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sure potential shoplifters are clear
Saturday, November 25 2017
Not too long after Saturday morning coffee, I tinkered away with the screened-in-porch project, adding diagonal struts to the structural foundation of porche's east end (which now has the form of two-dimensional truss). I worked until I had a need for supplies that I don't have on hand, at which point I loaded up the dogs and went on the errands that I go on these days when I leave the house with no other humans. My first stop was the Tibetan Center thrift store, where I probably should've bought a beat-up old graphing calculator I saw there. Instead I bought a 4.0 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 4600 digital camera (complete with 512 megabyte SD card). There was an old Canon digital camera there too, and (in violation of my plan to "always buy digital cameras"), I left it, since it was an old 3.2 megapixel camera with an annoying proprietary USB connector.
At Home Depot, I bought a number of galvanized carriage bolts and lag screws, though the selection was a mess, with bolts of the wrong size in place where the bolts I was looking for should've been. While there, I also got a bunch of copper fittings and pipe so I can make another copper pipe menorah. Gretchen and I will be flying to California at some point in the near future to attend a wedding, and I like giving menorahs as our couple's present. I think this is because of the feeling I have that those menorahs will probably be my most lasting legacy (in other words: they could easily end up as interesting relics in the thin smear of PCBs, aluminum, and plastic left by of our civilization). To combat shoplifting, these days there is a little video display near the copper fittings which shows a feed of whoever happens to be standing there. To make sure potential shoplifters are clear on what is going on, the screen actually beeps when a person is near it and flashes a message over the video feed saying "recording in progress."
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I went on something of a Mr. Robot marathon, watching all of the rest of the second season. I still find the unreliable narration infuriating and the plot needlessly complicated, but there are still things in it that I enjoy. If nothing else, it's good seeing people who are good at working with technology depicted in a realistic and sympathetic way.
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