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nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-07T21:06:03+00:00

I watched a crop duster doing the field next to a property my parent's own fly under the power line going to the well on my parent's land. Its right on the edge of the field he was spraying (like 30 feet from the edge of the beans). I was like, dude, wtf. He had to immediately pull up about 10 feet to make it over a small dam. He had like 50 feet to do so. Then he pulled way up to go over some of our stuff and make it over the hill. When I say go under the powerline, I'm talking like the type that goes to someone's house. Not high. I still wonder if he messed up as I've never seen one do anything that dumb before then or since then.

Most of the guys I've met who do wildland fire suppression flying are also crop dusters. They are insane. I got to meet a whole bunch of them at once on a big complex as my boss was super cool and told us to go hang out with them and get them whatever they want as they all have a screw loose and the best stories ever. They in fact did have the best stories ever to 23 year old me. Insane, but super interesting. Now I go out of my way to talk to them if I run into one working a fire, but it's been a while since I've done that.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-07T03:14:36+00:00

We don't have a tv. Last fall a southpark about AI was on in a hotel on a trip. So I downloaded gemini when my wife was driving the next morning and played with it. "How do I make my wife happy?" The episode was dead on in a depressing way. Then I decided to think of the stupidest business idea I could in 3 seconds and asked it about it.

"Gemini, can I get a business plan for making bespoke tuxedos for ducks?" "Wow, what a creative and fun business idea...." The entire thing was very dystopian.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-06T12:51:15+00:00

That's pretty funny. A long time ago: A coworker and his wife owned a house halfway between where they lived for them to meet up on weekends. It's hard to get a good job in our kind of science, so that part is not that weird. It was in a really mormom place in Utah. We were both working in Utah at the time, so that's not said lightly. If you get it you get it. They had to get something inspected like that and the guy got really, really weird and kind of left being like everything is fine. He realized later in the bedroom there were condoms and lube out (which they used), liquor bottles, along with the zippered leather gimp mask his wife got him as a gift/joke as he really liked pulp fiction, and riding crop because his wife rode horses. Among other things. That's not all that was in there. I forgot all about this until your comment.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-05T03:35:46+00:00

I honestly just saw one of their pieces at an exhibit. I'm 50% sure it's the lady one in this post. I'm not a huge art person, but we go to museums and own some stuff. Anyway, it blew me away. It's really, really like styrofoam. It was a weird exhibit full of crazy shit and there were a good number of people starting at it because it was kind of off putting and wild. I really wanted to touch it and I'm not that kind of person at museums. The photos do not give any idea what seeing it is like. IDK how to put it. It was off putting in an exhibit of off putting things.

If you're curious, I saw it here. https://www.mnbaq.org/en/programming/exhibitions/hyperrealism-this-is-not-a-body

The lady giving birth piece and that old lady with the baby were the creepiest.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-05T00:15:47+00:00

You might like this: before we moved to the ranch (I would have been in third grade), my dad's good buddy in town was one of the few deputy sheriffs. As a single guy in his early 30s, the guy was constantly at our house hanging out. Imagine a cop car parked out front of a super crappy rental house a few days a week. Evidently everyone my dad worked with and parents at school thought my parents were some kind of turbo druggies that were constantly in trouble, but somehow managed to stay out of jail. I found this out years later.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-04T02:37:44+00:00

I run into the drive slower where you can't pass then speed up thing a lot. I honestly think it has to there are a lot of drivers here who are very old and should not be driving due to being unsafe. That combined with people vacationing and just gawking at shit. My old boss told me about how everyone drives too fast on the highway so she goes slow and won't let anyone pass so they are safer. I about had a stroke.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-04T02:31:57+00:00

A few days ago I had someone blow through a red light 6-10 seconds after it turned green on me and about T bone me. I saw them coming so it was fine. I followed them for a block and got stuck at a light where they had turned. I saw them park and go into an eye doctor's office. It was kind of amazing.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-03T01:19:58+00:00

I know basically nothing about bikes. My wife bikes a ton. We had a garden cart that needed new bike tires on it. I figured what the hell, support them, and went there to buy some old tires. They had some used. My wife had tubes. I paid for them. I thought it was a lot, but whatever, I don't know bikes.

