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Ben Heckendorn

@benheck

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I build & repair things and discuss random stuff online. Follow me to keep up with my latest adventures and ramblings!

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Joined March 2009
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20 hours
Remember that episode of The Office with Ryan's app that would notify you in 6 different ways? It feels real now. Some event happens, my phone, computer, tablet, maybe the NSA Pringles can, they all make a noise.
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Think my sleep issues would be fully solved if I didn't have a cat. For a while now he wakes up at 4am, meows, so I have to kick him out of bedroom. Then at 8 he hears alarm and starting meowing again. When I travel I can sleep for the whole time.
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When you're reading your dad's comics from when you were in the womb and realize you were probably named after The Thing.
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Ben Heckendorn
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Accidentally hit part of the front porch cement with power washer. Then it became like Aliens "Oh uh. I made a clean spot. Now I gotta do the whole thing". Mostly. Game over for grime, man!.
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Ben Heckendorn
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I feel rode hard and put away wet. I think that's enough "house stuff" for one day. But power washers work great for cleaning gutters! Just scared the force will tilt it off the ladder. I hate ladders. Helicopters? Fine. Ladders. Ugh.
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Ben Heckendorn
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There's less footage of my sister but I am scanning what there is to make a compilation. Her birthday is next week so I can show her this to remind her of being young haha.
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Government debt matters. The 30 year treasury just hit 5%. This creates a "floor" for mortgage rates because banks would rather invest in a safe 5% than a risky 3.5% Exploding debt since 2008 proves we never actually recovered. And COVID sealed the deal.
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Ben Heckendorn
3 days
Anyone else feel like they're spending more accumulative time typing in 6 digit TFA codes than they'd spend dealing with an actual identify theft? See also, opening tamper proof aspirin.
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Ben Heckendorn
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Republicans will always support war. #russiagate was a psy-op to get the Democrats to support it as well. That was the long con. Ukraine was also used as an "off-ramp" for COVID, every city still mandating masks and shit dropped it almost exactly when the invasion happened.
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Ben Heckendorn
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Yes my life is pretty boring now. The baby spiders I didn't get are spaced equally along the seam. Weird. I'll give em a brush later and set them under porch.
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Ben Heckendorn
4 days
"How much of this 35mm film would you like to buy?"."500 feet of it".Europeans:
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Ben Heckendorn
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The baby spiders are still there! Didn't brush up enough last night. Now this is one of those movies where the evil land developers can't go in because the residents refuse to leave.
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Ben Heckendorn
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Checking drywall to see if it's ready to sand and. A spider just gave birth there. I'll see if I can brush them into a cup and put them under back porch. I find spiders kinda cool I try not to kill them if I can help it.
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Ben Heckendorn
5 days
Got my nice big dorky computer glasses! It's kind of weird, glasses that only focus a certain range. To be wearing glasses and something across room is blurry. But the screen looks sharp, especially stuff in dark mode.
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Ben Heckendorn
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Ah my new computer glasses are in. Will go pick them up shortly. Been not wearing glasses while coding for over a year now, doc says this will be better since I have an astigmatism. We shall. SEE!.
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Ben Heckendorn
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If I was CIA, I'd put at least 3 "horrible truth firewalls" above every "society ending truth" so you can burn through a couple without ending everything. Remember any conspiracy you can think of and type into 4chan a think tank of 100 people thought of 40 years ago.
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Ben Heckendorn
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#epstien was deep state blackmail. The list is never coming out. But it's in the news so you'll ignore the dire state of the economy as we approach two years of recession. Same bad books. New cooks.
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Ben Heckendorn
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Now I can make a shitty version of Stranger Things!
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Ben Heckendorn
6 days
Ugh. Two major "perfect is the enemy of good" things triggering my OCD last 24 hours. Plaster work, now necklace physics. This is for the next code update, trying to make it. Sigh. Good enough.
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Ben Heckendorn
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US economy in doom loop. Insane debt keeps inflation high. High inflation keeps rate high = hurts economy. But even if Fed rate lowered, insane debt means banks will prefer T-bills over mortgages = mortgages stay high. Their "solution" will be CBDC to allow infinite inflation.
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