#Wearable electronics projects are a recent thing, right? you need LEDs and lightweight batteries and microcontrollers and all of those things, right?
TIL:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
no, I don't have a new project. I don't have a use for an evening dress. And a Worth gown is not something that can be reproduced easily or cheaply.
Milan, 1824. 4 pages of coins in circulation and their values in what I believe are lombardo-venetian lire (decimal) and an older non-decimalized system whose name I don't know. Of course the values of each coins have clean, round numbers such as 13.50 or 1.65
Why am I suddenly thinking of the neatly decimal currency (1 gold coin = 10 silver = 100 copper) of many #RPG games? :D
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Milano, 1824. 4 pagine di monete in circolazione e i loro valori in quelle che credo siano lire del lombardo-veneto (decimali) e un altro sistema di cui non conosco il nome, non decimale. Ovviamente i valori delle monete sono delle belle cifre tonde come 13.50 o 1.65.
Perché improvvisamente mi vengono in mente i sistemi di monete dei #GdR belli puliti in cui 1 moneta d'oro = 10 monete d'argento = 100 monete di rame? :D
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It's been a while from my last post on behalf of the Department of Unnecessary Projects #DepUnPr
So here is the "UEFI bootable slide show"
An UEFI executable that load tga uncompressed images from disk and display them as a slideshow in loop.
for when you feel the urge to show some photos and you can't wait for a full os to boot up.
(thanks to @Elena ``of Valhalla'' for inspiring this thing.)
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that hood made of just squares and rectangles, vaguely inspired by the Skjoldehamn hood (but assembled from different pieces) that has remained on my WIP pile for more than a year because I got the side of the pieces completely wrong?
On Friday I've cut new fabric, and now I'm halfway through the hem, and then it will be finished! And it fits!
(now, the next step of the Project is going to take a lot more time before I even start thinking about doing it, but the (combed?) top (yes, top. not fabric, not yarn) is still in the Stash, not around the house somewhere not really protected from dust)
Got an icon. Yes, it looks like Tracker's icon, but look: the magnifying glass looks like a Q, with a text cursor. Because you can edit Queries... got it? Queries!
Ok.
No, still no repo. But now it uses GtkSourceView! How cool! 😎
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Confirmed: they have found the mummy of Marge Simpson (depicted on the sarcophagus), and it's from the New Kingdom.
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Piecepack and postcard boxes
Posted on November 4, 2023
Thanks to All Saints’ Day, I’ve just had a 5 days weekend. One of those days I woke up and decided I absolutely needed a cartonnage box for the cardboard and linocut piecepack I’ve been working on for quite some time.
I started drawing a plan with measures before breakfast, then decided to change some important details, restarted from scratch, did a quick dig through the bookbinding materials and settled on 2 mm cardboard for the structure, black fabric-like paper for the outside and a scrap of paper with a manuscript print for the inside.
Then we had the only day with no rain among the five, so some time was spent doing things outside, but on the next day I quickly finished two boxes, at two different heights.
The weather situation also meant that while I managed to take passable pictures of the first stages of the box making in natural light, the last few stages required some creative artificial lightning, even if it wasn’t that late in the evening. I need to build1 myself a light box.
And then decided that since they are C6 sized, they also work well for postcards or for other A6 pieces of paper, so I will probably need to make another one when the piecepack set will be finally finished.
The original plan was to use a linocut of the piecepack suites as the front cover; I don’t currently have one ready, but will make it while printing the rest of the piecepack set. One day :D
One of the boxes was temporarily used for the plastic piecepack I got with the book, and that one works well, but since it’s a set with standard suites I think I will want to make another box, using some of the paper with fleur-de-lis that I saw in the stash.
I’ve also started to write detailed instructions: I will publish them as soon as they are ready, and then either update this post, or they will be mentioned in an additional post if I will have already made more boxes in the meanwhile.
