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DesperateDan posted:
We all know how this will end. You will not win this fight.
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Bees on Wheat posted:It's okay, it takes forever to load on my shiny new computer too. None of the pics in the last post loaded at all until I refreshed. Just tag the thread with [56K No].
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Jun 10, 2018 00:42
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DesperateDan posted:I had thought that keeping them as timg would help load times, but I could probably do with just a few less on the updates, and I did have some posts developing about kit/tools, hunting, history and a few other bits that will be a bit less picture intensive. timg will load the whole image these days. This will cause massive slowdown. Linking to imgur albums seems to work best?
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Jun 10, 2018 23:35
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It's not the imgur hosting, it's using timg where it loads the full version. You want to add "l" or "h" to each imgur link just before the .jpg. Using Flickr really improves nothing. Compare:   EDIT: One of those images takes ten times the amount of time to load the other does. It's not imgur being a lovely host, it's that the page is full of loving huge images that take forever to load and most browsing devices just go "nope not enough RAM to display them all". EDIT 2: Go through every image-heavy post, edit every instance of ".jpg" to "h.jpg" and watch the problem go away. endlessmonotony fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 00:16
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Just a fyi - might want to use the "l" suffix instead of the "h" one for a lot of those massive image dumps, since you're posting enough images to cause incomplete loading. If you want to see the image in its full glory - on Windows anyway - you can just view image (open image in new tab in Chrome) and remove the last h/l before the ".jpg". The originals have resolution to spare.
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Sep 17, 2018 04:44
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DesperateDan posted:It's loving me up pretty badly at times, but there's no shortcuts for grief. If hurting like this is the price I pay for having had that adorable little poo poo in my life, no matter how bad it hurts, it was a bargain. Kidney problems are pretty common in cats, special food and IV fluids sometimes don't really help, and sometimes give them years more. There's a lot of cat threads with way too much knowledge about cat pee - I'd recommend the YOSPOS one.
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Sep 27, 2018 23:22
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Do you have a new cat now? Also, I'd recommend a metal box with a lock if you leave anything edible in the camper. I'd leave a can or two something ready to heat just in case.
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Jan 10, 2019 19:35
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DesperateDan posted:The pictured cat is the same black cat that has been there at the field a year or three or five now- there's another one I haven't seen in awhile but was often more shy and may well just be holed up more for winter. Hicks is still with us at home and doing well- for example he recently learnt to open and slam the kitchen cupboard doors for attention, a prime arsehole cat I was jokingly asking if you had been adopted by the black cat yet or if it was the cat of someone nearby. Also yeah, a camper will not hold a human with tools no matter how fancy the lock is, but a padlock on a box will keep mice away. When they can't chew through the box, anyway. I may have experience. (And a Mora of my own.)
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Jan 20, 2019 22:43
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Yeppers, I have had that adventure too! It's why I have some of these and one of these in the kit. Alongside some AA batteries and a 4xAA to 5V USB converter, a whistle, storm matches and a regular first aid kit. And obviously a spare Mora. And some rope. I actually like the ugly-rear end teal-and-orange Mora, it's easy to spot. EDIT Aw, it's only available in blue on Amazon UK. endlessmonotony fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Feb 2, 2019 02:28
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So apart from the two kinds of heating bags your kit already has everything mine does. I have one using an iron oxidization reaction, and whatever that reusable reaction is. Also I did find apparently the knife I was thinking about can be found in the UK as "Mora 546 Turquoise". I can heartily recommend it, because it's a good Mora and ugly as hell.
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Feb 12, 2019 18:54
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cakesmith handyman posted:Sounds like I need to brush up my post apocalyptic survival baking skills. Blackcurrant pie is like half the reason I know as much as I do.
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Apr 25, 2019 00:01
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DesperateDan posted:
Take good care of it, and I bet it'll yet turn water to wine.
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May 4, 2019 13:36
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Just as a FYI, the videos are causing the earlier problem with broken loading something fierce. Might want to upload them to youtube and link them.
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Dec 2, 2019 20:58
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I thought of something. You got any rowans there and is the soil suited for 'em? It's a fairly versatile tree and good for the birds.
