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I kill all plants, but am getting incrementally better about /not/ doing so. Over or under-watering is/are my specialty. I can manage indoor hot peppers and outdoor strawberries, and several varieties of tree. I grew 7 carrots this season, of an uncountable multitude planted. Have a simple soil test kit; may remember to use it tomorrow.

Incredible Alicia.

It hardly ever comes up.
I'm oldest of 3 brothers, born '74 '76 '78.
Andrew, Benjamin, Charles.
Ben is a new father & union stagehand who directs the building of sets and whatnot for TV, film & Theater.

Charlie had his first seizure as a very new infant while my mother gave him a bath in the kitchen sink, my memory is of being in the next room and hearing her hysterically calling 911. You can't really tell in childhood photos of Charlie that there's anything unusual about him, but he never progressed beyond mental infancy. "Agenesis of the corpus collossum," is the concise description of the birth defect that causes his disability. He's heavily dosed with anti-convulsant barbiturates at all times. After a concerted, years long effort of ad-hoc physical therapy, he learned to walk (with an uncannily zombie-esque shambling gait) at around age 8, against the predictions of doctors.

When you encounter him in person, he presents as a deeply autistic man with crippling cerebral palsy, somewhat wiry and small in stature. Most individuals with CP are mentally and cognitively normal. Charlie does not speak or understand language, feed himself, or provide for his own hygiene.

40-something now, he is technically a ward of the state, lives in a group home a few towns over. Our parents visit him regularly. Food, music, warm sunbeams & jingly-squeaky-noisy toys make him happy. We have him over for holidays. He has a job, as required by law, but it involves sitting in a bean bag and staying out of the way of the other, less profoundly disabled, folks in the workshop.

Gilbert Grape, Mice and Men, The Goonies... these stories hit me differently than they do other people.

This is a level of commitment...I can't even...<gawks>

I'm pretty sure reading this is helping to make me a better person. Thanks.

drew is in.

The "Guide" is an exciting suggestion, but perhaps has already done itself to death.
Maybe take a look at Librivox? We could re-do something as a group project there?

Eh?
https://librivox.org/author/558

The (FDM) ones that won't frustrate the hell out of you are still at least $$hundreds. My neighbor has established numerous maker spaces in the dot.edu world. He's worked with Bosch/Dremel to develop a reasonable product...not exactly a recommendation, but I know he likes the ones he has.
https://shop.dremel.com/products/digilab/3d-printers/

I've used several for work stuff (mostly scale prototypes that guide the design of steel parts) but they are many $$thousands type. [stratasys]

One of the cheapest I've seen used:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/XYZprinting- … r/55615805

I also know the guy who developed this machine, he's knowledgeable but small-time:
https://www.printedsolid.com/products/r … 7074077781

Tangentially related: my M2 4-foot by 8-foot robotic router frame shipped out yesterday...

It moves through time and space, when properly motivated.

Ya should have drawn teeth on it so they'll be able to clean something.

Tom is correct: Tool is excellent. Been a paying fan since the they played on a side stage at Lolla '92.

Having so little musical talent/education myself, I've been mesmerized by the way the guitar cadence changes in the first 20s or so since the first time I listened to this CD. Change of time signature? Syncopation? Do you music people have a name for that kind of thing?

Hugely improved audio production, zero edits:

Chapter 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b91YeRUeeQM
(Chapter 8, posted previously): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKLrYYlKOEA
Chapter 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6AKkCGy3M

[edit: Hobbit]

So as not to bury the lede: one of things apparently lost in my RAID failure last year was my recording of "Peter Pan and Wendy," read to my girls a few years ago. I dug for those files for 2 days after this topic posted, so I'm beyond the tears now.

In recompense, I recorded chapter 8 of The Hobbit with my wee man last night. The voice recorder on my phone was not set properly at all, but with some very light editing and several compression passes it would not hurt your ears if anyone decides to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKLrYYl … e=youtu.be

Just read chapter 2 this afternoon (with the phone placed better), which I should manage to post tonight. He's not quite 4, and we just read this a few months ago, so we're jumping around this time to be sure he's interested in hearing whatever part we get onto.