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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Lathes are serious machines. They require serious caution!

    At my previous job, there was a very lucky apprentice; he was working on “the small lathe”; the sleeve on his overalls caught on the work piece. His arm was pulled into the machine the overall sleeve tore as it was being pulled in. He got very nasty friction burns all up the under side of his arm; if the sleeve didn’t tear, at minimum he would have lost the arm…the lathe didn’t stop spinning during the event. He panicked (understandably) and didn’t think to hit the e-stop.

    Table saws and lathes…don’t fuck around with them. Powerful tools require serious caution; but they are also very useful when used correctly.









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    13 days ago

    I needed to update my parents old NUC from Win7, it was either new hardware to run Win10 or give Linux a try, I told them I had been running Linux since 09 full time and it isn’t any harder than running Windows.

    I said how about you give it a go for a month or so and see how you go.

    I installed Mint, it has been a few years now and no real issues beyond taking a while to get the printer working. I installed rust desk for remote assistance which I have only used 3 times since install.



  • Ketamine

    I was in hospital and had some significant pain. Opiate based pain relief doesn’t really effect me so they said we will try a ketamine. I said ok, I had never had it before…wow dissociative drugs, are not for me. I told the nurse to stop it and had a small argument about it with her as I felt myself become distant and spacey.

    I decided that the pain was better then the loosing my mind feeling, stuck with paracetamol.


  • Driver: that thing looks pretty fast, you wanna race?
    Cyclist: sure, switches bike to max assist

    Driver: Toot, toot, toooooot!! (loud roaring of engine)

    Later at the pub
    Driver: I can’t believe you had me for the first 100m, fuck that thing is fast
    Cyclist: I know but the top end isn’t really what I need. Another round?
    Driver: Sure one more, then I have to get home.


  • When I was a teen walking home from a party at around 2am, I saw a car reverse out of a driveway and slam into a car. The dude drive off in a hurry.

    Checked on the driver of the second car, he was fine, but the car was messed up.

    We called the cops and waited, after an hour, called again only to discover that they “were already at the scene”.

    Turns out that the dude had another crash a few hundred metres down the road.


  • Honestly just eat vegetables and keep your ultraprocessed foods to a minimum.

    Milk and eggs are pretty good, as they literally have all that a growing body needs. But since I assume you are not a baby posting on social media (never can tell in this “modern” world) you need more than just milk and eggs.

    Eat fermented foods, kimchi, sauerkraut or kombucha etc…great for gut health

    I do like some nutritional yeast though. It is really tasty.