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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 11:41 AM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You do not have money to buy the proper tools for your carpentry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What problems are you referring to?
Sure I do. I already have all of them I'm likely to ever need.
Are you referring to me mentioning that I wasn't going to spend $6,000 on a Multi-Spindle Pocket Hole machine while you were stalking me in the Garden?
https://www.kregtool.com/shop/pocket-hole-joinery/commercial-machines/
multi-spindle-pocket-hole-machine/DK3100.html
I can count on zero hands how many people I know in my life who own one or would ever even need one. What would be the ROI on that purchase? I was going to drill 2 holes in 19 oak spindles and chances are very high that I would never have a need for that machine for the rest of my life.
I've already devised a much better way to make what I need anyhow, and on the off chance that I don't already own the right sized hole saw that I need for the way I'm doing the job now, I'll spend 5 bucks to get one, or maybe I'll get fancy and buy a step drill bit and splurge 15 bucks for it.
You're such a dumb, useless cunt.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 4:42 PM
Ukrainian officials announced that Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft. The Russian information space strangely claimed that the aircraft was destroyed by friendly fire from Russian air defenses.[10] The A-50 is used to coordinate Russian air defense activity and the claim that Russian air defenses shot down the A-50 would amount to a calamitous failure on the part of Russian forces, if true. A Russian source that focuses on Russian aviation blamed Russian commanders who lack the proper background required for their positions.[11]
The current commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Colonel General Viktor Afzalov, has an extensive background in Russian air defense operations.[12] Whether his lack of experience as a pilot poses any problems for Russian air operations, which is questionable, his experience as an air defender should have been appropriate to ensure that Russian forces do not shoot down their own airborne control aircraft. A Russian insider source claiming to be an employee of an unspecified Russian security structure claimed that unspecified Russian actors created a “duck” (a Russian term for a false claim) about how Russian forces shot down the A-50 to reassure Russian pilots that missions over the Black Sea and Sea of Azov are still safe and that human error was the cause of the incident.[13] It is unclear why Russian pilots should be more comfortable with the idea that their ground-based air defenders are so incompetent.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-15-2024
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 5:33 PM
Quote:Your ambition is many times larger than your skill/knowledge. This Old House will show you how to build a less ambitious version of what you need:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You do not have money to buy the proper tools for your carpentry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What problems are you referring to?
Sure I do. I already have all of them I'm likely to ever need.
Are you referring to me mentioning that I wasn't going to spend $6,000 on a Multi-Spindle Pocket Hole machine while you were stalking me in the Garden?
https://www.kregtool.com/shop/pocket-hole-joinery/commercial-machines/
multi-spindle-pocket-hole-machine/DK3100.html
I can count on zero hands how many people I know in my life who own one or would ever even need one. What would be the ROI on that purchase? I was going to drill 2 holes in 19 oak spindles and chances are very high that I would never have a need for that machine for the rest of my life.
I've already devised a much better way to make what I need anyhow, and on the off chance that I don't already own the right sized hole saw that I need for the way I'm doing the job now, I'll spend 5 bucks to get one, or maybe I'll get fancy and buy a step drill bit and splurge 15 bucks for it.
You're such a dumb, useless cunt.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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To bring this back to the Russians, their ambitions are much larger than their skills/knowledge, which is why they have struggled, starved, turned to cannibalism, suffered and died through out their history. Russians do love to blame their neighbors for Russia's self-caused problems. And then inflect their personal and mental troubles on their neighbors.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:15 PM
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Originally posted by second:
Your ambition is many times larger than your skill/knowledge.
Incorrect. This is how you learn to do stuff and how to make things. This is how you you take what is pictured in your imagination and make it come to life. Sometimes some things are going to be more challenging than other things, and yes... you are going to be limited by the tools you have in your arsenal if you don't happen to have a $100,000 worth of tools in your garage, but there's almost never a problem that can't be solved in a much more economical way if you have the will and the persistence to get it done. You are rarely ever limited by skill or knowledge, especially in the age of the internet where it's easy to learn how to do things.
I have plenty of free time, and I have a vision for this house. I'll get there, eventually. I've already got 4,000+ pictures more than the overlook you've posted.
You know this. You've already seen many of them since you're always lurking in the Garden.
In just the kitchen alone I've turned this...
Into this...
And this...
Into this...
And this...
Into this...
And this...
Into this...
