per cui non abbiamo appena passato la domenica pomeriggio in un pronto soccorso veterinario perché il gatto che non è nostro ha fatto la guerra e si è fatto male
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Ju al momento chiuso nel locale dove ha cercato di entrare tutto l'inverno (e non lo lasciavamo entrare, per svariate ragioni), perché per un po' di giorni non dovrebbe andare in giro a far reinfettare la ferita.
non sappiamo ancora come prenderà la cosa
e a digiuno fino alle 22, che è una cosa inaccettabile
@Vi 💙 @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Ju i locali dove siamo noi adesso non sono cat safe (troppo materiale craftoso appuntito in giro), quindi è in un altro locale, e da fuori dalla porta sembrava abbastanza tranquillo. fino a che non ci ha visti arrivare per andare a dargli un'occhiata e ha iniziato a far sapere che la poltrona non è male, ma su quel tavolino manca una cosa FONDAMENTALE (ovvero la ciotola coi croccantini)
@Ju @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua bisogna schivare la parte massacrata, ma mediamente quando ne ha voglia gradisce i grattini
al momento preferirebbe altro, ma per quello manca ancora mezz'ora :)
(il problema è che lui vorrebbe avere accesso al locale, ma anche poterne uscire quando ne ha voglia, e quell'opzione è complicata, e non solo per il fatto di installare una porticina (quella sarebbe la parte semplice))
@LaVi A Cannes, davanti al Palazzo del Festival, c'è un muretto con piastrelle nelle quali sono impresse le mani di varie attrici e attori.
Nell'impronta della mano di Chuck Norris la mia mano non ci entra (in quella di Depardieu invece di balla)… ma la fece dopo che la piastrella era stata cotta
può essere che tu abbia ragione. Non conoscevo Chuck Norris al di fuori di ciò che interpretava sul set e, anche in quell'ambito, non è che fossi una sua seguage accanita.
non è che neanche io lo conoscessi, so solo che era dichiaratamente e attivamente repubblicano, e non sono per niente sicura che avrebbe avuto niente in contrario al razzismo di Bossi, anzi
“Sette cantieri e 66 lavoratori controllati dalla Polizia Cantonale nel Mendrisiotto: “Non sono emerse violazioni””
ora la domanda è: ma la cantonale del Mendrisiotto è meno brava della nostra guardia di finanza a farsi fare soffiate, o gli imprenditori edili del Mendrisiotto sono onesti (e/o più controllati)?
a hiking outfit is first and foremost a *practical* garment, as evident from the fact that the skirt is not supported over a bustle but just a bit of padding
so if I'm making a matching hat it's perfectly reasonable to add earflaps to it, even if it's something that is vaguely shaped like a top hat, right?
I've cut the pattern and started sewing and I have to say that it's not exactly a top hat, it's significantly shorter than that (something I'm tankful for, since sewing it is already unwieldy as is :) )
But is has all of the parts of a top hat, and I'm following instructions that could, with a wider crown side, result in a top hat (the milliner version in fabric over a buckram and wire structure, not the hatmaker version in mercury-treated felt)
«In Italia beviamo caffè circa 20 volte al giorno. È una tradizione. Stai camminando per strada, vedi un bar e prendi un caffè. Poi chiacchieri un po’, e poi continui a camminare e fai la stessa cosa ancora e ancora. È così che funziona in Italia».
@rapitadaglialieni Ma infatti, è assurdo! Io ne bevo dai 4 ai 6/7 al giorno e già son tanti.. con 20 prima o poi ti esplodono i nervi, non è una "tradizione" da nessuna parte @valhalla
Confermo: 20 caffè, 1 kg di spaghetti, 5 pizze pro-capite al dì. Soprattutto se il tutto cucinato da mammà mentre il babbo, coi baffi - of course - strimpella la chitarra.
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' è matematica. In America usano tazze da mezzo litro per la stessa quantità di caffeina. Se in Italia un espresso è ~25ml , ne consegue che un italiano beve 20 tazzine al giorno.
