French class presentation is now a woodworking teacher talking about his great, great grandfather's bit brace. It's wood with a metal insert for the chuck. it's so cool.

@DanWentzel They system is really interesting, those seats sit over top of the other ridings...

French class is presentations today..one of the class mates is talking about their lego and what they do with their family.

@HonDuMuc @NorCalCherylLyn yeah, I was colder in NZ than I am in NZ

@NorCalCherylLyn @HonDuMuc I mean, today it's lovely, 1C and sunny..

@barbaraedelman YAY!

@HonDuMuc @NorCalCherylLyn hah! I'd say "come visit here" but mb not right now (it's getting cold)

@NorCalCherylLyn I think it's also that @HonDuMuc is a gifted photographer.

@HonDuMuc all your pictures make me want to visit Vietnam.

@ZiggityZig Like i know a guy who has a fixed wing drone he uses to check on water stations/his sheep and fence lines around his paddocks. Now, he's a very nerdy farmer, but they'll use any tool that will make their lives easier.

@ZiggityZig there is a weird intersection of knowledge in my brain about this. Farm equipment manufactures are locking down equpiment and claiming you own the machine (sort of) but need them to repair/unlock/allow you to use it. There are farmers hacking their own tractors to use them, so I think that roboticism isn't going to be the issue, it's going to be a "software/who owns this thing?" problem.

@ZiggityZig all good. My brain is a mess of half remembered crap, trivial and bizarre links. So I'm glad to have used it for something useful.

@TheRuralProgressive yep. They're like "we will take your money. We don't care where it comes from" and the US ones are like "OMG CANADA?!!!" In fact, IIRC I also feel like I pay less duties/customs when I order from not USA.

I'm aware this is a very very small problem but it's just an example of stupid. Our economies are basically one big intertwined mess, and yet prices are stupidly high here and half the products on a US store don't exist in it's Canadian analog.

Get email from Beastie Boys store. Follow link because of specific product. Get asked if I want to go to Canadian store. Go to Canadian store. Product is only in the US store.

To be clear, I don't neccesarily want to hurt drivers. But their engines? I would very much like to put a honking big hole through their engines.

@barbaraedelman I'm very vested in this: how is the food. Also I wanted to tell you how I know it would freeze: I was broke. Lost my job. So, in a fit of stupid I turned my apartment heat WAY down and unplugged the fridge. In the fridge was a bottle of water (like a glass one I'd refill). It froze and blew up. So yeah..

@ZiggityZig and another one https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-02-26/hands-free-hectare-grows-barley-crop-drone-technology/9474830