Bedbugs. Not friendly at all. Hard AF to get rid of.

I have not seen them up close, just watched the videos where they come out of the cracks in wood when someone waves hand body heat over them. Gross.

Got to meet one last month!

I was seated, and it jumped up on my leg to get some greens I was holding.

It’s true, most chill animal around.

Musopen DVD

For some PD classical music.

Disposable vapes come to mind, although the real answer is probably some extremely depraved torture device.

David Revoy is a planetary treasure.

Black Rain(1989)

Great antagonist, moral ambiguity, and culture clash.

MX Master 3 is the GOAT for productivity. Been testing it for 2 weeks now.

The 125Hz polling rate is a drag for fast gaming though (read up beforehand).

Get the Master 3S for silent mouse-clicks.

The Master 4 is reported to be a downgrade too.

Netscape Navigator key, 1337 retronaut.

It really is.

I felt like I knew small fires pretty well, previously.

It is an eye-opener to learn more about large fire behaviour, backburning, and fire suppression methods.

Things like, a leaf-blower can be used on slow moving grass fires to blow them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_vBb7ZN-s

Volunteer firefighter.

Drive the 3000L truck or 1000L tender. Run hoses to hydrant. Use mounted water cannon, or run hoses out. Put out, scrub, bush, structure, or vehicle fires. Rescue puppies from drains.

Getting plenty of training, learning lots of different equipment, have a good team currently.

Eg. Last week at training, I tried out the ‘Hot Stick’ high-voltage detector. For finding live wires, beeps when high current closeby.

Similar to this one.

Dread, by Clive Barker.

A short story. Ain’t telling you anything about it.

And newsgroups were chock full of individual honest content(This was pre-trolls. The worst was a flame-war or two).

Webrings were like a pass-the-parcel where one website would have a link on to the next, and so on.

The HardOCP and the first years of ARSTechnica were great for overclocking info. Following the build guide for a Damage-Box, to get a Celeron 300A running at 450MHz was exceptional.

Slashdot was an early forum share-point to percolate up decent tech news.

ICQ ruled the IM scene.

Bonzi-Buddy was an early enshitification example, hot garbage, clippy-esque nonsense.

Murukku, Bhuja, or popcorn.

And for comparison. This is a 1900 year old Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain.

https://lemmy.world/post/28848259

Functional artwork.

Why did the short-sighted man fall in the well?

He couldn’t see that well.

Yes, darning wool socks and other knitwear.

Could take up modern boardgames/cardgames.

There are so many available.

May be a boardgame-club or two in your town, where you can go and meet people to play with.

More fun than it sounds :^)

Try playing it here, Simon Tatham’s Puzzles. (Package is sgt-puzzles in *nix)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/flip.html

Dang, I was in Alice last year, and drove past this airport.

Would have had a closer look, if I knew it was hosting our first boneyard/parking area for planes.

Post is ‘very interesting’ for me, ta.