Sure... the cabinet work took about half a year for me to complete, and wasn't even truly completed for another 2 years until I finally got around to building my own drawers that were missing on either side of the sink. But the cabinets you're going to buy today for $20k+ are garbage pressed wood everywhere but the faces and the doors, and these things are rock solid actual wood through and through from the late 50s. And they're perfect.
All the trim I bought was essentially free with clearance and rebates and the credit card I pulled at the time that gave me $250 back with $1000 worth of purchases in 90 days. The new flooring was a cutoff at the end of a roll that I got for 30% off, and my friend and his old man helped me install it because we were bartering a lot of work.
All in all, the huge kitchen remodel cost me way under $1,000 so far, and because I spent the time working at it I saved all of that great cabinetry from going into a landfill instead of spending 1/3rd of what I paid for the whole house to buy new cabinets.
You're not getting a kitchen remodel done for less than $30k in 2024, and if you were going to buy cabinets like the ones that I've restored, it might cost you $60k or more to do it.
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This Old House will show you how to build a less ambitious version of what you need:
My first thought was going to be to tell you that this was a video on how to build a hand rail on a porch and it didn't apply to my situation where I've got a rectangular box with no access from the outside, but I watched it and I might actually slightly modify how I was going to do this now. (Having an open mind is a good thing... I'd advise you to try it sometime).
I can't build the entire "baluster system" in one solid piece like they did. The problem is that I've already put trim and caulk up, and the existing construction was not perfectly level and plum. If I were to make one solid piece to install right now, there would be gaps in certain places at the top that can't be hidden anymore by trim, and I still likely have to make some minor adjustments on how the poles attach to the top because after 65 years of settling the floors in this house aren't perfectly level either. (It would have been interesting to see him put a level on the rail when he was done installing it, because I can almost guaranty you that the porch wasn't level and his hand rail is just as out of level as the porch was. If he accounted for that off camera, he didn't mentio
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:21 PM
Quote:You are finding meaningfulness in wood. Good for you, but for those who aren't soulful artists, it is only carpentry, not the purpose of life.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Like I mentioned before, I'm going to leave as many options open as possible until I get to a point where final decisions are going to need to be made, and I've got plenty of scrap wood to test ideas out on to make sure they're sound before I do something I can't undo.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:38 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You are finding meaningfulness in wood. Good for you, but for those who aren't soulful artists, it is only carpentry, not the purpose of life.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Like I mentioned before, I'm going to leave as many options open as possible until I get to a point where final decisions are going to need to be made, and I've got plenty of scrap wood to test ideas out on to make sure they're sound before I do something I can't undo.
Well... I do think of myself as an artist.
I've never made the claim to anyone that I was a carpenter.
At some point in my life I put down the sketch pad and graphite pencils and picked up a hammer, a saw, a drill and a paintbrush, and then I got myself the best canvas to work on that I'll probably ever own in my life.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:48 PM
Quote:Lovely sentiment. Now back to war:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... I do think of myself as an artist.
I've never made the claim to anyone that I was a carpenter.
At some point in my life I put down the sketch pad and graphite pencils and picked up a hammer, a saw, a drill and a paintbrush, and then I got myself the best canvas to work on that I'll probably ever own in my life.
Dramatic video captured a blaze in a flat near the base, during which a woman can be heard screaming: "Mother of God, we've got to get the hell out of it."
Voronezh, a city of more than one million people, lies some 155 miles from the border with Ukraine.
Russia declares state of emergency after 'Ukraine kamikaze drone attacks' on key airbase
By Matthew Dooley | UPDATED: 07:15 ET, Tue, Jan 16, 2024
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/124486/Russia-state-of-eme
rgency-ukraine-attack-airbase
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:50 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Never blame Trumptards for being retards at life. Instead, they must blame the Democrats, Hollywood, Big Business, or even blame Ukraine for Trumptards' problems. 6ix, you won't be fine because you are blameworthy for what happens to you but you are too crazy to realize your problems are all your fault. Don't shift the blame to Ukrainians and the ammo the US sends them.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Ukraine.
The Putin-loving portion of Russia has the same problem as the Trumptard portion of America. Neither blame themselves for what happens to them. And so it keeps happening.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Agreed...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 11:25 PM
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Your ambition is many times larger than your skill/knowledge.
