Coroplast greenhouse! :)

[freebeard]

[Picture Added 02-12-2019 04:33 PM]

[Xist]

Okay. Put a giant thing in my back yard with maybe 15' on each side. Since the distance from one corner of one conex to the opposite corner of the other conex would be 52.277', that would be 26.139'--on top of an 8.5-foot conex, so I would have something 34.639' tall in my back yard.

That is how you win friends and influence people!

[freebeard]

I didn't put your back yard in the picture in 2019. My bad.

Don't assume 1u containers, they could be VW microbuses. Don't assume a hemisphere, it can be prolated. Three decimal places is Okay, though.

The relevant geometry is the Golden Ratio of the base rectangle.

Here's a 40x40ft plan with three 2u containers from the same year.



They don't need to be containers.



On the way to Ready Player One.

[Xist]

I asked an attorney on JustAnswer how to bail on Progresso, reported some spam, made up a session from yesterday, pulled a couple of weeds, and tried to restore the dirt that had been bound around one weed's roots.

One weed came out without much dirt at all.
Another broke at the surface level.
The first one came out with a giant clod of dirt that didn't shake free!

I also drilled dozens of holes in a bald spot in the lawn right next to the patio (and those weeds), poured grass seed all over, and watered twice.

I don't know for how long the grass seed has sat on the patio, so I don't expect much, if anything.

The landlord sent the lease, which is 35 pages!
Every single page is upside-down and crooked!

When I rotated the pages so I could sign them electronically I also tried to straighten the pages, but four pages came from an outside source, so I downloaded it and replaced those pages.

One had the old office address crossed out and the new address scribbled in.
I used OCR on the page, replaced the address (and scribbles) with the address from the site, formatted it, and inserted that in the document.

I completed 19 pages before I needed to get gas and see my client.

I replaced the nuts in the portable garage, tried to tighten the cover, pounded in the dirt around the first earth stake, drilled a second hole, and needed to dig up soil from the compost pile to fill in the hole.

Where did the dirt go?!

I figured there must be some kind of auger I could attach to my drill.

Maybe for planting bulbs?

Behold, the bulb auger!


It dug a couple of inches, I switched to my drill, and it didn't do much better, so I started pouring water in there, working on something else, and returning later.

I don't know if I hit a rock, root, or what, but it stopped digging, so I kept adding water, and wiggling the auger around.

I finally thought that I had it deep enough, but I feel unsure now.

I used a hammer to pound in the backfill, after stepping on it.

I think that I need to bring out my digging bar.

That thing is heavy!

I put in the first one and tried to pack the dirt around it yesterday and the auger was pretty loose today.

The wind [or Mom!] had moved the portable garage about 3', so I tried to bring it back, and line it up.

You are supposed to use little steel cables in clear sleeves to tie the anchors to the legs.

I think that something like a pipe clamp would be vastly better.

How do you tighten these stupid cables?!

I just got it as tight as I could with one hand and used an 8mm socket in my cordless screwdriver to tighten it.

I think the best way would be to use a good zip tie, attach the cable to the zip tie with cheap zip ties, and then tighten the cable.

I also made a quick dinner.

Mom didn't finish second dinner until 2030.

I had wanted to stop at Safeway for some ultra-filtered milk and a protein bar before getting gas, but I didn't have the time and was still running late.

When I approached the intersection leaving town there was a green light, but red arrow, and I was turning left.

I wanted to go straight, turn around, and make a right, but I decided to be patient.

We didn't get a green arrow!

I swear that was the first time in over 5 years that I did not receive a turn arrow and there were many of us in the 2 turn lanes!

There was only one vehicle next to me, so I went straight and turned around after all.

I don't think they got a green arrow on the next cycle, either. I drove 10 miles at the speed limit before anyone passed me--someone driving 80 in an Audi.

It is 14.6 miles from that intersection until the speed limit drops below 55 and that was the only vehicle to pass me.

It was uncanny!

The Show Low Family Dollar carries ultra-filtered milk, so I decided to stop at the new Family Dollar in Snowflake, which was on my way, and see if they had ultra-filtered milk and protein bars, but they didn't have either!

So, I went to Walmart, which was on the wrong side of the road, so my quick snack took longer.

I really didn't need to sit and eat in my car, but all that I had eaten all day was half a burger!

Then I needed to wait at the light, run into Basha's, get an ad for Mom, and then finally drive home, so that wasted precious daylight.

It really doesn't feel like I did much today, but I sure tried!

[freebeard]

It was the longest day of the year. What did you accomplish?

I've forgotten most of it (credit union, groceries) but curiously, I also was tightening cables on a canopy.

The wind [or Mom!] had moved the portable garage about 3'[?], so I tried to bring it back, and line it up.

You are supposed to use little steel cables in clear sleeves to tie the anchors to the legs.

I think that something like a pipe clamp would be vastly better.

