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I've been cutting out fabric. My summer weight dressing gown is old and I've managed to catch my thumb in it and tear it where I tie the belt so it's time for a new one. I cut out the lining this morning and just finished the outer fabric. I'm now sitting in my recliner chair resting my aching back - I suffer from sciatica and if I bend over too much my back muscles go tight so I need to let them relax.
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I believe they are the same, the pink just uses the Pink Panther logo and is what I can find at Home Depot.
Did the day 1 WC w the 75g and 55g tanks. Day 2 is WCing tomorrow the three 33g tanks and 20g long. Also rinsed out/squeeze cleaned the two AC 110s on the right side of each. Did the left side HOBs a month ago. I only do these once or twice a Year since I use prefilter sponges on all intake tubes.
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Good day after a phone call. 
Some days ago I posted about my best friend being in intensive care at the hospital for internal bleeding. Turns out that there was no internal bleeding but he is anemic. He is the phone call. Said he thinks he'll be out of the hospital Wednesday. At least anemia can be treated.
Some days ago I posted about my best friend being in intensive care at the hospital for internal bleeding. Turns out that there was no internal bleeding but he is anemic. He is the phone call. Said he thinks he'll be out of the hospital Wednesday. At least anemia can be treated.
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Hello. Well, my wife has put together some of her famous buckwheat bread. It's of course made from buckwheat flour, kidney beans, oats, psyllium husk and honey. I have two, thick pieces toasted with some crunchy peanut butter and honey. The best part of my breakfast!
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Wow! I’m type 2 diabetic, that sounds like I could eat that!
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I watched a fascinating interview on The Economist with Max Tegmark, professor at MIT and a big proponent of regulations on AI now.
My company has stopped hiring any FTEs unless they have to actually use their hands to do work. On the flip side, they have given us a tremendous amount of available training and tools to use AI. I'm very excited about what it can do, and have used it some, but just scratched the surface so far.
This interview is all about us not getting to the point where AI is "super-intelligent." In other words, smarter than humans, or more specifically, able to independently achieve objectives that we cannot- cure cancer, make healthcare in the US available for everyone, etc. HOWEVER, he also talked about a study that showed that there's over a 90% chance that reaching super intelligence with AI will end with the end of mankind.
He is far from being "Chicken Little", though- He's very optimistic that the world will reign it in and put the right kind of controls in place. He just said governments are way behind in putting controls on it.
He used the analogy of somoene opening a sandwich shop: If you are going to open a sandwich shop, an inspector must come in and make sure you're up to code.
Inspector walks in and tells the shop owner that he found 15 rats in the back and he can't open the shop yet. Shop owner smiles and tells the inspector that he's not really going to make sandwiches, but he's developing AI that will take over all banks and run the world (or something like that). Inspector must say, "I can't do anything about that."
AI is the real deal- it does unbelievable stuff and is only getting more powerful.
I'm excited about it, having fun using it, but oMG man the stuff these guys are talking about that is possible within the next 5 years is beyond comprehension.
My company has stopped hiring any FTEs unless they have to actually use their hands to do work. On the flip side, they have given us a tremendous amount of available training and tools to use AI. I'm very excited about what it can do, and have used it some, but just scratched the surface so far.
This interview is all about us not getting to the point where AI is "super-intelligent." In other words, smarter than humans, or more specifically, able to independently achieve objectives that we cannot- cure cancer, make healthcare in the US available for everyone, etc. HOWEVER, he also talked about a study that showed that there's over a 90% chance that reaching super intelligence with AI will end with the end of mankind.
He is far from being "Chicken Little", though- He's very optimistic that the world will reign it in and put the right kind of controls in place. He just said governments are way behind in putting controls on it.
He used the analogy of somoene opening a sandwich shop: If you are going to open a sandwich shop, an inspector must come in and make sure you're up to code.
Inspector walks in and tells the shop owner that he found 15 rats in the back and he can't open the shop yet. Shop owner smiles and tells the inspector that he's not really going to make sandwiches, but he's developing AI that will take over all banks and run the world (or something like that). Inspector must say, "I can't do anything about that."
AI is the real deal- it does unbelievable stuff and is only getting more powerful.
I'm excited about it, having fun using it, but oMG man the stuff these guys are talking about that is possible within the next 5 years is beyond comprehension.
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OOooohhh, that sounds yummy and good for you too!
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Hello again. Tonight, a little mung bean bread. A really nice bread that's actually a food group. It has flax seeds, sesame seeds, Greek yogurt and roasted hazel nuts, walnuts and almonds. Maple syrup too for a little sweetness. Sprinkle a little oat flour on it and the bread is really second to none!
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LIfe is cruel. We have one guy talking about cigars on another thread. I had to give those up, Then we have bread with maple syrup in it. I had to give that up.
At least I have coffee. We have a sea fog moved in here, and the sun just came up. Nothing has burned off, and I can barely see the road. For generations, people around here avoided living along the coast as it is the 'fog zone'. When we bought our house, its location dropped the price considerably.
Now, people moving into the region want the seaside locations, and a year after we got here, the whole interest in coastal living took a U turn. I have a touch of Goth in me I guess - I love the heavy fog in the graveyard across the road, with the sea behind it. It's great for walking the dog, and by noon, the sky is often clear even on foggy days. Most summer days are clear.
