Fruit pits are generally a dump spot for anything the fruit doesn’t want. They generally contain a bunch of waste toxins, leftover chemicals, etc. It’s not really ever something that one would want to consume.
As far as my 10 gram parrot, he would get very ill or die from eating a fruit pit. I have to remove them. I’m unsure about pigs but I suspect they are capable of consuming them in at least a reasonable amount.
Give Bacon and Eggs a pat on the head for me. Nom-nom-nom.
Just inadequate vibration. Really take your time with it. What’s your set time?
2 minutes would not be near enough to jog out all of the air bubbles. Ideally, vibrating the slurry and not the mold would be best. You can rent something from a concrete tool rental company. Dunno how far you are from something. Also, in the same vein that anything is a dildo if you are brave enough, any rotary motor that spins off balance is a vibrator if its off enough.
‘Trial Of Thunder (5-3)’ from the ‘Crypt of the Necrodancer’ (Metal Soundtrack). I’m not a fan of this type of game and have never played it, but Familyjules totally shreds the original 8-bit soundtrack it had.
The grain size is small enough. and you appear to be pouring upside down (thumbs up). I think all along it was only the vibration. You may have a breakout. Hard to use last pour for a volumetric comparison if the mix ratio changed. Yeah, I hope it went well.
Weighing and adjusting for temp/ph is also key. These control the chemical reaction and thus the end result.
They also make vibrators that can attach directly to a plate.
we used a custom mix that was affectionately nicknamed ‘the grog’, but it was mostly wd-40 and white lightning lithium grease.
Hi. I’m a refractory designer. I have over 30 years of experience in creating linings for industrial furnaces with bricks and monolithics, including what we would call ‘Precast shapes’ of which this would be included.
Those are definitely air pockets stemming from the pour that were not vibrated out. It could be your aggregate size is making it difficult. I don’t know the product you are using, but often there are ‘fine’ versions that feature a smaller grain size just for better consistency when pouring. I would never recommend gunning something like this.
As far as vibration goes, they sell industrial vibrators with long rubber mixing tips. I might have video from a few of my precast shapes showing a large precast shape getting vibrated. Everything about it just screams dildo and you feel silly, but it is what it is, and it does work.
You’ll know if you add too much water. It will be brittle and fail if you can even get the mold released. More water is never a solution. Better PH is superior to more water.
Vibration can be achieved by building an outer box for your foam insert. Wood can work for something this size probably, but metal would be best. You can then use any vibratory method that works. Pour direction matters too, but it opens ugly doors like lifting and drying.
I own ‘Fear & Hunger’, the game pictured atop the article. I play it. I enjoy it. I have nothing to give but accolades for this game. The author was brilliant in the game design and story. Their target audience is a mature adult. The video game plays as a turn based top down survival horror rpg. It’s a very minimalistic game in it’s world, though it has a lot of unique gameplay programming that elevates it’s style above others. The story though… Wow.
You are simply going to the bottom of the dungeon to kill someone and then leave. That’s it. However, It does have very adult oriented… things… peppered into the game. The setting is pretty dreadful, and as you proceed it only gets worse. Eventually, when you think it’s hit rock bottom, it finds a brand new shovel. It hits pretty hard too.
If you are an adult that can handle adult and survival horror themes, it’s well worth a play and you should buy it immediately. It’s a lot of fun, though get you feet set. The game will shock you out of your comfy place, and it will do so multiple times. Not my favorite horror game, but probably in my top 5. Brilliant and violent, both to the extreme.
Isn’t that how Poltergeist 1 started?
Hold up, I’m not gay. I just got sick of reddit assholes and I don’t particularly care what you all do with your plumbing in your free time.
I only ever wanted a space where I can freely post humorously (and apparently inappropriate) pictures of Helen Kellers’ beloved cat ‘Mittens’. The search continues it would seem.
Oh my god! It’s the person I was hoping for. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You definitely answered a few questions I had (drying, storing, prep) and you organized it very well for me.
Tried a daily spoonful honey a few times in my life. Didn’t help my allergies either time. I tried it a second time as a digestion aid, but didn’t notice much difference either.
It’s delicious though. I was told that eating the honeycomb is the best way to go if you want health benefits, but I dislike the texture.
It allegedly has incredible nutritional value with the dioica type argued to be a superfood. Vitamins A, B, C and K. Calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and a lot of other very beneficial nutrients.
I’m told for optimum flavor and benefit, you have to harvest it early in spring when the leaves are still actively growing and well before flowers develop. Additionally, harvesting only the top (4) leaf segments for consumption gives you the ‘prime rib’ of the plant while leaving the lower portion to survive to flower and reseed itself. Harvesting it young, it will not be stringy from woody growth, and will still contain all of the stored energy for upcoming fruit production. Once cooked, the formic acid in the trichomes (toxin and stinger) is destroyed and it can be consumed. It can replace spinach in just about any recipe. It supposedly has a nutty flavor. I’m not after it for flavor. I dislike spinach.
