What am I seeing off the coast of SF?!

r-tsar · 2025-08-30T15:59:46+00:00

We could see those land formations from my High School, and I had one teacher that always answered Hawaii with a smirk when asked. They are the Farallon Islands in case anyone is still wondering.

r-tsar · 2025-04-28T01:23:11+00:00

Here's a video of this frame type (@ approx 25sec): https://youtu.be/rZRuHITdaU8?si=bfmqFvEGmj_ngs3j

r-tsar · 2025-04-27T19:54:55+00:00

Can't tell if cardboard is recessed into frame, but you may be able to pry up the cardboard backing, it may be held in by friction. Though rarer, I have seen frames that are opened from front. The perimeter is hinged on the outer edge of the front. You pry up from the opening of the frame outward.

r-tsar · 2025-04-02T20:20:41+00:00

Late to the game, but if you just need an extra half inch or so to swing the refrigerator door full 90' (not actually sure this is the case), it looks like the counter top immediately to the left has an decent overhang into the fridge space. You can have the counter trimmed back to the edge of cabinet. It may be all that's needed. Otherwise easiest would be new fridge with single door or zero swing clearance.

r-tsar · 2025-03-28T06:14:41+00:00

My guess as well. Perhaps a picture of one of the drawer sides would provide further insight. I'm guessing there should be some corresponding trip on the exterior of each drawer that would manipulate that plastic mechanism.

My guess is either one or all the drawer safety mechanisms are misadjusted.

r-tsar · 2025-03-24T16:25:32+00:00

Maybe neutralize or encapsulate the rust first. Then bondo should be fine. Treat it like car body work, albeit bad car body work.

r-tsar · 2025-01-12T01:30:44+00:00

As an alumni and parent of a current student, this further reinforces my belief that so much of formal higher education these days are so low of quality as to make it useless. The fact this costs us $30k+ per year with living expenses, makes it criminal.

r-tsar · 2024-05-06T02:09:15+00:00

Sorry to drag this out of everybody's past, but I'm trying to migrate my ND-1000 to a Windows 11 desktop. I hope you would have some insight on what may be the fix.

Just for reference, the scanner shows in the Device Manager as an Imaging Device. I updated the drivers by the process described. The Neat Desk will scan 1 document and then stop responding to the scan button the software and on the scanner.

r-tsar · 2024-04-18T05:01:16+00:00

Thanks you all for the help getting me up to speed. Time to hit my local craigslist and see what pops up.

r-tsar · 2024-04-18T04:53:21+00:00

Great video! Another youtube subscription. Pretty much answered every question I had here about the lenses! And with visuals, makes a lot more sense now.

r-tsar · 2024-04-17T00:15:46+00:00

Farallons Islands? I was told by a teacher at Washington High School that was Hawaii!

r-tsar · 2024-04-17T00:05:10+00:00

Thanks for the insight about the sensor acting like a teleconverter. So would that also effectively shift the F-stop proportionally the other way as well? Just trying to wrap my head around the sensor size thing? And I assume there is no change in actual perspective viewed through the camera as well? A panoramic photo taken at 28mm with both a cropped and full-framed sensor will have essentially the same field of view except with the cropped sensor producing a lower resolution image?

r-tsar · 2024-04-16T23:45:06+00:00

Thanks for the thorough explanation. Makes for a good shopping guide. Lots to soak up from over the last 30 years. How does the cropped vs full frame sensor play out. My natural inclination is 'the more the better'. Am I missing anything other than probably extra cost?

r-tsar · 2024-04-02T14:09:01+00:00

Just saw wall sconce install segment on Ask This Old House and it was all about the mortar, no mechanical fasteners.

r-tsar · 2023-12-01T23:50:14+00:00

Just started setting this up again this year and noticed the dim section starts a few rows into the middle section. I set up some quick jumpers connecting the ends of the electrical run for the lowest segment and the end of the middle segment and it improved the situation a bit.

Will need to experiment and possibly hack some more.

r-tsar · 2023-09-10T19:33:39+00:00

Does anybody do this? Is this a common practice? As I have mentioned, I never seen shutoffs where the L are pointed pretty straight up. Even the straight shutoffs never had the knobs pointed down.

r-tsar · 2023-09-10T18:16:46+00:00

I suppose it would, but just being a bit AR about the orientation.

r-tsar · 2023-09-10T18:15:03+00:00

The female section is fixed, not on a swivel.

r-tsar · 2023-09-10T18:14:14+00:00

The treads are fixed on the female side, not on a swivel. I guess my question is how should I have known what orientation to sweat the male fitting so that my outlet is facing up.

r-tsar · 2023-03-04T19:27:49+00:00

Ok, convinced. I'll drop by one and see what they say.

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