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GeekAndDad

@GeekAndDad@mastodon.social

The Dad of GeekAndDad, Mac & iPhone programmer, Maker.

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Didn’t read but I sure hope SpaceX / Starlink company is paying for this and not us taxpayers… https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/112457475753592138

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Getting desperate to stop Birdbrain from molesting my truck (nearly two months now!).

Cardboard box and mirror trap on top of a blue truck.

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@schwa ACME Corp live bird trap for Birdbrain Robin that keeps attacking its reflection in my truck 🀬

Hanging mirror will hopefully get its impact, pull the fishing line that will pull out the stick and drop the weighted box down on top of it. Then I’ll drive it many miles away to a large park and release this menace.

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@schwa Hahaha

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    GeekAndDad,
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    @schwa Yah, your profile sums up the response to that.

    Nope.

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    @schwa Though, now that I think about it more, NaN seems apropos also :)

    GeekAndDad,
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    @schwa πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ€£

    GeekAndDad, to random
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    Uhg…. Not interested in made up answers. Why are they doing this? https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112433267752186185

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    Sorry for all the espresso posts lately! To those here for the coding, Swift, and Apple posts β€” I pinky-promise more are coming soon πŸ˜„

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    @simonbs I don’t drink coffee or espresso, but it’s still been fun to see your experiments :)

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    First time making an iced latte and decided to add a few pumps of salted caramel syrup. As you can probably tell from all my recent posts, I’m very much enjoying making espresso-based drinks πŸ˜„

    Espresso shot being poured into a glass with milk, ice, and syrup.

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    @simonbs πŸŽ‰

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    My boss got sick of me bringing in prints from home off my Bambu Lab printer and comparing them to our Enders so he said β€œFuck it!” and ordered two Bambu Lab printers for the office.

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    @rasterweb Winning!

    GeekAndDad, to random
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    Think I found my RV… πŸ˜‚

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    Woo hoo! My first feature (non project) article for @makemagazine about three amazing teachers who run maker spaces in their schools is in the latest issue of Make, and also live online now (no paywall):
    https://makezine.com/article/education/making-makers-building-makerspaces-in-k-12-parochial-schools/

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    @geekmomprojects Congratulations!

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    @schwa One priceless image away from it not mattering what you’ve spent…

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    @schwa Used to be able to buy film in 100 foot long rolls and refillable film cartridges and that cut the cost down a lot. If you want to go down that route, I’d be happy to mail you my bulk roller and the cartridges I have left. There’s likely even some amount of long-expired (30 years?) Kodak Tri-X in the bulk roller :)

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    @schwa Ha! Great point. I definitely take more photos with digital than I did with film - and I took a lot with film.

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    @schwa @Bluedonkey Actually not that much cheaper looking at B&H pricing. Β―_(ツ)_/Β―
    Used to be back in the late β€˜70s and early β€˜80s.

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    @schwa It’s definitely fun. I played around a lot in my dad’s darkroom and then the high school darkroom. Nikon FM camera and a cheap lens I bought in a pawn shop. Did a lot of senior yearbook photos and just a lot for fun.

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    @schwa Sounds great.

    The success rate is vastly different when shooting active subjects vs taking a β€œwalkabout” at the right time of day and paying attention to light and shadow and taking the time to compose one’s shot. For the former my dad used to figure one great shot per 36 exposure roll was doing well. Expected much better for the latter, unsurprisingly. :)

    Sounds like a fun and excellent endeavor!

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    Wonder why iPad Pro's get along w/ just 8GB of RAM? They don't run Electron apps.

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    @finestructure πŸ˜‚

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    @schwa Need to use every Foo

    Ninja Foo are amazing and not just β€œany” old Foo.

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    @schwa πŸ˜‚

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    Useful looking resource:

    Vintage Macintosh Repairs

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxfPY-Ebzlk3hIJja5dPy7O75ZzbB9YJp

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    @dxzdb Mac Classic whose case was reassembled incorrectly by someone and the floppy drive isn’t aligned with the a lot; it also needs the analog board recapped (motherboard already was by the guy I bought it from).

    And an SE/30 that’s been sitting in our basement for 10 years and in our barn before that for 10+ years. Solid chance it’s in really bad shape, unfortunately. Courage I need to muster to open it and face the reality, sad though it may be.

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    @schwa Ah, as I thought, rate of change of the curve. Very cool.

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    @schwa Thanks. That explains why I couldn’t figure out what it represented :)

    Thanks for the bezier info.

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