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Gynoid Maria
Jadis located at 2701 Main St, Santa Monica, Calif. 90405
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Damn! It's Friday and I never set up a photo file for Flickr; this occurred to me just as I logged on. Checked my notebook for photo files and came up with this. A picture circulating that one of my car buds pointed out. I showed it to a skilled graphics wizard and she said it seems legitimate!
I'll send ya something nice tomorrow.
Day 22 of 365
I didn't really want to go full black and white on this. it's just really low saturated. I like it. I was panicking because I was busy all day and had no time but I was inspired at the last minute by food coloring.
note: Mr.'69 had won tickets to GORDON LIGHTFOOT(a Canadian legend)on the"world's hardest trivia" on our local radio station. This prize came with an opportunity to win the GRAND PRIZE of the week! It was ...A Limousine to and from Peterborough Memorial Centre, dinner for two at the local Greek steak house and FRONT ROW, CENTRE for MR. GORDON LIGHTFOOT! The news of his death was GREATLY exaggerated!
Colleague found out I liked Newtons, brought in a collection. Of course this one stood out for me....
He bought it at Weird Stuff in the mid-90s.
(Apologies for the relatively crummy iPhone shot -- wasn't quite prepared for any rarities today)
Whenever we travel we look for unusual stuff. We also like street art and popping into art galleries and interesting stores. This album is mix of all that from a trip we took to Barcelona, Spain, in January 2025. What a beautufil city - I would go back there again!
Friend & I went to Sevierville Flea Market after the car show. He's never been to this flea market. There are ALWAYS weird pictures here!
Sevierville, TN. 012223.
Whenever we travel we look for unusual stuff. We also like street art and popping into art galleries and interesting stores. This album is mix of all that from a trip we took to Barcelona, Spain, in January 2025. What a beautufil city - I would go back there again!
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Recent windstorm did a number on Silicon Valley, 54 hour long electric blackout at my Sunnyvale location finally ended last night, but still continuing in parts of nearby Los Altos. This long of a blackout not in my past life experience. It's luxury camping, hot and cold water but no electric service. Cooking by camp stove. WiFi and VOIP telephone connection powered by UPS battery (likely less than half day, 12V 7 Ah when new, modem consumes .5A). Made a DIY cable to allow indefinite WiFi/phone operations powered by any auto battery. Many neighbors went elsewhere.
Some lessons:
1. Big bag of crushed ice in the freezer section did not help enough. It may have buffered some in the beginning, but at the 54 hour point even the frozen veg sitting directly on top of the still ice crushed ice bag had softened, as had all the other meat and frozen vegetables in the freezer. Negligible air circulation in the freezer section I think means the frozen meat and vegetables mainly keep the ice bag cold. Would have to surround the frozen food with ice to protect food better, not practical.
2. No need to open either refrigerator or freezer doors at any time during a blackout if you have tech gadgets. A thermocouple wire temperature probe slips easily past the magnetic seals to tell you the ongoing temperature story.
3. Soy sauce survives just fine (look it up).
4. Professional solder and shrink tube cable making is indeed possible in an extended blackout using the clumsy soldering attachment to the ordinary propane torch. The tip is way too big, but the technique is to make all splices include one excess long wire tail, and put the torch large chisel tip to the tail, put solder on it in excess and let the wire tail conduct heat and solder down to the splice area. After soldering you just cut off the excess tail, slide over the pre-placed shrink tubes and complete the usual way. The requirement for precision tip placement is eased, allowing you to mind where the sideways torch heat is going to avoid setting your arm holding the solder and the cable and surroundings on fire.
5. Ideally such cables are made in advance of need, using the proper connector to the modem that you find in your box of orphan wall wart power cubes. But if you make it during the blackout under primitive conditions, you can benefit from the law of ironic perversity, in that just when you finish and test the cable, the blackout is then shortly to end (in my case 15 hours in advance of the utility company prediction).
6. By my recent daylight experience 1 out of 5 Silicon Valley drivers just blow thru blacked out stoplight controlled intersections. In a blackout, the lights seem to have some limited power backup, but eventually go to all lights out in all directions.
