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10444 pts · June 1, 2014


It was wild and wooly so I wanted the video to be as true-to-life as possible ;)

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The original is 4K and I had to reduce it to HD and turn down the bitrate to get it to fit in a 200MB file for Imgur to accept the upload

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just read it on the Substack link OP provided as it's much easier to read there

2 weeks ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 2

*50yr old bandsaw

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It's on our side of the solar system, behind and above me on the left side as I took this photo. The moon will be very close to it in the sky on Feb 26

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Yep. Uranus and Neptune are also in the above pic, but are far too dim to see without binoculars (and even then, not until it got a lot darker)

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She was 43 in that photo :)

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Except that comic is from 3 years ago. HC came out in 1976, 7 years after 1969. Today, they wouldn't have had that spirit here since 2019

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I've seen plenty of turkeys in the East Bay and down in Big Sur, but lots of quail (and few, if any turkeys) across the bay on the SF peninsula and even down at Pinnacles Nat'l Park

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The dashcam's clock is still set to DST, so we drove past at 4:50 yesterday. It took another 3 hours to fully reopen the westbound lanes

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

or Imgur

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes, it's a redwood forest preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco and east of Half Moon Bay

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You're right about the general direction, but the celestial pole is well up above the horizon so they're at the mid-southern latitudes, like 30-40° S. So somewhere in South America, Australia, New Zealand or southern Africa

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This was shot in the southern hemisphere looking to the south. The sky rotates clockwise around the south celestial pole, opposite from the counter-clockwise direction those of us in the northern hemisphere are used to seeing around Polaris

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure that part of the illusion is caused by a change in the colors rotating around the disks. Take a look at the clip with a grid overlaid, and you can see that the disks never move or change shape

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah I couldn't do it. I had to stop for a couple minutes and throw my water bottle to her on the other side before I had the courage to even try!

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I dunno. Only a male pewee has the triangular plumage on his head and the female lacks it, but maybe so do juveniles. Since they're the same size, it seems like it's a M feeding a F

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The app is Strava and I use it with my Fitbit Sense

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

17.3 second delay, so more like 3.6 miles or 5.8km

10 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I've served 4 times, and the on last trial (2 months ago) I was the foreman. That was also my longest trial, as it lasted 3 weeks with another 5 days of deliberation

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This not-very-smart person connected one side of their new LED light strip directly to the battery (which is fine), then jammed the other end into the fuse box, but didn't bother to put the fuse in the circuit. When something went wrong with the lights, there was no over-current protection and everything caught on fire. TL;DR Always connect a device to the load side of a fuse; never connect any accessory directly to both sides of a car battery

10 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Yeah, no restrictions at all but the visitor center was still closed "for the winter"

10 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's сука (suka)

11 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

#25 is heartbreaking

11 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes, you're right, and I didn't phrase that comment very well

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