(December 3, 2025 at 11:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(December 3, 2025 at 11:35 pm)Fireball Wrote: What are they called? Earries? The way shit is put up for sale, sometimes one can't even tell what the hell they are buying.

At their most transparent, they call them “ear bags.”

(December 3, 2025 at 11:05 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, there’s a new type of earmuffs that are pretty much just booties for your ears. I found this out because I keep losing earmuffs and found these.

Evidently, I was excited enough to find a 10-pack for $20 deal that I didn’t see the word “bandless.”

It is one of the great joys of my life than I have never been in a climate cold enough to require earmuffs.

Boru

That some Neo-Nazis are evidently willing to be contrarian about ANYTHING. Even if it means defending something like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas because a left-wing YouTuber criticised it.





And the fact that he's defending it by claiming that it humanises the Nazis is particularly hilarious, not just because, well, the person running defense is a Groyper and BitSP is a kitschy Holocaust book, but because, as Joel points out in his larger video, John Boyne managed to choose the most preposterous way of humanising his characters: making them ignorant on such a fundamental level that it pimp-slaps our willing suspension of disbelief. Things like Bruno, a nine-year-old son of an SS Commandant (a job he can't even comprehend, even as a soldier) who'd be a few months away from his compulsory stint in the Hitler Youth lacking any concept of Hitler (who he calls "The Fury", despite being a native German speaker who should know the word "Fuehrer" and not make this pun that makes no sense in German) or Jews. Or, for that matter, Schmuel not even seeming to understand why he's so skinny when he's in a camp that's put him under a starvation diet. It's one of those stories that only works because everyone involved is an idiot is what I'm saying.

Something that maybe should fall in the category of “Rev probably should have figured this to be the case beforehand”: the real prison behind The Shawshank Redemption (or at least the one they used as a filming location) has its own horrific past.





And here’s a lighter (if longer) video shot in the prison itself:

The password to the encrypted notepad that I use for storing various bits of sensitive info. I've had the app set to just automatically log me in, but I realized that I needed my login info if I ever lost access to this computer. After some digging through old email and other possible places that I might have noted the login password, I found a note that I'd left to myself with the login info.

Two scenes were very nearly cut from the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life.

1. The kissing scene between George (James Stewart) and Mary (Donna Reed) was thought to be too passionate.

2. When George returns to the house after saving the building and loan, looks through the bedroom door and sees the bed with the covers turned down (I assumed that the censors were afraid word would get out that married people often share a bed).

Further, the Board of Approval was hesitant about the film showing the greedy, grasping thieving Mr. Potter in a bad light.

Since the two scenes and the portrayal of an evil businessman remained in the film, I can only conclude that Frank Capra was a very persuasive fellow.

Boru

I'm working on a frame for a quilt my wife made. I'm a real fan of quarter-sawn white oak, and I'm making the frame with that. The issue I have is, that grain doesn't show on all four sides of a piece of wood. I looked all over the internet for a veneer to apply to the edges that I wanted that look on. 4 foot by 8 foot sheets, 1 inch by 500 foot rolls of material, none of which was what I wanted, and at stupid big prices. I ended up cutting thin slices on my table saw, which, if I can sand the blade and burn marks off of, should be OK to use.

(December 14, 2025 at 11:42 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm working on a frame for a quilt my wife made. I'm a real fan of quarter-sawn white oak, and I'm making the frame with that. The issue I have is, that grain doesn't show on all four sides of a piece of wood. I looked all over the internet for a veneer to apply to the edges that I wanted that look on. 4 foot by 8 foot sheets, 1 inch by 500 foot rolls of material, none of which was what I wanted, and at stupid big prices. I ended up cutting thin slices on my table saw, which, if I can sand the blade and burn marks off of, should be OK to use.

Good luck! I generally cut my edge banding on the band saw. It takes a bit longer, but I don't get burning and the saw marks are a lot easier to sand away. 

Boru

(Yesterday at 5:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(December 14, 2025 at 11:42 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm working on a frame for a quilt my wife made. I'm a real fan of quarter-sawn white oak, and I'm making the frame with that. The issue I have is, that grain doesn't show on all four sides of a piece of wood. I looked all over the internet for a veneer to apply to the edges that I wanted that look on. 4 foot by 8 foot sheets, 1 inch by 500 foot rolls of material, none of which was what I wanted, and at stupid big prices. I ended up cutting thin slices on my table saw, which, if I can sand the blade and burn marks off of, should be OK to use.

Good luck! I generally cut my edge banding on the band saw. It takes a bit longer, but I don't get burning and the saw marks are a lot easier to sand away. 

Boru

I'm going to bust out the drum sander this morning. That should make short work of it. Lots of dust, so it's getting done outside. Also, it would appear that I'm sensitized to oak. Going to have to cover up and use controls to minimize the dust from now on.