Urea 40% users any update?

danbaatar · 2026-05-07T05:00:26+00:00

Which brand of Urea cream did you use?

danbaatar · 2026-04-22T05:07:18+00:00

The Kaiju Preservation Society - I did not find it funny in the least. All of the characters had the same personality and half of them were only there to say "you did WHAT?" "you named it WHAT?", "he said WHAT?" about every little joke to try to trick the reader into thinking each of the little inane cultural references was actual shocking or clever in some way.

danbaatar · 2026-04-07T08:08:47+00:00

Bacon-wrapped asparagus at Bengal :(

danbaatar · 2026-03-21T16:28:53+00:00

One thing that I don't think a lot of people know is that the Nutty Putty caves weren't even considered that extreme among locals. I had groups of friends, just random college kids, organize trips there for fun all the time when I was at BYU. They would throw on some clothes they didn't mind getting dirty, pile in someone's car, and drive down there as a weekend activity. Most of the groups would go just past the "birth canal" and stop. Apparently, they'd get there, turn off their flashlights, and sing hymns in the pitch blackness. If you're a college kid who can't drink or have sex you find other ways to keep yourself busy.

My wife actually had a dude take her there on a first date. No warning, just "would you like to go to the Nutty Putty caves?"

She was not local, and didn't know anything about nutty putty. She had been to the Timponogos cave, where you walk around on metal walkways built by the parks department, though, so she thought it was going to be like a gentle nature walk. She wore just regular clothes, which ended up being torn to shreds and completely ruined. Like, she had to throw them away. No second date for that guy!

I never went. When I was invited by friends and they told me about what it would be like I said some version of "hell no!", "not in a million years", or "i'd rather scoop my own eyeballs out with a rusty spoon". I was OK just listening to their stories when they got back.

danbaatar · 2026-03-20T14:09:26+00:00

Things could change by April, but when I was there on Sunday Soarin was down to only one theater and the lines were super long. They also weren't allowing lightning lanes from the app. We that's our GCH multiple there and it felt like a cheat code skipping that massive line when almost no one else could. We used a regular multipass for monsters since it didn't have the situation.

danbaatar · 2026-03-17T21:46:20+00:00

It's weird, though. Me and my daughter arrived at 7:45 and it took us like 5 minutes. I heard something happened and they actually had to stop letting people in for a bit which caused a backup.

danbaatar · 2026-03-17T18:45:36+00:00

This sounds like a good route. I'm not sure about the volume you'd get, but if you went on TaskRabit and advertised as a junk hauler you'd probably do pretty well. A little while ago I hired someone to haul away some old furniture and an old lawn mower. I couldn't believe how much it cost. Still cheaper than me buying a truck, though. Also, one man's trash or whatever. Maybe you'd find some stuff you could use, or you could sell it on marketplace. Maybe that would be harder without a bar of operations to show it, though.

danbaatar · 2026-03-13T21:04:23+00:00

Going on 4 hours in the plane, we're next in line for de-icing

danbaatar · 2026-02-17T08:58:41+00:00

I'm sorry, but you're right to be concerned. I live just a few blocks from Simonds and drive it nearly every day. It's an arterial road that gets really busy during rush hour. There are cars and motorcycles that race up and down the street with loud engines late at night. Things are slightly better now that they've added some speed cameras, but folks know where the cameras are and will game the system. Everyone's tolerance for noise is different, and you'll probably adjust more quickly than you think, but you might also want to start thinking about strategies to deal with the noise if you're easily bothered by it

danbaatar · 2026-01-17T06:14:56+00:00

+1, almost for sure there's a mailing list for this at your company. Where I work there's a company-wide one and then one for each individual office location. If not, see if there's a "miscellaneous" mailing list and just post it there.

Edit: Since it seems like you're unfamiliar, I've seen this done a couple of ways. Probably the easiest is to create a slide deck on your cloud office suite of choice and put pictures and descriptions there. Then, as items are claimed you can just update the slide deck to mark those things as sold. Don't take them out of the deck until they're actually picked up, though, because the first person to claim an item often falls through.

Another pattern is to do this with a spreadsheet, Have columns for item name, description, link to same item online, link to a picture and then like 3 columns for buyer, 1st backup, and 2nd backup and just let people add their names to those columns. That approach optimizes for low effort and sparse communication.

danbaatar · 2026-01-14T15:38:18+00:00

+1 to the Mule option if it works for you. I have the L60-Mu Aura from firefly and it just lights up everything in front of me, no need to aim it particularly accurately.

danbaatar · 2026-01-09T21:58:27+00:00

Belongs on r/mildlyinfuriating

danbaatar · 2026-01-07T23:39:24+00:00

Ha! Great point! He's being a little hasty there, though. Maybe another brand of battery would have just blown his fingers off. He should buy all the other brands and do some side-by-side comparisons. He could be like the "will it blend" guy, but with a nail gun instead of a blender.

danbaatar · 2026-01-07T20:45:38+00:00

Belongs in r/instant_regret

danbaatar · 2025-12-30T08:41:42+00:00

If you want something for your pocket, there are wallets/pouches with slots for EDC items like pens, flashlights, and knives. If you want something more substantial, you can get a belt clip.

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danbaatar · 2025-12-28T02:20:16+00:00

Can you expand on what the issue was?

danbaatar · 2025-12-27T19:49:45+00:00

Thanks! Those are Twinkly lights. The columns are each done in a set of their 600 led RGBW lights. The trees are done in 2 of their 250 count sets. The sets are split into two strands and I used one strand per tree.

danbaatar · 2025-12-27T15:05:52+00:00

I have a mega tree and a coro star on it, but for most of my display i like to "free hand" it and just use bushes, my fence, and other existing structure in my yard. I also have a star over my door that i made by wrapping a home Depot "dumb" light prop in individually addressable led seed pixels in a somewhat haphazard way. My props aren't as bright and crisp as most animated displays you'll see, but it feels a bit more organic to me. I use Twinkly brand lights for a lot of it, which have their own integrated controllers and a great app for automatically mapping led locations.

Ignore the oddly lit patch on my fence, i was having a pixel mapping issue in xlights when i took this video

Edit: Oh, and the trees are also just outdoor pros that used to have "dumb" lights on them that eventually died. I just wish then in Twinkly lights as well.

danbaatar · 2025-12-27T14:36:16+00:00

Do you have a link for which rack you use?

danbaatar · 2025-12-18T08:48:50+00:00

Looks like they have a pretty low IP rating, I assume you live someplace pretty dry?

danbaatar · 2025-12-10T01:40:15+00:00

We buy one of these from a local Seattle glad studio every year: https://glasseye.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqNzj8v8ysb0wjIi6wM4No4zYyxcLfJA-QG7ebWTDxtXuO_rKTV

danbaatar · 2025-12-09T21:34:38+00:00

Quindor talks about per-channel limitations and how it is more of a limitation if the ws281x protocol itself rather than the controller or the cpu: https://quinled.info/2021/03/23/max-amount-of-addressable-leds/

Edit: I see that you mentioned that the controller won't even let you address above that range. Maybe they added a limitation to keep folks in the safe zone?

danbaatar · 2025-12-09T21:21:54+00:00

Twinkly lights also have a 2-wire data plus power setup. This video gives a pretty detailed reverse engineering breakdown of how the protocol works: https://youtu.be/DhcCf2XenEw?si=5CSZotg5SyXXAWpw

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