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What I mean is making it's way into the boat, not making it's way into the timber. Usually through any spot where the integrity of the deck or superstructure is compromised, like holes in the deck or hatches, engine box cover etc..

This one shows the last capper dropping flat, allowing the others to drop. It would take some accurate measuring in the layout.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EhbX3hSTFXk There's something unusual in the above video. It looks like the block cappers have been previously laid on a mortar bed and then removed to film the domino effect once the mortar has set. Right at the end of the video you can see the cappers sitting on a bed joint and if you freeze frame while they are falling, you can see they are not standing flush on the blocks. Maybe it works better if you do that.

I wonder if the robotic bricklayer can do this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EhbX3hSTFXk

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this: Did you know? There are solar-powered lasers installed in the Saudi Arabia desert to help guide the lost to water sources. Hundreds of rescue missions have taken place throughout Saudi Arabia’s vast deserts over the years. The great majority of individuals who went missing were recovered within 24 hours. A few people were luckily recovered after living for days in the desert. Only in 2020, 131 individuals went missing in various incidents while crossing Saudi Arabia’s deserts. They were either unprepared for or unaware of the desert’s hazards. According to records, 20 individuals died from hunger and thirst as a result of being missing in the deserts, but 100 of them were found to be in fine health, while 11 other cases remain unknown. So, to avoid the hazards that occur in deserts when people miss the directions and to guide the lost people, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture have installed solar-powered laser lights at water sources in Al Jouf Province and the desert of Nafud, north of Hail.

I was wondering how the subject of reflector gunsights drifted to the building industry. But then I realised most people who know what a reflector gunsight is live in a house, so it's all related.

I don't know much about Taylor Swift's music, but I was reading that she made a lot of money after 2019 when she gained control of her masters and re-recorded her first six albums her own way.

Taylor Swift has become a billionaire. The interesting part is that her wealth is all derived from her music career, unlike a lot of artists and performers who have varying business investments like clothing, fashion and makeup lines using their own brand names. https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/taylor-swift-becomes-a-billionaire/news-story/cccb22bec9d8c7e0a051fe132d4c0ed1

Salt water kills dry rot in wooden boats and ships; the rot is caused by rainwater making it's way in as far as I remember.

I wonder if your robotic bricklayer heads straight to the pub after work like the other brickies.

A proportion of that Siberia Battalion are Yakuts and Buryats from eastern Siberia. A lot of the ethnic minorities aren't very happy with the Kremlin. They've been used as cannon fodder and make up a disproportional number of the casualties. When they are killed in action, their family is given firewood or potatoes, while war widows in Moscow are given a Lada. It's no wonder some of them want to fight against the Kremlin.

It seems to be the way they do it, always having one handling security while the others eat. My raven always does the watch duty first while his wife and any kids eat. When they are finished, he has a bite to eat. If she's on the nest, he will always fill his beak up and ferry food to her before he eats.

The problem with painting brickwork is that once it's painted, you're stuck with it. Although that 1:3 mix is fairly dilute. Just referring to the old pioneer, rustic style here. Whitewash has to be applied more often, but it has a nice old look and is as cheap as chips. I've done 19th. century chimneys with limewash. It looks more original than acrylic paint and after a couple of years, bits start to flake off making it look like it's been there for a hundred years. It's got a good look about it for old stuff, but if you want a modern look, paint would be the go. I've had varying success putting whitewash on timber. I think it depends on the type of timber a bit. I remember at my father's place in what used to be the old dairy, you could still see traces of the old whitewash on hoop pine boards, and they wouldn't have milked cows there since before WW2. In the old days it was a government regulation that the inside of the dairy had to be painted or whitewashed. ome, I wonder what the salt is for. Perhaps it makes it bond to the brickwork better.

Here's a random question: let's say you had a small brick outbuilding that you wanted to limewash, and you wanted a tint in the limewash and not pure white. I know there are very expensive mortar dyes but I've only seen them in black and brown. The colour I was thinking of is a light green, similar to the colourbond colour pale eucalypt. You can get paint tinted to those colours, so I was wondering how water based acrylic paint would go mixed with the limewash. The economy of it would be ok as whitewash is normally mixed to a brushable slurry. The biggest challenge would be to determine a set mix ratio so the finished job was a consistent colour.