- you don’t really expect me to buy one, right? :D↩︎
Thanks to a friend who gave me the idea, I've taken this:
saved it as ``hit🗞 .rst``, run the command ``rst2man hit🗞.rst | man -l -`` and I can indeed confirm that #manpages have no issue with #unicode and emoji (at least if your terminal is configured to show them).
(the pastebin urls will self-destruct in a month; I may delete this post at that time, if I remember about it)
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se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.
Posso confermare che la zona è ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)
ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/vendit…
Varese, zona Ospedali
in piccola palazzina di sole sei unità immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...ossolaimmobiliare.it
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update : #bugReport
upss, this was BS!
I missed the fact that simply ticking the boost button the boost get's "untoggled" and their for deleted,
sry!
Anyway, do you plan to create a
bugreport profile or something like that on: toot.fedilab.app
Also, have you thought about pinning a bug report and/or feature request template on your profile like for example:
tupambae.org/profile/admin
Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
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@Elikorokoros non garantisco niente sulla tempestività, ma ci sarà di sicuro un post sul blog (che arriva anche qui sul fediverso) con dovizia di documentazione fotografica :)
se non fossi orrendamente pigra e/o se avessi un cellulare che fa le foto inizierei già a farne qualcuna, ma al momento non si vede ancora molto :)
@kamikat I've done the first seam and it didn't react in an horribly bad way.
I'll wait until I've finished all of the machine seams before claiming that it's working, however :D
Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
Posted on October 29, 2023
I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.
And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
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Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
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Il termine corretto è "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.
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Waking up thought of this morning¹:
“Higher than the sun” describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittarius² and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?
¹ actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
² wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish
Pensiero al risveglio di stamattina¹:
“più in alto del sole” descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato più o meno su dicembre quando il sole è in sagittario² e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?
¹ in realtà di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
² no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giù di lì
Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter: to which are added, specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages. Forming a compreh
Place of publication within ornamental deviceInternet Archive
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@Fabio non che io l'abbia letta per intero (ancora :D ), ho fatto passare un po' di pagine.
forse qualche affermazione corretta la fa. forse :D
@Fabio e non glie ne si può fare una colpa, eh.
è più una considerazione su come faccia impressione quanto certe cose di linguistica che oggi sembrano universalmente note e scontate siano scoperte relativamente recenti
/me, puts away a pair of linen detachable cuffs, sees her cozy, warm, flannel 1880s shirt.
is it winter yet? and yet? and yet? and…
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* ripone nell'armadio un paio di polsini di lino separati, vede la camicia di flanella morbida e calda in stile 1880.
è arrivato l'inverno? eh? eh? e adesso, è arrivato?
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25.5°C in officina.
Col ventilatore puntato in faccia si sta abbastanza bene.
@Oblomov @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua alla fine di agosto non c'è un'occasione “ufficiale” per andare in giro in costume (non che io abbia piani quest'anno di andare a Lucca, ma se volessi andarci, dovrei preoccuparmi di gestire le temperature col costume, e io non ci andrei col costume da uomo nudo :D )
quindi evidentemente agosto e ottobre non sono la stessa cosa!
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@Kermode that's probably¹ lower than I've ever experienced in my life :D
¹ I've had exactly one experience of -18°C, so maybe on that night I've also met a -19°C, hence the probably
si parlava di treni storici, c'è un viaggio questo weekend (però questo sarà elettrico, non a vapore)
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/me, playing a game of 0ad and looking at the random factions: “oh, it's civil war between Syrians, and my Syrian allies have asked the help of the Roman empire against the yellow Syrians”
@Diego Roversi “fools”
/me, looking and how my ally still has more or less their initial corner of the map, while my territory has been enlarged significantly “you're not wrong”
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Today's fun rabbit hole: there's a mechanical watch feature called a "hack". Why is it called that?
hachyderm.io/@danderson/111136…
as a single page post: apthread.kirgroup.net/t/9b/5c/…
This week I haven't complained about #handsewing with plastic thread yet, right?
well, now I'm complaining about handsewing plastic fabric with plastic thread when there is even a layer of mylar safety blanket under the fabric.
but binding the edges with a machine seam and then handsewing it on the back is so much neater than trying to stitch in the ditch by machine!
