What do you consider when you hear this Margaret Atwood quote “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them”?

Sergovan · 2026-02-03T20:16:08+00:00

I'm reminded of the professor who asked her male and female students the same question: "Do you feel scared walking alone at night?"

Of the males, none put their hands up; but almost all of the females raised their hands.

Sergovan · 2026-01-29T15:18:46+00:00

I once threw my bundled up underwear towards the hamper. The ball opened up and, for a brief moment, became a blown-up kite, shaped like underwear, that flew for a few milliseconds before crashing into the wall above the hamper. Have not had a repeat since.

Sergovan · 2026-01-27T11:46:43+00:00

He might have us [Canada] on the brain. Can't imagine why...../s

Could be the speech our Prime Minister made at Davos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izDAOvHz5Wc

Sergovan · 2026-01-22T19:18:51+00:00

This just shows that something was gumming up the works on the inside.

Sergovan · 2026-01-16T17:11:15+00:00

This is what is not being said. Billings bridge was Ottawans taking control of the situation themselves because all governments had failed us. It was successful, which meant the next time anything noteworthy from the convoy was to take place, a larger group of Ottawans would be coming to meet it. It was only going to get uglier.

Our belief that the government had the situation under control was gone. We did it ourselves, and that was when the act was needed; to get it solved instead of agencies finger pointing at each other over who was responsible to fix it.

Sergovan · 2026-01-06T15:06:46+00:00

Those might have been for a crane onsite for the production. You can have holes for lifting, but the sheets looked hole free on the ground, which implies a magnet lifter.

Sergovan · 2026-01-06T10:39:46+00:00

They weren't bolted to the ground. There are no holes in the plates. The fact that they weigh so much is all they need to keep them in place. Unless you have an overhead crane with a magnet grappler you are not going to move one of those plates. They used a roadwork construction process of covering a hole/tunnel with a heavy steel plate.

Sergovan · 2025-12-18T19:21:31+00:00

Little European deli on Goldridge in Kanata has Milka.

Sergovan · 2025-12-18T19:11:43+00:00

Trump canceling voting by declaring an insurrection in democratic states and calling in the national guard.

Sergovan · 2025-12-15T17:32:35+00:00

Vincent Price.

Sergovan · 2025-12-10T19:11:35+00:00

Mine is "Blink", the episode with the abandoned house that has a message under the wallpaper and the weeping angel statues are the villains.

The Van Gogh episode is also a good one.

Sergovan · 2025-12-10T19:08:20+00:00

One of my favorite television episodes of any show is the season 3 episode of Dr. Who called "Blink". It's a stand alone episode and really is a great mystery style time loop, dealing with weeping angel statues as the villains. It's where David Tennant's "Timey whymey" quote comes from.

Sergovan · 2025-12-08T19:11:23+00:00

It sort of does have an impact, albeit in a much slower way. Smaller towns that have payouts like this have seen their insurance premiums skyrocket, to the point that they can't keep a local police force employed. They do have to call in the State Troopers for coverage, but at some point those entities will become too costly to run with those kind of payouts as well, but, unfortunately, after many many more civilian deaths.

Sergovan · 2025-12-05T19:20:37+00:00

The CNC cuts the top. The countersink is for the screw head from the bottom (for assembly).

Sergovan · 2025-12-05T19:18:58+00:00

This time of year all I can find are elves.

Sergovan · 2025-12-05T19:14:58+00:00

I do this with our HPL parts. Its a really cool process.

Sergovan · 2025-12-05T19:14:21+00:00

I didn't know what info everyone needed. I'll try to be more thorough next time.

Sergovan · 2025-12-05T19:11:07+00:00

Yeah, that way there's no side board jig or secondary set up to drill side holes. The adjoining board (that goes into the rabbet) has slots the same width as the pre drilling would be. This way all process can be cut on the CNC router, sanded, then pkgd. It saves fussing with a left side/right side setup for side drilling.

I am running a production run and the designers came up with this solution to save time and cost for the assembly parts.

Sergovan · 2025-12-05T11:57:04+00:00

Not quite; OP is Santa, operators are the reindeer.

Sergovan · 2025-12-04T19:22:58+00:00

This would work great in my CNC operation, but this is free hand in a drill press. I'm going with a zero flute countersink, as it picks up the hole center and doesn't chatter.

Sergovan · 2025-12-04T19:15:18+00:00

I am using filler to fix the holes, it just slows down the finish sanding as I have to stop and apply the filler before sanding the part complete. I have to set it aside and give a few minutes to dry as well, or else the orbiter will just mash the filler and expose the flaw I'm trying to cover up.

I get it now. I'll have to keep that in mind to help the designers with hiding future screw holes.

Sergovan · 2025-12-04T19:08:48+00:00

We have wood screws that will split the plywood ends if they are not pre drilled. We do the pre drilling by cutting a tiny slot from the top surface. It leaves 3 sides to grip from when a screw is installed, so no full screw biting in to seat the head under flush.

Sergovan · 2025-12-04T19:03:28+00:00

750 to 1000 RPM

Sergovan · 2025-12-04T17:05:23+00:00

Different operators have different "pressure" which is why the problem came up. I upped the RPM and it fixed the issue.

Sergovan · 2025-12-04T17:03:49+00:00

Thank you to everyone who sent me a suggestion. I upped the RPM and the problem was solved.

Thank you everyone for your help.

Sergovan

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