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Klingon Bat’leth Multitool
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Inspired by the Klingon melee weapon of choice, this Bat’leth multitool helps you perform your everyday repairs with honor. Its functions include a bottle opener, three hex wrenches, a flathead screwdriver, a Phillips head screwdriver, a cord cutter, and a butterfly wrench. It’s also great for battling Romulan action figures.
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Here are the Top Five WrestleMania Matches of All Time
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It’s Saturday, and we could all use a break from politics. There was plenty of bad news this past week. There will be more examples of the wheels coming off the planet next week. So, if you’ll indulge me, and since it’s WrestleMania weekend, I thought I’d share my top matches of all time. Hey, at least it’s not another Will Smith post.
A lot of you are fans, even though you may not admit as much aloud. Even those of you claiming not to be fans know you’re going to be silently arguing about what matches YOU would have put on the list. So, here we go.
5. Edge vs Mick Foley in an Extreme Rules Match, WrestleMania 22
Out of the entire list, this one is mostly a personal favorite. Three key reasons. One, Mick Foley is an island boy who finally got his WrestleMania moment. Two, Edge is on my Mt. Rushmore, and this was at the height of his heel run. And three, it’s has a flaming tables spot.
Edge Spears Mick Foley – WrestleMania 22
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4. Bret Hart vs Steve Austin, WrestleMania 13
This match wound up redefining an entire era of pro-wrestling. It started off with Bret Hart as a good guy and Steve Austin as a bad guy. It ended with the swapping of those roles, and Austin turning into a pop-culture icon. And just as an aside, you really need to check out Jordan Peterson using Bret Hart’s "hero’s journey" in a college lecture.
Talk Is Jericho: Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 13
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3. Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon in a ladder match, WrestleMania 10
Shawn Michaels is another wrestler on my Mt. Rushmore. Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall sadly passed away last month. Twenty-eight years later, it’s common to see ladders, chairs, and assorted other furniture used in wrestling matches. Some would argue overused. This was the first, and still one of the best.
Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon watch their historic WrestleMania X Ladder Match: WWE Playback
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2. Ricky Steamboat vs Randy Savage, WrestleMania 3
Steamboat was my favorite wrestler as a kid. We never had cable growing up, and I remember growing pissed off at my mom’s coworker (I was 12 at the time) because he kept forgetting the VHS he recorded for me at home. What blew me away was finding out years later that this match was scripted. Most wrestling matches are improvised in the ring minus a few big sports. Savage choreographed this match moment for moment.
WWE Biography: Macho Man vs. Ricky Steamboat: Wrestlemania III | A&E
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1. Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker, WrestleMania 25
In my past life as a wrestling blogger (so long ago, the word bloggers wasn’t invented), the annual argument was between Steamboat/Savage and HBK/Razor. Since then, Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker blew them both away and hasn’t been topped since. It’s not just considered the top WrestleMania match of all time, but one of the best period. Undertaker was inducted into the hall of fame last night and looks to be starting his new career as a motivational speaker.
FULL MATCH – Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels: WrestleMania XXV
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Don’t pretend you don’t have your own top five and aren’t angry with me that I left your favorite off of the list. Fight about it in the comment section of whatever social media platform brought you here.
And also consider a disco nap. There are like 217 hours of wrestling to watch this weekend.
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How to run MacOS 7 and MacOS 8 in your browser, today
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Step back in time to the Macintosh of the 1990s, and run complete, virtual installations of System 7 and Mac OS 8 in a browser window.
There is a single flaw in the new virtual versions of 1990s Mac software, and it’s that they run at the speed of Macs in the 2020s. What you see is straight up Mac SE/30 or Quadra 700, but everything is as fast as Apple Silicon can make it.
You could do actual work in these simulated OSes, they even come with the ability to drag documents or files in and out from macOS Monterey. But whether it’s for some practical purposes or more likely for the sheer fun of it, here’s how to do it.
Some background
The new versions operate the same way whether you choose System 7 or OS 8, and they work in a browser window. This means they can be run without any prior setup — and it also means they can be run full screen.
