Kira 🦊 @tty@sunbeam.city

Clefairy is always ready for having fun indoors on a rainy day. 🌧️

Today is a maintenance 🔧

and experimentation 🧪

day.

Tomorrow me and friends are paddleboarding out to an island for brunch. 🌮

Living my best life.

This is basically the dream: on vacation in BC, chilling on the back steps, carving a bow 🌅

New BIG bow (~4 feet) is coming along nicely! I think the wood is hemlock. It's super stretchy.

I'm not even done yet and it already shot a sapling arrow almost 20m! It's much more powerful than bow@3.

Article: "Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts"

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/aug/22/how-digital-media-turned-us-all-into-dopamine-addicts-and-what-we-can-do-to-break-the-cycle

stars, having easy access to woods and beaches has been doing wonders for my mental health 💜

Collected some candidates for arrows in the woods today :3

I'm really excited about the dead mature salmonberry (right)! It's very straight and doesn't have as intense nodules for buds like the saplings have (left).

Hey @neauoire @rek, have y'all have written about your fermentation processes? I looked on xxiivv and 100r and couldn't find anything.

Every time I see someone using a european wheelbarrow I feel bad for them & how much easier what they're doing could be[1]. :(

[1] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html

Trying a new trick for getting avocado pits started :3

They like to be heads-dry butts-wet.

"Map of the prototype Internet in 1982, showing 8-bit-numbered networks (ovals) only, interconnected by routers (rectangles)"

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_network

I had thought that saplings would be best, but I think I was wrong for two reasons:

1. Saplings, once bent, seem to tend to retain that now-bent shape. There is more ductility[1] than elasticity.

2. Saplings perhaps have less dense/strong fibres? This is my hypothesis, since it would explain why the more mature tree limbs seem to be able to sustain greater stress forces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductility

Short video of bow@3.0.0.

bow@1 and bow@2 both snapped. :/

I spent some time on this rainy day working on bow@3.0.0.

^___^ V

I'll probably be in Vancouver for another 1-2 months while the work visa stuff gets worked out though.

I got some job offers! ^__^

I just accepted a position at the university of berkeley, yay