#packrat — Public Fediverse posts

Gotham City was rife with criminality. Residents were grateful for having the #DynamicDuo in keeping the villains and their henchmen in check with a punchup.
#Batman #CapedCrusader #PackRat 🐀
#BatmanFight 🦇

Spent much of the day cleaning out the in-laws garage so we can try and fit a car in there. So glad I don't have a hobby (woodworking) that requires physically large amounts of material (wood) and large machinery (table saws, etc).

All my hobby hoarding is digital (except for the computer parts, but those fill a few shelves in a closet not a 3 car garage!).

#packrat #selfhosted #old

GitHub - 1993 Edition

> A collection of user supported C source code, including thousands of complete working programs, subroutines, libraries, etc.

#PackRat

@KateShaw has released an episode about Pack Rats! Listening now.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/03/10/episode-423-pack-rats-and-busy-mice/

#rats
#mammals
#packRat
#rodents

In case you missed this nice write-up in 404 Media:
https://www.404media.co/the-digital-packrat-manifesto/
Yeah, it's about that nonsense at #Amazon and #drm, etc -- and this rodent can really identify with the article's author, about hoarding. #packrat (Now, I'll also take the opportunity to remind #SROP readers that our #ebooks are different with regard to "licensing". See our FAQ page for details.) #bookstodon #books

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Oh look, it's the #PackRat to the rescue! Some wall foam from another project.

Now that looks much more 'server' rack!
👍👍

The #PackRat just won a gold medal.
🥇

The low time record for junk-spotted-and-acquired to junk-purposed to junk-deployed has been absolutely shattered!

The unknown melamine boards with the dishwasher? Just stiffening supports for the packaging. They are some sort of dense fibreboard. No idea why they were plastic wrapped other than they will absorb water and degrade.

Anyway, absolutely perfect size to support the incredibly handy shelf I have on this banister.

With #CrazyCanuckBBQ stuff!

You need to ask? Of course the #PackRat keeps empty fish food containers.

Haven't forgotten heat shrink on a connection since I put this *directly* in front of my soldering iron. Move it out to the work area when I start and heat shrink is sitting in my face to remind me.

#PackRat
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Made some significant progress on the topper today.

Got too tired to continue and started making mistakes but this is a good place to stop for the night.

I'll add the top neopixel and double check the wiring tomorrow before firng it up flat like this when I'm (hopefully) fresh. And yes, the telco patch wire is back again!

An initial foray into electronic 'sculpture' where I can hide all my mistakes!
👍😂

#neopixels #AdaFruit
#PackRat
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cc: @j_angliss

This is their (now discontinued) ESP8266 Colour WiFi Display kit. The ESP8266 is a Wemos D1 Mini Pro.

Comes in a very nice case, good protective packaging for parts and everything you need. The board for mounting the D1 Mini Pro and display is inside the static bag at the front left that is reflecting a lot of light.

Designed by Fred.

Not a surprise that the #PackRat still has an unbuilt kit. I gave one to a local teen who was interested in electronics. Trying to set the hook as it were.
🎣

Ooops! The #PackRat just whipped his tail down across my hand!

One does *not* make twist ties out of perfectly good unused wire! Especially straight off of the spool!!

Ouch!

Now using the snarl of telco patch wire that I collect every time I see the opportunity. Yellow/blue should be good enough, it's 28AWG and the protected strings for the lights themselves are much more visible than I expected. Even more so than the green outdoor ones I had there before.

Won't matter when it's dark 🤷‍♂️

It's everywhere. Is there a worldwide shortage of lames I didn't know about? This is nuts!

But you know what?

Scalpels are really, really sharp; the blades are very cheap and there are *lots* of blade shapes.

Not only that, I can use them for lots of other tasks. 💡💡💡

There is likely even one (or more) lurking somewhere. Now where would the dental tools be hiding? 🤔
#PackRat

@amanzer how long are they? 😀

Just kidding, I'm sure there's something here somewhere. Just a matter of finding it. Or making it!

I got lots of junk!
#PackRat 🎒🐀

@kibcol1049 so close and yet so far. Found my headphone extension cable which, of course, being the 🦖 I am has a quarter inch plug.

Need ⅛ to ⅛ 🤦‍♂️

Time to do the only possible thing. Leave this out in a really annoying place and let my subconscious dwell on where my #PackRat self may have stored something like that. 😂

I am entirely unsure of whether the fact that I have found a multitude of ⅛->¼ adapters already is a bad or good sign.
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So, thanks to *ahem* helpful interest, I spent some time thinking about blades.

I don't have the skills/knowledge/tools to *make* something like that.

But *sharpen* it, that's my territory. Even a razor blade.

Meet the KBQ Slasher.

Let's see if I'm talking through my hat.

* if this works, future me would to *thank* @smellsofbikes for the hours to be invested in modifying the 22 remaining unused blades.

Cuz this here #PackRat will find it impossible to throw them out now! 😂
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Aww, crap, I know what happened (can be fixed with just any bolt, however) -- left this outside and a pack rat stole it, likely!!! Shiny bolt for its nest... #packrat

The type of thing I find while looking for a stud finder.

