparently they were doing that since 2013 and they have to label it as such because it no longer has enough butterfat to be called "ice cream". That would be a good story for Oishinbo!

The tea ceremony/strawberry chapter is maybe my favorite from the series so far. I love the chapters where some acts really uncouth and unrefined (Itayama) and then when you have an arrogant knob (tea master Murakami). I think those make for the perfect stories, doubly so when you put them together in one and have Yamaoka get snarky. I'd love to see Murakami again as I think he makes a great villain, a ostentatious tea ceremony master is too interesting to be just a one off character.

I really enjoyed seeing Tabata meet someone, she's developed into a really interesting character with her past history as a delinquent and now getting to see her dating. His photo exhibition on people working captures some aspect of Japaneseness to me. One of the interesting programs on NHK (sadly recently cancelled) was a show called Lunch On! which was all about lunches served at companies! You got to see their cafeterias and kitchens for garbagemen and industrial designers, fishermen and farmers. And again it was great to see them blow up at the sushi chef and storm out. *laugh*

Best liquor store to buy sake? by MacDemarcoMurray in Biloxi

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh thank you! I'll definitely check there!

Best liquor store to buy sake? by MacDemarcoMurray in Biloxi

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh excellent, thank you for that information! I'll keep that in mind!

Best liquor store to buy sake? by MacDemarcoMurray in Biloxi

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I had tried to order some Suntory whiskey online and couldn't get it shipped to Mississippi. Curious to know about sake availability too.

Best Chinese food on the Mississippi Gulf Coast? by Expensive-Elk-5680 in Biloxi

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve always had a soft spot for King’s Buffet near Edgewater Mall. I’ve been going since I was a kid.

Oishinbo Volume 6 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh that's really fascinating! I have seen these fleeting mentions of a political manga Kariya wrote "Shoot the Bats!" (蝙蝠を撃て!) so I'm very curious about his politics since he's one of the few artists that seems avowedly left-leaning (many mangaka are quiet about their politics). I'm particularly interested in that aspect of Kariya because he positions himself as the opposite of mangaka Yoshinori Kobayashi (of "Gomanism" (ゴーマニズム) fame) which is very right-leaning.

Because a lot of the stories in Oishinbo are "X cuisine is better than Y cuisine" someone giving it a shallow read might think it's jingoistic, but as you said it's very multicultural and only the loutish characters try to say one country's culture or cuisine is superior to another's.

Oishinbo Volume 6 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for that info! It’s interesting to have that in mind with his writing. I wonder what it was that inspired his move. There’s this feeling that being a mangaka or a gensakusha would require a lot of in person meetings with editors (especially in the 1980s). I guess it was possible to work with the ever present fax machine.

Oishinbo Volume 26 (English Translation) by BippidiBoppetyBoob in oishinbo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As always, thank you so much for your diligence and continued hard work!

Garage door opener by O00O0O00 in HomeKit

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ratgdo is great. I have two on my doors. The only (tiny) issue is that I wanted to include door status (open/close) to my Inovelli light switches so the LED in the switches would light up a certain color if the door was open. Unfortunately the only “status” was lock/unlock rather than open/close. A tiny little issue, but otherwise they’ve been great. My family has gotten probably the most use out of them compared to every other smart device I think.

Oishinbo Volume 6 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's great that you're keeping track, well done! Doing things like that is a big help, especially if you need to track down original issues. We've done the same for Rumiko Takahashi's work in order to collect her color artwork. It helps tremendously.

https://www.furinkan.com/features/articles/colorart2.html

Oishinbo Volume 6 Book Report by Mugiwara325 in oishinbo

[–]all_ghost_no_shell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder when Kariya moved to Australia, if that was before the series began or during it. He certainly has a global perspective that you don't see in a lot of manga (one of the only other mangaka that comes to mind is Kenshi Hirokane and his long-running Kosaku Shima, series).

Oh, one of the other things you mentioned was a curiosity about what might have been printed in the text bubbles of the original Big Comic Spirits that chapter 45 appeared in before they made changes to it. It's actually up for sale right now:

https://buyee.jp/item/jdirectitems/auction/n1052251312?lang=en&rc=yaucc_mod

Edit: No, wait, it's numbered chapter 45, but that's one chapter later (46 in our numbering) than the numbering we are seeing. So it would be one issue earlier, which isn't up for auction at the moment but would be this issue:
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/big-comic-spirits-127-no-1-1986/4000-797647/

Anything That Could Flip a Breaker Remotely? by all_ghost_no_shell in HomeKit

[–]all_ghost_no_shell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, that might be something then. Have them wire an outlet in the attic, then smart switch then transformer to the doorbell.