Old dude in his shop, he would take power tools apart to review their quality, build things, machine things. Went maple MAGA.

Meshcore, like Meshtastic, is a text messaging service built on top of LoRa. In the United States, LoRa is 900MHz UHF low power radio, intended for low bandwidth telemetry. There’s an entire class of nerds using it to ask if anyone can hear them and get no reply.

Meshcore is a LoRa toy.

The bombs will continue to be painted OD green.

I remember my father showing me early Yahoo!, my family was into roller skating, and he looked up some stuff about roller skating. Grey backgrounds, Times New Roman and some slowly loading pictures.

The very first thing I ever independently used the internet to do was look up cheat codes for Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, using Ask Jeeves. At the time, they had this campaign that you could just…type a natural sentence and it would answer. We were a quarter century from that actually happening, but my tweenage ass typed “Where are the cheat codes kept?” and I did manage to bumble my way to a Web 1.0 cheat code site, this was before GameFAQs and those hugely long ASCII documents.

BRB, I’m just gonna die of old age real quick.

THE BIG BRAIN AM WINNING AGAIN!

And I can’t decide if Cargo or the Python interpreter is the bigger smart ass.

What’s a yorkshire pudding?

Same thing you do for cutting 13cm into thirds: make one third a bit fat. Go 4 1/4, 4 1/4 and 4 1/2". Or construct it.

That’s not a problem I face in the wood shop a lot though. A more practical problem: We tend to mill boards to 3/4" in thickness. To do a half-lap joint, you need to cut away half the thickness of each board and then lap them over each other, you can set your depth to 3/8" and you’re there. If I’m going to do a bridle joint or a mortise and tenon, a third of 3/4" is 1/4". Show me a third of 19mm on a metric ruler. I’ll show you where it is: 6, 6, and 7mm.

Japan had their own system quite similar to inches that was so popular Japan had to ban the sale or transfer of the rulers.

You look at your tape measure, at the number 11 or 13 as appropriate, put a mark there, then take it to the saw and cut it.

Yeah; you’ll often find boards in America milled to 3/4" or 1 1/2". Those are 1/16th or 1/8th of a foot. A lot of boards used in furniture are 3/4" thick. Half of 3/4 is 3/8, a third of 3/4 is 1/4. It solves the problems we need to solve, and the metric woodworkers start sounding how teaspoon/cup/quart cooks do.

The Onion is just…good at this, aren’t they?

It’s funny because fuck that guy’s ventricles.

I’ve said it on this platform before: I will build furniture in inches until my hands can’t hold a chisel anymore. The inch system arose around the needs of carpentry and woodworking, it works in base 12, which is outright superior to base 10, especially when you divide by 3 and 4 more often than by 5.

Also, the closest tape measure I have to hand is my 5m metric tape. I build things in metric, just…not furniture.

Das Boot In The Ass

Governor is executive officer of the state government. Senator represents the state of Texas on the national stage.

The Texan governor can’t really effect much policy that effects the union as a whole, the senator can.

Gone With The Wind In The Ass

Just One Of The Guys In The Ass

The Spy Who Shagged Me In The Ass?

Run Silent Run Deep In The Ass.