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thelipstickontherim:

Bring socks!!!! #homeless #donate #homelessness

As are toiletries!

I would also advice NOT to buy wool socks because yes, they are warm, but wool shrinks very easily, some people are allergic to wool, and wet wool is one of the most uncomfortable things in the world.

Thick cotton socks would be best, they’d last the longest and be the easiest to take care of and clean.

- Jane

Cotton is best. Always cotton

I feel the need to STRESS the necessity of socks. For the event AMOK through Random Acts this year, we went to DTLA to pass out donations. At one point we basically ran out and some of us broke off from the group to buy some more items. We ended up at a convenience store that had two boxes of cotton socks. We bought them and as we were walking one man asked us if we had socks. And we said “Yes.” and gave him a pair and then suddenly we were surrounded by individuals all asking for socks. We were out of socks in a few moments. I can say from personal experience that socks were the most important article of clothing that they wanted.

And as far as toiletries go, tampons. TAMPONS AND PADS. One woman was so excited, gracious, and thankful to receive tampons and pads, as it is a donation that seems to be overlooked. So please, of donations that could be given, while all articles of clothing and food and other necessities are more than welcome, socks and tampons and pads are largely needed.

And if you could spend the extra couple of bucks for special diabetic socks, you could save a homeless diabetic persons foot. Please.

This is something to keep in mind next time I donate clothes. But I don’t want to give them old socks, they will be getting NEW socks.

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janejana:

this is so beautiful i’m crying

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archiemcphee:

How often do you get to see a life-size pegasus? This majestic Friesian horse received an awesome clip job giving him a stunning pair of black wings which he wears so well that we keep waiting for him to take flight. 

Suitable for a flight to Asgard.

um holy fuck

I feel for the poor girl, but still:

Her parents insisted that she wasn’t sick, just Scottish

I must be getting better! Give me a few more days for my sense of humor to mature to something slightly less infantile.

Only slightly, mind you.

Somebody asked how my solution in the last post differed from the "ProxyGambit" solution. They missed my point. Just because I change the tires on the car doesn't mean I get credit for inventing or building the car. The same thing with this ProxyHam nonsense: nobody is "building a solution". Instead, we are all just using existing products the way they are intended. We are all just choosing a different mix of components.

People get all excited when they see a bare Raspberry Pi board, but the reality is that there's nothing interesting going on here, no more than lifting the hood/bonnet on your car. This is photograph from ProxyGambit:


What ProxyGambit is doing here is using cellular data on the far end rather stealing WiFi from Starbucks or the local library. Their solution looks fancy, but you can do the same thing with off-the-shelf devices for a lot cheaper. Here is the same solution with off-the-shelf products:


This is just a TL-WR703N ($26) router with a 3G USB dongle. You can get these dongles cheap off eBay used, or new for around $17. Combined, they are cheaper than a Raspberry PI. If you want to customize this, you can replace the firmware on the router with dd-wrt/OpenWRT Linux.

Like my solution, they chose Ubquiti's NanoStation. However, they went with the 2.4 GHz version (locoM2 for $49) rather than my choice of 900 MHz (locoM9 for $125). There's also a 5 GHz version one could choose from (locoM5 for $62).

The 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5 GHz are all unregulated ISM bands. They all require relatively direct line-of-sight. The 5 GHz band requires absolutely no obstructions -- you have to be able to see the other end of the connection with binoculars. The 2.4 band allows some light foliage to be in the way. The 900 MHz band is very forgiving, allowing heavy foliage and possibly a house in the way.


The upshot is that the difference between "ProxyGambit" and my solution is the use of a cellular modem on the far end rather than hitching a ride with Starbucks, and the choice of a 2.4 GHz for the long distance connection rather than 900 MHz. But don't be limited by these choices -- there is a huge range of choices that can be made here. ProxyGambit made some interesting choices -- give it a try yourself and make some different ones.

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A 26-year-old Massachusetts man wearing a black outfit studded with chrome spikes was arrested Friday afternoon after fake ammunition strapped to his waist caused “panic” on a public bus in Boston. Boston police said people began calling 911 after Kevin Young of Watertown “boarded ...

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Hacked printer error messages

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boy we weak as hell in america

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MY OWN CREATIONS HAVE TURNED AGAINST ME. THIS IS THE END.

WILD

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Fur mice, bouncy balls, and squeaky toys, oh my!

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McGruber writes: On Wednesday, authorities in the south Fulton County, Georgia town of Hapeville shut down a street for hours and used their bomb squad to search a home. According to the suspect's father, the bomb scare started after his 18-year-old son was arrested for trespassing, entering an abandoned warehouse and salvaging mercury switches, which can be used to detonate explosives. When police searched the teen's home on Virginia Avenue at Rainey Avenue in Hapeville, they said they found chemicals inside. "He's not building bombs. He does do a lot of experiments. A lot of them I don't fully understand, but I'm certain he's not making bombs," said the suspect's father, Allen Mason. Mason says chemistry is his son's hobby and he wants to be a chemical engineer. Mason also said police told him what they found is not illegal to own. One neighbor, who couldn't return home for hours, said he didn't feel the teen was a threat. "I don't see a problem with this, but you have to trust the authorities in they're doing what they think is best," said Curtis Ray. In February 2015, Hapeville authorities evacuated businesses and called out the bomb squad to investigate a pinhole camera that was part of a Georgia University Art Project.

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18k gold with a carved agate skull surrounded by rose- and old-cut diamonds and black enamelling, with hallmarks for London 1852.  It has an interior inscription on the ring that adds another fascinating layer of history: Inscribed “James Dixon Obit 1852,” it memorialises James Dixon, a well-known English silversmith and founder of the family firm of James Dixon & Sons.

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Hmmmmmmmmm *sip*

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As it turns out, having fabulously wealthy American magnates for fellow parishioners has a way of ensuring equally fabulous decorations within one's house of worship.

Located just below the Rockefeller’s Kykuit estate in Westchester County, New York, the Union Church of Pocantico Hills is home to an unexpected artistic treat. Embedded within the church's steeply pitched gables are gorgeous, little-known works by both early 20th-century luminaries Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall.

A glorious rose window created by Henri Matisse is the artist’s last completed work before his death in 1954. Commissioned by Nelson A. Rockefeller, the window is a memorial for his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Bringing even more brilliant light into Union Church are nine windows designed by Chagall, eight of which are interspersed throughout the church’s nave. Most stunning of all is one which has become known as the “Good Samaritan” window, comemmorating Abby Rockefeller’s husband, John Jr., at the behest of their son, David.

While it’s hardly strange that a well-to-do family of cultural connoisseurs like the Rockefellers would commission works of art as gifts and memorials to each other, the wondrous element of the glass pieces at Union Church remains how they’ve continued to remain hidden in plain, public view, even after more than half a century of existence.

Actor Tom Selleck had truckloads of water from a public fire hydrant delivered to his home over the past two years, according to a complaint filed by a Ventura County water district. The Calleguas Municipal Water District filed a complaint Monday that accused the former “Magnum P.I.” star of truckin...