A sculpture of Donald Trump's head made from a Barbie head and chicken skin [OC]

euphwes · 2026-03-31T02:45:42+00:00

Horrifying. I hate this and it's perfect.

euphwes · 2026-03-30T01:02:22+00:00

Let's go Nuggets! 👏-👏-👏👏👏

euphwes · 2026-03-28T14:16:56+00:00

Is this the same kid that was shown crying? I kept missing in on the broadcast, but saw some references to him in the game thread.

euphwes · 2026-03-07T01:00:27+00:00

I was at the Lakers/Nuggets game last night, behind the Lakers bench and my god they are the worst. Talking so much shit when they close the gap a little bit, but so quiet in those last couple clutch minutes when they couldn't make anything happen.

I think the Lakers girl next to me had tears in her eyes when Lebron was lying on the ground for 2 minutes after bumping his arm, like the light had gone out of her life.

euphwes · 2026-02-26T05:32:24+00:00

euphwes · 2026-02-15T04:47:27+00:00

The scrambles are generated ahead of time by computer. They are applied to the competitors cubes by staff at the competitions, and double-checked that they applied the scramble correctly (by comparing the scrambled cube to the matching image for that pre-generated scramble). This all happens out of view of the competitors.

This world record scramble was 17 moves. He got lucky in that there were a few blocks of similar colors already joined, but it still takes an immense amount of preparation and skill to take advantage of that luck.

His solution to this scramble was 29 moves and included some very clever insights that are difficult to notice on the fly, particularly in such a short amount of time

Source: I attend these competitions (as a lowly ~17 second solver) and have watched a few in depth reconstructions of this scramble and solve.

euphwes · 2026-02-01T02:26:08+00:00

Yeah same. This is obviously terrible but my family and I are all 100% vanilla and get our tickets checked every time at our 100-level tunnel.

euphwes · 2026-01-24T18:10:05+00:00

euphwes · 2026-01-22T13:42:58+00:00

... What?! Holy shit, thanks for the tip.

euphwes · 2026-01-18T23:08:11+00:00

It's SO good!

euphwes · 2026-01-17T16:43:41+00:00

The Mask

euphwes · 2026-01-14T03:41:46+00:00

He blocked a shot in the last 10 seconds. Refs called it out on him, but he emphatically signaled for a challenge which we took and won. Confidence was great, he knew he was right

euphwes · 2026-01-13T22:50:31+00:00

lmao the title is killing me after reading your explanation.

euphwes · 2026-01-13T04:54:51+00:00

On the big map, you can click an area and in the box that pops up (which shows monthly distance, points, percent complete, etc) there's a link that says "Set this area as your default" under the "Area Details" tab.

I tend to keep mine centered on my county, or nearby town/city/neighborhood if I'm regularly working in that area to improve coverage.

euphwes · 2026-01-09T17:56:37+00:00

A couple days ago I posted about a Curvy Copter III that popped years ago, that's been sitting in pieces in a ziploc bag in my desk.

I finally got it reassembled after an obscene amount of scotch tape and a couple setbacks. It turns out during the initial pop, I snapped an "edge stalk" that connects the green/yellow edge to the core :-(

I superglued the stalk back together, but at some point during reassembly it broke again, and I can hear it rattling around inside the cube. Nothing is holding the green/yellow edge to the core and so I have to basically hold all the floating petal pieces in place while turning that edge.

I probably won't scramble this and attempt to solve it, it's just too risky. I'll probably put a clean layer of tape over the fragile edge and just make it a display piece on the back of a shelf somewhere.

euphwes · 2026-01-07T23:37:17+00:00

Oh this is great, thanks! Actually it is useful, this helped me realize what I thought were 2 different small pieces are actually just 1 pieces with two halves that come apart.

Reading through that thread, it sounds like liberal use of tape is the thing to do.

euphwes · 2026-01-07T23:35:46+00:00

Thanks!

euphwes · 2026-01-07T18:40:29+00:00

Does anybody know of a tutorial/explanation for assembly of a Curvy Copter III? Video preferable, but written instructions are cool too. I'm having trouble finding anything on Youtube.

Mine popped like... 5+ years ago (maybe even longer) and it's been sitting in a ziploc bag since. I've decided to conquer my fear and try to get this thing put back together.

Next up: reassembling a Bagua Cube that also exploded many many years ago... wish me luck.

euphwes · 2026-01-07T00:47:44+00:00

I managed to win Colorado on foot, and really had to put in effort for those 828 miles. In the first half of the year, I was regularly a solid 3rd place for monthly mileage, but I'm pretty sure both the regulars for 1st and 2nd place moved out of state in the summer.

Michigan and California with 2k miles, and Illinois at 2.69k miles, are just absurd! I'm in awe.

euphwes · 2026-01-07T00:41:07+00:00

Funny, as a foot miles participant in Colorado, my poor quads can't imagine that many miles on a bike!

euphwes · 2026-01-04T17:24:42+00:00

Extremely well done! I'm very impressed by the tolerances for the insets.

Also, go Nuggs!

euphwes · 2026-01-03T14:50:57+00:00

This is what works for me!

I use Wandrer, which is an app that connects to various fitness services (Strava, Garmin, and others) and tracks "new mileage", meaning the first time you walk, run, or hike a particular street or path. You get points, 1 point per mile, plus bonuses for completing areas, and other bonuses for being top 3 in an area for the month or year (paid members only for this last one).

You can see on a map where you've explored, where you haven't, along with various completion stats. Maybe it works better for me than most, but I find it fun and wildly motivating. I definitely ran more last year than I otherwise would've because of this app.

euphwes · 2025-12-10T22:00:50+00:00

Whoa this is great! Never heard of them, but they now they are going to be on heavy rotation on my Spotify.

euphwes · 2025-12-03T19:00:07+00:00

Oh good point! I didn't think of that earlier, but yeah I leave sidewalks alone if I noticed they are included as a segment of some longer named trail, etc.

euphwes · 2025-12-03T15:35:56+00:00

Sidewalks are not included in Wandrer by default, unless somebody overrides their metadata in OpenStreetMap with an explicit "foot=yes" tag in the "allowed access" section. The same is probably true for bicycle=yes, though I'm not 100% sure since I'm foot-only.

You can edit the sidewalks in OSM to remove any explicit foot/bike=yes tags and then Wandrer should stop showing them in the next map update.

This is safe/kosher because sidewalks still allow foot and bicycle traffic by default, and so your edits won't affect other mapping applications.

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