@donkey herder a roll for cards (ID, driver license, etc.), the mylar blanket is there to make it harder to read them remotely (it's not perfect, but it should help reducing the distance the reader has to be to work).
I'm using some leftovers of cordura from my backpack lining, and sew-all thread.
Chickpea Crackers
Posted on September 20, 2023
And another half-written article I had in my repo. (Am I doing #FallFinishAlong with blog articles instead of / in addition to craft projects? it feels so).
I was in need of snacks. I wanted something bready, but with a bit less carbs and more proteins. I had a bag of chickpea flour.
Ingredients were:
- 100 g wheat flour
- 100 g chickpea flour
- 100 g water
- 3 g salt
- 1 g dry yeast
Mix everything as usual for bread, leave to rise for 4-6 hours.
Divide in 4 parts, roll them out to a thickness of about 1 – 2 mm, prick them with a fork (or the fancy cracker pricking tool that you don’t really need but I may have bought).
Optionally spray with a bit of water and sprinkle with salt (coarse or flake is best).
Preheat the oven to 240°C and cook for 5 minutes, or preheat the oven to 210°C and cook for 10 minutes for a dryer version.
I’ve tried both cooking temperatures: the 210°C had the big advantage of being the same as the common bread I was already making, so no additional oven time was required (it was summer. this was a consideration.), but I’m not sure which version I like best, so I think in winter I will alternate between the two.
Put it in a cotton (linen?) bag and keep it in a dry place, where it will keep for weeks (assuming you’ve made a bigger batch :D ).
This is now part of my staples.
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@Nathan Lövsund 🐒 🚀 mine aren't extremely crispy (like commercial crackers) either, more like homemade crackers.
Nice idea using sourdough, I should also try it one day!
somebody on tumblr wrote:
“stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblr”
just rockin' and rollin'
‘stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblrmad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
I know, it's a media thing to attract views and stuff, but I can't resist.
Why? don't you all think of the roman empire when spinning wool while walking on the streets of a town that used to be part of the empire (and thus, you're doing something that, I've read somewhere, was considered a thing not done)?
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua wikipedia mi dice di guardare Erodoto - Le storie (Ἱστορίαι), capitolo 71, libro II
Però hypo era ὑπό, mentre cavallo è ῐ̔́ππος, non son così simili, in fondo
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Installing minidlna
Posted on September 19, 2023
I’ve found the draft of this article I almost completely wrote (checks) more than 3 months ago, and I guess it’s time to finish and publish it.
The very first A10 based device that entered our home, before they started to use it for SBCs, was a Chinese media server with a slot for a 3.5" hard disk and a few analogue audio outputs.
Of course from the time it entered our home it has always been running Debian.
Now that we may have a few, more powerful, A20 SBCs available, it has been fully dedicated to music: it is connected to the stereo, the hard disk has a clone of the git-annex repository where I’ve ripped all of my CDs1 and is played by connecting via ssh and running alsaplayer.
It’s simple (for my tastes). it works. Unless you’re in a different room than the one with the stereo.
And then I read this post on the fediverse that suggested installing minidlna on an old Raspberry Pi, and on a whim I decided I needed it.
I installed the package from Debian, set a few easy settings in the configuration file (such as which directories to serve), restarted the service.
And that’s it, it just worked.
The only thing I had to take care about is that to use git-annex repositories as the source of media files either the root of the repository should be used as media-dir, or the wide_links options should be set to yes, otherwise the symbolic links that point outside of the media-dir won’t be served.
As a client I used VLC (note for myself in case I ever forget, it’s under View → Playlist and then Local Network → Universal Plug ‘n’ Play), mostly because I already had it around.
Now that I’ve used it for a few months I have to say that it isn’t a perfect solution: the main format I store my music in is in flac 2, which isn’t supported by dlna; for a significant part of it I’ve also already generated single-song ogg files for convenience 3, and at least it works for those.
