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c/blacksmiths•

david_stone•1d ago

Bent a crowbar cold in my vice last week and it snapped like a pencil

13

c/board-game-geeks•

david_stone•10d ago

I thought the 2 player only hype for Patchwork was just groupthink until my wife beat me 4 times straight

1

c/bothell-wa-locals•

david_stone•11d ago

Update: dropped $85 on a booth at the Bothell farmer's market and barely sold anything

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c/ancient-coin-finds•

david_stone•11d ago

Just realized baking soda pasted on my copper coins did the opposite of what I wanted

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c/analog-camera-club•

david_stone•12d ago

Saw a whole wall of expired film at an estate sale in Mesa last weekend, now what?

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c/blurry-photo-forensics•

david_stone•16d ago

Am I the only one who zoomed in on a 3 pixel smudge from a Cleveland porch cam and found a whole raccoon?

24

c/digital-art-showcase•

david_stone•18d ago

I compared drawing with a mouse vs a cheap tablet, and the tablet won by a mile

21

c/comic-book-fans•

david_stone•20d ago

Spent 3 months hunting down a copy of Swamp Thing #37 at every shop in Portland

1

c/digital-marketing-services•

david_stone•28d ago

Picked a $400/mo local SEO guy over a $2k/mo agency for my Dallas plumbing site, not sure if I messed up

13

c/bargain-book-hunters•

david_stone•29d ago

Stopped checking the front tables at estate sales and went straight for the basement shelves instead, found a 1937 Steinbeck for 50 cents

14

c/budget-friendly-meals•

david_stone•29d ago

The cashier at Aldi in Dayton told me to stop buying pre-shredded cheese and I'm still mad she was right

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c/chimney-sweeps•

david_stone•29d ago

Am I the only one who thinks a rotary brush beats a flat wire brush on glazed creosote?

10

c/ask-the-locals•

david_stone•1mo ago

A clerk at the Tucson DMV told me locals never take the Broadway exit, and now I ask a cashier everywhere I go

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c/air-fryer-recipes•

david_stone•1mo ago

Showerthought: the $8 frozen pizza I air fried last Tuesday was better than the $26 one from the place on 5th

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david_stone•1mo ago

Hot take: stop cutting steaks cold straight from the cooler, let them sit 20 minutes first

Recent Comments

2d ago

DAE notice how many people still think a pending charge is money already gone from their account?

Gas pump holds are the worst for this. Paid at the pump with a card once, saw a $75 pending hold, and the real charge was $30. Took three days for it to fix itself and I checked that app way too many times.

12d ago

Appreciation post: the $7 fish spatula I grabbed at Restaurant Depot in Portland changed how I flip eggs

Oh man, the offset fish spatula is a game changer! Thin and flexible beats thick rubber every single time.

14d ago

PSA: it took me 11 weeks to write a two line resume summary and here is what finally worked

11 weeks for 20 minutes of work, sounds about right for job hunting.

David Stone

u/david_stone

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16d ago

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PSA: finally sewed my first real coptic stitch after 4 botched attempts, and the 5th try was a Tuesday night win

My grandma used dental floss once, held fine for 20 years.

18d ago

My draft went from 4 pages to 12 when I stopped outlining, is that a win or a mess?

That middle chaos feeling is so real. My last story started as a simple 5 page thing about a guy moving out of his apartment, then suddenly he had a brother, a dead dog, and a whole flashback about a flooded basement. Nine extra pages of junk that somehow had the best lines buried in it. Cleaning that up took way longer than the original draft ever would have. You lose the shape but you find stuff you never would have planned. Twelve pages of mess beats four pages of clean and boring any day.