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Links for 10 Jan 2025
Making a Hinged Lid Box
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Links for 9 Jan 2025
RSS Tricks Zombie Strains Public Domain Image Archive Goods Unite Us
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Link Posts
In an effort to post more to this site (and not dump interesting stuff I stumble across into yet another proprietary service that will go belly-up eventually), I’m going to try and post more link collections. These post will be under the Links tag.
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Links for 8 Jan 2025
Weird Wikkelboats A curated list of space operas from Molly White
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The First Day
Today you weren’t there in bed when I reached out to make sure I didn’t sit on you coming back from the bathroom. Today was the first day you didn’t get up with me in the wee hours when I couldn’t sleep. Today, I wept in the dark when I smelled you on the blanket…
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Goodbye Parker
Today, we said goodbye to our dog, Parker. He was 8. Cancer got him far too soon. We got a little dog thinking he would live longer than a larger one, since we lost our last dog early as well. Coincidentally, also to cancer. Life isn’t fair. Parker had so much attitude, but was also…
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Not Dead Yet
On April 15 2024, around 5:30 pm, I took out the garbage and recycling, something that required two 15-yard-long round trips from the back of my lot to the curb. The first trip took some effort and left me winded, with a little pain in my chest. At the end of the second trip, I…
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Lesser-Known Advantages of Having Eyeglasses
Everyone knows that have a pair of corrective lenses is the front-line way to enable you to see clearly. Near or far sighted, a pair of frames holding a glass or plastic set of lenses in front of your broken, carrot-deprived eyes lets you see important family events, cringe social media posts, and disgusting and…
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3D Printing
As a Christmas gift to myself, I bought an Anycubic Kobra 2. I’ve never owned a 3D printer and have been enamored of the tech for a while. With a holiday sale from Anycubic, I bought into the hobby for under $300. While I’m still heavily in the “print shit you find on Thingiverse” phase,…
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The picture is too large and will be truncated
Old bugs are super fun. If you’re using Excel and copy/pasting as little as one row, you may get the following error: “The picture is too large and will be truncated” If you inspect the results, the copy/paste was successful, but Excel will throw this error every time you paste again. I encountered the error…