For my birthday, I’ve bought myself a fancy new expensive1fountain pen.
Such a fancy pen, of course requires a suitable case: I couldn’t use the failed prototype of a case I’ve been keeping my Preppys in, so I had to get out the nice vegetable tanned leather… Yeah, nope, I don’t have that (yet). I got out the latex and cardboard material that is sold as a (cheaper) leather substitute, doesn’t look like leather at all, but is quite nice (and easy) to work with. The project is not vegan anyway, because I used waxed linen thread, waxing it myself with a lot of very nicely smelling beeswax.
I got the measurements2 from the less failed prototype where I keep my desktop pens, and this time I made a proper pattern I could share online, under the usual Free Culture license.
From the width of the material I could conveniently cut two cases, so that’s what I did, started sewing the first one, realized that I got the order of stitching wrong, and also that if I used light blue thread instead of the black one it would look nice, and be easier to see in the pictures for the published pattern, started sewing the second one, and kept alternating between the two, depending on the availability of light for taking pictures.
One of the two took the place of my desktop one, where I had one more pen than slots, and one of the old prototypes was moved to keep my bedside pen, and the other new case was used for the new pen in my handbag, together with a Preppy, and now I have a free slot and you can see how this is going to go wrong, right? :D
16€. plus a 9€ converter, and another 6€ pen to get the EF nib from, since it wasn’t available for the expensive pen.↩︎
I have them written down somewhere. I couldn’t find them. So I measured the real thing, with some approximation.↩︎
Ricordo che il classico augurio a chi fa teatro deriva dall'epoca in cui a teatro si andava in carrozza, e ciò che lesciavano i cavalli sotto al portico davanti al teatro non erano esattamente polveri sottili. E più ce n'era più gente era arrivata.
The internet tells me that there is a book called “Natural dyes for education and colour experimentation”, targeting educational and artistic users, that can be downloaded (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and looks quite interesting:
I've seen videos of human-powered mechanical looms and there is quite a bit of *clack* noise when it's used, and I have some experience with backstrap looms where the moving parts are mostly soft and there isn't a significant noise.
Are the warp weighted ones somewhere in between? do the weights hit each other? Anything else that isn't soft hitting some other hard part?
Would it be possible to have somebody read a book in a room with a few looms in use, for the weavers to listen to, or would it be hard to hear them?
TIL that #solarPanels also have bad consequences :D
today just after lunch for the second time since they had been installed our batteries were basically full, the sun was still shining, and we still can't send energy to the grid¹, so we run a dishwasher load, a washing machine (cold water, so it didn't help a lot, but that's what I had to wash at the moment) and we still weren't using what the panels were producing, so I had to face The Pile of Stuff That Needs Ironing.
I had been successfully² postponing that for *weeks*!
¹ from installation to being enabled for that it usually takes a couple of months, between bureaucracy and waiting for a tecnicians ² not that it is in any way near the bottom
Oggi ho scoperto che i #pannelliSolari hanno anche delle conseguenze negative :D
per la seconda volta da quando ce li hanno installati, dopo pranzo le batterie erano quasi piene, il sole stava ancora splendendo e non possiamo ancora rimandare energia in rete¹, quindi abbiamo fatto partire la lavastoviglie, la lavatrice (a freddo, perché quello avevo da lavare, quindi non ha aiutato molto) e ancora non stavamo usando quello che i pannelli stavano producendo, e quindi ho dovuto affrontare La Pila Delle Cose Da Stirare.
Ero riuscita a procrastinare la cosa con successo² per *settimane*!
