Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.
The space station when it was armed to the teeth. I will remind you that at the beginning of the show they were woefully undersupplied and had a single digit number of torpedoes (I believe six), all of which Sisko fired at the Cardassians in a bluff to make them go away. Once we get to the war against the Jem’hadar and they allow O’Brien to festoon all the surfaces of the station with guns, then we’re really talking.
Another fine idea. I’ve got a soap dispenser pump in mine.
…And get one of those filler plates for the now empty hole in your sink. They’re cheap. Get a real stainless one, not a chrome or “satin nickel” or whatever the hell, which will rust in short order.
That’s a regular 3 hole (4, including the sprayer) kitchen faucet. There is absolutely nothing unusual about that. Shut off the valves, unscrew the braided stainless supply lines, undo those big plastic nuts on the underside and the whole thing will come off. Take it to the hardware store and they’ll sell you another one just like it.
Having a 3/8" compression fitting on the output side of your shutoff valves there is pretty normal. In Ye Olden Times that would accept a piece of copper tubing with a compression nut and a ferrule, but these days the flexible supply lines have a fitting that screws on in place of that.
The white hose going from the faucet itself to the sprayer is likely to be proprietary and model or at least brand specific to whatever faucet you have. You’re unlikely to find a replacement to just that at any hardware store.
Yeah, it doesn’t matter in the slightest. If it hits the ground, it goes to the hound. Hork it down right now and figure out whatever it was later. That’s the doggo way.
I don’t see why not. If you’re really paranoid, there’s always marine epoxy…
Ideally you’d install a drain in the corner of this thing that went somewhere. Outside, preferably. If you want your puddle to evaporate faster, point a fan at it. That’s what I do when I need to hose off one of my bikes but I have to do it in the garage rather than outside.
An oil based paint or polyurethane.
Apparently it is.
Worse, the shuttlecraft set stoops as far as having an Ensign Ro Laren minifig but still no O’Brien.
Wait until you find out what Jim Henson was up to before he got real famous.
My beagle was fascinated by the oldschool rotary siren still in use with the local fire station when I was a kid. It was a solid mile or so away from our house but obviously quite audible. They did a test run on it every Sunday morning at seemingly increasingly earlier hours, probably specifically to annoy all the proto-Karens who sent snippy letters to them about it, or wrote in to the papers.
If you don’t know or you’ve never heard one of these, they take quite a while to wind down as the flywheel or whatever it is coasts after it’s turned off, slowly losing speed with the pitch going lower and lower and lower. When it got down into the very low registers, my dog’s favorite thing to do was trying to match its pitch by howling back at it. Obviously with decreasing success the lower the note went. Aroooooooouuuuuuwwwwwwrrrrrr…rrrr…rr…rr…r…r…
My town also did a yearly fireworks display on the 4th and how I got him to get over that was by bodily picking his dumb ass up and carrying him to the field overlooking the valley into town, so he could see what was going on. That was the congregation spot for everyone from all the local neighborhoods to sit and watch, so this also usually wound up with him being able to scam a hot dog or a hamburger off of somebody. After a couple of years of that it was him dragging me off to that field on the end of his leash.
For whatever reason he maintained a lifelong hate-on for the sound of skateboard and rollerblade wheels. If anyone ever went by our house on either of above he’d go absolutely ballistic. He didn’t care about bicycles or scooters or even loud motorcycles.
Loud outside noises like fireworks, thunder, sirens, etc. freak dogs and animals out because there is no apparent cause and effect. They’re just random, and don’t come from an identifiable source other than “outside.” Despite the popularly repeated advice, playing fireworks noises over your stereo speakers is not going to do anything for your dog nor train him in any way what those noises are or what’s causing them. Your dog isn’t fooled — he knows very well you initiated the speaker noises, because he watched you do it and he’s watched you make other speaker noises like TV and music the same way before. But by the same token dogs have no concept of abstract concepts so it’s no good trying to explain to him that your fireworks Youtube video or whatever is supposed to be the “same” thing as what he’s scared of. Because to him, it isn’t.
The only thing that worked for my dog back when was making the fireworks event participatory. Just randomly subjecting them to loud bangs isn’t going to do it. Take him outside to see the fireworks and stay with him, preferably with yourself and other members of your household visibly enjoying yourselves. Not coincidentally, this is also basically what you have to do with hunting dogs (and horses, for that matter) to desensitize them to gunfire.
Fireworks are especially tricky because they’re usually far enough away that there’s a large delay between the visual event and the noise. Trying to explain the concept of the difference between the speed of light and speed of sound to a dog is, naturally, likely to be difficult [citation needed].
No, I’m wrong. It’s the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
And we gained a pretty damn good idea during World War 2 and the Cold War when we were trying to map parts of the ocean floor for submarine warfare purposes, and discovered the mid ocean fault points. Especially the true extent of the Mariana Trench, Mid-Atlantic Ridge which is spang in the middle of the Atlantic between the jigsaw puzzle coastlines of Africa and South America.
Needless to say we weren’t to keen to blab to our enemies just how much we knew about the seafloor, and neither were they. What with submarine warfare being a Big Deal in the Cold War, and all.
Edit to add some additional detail now that I’m not pecking on my phone: Alfred Wegener proposed his almost-modern theory of continental drift in 1912, as well as the hypothesis of Pangea, the prehistoric supercontinent from the time when all the current major landmasses were together. You’re right that there was not a solid explanation for the mechanism by which this proposed action ought to occur. But even by the 1940s scientists were proposing that continental drift happened by way of the continents floating on convection currents of magma underneath and predicted there would be expansion joints in between them in the middle of the oceans.
But if we want to go places we’ll use the Defiant, and you can’t stop us!
Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!
I mean, that’s a valid assessment of the yard as well if you’re looking at it from a comedy perspective.
I had a client who wound up with one of those not realizing what it was, which caused him no end of problems until I ultimately figured it out confiscated it from him. He got a regular US inch one in exchange. I had to look it up at the time, too, because the notion of there being a Chinese knockoff inch that’s subtly inaccurate is one of those things that just seems so ridiculous on its face that it simply can’t be true, right? Except it totally is.
None of the above is true, or at least isn’t the full answer for why today a “2x4” is missing an entire half an inch all the way around. The shrinkage due to drying is around 5% (and the real math there is more complicated, as wood shrinks different amounts in different directions relative to the grain), which would only account for 1/10" of difference in the thickness of a 2x4. With some species of pine it’s as low as 2%.
No, the lumber industry has consistently shaved boards in order to fit more into rail cars for transport and make more money and spend less per plank on transportation costs. Various lumber consortiums determined via internal testing that the smaller board sizes are still “sufficient” for their intended purpose vis-a-vis structural integrity of stick framed residential buildings.
You, uh, didn’t turn multiplayer off in your options, did you? That setting doesn’t follow your account around, it’s per machine.
I leave it off on my laptop because it causes the Space Anomaly to devolve into single-digit frame rates when other players are present and rendered, especially when docking.
Note that this doesn’t prevent you from seeing other players’ bases, nor impact the ability to see people on your friends list or their status. Your game will still connect to the servers if it can. It only prevents other players’ keisters and ships from being placed in your universe.