BanjoShepard

joined 1 year ago
[–] BanjoShepard 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you see my kayak and fishing poles tell them I miss them and I hope I get to spend more time with them when my son is a few years older.

[–] BanjoShepard 25 points 2 days ago

Interested people are interesting.

[–] BanjoShepard 63 points 3 days ago

And in a similar but completely different way, the fish are being added to massive bodies of water. Home aquariums are minute in comparison, so they can't balance out chemical swings as easily and are much more prone to higher levels of nitrites and other toxic chemicals. The larger the body of water, the more stable the water quality.

[–] BanjoShepard 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I knew and I clicked anyway. God dammit.

[–] BanjoShepard 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't say I'm enamored by the description of the plot, but I absolutely adore this album, so I'm still tempted to check it out.

[–] BanjoShepard 73 points 5 days ago (15 children)

I'm not inherently opposed to the Senate as a concept, I think it can serve as an important check/balance, but for it to exist while the house has been capped and stripped of its offsetting powers is completely asinine. I also think that attempting to get anything done in the house with 1,000 members may also be unproductive however. Perhaps capping the house to a reasonable number of representatives while also adjusting voting power to proportionally match the most current census could work. Some representatives may cast 1.3 votes while others may cast .7 votes.

[–] BanjoShepard 3 points 1 week ago

I don't run in gloves often because I'm so much warmer when I'm running than I am when I'm walking or standing outside. I generally dress as if it were 20 degrees warmer than it is, but it can be problematic for the first bit of a run. What I've found works best for me is running a short loop that comes back to my house in an easy to remove jacket, hat, and gloves that I can drop off at the door on my way past then continuing with the bulk of my run. In these cases any old gloves will do. When I do wear gloves for the full run, I wear a pair of thin, but insulated gloves from Heat that I got at Costco. They have silver in the fingers, so I can use my phone. It's more difficult than without the gloves, but it's not like I'm using my phone much mid run anyway.

[–] BanjoShepard 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I did not need to know this existed. I already dislike snakes, I think in part because I find their movement patterns alien and unpredictable, but this is just breaking my brain.

That said it could also be that I never find one until it's underneath the log I just picked up or immediately under my foot as I'm walking. Very rarely do I see one from a distance and think "Oh cool a snake!"

[–] BanjoShepard 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My wife liked the idea of Eleanor if we had a girl, I never liked it, but luckily we had a boy, so we didn't have to cross that bridge.

At work, we named the old, decrepit copier Opal in an effort to humanize it and get people to treat the old girl with more love and patience.

[–] BanjoShepard 28 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We are all mammal people on this blessed day.

[–] BanjoShepard 6 points 3 weeks ago

I thought the god chose the person who had suffered more of the gods torture.

[–] BanjoShepard 21 points 3 weeks ago

Speaking of ships, Penelope could launch a thousand.

 
 
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Not Too Bad (lemmy.world)
 
 

I see predominantly picture posts here, but I wonder if text posts have a place too. I think it would be cool to share memorable birding experiences. A few come to mind for me.

This spring I saw my first Whooping Crane. I grew up in the migration path and went looking every year. I'd seen millions of sandhill cranes. Hundreds of white spots that turned out only to be two snow geese flying together or a plastic bag waving on a corn stalk. This spring I visited my home town and it happened to be during the migration. My two year old loves birds, so I thought he'd like to see so many birds at once. Unfortunately he was more interested in sitting in the truck while I looked at birds. On the way back home, a quarter mile before getting on the highway, I saw a white spec in a field, pulled over in a farmers drive way and just knew it was it. Thirty years later, I'd finally found one. Crossing it off in the index of my Sibley's was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life.

Another experience I love is the first time I saw California condors. My family visited the Grand Canyon, and I knew there was a chance to see them. When we got there they were flying so close and I couldn't even speak. My mom still tells of me pointing and saying "C-c-c-condors!".

My grandma is the one that got me into birding. She took me on a trip to an eagle count at a lake a few hours away. We saw many eagles that day. I also saw a great horned owl in broad daylight, which I've yet to see again; I remember how yellow it's eyes were. At the end of the day we stopped at the dam and my grandma put her spotting scope on some mallards and other ducks sitting around a section of open water. While I was watching, an Eagle came up and flew right over the dam, only a few dozen feet over head, then swooped down and crushed the mallard in the spotting scope so easily. We stayed and watched it eat until it was run off by other eagles that came for an easy meal.

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No Raids? (self.valheim)
submitted 1 year ago by BanjoShepard to c/valheim
 

My friend and I made a hardcore world this Monday and have been playing 6-8 hours daily, but have not had a single raid yet. We killed the first two bosses already. Maybe it's a bug with the pts? Maybe we're just incredibly lucky? I can't believe I'm asking for troll raids, but the leather would have been nice for armor.

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