Nostr notes by Curt Olson

I'm seeing a bunch of youtube videos on the TCR system ... ...

2026-09-04T14:48:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…reer
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I'm seeing a bunch of youtube videos on the TCR system ... that might have to be my weekend rabbit hole!

Oh, here it is TCR (total control racing): ...

2026-09-04T14:44:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…ynww
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Oh, here it is TCR (total control racing):

https://youtu.be/OgsGEbaS4Rw

And it actually was as cool as the commercial made it out to be ... but you had to really have your timing down to get clean pass on a short straight section.

I think I had 4 cars but the none of them were well matched against each other for performance, so there was always a guanteed faster car (very likely the winner) no matter which pairing we picked ... but it was still a lot of fun back in the day.

I don't know if either exist any more ... the RC stuff has ...

2026-09-04T14:39:23Z

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I don't know if either exist any more ... the RC stuff has gotten so cheap I think everything has real steering now. And one time I went hunting for the race car track set I had and couldn't find that either ... it was super clever and intricate ... probably european designed, not the sort of clunky thing you'd get in the usa.

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2026-09-03T19:25:20Z

In the past, some of my posts here werefefe...

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2026-08-09T10:38:11Z

#SilentSunday

#thintrunktuesday Three years ago we had to relocate due to my ...

2025-05-06T17:06:23Z

#thintrunktuesday Three years ago we had to relocate due to my job scenario, but we found a really wonderful semi-rural 5 acres in northern minnesota. However, I quickly discovered about 1/3 of it was covered in buckthorn which is really hard to get rid of. All these thin stalks are me going through the woods in a grid patter pulling the trees that are small enough to pull out, ignoring the ones that are too small and numerous (but spending some time on my actual hands and knees going through these areas.) And then the larger stuff chopping off waste/chest high and stripping all the green.
The problem is these things are amazingly good and sending new shoots out the sides and staying alive, so last fall I went through and stripped off all the new shoots ... and in the process found new plants and new areas where it has spread.
It seems overwhelming and impossible, but I think I gave this infestation a major setback last fall, and I'm hopeful that this spring many of these chopped off stalks won't send out new shoots again and will give up.
We have a lot of ground cover wild flowers in this area so I'm hoping the extra light to the forest floor will encourage a carpet of wild flowers in a few weeks. And then I plan to scatter some oak and maple seeds in and around here and maybe plant some more evergreens, and encourage and aspen/birch that want to take off and grow. I'd love to see some fall colors mixed in here in a couple years.
I'm playing the long game here, but I'm much better at brute forcing outdoor projects than doing any kind of indoor projects.