ellisk

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[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you think kids in Thunder Bay are worse off than Montreal because of the time zone relative toe sunrise? They're both on EST, but sunrise is about an hour off between the two of them. Or is it about kids going to school in the dark, because I have bad news for you regarding most of Canada...

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Had a similar issue a couple months ago with sending money to my WS TFSA in a way that required a chequing intermediary account, and I also remember being boggled by the conditions attached (and ended up cancelling the transfer instead). Fortunately I don't have much over there yet, just been testing the waters. Aviso's Qtrade is probably next up for me to try.

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You should grab a burnisher for that card scraper...

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's only ITS sequencing ("barcoding") which is really old/cheap technology compared to modern whole genome sequencing (PacBio + HiC, etc). It's a very limited view of the genome, but still useful for broad phylogenetic analysis though, and definitely worthwhile since it'll be a while before we have a meaningful fraction of fungal species fully sequenced. I suspect there isn't much grant money out there for fungal diversity...

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

If you're going to try it, my advice: mix some very fine sanding dust (maybe 120 or so) with some poly with a putty knife until it's a really thick paste, and then jam it into the cracks... it'll shrink a little so be liberal with it and just sand it before you do the final finish. If you're really artsy too, you can actually paint on matching grain with acrylic and an incredibly fine brush to help it match. I've also just filled up cracks with sawdust and applied a few drops of poly, but it never seems to match quite as well for me that way.

I actually need to try something new for my next oil finish project too, so I'll be keeping an eye on this post, haha.

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Always worth doing a test piece first. I haven't had any good results with glue (wood or CA), but if I'm finishing with polyurethane, making a filler with the same poly as the 'glue' is next to perfect.

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago

I'm going to have to try this! Very curious about just how hard it turns out to be in the end.

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Just been thinking about this a lot because the feet really bug me somehow. I think it probably is do-able as other people have mentioned, but also, are you sure this is a real box someone made and not AI-generated? I hate to have to ask it, but these days... and man, why don't the feet visibly support the box? I guess it could be inlaid... like I said, I don't think it's impossible. Just odd somehow.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ellisk@lemmy.ca to c/photography@lemmy.world
 

So caveat here, last time I shot fully manual was about 30 years ago. You couldn't change your ISO on the fly, you picked out a roll and that was that.

Now here I am shooting digital and what is wrong with the lowest ISO setting? Searching around I feel like I'm the only one with this issue. ISO 160 sucks the saturation out and tries to push the image towards black and white with high contrast, it feels like. If I tap it up and readjust everything, even just to 200-400, the problem goes away. Any thoughts? Busted lens? Some setting buried in the massive list? Any help appreciated... seems a shame not to shoot at 160 when I've got plenty of light (or is this old B&W film mindset?)

Fujifilm X-T4 BTW.

Edited to show what I mean better: not identical pictures but from the same day, of the same tree.

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oak's the one that really gets me.

 

Pulling the bike out now that the snow's mostly melted way up here and realizing I probably need a new chain based on stretch last year... what's your chain (and other bits) maintenance routine? I definitely need to get something better going than a casual clean... I guess streams/mud/insane amounts of road dust are pretty hard on the system.

[โ€“] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lovely! Does the top just slot into the body?

 

I've built up a pretty good pile of small scraps of wood I just can't bear to toss over the years: verawood, ebony, rosewood, mahogany, purpleheart, but even just some nice maple, sitka spruce, red cedar, walnut, etc. I started carving some into pendants this winter, and some look pretty good, but I'm looking for ideas for really small or weirdly shaped scrap -- everything from 1/2" lathe ends with a hole in them, to long 1/2" x 3/8" x 4', a small clip of the pile under the picture.

I've heard a few people just throw them into baggies and sell/give to crafty folks, which I might do in the end. But I figure if I can make stuff to give away as gifts or sell at a craft fair, all the better... but outside of jewellery, not sure what else to do. The are NOT big enough for endgrain cutting boards, and most have a couple rounded or uneven edges.

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