This is Socks. She is the guardian protector of the local Aubuchon Hardware store. She was featured in this year's Aubuchon cat calendar. It isn't often I get to hang out with celebrities so I was very happy she was willing to put up with my henlo and skritches.
@ablueview I've said lots of stuff critical of those ICE assholes, and haven't heard anything! I feel left out. :blobcatsad:
@lzg It would be both impossible and highly illogical to argue with this suggestion. ^.^
[thinks of a certain scene in Roger Rabbit]
@lzg I just want it to be able to do dishes and minor carpentry. I'm not sure there is a better shape for those tasks than humanoid, but I'm definitely open to ideas!
@internetarchive I have a bunch of 78s! ...but I suspect y'all already have most or all of them digitized.
@rebane2001 What I keep wondering is if there isn't some way to render the QR code such that the reader does not expect there to be bits in the middle, i.e. you're not losing any data by covering them up.
...which would mean that you could make the center image an arbitrarily large percentage of the total image size (i.e. the actual QR code bits would be in an arbitrarily thin layer wrapped around that center image).
The answer is probably "no, because format design", but I still wonder.
@ceejbot Time for one of those difficult adult-child conversations where you have to talk about, well, awkward subjects... like, you know, particle-wave duality...
(There are two genders, particle and wave. STOP WAFFLING, PICK A TEAM!!)
@suricrasia We clap silently, in our heads, so the internets can't hear. (They hunt by sound, you know.)
@artemis A few people do seem to have weird ideas about how social works. I often wonder if it's sincere or just a ploy to discourage certain topics.
I tend to go with "well-designed and non-commercial, possibly quite elaborate but also easy to use". (I see your idealism and raise you...)
@ObsidianUrbex That fabulous railing... and the door....
Also, I think there's more room on that landing than there is in my studio workspace.
@georgetakei (Also: Oh noes, people not-like-us gathering to... [checks notes]... buy food and participate in the economy!! What's next, dinner parties??? 😱 🤯)
UPDATE: Thanks for all of your help. The books have found a home.
A tenant moved out a few months ago and left behind a massive bunch of books. They are all beautiful, color, coffee table picture books bound in hard covers. There's more than 60 of them and I want to get rid of the whole lot.
He was a retired industrial designer so the books cover art, architecture, applied design, and commercial graphics. They are all about 20-30 years old. Many of them are full of post-its but are otherwise unmarked.
The local public library won't take them, and nobody I've asked wants them. I simply don't have the heart to toss them in the dumpster. I don't care if they get cut up by school kids for goofy art-class collages, as long as they get used for something other than land fill.
They weigh a couple hundred pounds so you need to come pick them up in West Petaluma. Maybe a maker-space could put them in their library? Anybody? Bueller?
