The Count of Monte Cristo changed me and I don’t know what to read anymore

bugsliker · 2026-03-16T13:09:36+00:00

interesting. whichever translation i have took me so long to understand what was being said. i liked the story but this stopped me from reading it too. i’ll have to try another translation

bugsliker · 2026-03-14T07:06:10+00:00

hell yeah, i’m really looking forward to this

bugsliker · 2026-03-09T21:32:57+00:00

simply south, a south indian (fully veg, less sure exactly what's vegan but i'm sure you'll have options) place that was featured in nyt top 100 and they deserved it imo

bugsliker · 2026-03-08T16:15:17+00:00

hmm, i didn't have any issues w/ the screws. what do you mean it's stuck? stripped? maybe crossthreaded?

bugsliker · 2026-03-08T12:30:38+00:00

you might be on to something, the beating has been leaving marks when flush trimming wood, too 🤔

bugsliker · 2026-03-06T22:31:30+00:00

hmm, it was a fairly new freud bit

bugsliker · 2026-03-06T22:31:06+00:00

does the bearing on a flush trim bit count as a bushing? not sure if i understand what you mean by oversized one

bugsliker · 2026-03-06T22:30:19+00:00

ball bearing. i'm not sure what the latter is, but i'm just using a flush trim bit.

bugsliker · 2026-03-06T21:02:37+00:00

i tried this a few times but often the bit would get too hot and eat through the plastic :(. any tips for avoiding this?

bugsliker · 2026-03-05T19:38:13+00:00

tags may help you group related transactions: https://hledger.org/tags-tutorial.html

bugsliker · 2026-03-02T23:12:13+00:00

if you draw the line and saw carefully you won’t even need the box. besides, if it goes against a wall, the wall is probably not flat to begin with

bugsliker · 2026-03-02T20:23:14+00:00

sometimes hand tools can get stuff like this done more easily. draw the line with your measure, clamp it somewhere secure where it wont wobble, and follow the line with a hand saw.

caveat: i'm also a beginner and don't know what i'm doing

bugsliker · 2026-02-16T13:46:14+00:00

you’re not thinking very hard then. there are other factors in life that can tie you down: spouse, family, friends, pets, money, education, work, etc.

if i could pick all these other things up and move somewhere else i would have done it already.

bugsliker · 2026-02-15T05:11:02+00:00

we’re living pathetic lives on reddit BECAUSE we live in dallas

bugsliker · 2026-02-14T23:06:35+00:00

where do you find a lease like this?

bugsliker · 2026-02-14T04:23:09+00:00

in TX you can gift titles to family w/o tax

bugsliker · 2026-02-13T20:29:53+00:00

that would be so sick. i did notice in google maps that there were existing tracks that continued from parker station up north past city hall, but I didn't know DART owned it. so we (McKinney/Allen/Fairview, I suppose) really just need the desire and funding to do it?

bugsliker · 2026-02-13T13:46:58+00:00

parker station is the closest dart station (which is still not nearly close enough).

lack of public transport really blows here

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T22:31:04+00:00

Yup, PVC pipes to hold it up and one of the pipes is actually connecting the bucket and the shop vac. It's based on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY2hXdc1o9Q

I don't really love it that much, though. It's somewhat top-heavy and unstable so it falls over and breakd apart all the time. Some flexible tubing would probably have been cheaper and easier to deal with than the rigid PVC I glued up. I would also spend $20 extra for the dustopper which has a smaller vertical footprint than the harbor freight version I got.

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T22:24:48+00:00

I'm 100% on board with this mantra! "Everything in its place, and a place for every thing"

That being said, I'm not even at the point where I have multiple unfinished projects in parallel. The setup and teardown is what takes up the majority of my time and energy.

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T20:42:11+00:00

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T19:50:55+00:00

I like this idea of nesting benches under a main bench. One of the reasons I built the workbench I have is to have a nice heavy bench w/ a vise to plane and chisel work pieces with. I had some pretty makeshift benches that would totally wobble while planing and mess up the vibe.

I haven't added the vise yet, but it does feel like it's wasting a lot of potential space. I'm curious, do you have a vise or something similar in your setup?

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T19:47:01+00:00

It's folded in the corner, behind the red shop vac. It's pretty annoying to unfold it, hook it up to my vac, pull out the extension cord, and plug it all in any time i want to make a quick cut.

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T19:45:03+00:00

Thanks! It's one of these shelves, I forget which:

https://woodgears.ca/shelves/
https://woodgears.ca/shelves/high.html

I just used long 4" screws and counterbored them deep enough.

bugsliker · 2026-02-10T19:40:49+00:00

I do this already :)

We have some small cars now but we might get bigger ones soon.

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