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Rock Hardwood

@wpgcameraman.bsky.social
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Existing, not quite thriving.

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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 2h
Just had a bicycling disco party roll down my street. Wish I was outside to enjoy the parade.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A&W delusional to ask $9.40 for a Teen burger. Daylight robbery.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bet there are folks wondering what aspect ratio the execution stream will be in, how they they can best integrate their PiP reactions to all their monetizing platforms. Who needs physical coliseums, the Internet has the best seat. Fkd up times to be sure.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When you had this, I was spending crazy in your store. Please bring this back. @princessauto.bsky.social
$2 hot dog.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Doing some flâneur at the moment, not involved in what is about to happen so just enjoying the circus from a distance. One guy unbending in his vigilance, oblivious he's gonna tank the whole thing. This is gonna be good.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mom looking for massage therapist, made mistake of walking into VIP Massage on Provencher. Got chesed out by old Asian lady. Laughed my ass off, told her it's a blatant rub & tug. Then we started reading reviews.. good times.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm in a courtyard, a place intended for people to come and sit in peace, and all I hear is ventilation fans. Oh there's another one. Like WTAF. And this isn't True North Square either (serious offender). What moron designs these spaces?
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is it so hard for people to smoke far away from doors? There are signs everywhere about it - they must be stupids.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-1°C tomorrow morning. WTH?
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trying to sleep, outside my slightly open basement window is an animal eating or chewing on something. It is freaking me out, if that gnashing monster comes through the screen and straight for my soft fleshy throat. Creepy AF.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chilling with a few candles and tunes. Such a great band. youtu.be/Nj-DUDkbusc?...
youtu.be
Quintessence - Dive Deep (1970) Full Album [Psychedelic Rock]
YouTube video by Leonardo Ortiz
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This nonsense again. The pressure switch idea didn't work. Ultrasonic or time-of-flight sensors don't work on turbulent surfaces or inside pipe. And now AC pump just finished and I should be seeing a blue LED. The lower float switch is misbehaving, time to put a camera in the hole.
Breadboard with a logic tied to float switches to activate a backup sump motor.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Curses and pox to the morons who purposely block the intersection at St. Mary's/Enfield/Tache. Took 3 light cycles to get through. Idiots all of them.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why would I take advice from some asshole who doesn't wear their seatbelt?
Shack Okneel enjoying his wealth bubble.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Unlike being a doctor, if an event has terrible sound and it isn't mine, I've got no obligation to provide a remedy. Biting my lip, hands in pocket, cringing as this unfolds. Not a burden I must shoulder, this is someone else's Titanic.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
POS almost killed me today on bike to work. FK these guys sideways.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone remember batshit crazy lady who ran for mayor with promises of a giant Winnie The Poo statue at the Forks where kids could go inside and manipulate it's tongue for fun? At least she didn't suggest snipers.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Breakfast with my bestie didn't quite work out, Princess Auto hot dogs went from $2 to $5 each. Not gonna partake at that price. Darn.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
About to apply power to my new submersible pressure transducer, couldn't find any examples online with this current to voltage board so fingers crossed I don't magic smoke $45 worth of parts. I'm not 100% sure this will be the trick, as perforated sump pit won't give a meaningful linear reading.
Electronic parts on a desk
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
50/50.
Half and half tree.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just happened upon this "Winnipeg Babysitter" doc about the Wild West of community access tv. How I missed this I do not know. As for the destruction of the tapes - yes, true. I was part of that and it broke my heart to be told to put them in the BFI out back and not given chance to find a new home.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just subjected to an opera singer. My ears. I'm very familiar with the original song and what I heard was far from it.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Version 2.0 of my backup sump pump controller is a mixed bag. Added float switch debouncing and better trigger logic, it DOES work standalone 24/7. The ultrasonic level reading or turbulent water with Pi was a letdown. 3.0 will be all Pi Pico-based with a submersible pressure transducer...
Breadboard with TTL logic chips and assorted stuff to control a pump.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Found my true calling (well, the name for it at least). I wish to be a flâneur. Heard about it recently and said to myself this is it, this is what my life is yearning for. Want to flâner through the streets of London. Perfect.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trying to make a simple Excel for battery testing results. FK this, I'm putting it all down on paper and using a calculator.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Waiting at a red light on Broadway & Donald this afternoon, dude pulled down pants and shuffled into the fountain to wash his arse crack. Folks gonna do what they do when they got a doo.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Buddy absolutely blazing in his car, whacked out of his mind. Got a contact high just walking past.
