end of a long era

May. 1st, 2026 12:08 am
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Minute Maid has shut down its frozen juice department. This affects me because I loved the frozen pure lemon juice. I have memories of it being a part of the house hold since I was at least a teenager. It's perfect to squirt on some fish or make some lemon water.

I still have one more bottle frozen in the basement. I sadly missed the chance to clean out the display. It seems to have already left all stores.

When I start to get low on the last bottle, I'll start poking around and see what's available. Considering the last time I tried alternatives the only thing available was that little chemical tasting plastic lemon stuff, I'm hopeful that there will be enough choices I can find a replacement.
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I want a project I can sink my teeth into that isn't under a deadline. In the last few years that's been costuming, because even though I don't have anywhere really to wear them, I do think I'm good at it and I enjoy the making and the wearing.

The problem is there is nothing that I'm enthusiastic enough to actually do. I'd like to make some armor this year, but I don't have anything I want to do. I'd like to finish Karlach, but the effort vs enthusiasm is way off there, since there is SO much to do on her. I think I would look decent, but otherwise, there's not much there.

Finishing the Nightstalker would be nice. There is not much effort there left, but I also don't think there's a lot of wow factor in that costume. It would make an excellent TKD costume party costume.

I would love to make Demon Hunter Sombra because I love the costume design and think I would look good in it and it would be fun to wear, but even though it's been 6+ years, I feel anything Blizzard/Activision is still tainted.

I wish I played Marvel Rivals, but even then the two costumes I'd want to do there show too much mid-rift for me to feel awesome in.

Nothing else really sparks interest. I really wish AoA Loki sparked more, because I'd love the play with scale mail and again, I think I'd look good in it.I love me a long coat. Silvie has no interest in being finished, even though it's 70% done. I don't have faith in my original design. Grace in Rocky's ship visiting suit would be WAY to hard for the pay off. A rock with google eyes (EEAAO) feels too gag. Not quite enough interest to do Lily's dress (Legend.)

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Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 am
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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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(h/t [personal profile] conuly)

This longform article is framed as being a "ha ha isn't it wacky NASA hired a lingerie company for the Apollo missions". Ignore that. It turns out to be about an organizational culture clash around documentation and specification requirements that will speak to all the therapists and software developers in the room. Also of interest to fans of the US space program, the history of women in NASA and in tech, and clothing construction.

2023 April 14: Nautilus: "The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA" by Nicholas de Monchaux, Head of Architecture, MIT. Adapted from his book, Spacesuit. Recommended.

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