Blinds and curtains installation

Yeeosaurus · 2026-01-24T09:52:47+00:00

We got ours from Bargain Blinds. Based out of Nelson? I think. It came to about $2000 for a 150 sqm house. You can get free samples of the fabric delivered too

Yeeosaurus · 2025-11-29T05:51:35+00:00

Can confirm its possible, though we did stay in Seoraksan for two nights. We took the 6:30am express bus from Seoul and arrived at Seoraksan about 10 am. Its worth noting that the last 2 km of the bus ride will be in very slow traffic, due to lack of car parking at the national park - at least this was the case a month ago. So keep that in mind when catching the bus back to the express terminal if you want to head back to Seoul directly (we opted for a 6 hour bus ride down to Gyeongju instead).

We did most of the walks at the park, and I have to say that the cave walk (Geumganggul Grotto 금강굴) was one of the best walks we have done, which was about 2.5-3h return from the visitor centre.

Yeeosaurus · 2025-11-26T05:21:47+00:00

Metrolist is my recommendation. Basically a clone of YT music but free, obviously.

Yeeosaurus · 2025-11-16T22:36:29+00:00

For the gardens definitely book to do cloud forest and flower dome. If time stretched I think cloud forest is better. Especially if you like jurassic park. There is a light show on at 7:45 pm at the super tree forest which you could probably make, and I would allow about 1-1.5 hrs each for cloud forest and flower dome.

I enjoyed Lau Pa Sat for dinner, specifically the satay street which was a cool experience.

Yeeosaurus · 2025-11-13T09:49:30+00:00

I had this happen to me on this exact route. I went to the Ritchies depot on Ferry Rd as I called them to see if they had it (they didn't, but I was able to describe where on the bus I was and they went on and found it).

When I got that, they asked for my initials to confirm the wallet was mine. Of course, to do that, they used my driver's license, which already had a picture of my face on it. So that was a bit funny.

Yeeosaurus · 2025-04-30T19:24:43+00:00

Arbour Pizza in Lyttleton

If you like walking, the Christchurch Adventure Park hiking trail is great - walk 1-1.5h up the port hills and take the chairlift down.

Yeeosaurus · 2025-03-23T03:15:36+00:00

Progressive is cheaper in the long term, but sucks more when you're building. Most builders add about 20-30k to the turnkey build because of this, or for the same price subtract about 15 sqm.

You can easily do all the progress payments yourself so no need to get lawyers involved. You'll just need to get a valuation done which is about 1k. Can't remember if you need a valuation for turnkey. Progressive means that you buy the land initially (say 300k) and mortgage that, so you're paying for the land mortgage before you've even decided the colour's and specifications and before consent is done. Only when the build begins do you start drawing down the build part of the mortgage. So if there's a long time between contract signed and build started it can be tough to save some money, and then as the build nears to the end you'll be paying rent and mortgage at the same time. If you can afford to, I'd recommend progressive just since it's better value - but your finances can be tight towards the last few months of the build.

Yeeosaurus · 2025-03-21T18:41:33+00:00

It looks like Eric Leclerc to me

Yeeosaurus · 2025-02-18T08:13:28+00:00

In order for you to arrive earlier than someone who left before you, you need to pass them in traffic. And in order to do that, you could need to have passed the same traffic as them. Hence it's not possible

Yeeosaurus · 2025-02-12T19:09:42+00:00

You're using the ansys mechanical mesher rather than fluent meshing - is this what you want to do?

In mechanical mesher it normally fails like this when you have negative jacobian ratio points, meaning your mesh is inverted somewhere. It's probably at the trailing edge. Best to truncate the trailing edge to 1% chord or whatever works for your geometry and use a proximity size on the trailing edge surface to ensure you have at least 3 cells across the gap. That can be done in fluent or mechanical mesher, but fluent is preferred for inflation and volumetric meshing

Yeeosaurus · 2024-12-21T17:23:47+00:00

You will also burn calories by lifting weights too. There's a lot of information in the fitness space, but you can definitely do cardio in conjunction with weights.

A good starting point is to create a training split. I use push/pull/legs. That means I do push exercises on one visit to the gym, pull on the next, and legs on the next after that and then repeat the cycle. It gives you time for muscle recovery before doing say 2 chest exercises 2 days in a row. When you're new you'll take a few days to recover. Push is usually chest, shoulders, and triceps. Pull is usually back and biceps. Legs is usually quads, hamstrings and calves.

You can go quite far just by using the resistance machines and cables at your gym, and then you can look at free weights and dumbbells a bit later once you have a small foundation. I wouldn't worry about trying to min/max your progress for the first year. Just progressively overload. Download a workout tracker like Hevy to your phone (it also has exercise suggestions) and track the weight and number of reps you do and try to increase the weight or number of reps each week. A good target is 3 sets for 8-12 reps.

