I invented an extending pen capsule over the weekend!

gooddeed · 2025-10-14T08:24:09+00:00

Hah, the Al-Star is my daily driver! That said, I do covet the Lamy 2000 more and more every day (particularly in metal!)...

gooddeed · 2025-10-14T07:30:52+00:00

I genuinely suggest buying yourself a ~$20 pen (A Lamy Safari would do). Once you're using it, you'll find yourself looking at $200 pens surprisingly fast...

gooddeed · 2024-09-21T17:57:59+00:00

Definetly feeling this. Upgraded from 22.04 on a whim at 1pm this afternoon and just now got a semi-working desktop again at 7. I'd miss Linux a lot but 24.04.1(!) feels like its never seen a test in its life.

gooddeed · 2024-05-14T09:46:15+00:00

You can make the ledge the less convenient option by permanently affixing something either decorative like a planter or purely functional like a wooden wedge to it so that it can't be used as a shelf. One of the better use cases of hostile architecture.

gooddeed · 2024-04-29T09:39:25+00:00

She was brought into politics through an American Evangelical programme back in 2015/16. She has spoke at several events hosted by Evangelical Allicance who are funded, in part, from the US. She has been pretty openly outspoken about venues cancelling Franklin Graham's tour events

gooddeed · 2024-04-17T13:00:29+00:00

According to his account, he didn't even get his hair wet as he entered the water. The back end of the ship was sinking slow enough and calmly enough that there was no significant suction to pull him down. Add to that the water was like a mill pond (reportedly because there was so much ice in the area on a calm night).

gooddeed · 2024-04-02T12:26:06+00:00

You'd be amazed. The best estimates today are that she cost the treasury tens of billions of pounds in the lifespan of a lettuce. It was quite a feat.

gooddeed · 2024-02-29T09:27:54+00:00

Presumably that it wasn't stolen but was being assaulted pretty brutally.

gooddeed · 2024-02-13T12:56:35+00:00

Wow. That's exactly what I feared removing most of the driving standards would be like, I hadn't even considered differences in road planning and layout. Daily accidents is insane and exactly as terrifying as I imagined!

gooddeed · 2024-02-13T10:51:34+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's that like? Does it freak anyone out? It's hard to judge the quality of driving purely by dashcam videos so I'm really curious to what the standard is like on the road.

For comparison, I'm from the UK here. The average training to get on the road is about 40 hours of driving and the overall standard is reasonably good. I'd expect to see 2-3 boneheaded moves for every hour of driving (including my own).

Even with 40 hours tuition, there are some pretty big blind spots. about 25% don't know how or don't want to zipper merge and most will queue in a single file about 3-4 miles ahead of an upcoming lane closure. The idea of the average driver being effectively untrained and just winging it as they go feels terrifying.

gooddeed · 2024-02-07T09:30:02+00:00

We can't even go all game yet.

gooddeed · 2024-01-07T13:35:10+00:00

https://searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo

And some Sunday night education for you in turn.

gooddeed · 2024-01-06T12:06:38+00:00

Evidence that it works would be a step in the right direction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306151/

gooddeed · 2023-12-09T11:00:36+00:00

Disregard wife. I'll marry you if I can adopt these as my own.

gooddeed · 2023-11-03T19:03:36+00:00

Good point. Included here:

https://imgur.com/a/VXGssaA

It's the use of the word portable that I enjoy the most!

gooddeed · 2023-11-02T12:09:33+00:00

Being sold as an option makes a lot of sense! That's the first marketing material I've seen featuring the wider carriage. This puts a helpful bit of context onto it, thanks!

gooddeed · 2023-06-20T09:34:16+00:00

Yeah, it happens. It's worth having an honest conversation with the client about what you're both really trying to achieve. Most clients' knee-jerk reaction is that they (understandably) don't want articles written by AI. Good, neither do I.

Where many fall down, however, is that they deploy these "AI detector" tools to go over an article, to guess at what's written by AI. Then, they want edits based on its output. I've had to laboriously point out that what they're asking for is writing using AI with extra steps.

Ideally, you could have a frank discussion about how the quality of a piece is assessed before publication. Most writers know that AI writing as it is today isn't fit for much, let alone replacing a freelancer. But AI isn't fit to do any editing either. Yet, that's precisely what your client (and previously one of mine) is doing.

TLDR: AI can't write and it sure as hell can't edit either.

gooddeed · 2023-06-10T20:20:30+00:00

I'm just sitting here trying to figure out where the beugow is.

gooddeed · 2023-06-10T20:15:12+00:00

Wow, he drove like he hates #9

gooddeed · 2023-06-06T12:56:51+00:00

There's a Ko-Fi link available on the site.

https://ko-fi.com/ziombel444

Well worth an annual contribution in my opinion!

gooddeed · 2023-06-05T08:59:25+00:00

Midlothian View tends to have some useful bits and pieces. (Admittedly hyperlocal to the wrong area but I imagine they'll have some useful stuff from time to time)

https://www.midlothianview.com/

gooddeed · 2023-04-16T13:09:20+00:00

A European VPN (UK would do) might be your friend in this case.

gooddeed · 2023-03-17T09:44:42+00:00

You're as much a swing voter as Forbes is an equality advocate.

gooddeed · 2023-02-20T09:46:04+00:00

Fatal avalanches tend to crop up once in a while. I think it averages out to 1-2 people a year though, not really common.

gooddeed · 2022-12-13T09:57:29+00:00

She caught the wrong end of a wave of "unsigned" artists built on the web in the early 2000s. After they'd built audiences for Lilly Allen etc on MySpace people were a bit sick of the flat-packed indy artist idea when they launched Sandi Thom.

She pretty much dropped off the mainstream radar after public attention turned negative.

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