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quartzcity

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Perception manager and drone wielder. Supplemental career making stuff for macOS and surrounding forbidden zones. Technical volunteer at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

If you were on an indie label in LA in the 90s, there's a good chance I made your website. If you were on the DroneOn list, we may have met?

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quartzcity, to random
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Not having Roger Corman around is like losing an element of the periodic table. As important to culture as oxygen, carbon, and Bill Gaines. Time spent watching his movies is not subtracted from your lifespan but added to it 2x over. Rest In Power https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/

quartzcity, to Texas
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The Sky’s Gone Out…

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ai6yr, to random

Yay! Finally, the vehicle won't start at all... rather than being intermittent. New starter or cables needed, likely. Has been spotty for months, but neither I nor my mechanic had been able to diagnose it since it was so intermittent. Intermittent car problems are worse than car problems.

quartzcity,
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@david @ai6yr I once drove a ‘71 Mercury that had an axe handle as a reserve starter motor starter - until the starter completely failed and I had to replace it one night in the UC Irvine Physical Sciences parking lot.

ai6yr, to books

Part of the "adrenaline" section of the bookshelf put away!

quartzcity,
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@ai6yr The Cahill books are so great

ai6yr, to random

I need to go take a picture of the trashed van for sale up the street here, perfect for that Chris Farley skit. (they want $2K for it... dunno if it runs, even). #vans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8

quartzcity,
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@glightly @ai6yr I need to move about 500lbs of boxes from the east coast to the west and for a few days seriously considered committing van arbitrage - buying one out there, moving the stuff, and reselling here in CA. Quickly talked myself out of it when I saw how insane the market is.

scalzi, to random
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Today was the first day that I have encountered this painting by Wayne Thiebaud, and I have to say that it makes me deeply uncomfortable

quartzcity,
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@scalzi Baxter St., Los Angeles. I used to live on the hillside opposite it and never really got comfortable with it either.

A skateboarder braves the Baxter St. descent
A school bus high-centered on Baxter St.

quartzcity, to random
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Shout out to our new/old Sierra Madre neighbors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x8HFhLGYkg

quartzcity, to random
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“If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.”

Kate Wagner in Road And Track (who spinelessly spiked the piece, which is why it's on Wayback Machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/

quartzcity, to random
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"The possibility of making $138,000 from shredded banknote pieces using computer vision”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133

ai6yr, to free

It's free BBQ season around here. My advice: you can usually restore Weber grills (all parts are replaceable), and usually it's mostly Simply Green and replacing the burners, grills, and the igniter. You'll end up with something much better (IMHO) than whatever the 'sale" grill was at the big box store.

quartzcity,
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@ai6yr The Weber grill hacking and restoration community is one of the best: https://tvwbb.com/#weber-grills-accessories.7

quartzcity, to random
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(we live in a golden age of people digitizing their stuff and making it available)

“The Pretenders live Germany 1981 Recorded by me from digital satellite onto VHS HiFi VCR. Few people in the UK could receive this station, but at this time I had two satellite dishes and two receivers, one for standard SKY channels, the other for stations in France, Germany etc.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzRab8uFYg

ai6yr, to diy

Aha, finally got my satellite antenna rotator working, now to connect it to the right software for amateur radio contacts. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/__49_SrrT38

quartzcity,
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@ai6yr One of long-term, currently-in-stasis, need deep time, and $+ to continue project is an app that is essentially “Shazam/Bird Finder for power lines, antennas and surveilance devices” Point your phone at an antenna/cluster of devices on a pole and get a read back on what they all are. One 1.0 feature I wanna have is ability to figure out what frequency/operation band is based on reverse-enginering the antenna wire dimensions from a distance. Similar to iphone’s built-in Measure app.

quartzcity,
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@ai6yr I can’t help doing it!

quartzcity, to random
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No one believed me when I mention seeing Tones On Tail play at the Music Machine in 1984 and then just now a recording shows up.
https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2022/10/tones-on-tail-bonemen-of-barumba-music.html

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Being online long enough, you mourn pets you never met.

quartzcity,
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@glennf I still miss Jeff The Giant Orange Cat and will never unsubscribe from his RSS feed even if it doesn’t work anymore https://web.archive.org/web/20230330081958/http://jeffthegiantorangecat.com/

paul, (edited ) to random
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I keep looking at one of the discount Series 8 to replace my lasts barely half a day Series 3 but just can't pull the trigger.

If the battery replacement wasn't $80 I'd just get it on the 3 because never having to upgrade the OS on the watch is rather nice "feature”.
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Watch-Midnight-Aluminum-Always/dp/B0BDHWBB6Z?crid=ZI57QHQXAQUY&keywords=apple%2Bwatch&qid=1687914659&sprefix=apple%2Bwatch%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-2&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.18630bbb-fcbb-42f8-9767-857e17e03685&th=1&linkCode=ll1&tag=paul059e-20&linkId=e30ed68b433e08237cb7980dde7c6fe2&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

quartzcity,
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@paul My S4 is down to 70% capacity and I relate hard to the angst over decision making here.

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Didn’t get a picture in time but NASA 817 is making some passes over LA rn

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