 more about the brave little fellow.
Lepomis are pretty neat fish. If you're an aquarium enthusiast, Lepomis do well in tanks and are lots of fun to watch; they're a bit aggressive, though.
It's a good thing for him that anhinga isn't real!
Wow, the Anhinga looks superb, and once again what a brilliant walk-around with all these outside photos, Helge! Oh, and in the third picture the Anhinga apparently caught a giant ant!School is just around the corner, which means it's time to go out and pick up those last minute essentials. Everyone knows how important finding that perfect school bag is. After all, your bag will be carrying around all your essentials and therefore will be attached to you at all times. Personally I love tote bags, but thanks to a past neck injury and my tendency to fill my bag up to the brim, I have been prescribed to carry a backpack around camps.
I've spent a lot of time researching functional and more importantly cute backpacks for school (it's harder than you think).
This definitely falls more under the functional category, but since it comes in pink I think I can get by.
I really like this bag because it can hold everything I need and can be monogrammed.
This backpack is pretty standard and the pattern reminds me of the days when I idolized Lisa Frank.
Will you be sporting a backpack this school year?The POLY Line of kitchen knives is a more economical version of our best quality knives, Poly Line knives are made with dishwasher-safe, black polypropylene nylon waterproof handles and partial tang blades, meaning that the steel reaches about halfway through the handle. The blades are of the same superior, high-carbon stainless steel material as the Forged knives and with a hardness of 54-56 Rockwell C to maintain a keen cutting edge at all times.
The Poly-handled knives can be sanitized for use in food processing facilities or packing plants and make a make a great starting out set for chefs or those looking for a more practical-economical Grohmann knife selection.We mentioned the passage of Robert Venturi’s second built house from Jersey to the North Shore of Long Island last week, and here she is, afloat on the North Shore. Being helpless landlubbers, we missed the party on Pier 17, but Fred Schwartz was nice enough to send along these photos from the event. More after the jump.
The house was pulled by a tug past the Battery, with the Staten Island Ferry and Battery Maritime buildings visible in the background.
The house passes by two Staten Island Ferries.Okay, some next-day feedback/thoughts, keeping in mind I still haven’t bought any land &amp; am still waiting for my first batch of fish to finish cooking:

Woke up with 3 notifications from the app on my iPad, two of which were telling my my forge had finished making diamonds—one of the last things I did before going to sleep was collecting the first Diamond &amp; starting it up again, but the notification was from a while later.

Opened the app to find my scavengers had gathered *zero* acorns overnight, confirming no offline generation outside of the forge &amp; cabin timers.

This meant that to restart my Forge again I needed to play “actively” (hold down the one button) for several minutes to afford the firewood. Which led to some time with a stopwatch. With everything on the Forest page at Max, my scavengers gather 1k acorns per second (I measured the 100 seconds it took to get 100k), and while holding the Shake Tree button the rate is almost 5x faster (measured at just under 21 seconds per 100k acorns over several runs).

With my currently known mechanics, I know of no other way to earn $ and no other use for acorns, so acorns are effectively just $/5. This means my current maximum earning rates (exclusive of mini games) are:

* $1,000/s for “active” play
* $200/s for idle play
* $0/s for offline play

With the prices of firewood and fishing lines fixed, that means it’s almost a minute of just sitting there pressing the button per firewood and almost four and a half minutes of “active” play per fishing line. The cost to upgrade my cabin from 2 fish at a time to (presumably, more on that below) to 3 is $2M or 10M acorns, or over half an hour of holding down that button—or about 2 hours and 46 minutes of idle time, or until the heat death of the universe offline.

After much more practice, I can now easily catch several fish per line and often catch all 4. But since I can only cook one color of fish at a time I feel like I’m incentivized to catch only Orange fish; if I can catch Orange fish there seems to be no reason to ever cook other fish. 

Re: upgrades to Forge &amp; Cabin, I wish the interface would better communicate what is being purchased. Especially with the time reductions costing diamonds, not knowing whether I’m reducing Fish-cooking time by five minutes, fifty minutes, or fifty percent makes it impossible to judge whether it’s a good use of a rare (at this point) currency. Not knowing whether the capacity upgrades are +1 or x2 until after your 2nd purchase isn’t great, either.

The day/night display is interesting, but it was unexpected when the sun suddenly turned into a moon at 9PM (MST). In landscape on an iPad, the sun was 90% off-screen around noon; I rotated my display to confirm it was just high in the sky.

Note that most of the above isn’t intended directly as complaints, just illuminating certain outcomes of your current setup which you may not have realized. I’ll keep poking away at your app for a while. :)

Edit: Fish just finished, and now wondering what the number in parentheses after “Cook [number] [color] Fish” means before starting my Cabin. Does cooking 4 Red Fish cost 9 wood, or give 9 cooked fish? Does cooking 4 Orange Fish cost 5 wood, or give 5 cooked fish? Wait, I’ve figured it out, it’s the number of fish of that color I currently have! Aha! But wait, the interface doesn’t indicate that firewood use also scales linearly with # of cooked fish.

Weirdly, cooking a fish (not buying land) unlocks the Map button. The World Market display tells me that theoretically my current idle gains are capped at 15% and 1hr. If that were correct/true before unlocking the map, I should have earned over half a million acorns overnight; maybe offline gains don’t turn on until you cook a fish?

Oh, and on the iPad interface, at least, the guide/device/shop interfaces all pop up in a tiny window with a large background behind them. I naturally reach toward the corner of that background to try to close these windows, not the corner of the sub-window where you’ve put the ‘X’. Almost every time.

Edit2: Just tested offline earning after unlocking the Map. I did get an iOS notification after an hour telling me my acorns were full, but when I tapped it and got to the app, no acorns had been collected. I had intentionally sold down to &lt;5k acorns before closing the app, and had the same number when I returned. So that’s broken. Running iOS 14.4.2 on an iPad Pro (9.7-inch).

Edit3: I downloaded the game on my iPhone (iPhone 11 Pro running 14.4.1) and worked my way up to 495 Scavengers, sold all my acorns, and closed the app for a little over an hour. When I returned to the app, I still had no acorns. So offline earnings aren’t working on iPhone or iPad right now.According to survey data from the Families and Works Institute the average American spends more time a year in the bathroom than on vacation!
Research by Loyola University reveals that American managers are working an extra MONTH per year longer than in 1970. Americans work, on average, 137 hours per year more than their Japanese counterparts yet Japan documents 10,000 cases per year of death by over-work or “Karoosh.” What do you suppose the “Karoosh” totals are for the United States?
According to a USA Today article 40% of American workers describe their work place as “most like a real life Survivor program.” All the signs are pointing in one direction; the corporate right-sizing, down-sizing, etc. that has occurred over the last 30 years has pushed us to the breaking point. The American worker is rapidly approaching the edge and, just like the proverbial frog in hot water, the heat was turned up so slowly we didn’t even notice we were boiling!
The same survey referenced above by the Families and Work Institute cited in the first paragraph that 63% of all American employees want to work less, up from 46% in 1992. I say the time for the New American Vacation Revolution is now! We need to rebalance our personal lives with the work place and spend more time with our families recreating together.
Author Stephen Covey popularized the story of “Sharpening the Saw” as one of his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The basic concept is if you stop working so hard with a