From drift-tides and the things I do

Box for veggies

here's sprocket hanging out by the wood that I was laying out to see if I had everything we needed. There's (8) 8' x 6" x 2" uncut boards for the long sides , (2) 8' x 6" x 2" cut to (4) pieces for the short sides, (2) 10' x 6" x 2" cut with 45 degree angles cut in the ends for the top lip, (2) 8' x 6" x 6" cut with 45 degree angles for the short sides of the top lip. (2) 8' x 2" x 2" cut to 8 pieces for the corner posts. Then finally some 8' x 1" x 2" for the inside bracing and slots. A few extra pieces from the 2"x2" were used for support of the lip.
Here's the removable divider made out of some thin scrap. We didn't worry about measuring too perfectly because no one will see the insides anyway, but we tried to center things for even support.
this is to show the support we included to keep the lips on top reinforced.
and here it is pretty much finished, we propped it up so it could be stained easier.

The Questionable mechanics of "wavelength harmonics" on human brains

I made a page that was sort of confirmed by this study.

"Music's effects on the brain: The brain can be modified by music. Musicians
have a thicker cortex in the auditory areas and changes in the frontal lobes.
Musical imagery is the ability to evoke music in the mind's ear, even when
the music isn't present. Beethoven became deaf yet composed remarkable music,
presumably because he could hear it internally. When you imagine sounds, you can
recover enough information to make judgments about them. Perceiving and
imagining have some overlap, and the auditory cortex is active even during
imagining."

dude, the fridge

man, our fridge is bummin

nasty ass sauerkraut

old soggy pie

damn yall

PSI

I just realized today, after pumping up my tires to 50 psi, that my average trip to work was 10 minutes less than the previous week. Since they were at 40 psi when I checked, I guess the equation would be 1 psi = 1 min. Wow.

Thanksgiving

Sweet, the day that we celebrate the conquest of a land in the name of colonialism! If that's not enough, why don't we kill animals and eat them too!

No really, I know it's just a reason for family to get together. It reminds me of most holidays. Forget the reason for the day, and express the obligatory thanks for what we have.

yay.

Our brains are evolving...slowly but surely

Looking back on some of the horrible things that 'believers' did to people who didn't share their subscription to the mind virus called religion, I had a renewed appreciation for those who stand up and defend rationality in the face of those who would rather look forward to the end of the world-

My scientific colleagues have additional reasons to declare emergency. Ignorant and absolutist attacks on stem cell research are just the tip of an iceberg. What we have here is nothing less than a global assault on rationality, and the Enlightenment values that inspired the founding of this first and greatest of secular republics. Science education - and hence the whole future of science in this country - is under threat. Temporarily beaten back in a Pennsylvania court, the 'breathtaking inanity' (Judge John Jones's immortal phrase) of 'intelligent design' continually flares up in local bush-fires. Dowsing them is a time-consuming but important responsibility, and scientists are finally being jolted out of their complacency. For years they quietly got on with their science, lamentably underestimating the creationists who, being neither competent nor interested in science, attended to the serious political business of subverting local school boards. Scientists, and intellectuals generally, are now waking up to the threat from the American Taliban.

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