How do you tighten these stupid cables?!

I just got it as tight as I could with one hand and used an 8mm socket in my cordless screwdriver to tighten it.

I think the best way would be to use a good zip tie, attach the cable to the zip tie with cheap zip ties, and then tighten the cable.

I used 3/16" vinyl covered steel cable, cable clamps with 5/16" nuts, Zip ties and a 6" turnbuckle. Two clamps at each location, the snug but not tight Zip ties slide back and forth as needed. One can loosen one clamp and spread the cables inbetween then slide and retighten the other. Inchworm them along as far as possible, the tighten the turnbuckle.

The whole thing will be done soon, but I don't have a good battery for the camera.

The other thing was that I got in the Metro and started it up, and happened to glance at the guages and the gas guage was pegged at the bottom of reserve. So I got two gallons of year-old clear premium from the SUPERBeetle jerry can, and avoided being stranded somewhere up Main Street.

Other than that it was all schooling trolls in The Lounge.

[Xist]

They tried?

They would have been better off if they hadn't?

At least they can say they made an attempt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAzzoGCYw2U

Oh, wrong donut boys!

My favorite line:



This was the best picture I could get of Jekyll and the fairing:


I adjusted it, although I don't know if it was enough.


I don't know how tall Jethro is, how much he weighs, how much the mini bike weighs, how much that has changed with their modifications, but the fairing weighed 10 pounds, which nobody thinks will help.

They said it made everything 4% more aerodynamic!

At least according to a simulation.

I don't know how tall he and the mini bike are, but they call it a Walmart Motorcycle, and I know it is a Coleman. This is the Coleman mini bike that I found: Coleman CC100X Gas Powered 98cc Red Power Ride-On Mini Bike.

It doesn't tell me anything useful about the wheels, but it says the bike weighs 79 pounds, and is 35" tall and 50" long.

Supposedly, these are the wheels, which are 145/70R6, and a calculator says those are 14" in diameter.

Those are 6" rims.

I think the slicks are on smaller rims. I thought they were the same size, but they are different colors with different tires, and held at different angles.


However, when I measured it in Paint, it was 70% as tall.

4.2" rims seem unlikely.

Measuring it in Paint, it looks more like 9".

This is the first video and that is a different Coleman mini bike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBtokwEF460

Oh well.

I forget why I went back.

To see if they linked the bike?

To the best of my ability, the front tire is 358 pixels long, and if it is 14", then there are 25.57 pixels per inch.

With the slicks it should be 2.5" lower and I get 1,181 pixels from the bottom of the front tire to the top of his head.

Google says that a motorcycle helmet makes the rider 2.5" taller, so 1,181 / 25.57 = 46.18".

Applying Ye Olde Template, I get an image 3,653 pixels wide (142.85", 11' 10.85").


Aerohead always talks about designing the bottom for usability, but this is designed for racing, so I am going to try to match the angle on top.

I matched it the best I could, inverted it, cropped, and erased:


That brings it to 3,062 pixels (119.74" or basically 10').

I cannot imagine making a fairing that weighed less than 80 pounds, so it might weigh as much as the bike.

The fairing itself might weigh 150 pounds, which is the weight limit.

I swore I created a new thread! I have not done this before!

This post is already far too long, but I don't want to mess up the title, so I shall continue!

This is the second video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wyibBpZLcQ

I don't know how much Jester weighs, but if he comes in at 180 with racing gear, on an 80-pound bike, with a 10-pound fairing, that is 270 pounds.

I don't think the rear fairing does any good. It tapers far too fast and I doubt it lines up well with the front, plus there are those leg slots.

I don't know what weight reduction you could manage, besides ditching the dinghy tail.

Getting the smallest rider?

That would also reduce the frontal area!

My favorite lines: "Ow. I just stabbed myself. This bike is sharp now. Lots of sharp edges everywhere."

"I mean I can't see anything."

He explained that in order to gear the bike for racing, they need someone to push him in an ATV:

Hey Adam have you ever driven a four-wheeler?
First time!
So yeah, so that's cool.

"It's a little sketchy here, but you know what? Luckily can't turn too much. That's cool."

"Feels great. Got a little bit of wobble in the front end, but you just got to power through that."

1. He may have increased the weight 4% to improve aerodynamics 4%.
2. There is poor visibility.
3. I don't know how they chose the guy to ride the ATV, but he did not run over Jessop, although the bike doesn't steer very much.
4. The front end wobbles.
5. They don't have a medic!

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I only lived out of the panel van for thirty days.

That's why I said full-size, as it would have room for more amenities to make it suitable for a longer term living.

I'd recommend two vans parked front to back with a canopy stretched between them.

A few years ago I started lurking about the suitability repurposing some old van or bus bodies to make a house, in order to circumvent the need for a building permit. Going off-grid was also considered.

