thestrangebrew1
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Good news for you for sure! My dad just told me last week they found 4 lumps in his lungs. They need to run more tests to confirm what they are. He's been smoking for about 50 years.
Hopefully it's nothing. Us old folks have weird growing on us inside and out. I'll keep a good thought.
thestrangebrew1
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I've been out of the GIS game for at least a decade. Back when I was with the County, we had a GIS team we would just request maps or data and they'd zip it up and send to us. Being a Director in our local city government, I had to purchase an individual license and I'm basically re-learning. Everything is different now I feel like. Anyways, it took me all morning to create a data table for broken water meters for our utility guys. Was able to get the table geocoded properly, and mapped out. This will go to the feds, so we can get some earmarked grant money sent to us so we can start replacing water meters:
Very rudimentary but should work for what they're asking. Pretty proud of myself, and my finance director was amazed I was able to create something like this lol
Very rudimentary but should work for what they're asking. Pretty proud of myself, and my finance director was amazed I was able to create something like this lol
Red Squirrel
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I would put in a suggestion to start looking into a different brand of water meters! lol.
thestrangebrew1
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haha yea you don't even know. Some of this stuff has been in since the 80s-90s. We're switching to the ones that can be read wirelessly, but we're a small rural community so we replace them when we can. Broke AF lol
IronWing
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I’ve been to the east and I’ve been to the west but I have never been there.
Chaotic42
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I spent years making and doing quality control on printed maps. I'll get the loupe. Set the plotter for 1200dpi and someone get me some coffee.
Red Squirrel
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I've played with QGIS a bit, but mostly didn't know what I was doing, I did manage to put in a basic perimeter of my off grid land though, and then transferred it to my phone. I was surprised at how accurate it ended up being, since I was walking in the bush and the line I drew lined up within a meter of the ribbons in the trees indicating the property line. I also had setup a different layer that let me add dots so when I found something cool I would add an entry so I can go back to it. The phone app doesn't show me the direction I'm facing though so it's actually kinda hard to even get to a specific dot without cross referencing with a compass first so lots of fiddling around. It's easier to do on a sunny day so I can just go by the sun to know where I'm facing in relation to the map.
lxskllr
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Yea, I've used QGIS a bit too, and I had zero idea what I was doing. I somehow managed to hack something together the cad monkey at work needed, but it wasn't any kind of approved workflow :^D
I just don't get it, and I seldom have any real need for it.
I just don't get it, and I seldom have any real need for it.
Red Squirrel
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Our office has sewer backup so I was told to work my upcoming night shifts from home. Sucks about the sewer backup for whoever is tasked with cleanup, but fun to get to work from home on nights!
IronWing
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Sounds like a future action plan. Flushing diapers should do the trick.
Way back when I was in high school some smart fellow discovered M80's had waterproof fusses, he flushed one. Turns out that 50 year old cast iron waste lines don't fare well with that much overpressure.
Red Squirrel
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I snooped on the work email as I was just curious and it looks like they setup some heated portable toilets and they have the issue somewhat figured out. I hope they don't ask me to go in. I didn't get a text from my boss so I assume I'm still good to work from home, I think the portables are just for contractors.
lxskllr
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I just made popcorn, and only had 11 unpopped kernels. Two of those were semi popped, so crunchy and delicious. That's close to a record.
I use heirloom red popcorn. The pops are highly successful, and there's almost no hulls. Pops are smaller than the commodity crap, but everything else is first rate. Cook it in a wok on the stove. Takes about as long as a microwave, and no questionable chemicals, or material waste. I use extra virgin olive oil, various seasoning. Sometimes just salt. Today was a generic cajun seasoning.
Seriously, look up red popcorn. Once you try that, you'll never go back to the standard crap.
I use heirloom red popcorn. The pops are highly successful, and there's almost no hulls. Pops are smaller than the commodity crap, but everything else is first rate. Cook it in a wok on the stove. Takes about as long as a microwave, and no questionable chemicals, or material waste. I use extra virgin olive oil, various seasoning. Sometimes just salt. Today was a generic cajun seasoning.
Seriously, look up red popcorn. Once you try that, you'll never go back to the standard crap.
Muadib
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Your hot pumpkin seeds were outstanding, so I would do this in a heartbeat. That is if I had a wok still.
lxskllr
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Tell ya what, a wok is worth having if the only thing you use it for is popcorn. It's the perfect popcorn popper. I used to have a round bottom that went with an old girlfriend. The one I'm using now is a flat bottom I found in a dumpster. Both are basic carbon steel. Cheap to buy, and easy to maintain. The lid is a big domed aluminum thing. Not sure if it makes a difference, but it gives the popcorn lots of room to move around.
- Feb 14, 2004
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I use mine for deep-frying. Reheats quickly between batches! You can re-use deep-frying oil a bunch of times using gelatin powder:
A Mind-Blowing Technique for Cleaning Deep-Fry Oil: Use Gelatin
Here's the short of it: You can use gelatin to filter cruddy used deep-frying oil until it is crystal clear. The technique is easier than any other method I know, requiring no wire strainers or coffee filters or extensive clean-up.
Umm..I wouldn't recommend that. The re-used oil would be more dense in acrylamides that can quicken the journey to diabetes. I should know who was dumb enough to get T2D after eating a plate of fries daily for a month: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/a...amide-Exposure-and-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-Lipid
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lxskllr
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My first full time job was frying donuts in a bakery. Extra oil just got added to the top, and the fryers were cleaned once a week. Grease was run through a filter and reused.
Since I have a relatively "compromised" liver (most T2D sufferers have a fatty liver), I can easily "detect" when a fast food outlet uses bad oil that's been re-used a bit too much. The detection is simply getting a headache within an hour of eating said fried food.
Immediately after my month of fries and while my T2D was undiagnosed, I ate a single Dunkin' Donut and my little toe on the left foot filled up with BLOOD for a few days (it subsided on its own but boy, was I worried). That's the last time I ever ate a donut. Never doing THAT again.
Red Squirrel
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Meanwhile I can eat like 6+ in a sitting if I really want to lol.
I've cut back on that kind of eating over the years though... it would eventually catch up with me.
I've cut back on that kind of eating over the years though... it would eventually catch up with me.
Yeah. Watch out for serious ailments between age 35 to 42. I've read that people get less serious diabetes after age 50 because the slowdown of blood flow leads to less glucose circulation and thus lesser damage.
MrSquished
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well this happened today
I guess one nice thing is my mechanic is one block away from a branch of my bank so I can kill two birds with one stone.
I guess one nice thing is my mechanic is one block away from a branch of my bank so I can kill two birds with one stone.
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