Notices by Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ (gamehawk@mastodon.social), page 4

also not really sure why we'd need an arcade cabinet, other than "because we're nerds"

also our family tends to run a little short but none of us are 2/3 scale

Just remembered I saw a ~2/3 scale arcade machine at Costco for $200, and forgot to go back and get a picture of it to look up details.

After a web search, gonna guess it was the Arcade1Up one, and looks like Target has at least some of them for $200 also (though some cost more; I forget what one(s?) I saw at Costco).

https://arcade1up.com/

Cheaper than the full-size ones they have at Micro Center but I dunno what the quality is like. 🤔

@GeoffWozniak I do a lot of searches for photo references (I make stuffed animal patterns and such). Usually it's perfectly fine, but maybe I just am not running up against the "autocorrect."

@GeoffWozniak The interesting part is that the regular web search is fine, honors the quotes. Image search is like 🤷

99.999% of the time I am perfectly happy with DuckDuckGo but on those 0.001% moments I confess it makes me yell "WTF THERE ARE QUOTES THERE YOU FREAKIN STUPID MACHINE" and go to Google Images.

@kelbot Evidently. He's been saying he has stuff to work on and wasn't expecting to update regularly. Guess this was the stuff.

@epilys Not really. I just stumbled across that one because IIRC Liliputing (which I guess might count?) mentioned the YouTube channel at one point and I've subscribed to its RSS feeds.

N-O-D-E zine! https://nodevol01.hashbase.io/

Update: the rains mostly held off until we got back ✌️

But the roadside 'q place seems to have never reopened this spring. (Not 100% surprised; the competition has increased and they were a little pricey, but they were on the road that runs between us and the Shore so that covered a multitude of sins.)

(I mean, let the rains hold off until I drive out to the shore and back this afternoon, but they can commence all night and into the weekend now.)

Planted: seven hostas (which the deer/rabbits will immediately eat, but they came in the bundle so whatever), five Christmas ferns (native!), five Arendsii x Astilbe (hybrid half-native) that the bundle said were pink but that the inside packaging says are white, so we'll see (either one works here).

De-planted: about 5% of the remaining invasive English ivy.

LET THE RAINS COMMENCE.

@mbmattos1113 Well the sign does go on to say "with proof of purchase;" there's always a catch.

@theoutrider It is my belief that a similarly-cropped view of the "JANUS" logo was done deliberately, because it certainly didn't end up centered...

(I mean yeah I've considered the possibility that that line does just end there.)

Note to self: always consider what your blog post's featured image is gonna look like cropped to square format.

@auntiekiki I have resolved to never have a grass lawn again. (This may result in me paying someone else to rework a yard at some point, of course. And possibly in me fighting with a town council or something somewhere.)

I am sad that moss isn't practical everywhere, because I really like the moss at this place.