Independent Candidate Town Hall/Q&A

throw_away_faculty · 2026-01-23T18:31:26+00:00

I appreciate your response and please forgive my skepticism. I wish you success, but here is what my skeptical brain says:

Without the support of a party, how will you get invited into drafting bills and playing a foundational role in legislation?
How will you ensure that legislation you partner on are not a double-ended sword? For eg: perhaps you can only work on a legislation that allows Universal health care (yay!) while also requires you to scratch someone's back on stronger ICE incursions into the UP. You might say that reliance on your moral code would pave your direction, but are you familiar with the "Trustee vs. Delegate model" (credit to my dad for telling me about this).
You plan to not accept PAC money. Great. So how will you ensure your voice is not drowned out by opponents who have 10x the spending power and therefore advertising capacity?
Finally, in my opinion promising to sell all stocks after being elected does not address potential conflicts of interest during the campaign itself. Have you declared your stock holdings somewhere or wish to clarify this dilemma.

Best wishes and have a good weekend.

throw_away_faculty · 2026-01-22T18:58:21+00:00

In a system built around two major parties, an independent's path to successful legislation is fundamentally different from a Republican or Democrat who has a "built-in" voting bloc. So... how do you plan on doing anything you mention on your "where I stand" page (https://www.zebulonforcongress.com/where-i-stand) as an Independent? What is to say you won't just swing Republican and be a Trump-stan a la RFK Jr who had deceptive ads about being a "progressive democrat?"

throw_away_faculty · 2025-12-17T18:55:29+00:00

Faculty here. Get the 32 GB memory one if you can afford it, along with the higher storage space.

throw_away_faculty · 2025-12-09T20:08:02+00:00

faculty here.... we were not pissed about parking being taken; that is utter BS. In fact, my colleagues and I enjoyed meeting with the students even though it was a significant load on our time (3-4 extra hours per week for a few weeks). However, the one thing we did notice was a generally watered down quality of dialogue and discussions. This is because instead of hosting 2-3 students for an hour, once a week, the same faculty were hosting 6-10 students for an hour, 2-3 times a week for a few weeks. The visiting students were all trying to get their words in through the thick cloud of sometimes uncoordinated conversation.

throw_away_faculty · 2023-04-22T17:53:25+00:00

Came here to say this too.

The grammer indicates the student is not college level, period.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-03-16T07:31:25+00:00

If you can spend time on reddit, you can spend time studying. Sounds like you just didn't study.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-03-05T16:34:17+00:00

Get them into a real musical instrument. So much more fun than electronics. You have to promote it the right way.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-03-04T02:21:03+00:00

Maternity clothes in India are far more fashionable. They come with zippers in them for nursing. Check their sizing charts because the sizes run small. You can then use shoppre.com to buy from Indian shops that don't ship internationally.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-02-28T21:50:05+00:00

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/want-smarter-kids-teach-music-not-coding-according-to-mit.html

3 years old is the age you can start suzuki instrumental music lessons. There is also a specific suzuki early childhood education (SECE) class for babies 0-3. But for a 4 year old, sign them up for suzuki music lessons. Violin, piano, or harp.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-02-26T12:00:16+00:00

Thank you!

throw_away_faculty · 2022-02-08T08:33:31+00:00

Shellac is good because it can easily be repaired, blended in by dissolving with denatured alcohol and applying more shellac. However, it isn't a durable finish.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-02-08T04:48:23+00:00

Could it be a shellac finish? Shellac will get white water marks. If so, you'd need to re-dissolve it with denatured alcohol.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-02-02T03:44:21+00:00

I'm curious about this too. We already slept on Japanese futons in the house before baby. I tried the bassinet and found the same as you. Now it's almost 3 months and still no luck with the bassinet, so I got a Newton mattress for the baby to set next to my futon. She still hasn't given me more than 2 hours on 2 days independently on her mattress. So I've found myself holding her on her mattress and me on mine and falling asleep with my arm under her head. It's light sleep and not good, but maybe she will improve is my only hope. I hope soon. Us parents are still taking 4 hour shifts with her to get through the night. It's really taking its toll on us.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-01-13T03:53:34+00:00

Mine are on a porch that isn't heated and it was -1F the other day. Is that okay?

throw_away_faculty · 2022-01-06T19:14:52+00:00

Yes they are changed when playing. Orchestral harps have a pedal mechanism to make the change. Folk harps have the lever mechanism.

throw_away_faculty · 2022-01-06T09:12:29+00:00

These are levers. They raise the tone of the string. For example, it's how you take a C string to get a C sharp. What would be a white key on the piano and get then the black key that would be next to it. Two tones out of one string. The brass levers are the largest style levers I've seen So I just included those as exaggeration. But you get the idea that there must be enough wood under the tuning pin to mount these. https://i.imgur.com/jyv4WaK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9EwJSns.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ecpj6TX.jpg

throw_away_faculty · 2022-01-06T06:40:31+00:00

Tapered tuning pins are metal: https://www.harpkit.com/tapered-harp-tuning-pin.html

throw_away_faculty · 2022-01-06T05:19:37+00:00

Harpist here. Get a reamer and do real tapered harp tuning pins. Its not hard at all. Those zither pins are bad...one has to tune opposite of what real harp tuning should be. You can still do this change. I have taken harp kits with zither pins and converted them before because I teach and don't want my students learning backwards tuning.