¹ di solito ci vogliono un paio di mesi ² non che io sia arrivata anche solo vicina alla fine
I don't fully understand the physics, but I believe if there's no load on panels they don't generate - which is handy from a safety point of view. This is unlike wind turbines, which have been known to catch fire if there's a load v generation mismatch! @valhalla @float13
As long as the system isn't disconnected from the grid, electricity from the solar flows into it. In this case the meter simply cannot register it. Edit: that's why the system needs to be cut off from the grid or shut down in case of power outage in the grid. @mdione @valhalla @float13
@Gid @Marcos Dione @I am Jack's Found 404 @Steven Reed there is a bit in the inverter box that decides whether to recharge the batteries, deliver energy to the hourse or send it back to the grid, and it had been setup not to deliver energy to the grid, until the meter is ready for it
otherwise, the meter would have happily registered it as energy passing through it, and billed us for it
it's not the system that shuts everything down when there is a power outage, as there often is a trickle of energy going up into the grid according to the monitoring system, enough to be dangerous for people working on the outage, but not significant for billing reasons.
@Mr_GHARice I think you're answering a different question, that of "what happens if the main grid generators go down (f.i., disconnected from the grid) and the solar panel is still connected". My question was "what happens if there is no load", and similarly, "who actually provides the energy if there is load, solar vs grid; and what happens to what is generated but not used". On the grid side it's regulated by generating more or less energy depending on load.
@Marcos Dione @Steven Reed @Gid @I am Jack's Found 404 the smart bit inside the inverter box decides how much energy should be taken by the panels, batteries or grid, and how much energy should go to the house, batteries, or grid
the panels are ok with only providing less energy than they could produce, with no ill effects, because electovoltaics are *magic*; (I assume that there is a bit more heat going around, but still less than what would have been released by the sun hitting a dark-ish roof, so easily dissipated)
(which is why wind turbines are mostly a power plant level thing, while photovoltaic on the home is often a better choice even in places with more wind than sun)
(also, this is definitely a case of whyNotBoth, each in its own suitable environment)
I suspect that the clothes iron isn't that much of a load either, at least once it's up to temperature, because it's rated 2.2 kW or something, but it's also on for very short periods of time, I should take some actual measurement
the same applies to the kettle: rated 2.2 kW, but for a tea it only stays on for a couple of minutes, so it's less than 100 Wh
@tk honestly, ironing clothes is less of a chore than vacuuming :D (we usually do it a bit at a time with a rechargeable vacuum)
(and baking, considering a number of food restrictions, would have required too much prep time, ending up happening after the peak of electricity production)
(heat pumps for water heating have been postponed to “when we can save a bit more money for it, and hopefully the prices will have gone down a bit, because right now all of the quotes we're getting are (probably oversized but) extortionate”)
@tk (water heating was / is integrated with heating water for the radiators, and changing *that* would have required too much work and expense. the quote for an air-water heat pump were, as I said, extortionate, so we added air-air heat pumps, but they are sized to work *together* with the radiators, not instead of them)
(one day we'll have a fully electric house, but it will need to happen through gradual changes)
(and yesterday, since the sun was shining and there was some warm wind, it was a bit too warm to turn on the heating anyway)
we are currently in the transition to a air to water heat pump, but warm water will be a seperate heat pump ( you get a 200L tank for around 1600-2000€ plus install here). The heat pump for radiator heating was around 4k€ without install
@tk here the quote was for about 25k€, plus an unknown expense to change the electrical wiring to get three-phase current, plus having to pay more for electricity (because three-phase) and not being able to afford solar panels for years
or we could start with the solar panels and start saving money on electricity and save it for more electrification later
The third one was only queen for a few months and then we got rid of the whole thing.
The second one, Elena, whose husband was busy making sure that Italy would become a republic soon², devoted herself to charitable work. I don't think it makes her especially worth of merit, but if you are stuck as a woman born in a royal house in the 1800s and are a baseline good person, that's one of the things you do.
The first one, Margerita, was a reactionary asshole who encouraged the shooting of protestors and was an enthusiastic supporter of fascism.
Guess which one is being celebrated with a stamp this year?
¹ there was a kingdom of Italy in the middle ages, but that's a different matter ² this may have not been his aim
L'Italia moderna¹ ha avuto due regine e un pezzetto.
La terza è stata regina per qualche mese e poi ci si è liberati di tutto quanto.