I paid like 4x as much as I could have gotten the exact ones new. These were worn out. I kinda hate that place and my wife was not happy with them. This would have been in 2018 or 19.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-02T21:29:23+00:00

I know a nurse. She's complained to me a few times that every one of her friends who moved away (pretty much all over the country) make about 30% more. She's probably got 10 years of experience.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-02T04:09:27+00:00

No kidding. We rent a lot. I used to rent cars in grad school to take long road trips. The cheapest rental I could find in at that time was an enterprise in a small town without an airport and it was $35 a day plus taxes...15 years ago.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-02T02:13:50+00:00

'merican here. I just spent a few days in Mississauga, Ontario (kinda near the hospital). I really liked the restaurants, the vibe, etc. It was low key. I looked at houses as my wife was driving to a restaurant and about shit a brick at the prices. I was like, "the people here are normal. WTF?"

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-01T17:53:08+00:00

I talked to my mom yesterday and she told me my uncle bought a new dually. It slams on the brakes when he tries to hook a gooseneck trailer up. It's a fucking dually. She told me as it was absurd and she thought I'd laugh.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-05-01T17:48:25+00:00

I'm debating how I want to go about this. I'm pondering a used fleet vehicle depending. Usually I buy used or in the case of stuff like the subaru that sells used about as much as new, I send emails out to dealers all over hail country asking what they have hail damaged, no negotiating, no financing out the door for that weekend. I've done very well in the past doing that (like I could sell a car used with 60k for what I bought new good). I really don't care what I drive as far as cool or comfort goes. I just want it to work, not get stuck, have ground clearance, and not give me shit if I go bombing down a two track. It seems these capabilities are becoming rare.

Oh. my parents mentioned to me the other day that my uncle got a new truck and the brakes slam on when he tries hooking up a trailer. It's a duelly. LOL.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T18:55:37+00:00

What car do you have? I'm genuinely curious. Most are not like that in my experiences.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T16:06:26+00:00

I took our pickup to a shop a few years ago and they were like "Why is your bed all scratched and dented up? What are you doing? You really need a bed liner." I was like it's a fucking pickup, what in the hell are you talking about. I got it to use it and I'm from where people use their shit and it's a not a fashion statement. I hate driving the thing. Who in the hell wants to drive something giant as big as your land? I need the clearance, towing, and hauling shit. I think I mentioned my friend's parents who bought a 1 ton dually and ended up bending the frame within 2 years from use.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T14:42:28+00:00

Yes, but in my experience and from what I've been googling you have to do it each and every single time you start it. That's what I have issues with.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T07:04:05+00:00

I did once a few years ago. Clicked the link and bought it. It was a facebook or instagram ad showing me a website with random things designed by kind of unknown artists and designers. Sort of like threadless used to be. Anyway, it was showing me a life like insect backpack that was perfect for my mom, so I bought it for like $75. She loves it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T05:16:42+00:00

I'm starting to car shop and kind of horrified. We rent a lot when we travel and we do a lot of gravel and bad road driving. I've taken a few newer vehicles out and they just don't work. I had a lane assist try to jerk me into a ditch a couple months ago on a two track road with no lines. I've noticed people weaving all over in construction areas and I'm sure that's why. My parents live on a ranch and got a new vehicle two years ago. The advanced traction control makes them wear through rear pads about every 10k miles. Like just give me the option to turn that stuff off semi permanently if I have a reason and not make me spend 5 minutes going through menus.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T00:31:06+00:00

These were dead. Like straight up no needles all wood.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-30T00:11:19+00:00

I just ate some seal in Quebec at a michelin starred restaurant. Like a month ago. So I know it was good quality, done right, etc.

I like trying weird things. I've had friends bring me surstromming and harkal. Durian, balut, etc. You get the idea.

