She prefers fabric. And that gown is one of the lesser creations. We are made for each other, we both make and tend stuff, but different stuff.
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I am totally offended by how much skin your wife is showing. You should be ashamed of yourself and cover her up. All that sheer cloth. Tisk tisk!
(that getup is amazing, btw)
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I know you are telling a joke. I do it all the time. Butā¦
Totally. Historically. Accurate.
Heather and I are weirdos. We like the old difficult stuff.
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I bet it is accurate. Have you gone to the MET museum in NYC or if youāre in the Euro Zone, museums there to recon all the cool stuff, to get the super accurate data? Nothing like seeing it in 3D. Whenever I go the the museum in NYC, I am always drooling over the plate armor in the armor room. My favorite details are the flip-down lance rests. When I saw those, my jaw hit the floor.
Nice melon on this one.
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The DIY community restores my faith in humanity.
Last night, I was driving north through Seattle on I-5, on my way home from work. I had a lot of stuff swirling through my head, but in the foreground my thoughts were āIām legally an adult, but I have no idea what being an adult isā.
I looked at the tall buildings, the underpasses and overpasses, the streetlights, the civilization. All these things were imagined and built by humans. At the moment, I couldnāt possibly imagine people coming together and being smart enough to build a space needle, or an EMP. I just sourly thought rotten thoughts about the divisiveness and polarization Iād been witnessing these last few weeks. Manās inhumanity toward man, and such. But then I realize, adults just have some extra experience. Thereās no real difference between being a kid and an adult besides attitude, and the view of oneās place in the world.
And now seeing the DIYers using the power of community to make some amazing things, my faith in humanity is slowly returning. Sure, weāre all a bunch of talking apes, just barely different from chimps and gorillas and orangutans. We donāt often know what weāre doing. But we can do things together, and sometimes, if we start out with a plan, and with some experience, and with some friends, we can make Something Wonderful.
I may not be able to confidently understand how a skyscraper was put together, but it was, and somehow people were able to work together to do it, so I just need to find a way to tap into that, if Iām going to find my way out of such a rotten state of mind.
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I donāt want to take this from a really neat discussion about LED fashion to other topicsā¦ But give me a call if you ever want to talk. The thought process you are going through only gets bigger as time goes on.
Rotten states of mind are not bad, but usually they are better if you talk through them. Pm me if ya wanna chat.
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It optimizes for persistence, and discourages drive by posters who donāt care about the community. Working as designed from my perspective.
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BTW, that feeling Never goes away. The reason the Old Person Screaming at Clouds thing is funny because we all know it never goes away.
Being an adult means a few things, imo, not to get too off topic:
- you enjoy boring things. Trimming a tree is a delight.
- you enjoy fun, silly things. LEDs in a skirt!? Bring it!
- you care more about others than you. Ima gonna be dead in ten years, take a grand!
- the ātilthā or consistency of your relationships are most important
- finally, you will die soon, so will everyone else, so what do you do? (This exercise is left to the reader)
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@sexycyborg, thank you for persisting here.
If you donāt mind, I have two questions related to the second battery cage you createdā¦ http://imgur.com/a/EonaF
Is the battery pack curved like the cage?
Are the batteries permanent enclosed in the cage? For example, did you glue the cage closed?
Is the battery pack curved like the cage?
No. They do sell Li-Po like this but they are hard to source outside of China.
Are the batteries permanent enclosed in the cage? For example, did you glue the cage closed?
Yes. I tried with screwed and could not stand on. Glued much stronger. Still has small vent on underside. Plastic is cheap can just crack open print again if I really want to get parts out.
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It optimizes for persistence, and discourages drive by posters who donāt care about the community. Working as designed from my perspective.
Or discourages outsider participate. Just sleazy gamification. Scores and sunk cost. Those claim like probably survivorship bias. Those who keep posting just easy manipulated.
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Standing on the backs of giants my freind.
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I wouldnāt be so quick to dismiss this place. Boingboing has been around a long time, with a deep sense of community here on the boards. Familiarity breeds contempt, and convenience will be the death of us all; but we really are a pretty decent group of mutants once you get to know us. I find life so much more rewarding when you can elbow out your spot amongst people you may not agree with, but can still find a common ground.
Glad you stuck around this long, looking forward to what you come up with in the future.
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Also, BoingBoing gets a lot of traffic, so the only way to keep the forums working well is to have a system where people earn some trust. We regularly get people who will post on their favorite political topic wherever it appears who will flood the discussion in response to an article that is on their favorite subject.
It does take some work to get in the "in"crowd so to speak, but I really like your point of view and hope you will keep posting to share your work.
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Yeah, this is going to be true most of the time - slang generally doesnāt translate very well. Though it sometimes leads to humourous translations, and itās like a puzzle - trying to figure out exactly what was meant. Itās good enough that Iāve been able to get by with some of the Russian and Chinese phone forums, though (as Iāve started using and reviewing Chinese cell phones over the last 6 months, itās become a bit of an obsession to cruise those places looking for more info)
Not really - BoingBoing has a tendency to attract a lot of trollies (ie - people who come to post a negative opinion on a single controversial topicā¦ An example would be assholes who would come into this thread to slut shame you for exposing so much skin). Such trollies have a tendency to arrive suddenly, post a couple times, and disappear. Thereās no gamification here, itās more of a way to limit the behaviour of new accounts for a brief period, until they are āvettedā as being positive contributors to the site. As @codinghorror mentioned, youāve already made it out of that ānewbieā limitation, so it doesnāt take much.
As others have mentioned - youāve got some really interesting projects. Please stick around.
Thank you. Iāve been looking for the right term to describe what youāre talking about.
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