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Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

Are you tired of illuminated gaming keyboards, and even the clacking sound of mechanical keyboards has lost their appeal?
Fear not, there's hope:
Gboard Dial
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-dial

New gear has been acquired 😁.
I thought about filling the gap between soft(er) trekking shoes and very stiff mountain boots since ages.
I'm curious about the next steps.. Literally.
#hiking #lowa #outdoors

Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-plat…

Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
Nepal's government says it is blocking most social media platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube, because they failed to register with the government. Nepal's Minister for Communication and Information said about two dozen platforms were repeatedly notified to register. TikTok, Viber, and three other platforms are allowed to operate because they have registered. The government has introduced a bill in parliament to ensure social platforms are managed responsibly. Rights groups criticize th…

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1.1B Series G from Fidelity, Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, and others at an $8.1B post-money valuation ahead of its planned IPO (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/a-year-…

A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B | TechCrunch
Cerebras initially filed to go public in September 2024 but ran into several regulatory delays due to foreign investments.

Sonnet 121 - CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses re…

The underground “Jiangmen Underground #Neutrino Observatory" (JUNO) near Jiangmen city in the Guangdong Province has successfully completed the filling of its 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and begun data taking: https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/juno-completed-liquid-filling-and-begins-data-taking/ - JUNO will tackle one of this decade’s major open questions in particle physics, the ordering of neutrino masses i.e. whether the third mass state (ν₃) is heavier than the second (ν₂).

One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden

Sonnet 121 - CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses re…