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Captain Clumsy rides again. I have six bandaids on three fingers of my right hand. One each to hold the cut closed and the other to sop up excess blood.
I'd felt something crunchy underfoot in the kitchen so I took off the affected slipper and brushed my hand across the bottom as I couldn't see anything. Turns out there was a deeply embedded glass shard from a jar that had previously broken on the tiled floor. The attached photo shows the shard which I extracted with some pliers. It's shown beside an Australian 20 cent coin for scaling purposes. The coin is 28mm (1.1 inches in diameter.)

Could have been worse, normally I'm getting about barefooted…

@matigo It’s somewhat clunky to use as a camera grip because the battery component is so large. I tried it either way my iPhone 15 Pro and it worked flawlessly, not so with the Motorola G75: the Bluetooth shutter trigger works fine but unlike other wireless chargers, it just doesn’t co-operate at all. It’s quite good as a phone stand because it hold the phone in portrait and landscape orientation.

matigo.ca.

A powerbank with a difference.

When Mozart was my age he'd been dead for 27 years…

I want to make a movie about the CIA trying to murder Clark Kent and making it look like an accident.
Not because they know he’s Superman but because he’s a really good journalist exposing their secrets and corruption.
Make it a comedy because the CIA assassins can’t figure out why their attempts keep failing.

@variablepulserate Neither gaining nor losing, it’s plateaued in the last few months.

variablepulserate.10centuries.org.

Health update: iron levels back up to normal since having an iron infusion a month ago. The gastroenterologist is arranging an appointment with a nearby bariatric surgery clinic so I only meed to travel 25 minutes to a suburban locale rather than 75minutes into the city where there's minimal parking. I need to have my gastric band loosened a bit, there's signs of a hiatus hernia forming and I'm having major gastric reflux issues. More blood teats a week before another GE appoiuntment in three months.

I was trying to figure out where I had put a set of four clever lithium-ion AA batteries that charge via a USB-C port near the top end of the battery. Searching posts made here revealed that they are in my 2003-model Olympus UZ-750 digital camera.

For use when purchasing frozen goods away from home, there are a few grocery clearance outlets 25 to 50 minutes drive from home so this thing which fits in the front passenger side footwell of the car will stop any purchases from deteriorating in transit back home. Normally I run the unit from the car's cigar lighter adapter - the drill battery and inverter can put out the same current as the accessory power outlet, just not for the same time, though.

Experimented today with a 4.0 Ah 18 volt Li-ion battery, a 12 volt/10A DC/DC inverter powered by the battery and a 9-litre 12 volt fridge-freezer to see how long it would run on the most energy-intensive setting. The temperature started at 14ºC and within 25 minutes had dropped to its coldest, -20ºC. At this point it was empty. I then added 3 litres of milk (one litre being at room temperature - safe, it's a UHT product) and ½ a litre of ice cream. The temperature increased to -13ºC before stabilising at -14ºC. Two hours after being connected the battery was discharged. If I chose a lower input power setting (I had been using Max instead of Eco) and only try for refrigeration temperatures instead of freezer ones, I could reasonably expect 6 to 7 hours of battery life.