TIL that finishing a shaped metal sheet by pounding it on a pedestal is called "planishing" and said pedestal is called a "planishing stake." I've seen it done I just never thought to ask what it was called, I guess.
I just saw my future.
One day (hopefully decades from now) I'll be browsing whatever the internet has become and I'll see this image with that bottom line crossed out. And that's how I'll learn he died.
I have a locally hosted invidious instance but increasingly I'm finding most of the creators I watch are on Nebula. I just recently discovered that Rifftrax has a presence there.
Satisfactory recently took over my free time. ALL of it.
Otherwise I have coding projects, CAD/printing projects, electronics projects, D&D session planning, and (of course) Lemmy/Mastodon.
but... what's the left cookie supposed to be?
My only comfort is that the rat is facing the other direction.
Sometimes I think the internet needs an Alec symbol to shine anytime Technology Connections needs to be invoked.
I imagine it would be like the bat signal, but look like hand painted LED Christmas lights or something.
"Beverly, I had the entire yankee candle line programmed into the replicator."
Mark McKinney from The Kids in the Hall (SNL, Superstore and more) has a series on CTV in which each episode has him trying out a new hobby by spending time with a mentor. In series 1, episode 6 his mentor is James Chatto who is Mae Martin's dad. They show a brief clip from the prize task.
!Mark, James, and another puppeteer
Just before the reveal I said to my wife, "I half expected them to tap Mae's dad for this" since I didn't recognize him by name.
Sadly, I'm not sure how to watch it legally outside Canada or a VPN's Canadian IP.
Data is the only person that could beat Micheal Winslow on his own turf.
I stand-corrected. This is peak torture for everyone.
If the Lwaxanas had laser pointers attached to the side of their heads and Gul Madred was a child. this would be peak torture for Picard.
Yeah, when I was a kid it was weird when a household didn't own a set of these.
Sad story. The poor otter heard about the Crab Nebula and went for a feast. But it got as far as Eagle, and realized it made a terrible mistake. All the crabs are back home!
Sam Bond's is closing after almost 30 years. I feel like this is one of the most iconic closures since Max's.
I'll go ahead continue today's trend of awesome orange kitties.
Our Laszlo (aka Zozo) likes to show up early in my work day so he can watch all the little faces during my morning meetings while using my wrist as a pillow. Then we turn on some youtube cat tv if he sticks around after meetings are over.
Ok this is more disappointing than infuriating, but I've been voting for 26 years and just once I want the state or county to give me a frickin' sticker.
Former Bob’s Burgers actor Jay Johnston was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for his role in the January 6th US Capitol riot.
> Johnston... previously pleaded guilty to a felony count of interfering with law enforcement during civil disorder in July 2024.
> The 56-year-old actor was initially arrested in June 2023 after the FBI tweeted a photo requesting information about his identity. He is alleged to have led a group to the “front line of rioters confronting the police who were defending the entrance” to the Capitol, helping to launch an assault against a group of officers.
For the next three years, anyways.
> US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing third parties to diagnose and repair commercial equipment — including the ones that make your McFlurries.
> The decision is part of the Copyright Office’s final rule granting exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This exemption-making process happens every three years and is supposed to ensure that the DMCA doesn’t negatively impact people trying to use copyrighted material.
Worth nothing that DMCA exceptions are reviewed on the same 3 year cycle and are frequently revoked. So if you're a McD ice cream fan, enjoy it while you can.
Youtube decided to surface this classic Alasdair Beckett-King video for me, now I'm passing on the favor.
If that doesn't work try sudo systemctl restart engines && sudo engage
I know we've already done Mot's apple sauce, but I pictured the Mott's Apple Cannibal as Mot. Now you all have to see it too.
Does anyone know where I can buy 3 to 5 pair of normal looking human hand (or finger) gloves within the next week or so?
I finally thought of an idea for a Halloween Zoom-based costume contest to go as an AI generated person, and one of the key ingredients of it is WAY too many fingers. But as I've searched for non-monster looking latex costume gloves and I'm coming up empty. I assumed I have lots of options but that none would fit my XL sized hands. But instead I just find zombie, ape, alien, or skeleton. Some of the 4 finger alien gloves could work, but its not quite what I'm going for.
Update: Thanks all. Between magic trick thumbs, dismembered prop hands, and tiny novelty hands I should have what I need to put my costume together!\ Update 2: I just placed an order for 14 hands and 10 thumbs. I love Halloween.
I happened to notice today that the "Itchy and Scratch Land" episode of The Simpsons aired just over 30 years ago (on Oct. 2nd, 1994).
That means that, for a full 3 decades now, I have checked every single gift, souvenir, and tourist shop I've been in for a Bort plate. Its not obsessive and I'm not going out of my way, but if I see a rack of novelty license plates I make a point to look for Bort.
Anyone else, or am I alone in this particular pop culture predilection?
Thought about posting this to lemmybewholesome, but thought it might not fit everyone's definition.
A video of a man destroying a 'Taylor Swift' guitar as a Texas charity event has gone viral — but the guitar was not autographed by Swift.
The weird get weirder. He apparently spent $4000 to smash a guitar that was next to a signature.
> A man who for some reason smashed up a guitar with a hammer in Texas may have thought it had been signed by Taylor Swift — but it was not, in fact, an official Swift-certified guitar.
> But contrary to media reports, the guitar the man destroyed had not been signed by Swift — and was not a certified official guitar used by the singer, a source close to her merch company confirmed to Variety. The organization that held the auction, the Ellis County WildGame Dinner, presented the guitar with a signed CD insert but the guitar itself was not signed.
A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in a few hours from Hurricane Helene.
> Some North Carolina cities were forecasted to receive 10 times their monthly rainfall amount.
> The emergency flash flood warning issued by the NWS says that at least 3,000 people are at risk of emergency flooding downstream of the Broad River and Lake Lure Dam
This is in additional to the flash flood warnings happening all over the state.
Thanks to Costco fueled bulk buying, between the last time I bought deodorant and this week, my deodorant changed from the Scent of Adventure to the Scent of Cypress.
So is Cypress the sum total of adventure or an overdue respite?
I don't know why my brain connected Trump's "a concept of a plan" and his obsession with Hannibal (Lecter, but I went with Smith), but here you go.
Surprisingly good quality for something from 80's cable TV.
In 2024 the first thing that struck me was that I can barely remember the last time I cared about what was in the mailbox.
A very early performance from TMBG, back when Letterman was still on NBC. February 1989 performing They'll Need a Crane
I love their old TV performances. Especially the Conan appearances. If there's an audience for it I'll post the best (video/audio) quality ones I can find, from time to time.
