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Cake day: February 7th, 2025

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  • Man, feel like Norse iconography might be almost a lost cause here. I was looking into getting a Thor’s Hammer tattoo years ago… Every variation you can think of has been co-opted by a Nazi group somewhere. I think it was the FBI that used to keep a database of symbols linked to terrorist groups, most of it was various flavors of Nazis and most of that was symbols stolen from Norse culture.








  • Turn off the breaker before you work on anything, if you aren’t 100% positive that you’ve got the right breaker, turn off the main breaker, if you still aren’t sure, just stop. Always do a pull test after joining two wires and apply electrical tape liberally. Be wary of aluminum wiring and even more so for knob and tube if you ever see it. You’ll eventually hit a point where you realize you can get creative with the materials you use and the way you do things, don’t do that. This is also about the time you’ll start to feel confident in your skills as an electrician, this is when you’re going to skip something basic and electrocute yourself, it will probably be minor and you’ll be sore for a week and feel 10 years older. Sometimes though it’s not minor, it’s an electrician meme, but we all have the “Remember kids, Electricity will kill you” sticker.

    If you remember all that, you’re probably good to install the basement outlet, you’ll probably have local building codes to adhere to, but they’re usually not a major burden to comply with. For your chime, do you know if you have a doorbell transformer at all (and are you sure it’s getting power if so) or where the wires on your doorbell go to?





  • This is a fun thought experiment and I’m kind of surprised Discovery didn’t do something like this with holodeck tech in the “future” since the writers weren’t afraid to do other tech-taken-to-natural-conclusion like tiny phaser transporters (or whatever those were).

    They kinda did, they just didn’t go into detail. There were ships that were made entirely of holodeck at the new federation headquarters in discovery season 3ish, we just never got beyond being mentioned briefly and people going ‘Oh, thats cool’.


  • They didn’t go into depth at all, don’t believe we even have one with a name, but they talked about seeing federation ships made entirely of ‘holographic containment walls’ in Discovery Season 3. Pretty sure it was when they first arrived at federation headquarters in the future.

    There was also that ship in insurrection where it was just one giant holodeck, but still existing inside a regular ship. The concept just hasn’t made it into something that’s broadly popular in the mainstream trek fandom.