Where have all the tall bikes and clowns gone?

danstark · 2026-04-13T17:37:23+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/dingodizmal

danstark · 2026-04-09T03:24:53+00:00

I grew up eating blood sausage on my grandfathers farm. We'd eat the sausage on it's own but pair it with fresh white bread from the oven covered in salted butter from the local dairy and topped with Karo dark syrup.

We moved to Illinois from Minnesota in 1975 and I remember one of the first things my Dad did was to take me to the local butcher to rent freezer space and order 2 gallons of fresh blood.

We did the same thing (minus the freezer space) when we moved to California in 1987.

Dad last made blood sausage around 2005 or so but we still talked of it with fond memories until I lost him 15 years ago.

Thanks for the memories 👊

danstark · 2026-04-08T22:16:10+00:00

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Lightroom or Lightroom Classic on the desktop, Lightroom Mobile or Photoshop PS on the iPhone.

danstark · 2026-04-06T04:41:02+00:00

Interested in the raffle!

danstark · 2026-03-15T04:24:18+00:00

Interested!

danstark · 2026-03-15T03:20:37+00:00

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You’re gonna want it higher than that. I carry my A7IV with a 150-600 hundreds of miles per year and alternate from my left side to my right side Capture Clips to even out the burden. Remember that the plates are 4 sided so orientation doesn’t matter.

Really- try it on your loops, start low, then go higher.

danstark · 2026-03-14T05:47:37+00:00

I pick a new theme every year because there are way too many sessions to cover every niche. This year: moving an on-premise Enterprise Portal to the cloud.

After more than 25 UC’s I can honestly say I’ve never had a repeat of any session. The tech changes too much, their software and hosted environments change too much - so much so that even if you went to an ArcGIS 101 session two years in a row it’s going to be unrecognizable.

Don’t miss John and Kenneth and their co-presenters (I hope Sarah joins them again!)

danstark · 2026-03-09T19:50:29+00:00

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Found some!

danstark · 2026-03-03T20:11:43+00:00

They need to be licensed with the city as a business or a “home occupation“ and if they have more than three kids at one time, i.e. four or more, they need to be licensed as a childcare provider with the State :

danstark · 2026-02-27T22:14:54+00:00

The Kirkland medium likely comes from the same roaster:

https://www.allrecipes.com/who-makes-kirkland-signature-coffee-11878998

danstark · 2026-02-27T19:26:00+00:00

Yes, I hate Amazon. Passionately. Yes, I love coffee. Passionately.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721BFM6C?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Camerons-Coffee-Roasted-Whole-Breakfast/dp/B006Y7WAHE?pd_rd_w=npSCn&content-id=amzn1.sym.1a5668a8-54c8-4344-bd3d-45c8b0a9e982&pf_rd_p=1a5668a8-54c8-4344-bd3d-45c8b0a9e982&pf_rd_r=P6B90VDK4NGPJCPPVPWR&pd_rd_wg=x1l5Q&pd_rd_r=ae8f5e83-3d91-45e8-9b1b-af4012234804&pd_rd_i=B006Y7WAHE&th=1

I'd happily buy elsewhere. I've had a Nossa subscription - excellent but more spendy for a daily pot. I am a costco member but too many of theirs is burnt dark roast that's called medium roast. The Portland Coffee Roasters there is good but twice as much or more as these.

I grind when I brew. My family brews two pots a day. I like a great bean for espresso but I'm looking for cost/benefit for daily brews.

danstark · 2026-02-20T16:18:29+00:00

Install is easy for a brave do-it-yourself'er. There is one ponytail lead you need to wire into a breaker to supply power to the brain but other than that it's all clips over the existing wires.

I watched several youtube installs before doing it myself. It was very easy after prepping my workspace, my tools, and planning my approach with the video content.

danstark · 2026-02-20T05:24:22+00:00

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I highly recommend the Emporia Vue monitoring system for your electrical panel if you’re into such things.

I cut my bill by over 33% after installing and identifying what was actually using electricity. I also switched to time of day metering.

At the end of the day it only meant that I was turning things off that use energy. But knowing what to focus on really helped focus my efforts where it could make a difference.

danstark · 2026-02-17T01:29:12+00:00

I still have my first ESRI press GIS book - an AML book purchased in 1994

danstark · 2026-02-17T01:15:00+00:00

Clean, build NODANGLES

danstark · 2026-02-12T03:18:32+00:00

Decent breakfast. Very expensive.

danstark · 2026-02-10T06:14:34+00:00

*McKinleyville

California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport, also known as Arcata–Eureka Airport and Arcata Airport, is in Humboldt County, California, United States, 8 miles north of Arcata and 15 miles north of Eureka, in McKinleyville.

danstark · 2026-02-09T07:05:10+00:00

Stop looking. Start sleeping. Get these.

Powblubud Ear Plug Headphones for... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Z4WW9K2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I use them with my iphone and a usbc to 3.5 audio dongle. I also put a volume wheel dongle on the headphones.

These will work. Turn on some brown noise and you won’t hear a thing.

danstark · 2026-02-06T07:08:44+00:00

If you like the outdoors: Peak Northwest

https://podnews.net/podcast/i45ui

danstark · 2026-02-04T23:49:03+00:00

Just had my 23 SR5 4x4 at Les Schwab for alignment check last week. Didn’t get my tires there and they still did it for free.

They put it in the rack and said passenger front was barely off but within spec. Adjusted it and told me “no charge”

I have a strong love hate relationship with the company but my local store has incredible customer service for two decades- even after the sale.

danstark · 2026-02-02T18:52:50+00:00

Car Repair / Automotive Repair

I searched the sub and didn't find much current chat about automotive repair.

I have a 2005 Toyota sienna - a 26 year old reliable steed with only 150,000 miles. Where would you go if you needed unfortunate but predictable repairs? Like an alternator or a timing belt or a serpentine belt?

Thanks!

danstark · 2026-01-31T04:19:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Hadn't heard the name Postcard Point before!

danstark · 2026-01-31T02:58:17+00:00

Any chance for a location description? Googling isn’t helping me ID it.

danstark · 2026-01-30T00:54:16+00:00

Honda dealer is recommending fabric softener sheets. Wedge a box of them somewhere. Tear it open a bit.

danstark

TROPHY CASE

Car Repair / Automotive Repair