That week in Austin where three big oaks came down at once

Last July I had a stretch where three mature live oaks in the same neighborhood failed within five days. One dropped a limb through a roof on Mockingbird Lane, another split right at the crotch with no warning signs. The third one had root rot that looked fine from the surface but the base was basically mush. Has anyone else noticed more sudden failures on oaks this season or is it just the heat we had?

Hit 250 briskets on my offset and the last 10 all stalled at the exact same temp

I finally showed my digital art at a small gallery in Omaha and got roasted by a 12-year-old lol

I was setting the governor rope tension wrong for 2 years until a guy from the union hall in Spokane showed me the trick with a 5 pound weight.

Bought the $150 box set for the old Trigun anime. Kinda regret it now.

Found it online, thought it was a good deal for the whole series. The picture quality is really bad, like old DVD bad. Anyone know a better way to watch the original show?

Remember when every fashion student in New York had to hand-draft patterns?

I was cleaning out my old portfolio and found my first collection from 2008, all done with paper, rulers, and French curves. Now, my niece is in the same program at FIT and her whole final project was done in CLO3D, with digital fabric simulation and everything. The shift from physical draping to full digital prototyping in just over a decade is wild. Has anyone else had to adapt their whole design process because of software like this?

My friend's kid got a weird text about a package and almost clicked the link

I was over at their place last weekend and the kid, who's maybe 12, got a text saying a package couldn't be delivered. It had a link to 'reschedule delivery'. He was about to tap it, but his dad stopped him. The text looked real, with a fake logo and everything. It made me think how these scams are getting better at looking like normal stuff we see every day. They're not just weird emails from 'princes' anymore. I told him to always check the sender's number and never click a link in a text you weren't expecting. It's a small thing, but it really shows how they try to trick you when you're not thinking. Has anyone else seen these fake delivery texts pop up more lately?

A contractor in Boise told me he still draws by hand before CAD and it changed how I start projects

Remember when you had to call a dozen places to find a plumber?

In 2015, my water heater broke and I spent a whole morning calling numbers from the phone book. Now, I just tap an app and a local pro's rating and price pop up in 30 seconds. Will we even have phone books or business cards in another ten years?

Tried a new rust converter on a '98 Tacoma frame and it totally backfired

Honestly, I used this stuff called Evapo-Rust Gel on a really bad spot near the rear leaf spring mounts. After 24 hours it turned the surface black like it should, but when I hit it with a wire wheel, the metal underneath was still soft and flaky. Ngl, I learned that some products just can't handle deep scale, and now I'm back to grinding it all out. Has anyone found a converter that actually works on severe rot, or is cutting and welding the only real fix?