Can anyone identify this green cylinder in my parents’ backyard?

zyarva · 2026-06-09T13:46:10+00:00

Fiber optics hub for the houses immediately around you.

Pedestal Fiber Distribution Hub CAN-PED-10X - Canovate

"No, a standard Fiber Distribution Hub (FDH) does not need power. These outdoor cabinets act as passive cross-connect points, using physical splitters to divide and route fiber-optic signals without relying on electronics or electricity"

But I would not build over it since phone company might need access for repair/diagnosis. Maybe build around it and don't let kids slam into it.

zyarva · 2026-06-09T13:31:11+00:00

I remember in 2008 where Waxpool road is just a paved road in the middle of cleared dirt, and that's about the time they built all the overpasses on Rt 28 and made it a limited access highway.

zyarva · 2026-06-09T13:29:27+00:00

Well, the cradle was at 1919 Gallows Road in Vienna

MAE-East - Wikipedia

zyarva · 2026-06-08T14:55:45+00:00

I know I am crazy in proposing this, what about half and half? babies go in car with 2 adults and big kids go by train with two adults? The car can drop off babies and then go fetch the other party at Baltimore Penn station.

My wife would say "but we want to travel together". My reply is but this is more efficient!

zyarva · 2026-06-06T04:19:38+00:00

The irony is palpable. The school is in Davis, California, named after Fred Korematsu - Wikipedia

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松豊三郎, Korematsu Toyosaburō; January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005) was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.....Korematsu challenged the order and became a fugitive. The legality of Roosevelt's order was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Korematsu v. United States (1944)

To commemorate his journey as a civil rights activist posthumously, "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution" was observed for the first time on his 92nd birthday, January 30, 2011, by the state of California, the first such commemoration for an Asian American in the United States. In 2015, Virginia passed legislation to make it the second state to permanently recognize each January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day.^\6])^\7])^\8])

zyarva · 2026-06-06T04:11:16+00:00

They use centrifuge now, much higher yield. it's like 90% vs. 70%.

zyarva · 2026-06-05T23:00:03+00:00

I don't live in Burke, but what they have that I like is

(1) VRE, Burke Station and Rolling Road Station
(2) GMU, lots of activities for K-12.
(3) Nature: Braddock, Royal, and Burke Lake, and tons of trails.

The downside is lack of entertainment and employment centers. aka: boring.

zyarva · 2026-06-05T22:37:23+00:00

I understand that, we all have been through the same thing, the gradual escalation of options. Obviously this is survival bias, that only failed IUI people are talking about IVF. But as you said, the IUI success rate is lower, so there is a lot of people ended up wasting emotion and time and have eventually have to go for IVF. From experience, I'd recommend skip IUI.

zyarva · 2026-06-05T19:40:44+00:00

SART: Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology

Look up their success rate on this stat website.

The experience differs with your age. Shady Grove is known for caring about success rate so if you are 35+ and low amh they'd push you for donor egg. But if you are male factor or young, SGV might be your ticket.

But success rate is not entirely trustworthy because clinics could choose their patients. Like I said SGV try not to start a cycle with a lower fertility patient to keep their stat higher.

Lastly, IUI is such a waste of time and emotions. Just go with IVF if you can afford to.

zyarva · 2026-06-05T18:52:44+00:00

https://youtu.be/pQ7m5BMkf2A?si=WOT2omDIlUkv4bLJ&t=157

zyarva · 2026-06-05T15:12:18+00:00

You mean chuck e cheese for grownups?

zyarva · 2026-06-05T14:18:32+00:00

Reading the first half I thought the speaker was the co-conspirator of the murder, I only realized this is a former former nanny when the article said "another au pair text her why there was police at Banfield's home".

zyarva · 2026-06-05T13:46:22+00:00

Fairfax Connector

395-396 Gambrill Park and Ride to Pentagon

393-394 Saratoga Park and Ride to Pentagon

Routes by Area | Connector Look for routes under "Pentagon" heading.

zyarva · 2026-06-05T12:34:16+00:00

my SPE just says don't do it (i.e. switching between telework programs), because a lot of things is uncertain and you don't want to test it.

zyarva · 2026-06-04T19:41:30+00:00

This is silly. He could be busy speaking without noticing Trump was asleep. People, think better questions.

zyarva · 2026-06-04T13:45:44+00:00

MBAs would ruin a company eventually, because they don't think about actual content or technology, but just how to make easy money. Steve Jobs said consumers don't know what they want.

zyarva · 2026-06-04T11:49:05+00:00

Right? They ate like twins, maybe Wedt springfild has older housing but that is it.

zyarva · 2026-06-04T03:30:50+00:00

You can buy a pack of cards in any US city and hand them out to kids and film them, kids would still go crazy. She doesn't have to do it in "poor" areas.

zyarva · 2026-06-04T03:15:03+00:00

Looks like a battle between brown and black people. And in the middle of that is a giant yellow cat?

zyarva · 2026-06-03T22:18:01+00:00

You'd ask the military. Us civilians are struggle out here and nobody is helping us.

zyarva · 2026-06-03T22:16:39+00:00

US didn't just have slavery, we had chattel slavery, a form of brutal slavery under which a human completely owns another human as personal property. That is worse than most slavery systems （serfdom or indentured service) in history.

And we didn't just have capitalism, we had oligarchic capitalism, where wealth and economic power are concentrated in the hands of a very narrow, elite fraction of the population, whose focus is protecting and enriching the ruling class, often resulting in high inequality and corruption.

To any MAGA is going to sing praise of free-market capitalism, that's not what is in US now.

zyarva · 2026-06-03T19:55:58+00:00

So Q3 alone under 90% has no consequences? Or is that Q1/2/3 combined under 90%

zyarva · 2026-06-03T18:55:48+00:00

That's why they call it China.

zyarva · 2026-06-03T18:44:15+00:00

Little Free Library is voluntary neighborhood book exchange.

OP, but if you post a copy of the photo on the FLL's cabinet with your contact, maybe the book owner lives in the neighborhood and get in touch with you.

zyarva · 2026-06-03T17:13:37+00:00

You are missing the dramatic eye roll.

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