I used to be indecisive but now I'm not quite sure.

The biggest problem with the mass shootings in regard to numbers of victims is just two things - the fact they are semi-automatic and the use of large capacity detachable magazines of which they can carry several on their person.

Anyone can create Wikipedia content. All you have to do is create an account, sign in and start typing. Before they make it public it gets checked out by Wiki people who I guess are volunteers. The main caveats are that you can't write about a relative or family member and content must be of reasonable public interest. It stops people from creating a Wiki page about their dog. As far as I know, anyone with a Wiki account can edit your content. There's a lot of good Wiki content and a certain amount of dodgy stuff. The best way to check is to check out the references. Sometimes a reference is given and when you check the reference, all it is is a dodgy newspaper article by some hack with no verifiable sources. As long as you reference, Wikipedia is happy. They don't seem too fussy about the quality of the references. But luckily, most content is fairly accurate. I started on a Wiki page a few years back, but the project stalled and it never got completed. I'll get back on to it one day.

You certainly can't overfeed a crow. If they're not hungry enough to eat it on the spot, they cache it in multiple stash points. I suppose that way if some other animal finds a stash of food, they don't lose the lot. The raven here at my place will normally have about half a dozen different stashes of tucker hidden away. He doesn't go to too much trouble; he just scrapes a bit of leaf litter away by swiping his beak from side to side, drops the food in and covers it up again with some leaves. He doesn't always use the same spots so it's got me beat how he remembers where they all are. Inbuilt GPS maybe.

According to some bird experts, the best food you can feed wild birds is dog pellets. There's nothing harmful in them and they have good fibre, vitamin and nutrition levels. I soak them in water to soften them and keep it in a container in the fridge. How popular the pellets are depends on the type and brand. I've found the best to be Supercoat small breed adult in either chicken or beef. They're a big hit in bird land. Some other brands they just turn their noses (or beaks) up. The large breed pellets once soaked and softened end up too big in size. It seems to be mainly only the crow and the butcher birds that go for it. The noisy miners and the friar birds don't seem interested in anything but their native food. Then there's the bush turkeys. They'd eat the diff out of a sh*t truck if you let them. They were getting to be a bit of a pest, but I went to Bunnings and bought a compost bin for the scraps and that seems to have discouraged them. I make sure now that everything goes in the compost bin and no more scraps turfed out the kitchen window. Being able to do that sort of thing is one of the advantages of a bushy block with no lawn, but I figured out that it was the main thing attracting the turkeys. A very destructive bird, those turkeys. Apart from destroying gardens, they constantly dig holes and undermine footings.

The birds were amusing yesterday. I feed a long term Raven mate regularly and for about four months now, a family of butcher birds have moved in so they get a bit as well. I have a feeding platform set up for the crow which is a pole in the ground about 1.6 meters high with a plywood landing pad on top. This keeps the food high up with less risk of attracting the bush turkeys, and the crow also feels more secure than feeding on the ground. For about the last week a lone kookaburra has shown up and is trying to get in on the act. Yesterday morning I put some crow food on the feeding platform, but for a long time none of them would touch it. The crow was up in his tree, the father butcher bird was on the verandah rail and the kookaburra was on the roof. They were all alternating eyeballing each other and the food, but none were game to make the first move. It was just like that standoff scene in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Jerry, two different people, if you reread the article, the third and fourth paragraphs start talking about his predecessor who was the one who died of his injuries (after falling out of a window).

After having another fast forward through the speech on youtube, I think it was more like an hour long speech and CNN just loops it multiple times. I checked out his Michigan speech which was supposed to be a bit over an hour and CNN had looped it to ten hours on youtube. I've got no idea why they do that, more ad revenue maybe.

I don't know whether Trump is getting more loopy or whether he's just rattled by his legal woes, but he's been muddling his speeches more than usual lately. Everything from confusing Biden with Obama to saying Victor Orban is the leader of Turkey. There's no doubting his stamina though. He ranted and talked shite for almost four hours straight at his New Hampshire rally.

Chladni Plate Demonstration by a Lockheed Martin engineer. Warning: the dog might howl from about 4.40 to 5.07 in the video.

Nick Nolte.