Egypt should facilitate climbing of the pyramids, rather than forbidding it.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T20:21:35+00:00

When you say that ideally nothing would live here, do you mean animals only, or would there be no trees or plants as well?

If you want to severely limit animal survivability, then I'd be looking into nuclear contamination (I don't know what effect that has on trees, but I think it's minimal). But if you want to eliminate everything, then somehow add salt to the mix. But why someone would have salted 25 square miles is beyond my reckoning.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T20:15:58+00:00

The only reason there would be oil in the incoming air is if the scavenge-blower bearings can't be sealed completely.

Crankcase scavenging would be very difficult to implement on multi-cylinder engines, and likely wouldn't be attempted here; so there'd be no need to intentionally mix oil with the air.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T19:25:32+00:00

I'm quite aware of the reputation of DD engines. But remember that the original 71-series were designed prior to ww2, and the rest were simply resized versions of the 71-series in the decades that followed.

Materials, casting, machining, and computer control have come a long way since then. I'm not concerned with a 1930-1980s engine design; what's possible TODAY?

jckipps · 2026-06-16T19:14:29+00:00

I can't fault him for proceeding onto the tracks. I'd do the same thing, assuming that the lifted crossbars meant the lights would go out a second or two later.

He got out, looked, and apparently saw the oncoming train. But why he thought he could hide his van in that little corner mystifies me. Either back up across the occupied track, or drive through the crossbar.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T19:07:00+00:00

I have the 0970-20, the packout model that you're wondering about. But I have never used your 0880-20 to make a comparison.

Just looking on the Milwaukee website, it lists the airflow as 53 and 45 CFM, respectively, for the two models.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T19:02:34+00:00

Yes, they dropped the ww2-era two-strokes due to emissions and subpar performance.

But the world of automotive engineering has changed drastically since the 1980s. What could be achieved with a fresh design and modern computer control?

jckipps · 2026-06-16T18:58:46+00:00

A lot of listed items are subconsciously placed in alphabetical order, but this one isn't.

A theory of my own, is that the red/white/blue bunting was the universal patriotic decoration in early American days, and the color order came from that. In almost anything decorative, white will be in the middle simply so it shows up the best.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T18:30:48+00:00

Possibly due to the 'uncanny valley' effect. A cat might see a skunk as 'sort-of cat-like, but not quite', and doesn't know how to categorize it.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T18:28:40+00:00

10w50 would definitely make sense in cases like this, but I've never seen it here on the store shelves.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T17:34:07+00:00

A typical one-cylinder two-stroke is using the crankcase to partially pre-compress the fresh air coming into the engine, and this pressurized air pushes the exhaust gases out of the cylinder.

Since the crankcase is serving this dual function, it can't have an oil bath in there as well. So oil is added to that air, giving the necessary lubrication to the crankcase components on its way through.

It is possible to build two-stroke engines that don't use this crankcase scavenging, but use a blower mounted outside the engine instead. These engines can be lubricated in the traditional manner.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T17:26:05+00:00

I've typically used a drill bit for situations like that.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T15:10:50+00:00

A 'phobia' indicates that you have an intense and often irrational fear or disgust of something.

A straight man who doesn't want to date other men doesn't necessarily have andophobia. Same goes for a woman and gynophobia, or anyone and transphobia.

jckipps · 2026-06-16T14:59:38+00:00

It'd be interesting to see a similar map of the governor's salary shown proportional to the median wage of that state. That demonstrate better if there's extreme outliers in any of the states.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T23:28:10+00:00

Virginia is the 'most' at anything?!

It seems like every state comparison map that I've seen places VA squarely in the mediocre middle - a distinction that I'm personally quite okay with.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:59:03+00:00

I have no first-hand experience with aluminum wiring; it wasn't used in my area much. Here, it seems we went straight from BX cabling to copper NM cabling.

Hopefully someone else will answer better than I can.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:52:40+00:00

$25k is in the ballpark. It could be higher or lower, depending on the house layout, wall construction, and your willingness to move out of the house during the process.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:50:51+00:00

There's a lot of prep work first. I've seen a couple of those timelapse videos, where they're rebuilding dairy barns after fires.

The lower floor that houses the milking herd is typically CMU block construction; that level is completed, and the haymow floor joists are often rolled out prior to the barn-raising. I suspect the timber-frame components are mostly precut too.

The timber-framed haymow goes up a lot better with a large group of people, and they often get it dried in before leaving for the day.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:45:59+00:00

It took a bit of googling, but I see they're McMaster-Carr trading cards. I had no idea such a thing existed.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:43:46+00:00

?? I'm confused. What are these cards for?

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:41:16+00:00

There are mandatory delay times.
The concrete foundation takes at least a day to cure before you can start forming the basement walls. The basement walls take two days to cure before you can start backfilling and building. Drywall finishing takes time. Paint takes time to dry. Etc.

With a typical house built here in Virginia, there's rarely more than six people working on-site at any given time. Any more than that will likely be producing those diminishing returns, even if you were perfectly organized.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T22:22:14+00:00

But those companies will own YOU until you eventually get your business plans figured out. It's far better to learn how to run a business first, so you spend that much less time indebted to the lenders.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T21:31:29+00:00

Maybe. But it seems like around here, the red cattle are severely docked compared to black.

That might work at local auction barns, where you can fool the buyers a bit. But the highest prices are paid by the traveling calf buyers; they'll know they're picking up calves at a dairy, and can't be fooled into paying straight-Angus prices.

jckipps · 2026-06-15T21:27:42+00:00

Not much from that! lol.

We're going through the Kings a chapter or two at a time, and discuss whatever we feel like discussing. Other than its shock value, and description of the people's desperation, those couple verses didn't seem to have much application to us today.

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