George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

Happy Palm Pre day everyone!

#webos20090606 #neverforget #palmwasrobbed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre

My local library has DVDs of a TV series we want to see, but the first season was already checked-out by someone else.

Out of luck we thought - until our librarian said, “I think that series is on HBO, right? Wait here…”

Librarian goes in the back, returns with a small bundle and says - “Here’s a Roku with a subscription to the Max streaming service. You can check it out for a week.” #ilovelibraries #libraries

Happy Thanksgiving!

Apple really missed on naming this thing. Isn’t it obvious it should be the “Reality Distortion Field Generator”?

There’s a joke here somewhere, but I can’t find it. Mastodon, can you help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

This is from last summer. I was surprised how close I could get to this hummingbird!

You can use an app to track how much energy it’s using. Here is a bad graph it provides for the previous week. 16Kwh for the week total, averaging between 2 and 3 KWh per day. I’m paying about $0.14 per KWh, so, $2.24 for the electricity to heat all my hot water for a week, about $10 per month.

I finally have the new hybrid heat-pump water heater installed! It’s a bit taller than the gas model it replaced - the compressor sits above the tank. When the compressor is running (heating the water) cold air comes out of the round vent area towards the top, about the temp you would get from an air conditioner.

If the arrows point down, your focus will be at the top of the list new posts, so you’d have to scroll down to see the posts you missed. Scroll the timeline down to make the arrows point up, scroll up to make the arrows point down.

I’m a stickler for reading posts in my feed in the order they were posted. In Metatext, arrows pointing up on the “Load More” bar indicate new posts will be added above the bar, and your focus will be at the bottom of this list of new posts, so the next post in chronological order.

Calling around, asking local plumbers if they would install a heat-pump water heater for me, didn’t get me very far. One of them eventually suggested I order one from the local big box store. That eventually got me in touch with a plumbing company that told me I first had to get an electrical whip installed. I didn’t know what that was, but they assured me any local electrician would know what I was talking about. It turns out it’s jus an electrical line running from your main panel to the location where your water heater is, or will be.

If you have puddle of water under your water heater, like in this picture, it needs to be replaced. I’m planning on replacing this gas water heater with a hybrid-heat pump model.