It’s still a 1990s Mac with assumptions about screen size, so you won’t fill a 27-inch iMac’s monitor side to side, but you can greatly expand upon what was available before.
When you do so, you’ll see all of the once-familiar screen furniture, like windows without any tabs. Or the grey close box in a grey header.
Note that there are errors. Some included apps, such as Microsoft Word version 5.1a, will display error messages because certain files are not present in the emulator.
However, the app loads and works as normal. Plus, this is a faithful reproduction of the 1990s, you’ve got to have some errors in Microsoft Word.
How to run System 7 or Mac OS 8
That’s it. A Mac with System 7.5.3 from 1995, or Mac OS 8.1 from 1997, is running in your browser. You can’t alter the size of the emulated Mac directly, but you can resize your browser window.
When you do, the emulated Mac snaps forward into the largest form it can display. It’s mildly tricky to do this, as it’s very easy to find that the emulated Mac is displaying off the top of your browser window.
You can’t scroll or drag to move around the emulated Mac’s screen, but you can drag and resize the browser window.
What you can do in the emulator
Although you can’t resize or move the screen around, you can drag icons across it, and you can resize windows in the emulator. You will wonder where all of the launch speed has gone, though, as at first it can seem unresponsive when you’re clicking on a window’s slider to move it.
That’s not an emulator bottleneck, though. It’s years of being used to how OS X and now macOS Monterey do things.
Once you remember that you can only resize a window from the bottom right, also realise that keyboard shortcuts won’t work. Do command-N to open a new folder in System 7’s Finder and you’ll get a new browser window instead.
You do get used to it, however. And when you do, take a look through the files and folders included. There are classics here, like Word, and games like Dark Castle.
Doing real work in the emulator
You probably won’t. This is just deep and nostalgic fun. But if you want to try, the productivity apps included in the emulators work just fine.
Even though the emulator is in your browser, you can drag files into it.
There is an issue, of course, that this is in a browser. So if you lose your internet connection, you could lose your work.
Your work is not confined to the browser, though. Drag any file from your Mac onto the browser window, and it is loaded onto the Mac.
It appears in a special Downloads folder in the emulator – and there is an Uploads one, too. Within the emulator, drag any document to Uploads, and your browser will download it to your Mac.
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Optimize your Laravel Application for Production
When deploying a Laravel application always make sure that you are caching and optimizing during your deployment to ensure your application runs as fast and efficiently as possible.
Here are commands that I add as part of every deployment
Laravel Optimization
Optimize will cache Laravel’s bootstrap files, while the other two commands will cache events, listeners and compile Blade templates.
php artisan event:cache
php artisan view:cache
php artisan optimize
// optimize: will execute the following two commands
// php artisan config:cache
// php artisan route:cache
Pro Tip: Different packages may have some additional cache optimizations, always check the documentation. As a quick lookup you can run this command to get a dump of commands dealing with cache.
php artisan | grep cache
Composer Optimization
For composer make sure to optimize your autoloader, more information can be found here.
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
For automated deployments you can run
composer install --no-interaction --no-dev --no-ansi --no-plugins --no-progress --no-scripts --optimize-autoloader
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Smashing Coconuts by Hand
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Opening a coconut is best achieved with a machete or a hammer and chisel. But there are some people out there who can open a coconut bare-handed. Abheesh P. Dominic is an overachiever, and in 2017 he broke the Guinness World Record for most coconuts smashed in a minute by cracking 122 of the tough nuts using only his fist.
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Laravel Valet 3 Released With Multi-Version PHP Support
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The Laravel team released the next major version of Laravel Valet (3.0), which introduces running multiple versions of PHP in Valet applications side-by-side.
Previously, you could specify which version of PHP Valet used to serve applications locally using valet use php@7.2, but now you can do so on a per-site (including a default) basis using the following commands:
1cd path/to/app
2
3# Isolate the current project
4valet isolate php@7.4
5
6# Isolate a site by name
7# This command will also install the PHP version
8# if it's not already installed.
