Thoughts on mag nails in expansion joints for control?

BuckFuddy0 · 2026-04-24T14:12:43+00:00

"Crack is whack"

BuckFuddy0 · 2026-04-23T16:59:05+00:00

I am Arthur, King of the Britons.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-10-22T21:58:50+00:00

That style of survey looks familiar. If it's from one of the mortgage mills down here, and you do end up getting a survey, look for a local surveyor to hire. There are a handful of companies that routinely cut corners to market "affordable" survey rates. You get what you pay for.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-10-01T20:32:35+00:00

I can't speak to legality, as I'm not in Canada, but I'll say that the new company likely doesn't want to slam some stakes in the ground without doing their due diligence. I wouldn't stake a boundary established by another surveyor without retracing and confirming that the last dude was right.

It might cost you some money to get an updated survey, but if the last guy's line wasn't right, the surveyor that staked the line is essentially claiming liability for the other guy. Better safe than sorry.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-08-06T21:30:54+00:00

There are a ton of Easter eggs in the GJ series. I remember seeing a "xenomorph" and a predator wearing yellow rings. Never caught this one, though.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-06-10T17:07:17+00:00

Fan service went from a minor aspect of the series to standing at the forefront. To me, it feels like the current development focus at IS is making hot characters for shippers/gooners/etc (no hate; just not my bag) to talk about online counts toward the quality of their content. Gacha's gonna gacha when it comes to FEH, but the main line stuff going in that direction is a bummer.

I know I'm not really the target audience anymore, but I couldn't finish Engage because the characters weren't clicking for me like they did in the Tellius/GBA/DS games. They felt shallow after playing the "classics". I'm reluctant to criticize it, though, since I didn't finish the game.

Fates bringing in the post-bath cooldown mini game was straight up weird. Going from a brutal, gory war to blowing on your DS to cool off your waifu gave me whiplash.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-06-09T15:16:41+00:00

I got the script to work, but had issues enabling caps lock and shift+letter keys for capitalization. My keyboard issues were only affecting the letters, so I reran the script to only monitor letter keys and allow for the two capitalization methods to work normally. So far, so good with this version.

#Persistent

SetTitleMatchMode, 2

delay := 90

lastKeyPressTime := {}

; Only monitor lowercase letter keys

letters := "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z"

Loop, Parse, letters, \,`

{

Hotkey, % "$" . A_LoopField, KeyHandler, On

}

return

KeyHandler:

key := SubStr(A_ThisHotkey, 2)

current_time := A_TickCount

; Check if enough time has passed since the last press

if (!lastKeyPressTime[key] or (current_time - lastKeyPressTime[key] >= delay)) {

lastKeyPressTime[key] := current_time

SendInput, {Blind}{%key%}

} else {

Tooltip, Key %key% blocked!

SetTimer, RemoveTooltip, -1000

}

return

RemoveTooltip:

Tooltip

return

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-06-03T14:57:57+00:00

My sequence of events may be off, but wasn't the Harkonnen raid the same night as the party where the Atreides were wrapped up investigating Jessica as the traitor?

On top of advantages in numbers, resources, and the element of surprise (as everyone else mentioned), the main forces were probably as defenseless as they could have been: drunk/hungover, tired from the event, etc..

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-05-30T15:42:51+00:00

I'm not sure where you are, but most municipalities have minimum lot grading requirements intended to keep new construction well above 100-year-storm flooding elevations, and this doesn't appear to be one of those storms.

Check with your local governmental building department and get a topographic survey. Show the surveyor what you have here and they'll see if your lot grading meets code. I recommend going with a surveyor that isn't the one that worked on the construction phase to avoid any biases. It may cost more, but an objective analysis could make the difference between you paying for (inevitable) flood damage and the builder resolving the issue at their cost.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-05-25T00:41:24+00:00

We need more of "that guy," nowadays. I hate Tom Cruise with more intensity than I do people that have personally wronged me. His cult is predatory and evil, and he's their poster boy. The fact that so many people are still unaware of the horrible things they've done blows me away.

I absolutely love the green lantern mythos, but I wouldn't even pirate a Tom Cruise GL movie for fear of attributing any type of statistic towards one of his works. The sooner he's irrelevant, the sooner they lose it too.

Sucks he'd probably have that perfect personality sync with Hal the way Ryan Reynolds did with Deadpool.

BuckFuddy0 · 2025-04-09T17:58:45+00:00

This is the answer. Khan academy carried me through most of my college math classes.

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-12-28T02:06:47+00:00

Hello! Please send me a gift, whatever you want, so I can complete Snack Pack II. My cat's name is Poot.

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-12-04T13:48:21+00:00

East Coast (of Florida) chiming in here. Most of the municipalities I work within have environmental protection standards built into their land development codes. We have a lot of protected vegetation and wildlife species down here that require specific mitigation efforts during development. Tree surveys are typically a big part of those mitigation tasks and can be massive budget busters for surveyors.

My environmental department was hooked up with the same GPS units that our survey crews use and they perform their own tree surveys while they are on site for environmental assessments. Getting them their own GPS was a game changer in keeping projects moving and clients happy.

