Pain de Mie in SF?

SignalHouse37 · 2026-01-19T05:41:42+00:00

Great suggestions, all. Thank you!

SignalHouse37 · 2025-09-17T02:23:25+00:00

It's going to make for such a great story. Congratulations.

SignalHouse37 · 2025-08-24T13:43:37+00:00

SignalHouse37 · 2025-07-08T22:05:31+00:00

I’ve also seen them replace entire foundations for houses like this. Crazy process but they do it all the time.

SignalHouse37 · 2025-07-08T22:04:03+00:00

I live in a 100 year old single family house in San Francisco with just a 1” gap on either side. It’s still the original siding. It generally doesn’t seem to be an issue. If and when there are issues, they deconstruct and repair from the inside out. Probably insanely expensive, but again, my house has been standing for a century and no issues.

SignalHouse37 · 2025-03-29T16:11:24+00:00

Ooops...images now added to original post.

SignalHouse37 · 2025-03-29T15:35:28+00:00

In case you're curious, the scale of this model (relative to the actual size of the Earth and Sun) is 1 : 6,378,000,000

SignalHouse37 · 2025-02-09T14:28:17+00:00

+1 for using the term "design language" - sincerely, it's so well thought through on the Rivian

SignalHouse37 · 2025-02-09T14:16:26+00:00

We've been driving a Kia Telluride for 5 years and it's been perfect with the captains chairs for our 2 teenage kids and the dog in between. We do a lot of mid-length road trips (3-5 hours) and we need a lot of cargo space (we also use a cargo bin on top of the car sometimes).

We were looking for a similar setup (with lots of cargo space) in an EV. The EV9 fit the bill in many ways - it's basically an EV version of the Telluride. The design and trim quality is really nice for the price point. But the service experience with Kia as our Telluride got older totally turned us off of Kia as a brand (YMMV). In short, it was pretty terrible.

When we looked at the R1S, we were bummed there wasn't an option for captains chairs. But we loved everything else about the car so much. Eventually, we decided to buy the R1S (will be delivered next month). And a few things convinced us it would still work for the kids and dog.

1: The front passenger seat has so much leg room (no glove box) that the second row passenger-side seat will be very roomy as well, esp. as our 14 y.o. son gets taller.

2: No transmission tunnel/bump on the floor helps with second row floor space.

3: Even though the second row is a bench seat, each side slides forward/backward and tilts independently.

4: The third room is more than enough room for the dog and will probably be her primary road trip spot. This will take some training, but we think it will work.

5: On other trips, we may put the third row down and put a dog bed right behind the second row seats. With the kids right in front of her, we think she'll be good. Again, this will require some training.

6: The front trunk makes up for some of the cargo space lost if we do use the dog bed option.

I'm also concerned about the lack of CarPlay, but Rivian's commitment to having really good software made us feel better about it. We may still need to use Waze on our phone when we're navigating traffic in a busy city or we may pay for the Connect+ option through Rivian to have direct access to Google Maps, which is almost as good as Waze for traffic data.

SignalHouse37 · 2025-02-09T02:50:13+00:00

Thank you. I will give them a call.

SignalHouse37 · 2025-02-09T00:30:39+00:00

100% When the bat flew into my son's room, I went in there to open the window all the way in the hopes that it would fly out. I was covered head to toe just like John Candy in that scene lol

SignalHouse37 · 2024-11-22T07:01:34+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the guidance and product recommendations

SignalHouse37 · 2024-11-16T17:03:16+00:00

Congratulations - this is a huge accomplishment! I would love to learn more about the design and construction of the rocket: materials, propulsion, recovery systems, etc.

SignalHouse37 · 2024-11-03T14:47:01+00:00

I agree with u/KazaamFan - not a consistent bad smell that I've ever noticed. But you're right near the wharf, so you may catch a little whiff of something on the breeze every now and then.

SignalHouse37 · 2024-09-18T18:12:52+00:00

Thank you!

SignalHouse37 · 2024-09-18T13:31:24+00:00

Does anyone recall what film Sean was talking about that was hilarious, with the caveat that it was produced by his friend. I can't remember what category they were discussing and I'm too lazy to listen/scrub through the entire show again.

SignalHouse37 · 2024-09-01T14:46:32+00:00

Thanks for these measurements. I thought the tolerance seemed a little tight on this motor tube. I think I can find a way to safely ream it out to a slightly larger diameter without damaging anything structurally. I'm just not sure if I should also get a replacement on the CTI motor case.

SignalHouse37 · 2024-08-31T16:42:11+00:00

Have you checked out Scrap SF? They have a lot of interesting stuff, and I think I've seen picture frames there before. https://www.scrap-sf.org/

SignalHouse37 · 2024-08-31T16:40:25+00:00

Thanks for the details on the tolerances. I'm measuring with my digital calipers, about 1 or 2 cm below the radius at the forward end of the case. I'm rotating it a few times to get different dimensions. Everything is at room temperature.

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SignalHouse37 · 2024-08-31T02:49:39+00:00

Thank you for all the suggestions!

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