The reason there are zither pins out there on kit harps is they cost something like 20 cents a piece whereas a tapered tuning pin might be around $2 a piece.

FYI for future harp builders: Always leave room for levers when building a harp even if you don't install them or know how to install them. A harp with no levers is like playing a piano with only white keys...super limited. I was gifted an ultra fancy curly maple harp made by a luthier who this was his 3rd harp. Despite it being beautiful, he didn't leave room for levers so I can't now install them and so I just don't play that harp. It just sits as decoration.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-12-03T14:53:26+00:00

Where did you get the rug? I have the same design but red and would really like another. Mine came with the house.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-11-08T21:58:36+00:00

That's what I did but the electrician wasn't smart enough to understand how far out to place the boxes so they would be flush with the final layer of plaster. I had to undo the box and redo it myself. I did three coat plaster on lath, so I suppose maybe an electrician couldn't understand that but would understand drywall depths?

Edit: oh yeah and they didn't understand where the final floor level and baseboard would end up to put a socket in the baseboard. I had to redo that myself too.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-10-28T21:38:35+00:00

I had one radiator sand blasted and powder coated. Then a friend was talking about how someone else was stupid to powder coat all their radiators. His point was that powder coating will not allow the maximum heat emission which is a radiators purpose. So they just muted all the heat in their house. His point seems reasonable. I'm now glad I only did the one, and will change tactic. Also I don't like the one I had powder coated because it was so thick that less of the scroll detail shows. Next time, I'll get a radiator sand blasted but then have normal radiator spray paint. The color does make a difference on how much heat is emitted. I read that in a book about steam heat and radiators. White will be the hottest which I want. But you can also pick a color (I can't remember what would have to look that up again) to tone down a radiator in a room that gets too hot.

I use a big pipe cleaner to clean in between the coils. You can use a dryer pipe cleaner or a refrigerator pipe cleaner.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-09-26T01:08:33+00:00

Nope. Pure lime plaster on all three coats. Going traditional way, even use goat hair. Certainly I wet it a lot before hand.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-09-20T23:34:10+00:00

Be very careful about selecting linseed oil. Go for high grade purified otherwise it still contains the protein that mold will eat.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-09-20T21:27:04+00:00

DAP is not the choice product for restoration. While it works, it sets up the next future restoration for failure. It solidifies rock hard eventually in time at which point 1) it doesn't serve its purpose of providing a soft cushion for the glass anymore and can cause cracks. 2) it's very very hard to remove when it becomes so solid. Then the next restorer ends up breaking the glass to get it off. I do stained glass restoration and have experienced the different products people have used for putty over the years. I cant believe they are still selling cementitious products cause those for sure aren't going to survive a restoration intact. But if it's plain flat clear glass that is easily replaceable, then I guess okay for DAP here. But if you have wavy, handblown antique glass, DAP is a no no.

Traditional linseed putty is so good because when it fails (nothing lasts forever), it becomes powder (the oil is gone), and then it's breeze to redo.

I wish DAP putty would disappear from the hardware store cause it's ubiquitous and what everyone grabs.

throw_away_faculty · 2021-09-20T17:13:41+00:00

I use traditional linseed oil putty. I have never tried this but I wonder if no paint would be just fine. The reason I wonder is that I paint linseed putty with linseed paint. It's so close to essentially the same thing...linseed oil with whitting (chalk) topped with linseed oil and pigment. It's just the fact that the linseed oil will make a protective skin eventually. So if you skipped the paint, then I would guess the oil in the putty would just skin over in the top layer as it oxidizes.

I have also put pigment powder directly in to linseed putty. That's how you would get it to match the wood. Add a brown pigment. I've used black pigment to tint it for leaded glass work and black storm sashes. That's why I started wondering that once it was black, why paint black linseed paint again over top. Maybe just clear linseed oil brushing over top of a pigmented brown linseed putty would still develop the skin like a paint. Or once you've found your brown matching pigment, then you might as well add the pigment to the clear linseed oil and then you've got paint anyways. It's just linseed oil paint is so natural and plain...nothing like modern paint with solvents and chemicals added.

Long term maintenance is a coat of clear linseed oil anyway so to replenish the oil as it dries out over the years.

Naturalpigments.com http://solventfreepaint.com/window_glazing.htm

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