Hasn't been legal tender since 2021. Pretty much out of circulation for a decade before that.

#PackRat
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Hah! Got ya!

You're either going to have to buy something or get that 3D printer going to fix the broken foot on your BT keyboard!

Nope. Still got junk.
#PackRat
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Hmmm. Either everyone is baffled or (most likely) no-one is particularly interested.

Tough. Here's another clue.

Likely the giveaway one.

#Packrat

Maybe another 'clue' would help.

#packrat

And here's another #PixelBlaze project now on the go 🤦‍♂️

Any guesses?
❓❓❓

#packrat

3D printer for an enclosure? Nah, don't think so.

I don't need no steenking 3D printer.

I'm a #packrat. I have junk!

Think I’ll make this storage room into a yoga room. 🧘‍♂️

But what to do with the stuff when you can never throw anything away?

#yoga #packrat

I have had two small neodymium magnets sitting on my desk for... Years. I salvaged them from some tech packaging that used them for a satisfying snap close.

Anyway, today I attached them to the stove pipe baffle below our bird houses. Now I'll have a place to "stick" the nails when doing #NestWatch instead of losing them.

All of this to say, tasteful hording of potentially useful stuff is a good thing! #packrat #hoarder

A decidedly eclectic assortment of lithics, fossils & 1 ceramic. 2/ #Archaeology #Geology #FossilFriday #Packrat

Ann says we have a lot of boxes of "rocks".

Hmm...Let's take one & see what is in it.

It's time for ***WHAT'S IN THAT BOX?***

1/ #archaeology #geology #packrat #Flintknapping #FossilFriday

PACK RAT / IMPLODERS / WHITE KNUCKLE

Lopez, Thursday, 23 May (19:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/pack-rat-imploders-white-knuckle

When your #packrat nature pays off....

#eclipse2024

So. Went down to the archives (basement of horrors) looking for something else and came across these.

Do you know anyone looking for IBM DOS 3.10 or the Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Upgrade on 5¼" floppy disc? 😂

#dos #floppies
#PackRat

We have a LOT of different people on site today, indeed this week, including from India Geologic Survey and executive leadership...
My #gisday is therefore at the office - and this is one wall of my office, all the things I have collected like a #packrat from my #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience including nuke site cleanup, more - and now my #spatialhydrologist by osmosis
--
My #hobbyhorse I guess - but rather than being a 'traditional' GIS professional using software try to be someone with #appliedscience, #appliedbusiness, #appliedtechnology, #appliedcultural, #appliedcommunityservice, etc needs that are met by #GIS / #spatialdataanalysis, using a variety of #spatial & other #technologysolutions - more interesting work, better #jobprospects and less chance of #burnout
--
#mapping #gischat #GISDay2023 #GISDay #geography #geographyteacher #location #spatial #intelligence #GISchat #GIStribe #GIS #mapping #maps @gisday #hydrospatial

We have a LOT of different people on site today, indeed this week, including from India Geologic Survey and executive leadership...
My #gisday is therefore at the office - and this is one wall of my office, all the things I have collected like a #packrat from my #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience including nuke site cleanup, more - and now my #spatialhydrologist by osmosis
--
My #hobbyhorse I guess - but rather than being a 'traditional' GIS professional using software try to be someone with #appliedscience, #appliedbusiness, #appliedtechnology, #appliedcultural, #appliedcommunityservice, etc needs that are met by #GIS / #spatialdataanalysis, using a variety of #spatial & other #technologysolutions - more interesting work, better #jobprospects and less chance of #burnout
--
#mapping #gischat #GISDay2023 #GISDay #geography #geographyteacher #location #spatial #intelligence #GISchat #GIStribe #GIS #mapping #maps @gisday #hydrospatial

We have a LOT of different people on site today, indeed this week, including from India Geologic Survey and executive leadership...
My #gisday is therefore at the office - and this is one wall of my office, all the things I have collected like a #packrat from my #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience including nuke site cleanup, more - and now my #spatialhydrologist by osmosis
--
My #hobbyhorse I guess - but rather than being a 'traditional' GIS professional using software try to be someone with #appliedscience, #appliedbusiness, #appliedtechnology, #appliedcultural, #appliedcommunityservice, etc needs that are met by #GIS / #spatialdataanalysis, using a variety of #spatial & other #technologysolutions - more interesting work, better #jobprospects and less chance of #burnout
--
#mapping #gischat #GISDay2023 #GISDay #geography #geographyteacher #location #spatial #intelligence #GISchat #GIStribe #GIS #mapping #maps @gisday #hydrospatial