9valet isolate php@8.0 --site=laravel9x
After isolating a site, you can see that my local Valet install is serving projects using various isolated PHP versions:
And another application using the default installed version of PHP (v8.1):
Another challenge you might run into with this setup is running commands on the CLI with the matching PHP version. What I do is create a symlink to the brew version of PHP somewhere in my path:
1ln -s $(brew --prefix php@7.4)/bin/php $HOME/bin/php74
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3php74 --version
4PHP 7.4.28 (cli) (built: Mar 3 2022 06:26:49) ( NTS )
5...
Using this version of PHP, you can prefix commands to composer, etc.:
1php74 $(which composer) install
You might also need to symlink other binaries like pecl in the same way to install extensions.
PHP Monitor
Off the heels of PHP Monitor 5.0 for macOS, the author released PHP Monitor 5.2 with support for Valet 3, making management of isolated PHP versions a breeze:
For further details, check out the PHP Monitor 5.2 release post, which includes information on how to source multiple versions of PHP from the command line using a CLI helper provided by phpmon.
Upgrade Today
To upgrade to Valet 3, you can run the following composer command to update and install the latest version of Valet (hat tip to @jakebathman):
1composer global require "laravel/valet:^3.0"
Afterward, be sure to run valet install to finish installing. Congratulations to all the contributors, especially Nasir Uddin Nobin, Matt Stauffer, and everyone else involved in working on Valet 3!
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How Long Will This Go On
Before we can start working on the Rules of Three and preparing, we
need to look at the time frame we are dealing with. This is true for
every stage of the process.
Survival schools teach the 4/4/40 levels.
- 1 to 4 days: Short term
- 4 to 40 days: Medium term
- 40+ days: Long term
The skills and resources you need to survive for a day or two are
completely different from the skills and resources you need to survive
for 4 to 40 days which is completely different again from the skills
and resources you need to survive long term.
And, you need to add to that your long term goal…
To live and live well
Living is much different from surviving. I can survive in a three
season tent with tarp thrown over it, huddling for warmth, trying to
find enough food to stay alive. I would much rather live in my house
with a wood cooking stove with the family sleeping in the kitchen in
the winter.
Short Term
“Short term” is considered to be anything less than 4 days. We hear
stories about this sort of survival all the time. You are probably
familiar with:
- the guy that was trapped in his car for 3 days and survived on
nothing but Taco Bell hot sauce. (And the extra weight he carried
with him.) - the people that were trapped on I95 in the winter of 2021-2022. Some
were there for more than 24 hours.
This is sometimes the easiest to deal with. This is the “spend money
and it’s done” level of preparing. A 72 hour bar for each person and a
few liters of water and you have the food and water covered. Medical
is a bit different, but not that bad. You should carry a couple of days
worth of your daily medications with you.
These types of emergencies are often the result of weather or single
point failure. They are not systemic in nature. And often they are of
a limited nature.
Examples:
- Weather takes down the power lines and you are without power for a
few days. - You can’t get home from the office because of road conditions.
- You got lost in the woods but were able to call for rescue.
- The creek done rose and the bridge is under water.
- The excavator took out all services to your block
In most of these situations, a little bit of planning will get you
through. That and following the biggest rule of them all: Don’t
Panic
A few years ago I came back into the house after spending a few hours
tilling the field. It wasn’t late, the sun was still up. When I got
into the living room it looked like a cheap romantic flick set.
The power had gone out, about 2 hours earlier. One of my family had
started the wood cook stove and it was up to temperature to cook
dinner. But the other members had gone into panic mode. There were 2
or 3 dozen candles in the living room/dining room plus 4 oil lamps.
And all of them were burning.
The only light source they hadn’t used was my Coleman lantern, and
that was because they couldn’t find it. (Yeah, I did hide some things
from them.)
It was still light outside, but the panic they felt led them to
light all those candles and lamps. Panic caused them to use resources that
were unneeded and which could have been difficult to replace.