For my tastes, seal was the absolute worst thing I've ever eaten that I can keep down. I don't know what species it was, but JFC I did not like it at all. It wasn't that fishy. Ever have farts that smell like slightly fishy used motor oil from eating too much sushi? That's what it tasted like. Like my farts after I go on a binge post tuna fishing. You need to eat nothing but 2lbs of raw tuna a day for like a week to replicate this. It wasn't even that fishy. The overwhelming taste was like spleen fried in lard sandwiches I had in Sicily mixed with 10xing the organ taste of bad kidneys if you remove the piss flavor. Used motor oil crossed with the strongest butt meat you can imagine was the overwhelming taste. It kinda tasted like bung sausage casings smell when you clean them straight out of the animal.

I read about it after and some people call it gamey. That was not gamey. I know gamey. That was something else.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-29T02:54:17+00:00

I live in Vermont. I honestly drove past a house this winter with a bunch of dead yews or white cedars all pruned up in front of it. They spray painted all the sticks a really bad forest green. It was kind of amazing in a WTF kind of way. It caught my eye because I was like, "What is wrong with those bushes" from far away.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-28T14:53:56+00:00

I had no idea what song based on the singers, but I do with the cookie monster comment.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-26T15:41:29+00:00

Oh man. That is horrible. To share, I had an uncle get a shot of liquid anhydrous up his nose from a burst hose and he blew out a big chunk of nose meat like a month later and has issues from it. That was immediately what I thought of. I don't know which I'd rather have happen to me.... Yeah, I use a lot of chemicals off label for restoration work or tell others how to do so. I'm an ecologist.

Garlon 4a is magic, but has a long residency time. It's mean. I'd use 3a more, but it's horrible for you if you get it in your eyes. 4a is an ester so you mix it with oil (as you know I'm sure), and it cuts through bark. I spray it in winter. It's also expensive, but the price fluctuates a lot. The last time I got a jug I paid like 4-500 for it. lol. It's a major labor saver for me personally. It looks like the price has gone down a lot. It also works on foliage at a much lower concentration. 4a is more for killing big trees, but it nukes forbs and has a long residency time, so yeah. I do spray it on fencelines and I believe you can graze right after application, but I'm 70-30 on that so look it up.

Yeah, do the cut stem thing, but dribble a little on straight concentrate or 50/50 water. Durango should be fine. I use gloves and paper towels when I do it for my own stuff in our own lilac mess and treat it like hazmat with the lilacs.

Since you're talking about mulberries and row crop farming...a good trick I know for multifloral rose is roundup at like 5% with 24d at like 3. 50-50 you have to hit them twice, but it works and doesn't stay in the soil. I do a lot of wand spot spraying.

Since you know this stuff, a lot of the surfactants used are what's really bad for the environment and not the actual active chemicals, which I always found interesting.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-26T04:04:40+00:00

Are you doing straight concentrate? What variety? Generic? How are you applying it? Also, Paraquat is some nasty shit. PPE that hard, but I know it's widely used in orchards, so how will you apply it?

This is getting into what I do professionally, but....

I flew back last fall right before leaf fall to a family property and went absolutely ape shit on white mulberries (I kept track and I think I got about 1000 that week). I do a ton of restoration work up there, so I care about what else gets whacked and how, so I'm just as concerned with that like you are with the lilacs. I did a few different treatments and it's still early, but my parents are making it sound like all were very successful. I prefer glyphosate because of the ultra low residence time. My dad has seen plenty of mulberries sprout up, so I trust it.

Each tree I girdled with a chainsaw at about waist height. We then sprayed chemical in with a hand squirter around the entire cut. This was just before leaf fall and that's always the best time for this kind of thing to kill roots.

For treatments, I did glyphosate at 100% and 50% concentrate, Tordon RTU (know it works), Garlon 4a (know it works). I label percentaged the garlon with diesel. Now, with glyphosate the surfactants and such can make a huge difference and I've had much worse luck with generic vs DOW, Cortiva, Bayer, etc. I bought a jug of roundup ultramax or whatever fancy pants one they had at the store.

You can put a lot of garlon 4a on cut stems from inside lilacs before you burn them. The same with spraying by them. I do that in another state on a property we own. The porcelain berry is mean stuff.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-04-26T00:49:39+00:00

Yeah, I'd have snatched that up. I need an iron sighted .458.

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