We have a LOT of different people on site today, indeed this week, including from India Geologic Survey and executive leadership...
My #gisday is therefore at the office - and this is one wall of my office, all the things I have collected like a #packrat from my #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience including nuke site cleanup, more - and now my #spatialhydrologist by osmosis
--
My #hobbyhorse I guess - but rather than being a 'traditional' GIS professional using software try to be someone with #appliedscience, #appliedbusiness, #appliedtechnology, #appliedcultural, #appliedcommunityservice, etc needs that are met by #GIS / #spatialdataanalysis, using a variety of #spatial & other #technologysolutions - more interesting work, better #jobprospects and less chance of #burnout
--
#mapping #gischat #GISDay2023 #GISDay #geography #geographyteacher #location #spatial #intelligence #GISchat #GIStribe #GIS #mapping #maps @gisday #hydrospatial

We have a LOT of different people on site today, indeed this week, including from India Geologic Survey and executive leadership...
My #gisday is therefore at the office - and this is one wall of my office, all the things I have collected like a #packrat from my #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience including nuke site cleanup, more - and now my #spatialhydrologist by osmosis
--
My #hobbyhorse I guess - but rather than being a 'traditional' GIS professional using software try to be someone with #appliedscience, #appliedbusiness, #appliedtechnology, #appliedcultural, #appliedcommunityservice, etc needs that are met by #GIS / #spatialdataanalysis, using a variety of #spatial & other #technologysolutions - more interesting work, better #jobprospects and less chance of #burnout
--
#mapping #gischat #GISDay2023 #GISDay #geography #geographyteacher #location #spatial #intelligence #GISchat #GIStribe #GIS #mapping #maps @gisday #hydrospatial

Right lower 1st molar from a #packrat (Neotoma sp.) in occlusal view. From the early #Pleistocene of Temecula, California, part of the collection at the #WesternScienceCenter. #FossilFriday #rodent #fossils #paleontology

Right lower 1st molar from a #packrat (Neotoma sp.) in occlusal view. From the early #Pleistocene of Temecula, California, part of the collection at the #WesternScienceCenter. #FossilFriday #rodent #fossils #paleontology

Right lower 1st molar from a #packrat (Neotoma sp.) in occlusal view. From the early #Pleistocene of Temecula, California, part of the collection at the #WesternScienceCenter. #FossilFriday #rodent #fossils #paleontology

For my own sanity and possibly yours in dealing with my stuff.

#hashtags I commonly use when posting beyond those in bio (some key ones repeated):
Note: #WIP

#WryComment #CanadianEh

#CrazyCanuckBBQ
#Carnivore
- various tags to identify possibly unwanted text/imagery in food preparation

#ResurrectedRecordPlayer
#NowPlaying #RandomMusic

#PhonePhotography

#reuse #recycle #OtherPeoplesGarbage
#PackRat

#MyHistory
- locations where appropriate

#WeAreTheWeird
#WeAreTheBlinky
#FreakFlag

For my own sanity and possibly yours in dealing with my stuff.

#hashtags I commonly use when posting beyond those in bio (some key ones repeated):
Note: #WIP

#WryComment #CanadianEh

#CrazyCanuckBBQ
#Carnivore
- various tags to identify possibly unwanted text/imagery in food preparation

#ResurrectedRecordPlayer
#NowPlaying #RandomMusic

#PhonePhotography

#reuse #recycle #OtherPeoplesGarbage
#PackRat

#MyHistory
- locations where appropriate

#WeAreTheWeird
#WeAreTheBlinky
#FreakFlag

For my own sanity and possibly yours in dealing with my stuff.

#hashtags I commonly use when posting beyond those in bio (some key ones repeated):
Note: #WIP

#WryComment #CanadianEh

#CrazyCanuckBBQ
#Carnivore
- various tags to identify possibly unwanted text/imagery in food preparation

#ResurrectedRecordPlayer
#NowPlaying #RandomMusic

#PhonePhotography

#reuse #recycle #OtherPeoplesGarbage
#PackRat

#MyHistory
- locations where appropriate

#WeAreTheWeird
#WeAreTheBlinky
#FreakFlag

For my own sanity and possibly yours in dealing with my stuff.

#hashtags I commonly use when posting beyond those in bio (some key ones repeated):
Note: #WIP

#WryComment #CanadianEh

#CrazyCanuckBBQ
#Carnivore
- various tags to identify possibly unwanted text/imagery in food preparation

#ResurrectedRecordPlayer
#NowPlaying #RandomMusic

#PhonePhotography

#reuse #recycle #OtherPeoplesGarbage
#PackRat

#MyHistory
- locations where appropriate

#WeAreTheWeird
#WeAreTheBlinky
#FreakFlag

For my own sanity and possibly yours in dealing with my stuff.

#hashtags I commonly use when posting beyond those in bio (some key ones repeated):
Note: #WIP

#WryComment #CanadianEh

#CrazyCanuckBBQ
#Carnivore
- various tags to identify possibly unwanted text/imagery in food preparation

#ResurrectedRecordPlayer
#NowPlaying #RandomMusic

#PhonePhotography

#reuse #recycle #OtherPeoplesGarbage
#PackRat

#MyHistory
- locations where appropriate

#WeAreTheWeird
#WeAreTheBlinky
#FreakFlag