Incorrect. This is how you learn to do stuff and how to make things. This is how you you take what is pictured in your imagination and make it come to life. Sometimes some things are going to be more challenging than other things, and yes... you are going to be limited by the tools you have in your arsenal if you don't happen to have a $100,000 worth of tools in your garage, but there's almost never a problem that can't be solved in a much more economical way if you have the will and the persistence to get it done. You are rarely ever limited by skill or knowledge, especially in the age of the internet where it's easy to learn how to do things.
I have plenty of free time, and I have a vision for this house. I'll get there, eventually. I've already got 4,000+ pictures more than the overlook you've posted.
You know this. You've already seen many of them since you're always lurking in the Garden.
In just the kitchen alone I've turned this...
Into this...
And this...
Into this...
And this...
Into this...
And this...
Into this...
Sure... the cabinet work took about half a year for me to complete, and wasn't even truly completed for another 2 years until I finally got around to building my own drawers that were missing on either side of the sink. But the cabinets you're going to buy today for $20k+ are garbage pressed wood everywhere but the faces and the doors, and these things are rock solid actual wood through and through from the late 50s. And they're perfect.
All the trim I bought was essentially free with clearance and rebates and the credit card I pulled at the time that gave me $250 back with $1000 worth of purchases in 90 days. The new flooring was a cutoff at the end of a roll that I got for 30% off, and my friend and his old man helped me install it because we were bartering a lot of work.
All in all, the huge kitchen remodel cost me way under $1,000 so far, and because I spent the time working at it I saved all of that great cabinetry from going into a landfill instead of spending 1/3rd of what I paid for the whole house to buy new cabinets.
You're not getting a kitchen remodel done for less than $30k in 2024, and if you were going to buy cabinets like the ones that I've restored, it might cost you $60k or more to do it.Quote:
This Old House will show you how to build a less ambitious version of what you need:
My first thought was going to be to tell you that this was a video on how to build a hand rail on a porch and it didn't apply to my situation where I've got a rectangular box with no access from the outside, but I watched it and I might actually slightly modify how I was going to do this now. (Having an open mind is a good thing... I'd advise you to try it sometime).
I can't build the entire "baluster system" in one solid piece like they did. The problem is that I've already put trim and caulk up, and the existing construction was not perfectly level and plum. If I were to make one solid piece to install right now, there would be gaps in certain places at the top that can't be hidden anymore by trim, and I still likely have to make some minor adjustments on how the poles attach to the top because after 65 years of settling the floors in this house aren't perfectly level either. (It would have been interesting to see him put a level on the rail when he was done installing it, because I can almost guaranty you that the porch wasn't level and his hand rail is just as out of level as the porch was. If he accoNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 3:02 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow. I've never seen the "before" before.
Yeah. I still haven't found all of my old pics before I got that tablet, but I did manage to find a nice little cache of them after all this time looking for this stuff. I was looking for one photo in particular for my dad, but I still haven't found it.
I'm always down for a little bit of Serendipity.
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Can you redo our kitchen?
That depends. You guys willing to room and board me for the next year.
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Im sure you'd be better at it than THUGR. Or SECOND.
Well... to be fair to them, and to you, and to anybody else really, I do get a lot of enjoyment out of this type of work and I've got more free time than most. That's a couple of real big motivating factors for me that most other folk wouldn't have when it comes to this type of stuff. I've always been a perfectionist too, so when things finally start coming together the way that I want them done and have visualized them in my head for so long it really becomes a great source of pride for me.
There's certain artistic touches that are going to be different from person to person and varying skill levels of course, but like my friend's dad always used to say to me about all of the work he did and taught me how to do "it ain't rocket science". (I always felt he was short-changing himself and his skills, but he was about the most modest man I've ever known despite the lifetime of skills he developed).
I'm sure Second and Ted could do it. Even if the end result didn't look like mine, most of the stuff that people pay to have done on their homes is done by skilled people but they're on a time frame and need to make that money so corners are always cut when they can get away with it and at the end of the day as long as everything is structurally sound nobody is ever going to notice any imperfections unless you're putting a huge spotlight on it and showing it to everyone. My friend's dad's one rule really was to make sure that everything at eye-level was perfect, otherwise don't sweat the details.
He wasn't wrong. Hell... Nobody ever noticed the last 2 years that my baseboard in the living room never got repaired and painted, and if I didn't mention it when people came over they might not have ever noticed that I finally got around to doing it.
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