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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I have been looking at these and thinking it may be my next mouse. Never soldered anything before, but I bought a cheap soldering iron starter kit thing from Amazon awhile ago I’m up for giving it a shot, especially if you said there’s only one spot you have to solder.

    How does it feel to use? Sufficiently ergo? Do the layer lines feel weird? I feel like not being totally smooth might kinda grate on me after awhile.

    I wonder if you could source a clicky mouse wheel from somewhere as a drop in replacement? My Logitech mouse has a button to turn the detent on/off and I definitely prefer it on, the free spin way just feels wrong somehow. The detent part must be physical, there shouldn’t be any electrical difference I wouldn’t think, so one ought to work as well as the other.







  • I’ve made lamps from liquor bottles. Easier to drill a hole in the bottom than to cut off the whole top. Not quite candles but probably the same basic premise.

    Fill them with something - I’ve done coffee beans, crushed glass, colored beads, empty bullet casings, etc. I do usually try to find bottles that don’t have labels at all, but if it’s got a label I leave it there. That’s part of the charm, I guess, if you want to call it that.

    Find visually interesting bottles with visually interesting labels and see what you can come up with. My favorite so far have been the bullet casings in a Hotel Tango bourbon bottle (military/MRE themed, looks sorts like an army canteen) and a beach color gradient of crushed glass (sand/white/dark blue/light blue) in a Bumbu rum bottle (looks pirate-shippy).

    Not everyone’s cup of tea, for sure, but for me it’s a fun little waste of time to put them together and to think of ideas for what kinds of fillers would go with what kind of bottles. And it’s done as a “give one lamp as a gift to someone who would like/appreciate it” kind of thing, like the Hotel Tango one was for someone who used to be in the Army. I don’t just fill my house with empty liquor bottle lamps as a monument to alcoholism or anything. That would be super weird.