La seconda, Elena, il cui marito era impegnato a far sì che l'italia diventasse una repubblica², si è dedicata alle opere di carità: non credo che conti come particolare merito, ma se sei una persona bene o male buona che si trova ad essere una donna nata in una casa reale nell'ottocento, è una delle cose che puoi fare.
La prima, Margerita, era una stronza reazionaria che incoraggiava a sparare alle folle in protesta e supportava entusiasticamente il fascismo.
Indovinate a chi hanno dedicato un francobollo quest'anno?
¹ c'è stato un regno d'Italia nel medioevo, ma è una storia diversa ² potrebbe non essere stato il suo obiettivo
Ci tengo a segnalare che oggi #trenord ha annunciato *per tempo* che un treno già presente al binario sarebbe partito prima di quello in arrivo (in ritardo) ad un altro binario, nonostante l'orario dicesse il contrario.
Credo anche con abbastanza preavviso per prendere gli ascensori per il cambio binario!
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua in realtà la banchina della stazione era piena di gente che aspettava l'altro treno ancora in direzione opposta, quindi non so se avessero i popcorn o meno :D
Posted on February 3, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits Today I had a day off. Some of it went great. Some less so.
I woke up, went out to pay our tribute to NotOurCat, and it was snowing! yay! And I had a day off, so if it had snowed enough that shovelling was needed, I had time to do it (it didn’t, it started to rain soon afterwards, but still, YAY snow!).
Then I had breakfast, with the fruit rye bread I had baked yesterday, and I treated myself to some of the strong Irish tea I have left, instead of the milder ones I want to finish before buying more of the Irish.
And then, I bought myself a fancy new expensive fountain pen. One that costs 16€! more than three times as much as my usual ones! I hope it will work as well, but I’m quite confident it should. I’ll find out when it arrives from Germany (together with a few ink samples that will result in a future blog post with some SCIENCE).
I decided to try and use bank transfers instead of my visa debit card when buying from online shops that give the option to do so: it’s a tiny bit more effort, but it means I’m paying 0.25€ to my bank1rather than the seller having to pay some unknown amount to an US based payment provider. Unluckily, the fountain pen website offered a huge number of payment methods, but not bank transfers. sigh.
And then, I could start working a bit on the connecting wires for the LED strips for our living room: I soldered two pieces, six wires each (it’s one RGB strip, 4 pins, and a warm white one requiring two more), then did a bit of tests, including writing some micropython code to add a test mode that lights up each colour in sequence, and the morning was almost gone. For some reason this project, as simple as it is, is taking forever. But it is showing progress.
There was a break, when the postman delivered a package of chemicals2 for a future project or two. There will be blog posts!
After lunch I spent some time finishing eyelets on the outfit I wanted to wear this evening, as I had not been able to finish it during fosdem. This one will result in two blog posts!
Meanwhile, in the morning I didn’t remember the name of the program I used to load software on micropython boards such as the one that will control the LED strips (that’s thonny), and while searching for it in the documentation, I found that there is also a command line program I can use, mpremote, and that’s a much better fit for my preferences!
I mentioned it in an xmpp room full of nerds, and one of them mentioned that he could try it on his Inkplate, when he had time, and I was nerd-sniped into trying it on mine, which had been sitting unused showing the temperatures in our old house on the last day it spent there and needs to be updated for the sensors in the new house.
And that’s when I realized that it was 17:00, I still had to cook the bread I had been working on since yesterday evening (ciabatta, one of my favourites, but it needs almost one hour in the oven), the outfit I wanted to wear in the evening was still not wearable, the table needed cleaning and some panicking was due. Thankfully, my mother was cooking dinner, so I didn’t have to do that too.
I turned the oven on, sewed the shoulder seams of the bodice while spraying water on the bread every 5 minutes, and then while it was cooking on its own, started to attach a closure to the skirt, decided that a safety pin was a perfectly reasonable closure for the first day an outfit is worn, took care of the table, took care of the bread, used some twine to close the bodice, because I still haven’t worked out what to use for laces, realized my bodkin is still misplaced, used a longand sharp and big needle meant for sewing mattresses instead of a bodkin, managed not to stab myself, and less than half an hour late we could have dinner.
