I always keep a bootable drive in my bag. It has come in handy many, many times
Cops: people are attacking them because they are black
People: what?
Cops: it’s what we would do…
Because we have enough chickens
Sentient is a bit of a stretch for chickens.
To answer the rest of it, there are meat birds and egg layers. Meat birds grow fast and are ready to harvest in a few months. Egg layers produce more and larger eggs. We have a variety of egg layers, 9 hens and a rooster. We get between 5 and 8 eggs a day which is plenty for us.
The cost of owning chickens is a really flexible number. My wife wanted to try and loved it so we have put more money in. Our first setup was a small coop for 3 birds for around $200, the birds were cheap enough not to matter in the equation, another $100 or so in food and water things, feed, grit, calcium, etc..
She liked it so we upgraded to a $1000 coop and more birds. Not calculating the monthly payments on the coop we probably spend $20-30 a month on maintenance (feed, grit, shell, straw)
One reason those cooked rotisserie chickens are so cheap is because they are used to get people in the store to buy other things. So the store takes a hit on them but they end up making money from other stuff that may not have sold.
Also, scaling up a chicken farm, especially one focused on either eggs or meat, reduces the cost per animal by a lot. If you’re buying a single chick to raise, it’s gonna be 3 to 50 dollars depending on breed. If you’re buying 30,000 they are gonna be a hell of a lot cheaper.
I have seen mice eat each other alive. I’m 100% sure they would build a mousetrap
It may have been in a different video where he showed it working on his licensed VHF frequency. He has a business license for a frequency in the 70cm band so he can do encrypted radio traffic on it. He just talked about using HF with dummy loads to test if it worked.
I think the vhf and hf ISM bands are limited to “mobile radio” and I’m not sure what that means but it likely prevents using encrypted data.
He has used it over HF but I don’t think he did it in a band he is supposed to be using for this kind of thing. He did say the test was made using dummy loads over short range to stay legal. If I remember correctly, those HF bands have additional restrictions that prevent use for mesh networking
I feel no guilt for ordering tool bootlegs for formats they never released on.
I’m a fan of their spaceships being the equivalent of flying boobs and support humans following their example.
Seeed Tracker L1 E-Ink. My only issue is that this case orients the screen 90 degrees off of the joystick mapping. I saw something about screen and joystick modifications coming to the inkhub interface but it doesn’t seem to be in the stable beta branch yet.
A small kickstarter campaign reached out to me and ordered 20 sets of rpg dice and 100 custom d6. I’ve been working on this for a while now and they are almost ready to bag and ship.
Finally got back into the swing of things after a busy busy busy few months. These are just neon orange and slightly transparent.
I’m also working on a set that will include coal taken from Centralia Pennsylvania, the town that inspired Silent Hill. I recently had an opportunity to visit and there were bits of coal all over the place and there are still places where hot air is being vented from the coal fires deep underground. I’ll post them in a few days.
I made some mistakes with my first batch and learned from them. I still see a few issues here, mostly from panicking as the batter thickened and starting off a little too warm because I noticed my mixing bowl had a tiny hole that was leaking oil so I mixed the lye and oil a bit hotter than I should have, they were still close in temp though.
Commemorative set for one of my Starfinder players after a 2 year campaign. They played a samsaran so I used shades of pale blue and did swirls in transparent blue to represent their reincarnation lore.
They had a runin with a bodysnatcher slame that became a recurring character/gag so I made a small green dice snatcher slime to go inside their D20. Even managed to get the numbers to line up.
Red swirlled into clear with just a touch of red shimmer powder to catch the light once in a while. Fresh from the mold they still need polishing and inking.
The last time I made these I tried a black swirl in the middle and used gold and black foil in the resin. This time I did it a little different and they came out better. I put a bit of black in the bottom of the mold, added cellophane, the poured in the resin with just gold flakes. The picture doesn’t do them justice, they came out way better than before and this time I’m happy with them. They are in the pile to get resin inking and full polish.
I’ve started work on the project that got me into dice making in the first place. My friend Dom died earlier this year and his wife asked my to use his ashes in a set of memorial dice. We talked about it for a bit and settled on several things.I am making her a very large die, 100mm, that will encase a few small personal items of his, a 60mm die for his ex who was still very involved in his life, and several sets of standard dice for them to use. All of them will incorporate his ashes in some way. I’m also printing an insert for the 100mm die to make a base that his personal items will rest on.
This is my first test print for the 60mm die and there are some issues I have addressed for the second print which, barring any issues will be the one I polish and use for the mold.
I learned a lot since we decided on this memorial project and one of those things was CURE INHIBITION. For that reason, the mold will be tin cure silicone instead of platinum cure when molding 3D printed dice. I will also need some deep pour resin to make the 100mm one.
I dont always use UV reactive pigments but when I do I find out when Im curing the numbers 😵
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