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Cake day: February 12th, 2025

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  • As someone who does it professionally. There is a very real risk being that close. We have shells that go up and don’t explode, we have hang fires where it doesn’t launch when it’s supposed to and then does when the smoldering paper finally touches the lift, and we have some that don’t reach apogee and explode at the wrong height.

    It’s a thrill, I know. I love watching them launch and being that close. But it comes with some dangers.









  • I buy throughout the year whenever I see something I know they will like. By Christmas, I forget what I’ve bought and wrapped.

    This year, I asked my girlfriend if she will want something and tell her I’ll hold onto it until Christmas. Buy it with her, and then by the time she gets it, she’s forgotten. I did that with a bracelet that said “Mom” on it during the summer, that I would put her daughters name as the from so that she gets something from her daughter. I always try to buy something to be “from” her daughter. It is really nice for her daughter too, to have that experience “giving” something on Christmas too.

    I sat with her daughter the other night making bracelets for her to give out at our family Christmas party and the first one we made was for her to give to her biological Dad when she goes with him in a few days.


  • It’s why I live so much commercial stuff and things like bacnet.

    Everything basically is just basic I/O with either analog or digital signal wires. Well documented. But it typically requires lots of actual wires running back to a controller.

    I hate how consumer stuff is all different connections in so many different ways and they don’t care if they deprecate a feature or something. What works today can be fucked up because they have unilateral control to change how their shit works in “updates.”