There was bread, there was Swedish crispbread, there were spreads (tuna, and beans), and vegetables, and then there was the cake that caused my mother to panic when she added her last honey to the milk and it curdled (my SO and I tried it, it had no odd taste, we decided it could be used) and it was good, although I had to get a second slice just to be 100% sure of it.
And now I’m exhausted, and I’ve only done half of the things I had planned to do, but I’d still say I’ve had quite a good day.
Banca Etica, so one that avoids any investment in weapons and a number of other problematic things.↩︎
not food grade, except for one, but kitchen-safe.↩︎
on the day before a weekend where I plan to spend two days on the couch remoting FOSDEM. i.e. at the best possible time it could have started, since that is quite a period compatible activity
not, as it usually does, right when one had planned some activities or such
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The internet¹ is telling me that there is a hat pattern inspired by hats used to protest the nazi in Norway, with proceeds from the sale going to orgs that help people affected by ICE:
I'm torn, these days, between keeping caught up on the news and finding a nice big rock to live under. Preferably with some nice, warm sands (because the German idiom is to stick one's head into the sand).
The cartridge pleated skirt I've been #sewing is finally at the stage where I can try it on (it's missing closures, but who cares about closures when you can use your hand?)
and my eyeballing of the length has been, let's say, optimistic
it's definitely floor length, and I can't walk on stairs without free hands.
on the other hand, it looks really nice as a floor length skirt
so, for the time being, I think it will stay this impractical length, what could possibly go wrong?
(there will be pictures, and a blog post, when it's finished)
la gonna arricciata che stavo cucendo è arrivata al punto in cui può essere provata (manca la chiusura, ma non serve veramente una chiusura quando si possono usare le mani!)
e stimare la lunghezza ad occhio è stato, diciamo, ottimistico
è decisamente lunga fino a terra, e se non ho le mani libere non posso fare le scale
d'altra parte, come gonna a terra è decisamente bella
quindi credo che per ora rimarrà della lunghezza totalmente scomoda, che cosa mai può andare storto?
(quando sarà finita farò foto e il solito post sul blog)
I've just realized that maybe somebody is interested here too
A few years ago I made some light resistance tests for (mostly) #fountainPen inks, by writing samples and taping them to a south-south-east facing window
now I have a south facing covered balcony, and I'm getting ready to start a new test between the equinox and the solstice; at the beginning of February I'm going to buy stuff from a shop that also sells ink samplers, and my budget for buying those is almost gone, but if somebody has requests I can add a couple more to the cart
Mi sono appena resa conto che magari anche qui qualcuno è interessato.
Qualche anno fa ho fatto dei test di resistenza per inchiostri da (principalmente) #stilografica , scrivendo dei campioni e attaccandoli ad una finestra rivolta a sud-sud-est
adesso ho un balcone coperto rivolto a sud, e mi sto preparando per fare un nuovo test tra l'equinozio e il solstizio; all'inizio di febbraio farò acquisti su un sito che vende anche campioni di inchiostro, e il mio budget è stato quasi riempito, ma se qualcuno ha richieste un paio di campioncini ci stanno ancora
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Photo after 3rd day. Another 8 hours outside, partly sunny with a brief bit of rain. Not trying to add a water test but 5 -10 drops hit and spread the vulnerable inks.
I'm surprised that the test started to show results after just one hour (but a bit less surprised to see *which* ink started to change after that short of a time)
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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non sappiamo ancora come prenderà la cosa
e a digiuno fino alle 22, che è una cosa inaccettabile
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(ma almeno ha raggiunto il suo scopo ed è nel locale che era suo di diritto!)
Numerosi grattini e coccole se mai li gradisce.
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al momento preferirebbe altro, ma per quello manca ancora mezz'ora :)
(il problema è che lui vorrebbe avere accesso al locale, ma anche poterne uscire quando ne ha voglia, e quell'opzione è complicata, e non solo per il fatto di installare una porticina (quella sarebbe la parte semplice))
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