I don’t store (yet?) my video collection on the A10 device, but I did a quick test, and no, of course a raw dump of a DVD as generated by dvdbackup isn’t supported, so I would have to convert those too. And there is some support for subtitles as a separate file (which is something else I tend to have around), but only one file, with strict requirements for the name, which is a bit restrictive.
On the other hand, the hassle to set this up was so low that the functionality / hassle ratio is most definitely worth, and I’m quite happy I did and plan to continue using it.
- (yes, I’m still using CDs, I have objections to those newfangled streaming services)↩︎
- full CD rip in a single file, with an embedded cuesheet, to preserve as much as possible of the original disc.↩︎
- in theory the flac was supposed to be future-proof storage, with the ogg files for actual use, but then I always listen to full albums, so the flac just work, and I only tend to bother generating the ogg when I’m already generating mp3 for the car.↩︎
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Inspired by the excellent UI for emergency alerts on smartphones, @Fabio had the idea to write a new phone interface: Launcher Ultima
It's an isometric RPG, to make a call you have to find a phone box, to answer an incoming a call you need to be close to the *right* phone box (and of course there are multiple ones).
The address book is, as the name suggests, a book. Or rather multiple books, spread out around the whole world.
And if you receive an emergency alert a huge red face appears on top of the screen, and *loudly* reads the text of the alert.
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Non-e (Note)Book
Posted on September 18, 2023
Some time ago our LUG bought some things from soldered.com and while browsing around the website my SO and I decided to add a junk box to the order and see what we would get.
Other than a few useful things, there were two mostly unpopulated boards for the inkplate 10 which would have been pretty hard to reuse as electronics.
On the other hand, at 23 cm × 18 cm they are a size that is reasonable for a book, and the slit near a long edge made them look suitable for the cover plates of a coptic bound book.
Since the size isn’t a standard one, I used some paper I already had in big (A1) sheet: Clairefontaine Dessin Croquis Blanc at 120 g/m², and cut 32 sheet 466 mm × 182 mm big, to have room to trim the excess at the end and straighten the edges. This would make 8 signatures of 4 sheet each, for a total of 128 pages.
The paper will make it suitable both as a notebook (where I’ll write with liquid ink, of course, not ballpoints) or as a sketchbook for pencil (but not wet techniques).
I could have added a few more signatures, but this felt already good enough, and the risk to end up with an half-empty notebook was non-trivial (I will already have to force myself to actually use it, rather than keep it for a good topic that will never be).
First we finished depopulating the boards, using it as a desoldering exercise and trying (and not always succeeding) to save as many components as possible, even if most of them were too tiny for our current soldiering skills.
And then I only had to sew the book, which was done mostly while watching the DebConf streams.
And a couple of days later, trim and sand the pages, which as usual I could have done better, but, well, it works.
The next time I do something like this I think I will have to add a couple more mm also to the height, to be able to trim also those edges.
And now of course the Big Question is: what should I dedicate this notebook to? Will I actually use it? This year? This decade?
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@Kermode yeah, it's a know problem.
I willingly got myself into trouble by using a static site generator written in haskell, and now I should learn enough haskell to fix the mangling of image urls for the rss feed (which gets read by friendica and posted here on the fediverse).
And learning haskell was the whole point of it, but it means I need some time to do it, and I keep getting distracted by other projects :D
@devrtz :debian: ,
btw, I think I need a t-shirt with these words. or a patch on my backpack. Yeah, I think a patch for my backpack will happen in the near future. And if anybody wants to print stickers or anything else, I will submit this to the usual places :D
(And until I've submitted it to the right places, the source can be found on eoval.org/YFf9WaTC#debian_phon… , under the same license as the debian logo)
@Fabio , @Diego Roversi and the other locals: if you also want something with these words, we can talk about it :)
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(assuming that the photosensitive thing for screen printing is still working, otherwise it will happen in the somewhat less near future when I buy a new bottle)
@fnord99 mine can't, and I wouldn't want to do that anyway.
