[Market Research] What’s the Most Overqualified Object in Your House?

@chienfou That bookcase sounds really great! Useful for guests, I bet.

@Kyeh
Yes it is. Always surpised when I take them in there to go to bed…

@chienfou @Kyeh Do you have to take down all the books to use the bed? Or do the bookshelves swing out of the way?

@Kyeh @macromeh
They swing open. 2 doors that meet in the middle. I’d post pics but currently the room is a wreck as I’m trying to redo a bunch of files and have a file cabinet parked in front of it. Maybe I’ll take one anyway…

@Kyeh @macromeh

@chienfou @Kyeh @macromeh
Very nice! Even nicer that YOU made it! When I downsized and moved into my condo I said that everything I bought or brought in from then on had to serve double duty. Something like your murphy bed would have been on the list had I had another bedroom.

@Kyeh @Lynnerizer @macromeh
Thanks.
The dummy books in the Murphy bed were discards from the local library. I ran them thru the table saw to cut the pages off and keep them looking like real books.
This is the (matching) bookshelf across the room which would be at the foot of the Murphy when it’s deployed. This is a real bookshelf with actual books and cabinets with space in them.

@chienfou @Kyeh @Lynnerizer My wife (the librarian nerd) looked at the photo of the fake facade and her first comment was “Looks like the discards were all Reader’s Digest condensed books!”.

@Kyeh @Lynnerizer @macromeh
That’s the ONLY way they would end up in our house!

@chienfou @Lynnerizer @macromeh
OH! I love that so much!!!
And a great use of the Reader’s Digest condensed books; they do have attractive bindings.

@Cerridwyn
That sounds like the Ninja coffee maker that I was SO EXCITED to get! Unfortunately it had to be returned, it was defective. I forget why I didn’t get a replacement, probably something to do with my level of frustration.

@Wollyhop ahha, yes…the Switch charger is the last remaining cord in my house and it does everything perfectly.

@jouest @Wollyhop
Please tell me what makes it so special, how is it different or better and what else do you use it for?

@Lynnerizer The plug base (The doodad that you insert into computer hole) is a very common one, plus has better energy charging capabilities than, say, a regular cord.

@Wollyhop
Oh, okay thanks!

@rockblossom but you need to know to keep an eye out for a blue Jeep Wrangler two towns over and also it might rain soon!

@rockblossom I had to disable Amber alerts since it ignores my Do Not Disturb settings.

@yakkoTDI I’ve gotten 3 AM Amber alerts for a spot 2 states away. Right up there with weather alerts for a storm that just passed me 5 minutes ago.

@rockblossom I’ve managed to block almost everything - the AI suggestions, the alerts, ads… Mostly disabling each service one at a time and then looping the rest through a fake network localized to only the phone itself.

The result is a fairly clean experience (locally with my own games/books/videos/calls), but the caveat is I have to turn off the fake network if I want to check my mail (because they still need to use ads and stuff) and I can’t turn off my phone or else I have to re-disable the assistant services one by one again.

@pakopako All of my incoming calls and texts are routed through Truecaller, and it works well. I can’t remember the last time I got a spam call that wasn’t blocked. Alerts come in separately, and I could block them, but I might want one of those alerts every now and again, so I don’t. I’m not that bothered by the occasional “helpful” suggestion, and they are easy to delete.

@pakopako @rockblossom I will add that I carefully cut out the connector button on the side of the phone case for the button that wakes up the malevolently helpy genie misfeature, whatever it was called on the Samsung S9 that preceded my Pixel 7 Pro. This eliminated the never-wanted summoning of that particular annoyance. The Pixel lacks such a button, and I try to avoid poking the sleeping menace otherwise.

@macromeh
It still weirds me out to see a microwave that works like a regular oven with a metal shelf in it!

@macromeh The popcorn button on mine is handy, but I mostly use it to reheat food. Yet I wouldn’t want to live without it.

@lisagd22 I don’t like/eat popcorn (I know - weird, right? ) but my wife occasionally makes some in the microwave and she seems to enjoy the result.

@blaineg I think this wins the thread by a mile! ️

@blaineg

@blaineg oof

@kittykat9180 maybe, if you’ve a cat, & treats, then maybe you could use treats to encourage the cat to ride around on the vacuum/ mop… it might work better if you secure a box atop the vacuum/ mop, place treats & maybe catnip inside the box, maybe even a blanket between the box & the treats & catnip & then let the cat know that the vacuum/ mop is available for rides… or, if you’ve a turtle , I think that a turtle could work in place of a cat, though you might need different treats & i don’t even know if there’s a turtle equivalent substitute for catnip as in relation to a cat. But you could put cute sweaters on the turtle , even make a soft & fluffy sweater, like a cat , or could put an outfit on the cat to resemble a turtle , or even, if you’ve neither a cat nor a turtle , then you could make a kind of sweater toupee for the vacuum/ mop, so it could be soft & fluffy like a cat or a more turtle shell like cover so it could look more like a turtle . Oh, then, if you don’t have a furbaby or a furless furbaby, then your vacuum/ mop could also totally fill in as a “pet” - then, depending on your environment, if there’s a hallway or a porch or a flat surface outside your door or nearby, then you could even probably secure a leash to your vacuum/ mop & take it out and walk it, like you’d walk a cat, pokily meandering around, & giving you a fun-ish excuse to exercise…

@gnoogie no pets but I do sometimes talk to Freddy (the vacuum/mop) when I’m confused about what he’s doing. Like the other day I found him vacuuming under the bed in a room he’s not mapped for. I said “what are you doing in here, Fred?”

/showme Lily Tomlin doing her phone operator bit, except there’s an orbiting shuttle involved

@gnoogie
My goodness, you’ve been through it!
Good luck with your healing journey and relief from your pain. As you continue to get stronger be well and go slow!
{{{HUGS}}}

@capnjb What’s the count so far?

@macromeh Low I will say that it is slightly disconcerting when you hear it click. But it would probably sound the same in your house. There is radiation everywhere. Just not at unhealthy levels

@capnjb @macromeh I got one after the Fukushima event of about 10 years ago. We knew there was radiation making its way to the West Coast where I was. Several universities and other sites had radiation samplers you could access online, but strangely a lot of those sites were offline in the days and weeks following Fukushima. So what do you trust?

I did confirm that those packs of dried seaweed are mildly more radioactive than background, which apparently is expected. Have not had it with me lately to test shrimp. But you should be using coastal U.S. shrimp anyway!

@capnjb @macromeh @pmarin

I got one after the Fukushima event of about 10 years ago

The Unstoppable March of Time is here to remind you it was over 14 years ago.

@capnjb @macromeh @yakkoTDI mere seconds compared to the half-life on that stuff I think.

@pmarin shhhhh trust the robot