Just before the Super Bowl, the apartment complex across the street from my office had a snow sculpture built.
It has been slowly decaying. The full collection of pictures is here (with both non-zoomed and horrible-phone-zoomed versions), but here are a few selections.
This shows the day after it was built, and 3 days ago. Almost 2 months of time has passed.
Being built.
Spires are all that remains of the once-proud letters.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
Not my car! Just saw it in the parking lot and the juxtaposition with the dealer tag was striking.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
Hey photo thread. Went down to the beach last night to try to capture some shots of the full moon rise. If I'm being honest, it was a pretty dang frustrating experience. Felt really limited by my gear. Still got a few decent shots, but I really think I need to bite the bullet and get some better glass if I'm going to keep going down this road. This is my favorite of the bunch I guess, but there are more here if anyone wants to take a look.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Yep, it Could Be Worse. They could have been test driving a Ferrari, and decided to gun it around a corner to show off to some pretty girls having a liquid lunch at the Windsor Hotel:
Kitties! This was on my FB feed from a year ago today. Leo (orange) and Tibby (not orange). Tibby being short for TBD, as we didn’t know what to call her when we got her. We joked that her name was TBD, and it stuck.
So I've been looking and considering picking up a smart thermostat of some sort, and I'm sure i'd be happy with just about any of the top reviewed ones out there, but I figure why not try asking here?
I'm mainly looking for good programming settings, and would like to be able to set min and max temp ranges. I'd REALLY like to be able to set some things up like: If temp = 65, heat to 68, which I'm not sure anything does. It seems like most will allow you to do things over the network/internet at this point, which is nice in case I forget to turn it off sometime when I'm at work or go away at some point.
If anyone has any information on some, or can expound a bit on how robust programmable features of any particular unit are, I'd certainly appreciate it.
I have always liked my Razer mice, but I always go for more simple layouts like the deathadder.
Razer's original claim to fame was making sleeker mice that worked well with people who prefer to use finger grips on the mouse instead of resting their palm on it. A chunkier MMO mouse goes against that ethos and it does seem like most people who've complained about Razer products have had an MMO mouse die on them.
I don't know of any that allow that level of granularity. They assume that if you want the house to be 68, you'll set it to 68 and walk away.
I think all of the major models will allow you to set a min/max range. I know Nest calls it "Heat-Cool Mode", and I think it's the default on Ecobees as well.
I don't know of any that allow that level of granularity. They assume that if you want the house to be 68, you'll set it to 68 and walk away.
I think all of the major models will allow you to set a min/max range. I know Nest calls it "Heat-Cool Mode", and I think it's the default on Ecobees as well.
I didn't think id be able to find one that let's you do that level of programming, but I feel like somewhere it would be helpful. I'd think it would be better to leave a unit on cooling a few degrees instead of cutting on and off constantly at a single set temp. Idk. I'll be digging into them at least a while later until I get the work done on mine.
I wonder if any of the manufacturers have a demo page to see what their interface is like. I know in the past some home router manufacturers would sometimes have a page you could play around with the interface to see how it was.
Sounds like you want a programming API for a thermostat and to write some code.
ecobee and honeywell have thermostat APIs for their smart-home stuff, IIRC
This way you can pick up a programming language and tell your thermostat to do stuff. You can do a quick check of the weather, and if it's 65 out, heat the house to 68.
Sounds like you want a programming API for a thermostat and to write some code.
ecobee and honeywell have thermostat APIs for their smart-home stuff, IIRC
This way you can pick up a programming language and tell your thermostat to do stuff. You can do a quick check of the weather, and if it's 65 out, heat the house to 68.
Oh, now that is neat. I'll have to dig around in that to see I might be able to get enough out of it.
Having asked around, so far the nest is getting quite a lot of praise though. I'm sure I'll be happy with just about anything i go with, but if it's easy enough to really customize another one, it'll certainly be nice.
Nest is good, I have one of those. It's more about scheduling and all that and requires a bit more babysitting than what I'd expect out of a truly smart house. It guesses too much and is often wrong about what it's guessing about (how hot I want it because of how hot I had it last thursday, etc). But if you disable all that stuff and just use the scheduling and phone app, it's pretty amazing.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
Yeah I've been making myself spend about an hour or so a day on learning Lightroom and my god that program is just the best kind of magic. Recently learned to use the radial and graduated filters, along with the brush filter, and it's amazing what is possible.
Nest is good, I have one of those. It's more about scheduling and all that and requires a bit more babysitting than what I'd expect out of a truly smart house. It guesses too much and is often wrong about what it's guessing about (how hot I want it because of how hot I had it last thursday, etc). But if you disable all that stuff and just use the scheduling and phone app, it's pretty amazing.
