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What is this bug:
What do you call this bug: It's green, maybe bright green, over an inch long, almost 2 inches, and its body is over a half inch high and is shaped roughly like a fish, with spindly legs. No fat legs...
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California Off Road Fossil Fuels Powered Ban
The legislature is apparently ready to pass a ban on fossil fueled off road engines under 25 hp. Lawn mowers, trimmers, chain saws, and a lot of the smaller tractors would fall under this ban. <> We...
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2 years ago
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Felt like castor replacements
My chair wheels started taking the paint finish off my luxury vinyl bamboo floors. I switched to Amazon castor wheels made of soft felt. I still need to touch up the area with stain but the wheels are...
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2 years ago
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Toilet installation
Years ago when I replaced my toilet, the flange was a bit below floor level so to be sure I got a seal I used two wax rings. Zero problems. Now I am set to put in a better toilet and I found out there...
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OT: Alkaline Battery Testing With Multimeter
After 11 years of use, my trusty Home Depot Commercial Electric battery tester has gone screwy-- needle swinging back and forth during testing. I was going to just go buy another one but remembered...
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2 years ago
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Data Anonymization
Some interesting reading for fretwell on very clever uses of encryption in data anonymization. Homomorphic encryption - Wikipedia
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2 years ago
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Tree pushed my wooden fence out of alignment and now my gate won’t close!
My tree slowly pushed my fence towards the gate and now the gate can’t close. It’s about 1-2” away from where it should be! I have cut the darn tree down but I am stuck with the gate not being...
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2 years ago
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OT Bring back the wooly mammoth
There is is all this mostly empty land north of the Arctic Circle (and something to do with carbon!) wo what better way is there to use it than to encourage herds of wooly mammoths to live there....
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2 years ago
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replace 2 20amp breakers to 1 30 am
I have an outside garage that has unfinished walls leading into the breaker panel and access to all the wires coming out of it. I need to have a 30amp service for my RV, which I don't. But I have 2x...
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2 years ago
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Local broafcast tv dead?
micky to Jul 1Details In on Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:53:04 -0700 (PDT), WGUV wrote: But the page above says you have to have the Clearstream TV app, and doesn't it already need a smartphone to run on? Step...
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2 years ago
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new toilet installed, smells like chemicals
ever since I had a new toilet installed in my half bath off the kitchen it smells like strong chemicals and wafts out into the kitchen if I don't keep the door closed. Doesn't smell like sewage....
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2 years ago
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OT I am becoming an invisible man
I am becoming an invisible man. I got a full-body skin test and apparently was supposed to get a report, but I got nothing. I got an eye-exam, and I'm sure he said he would email me the results, but I...
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NEVER FORGET
Today is 9/11 a day of remembrance and reflection for the 343 brothers I lost in WTC bombing.
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Will a 17 hp briggs and stratton engine work in place of my blown up 15 hp are the bolt patterns the same and the shafts the same
They are both single cylinder engine
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2 years ago
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Damp box bottoms from (Ida) flood
I was happy a closet with boxes didn't seem to get water, but a week alter I find bottoms of boxes damp I will replace, but wondering.. fortinately no mildew (yet) But I remmeber boxes damamged by...
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