Just had the same here in Washington state for the Little Giant fire. Great image in the article. We had another fire cloud behind Rainier the other day, and saw it from the Rount Mainier farm - it really looked like the volcano was smoking up and ready to top-off. <clench>
After years of trying dozens of tools for invites, I was just about to build my own. Our last tool was a Mac-based Outlook / Word / Excel mail merge - way more complicated than it used to be. I'll take a look at this one, but if anyone has a suggestion for a solid, simple, no ads, tool / work flow, I'm open. General requirements are about 6 events a year with about 125 invitees, another dozen smaller dinners. RSVP, followup email day prior to event. Nice to have a graphic in the email. [edit] I don't want my invitees to have to sign up for anything.
I know these things are more complicated than they seem at first, but whenever these stories surface, I immediately go to an idealistic childhood cartoon land where we have a prime directive that tells us to go forth(!) and watch out for each other!
I made some charcoal in a tin a couple years ago from branch ends of an arbutus tree. I didn't realize how much I was really making. It's great stuff. Very enjoyable feel and marks nearly all the papers I use it on.
Never tried the process your describing. I'll try watercolor paper first, and then canvas - I assume you mean a primed / gessoed canvas?
Might be obvious, but their videos and tutorial articles are way over the top for a little importer / retailer. Fair warning, they'll either have you grabbing your current supplies inspired for a project, or shopping for stuff.
When I read these stories of bibliophiles and their stacks, I really wonder more about their book flow. How many are they bringing in, processing (reading, skimming, reviewing, studying, etc.), and then what's the output look like. Are they selling them back, donating, or dropped back off at the library.
I used to buy a lot of books. Library book sales were fun - returning with boxes of books. These days I leverage interlibrary loans and reservations to a couple thousand titles a year, but only need a couple of shelves for any given week. My flow is steady and adaptable to the content. Notebooks, Zettle card / bookmarks, and plain text files for deep dives. And straight to trading platforms for certain magazines like BottomLine.
As someone who has lived as you describe for 50+ years, it might be wise to embrace it. "Generalists" often benefit from seeing the similarities between systems, sets, and sciences, leading to insights that specialists can miss. This is how I've been leveraged in places where specialists with deep knowledge have failed (MBAs, lawyers, etc.) It doesn't mean I'm always the best tool, but when there is a project that's really stuck, sometimes I get to be the hero.
You might also relax a little one day and ponder what the core interests have in common. For example, I found I had a few different threads in my studies. Building of any kind - metal, wood, programming, world. So when I drew comics, it wasn't the art of line and form as much as it was the idea of creating a world for my characters to live in. And my science interests turned out to be a spiritual search for truth. Conversely, my religious studies were a way to connect to the early wisdom (pseudo science) and how it shaped modern society and culture.
Even if it isn't some net profit benefit, I'd probably still advise to make the most of it, lean in, and be your ever-lovin' self.
Agreed. I've figured it out during the drier months in the NW of the States. Plenty of work in the woods, workshop, maintenance, and helping neighbors with the same. But winter and the rains I would inevitably put on 10 pounds and lose my super old guy muscles. My mildly successful campaign against the trend is long rain walks and Convict Conditioning workouts.
Witness. I've built three small projects from idea to pilot runs with Ai. Some parts of the process I had some solid experience with, and other parts I was holding the hand of my Ai and hoping he was sober and benevolent. I often had laughing fits of glee when things worked AND I understood them. As good as Ai is at just doing stuff, it's better at explaining and teaching. The back and forth made all the projects better, cheaper, tougher, and ultimately more usable.
Both. I need two covers: one for a wood yard and another for a concrete slab for wrenching on the car. The rest are going to the library for shelving. I say the rest, but I have a feeling there's going to be a lot more finished board than I actually need.
Big believer in this tool. It brings pride and even further diligence to the conscientious reader. And in the case of the slacker, a silent knowing without shaming them, which rarely helps performance. Instead, you can manage the situation stealthily.
This article and others are describing tech workers are leaving their jobs. Or being let go. I'm wondering what people are doing who may be leaving tech in general. Artistic pursuits, new business, or other projects?
If retirement, what does that look like? Seems like very few people retire and do not have some pretty engaging projects, volunteer work, etc.
And if you are under 45, are you turning to other career paths?
And I can't disagree with either, especially the riff raff usage, but the term "takeover" was the one intended to play the important role in the sentence. And it wasn't for the unhoused - but the dealers and traffickers.
Seattle used to have a top notch zine scene - entire sections of stores (music, magazine, comic, game) would have hundreds of local and national zines.
Recently, Seattle's been trying to make a comeback downtown. We lost gobs of tenants and the riff raff tookover. One element of the comeback strategy is this Seattle Restored project. Basically, rent free storefronts to small businesses.
For father's day my ladies brought me to one of them:
You'd be right. Flash backs of course to BBS homepage / door designs. Getting the -=[[UNIX]=- to look just right. Or the layers of ///FILES\\\ to flash. The graffiti style was beyond me, but the tables and sketches were very pleasurable time sinks.
I once saw a TUI adventure game that had windows - game scene, profile, comms, etc. It required a substantial screen size to really work well, but it was outstanding in brevity and communications. And no colors.
Almost word for word what I was thinking! The UI doesn't really get in the way but it feels like it isn't quite designed for people. And the content is excellent. I'm oddly tickled by the uniqueness of it.
As I think it would be lost with a ASK HN, I'll just beg here, what other sites have you seen that take a completely different / odd / "special" approach to UI for ordinary presentations / purposes?