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(When Cosgrove says cut it out, you cut it out.)

Is this that Chinese factory / apartment block anti-suicide netting we keep hearing about?

Back when I was still serving my time in food service, one of the old timers in the kitchen crew was so proud to show me his Super Professional Trick of “honing” his knife by dragging it down the blade of the deli meat slicer while it was running. Naturally in the process ruining both.

Whatever happened to your knife looks like the end result of that.

Ultimately being worn down into a nubbin via repeated sharpening until it looks like a fillet knife is the eventual end state of all heavily (or even professionally) used kitchen knives that aren’t retired out of mercy, but at minimum throughout that process the edge should remain a least somewhat straight. Unless you’re sharpening that thing with your chainsaw I can’t fathom what you’re doing to it to cause that. But whatever it is, cut it out.

While we’re kibitzing about it, here is my daily driver:

It may surprise you lot to learn that my most heavily used kitchen knife is a Chinese made “Cuisinart” item I picked up at Big Lots fifteen years ago. I think I paid twelve bucks for it. I have no idea what it’s made out of since the box only specified “stainless.” Normally I keep it at 15° per side but lately I’ve been trying around 12° which may be hopelessly optimistic. Even so, mine’s at least managed to stay resolutely knife shaped throughout all this, although in the course of taking this photo just now I notice somebody put a chip in the edge up near the point that I’ll have to stone out now.

Yes, that’s broadly the goal. This one will use 1/8" thick stock, or at least 1/8" before surface finishing and polishing. The blade is nominally 6" in length. I’ll be using CPM 154, the stock for which I actually put on order today. I got the answer on the handle also: The client wants it dismountable similar to the current Emperors/Kings/whatevers, although the profile is obviously different.

On my latest supply order I did score two slabs of stabilized walnut, though. Just throwing that out there.

BTW, your picture didn’t attach.

Ah, yes. Desperately falling back on making a tone argument of all things is a sure fire indicator that somebody doesn’t have a single leg left to stand on. Sony’s decades-long pattern of behavior does not put them in a position to be able to enjoy that luxury.

In other words: Get the fuck outta here with that.

Just for giggles, this is the initial profile of the other commission I’m doing:

This one is probably also going to have permanently pinned handles depending on the client’s preference. We still haven’t nailed down the handle material, or if they want a tubular rivet at the tail, or what. This is also going to be a kitchen knife after a fashion.

I’ll save anyone else Googling it: A single new Boeing 737 costs around $100 million.

Your blower motor probably does work, but the resistor assembly hooked up to the knob that controls its speed is most likely blown. This was the case with my truck when I got it and is rather common. Thirty four bucks will solve that problem for you, and it just plugs right in.

Meanwhile, when you order from Wish you will receive no order updates whatsoever. But they’ll send an email after three months asking you if by any chance your package happened to show up.

EDIT! I told you a lie, so I erased my comment. (TL;DR: Still don’t use Tesseract.)

I got a report on one of my comms today. The Alexandrite UI apparently allows you to ban a user from a report:

The default Lemmy web UI does not present this option, nor does Photon.

I use a cheap UV filter and I still don’t notice it. My Chinese knockoff set also came with a pair of ND filters which I haven’t used much. But so far, so good.

I dunno. Looks a’ight to me.

I’ve definitely been grateful for the times when I’ve had crap flung me or my camera by the wind, animals, or often enough also nearby inattentive tourists. It’s also nice to be able to just unscrew the thing in order to handle it when you need to give it a thorough cleaning. Walking around with your lens cap on all day to “protect” your lens is mostly just a great way to miss the opportunity for shots.

You probably want one made out of some manner of stainless for that kind of duty. I’m doing a custom commission for a guy in 154CM pretty soon. Maybe while I’m ordering steel I can see to it that some extra arrives.

Awesome. That’s a long one.

As long as you didn’t have to put a bunch of torque on it or your bolts were not exceptionally Chinese it’ll probably be fine.

Where are you off too? Stop by if you need anything done to your bike on the way.

Not even a little bit. The amount of energy in even our most powerful thermonuclear device is piddling compared to that contained within a hurricane. All you’d do is stir up a bunch of fallout and distribute it all over the place.

He can attempt to raise the ire of geese if he likes. He’ll reap what he sows.

Hashtaggoosefact:

Canada Geese have teeth.

It’s fun, easy, and highly educational to build your own!

The ongoing “AI” clusterfuck is part of what’s led me to transition lately to producing physical tangible objects rather than my usual walls of text. I’m still doing the latter, of course, but more slowly since at the moment I’m finding the act of producing a thing more rewarding than writing about it. That probably won’t last forever.

If I’m getting scraped, and I’m certain I am, I’m just hoping that my minor contributions are helping to make all the LLMs snarkier, more apt to pepper their output with cuss words, and use ever more tortured metaphors. Hey, we can dream, right?

Ah, yes. The Pullet Surprise.

Is this finally the day I get to trot out my recollection of the “Hey Horn” commercials from the early aughts?

This was, alas, a spoof. But the idea was there.