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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Our TV got 1-5 channels depending on the weather. Our antenna rotator was one person outside turning the tube that held the antenna and one person inside saying “A little more! A little more! No, go back! Go back!”

    I remember visiting a rich person’s home and his son showing me his cable TV. He was bragging that he could watch Dukes of Hazard on the regular channel at 4pm and a cable channel also had the Dukes at 7pm.

    Two Dukes of Hazards in a day?! That’s how rich folks live!!


  • This depended entirely on where you lived. My parents were divorced and one lived in the country and one lived in the suburbs. I could ride freely around the neighborhood in both places, which was literally within sight of my house, but beyond that were dangerous roads and nowhere nearby to go anyway.

    Neighboring kids were hard to find. In the country, there were 5 houses on our road and only one had kids my age. We were kinda friends but they were kinda weird.

    The suburban neighborhood had 25 homes, and all the kids were older or younger. I never met anyone my age in that neighborhood.

    Hanging out with friends meant you called them to see if they could come over. If both parents agreed and one was available to drive, you had a friend for the day.


  • And if any younger people are reading, you can get a hostel for 20-50 per night. My daughter started working at mcdonalds at 16 and saved up to spend 6 weeks in Europe right after she graduated high school (2024). She bought the plane ticket a year in advance but once she was there she probably only spent $2500.

    As we get older we need a nicer hotel, a pet walker/housesitter, time off work, money to pay bills ahead of time, etc. I wish I knew that was possible when I was young.


  • That’s worded poorly. I guess literally it translates as the “study of time” but physicists study the concept of time, and nobody would say they’re doing horology. If you read on it explains it’s the study of the measurement of time in general but horology has specifically come to refer to mechanical timekeeping devices. Watch and clockmakers are horologists, watch collectors may say they’re “into horology.”

    It is like horoscope in that “horo” refers to time. Horoscopes are the “study” of the time of a person’s birth and how that affects their life or whatever.






  • It’s been a few years but I don’t remember it being too hard to set up. I did it on slackware, compiling everything from source, so anybody should be able to do it on a distro with dependency resolution.

    They provided a zip file that is updated every so often (hourly?) and contains data for your specific region. I just used that. It does have an option that people can use their own data, but I think it’s because most NWS offices run this model in addition to the national models they get from upstream. No normal person has enough input data to be useful.



  • It’s fact that breaking up your outline works, just Google “science deer camouflage.”

    It’s common sense that if you dress like a tree, you’ll look like a tree to a deer no matter how they see trees. If they see trees as yellow triangles and you dress like a tree, you’d look like a yellow triangle to a deer. The only other thing is they see UV better, so don’t use UV reflective cloth or you’d look like a strange glowing yellow rectangle.