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ethanschoonover

@ethanschoonover@mastodon.social

Photo & Design & Tech & RPGs / SeattleACS ham radio volunteer / Cascadia Radio cofounder / RPG XRAY host / TeenHorrorCast intern / "skoon-over" / he

Maybe you use Solarized (colorscheme), maybe you used my Kinkless GTD sytem (which became OmniFocus), or maybe you followed my D&D clubs at a Seattle girls' middle school.

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ethanschoonover, to iPad
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My last post on was a critique but now for some praise: It has truly transformed the way my daughter takes notes and studies (below: IB Bio exams). She can search her handwritten notes, make flash cards, add images. They never get lost and they are all always with her (using Goodnotes).

ethanschoonover, to HikingPics
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Modding my DIY water filter setup for a new water pack

ethanschoonover, to random
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Solar maximum in Seattle is a pretty wild time.

marioguzman, to random
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Bleh... So the new iPad Pro with M4 doesn't support the Smart Keyboard Folio which I prefer much more over the Smart (floating iPad design) Keyboard.

It's just lighter, thinner, and you can folder it completely behind the iPad. :(

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@marioguzman Smart Keyboard Folio is my preferred as well. Classic design that works great. I really can't stand the weight and thickness of the floating style smart keyboard.

ethanschoonover, to random
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i have the most 80s reading glasses imaginable

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Proof that I had almost the exact same glasses in the 80s!

ethanschoonover,
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@dr_a oh these are absolutely trifocal readers... my eyes are a shambles in terms of focus

ethanschoonover,
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@ukuku this was my peak BBS era!

ethanschoonover, to random
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My daughter drove my trail-mud covered pickup and parked in front of our local elementary school and it's good to see the kids understood the implied assignment.

ethanschoonover, to random
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Nothing like a real map on the wall with map pins for planning trips

ethanschoonover, to apple
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Thin is boring.

Take a year off hardware, . You just launched an AR headset and killed off a billion dollar a year car. You're all over the map.

New pencils are nice but what creative people REALLY need is for you to sort out your software story. Fix what's broken. Innovate on your apps and interoperability between them. Figure out how to use all that power in the iPad besides just "it's a big phone".

Step by step you are ship-of-theseus forgetting what makes you a great company.

ethanschoonover, to random
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Baking (reusable) desiccant for winter clothes storage (and to drop into my bags of extra cables and electronics)

desicant packs on a tray going into the oven

ethanschoonover,
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desiccant baking before and after

desiccant packs on a tray coming out of the oven, blue in color

ethanschoonover, to random
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When I was a kid I feel like a lot of hobbies were presented as "Hey! Stamps are cool you can do some fun stamp collecting by saving some off envelopes" whereas now when I search for some hobby related content it's exclusively "THIS HOBBY IS MY WHOLE IDENTITY AND LIFE AND HERE'S HOW YOU LEVEL UP TO HOBBY LEVEL ONE THOUSAND STARTING NOW"

Bring back slacker level hobby engagement!

ethanschoonover, to fallout
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Our cat is a big Dogmeat fan (loves to watch him run around)

ethanschoonover, to HikingPics
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New DIY unistrut backpacking gear sliding hang system.

Took 20 minutes to build and install (including time to cut the mounts and threaded rod).

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@wa7iut I'll let my off the hanger when he finishes reorganizing the backpacking gear :)

ethanschoonover, to Camping
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Starting to write the R values on our sleeping pads now that we have apples-to-apples ASTM numbers available. Some of the revised ASTM values are a significant drop from original claimed R values.

ethanschoonover,
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@Verso R value in this case is insulating rating (0-1 = nada, 1-2 = summer only, 4+ now we’re getting somewhere). Manufacturers for years had no common standard set for this so some were just sort of making it up. ASTM institute set industry standards just last year so after a century of outdoor gear sales we finally have some way to truly know how warm a sleeping pad will keep you.

ethanschoonover, to Seattle
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Seattle Public Schools is really going to suffer from cutting off HCC and advanced academics. Seattle private school applications are through the ROOF right now because of this. SPS will end up losing students, losing funding, and slip into a precipitous decline even worse than it is now.

(my kids both go to public, my wife teaches in public… we’re advocates for public education but none of the current SPS policies will result in positive outcomes for public education)

ethanschoonover,
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@cheribaker Plenty of schools will end up reducing staffing even further as a result of this. I know private schools that are head hunting teachers out of public in seattle right now. this is going to be a brain drain of talent and capability but it will have eliminated some bad looking numbers for SPS that, rather than address, they chose to just erase by killing off these programs.

ethanschoonover, to Camping
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The crime, the criminal

(patched a sleeping pad and was test inflating the cat pounced on one of the baffles, neatly clawing another hole and resulting in patch number 2)

cute cat on carpet

ethanschoonover, to mtg
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Live view of the Hasbro board welcoming the next CEO

ethanschoonover, to random
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Proud to be the go-to hair braider in our house. I enjoy the fact that I can repair my truck, fix our house, and also sew, braid, and cook for the family.

None of these things need to be gender roles. They can just be human roles and I hope more men embrace being full people that have all the skills.

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@OhOkKay absolutely agree on those skills and have taught my daughter since she was little how to safely use tools (hand and power)!

girl using a power driver to screw down part of a deck

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