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"An avid builder of contraptions"

Arts-and-crafts supervillain. science writer. vaguely woman-shaped creature. Grandota muy linda.

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Hobie loves me

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@johne he would love you back if he knew you

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@HackAWeek Well, Hobie at least. Lettuce tolerates me, and sometimes even likes me a bit, but I don't think she loves me

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wow free street lithium

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@realtime see if the sucking detection electronics still work!

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@realtime ha, nice

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I just saw a Buddhist monk, robes and all, wearing a Gucci bucket hat

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It sucks that basically every retailer is trying to compete with amazon now because when you search their websites for an item, you are presented with scads of things from drop shippers that the retailer may or may not actually carry.

Some of them let you filter that stuff out easily, but not all of them do.

If I'm searching the website of a brick-and-mortar retailer, it's because I want to go get the thing in person!

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@rose_alibi I heard an interview with an author on the radio earlier who went to work part time at target to write a book about what it's like to work retail.

She said the stores put up lots of help wanted banners to make customers think the lack of staff in the stores is because they can't hire anyone because no one wants to work, but they were actually never really hiring. they just keep bare bones staff and pretend they have no other option

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@FXBOY4EVA how

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@FXBOY4EVA i feel like that is already the system i am constantly dealing with

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@FXBOY4EVA youre not describing anything that is not already what i encounter all the time

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@azonenberg i remember when I could buy those on CD on the software aisle of my grocery store. Not anymore :/

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Like I need another bike project, right?

I picked this Huffy Sportsmen for $20 because it has a Sturmey Archer three-speed hub and I've been wanting to build a bike with only of these

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I will not be building this frame into anything because it is too small for me, but it is fun to look at how much huffy leaned into the English bicycle thing with this model. Even the brake pads have a British name

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@piggo Yea!

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@clayfoot I could, but I already have four rideable bikes. I really just wanted the hub and shifter. Plus it's a classic old frame. I would feel bad cutting it up

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@Stinkie "Our Guaranteed English decal has people asking a lot of questions already answered by our decal"

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@botvolution @Stinkie You always have. "England" is a Truman Show-type experiment by the American government. In the 1950s, the CIA and the Department of Housing and Human Development built a dome over 400 acres of farmland outside of Columbus and moved in 500 colonists who had been brainwashed to believe they lived on an ancient island near France.

Prevailing thought at the time was that colonists living under domes on the moon would go mad with the knowledge that they were separated from Earth. A group of Austrian psychologists suggested that this effect could be ameliorated by convincing the population that were still on Earth, simply living on an island.

The experiment was a runaway success, but it was never ended even after its research aims had been realized because Congress never appropriated funding for dealing with the now 10,000 people who thought they were "English."

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@InstantArcade I have a 10 speed bike and I use 3 or 4 speeds of the 10 at most.

I will have to investigate this chain issue! The hubs themselves are supposed to be super reliable

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@HackAWeek If I'm reading the right thing, mine is from 1963, which is pretty old!

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@VE2UWY

The Miyata (daily rider)
The cargo bike
The Vista Esquire
The e-bike
The BMX
This Huffy

So, six, between working bikes and bikes that are here for parts

I need to sell the Vista because I don't ride it at all. The BMX is just something I found across the street in the trash and that I will probably put back soon.

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@VE2UWY Too many! I think I should have three at most

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Concept: Opera-length Ove Gloves

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@NeadReport You have a future in the marketing department at the Heat Resistant Fabric Corporation of Waukegan, Illinois

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Ceramics class! I finished building two thematically related geometric mugs that will be gifts for a couple I'm friends with

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@misternineham I really like that one, too

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