This is what I was mostly planning on. I'm not crazy about the whole "leaning" aspect of it. I do like the idea of geofencing, where using your phone location, it can determine what kind of mode it should be set to. Sometimes I'll forget to cut mine off when i leave for work, but really anything i can control across the internet would do fine for that kind of thing.
If anyone is looking for good Lightroom/Photoshop tutorials, check out Phlearn on YouTube. Lots of great free walkthroughs. I'm probably going to pay for their service at some point.
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
If anyone is looking for good Lightroom/Photoshop tutorials, check out Phlearn on YouTube. Lots of great free walkthroughs. I'm probably going to pay for their service at some point.
I watched his workflow video the other night! Well, most of it, since I fell asleep, but still. Definitely going to check more of that channel out.
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It has been slowly decaying. The full collection of pictures is here (with both non-zoomed and horrible-phone-zoomed versions), but here are a few selections.
This shows the day after it was built, and 3 days ago. Almost 2 months of time has passed.
Being built.
Spires are all that remains of the once-proud letters.
Of course I only had my cell phone so this is the best quality I could get.
Click the picture you want to share once and then press the bottom right share icon then "copy to clipboard" then paste the link over here
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also, this one is cheating because it's from nearly half a year ago, but it's from a similar area so
Steam // Secret Satan
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Yep, it Could Be Worse. They could have been test driving a Ferrari, and decided to gun it around a corner to show off to some pretty girls having a liquid lunch at the Windsor Hotel:
He had to pay the $16,000 insurance excess.
that's practically pornographic
Not the good kind of pornographic either
Spoilered for titanic
Kitties! This was on my FB feed from a year ago today. Leo (orange) and Tibby (not orange). Tibby being short for TBD, as we didn’t know what to call her when we got her. We joked that her name was TBD, and it stuck.
I'm mainly looking for good programming settings, and would like to be able to set min and max temp ranges. I'd REALLY like to be able to set some things up like: If temp = 65, heat to 68, which I'm not sure anything does. It seems like most will allow you to do things over the network/internet at this point, which is nice in case I forget to turn it off sometime when I'm at work or go away at some point.
If anyone has any information on some, or can expound a bit on how robust programmable features of any particular unit are, I'd certainly appreciate it.
Razer's original claim to fame was making sleeker mice that worked well with people who prefer to use finger grips on the mouse instead of resting their palm on it. A chunkier MMO mouse goes against that ethos and it does seem like most people who've complained about Razer products have had an MMO mouse die on them.
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I filled up my 64gb sd card, raw files are that big huh
Guess i will try to learn using lighthouse to edit my photoes
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that jelly fish is almost on top of you run you fool run
I should probably learn how to link the full size pics from Google Photos instead of just posting links, but I am dumb and lazy.
I think all of the major models will allow you to set a min/max range. I know Nest calls it "Heat-Cool Mode", and I think it's the default on Ecobees as well.
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I didn't think id be able to find one that let's you do that level of programming, but I feel like somewhere it would be helpful. I'd think it would be better to leave a unit on cooling a few degrees instead of cutting on and off constantly at a single set temp. Idk. I'll be digging into them at least a while later until I get the work done on mine.
I wonder if any of the manufacturers have a demo page to see what their interface is like. I know in the past some home router manufacturers would sometimes have a page you could play around with the interface to see how it was.
ecobee and honeywell have thermostat APIs for their smart-home stuff, IIRC
This way you can pick up a programming language and tell your thermostat to do stuff. You can do a quick check of the weather, and if it's 65 out, heat the house to 68.
https://www.ecobee.com/home/developer/api/introduction/core-concepts.shtml
https://developer.honeywell.com/api-methods?field_smart_method_tags_tid=39
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あなたは私のパンツが入るほしいのみです。
Google translate (likely not a good source of translation except to get a basic gist) says it's: "You only want my pants to come in."
Which, close enough I suppose
Oh, now that is neat. I'll have to dig around in that to see I might be able to get enough out of it.
Having asked around, so far the nest is getting quite a lot of praise though. I'm sure I'll be happy with just about anything i go with, but if it's easy enough to really customize another one, it'll certainly be nice.
This is what I was mostly planning on. I'm not crazy about the whole "leaning" aspect of it. I do like the idea of geofencing, where using your phone location, it can determine what kind of mode it should be set to. Sometimes I'll forget to cut mine off when i leave for work, but really anything i can control across the internet would do fine for that kind of thing.
I watched his workflow video the other night! Well, most of it, since I fell asleep, but still. Definitely going to check more of that channel out.