Now, with bonus chicken!
This is the power bank Uncle B bought me for my birthday. I was trying to show you the number on the side (which tells you how much juice it has left) and what looks like a solid LED display to the human eye flickers like unto a bastard when you see it through the phone camera. Weird.
I love this thing. Ordinarily, I use it with my laptop so I can spend longer in the garden, but it’s way too hot to run a computer for very long today. Mine naturally runs hot. Just popping on to post this.
I love that. But what I really love is that it charges my phone faster than it discharges itself, so I can charge my phone, then charge the bank, then charge my phone, then charge the bank and effectively stay out here forever. I knew it was going to be a ‘sitting in the garden like a lump watching YouTubes all day’ kind of a day.
Day three of the hoochie coochie. I know from a childhood in Tennessee that if you sit perfectly still in the shade, you’ll be fine.
Spent the day watching porch pirate revenge videos. Sadly, the robot tells me most of them are AI. So I went back and watched Mark Rober’s old Glitter Bomb versus Porch Pirate series. He’s the real deal.
Posted: June 24th, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 4
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Comment from Veeshir
Time: June 24, 2026, 10:19 pm
Thanks for the link.
I stopped watching porch pirate vids because I assumed they were fake.
I do wish they were real.
Comment from Quetzalovercoatl
Time: June 25, 2026, 8:25 am
“…what looks like a solid LED display to the human eye flickers like unto a bastard when you see it through the phone camera”
That’s something I noticed recently when taking photos in train stations or airport terminals. The display looks normal but turns into a portal to some Hell dimension when looking through a phone camera. Slightly creepy now that I know it’s there.
Ireland is nowhere near as hot as the UK at the moment but still hotter than any country that resolutely denies the existence of summer through a paucity of air-conditioning has any right to be. My son, who lives in central London is feeling it but his office has AC so that’s bonus. He says it’s not as hot as three years ago when the coconut oil he uses for cooking (normally solid like Crisco) completely liquified. But it’s still early!
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: June 25, 2026, 2:15 pm
Previous owners of my house installed a heat pump system big enough to cool a small shopping mall, so we aren’t suffering from the heat—even though it routinely hits 105. But the really good news is that it rained overnight—1.7 inches! Bringing our yearly total to 4.37 inches! Our rain cache system is overflowing.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: June 25, 2026, 4:02 pm
“Day three of the hoochie coochie.”
Perhaps I grew up in the wrong part of town (which admittedly I did) but I don’t think that “the hoochie coochie” means what you think it means.
If you could whisper in my ear, I’d ask what it means in your neck of the woods, but otherwise I’m kinda afraid to..
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