The way for a bicyclist to survive this in heavy traffic is to yield right of way conventionally but once in the intersection do not assume approaching drivers will even see you. Stop halfway in the intersection if anyone is closely approaching from the right. With luck you will see some approaching cars coming from your right ignore the now dark traffic lights and you now stopped in the middle of the intersection, and blow right by you only a few feet away at 30 MPH. Do not presume they will stop or even slow. Then you can clear the remaining half of the intersection in one piece.
7. Although I am not particularly a tablet fan, my $10 Weirdstuff Android tablet delivered good blackout service for email access, better than my power hungry and aging battery laptops. Boots fast and my tablet recharges easily from a USB power brick or charger adaptor that plugs into an auto cigarette lighter socket.
8. Camp stove, matches and fuel stored in my earthquake kit many decades ago performed flawlessly.
9. The way that just in case UPS supplies intended for blackouts fail is that first you discover they produce obscure but annoying radio noise. You turn them off to enjoy less interference and forget about them. Then comes along a blackout and of course their long neglected batteries need replacement.
10. Blackout situations do increase the anticipation and enjoyment of daily vigorous sustained exercise. I ride even in the winter on dry days because it does seem to set a higher metabolic rate and psychological optimism for the rest of the day, and this is very evident in a blackout when indoors goes into the low fifties and sensible people have hit the hotels.
I hit the Axis on Monday and there wasn't a St. Patty's Day theme happening. I decided to photograph this 10+ inch pine cone sitting on one if the bar shelves.
*it sparks !!*
*watch him walking !!*
pull antenna up to make him walk /
push antenna down to stop him walking
model number MS 403
packaging (in the rear "robot lilliput")
Whenever we travel we look for unusual stuff. We also like street art and popping into art galleries and interesting stores. This album is mix of all that from a trip we took to Barcelona, Spain, in January 2025. What a beautufil city - I would go back there again!
Colleague found out I liked Newtons, brought in a collection. Of course this one stood out for me....
He bought it at Weird Stuff in the mid-90s.
(Apologies for the relatively crummy iPhone shot -- wasn't quite prepared for any rarities today)
needs to be seen in the full size. that's some weird stuff on the tennis ball. i don't think it's just sand.
Hi!
The Bear Committee (see
http://greta.electric.gen.nz/~nikster/bearcom.html if you're not
familiar) has decided to run a fun competition to name their newest
bear cub minion/crony/ally that signed up over here. Answers please to either
nikster@greta.electric.gen.nz or www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/82419215/ -- a prize of a Committee-endorsed lunch
(bought from The Kiosk at VUW, or other Committee-approved
establishment of course) with Nikster, Little Albert Kenby-Bear, new
cub and their hēkeretari is on offer to the winner. If the names are
good.
In order to help you select the best name, fourteen photos (taken with
Tiny Albert Kenby-Bear, one of its brothers) is attached; [the] new cub is the white-furred bear with the blue scarf. Deadline for
entries is when the bear's named. Which could be in the next five
minutes, so you'd better hurry.
Good luck!
Bear hugs,
Nikster's hēkeretari (for Nikster, who's actually on holiday somewhere
in Wellington).
NB: no shaggy fur from [the] new cub was lost in the shooting
of the pictures. Just so you know; new cub wanted that mentioned.
--
Jonathan Ah Kit - Lower Hutt - New Zealand - hydro@electric.gen.nz
jonathan@metalab.unc.edu - http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/
Ettie Rout: 'the basis of marriage is obviously mating[...]'.
And again: 'A marriage may be legal [...] and diseased.'
Whenever we travel we look for unusual stuff. We also like street art and popping into art galleries and interesting stores. This album is mix of all that from a trip we took to Barcelona, Spain, in January 2025. What a beautufil city - I would go back there again!
The sky and the sea I photographed near Brighton; the figures I shot under a table lamp and the rest I made up.
Found in Wisconsin. now hidden behind a fence. The topless bar that shared it's parking lot was for sale.
Friend & I went to Sevierville Flea Market after the car show. He's never been to this flea market. There are ALWAYS weird pictures here!
Sevierville, TN. 012223.