I don't believe in ghosts or souls, but I do like the weirdness of the trees appearing through the fog, the info on the stones, the names and the ever present sound of the water. I suppose it's a bit like being a fish in a tank with new, unrinsed gravel, but there's no Aquaclear in the sky working on that.
This is a stock up week for the fishroom. My first arrival shipment was mainly old favourites. I got 30 cardinals for the first tank you see as you enter the room. Then 8 very genial and intelligent looking Brochis splendens, a fish I haven't kept for years and that I really like. It's not a rarity, like the cardinals, but that isn't the point. I used to chase nothing but the new, but now I go for the interesting to me, even if they are fish I already kept and bred.
The seller had "Pseudomugil gertrudae red", which I thought was an impossibility. He's a young pet store owner with energy but not a lot of knowledge, and he takes fish names at face value. I bought a dozen at a very reasonable price, sight unseen, about half what local stores charge for luminatus blue eyes. They appear to be luminatus, as they're colouring up and settling in. That's a fish I want to breed to help out our LFS. I think they'd sell well if the price came down to what I paid for these ones. They should pay for the shipment if they breed, and I've done them before.
I also got a sleeper - a fish I've never kept. Hyphessobrycon metae, a very inexpensive tetra. They aren't what I expected from the photos. They are very pretty fish in their shoal of 15 - eye catching even if they aren't adult yet. I thought they'd be silvery and reflective, but they have nice black lines (like a black neon or a loreto tetra) and a lantern spot on the base of the tail. They change with the lighting. They look like they'll be hard to photograph.
Next week I have to long distance drive and on the way back, will stop at an importer's. That'll kill my annual fish budget, and give me something to plan on a very long drive. I won't have space for anything else after that, not for a while. I do have the foggiest notion of what I want there...
At least I have coffee. We have a sea fog moved in here, and the sun just came up. Nothing has burned off, and I can barely see the road. For generations, people around here avoided living along the coast as it is the 'fog zone'. When we bought our house, its location dropped the price considerably.
Now, people moving into the region want the seaside locations, and a year after we got here, the whole interest in coastal living took a U turn. I have a touch of Goth in me I guess - I love the heavy fog in the graveyard across the road, with the sea behind it. It's great for walking the dog, and by noon, the sky is often clear even on foggy days. Most summer days are clear.
I don't believe in ghosts or souls, but I do like the weirdness of the trees appearing through the fog, the info on the stones, the names and the ever present sound of the water. I suppose it's a bit like being a fish in a tank with new, unrinsed gravel, but there's no Aquaclear in the sky working on that.
This is a stock up week for the fishroom. My first arrival shipment was mainly old favourites. I got 30 cardinals for the first tank you see as you enter the room. Then 8 very genial and intelligent looking Brochis splendens, a fish I haven't kept for years and that I really like. It's not a rarity, like the cardinals, but that isn't the point. I used to chase nothing but the new, but now I go for the interesting to me, even if they are fish I already kept and bred.
The seller had "Pseudomugil gertrudae red", which I thought was an impossibility. He's a young pet store owner with energy but not a lot of knowledge, and he takes fish names at face value. I bought a dozen at a very reasonable price, sight unseen, about half what local stores charge for luminatus blue eyes. They appear to be luminatus, as they're colouring up and settling in. That's a fish I want to breed to help out our LFS. I think they'd sell well if the price came down to what I paid for these ones. They should pay for the shipment if they breed, and I've done them before.
I also got a sleeper - a fish I've never kept. Hyphessobrycon metae, a very inexpensive tetra. They aren't what I expected from the photos. They are very pretty fish in their shoal of 15 - eye catching even if they aren't adult yet. I thought they'd be silvery and reflective, but they have nice black lines (like a black neon or a loreto tetra) and a lantern spot on the base of the tail. They change with the lighting. They look like they'll be hard to photograph.
Next week I have to long distance drive and on the way back, will stop at an importer's. That'll kill my annual fish budget, and give me something to plan on a very long drive. I won't have space for anything else after that, not for a while. I do have the foggiest notion of what I want there...
Over the years I've ordered H. metae three times. Got the correct species once. No complaints, though. The closely related species with which H. metae is often confused--H. peruvianus, H. margitae etc---are all beauts.
I have margitae as well. The probable metae are considerably more slender. I think this may actually be metae, from digging. But it's always possible for me to be wrong with these fish.
I was watching them after I posted, and realized I do know this fish. I saw a shoal of about 200 in a friend's very large, very high flow tank quite a few years ago. They were much larger than these young ones. I paid $35 CAD for 15 of them, so the seller wasn't putting high value on them.
Whether this fish is metae will take a little growing. People can be very impatient with small tetras, and that cuts them out of some pleasant fishkeeping experiences.
I was watching them after I posted, and realized I do know this fish. I saw a shoal of about 200 in a friend's very large, very high flow tank quite a few years ago. They were much larger than these young ones. I paid $35 CAD for 15 of them, so the seller wasn't putting high value on them.
Whether this fish is metae will take a little growing. People can be very impatient with small tetras, and that cuts them out of some pleasant fishkeeping experiences.
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Today I did some yard work and pulled weeds and checked on my Butternut winter squash I planted last Thursday . I’ve got a few sprouting . I need some sun and warmth to make them pop up which has been lacking lately . The weatherman is calling for a warm week next week so I’ll get them .
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