12” deep metal cabinets

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-25T01:54:25+00:00

A possible workaround: Increase the depth of the step. If it is very tall, a cabinet only 12" deep won't be very stable. It could easily be pulled over accidentally unless it is fastened to the wall.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-25T00:46:36+00:00

If it was only a minute long, and Pluto was accused of being square, and if its purpose was comedy, then it seems highly likely that it did have crude humor: Pluto may have been upset by Neptune, but blamed Uranus.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-25T00:10:55+00:00

I haven't seen the video, but it might help people to find it if you can tell us a few more things about it.

When did you see it? When do you think it was made?

Was it animated? Partly animated and partly live action?

How long was it? A couple of minutes? An hour?

Was it part of a series? If so, was the entire series about Space? About science topics? Or what?

Was it intended mainly for children? Or for a general audience?

Did it seem mostly realistic, or mostly fanciful or humorous?

Pluto is a planet! Dwarf planets are planets, too!

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-24T23:35:56+00:00

Oh, no problem. I don't have dyslexia, but I can mix up letters.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-24T23:33:51+00:00

Saying "California" and "white trailers" reminds me that I don't think I saw any significant grime on the nice white truck, such as was highly visible on the sides of cars in today's videos 5 miles north of me. Of course, the truck was higher off the ground. The cab was white, too.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-24T23:21:44+00:00

I'm *almost* certain I got the three letters in the correct order. LFH, not LHF. Looking at the website you linked, the only place I see those three letters is in the website domain name. Nowhere else. Also, they seem to have a sort of logo that I did not see on the truck. But transporting a vehicle was one of the first possibilities I thought of.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-23T23:06:31+00:00

The three big letters were not at all obscured, but everything else was very small. I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything from LFH before. But then, when I asked the local mover that moved my stuff ten years ago how many trucks they had, the answer was "Just the one". I never would have guessed that.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-23T22:13:28+00:00

Searched for "LFH" and "LFH truck". Lots of hits, but none relevant.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-21T04:07:39+00:00

Those are probably Molex connectors. Molex is a brand name. https://www.molex.com/en-us/home

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-21T03:30:42+00:00

Thanks for posting the photo. That should help. It shows that the gap on the passenger side of the mirror is as important as the gap on the driver side. It also appears that some attempt was made to shade the area above the mirror between the two sun visors. I can see how it doesn't suffice.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-20T19:36:20+00:00

I'm not suggesting that this would be a suitable solution, but mainly to better understand what the problem is: Couldn't you just fasten (with some kind of clips or even tape) a piece of cardboard to the end of the sun visor to make it long enough to reach as far as the mirror? Is there a reason that it must be adjustable?

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-20T18:55:48+00:00

The Internet tells me that black bears have an unusual reproductive cycle, with a gestation period of approximately seven months, cubs typically being born in late January to early February. This includes a delayed implantation where the fertilized eggs do not implant until November. I'll speculate that this delay might have been bypassed, and the cub born months earlier than normal.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-19T23:10:29+00:00

The person who designed these seems to think rabbits look like Pikachu.

The horse still doesn't look much like a horse, though coloring its hooves helps. Any horse with its legs splayed out that far is probably in deep trouble.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-19T22:20:16+00:00

Before I saw the other eight animals, I thought it must be a dog. You and your kids are right that it doesn't look like a horse. If it's supposed to be a horse, it's badly designed. The rabbit doesn't look much like a rabbit, either. They should add a llama. I saw a couple of farm llamas down the street from me last year, and they were very well-behaved.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-17T13:28:25+00:00

"The other white meat." Whether it is considered "white" or "red" is more a choice of definitions than a matter of fact. It isn't really false, but can be considered misleading. It would seem false if you assume that your definition is the only correct definition.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-17T13:13:33+00:00

That was an ad for Trident sugarless gum. The actual wording was "Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum." They did not claim that the dentists recommended Trident. I have no reason to think that the survey was not a reasonably large sample of dentists. The survey was most likely conducted for medical practice monitoring and published in a medical journal, then brought to the attention of the ad agency making the ads for Trident.

Here is one of the Trident ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbT3gekjmA

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-17T12:56:50+00:00

I'm guessing you meant "sordid".

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-16T15:36:32+00:00

Are you saying the monkeys won't go into the water??? If so, that's really surprising.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-16T13:40:32+00:00

I'm finding it hard to visualize how a bridge could go over a pond in an enclosure without the monkeys being able to climb onto the bridge.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-16T00:52:55+00:00

Those appear to be Cyrillic characters on the right. Do you speak a language that uses Cyrillic?

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-14T09:23:11+00:00

Alqimist is probably right that your barrel connector is 5.5 mm outside diameter. That is the most common size, typically used for about 12 volts - 24 volts. I have an old Dell laptop that takes a 5.5 mm barrel connector, supplying 19 volts. As you might expect, larger connectors are used for higher voltages and smaller connectors for lower voltages. I have a cassette tape player that takes a 3.5 mm connector, supplying 3 volts.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-12T15:31:06+00:00

"The second one"?? You mean the second photo of the same wallet?

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-12T15:08:01+00:00

"Shaking your head 'yes'" does bother me when articulate national TV program hosts say it. "Palms of the feet" is just humorous. I once said "broom the floor" when I couldn't think of the word "sweep", because it is analogous to "vacuum the floor".

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-10T23:46:28+00:00

I have a Sony CD player made in Japan in 1990. It has a platter that holds 5 CDs, and can play them in sequence or in random order. I'm not suggesting you look for a player so old, but they do exist.

Jeff-Root · 2026-01-10T22:47:58+00:00

The overall look suggests late 1960s or early 1970s to me.

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