bobo

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[–] bobo 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you asked if she wanted to bring it to HR, she probably thought you meant Henry Rollins and she knew that wouldn't go well.

[–] bobo 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Very cool post!

I've made my own seiza bench similar to this. My suggestion after iterating on this a little: Experiment a little and find your ideal measurements. Just screw but don't glue the legs until you find your ideal. This makes it easier to do modifications. This is not a one-size-fits-all situation, so if you're going to go through the effort to make your own, make sure it's a comfortable fit. Also, consider building it "pi-style" where the two bench legs are near the center of the bench and your legs go on either side. I find this less restrictive and easier to use non-disruptively on retreat. Doesn't seem to affect the balance negatively for me at all.

[–] bobo 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We went through my Great Aunt's old photo album with her a few years before she passed at 101(!) We recorded the audio and scanned the whole photo album, so we now basically have a whole slideshow narrated by her going through her old photos. She was the last person in our family from her generation and there were people and places in that photo album that no one else would have been able to identify. At her memorial service, my brother took the raw material and edited together a five minute video presentation that included music, photos and her voice narrating. It was great at the service for everyone to have that contact with her voice again.

Both my father and my mother (divorced) have old 8mm film which I've recently digitized, and we're now in the process of sitting down with them and informally recording their voiceovers with the old footage so we have a record of everyone and every place in the old footage.

We've also gotten subscriptions for my mother, father, and father-in-law to a service called storyworth that sends them a question a week via email and gives them a web form to answer the question in. They can also do more than one a week, select a different question if they don't want to do the one they were sent, or make up their own question. At the end of a year, storyworth collects it all together and prints a book of all the generated material. Photos can also be added. It's gone well, though their consistency has varied a bit. We've renewed all of their subscriptions for another year and we're getting some great stories out of it.

[–] bobo 1 points 8 months ago

I'm grandfathered in to when their premium was a one-time payment, but I'm trying out AntennaPod again as I'd like to stick with open source solutions. I haven't used AntennaPod since 2.4.x and I moved back to Pocket Cast because AntennaPod was giving me a weird issue where the app would occasionally lose audio focus when I paused. I'm hoping I don't run into that issue again, because, other than that, it was every bit as good as Pocket Casts, probably better.

I love being able to arrange by tags, rather than folders.

[–] bobo 1 points 8 months ago

I regret that I have but one upvote to give

[–] bobo 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was funny. I miss it.

[–] bobo 1 points 8 months ago

"smuggle" not "snuggle "

[–] bobo 3 points 8 months ago

Check out Darknet Diaries. High production, in-depth stories on hacking and cyber security. Good for tech-heads and non-tech-heads

[–] bobo 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Based on Behind The Bastards, check out Knowledge Fight. Dan and Jordan have co-hosted on BtB. They track Alex Jones and Infowars. They're funny and delightful.

Based on Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, check out The Unbelievable Truth. Hosted by David Mitchell on BBC Radio 4. Very funny celebrity panel show where they tell outrageous lies about a particular topic, but try to snuggle truths undetected past their opponents. Very funny, and there's years of back catalog to listen to, if you're so inclined.

[–] bobo 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

except Sci-hub hasn’t been adding new papers since 2020. Anna’s Archive is a better bet, because they aggregate both sci-hub and libgen, among others. They also make torrents available for data hoarders. Their torrents total over 600 TB at this point, but include books in addition to articles.

[–] bobo 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

except Sci-hub hasn't been adding new papers since 2020. Anna's Archive is a better bet, because they aggregate both sci-hub and libgen, among others. They also make torrents available for data hoarders.

[–] bobo 2 points 11 months ago

I couldn't resist. I went ahead and bought that AL13 aggressive after reading and watching a bunch of reviews. It's great. It holds the blade more firmly than the Merkur and shaves really smoothly without pulling. I would like it if it were a bit heavier, but it still feels good in my hand. Thank you for the recommendation.

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