Printers hate everyone. And everything. They are the angriest of all technologies, and can only be occasionally placated…
I wasn’t expecting quite so many of you to empathize with my rage.
I was just talking with a colleague a few days ago about how the pinnacle of printer design and maintenance means that nobody thinks about or notices the printer. That’s it.
Does your product actively enrage your customers? Waste their time? Ruin their jobs? No? Then congratulations are in order, motherfucker, because you’ve practically achieved godhood.
The bar’s on the floor, but printers still can’t make it over.
This Bengaluru-Based Firm Wants to Help You Grow Your Greens at Home
At the Surge conference organised in Bengaluru last week, a handful of hardware products caught our eye, including, of course, the Ather S340. One of the most gawked at booths was that of Bengaluru-based IoT and data science startup BitMantis, which unveiled TheGreenSAGE to the public.
TheGreenSAGE is a microwave-sized hydroponic kit that can help both amateurs and commercial growers raise fresh herbs throughout the year, at home or on site, ensuring that all the crop inputs are free of the residual pesticides found in farm grown vegetables.
At the conference, TheGreenSAGE was shown growing a lush patch of greens. It pairs with a smartphone app that can let the grower monitor plant growth trends and customise growing conditions as required for specific herbs, and it can be used to grow mustard, fenugreek, spinach, dill, coriander and variants of basil.
“We plan on pricing TheGreenSAGE solution in the range of an affordable kitchen appliance. We will be deciding on the exact product price range later this year,” Jayath Sathyanarayana, one of the three co-founders at BitMantis, told Gadgets 360. The year-old startup is planning to launch the device by August 2016, and Sathyanarayana gave us an overview of the benefits of hydroponics, the ethos of the company, and what it aims to accomplish in the long run.
House-hunters with a taste for all things ghoulish have a rare chance to make their home in a Gothic church, which has its very own graveyard in the garden. The Grade II listed building, on the market for £450,000, has kept the original stained glass windows, elaborate octagonal church tower and even the ornate altar – now in the kitchen. In the garden there is the occassional gravestone, although prospective buyers are assured visiting mourners are rare. Inside the Lincolnshire property there are three bedrooms tucked under arching beams, a spiral staircase and original flooring.
Home Sweet Home
The untouched exterior of the church. (SWNS)
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Private Property
Home-hunters after their own Gothic residence will be impressed by the Old Church House. (SWNS)
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Under The Arch
The stones of the imposing lychgate were laid more than a century and a half ago. (SWNS)
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Watchful Eyes
Carved angels and stained glass figures overlook the kitchen. (SWNS)
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Bath And Beams
There are even original features in the house’s bathrooms. (SWNS)
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Below The Beams
One bedroom has impressive oak beams and a colourful stained glass window. (SWNS)
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What’s Cooking?
The original tessellated tile floor remains in the kitchen. (SWNS)
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Make An Entrance
Chandeliers and stone carvings decorate the hall. (SWNS)
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Living Area
The large living room has beams and exposed brickwork. (SWNS)
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Stained Glass
There are original stained glass windows throughout the Gothic building. (SWNS)
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Period Features
Every room has plenty of impressive features. (SWNS)
*pedant* If the gate was only built a century and a half ago, this is nouveau or imitation Gothic, from the Victorians, not actual Gothic (from the High Mediaevals). The Victorians were a bit mad for the Gothic style, but left out all kinds of less pleasant details like the horribly malformed gargoyles, et cetera. Also they very carefully shaded the stained glass, being unaware that the similar shading in real Gothic cathedrals was because nobody’d cleaned the damn things for centuries.
Clothes sharing is just like the ultimate fluffy trope. Like fuck yes, give me one person in my otp letting the other wear their letterman jacket around school like every cheesy high school romance in existence. Give me the smaller one walking around in the bigger one’s oversized, worn sweatshirt and socked feet, with their hair all messed up from sleeping. Give me my otp wearing those dumb but adorable coupley shirts that match each other. Just give it to me in every variation possible I love that shit it’s so cute I can’t handle it.
so there’s a book in the madeline series called “madeline says merci” and I just misread that as “madeline sans merci”
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines The smallest one was Madeline. Full beautiful—a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
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