CADmonkey

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CADmonkey,

I’ve been watching a very complex and large house being built over the laat few years. Probably the house of someone important. I’m sure it’s very safe with no easily exploited vulnerabilities.

CADmonkey,

The mythbusters clip about the bus is one of my favorites, because it showed just how hard it is to tip over a bus.

CADmonkey,

Their editors told them it makes more money, I’d guess.

CADmonkey,

What I have wondered is do people who grow up in places where the streets are more or less in a grid end up with a different sense of direction to those who grew up in a place where old walking paths were just paved over, creating more random street layouts?

CADmonkey,

Yup! Everything they do is metric.

CADmonkey,

Hamas is a reaction to Israel’s actions of past decades.

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CADmonkey,

You know… in the past, big ridiculous wigs were used by people suffering from syphilis. Does anyone know if trump has a ridiculous wig?

Turning Down Food Aid for Millions of Children Reflects Shocking Political Callousness (www.nytimes.com)

Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally-funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.

CADmonkey,

It doesn’t bother them because it doesn’t affect them personally.

CADmonkey,

I started making soap in 2016 just to see if I could figure it out. Now I’m pretty good at it and have a lot of fun with different colors and smells. I normally don’t use 100% olive oil, though. An equal-parts mixture of Canola, Olive, and Coconut oil is what I try to use, but I’ve also had good luck with “whatever cooking oil I have on hand”.

CADmonkey,

And don’t send linemen in to fix the power infrastructure when the whole thing freezes again next month.

CADmonkey,

Im in Oklahoma. It was cold, with a day of powdery dry snow that we normally don’t get. Might have had 3"-4" of coverage. The schools were closed until today. We never lost any utilities, just stayed at home, got high, and did some baking.

It was above freezing today and yesterday, so we have some fun icy patches that haven’t cleared.

CADmonkey,

I see all these silly rules being floated and part of me almost wishes I was back in high school so I could be really annoying.

CADmonkey,

That happened to me once! I was 15 and going to school, was riding a Lotus Eclair I’d fixed up. I entered the school zone and wanted to see if I could get over 25 mph. But there was a cop hiding and I got a ticket. I had to tell my parents, and I think they were impressed with my 31 in a 25 speeding ticket.

The best part was having to go to court, and the judge asking how I got a Lotus (she was thinking of a car) and then upon learning the truth, asking the officer why he was wasting his time stopping a kid on a bicycle.

CADmonkey,

The machine tools used to cut the barrels and other parts have replaceable cutting elements, but your point still stands - nobody is keeping track of how many barrels or which barrels were turned with what cutter on what day.

There’s an even more damning argument, however. All a potential murderer has to do is shoot a couple of boxes of rounds through their gun before shooting their victim. Then they clean the gun and would you look at that, the clean barrel makes different marks than the dirty one.

Edit: I remember that I could fire .38 special through my .357, and I often did for target shooting because it was cheaper.

CADmonkey,

Yeah, I’d be a-okay with an fm radio and roll down windows in a compact hatchback, thanks. You people with your fancy cars. It’s all going to be trash with the flick of a firmware update.

Nobody makes fun of my wife’s little econobox anymore. 1.2 liter engine, 5 speed, and a radio.

CADmonkey,

Have you tried to buy a Maverick?

CADmonkey,

I have this weird little vehicle from the 1980’s. I can best describe it as a Japanese Jeep. It wasn’t ever a “big” vehicle, but seeing it next to a modern truck is jarring.

The best part is, I know from direct repeated personal experience that the 60 horsepower 4wd can go more places than a typical 4wd truck.

EDIT: Also, the truck in this picture is a 2004-2008, a 2023 is even bigger…

CADmonkey,

Speaking as someone who has suffered an original air cooled Beetle, they’re cool but I wouldn’t try to daily it. The lack of power steering would be far, far down your list of issues you will run into.

But for paralell parking a beetle specifically it can be a challenge, because reverse doesn’t work like you expect. You have to push the gear lever down, like straight down toward the ground, and hold it, to put it in reverse. So you have to steer with one hand and hold the shifter with the other.

CADmonkey,

Oh, perfect for that.

CADmonkey,

“I’m going to business school!”

CADmonkey,

He’s just really, really horny because he has to work in a situation that has hum surrounded by old white men. And that’s perfectly fine, he should embrace it, no matter what his imaginary friend says.

CADmonkey,

Two of my favorites are from books and don’t have pictures: the nanotech weapon given to grunts in “Old Man’s War” and the Soft Weapon from Niven’s short story titled, appropriately enough, “The Soft Weapon”. There was an animated Star Trek episode based on The Soft Weapon, but I can’t remember what I looked like, I just remember the producers weren’t brave enough to animate an alien with two heads and three legs.

Other than those, I really liked the silly guns in Ratchet and Clank, epecially the Vacuum Cannon.

CADmonkey,

I was living in Oklahoma and I remember some of the local media mentioning this “coronavirus” thing that was spreading in China. I also remember people joking about Corona (the beer) being suddenly less popular.

Then in February, March, and April it getting more and more serious, and this is about the time that people started claiming it wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t that bad, and if it was, then it was from a chinese lab bent on taking down the US…

April-May had me re-adjusting my previous opinions of people around me that I thought were rational.

CADmonkey,

I used to work with truckers, and a LOT of them started out like this.

CADmonkey,

I used to use high-powered (4KW) lasers at work every day. Now I make 3D models and sit at a desk.

Guess which job I like more.

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