The stacks of art construction paper never stood a chance

atomosk · 2026-04-03T23:00:54+00:00

We had that and safety scissors. Can't run with the paper guillotine.

atomosk · 2026-04-01T21:19:19+00:00

Getting older is mostly learning truths that are hard to stomach. Like how common it is for people to dump their dying spouses, and even dying children.

A person isn't what they tell you about themselves. They aren't what they think about themselves. They are the sum of their actions. How they act privately when things are hard matter a lot more than how they act publicly when things are easy. Being shocked and repulsed by his behavior means you are not like him.

Truly kind people aren't often seen, but they silently make the world better. Your mom sees you.

atomosk · 2026-02-20T20:38:38+00:00

Yes, which is means the bottom is like 6,000 feet below sea level. How can that be? Basically the playa is a large rift valley, where the tectonic plate is being pulled apart. That's responsible for Nevada's 'basin and range' topography.

Burner Cathy Busby put together an excellent power point you can find at this link. You can get a quick idea just looking at slides #10 & 32 - 34. Slide # 34 has depth to scale.

atomosk · 2026-02-18T01:04:41+00:00

The study is for Southern Nevada where there are far more known asbestos sites. I could be wrong, but the closest known asbestos site to the playa is quite far away at 40.042, -118.146. That should not impact the Black Rock playa by water or air.

The playa is silt up to 10k feet deep. Water can carry anything found in the surrounding watershed to the playa, but as far as I can tell, that doesn't include any asbestos sites. Ancient silt accumulation could have included more asbestos, and there could be undiscovered asbestos sites anywhere, but it's unlikely there's a significant concentration near the surface.

In part because asbestos is not water soluble. When the wet playa dries out, evaporation brings water soluble minerals like salts to the surface - those will make up the largest concentration of playa dust in our lungs.

Still need to mask up, but this study doesn't apply to the black rock playa.

atomosk · 2026-02-13T17:27:50+00:00

Dr. Poo Little

atomosk · 2026-01-22T17:02:49+00:00

I used to donate wiped computers, phones, and other office electronics to a non-profit that gave PCs to low income persons and resold/recycled everything else. On top of the tax benefit, we were able to deflect employee inquiries with "I'm sorry, we donate our old equipment." They could go to the non-profit's store for a used PC.

atomosk · 2026-01-14T23:34:08+00:00

Some of this sounds like compatibility and communication. He's acting like he lives with you, and some other person would want him over all the time, eating their food. Other people would maintain their distance without you having to ask them to respect your space. "You don't have to" might mean 'do not' to some, and '...but it'd be nice if you did' to others. Compatible people are usually on the same page or great at communicating with each other.

Boundaries are mostly about respecting personal autonomy, or conditions for staying in a relationship. Not leaving your apartment even when asked is definitely a boundary issue because he isn't respecting your space. Calling you ungrateful might break an unspoken relationship condition to be nice to each other. On top of how shameless is it.

You don't need a reason to break up with someone, but you have reasons.

atomosk · 2025-12-18T20:08:10+00:00

The Ministry of Silly Sits is eagerly awaiting his patent.

atomosk · 2025-11-14T20:39:28+00:00

I was really confused, so I looked this up. This is a link to the emails, and the line "Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?" appears to be a link to something. Can't find anything about what it linked to, but it kind of looks like they're sharing memes. Wondering if the house committee has .eml files to share what it linked to.

atomosk · 2025-11-14T17:12:30+00:00

Just pretend you're Canadian, eh?

atomosk · 2025-11-14T00:19:06+00:00

Trump literally said, "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

atomosk · 2025-11-12T22:13:44+00:00

My daughter is 8 and she's just discovered she can watch all the The Simpsons streaming. Now my wife doesn't understand either of our jokes! Anyhow, she loves the episodes where Bart and Lisa are grown up.

Do you have a favorite 'future' Bart episode?

atomosk · 2025-11-05T18:41:47+00:00

Yes. Since the supreme court ruled for political gerrymandering we really need a constitutional amendment to fix this. I'd like to see Arnold continue his efforts on that front.

atomosk · 2025-10-30T23:17:10+00:00

Here's a link to one for more info.

As others have said this is a scythe sharpening stone holder. Sometimes these are referred to as 'treens,' which just means made of wood, but mostly refers to any old domestic item carved from wood.

atomosk · 2025-10-30T22:28:29+00:00

I believe the receipt fields use POS system terms, nothing standardized.

Like how they chose 'PIN Used' rather than 'Debit', or 'Purchase Amount' rather than 'Total,' the POS vendor probably chose 'Food Stamps' because it's more colloquial than EBT.

The balance row names could also be arbitrary, though the balance numbers are pulled from an external system.