It also has histamine receptor blocking properties, allegedly providing relief to hay fever. I don’t know of anyone personally to ask if it’s true, but there are many people promoting them now. Frankly, every year older I get, the worse my allergies get. If it does help, it’s worth it to me. If it does nothing, I’m no worse off than I was.
There are even other alleged health benefits as well. Blood pressure, thyroid, liver, prostate effects. None of it I could confirm or deny. I’m just after allergy relief.
Yeah, I hear the root systems have some personality, hence I’m thinking containers. I was told good drainage and high nitrogen soil are key. They’ll take full sun to partial shade, though too much shade makes them grow too tall and they usually fall over.
The cucumbers really, REALLY, seemed to like the nettle fertilizer. It was quite impressive. They’d been doing well considering the over abundance of rain we’ve had, but that stuff really kicked it into gear. I was so impressed with the results that I think I’m going to try the medicinal tea.
If anyone got them in the Pittsburgh area, I’ll come out to cut them down for you. I’m heading out again today to forage for seeds. If any kind soul has some extra seeds to part with I’d be grateful. A lot of places are sold out until fall.
As a professional 35 year draftsman, I would recommend you buy an 11x17 gridded notepad, a pencil, an eraser, and then make numerous sketches. Do an plan view of each floor to create the general arrangement and the room-to-room relationships. Sections will be required at each elevation to show heights. Then sketch each room on its own sheet. Here you can supply more detail, using matchlines, etc. In this manner, you don’t have to bear the burden of drafting and accuracy until you are behind the screen. You can just sketch the idea, and provide the numerics. Sketches need not be pretty or to scale or made by someone with any drafting talent at all. Use placeholders. A square with ‘TLT’ in it is just fine for a toilet. Later, the sketches can be redrawn in cad via a scaled floorplan and your placeholders detailed as required. This is generally how I would proceed when I had to draw up large steel furnaces in which the OEM drawings were lost.
With that in mind, Id suggest paying cash to someone else that has cad software and knows it. This is not a large or even complex project. They can take your sketches and recreate them into a 2d drawing set assuming you did your sketches right. While it will be a great accuracy check, I recommend this just so you don’t have to run CAD on Linux, an endeavor that is sure to cost you that cash in time and frustration alone. It’s just not suited for the heavy throughputs of CAD.
Consider this. If your choice of tools does not matter, you could replace your screwdriver with a butter knife for this renovation. As well you could use a rock in place of a hammer or some eco-friendly hemp string in lieu of your tape measure. If the choice of operating system, the base for all software to run on, is a negligible detail you may as well remove your foundation while you are at it. It’s just going to crack and leak in 200 years or so.
If you don’t know any starving draftsman or doing it yourself is an additional goal, then at least go buy a cheapie beater windows laptop and get a mainstream cad software, even if it’s free. You’ll be needing something mainstream to get good search results as you learn to run it.
And please, if this comes off as rude, I assure you that it’s borne from my first hand experience. CAD drafting is not difficult, but it is tricky. There will be many moments where things can get off the tracks without you realizing it. It’s disheartening to say the least when you realize that many minutes, hours or days ago you punched a bad number, misread something, phone rang and you got distracted, etc. And then when that happens, you have to know how to fix it since some of the drawing is right and some is now wrong, and a wrong drawing isn’t necessarily worth the paper it’s printed on. A good cad guy will avoid most of these traps for you entirely.
Professional geologist Shawn Willsey posted a graphic of the approximate location of the newest fissure on his livestream. This fissure and flow is not likely to be a threat to the town of Grindavik, but it is a threat to both the blue lagoon and the powerplant.
I am from Pittsburgh and it’s a huge party at Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania. Shut down the town kind of party. An absolute sea of people. It’s been like that long before the movie, but then there’s not much to do in February.
This years Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring but do note that marmots are not exactly qualified to make to make meterological forecasts. It’s a mostly cute tradition with a hint of madness, kinda like sticking a tree in your living room and hanging up socks to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Makes total sense when you’re drinking.
For the record, Groundhogs (or woodchucks) are pretty docile and cute. They are also excellent climbers. This little fellow was quite curious about me, and why I was hiding in his field (taking pictures of birds).
Since no one posted an ID, it would appear to be a Wood Frog. The black mottle through the eye with the white line below it is typical of wood frogs.
Likely a male that is ‘mookin fer nub’.
Oh, I would so like to peruse this ‘test’. Anyone have a copy?