[Xist]

Today was shorter, but I tried to make up some sessions and confirm appointments for tomorrow, took my brother to Sonic, reached out to the VA about 3 different things, spent an hour at the post office buying and mailing 5 different money orders for the house, drove to Pinetop-Lakeside to recycle glass, waited in a line that wrapped around the UPS store to shove 17 pounds of paper into an already-full shred bin, donated more stuff, took my brother to Dollar Tree, made dinner, dug another hole for my portable garage, and pulled the rest of the trees and big weeds from the front lawn.
I can finally mow!

[Xist]

Today seems like a big letdown after yesterday. I woke up around 0430, wrote my notes for the second agency, submitted invoices and informed her I am starting grad school, did 30 push-ups in a row in my Mario costume and realized that I hunch my shoulders, so my face hits the lawn earlier than it should, without my upper arms becoming parallel to the ground.

I am going to try looking straight ahead instead of at the ground, but how many push-ups can I do if I descend another inch?

Do you know what the crazy thing is?

Thirty push-ups is the Army standard for my age!

Then I finally mowed the front lawn in my Mario costume, changed out, and watered it.

I have been putting the sprinkler on a garbage can to get the entire yard, but decided not to, and it only got the middle, so I manually watered the edges, which was 10-15 minutes I will never get back.

The thing is, I have two hoses attached so I can hose off my cars, and they have a total of three holes.

The one that is usually out front has some kinks and I need to be super careful so the hose doesn't twist on me--and the leaks don't spray me.

I don't even know if I can put that on the garbage can and have it work, it might just kink!

I don't want to replace the hose right before I move, but it looks like I will need to, and then bring the new one.

I have at least one hose in storage, so I should find that, and see if it is better.

Anyway, I tried to reach out to my families, and the landlord didn't read my e-mail and saw the 35-page lease and two other documents and decided that, despite what I wrote, those documents were supposed to be part of the lease, even though signed versions of them are in the lease, and he told me I didn't sign them.

No, those are his clean copies, so he can use them, and look more professional.

He told me the easiest way was to print out the pages, sign them, and send him a picture message.

No, I printed those two pages to PDF, and e-mailed it to him.

They were already signed.

Then I exported to images and sent those via text.

I saw two clients and had a horrible time figuring out what my landlord said.

Apparently, I need to keep things simple with him.

Speaking of extracting images and keeping things simple, I started--and stopped--talking to a lady.

This is our exact conversation, copied word-for-word. I am bold and she is italic:

Hi

How are you doing?

I’m doing well. How are you?

I trimmed my nails and got a piece stuck in my eye.

That’s not good. Where you able to get it out. Is your eye ok?

A clipping managed to get under my eyelid.
What are the chances of that happening?!
It flew over my glasses and into my eye!
My eye was a little sore once I fished out the clipping with a q-tip.
How is your week going?

That’s crazy. I’m glad you got it out.
My weeks been good so far. Just finished work for the
week. Now I’ll have three days off and start again Monday.

Do you work 10-hour days?
I average about that much a week.
I don't recommend it.

No I work in a school averaging 36 hours a week.
During the summer I work the extended school program
which is Monday-Thursday 7:30-11:30. So not many hours.
Do you average 10 hours a week or all 10 hour days?

I average 10 hours a week.
I need to go to grad school or something.

Why do you only work 10 hours a week?

Due to never asking an SLP who always criticizes me
and has been sued for back pay to work for her?

Do you still work with her?
And I’m sorry I’m not sure what you mean. Did you
sue her or was she sued by someone else? And is
that why she only works you 10 hours a week?

I never pursued employment with a woman who
always criticizes me and has been sued for back pay.

So where do you work? You made it
sound like you work for this lady?

By first mentioning her saying that I never asked to work for her?
I work for two other agencies and see clients in their homes?

Ok that’s fun to work with clients on their homes.

It depends.
One ripped my favorite work shirt and attempted to beat
up me, like he had other employees before and after.
Another always tried to bite, scratch, and shove me.

Yeah that’s not fun
Have you ever thought about working in a school?

Why didn't you ask if I had worked in a school?

Because I asked where you worked
and you didn’t say in a school.

Anyway, I completed my notes for the first agency, and need to get to bed so I can see those Holbrook clients, now with Uno!

I kept wondering why I did not receive a notification for this, but Jessica went 79 MPH on his mini bike, some guys swapped the engine, and he hit 85 MPH when he blew the engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4Z9udNuWM

I haven't received a notification for JR in a few days. I hope he didn't cobble together a submarine to rescue some billionaires.

[freebeard]

Do you want to talk submarines?

I think the era of carbon fiber subs is over, taking a place alongside screen doors.

GRXD-810: This is a nanoscale 3D printed metamaterial. 1000x as strong as steel.

Relativity Space: They 3D print fuel tanks for space ships, doing a vase-mode print on a turntable.

Combine the two and you'd be able to make a sub as big as a school bus.