TheRealKuni

Grand Rapids isn’t the most bike-friendly city, but it’s also very far from the worst. I bike through it somewhat regularly, and have only come close to dying once (while biking over the speed limit on Lake Drive in East GR, but not fast enough for one asshole who decided to pass me illegally and almost got hit).

We could certainly use more bike lanes, but we have some good trails in Kent County.

This method of snow prevention is awesome when the weather is right. You keep ice and snow from accumulating in the first place, so it doesn’t need to be plowed and end up blocking the very sidewalks and bikelanes we want. And it also means you don’t need nearly as much salt.

It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s not a bad one either.

Edit: Also this is near an area that is being redone to be largely pedestrian-focused. Cars have been cut off from a good chunk of that road I think, the parking garage exit that goes onto that street has been closed for over a year now. Maybe it will reopen, but regardless, they’ve added a lovely little sitting area down that street. And just down that street where this is shot there’s a lovely walking bridge over the Grand River to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library/Museum, which is just across the street from the Grand Rapids Public Museum, which has yet another walking bridge (the Blue Bridge) over the Grand River back to this side.

In other words, this is a very walkable part of the city. Again, not perfect, but better than lots of places.

This is an excellent way to remove snow and ice in cramped areas without destroying to local water table with salt.

If anyone can make it through a blockade to deliver food, it’s Davos Seaworth.

I hope it’s more than just onions though.

Oh I totally get it, and probably would’ve gone that route if my DIY skill level was higher. My benefit of maintenance lighting is a lucky accident. 🤣

Well I can certainly send you links to the brilliant work of others that inspired me. 🤣

This is the base slider I use for the glass, with these risers for the AMS and this addon for an LED strip.

The LED strip I purchased is this one. I did have to use a dremel to widen the wire way on the slider/riser system, and (of course) had to cut off a good length of excess LED, but there was a very convenient cut point that means most of the back edge isn’t covered by light, but it still works great.

Pass around schematics on flash drives like its cod3 in your computer class in high school.

Why would you infest your fellow classmates with that Treyarch nonsense? Give them CoD2 or CoD4MW like a good Infinity Ward fan.

(This take on Treyarch/Infinity Ward brought to you by the year 2008 or so, when I last cared about it. 😅)

In my class it was Unreal Tournament. Or a version of the open source Cube 2 where I had replaced all gun models with fists and rockets with couches so our teacher couldn’t complain about us shooting one another. 🤣

Oh those look great!

I have a COB LED strip plugged into a USB port on the same power strip as the printer, installed on a riser/slider system for the glass top and AMS, with the wire running through said riser.

At first I was frustrated that I wouldn’t be able to use the printer’s light control with this, but it has actually turned out pretty nice since the lights stay on for maintenance work and nozzle changes, when the printer is turned off.

I like your solution though!

In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.

Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”

I’m stealing this.

It wasn’t PBS broadly, it was a specific affiliate station in New York.

Hey totally fair, whatever works. I built out the surround system because, after experiencing someone’s home theater when I was a kid, I’d always wanted to. 😁

Or just get a 5.1 setup. Speakers are cheaper than ever.

Edit: Well. They were. Before an orange man decided to destroy the economy.