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jerzone

@jerzone@techhub.social

Mt biker, hiker, trail runner, programmer who likes mapping, electronics, tinkering, photography, 3d printing, and slowly learning CAD.
NH, USA
Profile is older b&w dog with head sticking out from under bright blanket.
Header image of black cat peaking out from dark blue blanket.
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sundogplanets, to random
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There were a whole lot of things I was supposed to do today with both farm things and space junk things. But instead, we got a new livestock guardian puppy.

She's already getting along really well with our other LGD, though all the goat mamas seem pretty convinced she is a small bear and will need some time to come to trust her...

jerzone,
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@sundogplanets smol bear! “;^)

jerzone, to animals
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Day two of walking cats. More grass to eat/upchuck later, more adventure, and the other brother got a turn (last two photos). Everyone survived: no chipmunks, chickens, or cardinals were harmed.

Cat jumped up on aging chicken coop for some reason. We’re trying to keep it together long enough for the last chicken so it’s pretty scruffy and worn
Portrait of the other brother in grass and dandelions just having heard something and being on guard
Other brother climbed the big boulder by our little pond, surveying where to go next.

mack505, to random
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Second visit to the vet, this time our PCP. (PCV?) Treatment is more aggressive, but he gives a good prognosis. Hydration, B12, appetite stimulants.

The Mrs says she fought the feeding this afternoon, which is good.

jerzone,
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@mack505 good luck, hope it goes well!

jerzone, to MountainBiking
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Family ride on back roads of NH this morning. It’s the kind of area where any opening with elevation provides a new perspective of Mt Ascutney.

Wife coming down remote gravel road on her ebike
Telephone/power pole with old nailed in numbers and plaques

jerzone, to newhampshire
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https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/new-hampshire/mount-morgan-and-mount-percival-trail

teen crawling down through a narrow passage in giant boulders
old, wooden ladder view from above, attached to rock face on trail, down below a teen is navigating up to the ladder
A couple boys resting on granite slabs at top of trail overlooking the valleys below. Squam lake can be seen winding through the hills and valleys and trees more water features way off in the distance might be Lake Winnipesaukee

jerzone, to animals
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Found a harness and took one of the indoor cats out for his first “walk”. Mostly he just wanted to eat grass and check out the bird feeder up close.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Portrait of black cat vigorously gnawing grasses

szescstopni, to random
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It's raining at last. I had to take one gateway down and put it under the roof.

jerzone,
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@szescstopni Barbie-gate?

jerzone, to random
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Undulations

Light green inch worm moving along edge of table by seemingly sending a ripple from one end of body to other

jerzone, to random
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Wife and I were out for anniversary dinner last night and saw a guy in a t-shirt with something like, “the first 70 years of childhood are the toughest.”

jerzone, (edited ) to random
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I think the LED connector is just a SIM card slot? More solid than most connections for light strips.

jerzone,
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Review:

Battery powered vs. alway plugged in:
For our kitchen it adds an extra hassle of suddenly not working and needing to be charged. For somewhere without any power options that you don't use frequently it would be a nice option.

Motion vs. on/off switch:
This is something that sounds ideal, but is fussy and erratic in practice. It may or may not turn on, and when it does turn on there’s only 3 options for how long it stays on (15, 60, 120 seconds), none of which typically match what you want. Part of this is to conserve battery, but also how would you signal turning it off? Using motion to turn off would mean false triggers and more frustration.

That being said it’s easy to remove battery and run off USB power, could also wire a remote on/off switch. That or jettison the whole board (use for somewhere that makes more sense) and wire the lights up like the other string with simple usb power and switch.

jerzone, to random
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Troubleshooting battery powered LED lights that quit working after a few weeks. No charge LED and measuring where the USB’s 5vdc is being lost I realize there isn't any at all, even at the jack. Remembering some of the usb-c spec, I try an A to C cable with old USB A power cube and the device starts charging. The C to C cable which charges an iPad doesn't do a thing.

