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The guy has decided that Sparky, the Dalmatian commonly appearing as a firefighters' mascot in children's books (independently of each other) from past eras, is the dad of Marshall of the Paw Patrol.

On a certain level, he's right!

Tried and failed to make a set of toy tiles for making towns.

The Elvenking of Mirkwood is the guy's first view of an ethically ambiguous character. It's partly driven by bedtime stalling, but like Mr. Sparkle, he always has many questions whenever we read about the Wood-Elves. Are they bad guys or what?

80% of the success of a sandwich seems to be determined by the level of the bread.

"But I don't want to go to sleep. I want to sit up and look at porches."

[Continues sitting on bed in the dark, looking out window]

The guy has been interrupting my reading of The Hobbit frequently with legit questions and theories. Among his theories:

- If Bilbo had two magic rings, his shadow would be covered by the invisibility, a flaw in the single ring configuration.

- Smaug is the wood elves' mom. (They both have a treasure-centric dispute with the dwarves.)

Never forget to GET SMIDGITAL.

It's really nice to have a dentist that both is friendly and can explain things in detail.

I think I'm finally decent D3 hierarchical data rendering? I was able to implement it for a set of controls I'm adding to Observatory in one go. Wrote it; worked the first time I ran it!

I made a space subways-oriented cut of my book generator. The guy liked it; I think once I add actual trains, he'll be all up ons.

Colorer Bot uncovered a bug with the changes we made to Colorer last night. Whoops! Fixed now.

I can't really say how good or bad they are, but I learned that there's small 3d printers that cost $300.

The problem is, the filament (the stuff that 3d printers print) is roughly $40/kg.

After a bit of looking around on Duck Duck Go, I've found that you can recycle plastic at home.

Recycling waste plastic into usable filament requires two steps: shredding the plastic into small pieces, then melting and extruding it with a filament extruder. There are many solutions to the latter step, with hobby-grade plastic extruders like the Filastruder or Filabot available for sale, as well as designs for DIY filament extruders (for one such design, check out this link: https://all3dp.com/make-low-cost-filament-extruder/)

Unfortunately, the plastic shredding step remains a bit difficult for the average hobbyist.

The DIY methods for making a machine that does the extruding part are over my head. However, they do sell them for $300. Pellets to feed the machine (so you can skip trying to shred plastic) look like they're about $4/kg. That seems like it might be a sustainable price?

I'm missing two pieces of information, though:

- What volume of stuff can you make with a kilogram of filament?
- Actual experience with a 3d printer

I'm just kind of savoring the fantasy phase of my 3d printing interest right now.

It's slow, but Colorer will work on your phone!