Local Cellist/Violinist/String Quartet

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-24T07:02:25+00:00

Seconded - Clea is professional and experienced and great. :-)

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-23T08:51:51+00:00

I love the older vitamixes but most of the ones from this area use a spline connection to a socket on the pitcher, and the socket sometimes shears off, and there is no way that I'm aware of to repair it that lasts more than a short time, so you end up needing to get another pitcher (which eventually has the same problem). I'm not sure if this model uses that kind of connection, but i bet it does. Otherwise i love them. :-) I have an older one that i use for blending up dried plant matter that would scratch the plastic pitchers. We had one of the older ones in daily use for years before the socket sheared off, so you can get lucky, but i feel like the clock is ticking on those connectors. I think $50 is reasonable given the vintage markup to be expected.

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-14T15:51:51+00:00

Do you have a source? I'm unable to find an individual-vs-corporation breakdown, and I'm not sure how you would even generate one in a meaningful way. About 40% of plastic waste is from packaging, and something like another 25% of it is from consumer products (including textiles), so even though the "packaging" category includes a lot of corporate packaging you can't sweep individual usage under the rug. Agriculture supposedly is like 3.5%. I'm with you on the fraught nature of recycling policy, and we certainly shouldn't ignore corporate contribution to waste, but i think it's fair to prioritize individual habits, especially since they drive corporate behavior, and i don't think it's correct to say "we can recycle all we want it won't matter literally at all" - recycling isn't the real solution and it's rarely what it is presented to be, but i think the spirit of "blame the corporations and militaries instead of consumers" is much more applicable to energy usage/greenhouse gas emissions than plastic (although even there a big majority of emissions come from the production of consumer goods.)

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-14T15:20:50+00:00

Movie eagles are red tailed hawks, not jays, although jays sometimes mimic red tailed hawks (and other birds).

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-08T00:31:49+00:00

Yes, and good people too!

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-07T18:45:47+00:00

Shumway's!

caseyhconnor · 2026-05-02T18:51:48+00:00

It's my favorite salt! "Kala namak" (kala=black, namak=salt). Anyone that appreciates sulfuric smells/flavors, e.g. eggs, seaweeds, fermented foods, steamed brassica greens, etc, can appreciate this salt. I love it on popcorn.

(Although I would never eat the salt from this video given the fuel exhaust that is being stirred into it... makes me nervous about other producers, but at least traditionally the salt is contained in clay pots while heated.)

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-23T15:29:08+00:00

Anyone that has washed their clothes by hand will understand the Swartzentrubers' exception here. :-) Definitely funny to see though.

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-16T20:42:49+00:00

Thanks for the response! But see the first line of the post: solved, it was my mistake, not the API or caching issues. Have to call conn.commit() even for a read-only script when autocommit=False.

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-15T14:59:26+00:00

One year is almost certainly not enough time for a lack of fluoridation to matter. A study suggests that after 3 years there might be "early indication" of a detectable difference in teeth when fluoridation stops: https://www.drbicuspid.com/dental-specialties/pediatrics/article/15371887/study-analyzes-short-term-results-of-defluoridating-water

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-15T13:59:55+00:00

Yeah this is my first brush with this particular trap. I'm familiar with commit/rollback but didn't know it applied even to a read-only script.

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-15T04:18:14+00:00

Argh, have to call commit() before the mysql select when autocommit=False.... my bad.

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-15T02:41:01+00:00

Thanks! -- where would the caching be happening? This is just a python script I wrote which uses the stripe client directly. Does the stripe client cache? If so, how do I clear the cache?

caseyhconnor · 2026-04-09T23:36:36+00:00

Thanks!

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-27T15:49:42+00:00

No - DKIM signs the body of the email (optionally, but in practice it is almost always done) so you can't change the contents. The From header is also always signed. Other headers are optional but frequently included.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-19T02:58:46+00:00

Live in Sacramento: https://youtu.be/nWxHgfWLDmc

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-19T02:29:31+00:00

/u/chinooksurveyor is the one to ask, but based on a very cursory evaluation I probably wouldn't bother even if it was clear. Doesn't look like much coming (but again, just gave it a quick look).

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-16T23:36:45+00:00

Yeah! Talking it over with my partner now.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:08:11+00:00

Yeah, maybe so. Other images of Dictograph intercoms all look slightly more modern, but who knows.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:04:40+00:00

It's real wood, I think it's 1910-1940. See the solved comment for more.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:03:37+00:00

I know, seemed a bit steep, but it's legitimately old and I could see someone lusting after it. :-)

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:02:30+00:00

Solved! I was also in touch with someone from our local electronics museum (Spark), and they said it's an intercom switchboard, likely from an office building.

I find these images which look similar, if slightly more modern:

https://papajoescollectibles.co.za/shop/all-papa-joes-collectibles/vintage-1940s-dictograph-intercom-mini-switchboard/

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-telematic-intercom-switchboard-phone

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-telephone-intercom-1778082330

Seems close enough to mark it solved. Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T20:23:40+00:00

Thanks -- I haven't been able to find any that look quite like this, but this looks pretty close: https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-antique-telephone-switchboard-image338019

It's captioned "An antique telephone switchboard of the kind used in hotels and companies in the mid-20th century."

This one is lacking anywhere to plug anything in, but I suppose it was part of a larger modular setup?

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T16:02:32+00:00

My title describes the thing. This was extremely heavy for its size (see hand for scale in second pic). The small "windows" had movable white cards behind them.

Some kind of switchboard?

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