I just picked up a bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Ajisai. It seemed so pretty in swatches, but in the pen it’s just a flat, pale blue with no purple in it at all.

Don’t know when you got your bottle, but I do recall that there were some inconsistent batches with Black Swan specifically. I have two bottles and they behave very differently, with one feathering a ton and the other behaving well.

In this case, it’s possible you did indeed get a bad batch!

This is amazing. I need to design a super cheesy cross stitch of it.

That was a rough read. It’s so hard not to project these smaller-scale issues onto our larger political climate. I wonder how this whole situation would have shaken out if it had just been two businesses and noise/odor complaints, without hate and political tension to fuel things.

It’s hard to know from a single article, but it sure seems like the tensions here are motivated by a serious (and unfounded) persecution complex on the part of the Washers. Either that or some very poorly-masked bigotry. It’s hard not to view them as the aggressors in this situation, and my heart goes out to the Front Porch folks (and the whole town).

I wish we could walk back the increasing tensions in our country. It’s hard to keep perspective.

I’ve always wanted to learn skateboard but at 40+ it seemed like a really dumb hobby to start, given that you spend more time falling at first than you do on the board.

Always good to see Modesto in the news! /s

It seems like if nothing else this would be a public health concern. That they weren’t required to retrieve all of the remains but houses have to be scrubbed and sanitized feels incorrect. Someone screwed up here, and it’s heartbreaking that the families had to pick up the pieces.

Thanks for the article OP. It was a good read! But I think that’s enough news for me today.

This was just so sad to read about when it happened. I felt bad for the intern: one arguably small mistake led to such terrible consequences. I felt really bad for Hickam too; he tried to help the intern but I don’t know what came of it.

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve been putting off a travel keyboard for a while now, this time I’m actually planning ahead so I have plenty of time to mod. I’ll look into the mint switches and see what they’ve got in stock. (Ah, the classic struggle.)

I have an ortholinear kit I built but it’s caseless so it’s not suuuper portable. Which Planck do you recommend? I’d be willing to give a 40% a try even if it’s not for this trip. I’m okay with soldering if it’s a kit and/or there’s decent instructions.

It was like this in my CS department a decade ago, too. There was me, one other gal, and for a while a German exchange student who wanted nothing to do with either of us in the entire grad program. I learned to talk a lot louder over the course of that program.