Call him Rudy or Olly for short and you’re golden. He’ll never escape it during Christmas season though.

I’ve witnessed ball lightning twice in my life. None of the crazy UFO style stuff, both cases the lightning was arching between clouds and just sort of balled up and hovered there for a few seconds before fizzling out.

A little more repeatable, I once stopped in the middle of nowhere in west Oregon at 2am. We pulled over on some rural road, turned off all the lights and just looked at the sky. It was the first time I’d ever been somewhere I couldn’t at least see light pollution on the horizon. I grew up in a rural area, I’d always shown off the stars you could see out there, but the awe I felt in that perfect darkness seeing more stars than I’d ever managed before has actually soured my love of the sky. The sky at home looked so dull after that. I live in the city now and rarely see any stars, somehow I don’t mind.

Got covid and flu shots Saturday and that took me out all weekend. Today I felt good enough to distribute the new moss around my turtle enclosure. According to their new meters, it’s 85f and 95% humidity which is just where they want go be. I’ve been watching them tromp around and bask.

Totally not the answer you were here for, but you could likely upgrade your setup by reaching out to your local school district and asking if you can loot their e-waste. They’ll want to keep any storage because it may contain sensitive data, but all the rest of the hardware is free for the pickings. My son’s pc, my server, and my two projectors all came from an e-waste crate at the local school district office.

I’m going to have to give that a try, my biggest gripe with fo4’s story is that the factions are all mutually incompatible despite having serious overlaps. There is no reason the skeleton crew of the railroad can’t be moved to the castle to become the covert brancj of the Minutemen, they’re literally fighting for the same cause. Same way that the brotherhood murdering the institute instead of claiming it as theirs and pulling turning all the scientists into scribes is just so very short sighted.

Probably because you give them the ick.

Young Adult>Classic>Shelf A

A lot of people give this book and it’s cartoon shit because they were exposed too young, but it’s message is something that a lot of other books don’t offer so I really think it should be available. Ideally, ages 12-17 would be able to handle the content and genuinely digest the meaning while still being young enough for it to have a lasting impact on their development.

Also it would be a library, not a bookstore.

Mulvad gives you a 16 digit random number when you sign up. Anyone with that number can use that account, it’s on you to not lose it, if you do you have to make a new account. You send them money and an account number and they add balance to that account. When it’s out, that account is blocked from service until they get more money. You hack their service and you get a list of numbers and whether or not they have service. They keep no documentation and if you pay with card you have to manually input every time. I know them better than they know their users.

Mulvad. That’s how I do it.

I have a desktop hard-drive dock and keep most of my games installed on cheap SSDs. Feels like starting an n64 when I use steam.

You don’t need to kill every wolf to protest the village, you just need to kill enough that the wolf learns the village is a death sentence. The smart one’s will always still be in the woods and when one slips they’ll remind the rest why they hide there.

The biggest sin of the American government was failing to hang every single confederate sympathizer. The problems only cascade from there.

Yes! That’s going on the watchlist

Oh you are in for a treat! it’s an antique instrument with a very distinctive sound.

That you either passionately love or viscerally hate droning instruments.

Too many beautiful sculptures melt under the scorching gaze of capitalism.

The biggest sin is when you see cheap plastic goggles with gears and spikes covering one eye. The point if goggles is to protect the eyes, not obscure your vision and carry your trash.

It’s not quite the same as you describe, but I do carry the tenets of that old steampunk to my modern crafts. Right now I’m making an electric hurdy gurdy cello out of a broken guitar, a kitchen mixer, and 3d printed models of my own construction. If steampunk taught me anything it’s that anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I’ll have to listen to this after work, but I already feel at home in the comments.