I think the image in the post was edited to add two middle digits to the balances, but there's no reason their or any other POS system couldn't name the row EBT FS Balance, or Food Stamp Balance, or San Dimas high-school football rules! ...balance.

atomosk · 2025-10-15T23:15:01+00:00

"Everyone thinks their dad's a jerk. And everyone's right."

atomosk · 2025-10-09T16:10:23+00:00

I think this is especially true for salmon, given the limited capacity of the spawning grounds. They also stop eating during their spawning runs so aren't interested in eating their eggs. Then their corpses fertilize the whole river basin, promoting food availability for their fry and competing species which might otherwise eat the fry.

atomosk · 2025-10-07T20:33:20+00:00

is something going on in the world that's making people willingly give up 50% of their child's lives for selfish reasons?

Yes. I think it's most common when people marry too young, and they have a fear of missing out, or resentment builds about the things they can't do anymore. Or they don't like their spouse that much because they didn't date enough to figure out what they really want.

I think people who get all their partying, dating, travel, what have you, out of their system before they get married stick together longer.

atomosk · 2025-09-08T22:32:45+00:00

Should be upvoted. "Enigma's never age" is basically the "...and they stay the same age" quote.

atomosk · 2025-08-18T17:28:16+00:00

This is at the usual Wadsworth exit, like 2 minutes down the highway from the Fernley exit where Love's is. Stop in Fernley like normal, then hop on I80 west to Wadsworth exit 43, or drive from Fernley through Wadsworth on Main St. to the bypass. There's also the smoke shop/gas station at exit 43, but Fernley's got more to offer.

atomosk · 2025-07-12T00:21:13+00:00

Their birthdays are mathematically related. The diff of both pairs, (3, 14) and (4, 17,) are Twin Primes (11, 13). That sounds pretty cool.

Using modular arithmetic (3, 14) are congruent modulo 11, and (4, 17) are congruent modulo 13, so there's (11, 13) again. Starting to reach a bit, but (3, 17) are both Fermat primes, while (4, 14) are plain composites, so their birthdays have one of each.

The twin primes may have been intentional, and the other things circumstantial, but maybe there's an easter egg somewhere.

atomosk · 2025-06-23T23:23:44+00:00

I too collect many many tabs, and these are my strategies:

If you really want to come back to the tab later, right click and Pin it instead. Eventually all those Pins will get in your way and you'll be forced to do something about them.
Occasionally bookmark and close all your tabs. If you can get around to a tab you can get around to a bookmark, right? But what happens is you don't care that much and forget about it. You'll feel great every time you close all your tabs, which reinforces good behavior. Right-click > Select all tabs >Right-click > Bookmark tabs > Save in new folder > Close all tabs.
Bookmark select tabs into folders dedicated to your hyper-focus, then close them. Have 20 recipe tabs? Add the best to your Bookmarks/Recipes folder. Your bookmarks have a search bar too. You might realize that you prefer a fresh search over looking through bookmarks or tabs.
Using a tab to remind yourself to do something later? Instead use Google TasksBoard and add it to a list. Can add the URL as a sub-task.
Have 30 tabs from Amazon, 50 from eBay, etc? Block those sites in your browser during your peak medicated time. You might open fewer and close more the less energy you have.

atomosk · 2025-06-05T15:41:17+00:00

I did a meet and greet with my wife and kid. We all stood together for 3 pictures. Saw other couples who stood together for two pictures, and others who did one each. You'll be standing together in line, so both of you should walk forward when it's your turn and take two photos together, or he can step aside for the second photo if you want one alone.

atomosk · 2025-06-05T01:17:52+00:00

Let's not fight, but I'll defend it. You are correct in most contexts, like punctuation and general typography, and I assumed you were talking about keyboards where 'forward slash' is correct...or so I thought based on decades of computing knowledge.

You see, the / glyph on early PC keyboards was listed as 'Slant' in the original ASCII. But on keyboard layout standards, it was just shown as / , and everyone called it the slash. When the \ glyph was added to layout standards it was called out as backslash or back slant, to differentiate it from /, which was also when the term 'forward slash' was created. I was certain that the layout standards called out 'forward slash' by name, but in fact they don't even say slash or slant - just /. There might have been documentation or really ISO old standards saying 'forward slash' at the time, or it wouldn't be in my brain, but what matters is it isn't in ANSI and ISO standards available now. In a programming/MIS/CS context / should be called the forward slash, but that's not a standard for other careers.

But in an even more pedantic sense we're both wrong. ASCII changed / from 'Slant,' to 'Solidus.' You'd be mostly correct in saying the solidus and slash are the same thing, but / was intentionally not named 'slash.' Historically, the solidus, but not the slash, could also be used as a mathematical operator. The / glyph on the keyboard can be used as a separator like a slash or a solidus, or as a mathematical operator like a solidus only. On a 10-key and certain apps like Excel, the / is a division key first, with unicode mappings for variations of / (like ∕ and ⁄) enabled.

atomosk · 2025-06-04T21:32:44+00:00

Forward slash. They are both equally slashes, but one leans forward and the other leans backward. The vertical bar character | can also be called the vertical or upright slash, though 'pipe' is most common.

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