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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • The blocks don’t need to be straight so long as the load is centered and even. The mortar makes it more like a continuous piece than if you had just stacked them with no mortar. Sort of like stacking irregular stones.

    To be clear, it isn’t the right way, but it can be fine.

    I have seen so many shit jobs like this and had to fix them. The trades joke that masons are the biggest alcoholics and we joke that this type of work is a Monday morning, after lunch, or Friday special; because this sort of nonsense with masonry work is so common.

    Those 16x4x8 blocks can hold around 2,000 psi. So an overhang like that isn’t a big deal. The wood shoring holds like half or a quarter of that.





  • Years ago I was reviewing resumes with my boss. He handed me one and asked for my input.

    The email address ended in 420. I told my boss that either they and Hitler had something in common or they probably won’t pass a drug test. My boss asked for an explanation and I pointed out the email to him. He just took the resume and binned it.

    So yeah, don’t put 420 in your email even if you share a birthday with Hitler.




  • Atoms are like 98% empty, but it is the inter-atomic electromagnetic forces that keep atoms from passing through one another.

    For the sake of your highdea…

    Is it possible to pass a solid object through another solid object? Quantum mechanics says yes, but only on an incredibly small scale because quantum tunneling(a realization of the probability of an atom to pass through another atomic electromagnetic field) has an almost zero possibility of happening with a given large number of atoms and can only occur realistically with one atom passing a 2D plane with a given resistance.