Watching for #3IATLAS updates, but they'll be a bit thin for the first several weeks I suppose. The latest is that it's now officially a comet I guess, as some fuzziness was confirmed as the coma becomes apparent.
If only the EU's comet-chaser was in place and ready for visitors. A few more years before that happens I guess.
Hopeful the Mars Recon Orbiter will be able to snap some pics. No doubt #JWST will have a go at it too? Eager to see some spectroscopy at work!
@mcfly Nice - a solid slab. Will watch for where it ends up!
@mcfly Nice piece - and if it's already dried for a couple of years it seems to have done well – very few 'checks' to speak of.
I may as well go have a cup of tea, as using my eyes outside in the sun or with screens isn't very functional for a few hours I suspect. Glad my optometrist was a short walk, rather than a drive, away.
Everyone's posts are very dazzling right now.
Not so much the content, but my optometrist put those dilating eyedrops in my eyes this morning and everything is very bright. lol
A reduce, reuse, recycle… repair day, as I've sourced a replacement spray handle/wand for our long-used #garden spray tank.
A whole new tank isn't that expensive really, but I'm glad we were able to just replace the wand rather than get a new tank&hose too. A lot of plastic in that tank, and new ones are no doubt somewhat lighter built. This one is prob 30yrs old or so.
Useful for a little soapy-water spray as bugs attack the potatoes and flowers.
@GustavinoBevilacqua interesting, that's a little under $12 Cdn, so a few dollars cheaper than here at the 1 litre size. @OhOkKay
Thanks to @OhOkKay for the shopping tip!
Yay, unhappy with hardware shop prices and sizes, I had eventually found cheaper #acetone sold at a drug store, but in tiny bottles, with glycerine etc in it as well.
On your tips, I found one of the Dollarstore brands without any additional additives and in a good middle-ish size.
And made in Canada too. $3.25.
I feel for any recent refugees who may have come to Canada from a difficult war-torn environment. All the neighbourhood fireworks sound a lot like gunfire and that's probably somewhat difficult to hear.
Yeah it's annoying that #DuckDuckGo is sticking AI junk into its search results, but I'm glad to see it's well-versed in the history of our founder, John Mastodon.
Reminder that using noai.duckduckgo.com is a better choice.
Rain coming through now. Home now, and we were protected by raincoat insurance while walking. We carried a knapsack with our coats in it to ensure we'd not get rained on.
Well not only did we get #COVID shots today, but I've also got a haircut and we swapped licence plates at the Service Ontario.
So not only am I protected against the COVID virus, but it won't be able to find me, and won't recognize me if it does. Triple protection.
Success! Got the jab. Asked and they still have some on hand. Another four doses in the vial they just opened!
At a little local compounding pharmacy and they are processing us for the shots. No jab yet, but seems to be headed that way.
Walk-ins today and Thursday is their scheme.
Okay, let's see if I can get a #COVID shot even as all the pharmacies claim they aren't available until the fall in Ontario.
Wah - I haven't bought #acetone in a loooong time. I had no idea it was so expensive now. Just checking prices. Is it used in meth production or something?
I expected $5-10 maybe but it's looking like $17 for a litre.
Most outdoor solar lights products had issues:
a) won't turn on if solar panel detects daylight
b) remote controls – not needed nor useful for inside the shed
c) complex modes unneeded
d) $30-50 prices
I found a simple product for $20.
The light fixture needs power jack in place to work, but a switch to kill the power from the solar panel makes it think it's night. Then you can illuminate inside the shed.
Ironically a switch turning off the power is needed to make it come on. lol
My shipping difficulties of last week were fortuitous, as I found an alternative product for less money that worked for my application, received it in two days and altered it to work for me.
Could write up a Hackaday.io or instructables post perhaps, but prob won't find the time.
My TLDR summary is I employed a solar-charged light for our dark/dank shed, overcoming a few 'features' of most products which don't fit my use case.
Playing with that mini-panini shape I was exploring on a previous hot-day bake, using the toaster/convection oven. So this is another round, with a sourdough brown flour and oatmeal version. Low contribution to heating up the house and smaller batches make it fun to play with ingredients.
An 800g pan loaf is also baking up close on its tail.
