#OneWeirdTrick

2025-06-08

Many hours of wet sanding, gluing, clamping, sanding, spraying, sanding, spraying, gluing, sanding, spraying, sanding, polishing, buffing and gluing later..... My car has a center console again and it no longer looks like trash.

I didn't take a before shot, but it was in a similar state to this other piece of trim before I decided to take a shot at repairing it.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#OneWeirdTrick
#IHateSanding
#CarbonFiber
#HighFiberLowFatInedible
#Corvette

Close up of a piece of carbon fiber interior trim showing what 18 years of direct Florida sunshine does to wet layup epoxy. The surface is covered in deep cracks, what isn't cracked is various shades of opaque yellow and brown and delaminated to an extent that the carbon weave cannot be seenThe center dash console of a C6 Corvette shows a high gloss clear finish over 2x2 weave carbon fiber after having been subjected to a lengthy manual refinishing process.Close up shot of a section of carbon fiber during the refinishing process. Visible is a bit of blue painters' tape protecting an edge from over spray.
2025-05-15

another day, another way to poach #eggs (this one is... put it in a sieve dangling over boiling water)

#breakfast #OneWeirdTrick

2025-02-25

“With axe-core, you can find on average 57% of WCAG issues automatically.”

I still don’t get it. Finding 100% of #WCAG issues manually just isn’t all that much work, to be honest. 🤔

github.com/w3c/wcag/issues

#oneWeirdTrick

Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦pjohanneson@mstdn.ca
2025-01-24

#OneWeirdTrick to make everything you type cause people to wonder if everything's OK, you know, I'm just checkin' in to see if you're feeling all right?

:%s/ \([^ ]\)/ \u\1/g

Before: some nice Lorem ipsum text in a Vim editor.After: The Same Lorem Ipsum Text But Now Every Word Is Capitalized For No Discernable Reason.
Chris Mackay 🇨🇦tantramar
2024-11-03

Not if you delete your fucking account. press.coop/@Gizmodo/1134213933

2024-11-01

I was reading about first time voters that had never seen "grab them by the pussy", because it happened when they were 10.
Well, listen up buttercup: here's ONE WEIRD TRICK to gain political power for your minority group.

Vote. Every time, every election.

The magic number is 6%. If you have a voting block of 6%, politicians will pay attention to you. Yes, that low!

This message brought to you by the queer community of the 90s.

#oneweirdtrick #vote2024

2024-10-10

Difficulty losing weight? “Use this one weird trick” says nutritionist

Photo by i yunmai on Unsplash

“I recommend that everyone use this trick,” says Susanne Smith, CNO, that’s Chief Nutrition Officer, at Smith Nutrition. Together with her husband and her newborn, she has 293 years of experience in nutrition.

“I have people coming into my office in tears, quite unable to lose weight,” she continues. “I feel for them, and this compels me to tell them about this one weird trick. Their minds are blown away after I tell them.”

Smith told us about how people spend hours exercising and dieting, without seeing any results. “Few people know about my trick,” she explains.

What’s her trick? She continues, “It is extremely easy to implement. My trick is this: take a dump before weighing yourself.” Smith reports that she can easily shave off the pounds if she takes a shit just before weighing herself.

Smith hopes that more people will drop a deuce prior to weighing themselves. “They can take a load off their mind by simply dropping a load into the toilet.”

#AutisticWriters #BodyWeight #nutrition #OneWeirdTrick #satire #shit #TheDailyIsotope #WeightLoss

https://www.thedailyisotope.com/2024/10/10/difficulty-losing-weight-use-this-one-weird-trick-says-nutritionist/

2024-01-02

Achieved today's fitness goals! You'll want to try my revolutionary lifehack

(lowered expectations)

#oneweirdtrick

2023-09-08

@guardian Congrats on the first clickbait I’ve seen on Mastodon! Truly a dubious honor. #oneweirdtrick #doctorssaydothis

2023-03-25

So, here’s the story about how this puzzle/course came about. I have long had an interest in polytopes, and my investigations led me to learn about the tridiagonal Birkhoff polytope \( \Omega^t_n\) , and the Birkhoff polytope. In \( \Omega^t_n\), the 1s are confined to the main diagonal & the two adjacent diagonals of the permutation matrix. There are several articles about \( \Omega^t_n\), but I couldn’t find any about any other proper Birkhoff face. I thought of the story of the six blind men and the elephant, and how exploring different areas of a large object of study could yield different insights. So, I investigated other Birkhoff faces, focusing on restricting the 1 entries to sets of diagonals. \( \Omega^{xx}_n) \) wasn’t the first Birkhoff face I looked at, but I quickly realized it was inherently interesting, as the number of vertices is \(2^{n-1}\) , and the vertices have a natural naming convention that is a binary representation.
The proof of Theorem 1 (that I used; there may be others) uses #OneWeirdTrick. In other words, Thm 1 meets 2 of the 3 criteria Mathstodon user @robeastaway lists as distinguishing features of a puzzle (rather than just a math problem):
(a)…maybe it seems at first as there isn’t enough information to solve it;
(b) an aha moment
robeastaway.com/blog/puzzle-ma

So, I posed this and following theorems as a puzzle/course because I think a lot of readers will find it fun.

2023-03-18

Huh, CO2 monitor barely going above 635ppm when I ride the bus here in #Ōtautahi.

And the air feels ten times less stuffy and stifling than the buses back in #Pōneke.

What is this magic, what could it be??

Windows that open! Well I never! 🤯 😱 🌬

#COVIDIsAirborne #CleanTheAir #OneWeirdTrick #VirusesHateThis #NPIs

Co2 monitor reading 635ppmTransom windows open on a bus
2023-02-12

If anybody cares, I updated my writeup on the #oneWeirdTrick (mathematicians hate it! am I doing this right?) to avoid dividing by zero without conditionals on the divisor to cover some non-C (and non-scalar) cases.

wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/avoi

Likely Jan Lukaslikelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
2023-01-27

@rabcyr @Laz1985

Zut alors!

(Hmmm, I just realised that my #OneWeirdTrick to change promoted ads into being served to me in French by responding to something in French isn't going to work here. And I'm both unsettled by this and also rather pleased. 😀)

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