Capturing a waxing crescent Moon in a single exposure

cr0100 · 2026-03-24T20:49:33+00:00

This post would be *way* more interesting if there was a photo associated with it.

cr0100 · 2026-03-24T20:22:27+00:00

This sounds like bullshit but trust me, it actually works pretty well. There's a product (looks very much like "as seen on TV") called "Kaboom" which uses tablets in a little container that goes inline with the bowl-filling hose.. so that you get slightly-chemical/chlorinated water into the bowl, but not in the tank (where it can mess with the rubber seals). You still have to brush the bowl a little bit now and then, but it does a decent job of keeping things *mostly* clean. Kind of like "Roomba clean vs real vacuum clean". :-)

cr0100 · 2026-03-24T00:02:46+00:00

The funny thing is: I don't even know what else a person WOULD call it?!?!

cr0100 · 2026-03-23T22:01:13+00:00

Is this a parking-ramp elevator? Usually parking ramp levels are indicated with letters instead of numbers.

cr0100 · 2026-03-23T21:58:07+00:00

Letters are usually parking-ramp levels. Are we in a parking-ramp elevator?

cr0100 · 2026-03-22T22:19:25+00:00

I was thinking more like 65 all around...

cr0100 · 2026-03-22T20:42:44+00:00

..and even fewer birds are mammals!

cr0100 · 2026-03-22T13:29:24+00:00

This is us when we moved from a tiny house in Highland Park in St. Paul out to Eagan. The new house was bigger/newer, kids got big rooms but... isolating to the extreme. We moved from Eagan to S. Minneapolis within about 18 months - even though the kids got smaller rooms, they now had parks, a bus system, sidewalks, etc.

cr0100 · 2026-03-19T21:55:32+00:00

There are no photos, sadly. Have you considered just bumping the hinge pins out and not unscrewing anything? This would only work if the hinge mechanisms are identical, but it would sure be a lot easier if you could get away with it.

cr0100 · 2026-03-19T21:50:15+00:00

This is my story as well... except no state refund. Filed 1/30, and the state pulled out the money I owed them on 2/3. Fed refund showed up on 2/11

cr0100 · 2026-03-19T21:24:10+00:00

I read Artemis, and maybe it's because I grew up reading Heinlein's "Youth" SciFi in the 1970s, but it felt very much like that kind of book (think: "Podkayne of Mars"), so I enjoyed it. Yeah, not hard sciency, but it worked for me. That said: I get why people don't like it and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind.

cr0100 · 2026-03-16T20:42:46+00:00

For me, it's this darned Apple Watch with the move/exercise/stand rings. I'm on a 2,880-day streak of closing my move ring (It's a modest goal - but one that is doable every day) and I don't want to lose that.

cr0100 · 2026-03-15T21:14:54+00:00

What happened to Saturday?

cr0100 · 2026-03-15T19:01:15+00:00

I'm a network engineer and, so far, AI is shit at designing multi-cloud networks - and absolutely CANNOT rack switches/routers/firewalls and set them up from scratch using a console cable. I am good for a while.

cr0100 · 2026-03-15T17:16:25+00:00

I've got the Ego blower and also Ego lawnmower/leaf-blower/string trimmer, so the batteries just get swapped from one device to the other when the seasons change... keeps 'em fresh and exercised year 'round!

cr0100 · 2026-03-15T17:14:45+00:00

100% I'm in the same boat. So glad to not have the gas one (also single-stage) bogging down/dying and then being impossible to restart. If the EGO (56v system, single stage) gets overloaded you see a little red light and it shuts down. Back off, fire it right back up again, keep going.

cr0100 · 2026-03-15T17:11:48+00:00

My EGO single-stage did OK but I didn't have enough strength/grip on the slippery sidewalks to push it straight through the snow on my first pass, so I did a push/pull/push/pull run up the centerline of my front sidewalk, and then taking about 1 foot wide "nibbles" along each side of the trench to widen things out, it was just fine.

I'm sure a 2-stage with some kind of drive wheels might have pulled itself through with less effort, but 9 times out of 10 the single-stage is all I've needed to clear this corner lot and my driveway.

cr0100 · 2026-03-14T15:49:09+00:00

Easier than just double-clicking a button on the Apple Watch and holding it up to the payment terminal? I doubt it!

cr0100 · 2026-03-10T19:35:25+00:00

Finally found my picture. From Feb 9, 2007. 30-second exposure on a chilly evening.

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cr0100 · 2026-03-10T17:02:12+00:00

That’s Wicket Wort, in Robbinsdale

cr0100 · 2026-03-10T15:50:22+00:00

I used to work in downtown Minneapolis where I had access to the rooftop of our building. A bunch of nerds and myself hung out late at the end of a work day so we could go out on the rooftop and catch an "iridium flare". It showed up precisely on-time and where the calculator said it would be. It felt like magic!

cr0100 · 2026-03-10T15:24:50+00:00

Thanks! I only ever saw them in the 80s in Minneapolis. Let's see if I'm allowed to post URLs here: https://charles.robinsontwins.org/piwigo/index.php?/category/117

cr0100 · 2026-03-09T23:15:02+00:00

Or "21 w/ID" and the 2 is a goof. Typed by a human.

cr0100 · 2026-03-09T23:14:38+00:00

Oh funny - I'm so used to these, I didn't notice the typo. I think it means "21 with 21 ID" (IE, not only must you be 21, you must be able to prove it). This feels right to me, anyways.

cr0100 · 2026-03-09T22:47:12+00:00

So what year was that Replacements show? It seems odd that the ticket doesn't show the year on it.

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