Octopus Overlords

Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:31 am ... in case someone else loves the band Boston as much as me.

Aren't they just another band out of Boston?

Brian wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:34 am

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:16 am 100 in garage? Yeesh.

My daughter had two hens in a coop in our garage for a while. So much dust. On everything.

I remember how stinky the coop was and the amount of shit they generated which went to compost which went to gardening. I also remember they were a compost unto themselves. We fed them as much organic refuse as we did feed. Probably more.

My sister keeps chickens. She has a coup outside for them. I worry she'll catch some random bird flu and die from it. She is 70 years old now., I remember her being 25 a few years ago.

Speaking of animal cruelty, my latest crappy neighbor has been nowhere to be seen for about two weeks now. I think he may have bugged out before his lease is up as they often do and yet his PITA "outdoor" cat is still hanging out in my yard.

I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...

I may have to figure out what to do about an abandoned cat with no tags even if I hate the damned thing.

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:36 am Speaking of animal cruelty, my latest crappy neighbor has been nowhere to be seen for about two weeks now. I think he may have bugged out before his lease is up as they often do and yet his PITA "outdoor" cat is still hanging out in my yard.

I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...

I may have to figure out what to do about an abandoned cat with no tags even if I hate the damned thing.

You're in a thread where the conversation has turned to a debate about eating meat. You have a cat that you don't want around. Do I have to spell it out for you?

Brian wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:34 am

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:16 am 100 in garage? Yeesh.

My daughter had two hens in a coop in our garage for a while. So much dust. On everything.

I don't think that's dust.

EvilHomer3k wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:15 pm

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:36 am Speaking of animal cruelty, my latest crappy neighbor has been nowhere to be seen for about two weeks now. I think he may have bugged out before his lease is up as they often do and yet his PITA "outdoor" cat is still hanging out in my yard.

I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...

I may have to figure out what to do about an abandoned cat with no tags even if I hate the damned thing.

You're in a thread where the conversation has turned to a debate about eating meat. You have a cat that you don't want around. Do I have to spell it out for you?

Spoiler:

Take the cat to the humane society or find a rescue.

or eat it.

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:36 am Speaking of animal cruelty, my latest crappy neighbor has been nowhere to be seen for about two weeks now. I think he may have bugged out before his lease is up as they often do and yet his PITA "outdoor" cat is still hanging out in my yard.

I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...
I will not feel sorry for the cat...

I may have to figure out what to do about an abandoned cat with no tags even if I hate the damned thing.

Attract a Great Horned Owl. Problem solved. I've seen an owl take a cat three times in my life.

dbt1949 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:19 pm I've seen an owl take a cat three times in my life.

Jesus, I can only imagine what the kittens looked like.

They had great big ears and wings. It was fun when they flew away.

This has "Ig Nobel Laureate" written all over it.

6 doctors swallowed Lego heads for science. Here's what came out

When Dr. Andy Tagg was a toddler, he swallowed a Lego piece. Actually, two, stuck together.

"I thought, well, just put it in your mouth and try and get your teeth between the little pieces," he says. The next thing he knew, it went down the hatch.

As an emergency physician at Western Health, in Melbourne, Australia, Andy says he meets a lot of anxious parents whose children succumbed to this impulse. The vast majority of kids, like Andy, simply pass the object through their stool within a day or so. Still, Andy wondered whether there was a way to spare parents from needless worry.

Sure, you can reassure parents one-by-one that they probably don't need to come to the emergency room—or, worse yet, dig through their kid's poop—in search of the everyday object.

But Andy and five other pediatricians wondered, is there a way to get this message out ... through science?

Regular old cheerios in milk is still a favorite. Ramen may be the de facto food for college kids but when I went to college I ate a lot of cereal (much of it sitting in front of the tv watching Batman:The Animated Series). Think I'll have another bowl.

Well I really loved the Mustang Dark Horse. It became my dream car when it came out. Now Ive changed my mind to the Mustang GTD

https://www.kimbercreekford.com/blog/ke ... stang-gtd/



heres its Goodwood run

I have always liked mustangs but prefer the 2005-2014 look. Of course I'm more of a practical car and bike guy now. We've had a Nissan Pathfinder (2008, 2012) since 2007 and I don't anticipate replacing the 2012 any time soon. The 2008 was, sadly, totaled in an accident. We have 2 cars for 3 drivers so I spend most of my time biking to work and around town on a 2011 Cannondale Flash. The flash is my mustang now (though it's more of a subaru wrx).

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:16 am Cocks are mean and their spurs will nick a bone... I also vividly remember what remember what a chicken running around with its head cut off looks like.

and i read that the domestic rooster is greatly this way because... humans selectively bred them for cock-fighting, and those traits are with the domestic chicken to today...

Interesting.

Somewhat related.
I helped bust of a cocktail fighting ring several years ago!
Thankfully still remember that.

Punisher wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:52 pm I helped bust of a cocktail fighting ring several years ago!

Olive skewers versus the little drink umbrellas?

Gin & tonic versus all comers.

Madmarcus wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:57 pm

Punisher wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:52 pm I helped bust of a cocktail fighting ring several years ago!

Olive skewers versus the little drink umbrellas?

Damn. No idea if that was autocorrect or me.
The male half of the egg laying type.
Or
A non egg laying chicken.

and why are barn turkeys so stupid? because they were selected for it, by people. (wild turkeys do not have this issue)

and why do pigeons hang around cities and people complain about them? because they were domesticated by people many years ago.

it's almost like Isg's sig applies to nearly every post...

