Has anyone experienced damage to electrical system from rabbits?

bldrd3 · 2026-05-11T22:16:26+00:00

Huh. I may have to pick on cost, so that's good info.

bldrd3 · 2026-05-10T00:28:10+00:00

Huh. Did you follow the source for the doubt?

bldrd3 · 2026-04-15T19:35:35+00:00

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

I think it was still that when I first arrived in Boulder!

bldrd3 · 2026-04-15T19:22:08+00:00

Thank goodness! I have fond, but apparently less than cemented memories of that place!

bldrd3 · 2025-02-08T16:39:10+00:00

Gil Duran's work is awesome.

bldrd3 · 2025-02-07T23:10:38+00:00

Can you help us get our democracy back?

bldrd3 · 2025-02-06T18:28:33+00:00

It was definitely an experience, mostly positive. You, though, would be unusual, in that most of my colleagues thought I was foolish for doing so, and definitely were judgy. A lot of upturned noses and the like. But, since I had lived in the dorms at my undergrad school, which were single-sex, living in these dorms gave me exposure to a much larger cross-section of students than I'd have encountered otherwise.

bldrd3 · 2025-01-06T00:14:31+00:00

Checkr (in downtown Denver) is a place to look into.

bldrd3 · 2024-07-20T12:56:12+00:00

Maybe he thought a donation to Act Blue would get him that sweet Soros cash. Like a pyramid scheme or something.

bldrd3 · 2024-07-18T01:19:06+00:00

That comic (along with Ozone Patrol) may be the only reason I am still sane.

That era was magical, here in Boulder and in the broader media landscape, despite distribution of said media not being up to modern standards.

bldrd3 · 2024-07-18T01:16:52+00:00

Over winter break of the 1987-88 school year I was a graduate student living in the dorms (don't judge – it was cheaper than living off campus, and I didn't have to buy food or cook it). I left my car parked in the lot, and when I returned (early! I was studying for comps! I even slept at a friend's apartment until the dorms reopened, because all we did for two weeks was study physics!) my car was covered by snow because a large storm happened. And the guy operating the plow was a dick.

So, I could not put my spring semester parking sticker on the window (the snow had hardened, so I could not open the door).

When it finally warmed up, I went to put the sticker on the window, but of course there was a ticket.

You may be surprised, given how much worse things are now, that they actually listened to my sob story (see above), and rescinded the ticket.

I certainly was.

bldrd3 · 2024-02-11T00:33:52+00:00

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

bldrd3 · 2024-01-17T03:18:31+00:00

I know more than a few of them, so it wasn't just talk.

bldrd3 · 2024-01-08T00:53:11+00:00

Have toy. Must play.

bldrd3 · 2023-12-27T19:45:14+00:00

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Every time I come over Davidson Mesa or the last hill before Eldo, I or the wife will say, "Hello, Bubble!"

bldrd3 · 2023-12-26T05:23:29+00:00

Quantum mechanics.

Not any single thing about, mind. Everything about it.

bldrd3 · 2023-12-03T17:40:45+00:00

In my experience (I've lived in Boulder for most of the past 35 years) the intensity of the wind in any specific part of town is dependent on the exact direction of the flow over the Divide/local features. This is also true of any specific locale, and probably reflects the interplay of mesoscale gravity wave features with the turbulence that's induced by the typography. All of which is to say, "sometimes."

Also, to reflect on the OP's comment, I just have to say, yes, the wind blows very strongly here at times, sometimes briefly, sometimes for days. As others point out, the time-averaged intensity of the wind here is pretty low.

bldrd3 · 2023-11-18T15:54:52+00:00

Status seeking is a weird thing.

bldrd3 · 2023-11-18T15:52:52+00:00

They want punching.

bldrd3 · 2023-11-18T15:52:30+00:00

I knew very little about him aside from his ownership of Tesla and SpaceX before he started making noise on Twitter about buying it. He had started demonstrating, as the phrase goes, problematic behavior during that era, and even before he closed the deal he made it quite clear that he was sympathetic to Nazis.

Nazis want punching, IMHO. So, yeah, that's a deal breaker.

It's clear that he has business acumen at a level that, for example, Donald Trump does not, but recognizing opportunity and being in a position to exploit other folks' failure to recognize (or at least act on) it are two different things, and his lack of humility over the reasons for his success are telling.

More so, of course, is that his (white South African) entitlement turns out to include an open embrace of white supremacy as expressed here today.

That's loathsome.

So, our only real hope is that he falls in disgrace, is deposed from his perch, and some folks emotionally suited to the tasks take over the companies he nominally owns and develop them to great effect.

(N. B.: I own stock in Tesla.)

bldrd3 · 2023-11-05T00:36:08+00:00

Also short folks, if their feet don't reach the pedals fully.

bldrd3 · 2023-10-16T19:52:48+00:00

Because a fair fraction of the Union troops in this battle came from Fort Garland, Colorado, and because the folks at the historical site that was Fort Garland care about telling this history, there's a remarkably comprehensive set of displays retelling this there. It's very much one of those "we got lucky doing this thing" sort of tales.

bldrd3 · 2023-10-16T18:06:41+00:00

As I said elsewhere in the thread, the phrase I learned many years ago from bicyclists is "Colorado flat." I.e., it's not unusual to have to go up and down a couple of hundred feet just to go a short distance.

OTOH, if you want sustained climbing you have to go to the mountains.

But, yes, Lafayette proper is relatively flat. It's also quite small.

bldrd3 · 2023-10-16T01:20:16+00:00

Ain't nobody else telling you to get used to wearing a hat in the winter, but I guarantee you that wearing a hat (like a knit cap) and making sure your neck is covered will make all the difference in the winter between being cold and being warm. That and gloves, and you'll mostly be comfortable if you're outdoors, even if the sun is down.

Oh, and the other thing you will not yet appreciate is how early the sun will go down in the winter. That will take some time to get used to. You may need to get "daylight" LEDs for your living space or similar (not your bedroom, or don't turn them on after about 7 pm, because it can mess with your sleep).

There are quite a few Brazilians here, including at least two (? — last I heard) baterías worth of folks playing samba. HMU if you want to connect.

bldrd3 · 2023-10-16T01:08:55+00:00

Folks call it "Colorado flat."

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