At least one door should open via a mechanical key and mechanical handle from the outside, and I firmly believe the internal door handles should all function mechanically as well. There shouldn't be "usually you use a button but in an emergency this thing that looks like a bit of trim is the actual mechanical handle" that shouldn't be allowable by code.
Pluto wasn't demoted. It didn't get a pay cut or see a loss of benefits.
Our vocabulary has gotten richer and more specific as we've explored Pluto and things like it. As we launch missions like New Horizons out there, we're going to need new terms to talk about the things we find. We sent a whole probe to Pluto; Uranus and Neptune had to share.
Yeah Tom Scott did one of his linguistics videos about that, he had a word for it but some questions aren't really questions they're basically just rituals, though rephrased a different way makes them genuine questions, and when you have major dialects of the "same" language like British and American English, we use different ones. "Are you alright?" is basically a noise of greeting in Britain and an expression of genuine concern in America, while "How are you?" is the reverse.
You want to make them stop and process, answer it with "I can still walk, how about you?"
High school English classes kind of beat the habit of reading out of me. I mean first of all there was this sense of new = not valid; To Kill A Mockingbird was the newest work of literature I studied in high school, written in the 60's about the 30's, everything else was 19th century or older. The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, Poe, the goddamn Bronte's.
I stopped going to book stores. I stopped going to the library. Adult reading is like rubbing wood chips in your eyes. It's dry and awful.
My grandmother handed me a book. A paperback novel called Utopia by Lincoln Child. It's a kind of whodunit mystery thriller set in a futuristic theme park, and the main character has a teenage daughter who has an mp3 player. And that caught me off guard. Because I was a teenager with an mp3 player. This book was new. It was written by someone who was still alive, about characters who were my age and my generation. And the book was kinda okay.
I miss my gramma.
Yeah basically Hardee's is now Carl's Jr. in all but name. It's like how Checkers and Rally's are basically the same place.
Hardee's was acquired by Carl's Jr. in the early aughts. The restaurants are still called Hardee's in the south, and they still serve breakfast biscuits, but their lunch menu is basically Carl's Jr. now.
To make that $3000 at her normal rate she would have had to work 30 hours in that same week, which I bet is a tall order for all the unpaid hours that takes attracting customers individually.
I generally mourn actual Hardee's. There were several things i miss from their menu pre-Carl's Jr.
There's also one of those adjustment pots on the main board you get to by sticking a screwdriver in a hole on the back, but people don't tend to mess with that much.
For tweens!
I posted this one to [email protected] too, as I do most of my furniture projects, but I'm particularly proud of how this one came out. Solid white oak with genuine mortise-and-tenon joinery.
I'm working on replacing my porch furniture, and the side table was the worst of the lot so it got replaced first.
I've built a few little tables by now and I've got a lot of the process down. I used this one as an excuse to practice making actual mortise and tenon joints instead of the loose tenons I've used in the past. The mortises that the center brace sits in were chiseled by hand, the others are routed.
I'm thinking of making a couple outdoor-friendly morris chairs to replace those old iron ones. That'll be a minute though.
It's actually just friction fit together in this picture; as I type it's in the clamps as the glue dries. Tomorrow some final touch up sanding and the first of four coats of spar varnish, then a few decades on my front porch under a couple potted plants.
There's an education in all this oak; it looks conceptually simple compared to the shaker tables I've done so far, right? IT AIN'T! Each leg cambers out by 5 degrees in both directions, and that tiny difference make this project SO much more obnoxious than a table with vertical legs. Laying things out accounting for that compound miter at the top and bottom is "fun." The upper and lower frame rails are no longer the same length, they're different but related lengths. That lower panel? Can't be installed with the frame assembled. Hell I didn't even bother attaching it in any way, it's just captive in there.
Unlike the previous tables I've built that are held together with floating tenons, the rails are thin and fit entirely into mortises in the legs, which meant some chisel work squaring the corners of the mortises, so I gained quite a bit of experience with chisels here.
But, another project nearing completion.
A simple shaker style table in white oak, finished with spar urethane and kitty approved.
The breadboard ends on the panels were an education on this one; on the top they aren't strictly necessary, but I felt they were needed on the lower panel so that the movement of that captive panel wouldn't rack the legs. Found out I prefer making the tongues with a router rather than the dado set on the table saw.
It's a Lemon Tango moment!