Why do coyotes come into people's yards and kill their pets? Because people put their yards where the coyotes lived, and now they have no choice.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:30 pm Why do coyotes come into people's yards and kill their pets? Because people put their yards where the ACME catalogs are delivered, and now they have no choice.

FTFY.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:30 pm Why do coyotes come into people's yards and kill their pets? Because people put their yards where the coyotes lived, and now they have no choice.

That's not the case around here. Coyote and coywolves have migrated to this area, presumably because other people put masses of farms and other yards where they lived, so they spread out and then found out they have good feeding grounds. It's (not so funny) because in the aughts and teens, when their presence started being felt, there was a massive denial that they existed around here, especially by local governments, and problems were blamed on everything else. Then when more and more pets were disappearing from suburban areas and people's home surveillance became ubiquitous, now every one knows and have pictures.

Deeper in the much older and dying suburbs, bordering on urban, it's more about the deer being invasive. If you have any patch of woods then you have deer that need to be culled and they are getting more and more aggressive and have been noted for quite sometime to display omnivorous tendencies, scrounging rodents in the winter.

WEEEE!!!!

Is it possible with todays tech to produce a mirror that doesn't flip your image along the z-axis?

or would you basically need a camera and mirror sized and shaped monitor?

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:14 pm Is it possible with todays tech to produce a mirror that doesn't flip your image along the z-axis?

or would you basically need a camera and mirror sized and shaped monitor?

A mirror? No.

But presumably you could create some kind of smart-glass-like thing that would use a camera to get your image, and then manipulate it and potentially display it. But that wouldn't be a mirror.

Also... not sure I see the point.

The point being to see yourself as others see you. not a flipped image that you see in a mirror.

A mirror would have to be extremely... complex to accomplish that. It would have to reflect your image into itself, bounce it around, and then bounce it back to you - sort of like a backwards periscope. And it still wouldn't work well.

What you're looking for is a phone camera with a selfie mode that can mirror (flip) the image.

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:47 pm The point being to see yourself as others see you. not a flipped image that you see in a mirror.

Maybe it's just me, but that still doesn't make sense. You are seeing yourself as others see you. The only thing that would be different would be something like waving your right hand. So actions are a little off, but the image is still you.

We spend so much time looking in mirrors that the mirrored image becomes our strongest sense of what we look like. This is why pictures of us (which don't left-right reverse us) often seem off.

I part my hair on the right. In a mirror my part is on the right of the image as well. But when someone (or a camera) looks at me face to face, my hair is parted on my right but their left. It's uncanny.

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:47 pm The point being to see yourself as others see you. not a flipped image that you see in a mirror.

The selfie camera on my phone (Pixel 8) shows a mirror image in the camera app preview (i.e. my right hand is on the right side of the screen), but if I take a photo, by default it is flipped on the horizontal axis so that the saved photo shows the image as it would appear to a normal observer (i.e. my right hand is on the left side of the image). There's a camera option ("Save selfie as previewd") to toggle that function on/off.

I don't see any way to toggle off the mirrored preview though.

TheMix wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:24 pm

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:14 pm Is it possible with todays tech to produce a mirror that doesn't flip your image along the z-axis?

or would you basically need a camera and mirror sized and shaped monitor?

A mirror? No.

#Actually

https://www.amazon.com/reversal-Yamamur ... B0014K0FEQ

The reviews seem to indicate that it works, but I'm not curious enough about it to buy one myself.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:30 pm Why do coyotes come into people's yards and kill their pets? Because people put their yards where the coyotes lived, and now they have no choice.

It's a similar issues with bears over here. Black bears have been known to roam the residential areas because of what they were in the past, and people are always surprised and complain when they show up. I had a bear cub 10 ft away from me one afternoon years ago, and I was minding my own business. It was looking for food given the berry season was bad. Then several days later, a man on the end of my street frustrated with inaction with the ministry in charge of relocation, took matters into his own hands by shooting a bear. And it was very likely the same bear I'd seen. Lots of public outcry followed, because it's very much illegal within city limits.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:51 pm A mirror would have to be extremely... complex to accomplish that. It would have to reflect your image into itself, bounce it around, and then bounce it back to you - sort of like a backwards periscope. And it still wouldn't work well.

What you're looking for is a phone camera with a selfie mode that can mirror (flip) the image.

It exists in the telescope world. Some refractors have what are called corrective lenses., but yes it does require lots of bouncing around.

If you don't want to spend that (or $250 for the quality product it is based on) there is an app for that

https://www.amazon.com/True-Mirror-12-I ... B0083PLA3K


https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/true-mirror/id582877764

I went to the museum of illusions in Dallas in the fall and I vaguely remember they had a mirror that flipped the typical image but I didn't really put much time into checking it out because meh. I may also be fabricating this in my brain because there was a lot of kind of cool stuff there, many involving mirrors, and I didn't take notes.

Actually they are easy to make although, like most DIY, hard to make well. Two flat mirrors set as sides of a right triangle will do it I had the students make one in class one year and we often did the exercise one paper. To really make it work the two mirrors need to be beveled to give a clean, practically invisible, seam. Of course it takes up a fair amount of room so you aren't going to hang it on the wall.

Put it in the corner.

My point, that was apparently lost, is that Dae asked about "a mirror". Which by definition is a shiny surface that reflects. Reflections work the way they work. So "a" mirror is never going to do anything other that what it does. Everything else being discussed involves more than one mirror or technology. Now, if people want to call the entire device "a mirror", then the discussion changes.