Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 18

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I'm low-key considering making an imprint of my butt so I can cast a butt-shaped silicone pillow. The desk seat is not bad but the seat cushion is practically non-existent and lost all its elasticity.

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A little corner in my head want to see the world burn by angry people over a historic film, where there was an equal amount of white and black people but their roles are played by the opposite skin color.

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Kung Fu Panda 4 OST doesn't disappoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadG2zToi1s Instant goosebumps.

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Tried red bean mochi for the first time. Was fine. Not the best. Definitely 1000 times better than the mochi ice cream I tried a longer time ago. There I had the problem with it being both hard and gooey soft.

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My miniature paint box is finished https://www.tumblr.com/adiwan/744764666193100800/

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Maybe I'm getting old but I like After Midnight https://www.youtube.com/@AfterMidnightCBS

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Liquidy and runny cyanoacrylate is superior to thick and gooey cyanoacrylate. I just run out of my bottle of runny super glue and had to resort to those extremely small tubes that have the thicker stuff. I was hugely disappointed how awful it behaved and how awful it was to squeeze it out of the tube: more glue came out of the tube than I needed and oozed out on its own.

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Haha.... I got a request from a family member to make a Bulbasaur from concrete for their garden. I explained that I never did it and 3D-printing any kind of mold will be expensive and may result in many failures AND it will take a long time. I think I will 3D-print a positive and use silicone for the mold. It'll make it easier to remove the mold from the hard concrete BUT to conserve the extremely expensive silicone I need to create a tightly fitting box that can be reused for the concrete pour. I predict that there will be bubbles galore in both the silicone and the concrete. Nobody I know has a sufficiently large vacuum or pressure chamber for removing bubbles. I ain't gonna buy that. Gonna need to figure out what's the "real" size of Bulbasaur. The size entry in the pokedex seem to be quite off to what I see in screen shots of the anime. I think I'll stick to the smaller anime size.

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I'm 3d-printing myself a grid inlay for a new box I acquired for my miniature paints. With this grid inlay I can insert compatible tiles that won't shift when the box is moved. I want to print this https://www.printables.com/model/638320-parametric-gridfinity-paint-rack for all my Army Painter paints and generic open boxes for my brushes and other random stuff. I could print specific containers for a few things but it'd be overkill.

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Buying a proper dial caliper was an excellent decision. I was gifted a digital one but it turned out to be a hassle as the batteries drained way too quickly. Having an analogue dial isn't in any way better or worse in practice. I have to look at two places for number before the comma and after but it's an acceptable trade-off for not having to rely on stupid batteries. I also use another without a dial (cheap 15€) but it's hard to guesstimate the digits after the comma.

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Cool! KDE 6 is finished and the features look cool. https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ I wait until Debian releases their updated packages and see if my old Thinkpad X201 still works.

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Did another thing https://adiwan.tumblr.com/post/743579949596819456/ho-oh-alph-ruins-puzzle-replica-i-was-yet-again

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Posting my creations online make me yearn for the Like and Reblog high.

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I just stumbled upon the statistics menu of my 3d printers. One of them (the oldest) has accumulated 56 days of print time. It has probably more because I did a mainboard upgrade.

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It has been finished!
https://www.tumblr.com/adiwan/743211519247089664/i-finished-a-set-of-magnetic-unown-alphabet-tiles

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I'm somewhat mad that the battery of my DSLR died. Before I wanted to use it I put the battery into the charger. Just as I wanted to snap my first shot the camera shut off with a low battery warning.

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The first season of the live-action ATLA series is certainly rushed in some parts. For what it is, it's OK. From what I get is, that it is barely standing on its own, however it is a great companion-piece to the animated series.

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The live-action Avatar The Last Airbender is pretty decent. I only watched the first episode so far.

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Having a proper hot melt glue gun is great. I cannot say it enough. I was attaching 30 magnets with a huge hot blob of glue to the Unown tiles I crafted out of polymer clay. I need to get my old Canon EOS/Rebel 350 DSLR camera (it's now 18 years old) and make some photos for the interwebs.

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It's great to have The Bad Batch back. A 3 episode finale is great and all but it means that there is less time until the series finale. Animated Star Wars is given a lot of flak in the past, sometimes rightfully so for crap episodes and the initially jarring art style. On the other hand it is the source for really imaginative and sometimes the best Star Wars stories.

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The difference between applying matte varnish on acrylic paint is less noticeable than anticipated, especially when using an airbrush. I'm used to use brush-on varnish and it ended up making the product look a bit more wax-y as the thickness of the varnish was a lot thicker, especially on miniatures.

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Exclusive preview! It's not finished but I have nearly completed gift for a friend. The paint is still drying and needs some varnish, as well as a magnet on the back side. Other than that it is practically done. Sadly the colors don't show up well in the photo. The color variations are a little bit too subtle for the lighting and camera. https://i.imgur.com/tZKhdQ5.jpeg

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Sometimes I wonder how some things can happen without noticing it happening. One of the screws holding my bike rack vanished, completely gone. I guess it's time to buy a bottle of Loctite or any other screw locking compound.

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I got my mail box. It has some questionable design choices. I'm a layman when it comes to designing such things but it made me think. I can unhinge the the top side of the door for the parcel access when I reach my arm into the half-open package door. I can 3d print a fix to block access to that. I wish I had the tools and time to make my own, however it'd be probably 10 times more expensive with a high chance of failure.

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My friends prefer to use wireless headsets and the mics are hard to listen to. The sound is highly compressed and the high frequencies are cut off. I don't want to complain to my friends as it would be a dick move. I always say to myself that there are worse sounding microphones and I can be happy with the quality I'm subjected to.

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I just ordered a mail box that can also accept small to mid-size packages (40cm x 40cm x 20cm). It'd give me great peace of mind whenever I'm not at home and something is on its way to me.