In a really twisted way, Youtube is a fairly big reason why a good number of people go outside, take up hobbies, etc.

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There are very very few entertainers that have ever choked me up, but damn Richard Simmons and Newhart are definitely on that list. Rest well.

That’s fine, am a Linux user and not a big deal running a file/media server, also have large enough SD cards, so still not a problem storing music either. I would just like to be able to purchase some new songs just so I can be able to adjust the playlists to something more to my tastes for particular songs over the entire genre or band’s albums which can often contain other bands/songs that just bug the living daylights out of me, heh.

Well, if “media” is in general, I’d have to say television. I’ll watch some things once in a while, but for the most part, I have way too much anxiety from a bad marriage. Audio books, and certain Youtube channels can trigger it, too.

Loving your methodical approach too!

Speaking of, I am spending way too much time on this, heh! I’ve got two hats and a pumpkin bag to knit, and a small painting to do ( Maybe more like these ). I’ll just stick to a cloth of some kind, and let her touch it up how she wants. 🤣 .

Welp! It browned in several spots over night. Maybe because of the dirt? Or the heat gun? Or???

Next tests, I’ll need to try a two layer method. (one with a lower layer of baking soda, and another with a toilet paper bottom. That should help to deduce if the dirt was the cause of it).

First issue I found, I needed to add a little water to the mixture so it would keep from pulling up the dirt as I tried to spread it on. Made it so I could just pour it over. Wtich means two things, I’ll see how moisture reacts to it, and have to wait maybe two days for it to dry…which, if so, might make it really difficult in that I’ll have to fill the unit with dirt before we move it (and it is quite heavy without the added dirt).

Update:

Well, I’ll be damned. I used a heat gun and it dried up within seconds…Everything is back on schedule again, 😃

Although it’s a pretty sheltered location, but wouldn’t the baking soda dissipate with any moisture? Humidity, rain, and/or snow?

Edit: I just thought about it, and what I’ll do is run an experiment. I can place some near my kitchen sink’s handle. Water dripping from my hand and the humidity should give me a good idea how it’d work outside.

God! Which one to choose?

The electrical company that let a drunk work because “he had 20+ years of experience”, which was rather dubious…

Or furniture retailers that had delivery drivers…read that again delivery drivers, drive drunk/stoned/coked out, and they were well aware they were.

Or people trying (Eh, let me be a little more specific…People certifying drivers) to drive in careers where people with mental issues should not be driving…(One guy I knew drove onto the shoulder chasing an oversize load with two bicyclers. He missed them, but god damn)…

Or my entire fucking family who don’t realize I’m getting bad at driving, and expect me to drive regardless that I might get somebody hurt…(I get a lot of flack for that).

I did find that it can be done arbitrarily. Mind is definitely not into writing about it, though, but here’s the gp code I wrote to look it over.

/*
    There may exist a 0<=t<s such that
    s divides both x and (x+(x%d)*(t*d-1))/d.


    To show this for solving for divisibility of 7 in 
    any natural number x.

    g(35,5,10) = 28
    g(28,5,10) = 42
    g(42,5,10) = 14
    g(14,5,10) = 21
    g(21,5,10) =  7
*/

g(x,t,d)=(x+(x%d)*(t*d-1))/d;

/* Find_t( x = Any natural number that is divisible by s,
           s = The divisor the search is being done for,
           d = The modulus restriction ).

    Returns all possible t values.
*/

Find_t(x,s, d) = {
    V=List();
    
    for(t=2,d-1,
        C = factor(g(x,t,d));
        for(i=1,matsize(C)[1],if(C[i,1]==s, listput(V,t))));
        
    return(V);
}   

One thing that I noticed almost right away, regardless what d is, it seems to always work when s is prime, but not when s is composite.

Too tired…Pains too much…Have to stop…But still…interesting.

Yeah, before my mind decided it didn’t like learning any more, I had learned the gist of Bell and Noll’s calc, then switched to gp a few years later…for which I can not remember why, but I can still remember how to use it fairly well.

Not sure, (“Older and a lot more decrepit” doesn’t mean “younger an a lot more mentally sound”, heh. Do wish I could change that, but meh, I can’t).

Anyway, I did find a method similar to what you wrote, so I can redefine it in your terms.

A base 20 number is divisible by 7 if the difference between 8 times the last digit and the remaining digits is divisible by 7.

Ok, a little description on a base 20 number (Think Mayan and Nahuatl/Aztec numbers). 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 should be considered single digits. So a base 10 number, 7*17 = 119 (1*10^2+1*10+9), would be 7*17 = 5:19 in a base 20 system (5*20+19).

• is 1:8 divisible by 7? (28 in base 10). 8*8 = 3:4. 3:4-1 = 3:3
  • is 3:3 divisible by 7? 8 * 3 = 1:4. 1:4 - 3 = 1:1 (1*20+1 = 21).
• is 9:2 divisible by 7? (182). 2*8 = 16. 16-9 = 7 Check.

I’ll just leave that there. So a long weird way of saying, yes, that’s pretty much my reasoning, but not exactly at the same time. As the first message included the base 20 numbers divisible by the base 20 single digits 7, 13, and 17. (Hopefully that came off a little better).

(Note: Saying “base 20 number[s]” is not important overall. Just being overly descriptive to differentiate between base 10 digits and base 20 digits).