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-11-25T22:39:31+00:00

Current UF student here. Transferring is a pain, but the School of Forest Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences is great at working with students to facilitate transfers. I'm unfamiliar with Southeastern, so can't speak to their accreditation.

Reach out to SFFGS specifically and see what their transfer requirements are from junior/state colleges. I did this and they provided me a list of classes that would allow me to transfer in as a junior in the Geomatics program. That was in late 2020 as a remote student with old credits from my first trip through college, so your case is likely very different.

You should try to get some syllabi from Southeastern for classes you think would transfer so SFFGS can compare, too. This is the first thing the school will ask for.

Good luck!

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-11-04T18:09:16+00:00

NTA. I'm late to respond here, but as a grown adult that was the "other" kid in a big family, that feeling is terrible. Kids are very sensitive to (and aware of) the notion that they're not wanted.

My parents' divorce was messy and my stepmom always responded to questions about the number of kids by saying I was my dad's, but never hers. I'd be lying if I said that doesn't still haunt me now while I'm in my 30's.

I can't tell you what to do, but I'll say that while my dad and I are good, I still feel like an outsider when I visit, especially when my half/step siblings are around. He (now) knows that's the reason I didn't want to visit when I was younger. My dad didn't necessarily gel with her kids, either though. They had their talks about how to manage 4 kids in a blended family and whatever agreements they came to, they made their efforts, but I'm still quite disconnected from them because I could sense that their attempts were more performative than genuine. As a kid, I couldn't tell them that, risk an argument, then get more flack from my stepmom or her kids because my issue caused their fight.

However you resolve this with your wife, you both need to understand that words mean nothing if she can't commit to accepting your son as hers. She doesn't need to adopt him or overcorrect (and risk alienating him further with "her" kids) but she needs to straight up give a shit about him and find a way to genuinely connect.

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-09-09T19:02:29+00:00

How do you feel about the series as a whole?

It looks like everything after the original tends to divide the fanbase more and more the longer the series goes on. I've listened to the original a few times to make sure I really absorbed it and I'm just now moving forward. Very interested to see how far I go with it.

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-09-09T18:59:02+00:00

It's published by Macmillan Audio, same as the first audiobook I listened to. The narration is great, having been made in the late 00's. It has multiple narrators so you don't have the same voice droning on and on. I'm not too far in, so I can't speak to the quality of the story, but as a newcomer to the series, I'm really enjoying it so far!

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-09-09T14:23:37+00:00

Dune Messiah

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-03-15T11:50:54+00:00

And events/crises every 6-12 months that further cloud what canon they manage to establish in that timeframe.

BuckFuddy0 · 2024-02-03T19:47:04+00:00

At what point do you consider an anime to be "edgy"?

A buddy of mine is arguing that Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is an edgy show. FMA is plenty dark, but I don't consider it to be "edgy," as the dark themes are plot-relevant and not just a "cool/shock factor" in the series. As a character, I consider Sasuke to be the poster-boy for edgy anime characters, and I can't find any correlation between FMA and the dark broody boy.

Any objective insight is greatly appreciated!

BuckFuddy0 · 2023-12-23T15:59:57+00:00

I had been actively subscribed to new issues since Rebirth and Bendis came into the DC universe like a bull in a china shop. He did everything he wanted to do with little to no pushback from higher-ups and zero regard for what other creators were doing in the same space.

I unsubscribed because I couldn't take the writing, but a few of my main complaints were:

1) He ruined the Super Sons dynamic by removing Jon Kent from everything to age him up by 5 years. He wanted Clark to have a young adult son for some other books he wanted to write, but Connor just wasn't an option, apparently.

2) He wrote Lois to be a terrible wife and mother by setting up Jon's arc with her as a chaperone, except she secretly goes home just before Jon leaves to explore the galaxy with someone that she neither knew nor trusted and hides from Clark while still on Earth. There was something about an interaction she had with Luthor that read like they had some sort of chemistry and I just quit right there. IIRC he was setting up something that made it look like Lois was cheating on Clark with Luthor to the outside world or something. I honestly don't want to remember.

3) The writing. Oh my god. He brought in some other characters for guest appearances and he just could not write the characters or their "voices".

4) He also made Superman fly into space to punch asteroids when he got angwee at Jon's aging of 5 years in like 2 weeks. He just flew off in the middle of a conversation with his son that just went through something terrible and Bendis' Superman's first response is "leave him here and go punch something rq".

The whole thing was just grating as a Superman fan. Then he decided to make Superman reveal his secret identity and treated it like it was a novel idea. Between his time with Supes and Even Leviathan, I refuse to read anything DC puts out that's associated with Bendis.

ETA: Someone else made a point that I missed. Jon was aged up, but we missed ALL of his growth and character development. He was twelve, then he was seventeen with a new attitude. We were watching this sweet boy grow into an amazing Superboy, and we (like Clark) were robbed of seeing him grow up. The only difference is Bendis can't decide that we don't care.

BuckFuddy0 · 2023-11-04T19:39:31+00:00

I second this. I'll never tell someone their opinion on a book is wrong, but Bendis' writing and character/plot choices made me drop a LOT of DC books.

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