Asshole consuming weed in a vehicle.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cuz why not. Screw in my back tire. Been there a while I guess but now I know about and cannot stop obsessing.
Canadian screw (Robertson) in my tire.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Someone wake up the Tim's manager !!
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good night for testing the backup sump pump *however* the main pump is cycling every 3 minutes and can barely keep up with the torrent flowing in, so will try tomorrow when things aren't so on the edge. Also ultrasonic distance idea is a bust in this incarnation, rippling water goofs the results.
Raspberry Pi Pico hooked up to an ultrasonic distance finder with numbers on small display.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Brutal cell going over Portage right now, into deep deep red on radar. Get your flashlights and AM radios handy folks.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Goal is to get the first two hot dogs of the day.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Grumble. My house number LED controller fell and the power wires to sign pulled off, cannot remember which is which. Sure hope a meter probe solves this. Sign isn't perfect, an actual 15" monitor would be too bonkers tho. Or would it? Could show cat videos with my number superimposed. #PiPico
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard. It controls 45 RGB LEDs. 1 locally and 44 in my house address sign.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The only thing these places feed is my rage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jow...
youtube.com
Why Do Restaurants Do This?
YouTube video by Ryan George
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Careful Macron, foreign items going to the British Museum tend to not get returned. Goes for the tapestry as well.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mastered the art of looking like I'm on top of things, checking levels, do some fake DJ knob adjustments.. furrowed brow, concerned look. Certainly not just standing here for an hour with idle hands daydreaming of being on a bench in Paddington station watching the World go by. Oh no.
Audio mixer board.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Driving back to the city, Dolly playing on the radio and I've got a tear in my eye. What a lovely person.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well that was dramatic. Some big drops coming down, long as it isn't hail.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Road trip days can be the worst, I ate so much crap today. Also forgot my rain jacket and cap there. Positive side they will go to the community clothing bank and be a good find. Negative I've no spare and it will rain tomorrow. This is a cosmic set-up to place me in the slicker aisle at Mark's.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh wouldn't you like to know what I've got in here...
Suitcase labeled "Costumes"
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Unpopular position but a hill I will die on. Disappointing that Princess Auto has become a 'family' destination.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just got into it with someone on the phone trying to tell me what to do, turns out it wasn't who I thought... they were in fact the boss of the boss of my boss. Though I was still in the right, this may feature in my employee file. Ooops. Week has been like that.. day not over yet!!
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Police enforcing bus lanes along Osborne. Delicious to see. Like fish in a barrel.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Had a shoot at the Forks this morning, tried really hard to imagine I was at Coal Drops Yard next to Regent's Canal.. didn't work. Doing that a lot lately, imagining to be somewhere else much nicer only for reality to ruin the delusion.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just dug up a relic, a DIY slow-motion replay hammer from 20 years ago. Potentiometer inside, went to an Atmega keyboard sim, sent a 'space' (quicky pause/play) to the decklink capture/playback software. Very poor man's EVS.
Some short copper pipes forming a hammer, connected to a 10k potentiometer shaft, all mounted in an electrical box.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Breadboard of same backup logic, and it also false triggered on main pump activation. Must be a vibration issue, going to add a good R*C debounce to top float switch and hope that is the fix.
Basic logic bits for backup sump pump controller. A float switch is vibrating and causing false triggering.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Been getting false triggers on my sump backup when main pump engages normally. The backup high float is well above the water, vibration is only thing I can think of, the magnetic donut must shake upwards and close reed switch. Hoped I wouldn't have to pull the guts up yet again. drat.
Using a camera snake to look into my sump pit and view the top float switch for my backup pump system.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Found an old Gmail account with my photos, basically my life before 2008. People, places, experiences.. some type of dread, what emotions will they stir up, not everything was rosy. Ding dong, past traumas OPEN UP YOU MUST RELIVE. Aurg. Yes, just not right now.
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Three amazing psychedelic/electronic/fuzz albums from the late 60's. Prepare your ears for the ecstasy. Fifty Foot Hose - Calderon (1967) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnA... The Spoils Of War (1969) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIJc... The Unites States Of America (1968) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjeZ...
youtube.com
THE SPOILS OF WAR (1969/1970) REMASTERED, FULL ALBUM
YouTube video by thatmuse76
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Rock Hardwood @wpgcameraman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Everytime I think it's time for a haircut, I hesitate. Maybe I can rock long hair, use the length to compensate for the lack of hair on top.. material for an Alpine Rope Toss, tie it up high like a very manly ponytail. Or get it cut, save what hits the floor and later do some creative glue work.
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