After a little searching:
TL;DR: USB-A charging ports by default provide 5V to whatever is plugged in. USB-C charging ports don't.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/c3q4s6/why_do_some_usbc_devices_not_charge_with_a_usbc/

My guess is this cheap circuit board doesn’t have the CC resistors to signal the system that it wants 5v (it shipped with an A to C cable).

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/04/all-about-usb-c-resistors-and-emarkers/

jerzone, (edited ) to animals
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“I ❤️ rugs" cat after being pet anywhere else in the house.

mrcourtney, to random
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Random pondering: When I mow our lawn (mulching mode so the clippings stay behind), do the rabbits that graze there think I'm making them a giant chopped salad. 🤔

jerzone,
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@mrcourtney fibrous smoothie

jerzone, to random
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Early trail run with a friend. Efts were out, but now they're wondering where all of the water went. Hoping next week's forecasted rain and cooler temps plays out.

vernal pool that has all but dried up, just some damp soil left and a half dozen red efts scattered around

danmccullough, to nature
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Saw these bright orange weird things on an old birch. When I examined closer I saw tiny chambers, their openings no larger than a toothpick point.

Super tiny flying stingy things?!

No.

Ok, have to be galls. When all else fails, go with galls.

Nope.

Two days later I smartened up. What’s even more weird and freaky than galls?

Slime Molds! This is the most bizarro slime mold I’ve ever found.

Multi Goblet Slime [Metatrichia vesparia]

jerzone,
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@danmccullough @catselbow I ran across the same one in the last month, really didn’t expect it to be slime mold with those chambers.

jerzone, to random
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Up before 5 and just in time to catch the moon clocking out for the day. Happy Friday y'all!

jerzone, to hiking
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This Spring has been a bit confusing on the poison plant front. Someone on strava posted photo that my phone said was wild sarsaparilla and he swore was poison ivy. They say the sarsaparilla is commonly mistaken for ivy in the Spring. I've never been that good at ID’ing poison ivy.
Monday's trail run through the woods was punctuated by me leaping over/around clumps of the stuff, whatever it was I didn't want to take a chance.
Along the rail trail today we found lots of poison ivy and when compared to the sarsaparilla it’s obviously different and distinct.

phone says poison oak or ivy (Toxicodendron) which is member of sumac family

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jerzone, to Mushrooms
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Out for a early rail trail ride with a friend and spotted this healthy mass of mushrooms. iNaturalist suggests Oyster mushroom?

jerzone, to random
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Apropos of nothing (I hope), Shawn Mullin's Beautiful Wreck has been swirling around my brain the last 24 hours. Making dinner last night, “such a beautiful wreck". 2am wandering to the bathroom, “what a beautiful wreck you are”. Walk the dog this morning, “but you make such a beautiful wreck”.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tokw8tbz2w

jerzone,
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The other day, shortly after my wife told me about an appt she'd set up in September I said, “great, now that's stuck in my head.”
“What?”
“The song”
[blink, blink]
“September? Earth Wind and Fire??”
"uh, maybe? not sure”
[I pull up the song sure she'd instantly recognize, she doesn’t]
"Not sure I listened to lyrics back then.”
Meanwhile I see a sign that says “turn around” and end up with Bonnie Tyler stuck in my head for days.

m750, to running
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some trails today, spotted a handful of lady slippers
My favorite wild flower

jerzone,
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@m750 I've seen them in people's strava, but nothing in person yet.

jerzone, to random
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Hoverflies are the most recent to investigate my edibility. That big toe is getting pretty calloused after a few weeks of being barefoot, might be too tough even for macerating fly spit.

szescstopni, to random
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There's something unusual on our driveway.

jerzone,
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@szescstopni It’s not just humans…

closeup of turtle and hole
closeup of the snake in the grass, patiently waiting for an egg-celent opportunity

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