bluGill

I’m not surprised. They are very hard to make correctly and not that much better than other options that are easier to do. they are a “holy grail” of wood working skill for a reason. I’ve done a dozen in my life and the best is so awful I want to burn an otherwise nice creation to hide the evidence.

Welcome to the world. There are strange things all over. Sit back and enjoy laughing at the ride.

Watching sports is a useful activity when you confined to a hospital bed for a month or two as has happened to people I know. In one case they wouldn’t be allowed to game, even sports were in danger of being too exciting for their condition.

The game most of the world calls “football” is called “soccer” in the US. We have a very popular game we call “football” in the US that is unrelated to “soccer”, instead it is related to rugby (still very different from rugby, but there is a relation)

Cutting dovetails implies by hand - power tools exist for it, but those using power tools generally use different joints.

Watching someone cut a dovetail by hand is a lot more interesting now that I know from experience how hard it is. And maybe I’ll learn a trick to make my next ones better.

I can only watch so much football as can a rare other people like me. If I am watching football I want the view of one position. I don’t care that the quarterback got sacked on the play, how did the running back avoid the defense in his attempts to become open for a pass - or some such that I want to emulate when I next play. (i think that is a likely thing - I consider football too dangerous to play so I’m guessing - in reality I’d prefer to see other sports that I’m likely to play)

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I have the furnace mounted style so a cube about the small dimension of most heat ducts.

A friend with a good set of tools. Who you can trade labor with. Many car tasks need 2 people so if you can hang out with someone else working on their car and they return the favor you are greatly ahead. Not only that but you will teach each other (well at the start that person will teach you - do plenty of work to pay them for their effort to teach you).

After that tool do you need for the current job that either your friend doesn’t have or you use so often it is worth having your own. Every car has its own set of special tools that are not used for any other car you will ever have but you need it to do some job. You will need several torque wrenches as they have different ranges, but you won’t need them all for the first project.

Better than the Haynes manual, buy the factory service manual - they are generally $200 or so, but they are so much better than Haynes that it is worth the cost.

Contribute to some other game that already exists if possible. that is the power of open source - when many people over many years come together to work on all the tedious details to make a complex polished game free from market pressure. When you do many choices have already been made for you, so they can tell you where to start. Want to add a new puzzle, put a picture on some wall, or whatever - they will tell you how to do that.

If nothing is like your idea you can start from scratch. Likewise sometimes the existing people involved in the game are jerks and you need to start over or fork - but are you sure it is them and not you. These are not ideal cases though and should be avoided. Much better to work with others if possible.

If you start from scratch you should be thinking about what game engine to write in. You can write a game from scratch in raw code, but in general step one is picking your engine and then living with the limits of that engine.

They won’t. While it is unknown if there is intelaigent alien life it is known that none is anywhere close. When distances are measured in tens of lightyears for close thing they can’t get here and back in time to make a difference. Most distances are measured something much larger. Just the milkyway is 25 thousand lightyears to cross.

note that are farthest detectable radio waves have gone maybe 100 lightyears: odds are your are dead before they know we are here.

You are thinking of a fitness treadmill which is commonly used as a clothes rack. I’m thinking of a treadmill for use at a desk which lacks those side rails to hang clothes on (and also goes a lot slower) . Some people walk on them all day while typing, and it sounds great, but I don’t know if I really could use one all day while working.

You should be asking for Houston things, not American. Though you can fly to other cities, but the US is big. Texas is 695,660 km2, France is 543,941. Different states do have very different cultures - even in Texas you will find several different cultures. You cannot do it all, and I suspect your treatment will limit how far you can travel. Fortunately Houston is a big city with plenty to do and the public transit isn’t impossible to use. search for your city and tour and you will find plenty of interesting things - https://www.visithoustontexas.com/ is what I came up with though I don’t know if it is good.

I’ve always wanted a treadmill but hard to say I would use it enough to be worth it.

Stop putting on water and chemicals. grass is not very fragil so if it belongs it will survive. all the wildiflowers that will move in and make the who more diverse. If it dosn’t survive it shoudn’t be there anyway

They won’t look until you have captured their attention and are trying to decide you vs someone else. unless it is an open source job nobody else will have a github account.

make sure nothing illegal to ask in an interview is there. I don’t want to know you are black/white/married/have kids/or what ever. those can only hurt as I’m not supposed to know and I feel cheated when I find out and that works against you.

There is at least one Menards with a railroad siding, or at least was 20 years ago when I lived in the area. (oakdale mn) I undrestand some deliveries came via rail to that store and them by truck to the rest of

everyone knows that. People pay more attention when they know you check and the most where they think you will check. the only reason for the m&m thing is it is easy to check so anyone who has heard of this will be extra careful to do that. Meanwhile the hard to check places might be ignored. The m&m work well when it came off as spoiled brats asking for something stupid. Nevermind the dangerious fireworks on an unsupported stage, those brats screamed about the m&ms.

Mostly I was being snarky, I can’t recall a situation where I’ve been concerned enough to leave such a tell.

Though there is a good warning there: if people expect you are leaving a tell they will look for it. Splitting kit kat bars is easy and obviously not something you really care about except to check so they do that, then skimp on the hard things you care about in hopes that you don’t crawl under the stage to check the bracing is done right. Thus whatever tell you leave make sure there are a few that are hard enough to check that they think you won’t.