Posts made by nurunuru

@ROman said in Illustrations/Fine Art:

Here's a beach scene from Sea Isle City, NJ. I did in acrylic.

I really like this one. Great work.

Reminds me of a song from the early days of the internet...

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. I'm usually way more Team Moth than Team Butterfly, but this one was massive and just generally very impressive.

I could've understood Tuchel's tactics more if it weren't for the hydration break factor. After the goal at 55', England collapsed into being on the back foot and persistently trying to defend. I can see why Tuchel would look at around 15 minutes of that kind of play and decide to throw them a bone by bolstering the defence. However... The fact is he had the hydration break to drum some sense into them, tell them to keep being positive and pushing up the pitch, and make subs that would have given fresh legs in the right places to drive that forward momentum. So, for me, it was a managerial decision based on the (defunct) premise of not being able to have all your players' undivided attention for a couple of minutes to yell some sense into them and get them all on the same page. Which I get. It's very new for football to have four quarters as opposed to two halves, and managers still have to get used to it. We all saw what a huge change a hydration break could make to a team's playing style when it was effectively used to talk about changing up the tactics.

But anyway. By-and-large, I thought Tuchel did well this tournament. Argentina went into overdrive at just the right time, as is their wont. Honestly amazing we held 'em off until nearly the end of regulation. The team played their bloody socks off. Proud of their efforts.

@Oaktavia I'd say it was maybe around an inch long. I'm big into bugs, but had no idea what the heck it was! Pretty confident it's a firefly larva after a bit of online sleuthing, though.

Gopher snake. Nearly stepped on the feisty little fella! He put on a pretty good show of bluffing like he was venomous. Hissing, flattening his head to look like a rattler, looking ready to strike...

This firefly larva caught my eye the other day.

@markus_berlin_ This fit is particularly notable for the untucked T-shirt sticking out from under the zipped jacket somehow making the whole outfit even more sharp. Never in all my years have I seen such a feat! Nice work.

I remember when I was studying Japanese a couple decades ago, there was a whole chapter in the textbook devoted to the language/etiquette of exchanging business cards ("meishi no koukan"). Glad it's still a thing over there.

said in STF-SBZR-IND - STF Sashiko Blazer - Indigo:

Oh, snap. Just noticed the sizing has been updated in the first post, with the new sizes included. These must be finished and ready to drop!

"Alright... Granny just got carried away again..."

@Steve said in STF-SBZR-IND - STF Sashiko Blazer - Indigo:

@nurunuru these are original size dims. On the first run I only made M, L, XL to see how they were received. On the second run I expanded the sizing and added S and XXL.

On the next run, I am adding a Long version in all the sizes as well

Gotcha. Thanks!

@Chibs Huh. I figured it was only M thru XL previously, as that's all that's listed in the shop. Though maybe that was all that was offered for the second run, so they got rid of the other sizes in the shop listing at that point. That'd make sense.

Oh, snap. Just noticed the sizing has been updated in the first post, with the new sizes included. These must be finished and ready to drop!

In the evening light.

I just know Steve & Lynne are gonna come home to a pile of finished blazers this week...

I just know it!

It kinda blows my mind how AI is trumpeted as getting better and better all the time, yet it still routinely fails at very simple data retrieval tasks.

Case in point, I was curious about the record time for getting up the Manitou Incline, and Google's AI gave me this answer:

Decided to check for myself and found that Joseph Gray's time on that day was 20 seconds slower than stated, and his record was broken way back in 2022 anyway. So this information was just somehow "invented" and displayed as fact.

Forgive me if I'm less-than-thrilled at the idea of this technology determining human targets for elimination and becoming my next doctor!

Yeah, looks spotty dog.

Pretty sure I've yet to meet a flannel that didn't shrink at least a little.

@Asger-Ebdrup Great stuff!

Anyone else subjected themselves to this? It is, for the most part, competently written. The unpleasantness is so unrelenting that one becomes pretty much inured to it by the last third or so. I don't regret reading it, per se, but it is a miserable bloody thing that I am glad to be done with. I don't know why it exists and couldn't really recommend it.

Now I'm reading some Jeeves and Wooster. Way better