Captain Aggravated

I’ve gone on this tirade plenty of times, but inches aren’t stupid. 12 inches to a foot makes a lot of sense for problems we’ve had to solve for millennia, because it’s 3 times a power of two. For things like woodoworking it actually makes more sense than the metric system.

“But 10 deciliters in a liter” Using a tape measure, mark out 1/3rd of the thickness of a standard 19mm sheet of plywood. I’ll be over here doing the same with 3/4" plywood by marking at 1/4".

Maybe we shouldn’t be selling Europe any weapons that work.

*sk8r boi

Okay, he was 6’5" and she was 5’2".

Boxes of a certain size are kept for my cat to play in for awhile.

For awhile there, PPAs were the reason to stick with Ubuntu as a base, because the .deb package format was (and still is) very popular, and PPAs allowed fairly easy distribution of software without dealing with the standard repository. Flatpak has kind of solved that problem by now, and so like you say defuckulating Ubuntu is just getting to be a bigger and bigger chore.

Which is why LMDE exists.

The term PC has been used to mean x86 compatible machines designed to run Microsoft operating systems for 45 years now; IBM started using the term for their model 5150 in 1981. It was too generic to trademark but they did trademark “IBM Personal Computer” and “IBM-PC”. You had other platforms like Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and among them the IBM Personal Computer. That was one company’s branding. If you were releasing software, you’d say “For Mac, Amiga and PC.”

It just so happens the one with the very generic name also happened to be made of almost entirely off-the-shelf parts and a third-party OS they didn’t bother to secure exclusive rights to, so the only thing they really held IP rights over was the BIOS. Compaq engineered a non-infringing BIOS, and boom the PC was now an open standard, and hence it was the one that got widely adopted. “IBM-Compatible” was attempted for awhile, but that kinda died when IBM bowed out of the market entirely, “x86-compatible” is awkward, “Intel-compatible” is also awkward because the 64-bit extensions are actually AMD’s doing, and MS-DOS or MS-Windows compatible is incorrect because other OSes are available. So…we use “PC” to describe the ecosystem as a whole for lack of any better term.

I forget which comedian it was, might have been Jerry Seinfeld, but he was talking about the luge, how it’s almost not a sport. “He’s pointing his toes, what an athlete.” Then he got into the involuntary luge. “No! Let me go! I don’t wanna do the luge.”

There was also Eddie The Eagle, the not quite a ski jumper who was the first to represent Britain in the sport in Calgary in '88.

The last TV show I watched was an episode of the New Yankee Workshop, so I’m a celebrity woodworker now. mind you I have been thinking of starting a woodworking youtube channel for awhile now, so I guess that’s happening.

The best kind of true.

You should go look at the listings for stripper poles on Amazon, it’s hilarious the places they photoshop them into.

I found it buggy and unfinished, plus a “That branch is unmaintained, use this fork” situation, so…nope.

So, I recently abandoned Trilium, because it’s very half-assed.

It stores data in a database on your local file system, and you can export as markdown.

My browser history now includes several Amazon listings for stripper poles.

I have learned that:

1. The listing ALWAYS calls them “dancing poles” but Amazon knows what you mean,

2. About half of them are sold as “unisex” even though all of the photos of them in use show women,

3. Only some require drilling into the ceiling. The few that do ship with screws or lag bolts that are approx. 2 inches in length and come with drywall anchors.

So, if installing any of the poles from Amazon’s first page of results, your floor would have to be approximately 1.5 inches thick.

If the downstairs apartment had no ceiling treatment and you looked up at joists and subfloor, you might get here if she decided to attach between the ceiling joists. In a typical residential structure with a drywall ceiling, you’d need lag bolts some 10 or 12 inches long to reach through the plate of the pole, 3/4" of drywall, 8 or 10 inches of floor system depending, 3/4" of subfloor and 1/2" of flooring.

That’s okay, you won’t have any rights soon.

There was also that guy who somehow wasn’t Scottish, who fought WWII with bagpipes and a longbow, and then went on to become a pioneer in the sport of surfing. Quoted to have said “If it weren’t for the damn yanks we could have kept the war going another ten years.”

Literally everything should draw criticism. Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Arizona Iced Tea draw criticism.

But if you’re going to be a lemming about it, you could use basically any sitcom set in the 90’s or 2000’s. I remember reading once that the writers of Buffy The Vampire Slayer deliberately avoided giving the characters cell phones because the characters having reliable, cheap instant communication at a distance eliminates a lot of plots.

Use Saved By The Bell if you have to. Screech, the nerd, is blathering about <newfangled tech> in the first act. The gang gets into a scrape in the second act. Does Screech:

1. fail to use <newfangled tech> correctly as you would in the real world, because if he did the plot wouldn’t happen at all? – Great tech.
2. Use <newfangled tech> realistically to solve the problem, and Zach has a little moment where he admits Screech was right about it? – Good tech.
3. Cause, instigate or worsen the scrape the gang is in with <newfangled tech> which has to be solved by some other means especially deus ex machina by adult characters? – Bad tech.
4. Play the main role in this, a Very Special Episode? – Bad Bad Very Bad Epstein Bad tech.

We don’t cotton to freaks around here.

Found the microbrain.

The dreaded Wii U Fit.

In aviation circles they always called it “standing water” here meaning “the surface is liquid not a wet solid” Airplane tires also have very simple or no tread at all, so that isn’t a factor. There’s also the fact that during the landing roll, the airplane is partially or even mostly supporting its weight on its wings still; so at any significant airspeed you don’t have 100% of the ship’s weight on the wheels.