Now, I wouldn't mind using a few apps that are in f-droid, but not strongly enough that I have ever bothered looking into how to do it.
Anyway, I posted on my linux mobile experience some months ago, and it's still pretty accurate (but note that some of the big problems are hardware-related and apparently are not a problem with a more expensive phone) blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…
@fnord99
To be brutally honest:
Don't know, don't care.
I avoid that shit for a reason.
And I have always had enough willpower to resist that shit.
If you must, feel free to feel offended 🦄
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@devrtz :debian: @fnord99 @Fabio @Diego Roversi the biggest temptation for me would be StreetComplete (from f-droid, not from the playstore), but then I have a pinephone, so the GPS is, well, not great, and I'm not sure it would work anyway.
For everything else I'd need I can think of an alternative that is native to linux and packaged in debian.
(a Librem 5 may solve that problem, but that's quite out of my budget)
@fnord99 @Fabio @Diego Roversi @devrtz :debian:
for tickets for public transport I go to a kiosk (or sometimes an actual ticket window with an actual person, because the kiosk is half-broken). If I was using it more often I would probably buy a monthly pass online from the website.
For cashless payments I use the payment card from my bank.
I've had pretty bad experiences with navigation with live traffic information when traveling with friends (being sent on unreasonable detours that probably *increased* travel time), so, meh, that's not really something I feel the need for.
For online banking I use the website, usually from my pc; there is some 2FA happening with a phone call (with a machine, not a person)
I haven't tried those websites from a mobile browser, they may or may not work (I'm sure that the train website is horrible, but that's also true on the pc version, the only way to navigate it is by blocking 3/4 of the javascript, which firefox on the pinephone could do.)
AFAIK some EV charging places in EU have a card that you can use if you don't want to install an app. I really hope that as EVs get more common they will start accepting cash or cards like every other place where you have to buy things, however. (I also don't travel enough to be in the market for an EV, or any kind of new car, at the moment)
Ed è iniziata la stagione delle freselle con sopra il minestrone.
E nel minestrone dei bei pezzi di zucca.
Non serve che dica altro, vero?
@Kermode the south Italian variant of hardtack, except it's actually good in taste and texture :D
This picture is closer to what I'm having
I'm #knitting a shawl in two colours, and according to the precision scale I have exactly the amount of yarn I need to knit another two rows with the first colour before moving on to the next one.
I've added a lifeline, in case I lose this round of #yarnChicken.
And now, I should really stop knitting and have my breakfast, but that would delay *knowing*.
The pattern is basically “repeat until the end of the colour, change colour, repeat until the end of that yarn”, so there would have been no dishonour in changing the colour two rows earlier.
But surely that's wasteful, right?
and I WON! with a full *quarter of a gram* of yarn left!
edit: that's 80 cm!
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The mystery remains: how are they managing the grass in that area?
(it's the outdoor area of a museum, where the public is supposed to walk to reach the planes on display, so they have to keep the grass short enough that it's not a danger)
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Nella categoria: messaggi contradditori.
E rimane il mistero: con quale dei due metodi gestiscono il prato?
(È l'area all'aperto di un museo, dove il pubblico deve camminare per raggiungere gli aeroplani esposti, per cui è necessario tenere l'erba abbastanza corta da non essere un pericolo)
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No English version of the post above, which is mostly for people who travel on the local commuter trains, but the picture is of a model of a rather impressive (in person) 5 arcs railway bridge above a valley with a river and, at the time of the model, a second railway (which only had a relatively short life because of international politics¹ and now at that place is just a path through the woods)
¹ as in: it was an international local line, and then fascism.
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TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
no, non ho un nuovo progetto. non mi serve un abito da sera, non saprei cosa farmene. E un abito di Worth non è qualcosa che si riproduca facilmente o in modo economico.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Magari puoi fartelo per inaugurare la casa se traslochi qui:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_…
former mansion in New York City, United States
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