What Have You Learned Today?
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- Red Devil
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
i have learned that nails are not worthy...
so, here i am on the lower deck and look up and see a nail protruding from a joist hanger...
so i says, "Hmmm, must have not banged one in all the way..."
then i see another one..and another one...and *another one*... about 70 in all...
seems the wind coming off the 'dee-vide' (continental divide) had moved the deck around so much that it had worked the nails loose (upper and lower decks are cantilevered, 10 feet by 50 feet (3.048 meters x 15.24 meters for you euros), so decks acted like a sail)
so, i just finished pulling out the loosened nails and replaced them with 3-inch deckmate screws. need to check under the lower deck next
if i hadn't caught that, the decks would have eventually peeled off of the house, maybe with someone or pets standing on them, 25 feet down.
MORAL OF THE STORY: NAILS SUCK - USE SCREWS.
so, here i am on the lower deck and look up and see a nail protruding from a joist hanger...
so i says, "Hmmm, must have not banged one in all the way..."
then i see another one..and another one...and *another one*... about 70 in all...
seems the wind coming off the 'dee-vide' (continental divide) had moved the deck around so much that it had worked the nails loose (upper and lower decks are cantilevered, 10 feet by 50 feet (3.048 meters x 15.24 meters for you euros), so decks acted like a sail)
so, i just finished pulling out the loosened nails and replaced them with 3-inch deckmate screws. need to check under the lower deck next
if i hadn't caught that, the decks would have eventually peeled off of the house, maybe with someone or pets standing on them, 25 feet down.
MORAL OF THE STORY: NAILS SUCK - USE SCREWS.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
no doubt
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Re: Interesting article thread
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https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5916137/John-Mccallistair
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5916137/John-Mccallistair
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
Of an attempt to break the current land speed record by a whopping ~24%.
The presentation is very overdone and polished, with high-end CGI, whooshing text panels and well edited music to the point of being comical. Daniel Judd describing the oxidizer with the handlebar mustache is a hoot. Yes. . .they call him the "Bloodhound Rocket Scientist"
The presentation is very overdone and polished, with high-end CGI, whooshing text panels and well edited music to the point of being comical. Daniel Judd describing the oxidizer with the handlebar mustache is a hoot. Yes. . .they call him the "Bloodhound Rocket Scientist"
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
meh, with the space shuttle being mothballed, just strap a surplus solid fuel booster on the chassis and you've got 16,000 mph.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
I think there used to be a point in these stunts... there is no point in a vehicle that will probably kill you if you even think about indicating left. Lose the wheels, point it up, then there is a point to doing it at all.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
I learned I really haven't looked at this thread ina looooong time.
Known on FF.net as John Mccallistair, link provided below if you're interested.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
I learned who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
Learned that you don't present a new product unless you're 99.99% confident your device will not crash on its debut presentation.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
Not much new when you look at the first linked videoPsychedelic Rhino wrote:Learned that you don't present a new product unless you're 99.99% confident your device will not crash on its debut presentation.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
MS Ipad...No sale. I want a virtual air keyboard! not some smudgy touch screen.
And second point...Is it a phone too? if it isn't your just wasting our time and precious resources.
And second point...Is it a phone too? if it isn't your just wasting our time and precious resources.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
A while ago we discussed the new technologies that will surpass us in touch or surface contact identification.
Well it looks like other techniques are being developed.
Years ago I thought a sense of touch would be one of the last advantages man would have over machines, along with visual pattern recondition, when it came to interfacing with the physical world. It now appears a machine's sense of touch has now easily surpassed us.
It used to be considered taboo to even consider replacing healthy organs and appendages for bio-mechanical devices in the human body. With all the piercings, tattoos, and cosmetic implants, that unthinkable mindset may be entirely gone in another generation.
Well it looks like other techniques are being developed.
Years ago I thought a sense of touch would be one of the last advantages man would have over machines, along with visual pattern recondition, when it came to interfacing with the physical world. It now appears a machine's sense of touch has now easily surpassed us.
It used to be considered taboo to even consider replacing healthy organs and appendages for bio-mechanical devices in the human body. With all the piercings, tattoos, and cosmetic implants, that unthinkable mindset may be entirely gone in another generation.
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"If you can't explain it clearly and simply to a freshman, you don't understand it well enough yourself."
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"If you can't explain it clearly and simply to a freshman, you don't understand it well enough yourself."
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
I can't let you do that... Dave
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
Don't worry HAL, I'll be gentle. . .at first.
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Re: What Have You Learned Today?
Stop, Dave, I'm afraid.Psychedelic Rhino wrote:Don't worry HAL, I'll be gentle. . .at first.