Dang. Missed another one. Designs selected by kids, drawn by wife and older child, carved by me.

Not “homemade”. Perhaps he installed it himself, but it was a kit.

Trilateration. No angles involved.

I knew some guys that were towing each other up and down the beach on an old beetle hood. They discovered that the hood tracked fairly well, even on fast turns. So the driver thought it would be fun to see if they would skip over a tide pool. What they didn’t expect was how much faster it would slide across water. The…

The voltages they are using are very low - on the order of one or two volts. There is no discussion about the amperage, but I would suspect that this too is very low. At the scale of a power plant, these power losses would be negligible.

I did the same thing. As soon as they announced there would be no hatch for 2015, I started the search. Found the last hatch in the state that wasn’t already spoken for and had to drive to another city to get it.

There’s two ways to go about it: try to force coordination by telling all utilities that they must coordinate or else; or tell the utilities that they can’t dig under a brand-new road and then provide them with a schedule of planned road improvements. The first rarely works. The second has the utilities actively…

Many cities are implementing dig moratoriums on new/rejuvinated roads. A new road can’t be cut for five years after it is put in place. That encourages everyone to coordinate efforts.

Come down here and get this one. The body is in MUCH better shape. Do a drivetrain swap and you will have a rust-free $1,000 XJ.

I posted a version of this yesterday, but I think it bears repeating. The double-yellow isn’t always there for the reasons you think.

4,000!!!!

Students have been living in communal houses ever since universities were invented. They are called dormitories.

I think we all agree about that.

I have to admit that I am surprised. I ran out of time/energy/attention after three or four hundred comments.

With 3,895 comments and counting, it’s likely that you will be the only one to read that story.

“Point of order: the douchebag had deliberately slowed down to 20 miles below speed limit. In many places (not sure on Texas law) that allows passing on double-yellow.”

I was that guy. Well, almost.

I learned the joys of welding when wet while being a welder’s helper. We were under a mobile home, welding rebar coming from concrete support runners to the frame. My job was to push the rebar up against the frame while he welded. That day I learned how difficult it is to weld when wet without getting zapped.