ellisk

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[–] ellisk 2 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I mean hosting platform as in, provides ad insertions for those that want to go that way, submission to multiple platforms easily, RSS generator for your podcast, etc. Like Libsyn, Podbean, Acast, etc.

[–] ellisk 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone have suggestions for podcast hosting platforms? Seems like they're all American as far as I can tell.

 

Pulling the bike out now that the snow's mostly melted way up here and realizing I probably need a new chain based on stretch last year... what's your chain (and other bits) maintenance routine? I definitely need to get something better going than a casual clean... I guess streams/mud/insane amounts of road dust are pretty hard on the system.

[–] ellisk 1 points 1 week ago

He had them steal a donkey for him, dude. And accepted the full cult leader treatment. Matthew 21:1-11

But we could play verse quoting all day. I encourage you to go back and actually read the first two books from start to end, as I did recently. They're super fucked-up.

[–] ellisk -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here's the thing though. A lot of the first two books of the New Testament is about how awful the Jews are and how Jesus was a cult leader who got his followers to abandon their families for him and even got his followers to steal for him. Reading Matthew and Mark in the light of today's politics, Jesus looks like a right-wing grifter. Seems like they're reading it right to me.

[–] ellisk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lovely! Does the top just slot into the body?

[–] ellisk 1 points 3 weeks ago

We're going to be entering a golden age of hacks in the next 5 years, I'm calling it now. All this copy-pasted bad ChatGPT code is going to be used in ways that generate security holes the likes of which we've never seen before.

[–] ellisk 2 points 1 month ago

As long as they're both water-based and you scuff it up a little with 120 beforehand, you should be fine, although I haven't used that specific set of finishes. Can always do the tried and true and try it out on a test piece first if you're really worried.

But yeah, TBH, even if you went crazy and used epoxy or urushi, pretty sure it'd get scratched up with kids being kids. I use 10+ coats for specific applications, and it's very scratch resistant (in fact it seems more more than the technically harder urushi... this is where I redact a few paragraphs of finish hardness discussion...), but standing up to kids, nah.

[–] ellisk 1 points 1 month ago

I really like the bottle stoppers. Not sure I really have anything big enough but I'm going to see what I can glue up. The bigger pieces are usually softwoods too, unfortunately, but even just carving something decorative for the top could be cool.

[–] ellisk 3 points 1 month ago

I did try that once but you're right I should give it a go again with better wood choices (verawood is just too waxy to glue unless you treat it right I guess.)

[–] ellisk 2 points 1 month ago

Ohhh, I hadn't even thought of that, and I have done some small epoxy projects before. I guess the question would be then what after that... But at least it would be a bigger chunk to work with.

 

I've built up a pretty good pile of small scraps of wood I just can't bear to toss over the years: verawood, ebony, rosewood, mahogany, purpleheart, but even just some nice maple, sitka spruce, red cedar, walnut, etc. I started carving some into pendants this winter, and some look pretty good, but I'm looking for ideas for really small or weirdly shaped scrap -- everything from 1/2" lathe ends with a hole in them, to long 1/2" x 3/8" x 4', a small clip of the pile under the picture.

I've heard a few people just throw them into baggies and sell/give to crafty folks, which I might do in the end. But I figure if I can make stuff to give away as gifts or sell at a craft fair, all the better... but outside of jewellery, not sure what else to do. The are NOT big enough for endgrain cutting boards, and most have a couple rounded or uneven edges.

[–] ellisk 1 points 1 month ago

90t 10" Diablo does plywood without affecting veneer.

Well now I know what else I'm buying on my next trip to the hardware store...

[–] ellisk 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is one thing to seize terrain and another to hold it. The American public would be confronted with video images of their sons and daughters being picked off one by one at night by Canadian soldiers, reservists, and citizens who volunteered as paramilitary partisans.

100%. Beating Simo Häyhä's record is a tough challenge, but it gives us a nice goal to aim for.

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