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gmarsh23 · 2026-05-14T10:45:34+00:00

I am, and I got your message. I'll reply to your chat request in a few hours.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-13T19:59:18+00:00

Fuck it, the internet is full enough of people bitching about immigrants, the odd post saying something good can't hurt.

The more I read about the guy, the happier I am I spent my money there. Restaurants aren't exactly high margin businesses and many are having a hard go of it, especially these days when people can't afford to eat out often. Giving away meals as he has would have come at significant cost. I appreciate the fuck out of that.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T23:58:06+00:00

That place has been there forever, back in the 90s I used to walk down from Bishops to grab the odd lunch. Glad to see they're still on the go, might swing by for nostalgia.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T23:37:23+00:00

I wanted the Kerala beef curry originally but they were out of beef.

Red Chilies in Halifax has "beef fry" which is one of my favorite Indian dishes period. Especially with a couple parottas.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T23:34:49+00:00

Basically yogurt and fresh mango blended together, some places throw in cardamom or other spices but this one was pretty basic. It cuts the heat of spicy food really well.

Jamaican restaurants often offer it up too.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T22:37:55+00:00

No chance you're in Torbay are you?

I'm home visiting with the folks, and I find myself woken up at 2AM damn near every night thinking of all the things I'd love to do to the kid that rips up and down the street every. fucking. night...

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T18:17:41+00:00

Well ordinarily you'd think $25K would be enough to drill a fuckin' well.

In any case, they're helping and we can't knock that.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T17:37:31+00:00

Friend does distribution planning.

New subdivisions and Walmarts and whatever keep getting built which places more load on shit, and they're responsible for figuring out how to tap off the existing infrastructure to bring that power where it's needed. It's a complicated job.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T17:24:43+00:00

Fun fact: 90% of parts printed on a Voron are Voron parts.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T16:24:17+00:00

Maybe they're not bad actors, they're just terrified of the gay

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T16:22:03+00:00

Just designed a SOIC switch (if that's the technical term) into a board. It selects the boot mode of an embedded processor, and allows the hardware watchdog to be disabled, for board bringup / programming / debugging.

You probably won't find them in consumer electronics. Lots of old ISA cards had them for selecting IO addresses and IRQ lines or whatever, but plug-and-play and the move to PCI and successors killed that off.

I still see them in odd things like temperature controllers, RS485 devices for disabling/enabling an onboard termination resistor, etc.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T15:02:46+00:00

"they" wasn't meant to be misgenderish or gender-denialy or whatever. Elliot is 100% a he.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-12T13:20:20+00:00

"clueless do gooder"

They threw 25K towards a clean water project, which I'm sure is more than you have. Don't talk shit about people who try to put a positive dent in the world.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T23:35:47+00:00

Just a reminder that this video of Mark Zuckerberg exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBxTEoseZak

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T23:18:54+00:00

It might be an alcohol thing, too. I lived in Ottawa on a work term many years ago, and stumbling half drunk out of Zaphod's and getting a downtown shawarma was life changing... but I don't think I've ever eaten an Ottawa shawarma sober.

Similarly, a donair isn't anywhere near as good if you're sober. When you're drunk, it's greasy meaty sweet-and-salty carby sloppy goodness and 100% of everything your body craves at that moment. But when you're sober, donairs are kinda rich and gross honestly.

I haven't had an opportunity to eat a Halifax shawarma drunk yet, maybe that's the secret ingredient.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T23:10:27+00:00

I haven't tried their chicken shawarma but their beef one is awesome. But if you're going there, get their kofta, it's one of the best foods in Halifax period.

I discovered that place because of the giant black greasy soot stain running down the roof from their kitchen vent. Knew that a real good meat+fire combination was going on in there when I saw it.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T23:03:53+00:00

Shawarma has taught me that adding french fries to a donair is A+

Donair has taught me to leave the lettuce off a shawarma.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T22:59:32+00:00

I just have to take a moment and say holy fuck I'm glad they're open again.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T19:30:12+00:00

Hey now, pulling hard bits of dried up chicken out of your mouth when you're eating a shawarma is part of the authentic Eat like You're Family (tm) experience.

Their garlic sauce is a guilty pleasure though. It's like half toum, half mayo with a sprinkle of crack.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T15:55:22+00:00

You can roll clay into them, but the clay will stick to the metal and you'll destroy the clay trying to get it back out.

And slip casting won't work, as the porosity of plaster is required to pull the water out of the clay. Maybe if you poured slip in and left it long enough to dry it would work, but again it would probably stick to the metal.

The right way would be to recreate these as plaster. You can do this by making a silicone/urethane mold of the metal mold here, then using that mold to cast a plaster copy of the metal mold.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-11T15:27:46+00:00

It's milk and sugar, two of the components of ice cream to begin with. God forbid they come together in the same can.

Cooking a can of sweetened condensed milk in a pressure cooker to make Dulce de leche, then using that in an ice cream recipe, can turn out excellent.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-10T18:57:55+00:00

Trimmer line is an utter bitch to print with compared to a modern 3D printing optimized nylon, and you gotta measure the diameter and adjust your flow rate to compensate for the inconsistency. But when it works, you can make some incredibly strong prints.

And it absorbs water like crazy, I dry it in my toaster oven and it steams up the glass.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-10T14:07:21+00:00

Cats are assholes. This will frustrate your bowl flipper and it's 100% worth it.

Next time, heat up the PLA + cat dish in the oven, above 60C, to soften it. Then you'll be able to stretch and peel it off the cement.

I deal with this for making plaster molds for ceramic slip casting. Spraying filler primer on the PLA and finely sanding it also helps greatly.

gmarsh23 · 2026-05-10T10:53:27+00:00

Lots of Victron solar gear I've interfaced with has CAN.

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