Medium Term
For medium term survival, we do need some actual preparation. For
a long week without any travel, the food you have in your
refrigerator, freezer and pantry should take you through. A 72 hour
bar and a few liters of water in your car is more than enough.
But what if it is for a week?
After a whole week without power, the food in your fridge will
probably go bad. You’ll use up your eggs and butter. Your bread will
either be almost gone or going moldy. You need to have some
preparations in place to make it through.
This is the place where you can spend a whole lot of money to get what
you need for your 40 days. “Survival food buckets” run from around
$100 to north of $250. And the price per meal varies even more. The
nice thing is that it is easy. Spend your dollars, and you have your 30 day
supply of food.
Water becomes a bigger issue. You can easily store enough water for 4
days. You should consider a gallon a day per person. So four days
without water for a family of four is just over 12 gallons. 3 five
gallon jerry cans will do it. A six pack of water bricks would do it.
But in the medium term you need to be able to collect, transport, and
clean your water to make it potable. This is a different problem from
just storing and using water.
Your medication requirements change, too. You might have a 7 day supply
of your daily medication with you at all times. But do you have a 30
day supply? What if you are just about at the end of this month’s
supply?
Huddling around a indoor-safe heater for three or four days is very
doable. Handling 3 or 4 weeks? Or 10 weeks? That’s a bit different.
Do you have enough fuel on hand to keep your heat going for 1 to 10
weeks?
Do you have an auxiliary source of heat that uses a different type of
fuel?
And do you know how to use all the tools and resources you have? And
can you do it?
Example: You have five gallon jerry cans. You have a fresh water
source only a half mile from your location. Have you ever tried to
carry 80 lbs a half mile? Can you still do it? Hanging from your
hand? Have you tried using a wheelbarrow to transport your cans? A
dolly? Your bicycle?
Long Term
This is where you are transitioning from what you have stored, to
hunting/gathering. What is available for you to gather? Gathering can
mean standing in line at the FEMA line to get your 1000Kcal meal for
the day. It could mean bread lines or trading unskilled labor for
meat.
It means being able to plant crops and bring them up. It means being
able to raise livestock. For food (eggs, milk, and later meat), for
shelter (hides into clothing or tarps, fur into yarn and cloth). It
means having skills that people want and are willing to trade for.
And it means being able to keep all the goods you have. That raider
that just wants your last “survival bucket” doesn’t care that you are
the guy that is fixing all the broken machinery in town. All he wants
is that bucket, and if you and yours end up dead so he and his aren’t
hungry that night, that’s okay with him.
There is a famous Dilbert cartoon on disaster planning. Dilbert
explains what he has to Alice. Alice replies with, “I’m preparing
too. I have your home address and I noticed that your preparations
are light on defensive weaponry.” pause “Can you add some protein
bars to the shopping list?”
I was part of a prepping group for a while. I left when I realized
that the loudest member was a raider. He was never interested in any
part of preparing except the weapons. He was always trying to get
information from other members on what they had.
He has learned enough that he has stated explicitly that our part of
the state is a no-go zone for his people. We have proven to him that
we are a hard target.
Note, a hard target doesn’t mean that you can’t be cracked. It just
means that it is easier, cheaper and safer to take on other targets.
Medical
The 4/4/40 layout applies to medical as well. Except we aren’t
talking about days, but instead minutes and hours. Medical is about
keeping a person alive for the next 4 minutes. Then keeping them
alive until EMS arrives in the next 40 minutes.
And all of that is much different from keeping somebody alive for 40
hours without full up medical services.
Thanks
Thank you to Capt CJ in the comments for pointing me at the 4/4/40.
This is the method we have been using but I had not seen it broken
down this way before. It is helpful to have a formalized way of
looking at time issues.
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Tying a Knot in Steel Rebar
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Steel rebar is a stiff metal bar typically used to reinforce concrete. But like any metal, with enough force, you can bend it to your whim. Metalsmith Gavin Clark shows us a series of maneuvers he used to tie a length of 1/2″ rebar into a clove hitch knot. We’re impressed that he did it without applying heat.
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