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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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Shopping for memory foam mattress toppers is an exercise in sorting through dozens of products that appear to be almost exactly the same, and each one has reviews saying it's way too hard and uncomfortable right alongside reviews saying it's way too soft and you sink into it too much.

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@ducksauz I bought a good mattress! It was just never as soft as I would like.

I just bought it six years ago, and I don't want to spend another $1000 on another one already. So, I'm hoping this will help.

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@moragor Maybe their tool works for mattress toppers, too. I will check that out!

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@Doxin People discuss that in the reviews as well. Some people say they don't soften as much as they should. Other say they soften too much.

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would be really cool to convert these to LED so I could use them for illumination when not in use <.<

plus I don't have to worry about the weird ass bulb in the projector burning out…

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@slyka I never even thought about doing that, but I have one in my rafters and that's a great idea for it.

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@slyka yea, that seems very doable. I have a small stash of LED drivers that would work for this. I would just need some warm color LEDs

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@slyka yea! those drivers I have take PWM input for dimming the LED they're driving.

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Dreamt I was taking the bus home from work, but I needed to make a side trip to Harbor Freight. The only way to get there was on the West Covina Shuttle Bus.

The shuttle bus turned out to be decrepit, and felt like an abandoned barn inside. When we pulled into the parking lot for Harbor Freight, I discovered the buttons to request a stop didn't work, so the driver kept going.

I shouted to her that I needed to get off. She didn't want to stop, but begrudgingly agreed.

As I climbed out, I realized I had a lot of stuff with me, and I was setting it on the hood of the shuttle, which, from the outside, looked like a small eastern European compact car from the 1980s.

The driver started driving away with my stuff still on the hood, and became annoyed with me for pounding on the window for her to stop.

I got all my stuff and set it down next to a shed in the middle of a very small field that sat at the middle of the Harbor Freight parking lot.

I had so much stuff with me! Including a tree planted in a pot. How would I get all of this onto the next bus? I had no idea.

While I pondered it, Hobie showed up, meowing and happy to see me. I text a friend, "Wow, Hobie always shows up, no matter where I am. How could he know I was in West Covina, and how did he get over here? This is the second time he's done this."

It's because you're dreaming, I realized right then. He can appear wherever you are because you're imagining all of this.

And then I woke up.

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My baby nephew and Hobie's daughter are becoming friends

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A friend of my parents gave them a whole box of pieces of glass for doing stained glass, and they don't want it, so I grabbed a few pieces and I am grinding them up in my rock tumbler to try an experiment for ceramics class.

The rock tumbler is pleasantly quiet when full of glass versus when it's full of rocks

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@Stormgren I'm gonna try making glaze out of this. The grinding medium is silicon carbide, which is also an ingredient in some glazes (like crater glazes), so I want to see what happens if I fire the leftover sludge

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@401matthall It's not this quiet when it's got rocks in it.

You can get this one at Harbor Freight, if you have one of those near you.

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@JohnS_AZ that will be a side product!

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@JohnS_AZ Even smaller than that. just glass sludge mixed with silicon carbide. I'll mix it with a flux and try using it as a glaze

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@Stormgren Me too!

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@stepheneb @JohnS_AZ Small amounts of it are used to help metal ions in the glaze reduce so that you get more vibrant colors out of some of them, like copper. I think the carbon in the SiC burns off as CO2 and the silicon joins the rest of it as silica.

In larger amounts, you end up with crate glazes, which are cool also

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@ChuckMcManis This one is from Harbor Freight. I think I paid $60 for it.

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@ChuckMcManis it's one of the weirder things they carry

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What a life

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My brother left some drops of water on the leaves of one of his house plants that he left outside overnight and now these marks are permanently part of the leaves.

I asked him if the sun caused it, but he assured me that the plant was only outside overnight. The marks have been on the leaves for a year now

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@benjohn next time im over there, if i remember

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@justinto Maybe he didnt!

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We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

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@MadMike77 Yes it certainly is a strange place

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@masukomi @reconbot @timonsku I wish my Zojirushi rice cooker did that, but it's an analog model, so it just clunks and turns on a light when it's done

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@masukomi Mine is this type

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@masukomi what? no. I just cook in batches

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