If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.
Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?
We own two Epson EcoTank printers and love them.
Search for "Quebec law 25" or "Quebec act 25".
Quebec has them.
Fair enough. We have a small house that we keep our ducks in over the summer. They have a nice yard with a small pool. In the winter we have a pen in our chicken house with a separate door and separate small yard where the ducks live. We will the pen with straw and it has a Cozy Coop panel to keep them warm on the coldest nights. The chickens also do a fairly good job of keeping the house warm on all but the coldest nights. They have a pair of Cozy Coop panels up near the roosts at one end of the house and we can stick a little ceramic box heater in there if it gets stupid cold.
My wife makes pumpkin pie with a full lard crust from our pigs and duck egg pumpkin custard. I will dig into it hot from the oven and eat it like pumpkin pudding with bits of pie crust floating around on it with a blob of bourbon whipped cream melting on top. It pisses my wife off because the rest of the pie collapses so he always tells me not to touch them until they are cooled. Grrr...
Really? I find that they are no problem at all. We keep them in their own yard during the summer then bunk them with the chickens in the winter.
We have ducks. There are always two or three dozen eggs in the fridge. They are definitely far superior in baking.
I've eaten all kinds of eggs. The whites of duck eggs are more toothy and the yolks stickier.
I don't find that they make me fart. At least not more than I do anyway.
More for me!
Potategg salad.
We were invited friends house for dinner last night. My wife brought potato salad. I like lots of eggs in my potato salad. We had a couple of dozen duck what in the fridge so my wife boiled up a dozen and added them. It's about half by volume hard boiled duck eggs and it's delicious.
Pork, rice, onions and herbs rolled in Savoy cabbage leaves and poached in tomato juice.
I vacuum sealed them individually for the freezer.
I do a lot of soldering and for the last few years have been using SMD components. Up until recently I was buying short pieces of tape with a few dozens or a hundred components. The amount that I do has really increased and running our of components began to irritate me so I started buying them on commercial rolls of 4,000 or 5,000 components.
The full rolls are unwieldy so what I really wanted was a cartridge that was small enough to have a bunch of them in a drawer or plastic storage box but big enough to hold a fair number of components.
So...I designed this.
It's 60mm x 60mm x 11mm and is designed to dispense standard 8mm x 1mm component tape. I've got other versions for wider and thicker tape. It will hold a good 2m or tape which is around 1,300 components. The paper tape with the components comes out the straight slot while the clear plastic cover tape turns back out of the curved slot. The little tab holds the cover tape back so it doesn't get in your way. The splitter between the straight slot and the curved slot keeps the components from falling out until the tape emerges from the straight slot.
I think that the coolest feature of this design is the holes around the corners of the cartridge. They allow you to gang cartridges together into stacks using standard LEGO Technics connector pins. The cover also uses connector pin like projections to attach to the cartridge. With the cartridge being only 11mm thick you can't put two pins end to end so I needed two holes so that the pins in adjacent connections can alternate which hole they use. On 16mm and wider cartridges I could have used a single hole but will keep the two holes for compatibility with the narrower cartridges.
This is a rough prototype to test the fit of the tape. It seems to work quite well.
French fries and homemade roasted turkey gravy topped with our own roasted Bronze Orlopp turkey, homemade bread dressing, and fried eggs from our backyard chickens.
Thanksgiving poutine!
Yum!
I know it sounds dumb that the butter chicken kit contains neither butter nor chicken but trust me, they're awesome.
I'm working on making decent naan at home. My Indian coworkers are trying to help. It was better the second day after fermenting overnight. I hope that bread flour and a new recipe will improve it even more.
We live in a small town. My son plays hockey every year with a group of kids the same age as him. In the summer about half of the team play softball together.
Three years ago I was talking to their goalie before a game and he mentioned the he would like to score a goal. I told him that goalies do score goals and that if he scored a goal I would bake him a cake. He said, "Really?" and I said, "Yes, but don't take chances. If you're up by a couple and they've pulled their goalie and there's 30 seconds left and you have possession with time to take the shot, go for it, but if you flub it and get in trouble don't mention my name."
That summer they played softball for the first time. We were talking and the goalie said something about hitting the fence. I told him that if he hit the fence I would bake him a cake. The whole team found out and we talked about it on and off. When it became obvious that no one was going to hit the fence that year I added a home run to the list of things that would get them a cake. They made it through the entire year without getting a cake. In the year end tournament the girl who was my son's defense partner in hockey, hit a home run and good to my word I baked a couple of cakes (a blue one for our team and a red one for the other local team that we played the final game against.)
This year, at the start of the softball season, the kids who know me and I talked about some cake rules but we hadn't really settled on any. The discussions were ongoing. While I was sitting watching the practice a couple of parents walked up and said, "Hi, Mapleengineer." I said, "Hi." Then he asked, "Have you set the cake rules yet?" I said, "You want cake?" She said, "It's really good cake."
So, one of the players hit a grand slam two games ago and I baked cakes and took them to the next game, this past Monday. While the parents were sitting watching the game and eating cake he hit another. So...I owe them cake today, too.
I love watching the kids play and I love making cake so it's a win-win.
My wife is away for the weeks. I made this for dinner tonight.
Our property is covered with wild raspberry, will black raspberry, and wild blackberry cane. I picked these this morning. I got about 500 ml (2 c) of berries. I've tinned them and will freeze them until I can pick more over the next few days. Then...I'll make black raspberry jam!
Maybe.
I don't know.
My wife normally makes jam but she's away for the weeks. Maybe I'll give it a go.
I've had this lab for a few years. It's based on some old hardware but it's rugged and it's stacked and it's good to go at a moment's notice.
The whole thing is housed in a 5U Pelican Hardigg surplus TACLAN case. It still had sand in it when I got it. I had to blow it out before mounting my gear.
(Click the images for a closer look.)
FRONT
The top 2U are a half depth drawer where I keep cables, SFPs, screws, tools, a USB Crash Cart, and assorted things I might need on the road.
The middle U is an HP DL360-G8. It's got two 12 core 2.0 GHz XEON E5-2697v2s, 284 GB RAM, eight 500 Gb SAS drives, and an HP P421 SAS controller. It has two 460W hot swappable power supplies and is fully loaded with fans.
The bottom 2U are an HP D2600 Smart Array SAS controller with twelve 4 TB drives.
BACK
The top U is a Cisco Catalyst 3750G switch.
The second U is a PDU.
The third U is the back of the DL360
The bottom 2U is the back of the D2600.
CASE
NOTES
I'm running the HP DL360 specific ESXi.
It goes, and it goes. I've run 2 dozen virtual machines including AD and Linux servers, an HR server, a RADIUS server, an SSO/MFA server, and a number of network inspection and threat hunting appliances. The engineers at the company I was working for at the time would remote in to my lab because it was more performant and more reliable than the company lab.
It weighs a ton but I can paletize it, load it (using my tractor or a fork lift), and hit the road with about 30 minutes notice.
This is a community for people who are trying to disconnect, either a little bit or a lot, from the agrifood oligopolies that feed us unethical and unhealthy garbage.
If you're dreaming about a homestead, have just started the journey, or are settled and working at building your future come on in and join us. Crofters, homesteaders, hobby, family, and small farmers are welcome.
We will include discussions of everything to do with homesteading including land, gardening, equipment, and keeping, hunting, and harvesting animals.
Come and show off your flora and fauna. Tell us what you're working on. Ask question. Let's support each other.
Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?