Those thrusters were hard as hell! I tried using the tip of a pencil to roll it round but it didn’t work very well. I just ended up using the very tip of the tweezers and carefully fold each corner the best I could. They’re certainly not perfect but they look ok.

This was actually my second one. The first one I did was the Millennium Falcon. This was WAY harder than the Falcon. My advice is to check the metal earth website for the difficulty ratings and start with an easier one first. Get a good set of tweezers. Read each step very carefully more than once. Get a lot of light on your workspace. I used a desk lamp. Don’t bend any piece more than twice because you risk snapping it. I made a few mistakes. I actually broke one panel on the LM that you can see pretty clearly in the picture. I’m going to glue it.

Flags painted on aircraft are always supposed to appear like they are blowing in the wind. So it’s backwards on one side. They usually paint it on the tail. It’s also sometimes worn that way on patches that military service members wear.

Nice shot! I was just reading about how the pilot who dropped the bomb, named the plane after his mom. He just had some Airman paint it on right before the mission.

Here’s a few more photos from my visit.

Yeah the B-29 is a beast! My Grandfather worked on them.

Yes it is! I got a pretty good shot of it too.

Yeah I’ve been to all the ones on the mall several times. This was my first time at Hazy though.

I wonder if they’ll try to get Perseverance close enough to get some photos to analyze what happened. I was looking at the Map on the mission page and it looks like it’s in an area of sand dunes so maybe a little risky to try and go through that.

Side note: If you google “mars ingenuity” you can click on the little guy and see him flying around mars.

Sorry. I fixed it. For some reason when I added the image it removed the link I had.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

Same. I would definitely be one of the people complaining if I wasn’t getting it for free.

Here here!

I just cut up an old VGA cable to make some of these tonight. Surprisingly not that hard to take apart. I’ll need to use my dremel to cut the screws off of their little blue thumb grips so I can glue them on.

Virginia Beach with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the background. Pixel 7.

I have 7 and my battery life is great. I use GPS nav a lot when I’m driving, listening to Podcasts or News with Bluetooth in my car, and moderate usage the rest of the day. I usually have around 30-40% when I get home in the evening depending on how much driving I did that day.

I don’t like to keep it on the charger overnight so I will usually wake up and plug it in while I get ready for work and charge on the way to work. Sometimes that’ll get me up to 100% but often I will start my day at 80-90%.

I’m guessing probably because more people like to have them separate and I get that. More control is a good thing. I just like to lower those volumes when I get to work and now I have an added step each time. It’s not a huge deal but a minor annoyance.

Man I had a Captivate and then a Skyrocket, but my first Android phone was an HTC Aria. That thing was so tiny! lol

So I broke down and just sideloaded it hahaha! It actually worked perfectly the very first time. I just followed this video.

https://9to5google.com/2023/04/27/how-to-sideload-ota-updates-on-your-google-pixel/

I tried sideloading an update several times earlier this year and just had a lot of problems. It kept failing half way through and I got annoyed and gave up. Back in the Cyanogenmod days I would flash updates almost every week. I’ve just reached a point where I don’t feel like messing with all that shit anymore. So I’ll wait. lol

Just reporting in. Pixel 7 on T-Mobile and nothing yet. I tried that trick by turning off the SIM and checked over Wi-Fi too and nothing. I’ll get it when I get it, no big deal.