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Jan 21, 2020 01:22
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Fun fact about 64gb "SD cards" - they're neither SD cards nor SDHC cards. This is why a lot of hardware won't officially support them. Whether it means you gotta fire up Linux to format them in FAT32 or that they just fail to work above 32gb is entirely up to chance.
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Oct 24, 2020 15:39
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Just a note: Those video clips make the thread load real bad, youtube embeds work way better in that regard.
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Feb 1, 2021 00:19
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That the regular version of that thread, or extra strong? Because for that job it really should be extra strong. My go-to is Madeira's 35 for those problems. Also, that sure is a technique. I won't call it a good technique, but it's a technique. ... though after 2020 I already have a counterweight for my backpacks and it's not like I'm going anywhere...
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Feb 28, 2021 14:38
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Ait good. Someone not super experienced trying to hand sew with regular Gutermann is a recipe for trouble, disaster and torn trousers. I always pick Madeira's 35 when I get a choice, but Gutermann extra strong is fine, and Brexit might make it difficult to get good supplies right now. ... and even that's not people trying to use cotton thread for things meant to last outdoors. I'd really use a whip stitch there but since it's not going to be holding a lot of weight it barely matters.
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Feb 28, 2021 18:42
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I wonder how a crabapple or two would do. The fruit is generally inedible unless you make pie, but they have a lot of good properties for animals. And also small humans once they're big enough. Though some animals will gnaw the bark off and kill them. EDIT: Maybe even just a bit larger type of a regular apple tree, just avoid the grafting. Everything I know about small humans says you'd need to find a spot within viewing distance but not immediately close to whatever is the place you expect humans to spend most of their time though. endlessmonotony fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Apr 25, 2021 22:11
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DesperateDan posted:I have two in the ground and one more potted and ready to go in if I get some rain- all from bare root saplings bought last year Can always grow a sapling from a seed for regular apple trees. Whether or not the fruit is edible outside a pie is always an open question though. Their nature provides animals with food and shelter, and small humans with something to injure themselves with. And/or toss at each other.
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Apr 26, 2021 21:01
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simplefish posted:Dan do you have a blog or something where I can read one post at a time? My phone won't load a whole page's worth of images at once Edit the "perpage" value in the URL.
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May 29, 2021 00:52
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UHT cream and milk: Perfectly tolerable when you manage your expectations and drink it with something where sugar wouldn't be a problem. I prefer just to keep teabags and single-serving honey in a locked box. In a LOCKED box, somehow a closed box always ends up getting pests inside it.
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Jun 7, 2021 00:18
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DesperateDan posted:https://i.imgur.com/pg0oDP4.jpg No need to be eagle eyed. Linked, not embedded, because ridiculously huge.
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Dec 9, 2021 02:52
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Dangit, my traditional tree is crabapple. And the trees I like best are silver birches, rowans, and pines. Leaves oaks and european plums among the trees I like. ... I know a lot about trees and taking care of them now that I think about it. Choices, choices. Protect a tree from those goddamn rabbits for me willya? Hate the bastards.
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Dec 15, 2021 21:24
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I can only love my mora.
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Mar 31, 2022 21:27
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Lackmaster posted:How’d you learn to do all this, Dan? You just pick up the Mora. It'll guide your hand.
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Apr 13, 2022 02:46
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I meant to give a more serious answer to this, but I ended up sorting my knives instead. The way I learned all this was from a lot of gardening / survival books, from watching my predecessors work, and just from looking around with a Mora on my belt for things that needed doing. When all you have is a reliable woodsman's knife, everything looks like something you can whittle into something new. My heritage has much nicer knives too, but a Mora is cheap and functional. Gave my niece one when she turned five. You learn by doing, and you get ideas of what to do by looking at what people before you have done. What you need to begin is a crowbar (or a digging bar to be more exact), a hammer, and of course a knife.
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DesperateDan posted:
Rain barrels, working the exact same they did a hundred years ago. Real mosquito spawners sometimes though, keep an eye out.
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