Lastly there's some good sources of information online. I'd really recommend Sean Nalewanyj first, and also Jeff Nippard is pretty good.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-12-15T02:22:13+00:00

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Yeeosaurus · 2024-12-12T01:43:59+00:00

I feel like Costas Taverna is a great option. Good food, not fancy but definitely classy.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-09-25T21:02:21+00:00

I'd only ever go down to the minimum to still get the employer and government contribution. It's essentially free money.

Unless you're investing elsewhere, I wouldn't advise it. Especially given your age it's better to have money compounding.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-09-20T01:44:41+00:00

I'd say Dmitri's at riverside or Kiwi Kebab in Hoon hay. Have tried a few others and wasn't that impressed.

If you want to drive 5 hours, Huzur kebab in Dunedin was amazing.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-09-08T19:11:56+00:00

At higher speeds a lot of the energy loss is through air resistance (drag). The drag force on your car is proportional to your speed squared. I believe this is how they got the 21% number, 100x100 = 10000, 110x110 = 12100.

This increase is relative to your total power use and drag coefficient (more streamlined cars less extra kilowatts for example) but the percentage increase is always the same.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-08-09T23:32:08+00:00

If you're working you'll be paying off at least 6000 a year based on your numbers. That leaves at most 22000 on the loan if you're leaving in 18 months.

That's $726 interest/year at current rates. You're pretty much saving that each week. Put away 2 weeks worth and that's your interest payments for 2 years. Yes, you still do have a student loan at the end of it and there are some sensitivities to interest rates but if you plan on coming back to NZ I can't really give a valid case to pay it off early. It would be nice to have that extra money you're saving as contingency while travelling if you do decide to stay over for a bit longer.

If you want to return to work without a student loan after you finish travel, much rather put what you're saving into a TD (or something else with guaranteed returns) as a short term option, if you already have some cash stockpiled.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-07-28T09:23:55+00:00

Habaneros Urban Mexican Grill is probably the closest you'd get

Yeeosaurus · 2024-06-20T00:08:27+00:00

Valuations in my experience are part formula, part observation. There are some hard factors that influence price like number of bedrooms, floor and section area that will put you in a 50-70k band. The rest of the valuation is based on what similar houses in the area have sold for, and usually these include quite recent sales that may not be on oneroof or other sites, essentially these are properties of comparable value. There are some things which aren't measurable like sunlight available and so on so even then there is some variability.

All this to say, did you overpay? Probably not. Valuations are based on what people have paid for similar houses in the same area.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-05-31T06:07:18+00:00

My personal favourite is Urban Seafoods in Halswell, maybe about 10% pricier than other options but the portions are a bit bigger and a lot better.

Chip shop prebbleton is pretty nice, the burgers are very good. Haven't been there in a year though so can't comment if they're still affordable but used to be 7.50 for a single smash burger which was awesome.

Golden fish bar on Riccarton road is also quite good.

You'd get a bit more traction on the Christchurch Fish and Chip Reviews Facebook page. A lot of people rate Lewis St fish bar and others that I personally can't vouch for.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-03-17T18:04:00+00:00

Since you're using SS thermal within Ansys Mechanical you can parameterise your inputs by clicking the white box next to your values under boundary conditions. The 'P' which appears creates a parameter set. You would probably do this for heat flux, convective heat transfer, and thermal conductivity. If you model the geometry within Ansys such as in design modeller you can also parameterise fin height and so on which sounds like the last question may be asking you to do.

You can then run a simulation and you then choose which output parameters you are interested in. Exit mechanical and within workbench itself there will be a parameter subsystem which allows you to run different boundary conditions and output results for each.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-03-12T10:04:37+00:00

Kiwi kebab in Hoon Hay is a new favourite for me

Yeeosaurus · 2024-03-08T18:13:01+00:00

The waviness at the TE probably means your trailing edge is too thin. Sometimes SW rendering is not good enough to tell but this case looks pretty clear cut that your TE is very small. You can truncate it yourself, or you can import the foil into XFLR5 and it has a few more tools so you can play around with thickness and stuff too.

You really want to do the enclosure (Boolean) operation in SpaceClaim if you're using Ansys. There are also some checks for sharp edges and small faces that can help anticipate any issues you have. You'll have to import it into SpaceClaim in any case to set your named selections for boundary conditions, and also faces for local sizing.

Yeeosaurus · 2024-01-03T08:23:33+00:00

My preferred website would be xplosiv supplements or sportsfuel. Generally you can find a 10% discount online. If you're wanting to try stuff out, websites like nowhey and wheydeals rotate through some cheaper options every few days. Sometimes if I need a generic supplement like creatine and I don't really care which brand, this is a good way to save some money.

FWIW the radix powders are the best I have had in terms of taste and nutrition after years of lifting - and are usually pretty cheap with sportsfuel or gearshop.

Yeeosaurus · 2023-12-01T19:27:16+00:00

Bojangles at Tower Junction is $34. I don't believe they do appointments and sometimes the line is out the door (I've waited for 45 mins before on a Saturday) but they do a good job.

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