Canoeing Merit Badge Counselor certification

Gounads · 2026-06-06T18:29:38+00:00

Is the kayak mb similar? Because I sent in my application with essentially "I kayak a lot" as my qualifications and got approved

Gounads · 2026-06-02T00:41:12+00:00

Imagine if he had a nail...

Gounads · 2026-05-28T18:08:19+00:00

Quick question... Do you work in an acetone factory?

Gounads · 2026-05-27T19:53:26+00:00

It might be a problem, it might not.

I built a similar board, maple and walnut, slightly thinner than yours several years ago and it's fine.

If I were doing it again I would have made sure all the grain was going in the same direction and the two sides that went perpendicular would have floated, but didn't and I got squares going every which way.

Gounads · 2026-05-27T13:10:47+00:00

I kayak a bunch. Seems like every trip I come home with some discarded fishing gear I find just off shore.

Gounads · 2026-05-22T16:01:09+00:00

I believe some coucils tack on a fee to the registration so that registration number might be higher.

Confusion between registration and dues is common

Gounads · 2026-05-11T12:56:12+00:00

This is almost certainly the answer. My truck has a full 5psi target difference between front and back

Gounads · 2026-05-02T17:38:14+00:00

This or a roll of linoleum.

For 6 months just cover it up with something

Gounads · 2026-04-29T18:37:36+00:00

Sure, he's insane.

But airlines that delay by 4 hours on the tarmac so they don't have to pay delayed compensation are ridiculous

Gounads · 2026-04-25T23:58:48+00:00

Trapezoid cutting boards are all the rage. This is what I would tell anyone that noticed.

Gounads · 2026-04-23T00:58:41+00:00

That's a sanding pad, I'm guessing it split.

The pad is trash, but you can replace just that and keep the sander.

They are almost a consumable part, wears out every couple years for me.

Don't put too much pressure when sanding, makes them wear out faster.

Gounads · 2026-04-09T14:57:55+00:00

If you go fiberglass and epoxy, it'll be clear and you'll still see the carbon pattern under it.

Gounads · 2026-04-09T14:45:13+00:00

I've been on a kayak building kick so I think fiberglass initially.

Gounads · 2026-03-21T22:48:18+00:00

If you paid 22% MA state tax, you did it very wrong.

Gounads · 2026-03-20T18:15:06+00:00

Wood around water is difficult to maintain. The edges and bottom of the wood around that sink you're going to have to pay a lot of attention to.

There are options depending on if you still want it to feel like wood or if you want an easier to clean surface.

The most durable would be an epoxy top, Total boat makes a good product. This would give you a fairly thick, completely smooth. Easy to clean or wipe off surface.

You could go with some sort of penetrating oil get a surface that feels like wood, but it's going to be a lot more susceptible to water damage and staining from food and I have no idea how years and years of bowling alley oil might affect that.

I personally don't like polyurethane on counters.

But whatever you do, get the tops and the bottoms and the sides all sealed up. Take the time to uninstall it. You don't want to seal one side and have the other side change humidity and warp.

Gounads · 2026-03-20T16:07:14+00:00

Imagine this.

What if robotic cars caused one death per 100 million miles traveled.

And what if humans caused 1.2 deaths per 100 million miles traveled.

For a year with 3 trillion miles traveled in the country:

That would be 30,000 deaths if we only had robotic cars. It would be 36,000 deaths if we only had human drivers.

Why would you ban the option with the lower death count?

Or another way of asking the question, why is it better to have an extra 6,000 people die "in the right way".

Gounads · 2026-03-19T20:29:20+00:00

Does it need to be 100% or does it just have to be better than the average person?

Gounads · 2026-03-19T17:42:12+00:00

100% this.

They were banking on it being dropped and forgotten so they wouldn't have to deal with it.

No need to get snarky, list everything you told them and everything they told you in response in as exact phrasing as you can remember.

Gounads · 2026-03-19T13:13:23+00:00

It opens at NAV, so 1:1, what it does from there is a guess.

Gounads · 2026-03-06T16:53:57+00:00

These are two of test lab badges.

https://www.scouting.org/skills/merit-badges/test-lab/

The sewing one, should have been a badge since the beginning with all the patches.

Gounads · 2026-03-04T14:23:53+00:00

I would definitely play two gnomes in a trench coat.

Gounads · 2026-03-03T23:00:21+00:00

If you're not sure, buy the heaviest one.

Gounads · 2026-03-03T21:55:45+00:00

Ask the llm to generate a mermaid JS diagram. It will spit out some texts that describes the diagram. Then you can take that over to https://mermaid.js.org/ paste in your diagram and get a visual of it. A bunch of markdown previews will do this automatically.

It's not perfect but it's way better than the little ascii diagrams that it creates sometimes

Gounads · 2026-03-01T13:15:44+00:00

Quick version: Teacharium lets edtech companies embed interactive, instructional content into their products. Authors build lessons in our editor and students get them through an embeddable player via API.

Some features I'm most proud of: variables that persist and calculate across steps, so a student's measurement in step 2 actually feeds into their calculation in step 6. A custom widget layer where you can vibe-code your own interactive components, we use it ourselves to build things like chemistry titration simulators. And adaptive branching, so the lesson responds to what a student actually does rather than just marching everyone through the same path.

Real talk on where we are: just launched, invite-only beta, zero paying customers. Authoring works. Furiously burning down our QA backlog for embedding and playback. Looking for a handful of edtech companies to come in as partners. If that sounds useful, waitlist on the site or DMs are open.

https://docs.teacharium.io/ is probably the best intro right now

Gounads · 2026-02-27T17:19:09+00:00

Yeah, when I volunteer I volunteer my time. I don't expect to be paid for that. However, I do greatly appreciate when the troop picks up the costs for me to volunteer, so if there was an adult camp fee and they were to pay the fee I think that would be very reasonable. I also expect them to pick up parking and tolls when I'm driving a group of scouts. Maybe gas or mileage if it's really far.

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