Youtube hearted comments of Paul Frederick (@1pcfred).

  1. In a nutshell the old timers got here first and they took all the best wood for themselves. I was working on a 200 year old building once and I saw boards 20 feet long and a foot wide that were perfectly clear. Not so much as a pin knot in any of it and the grain was as straight as laser beams. It looked like something from another planet it was so perfect. It was beyond reproach. That kind of wood simply doesn't exist anywhere today. The wood of dreams.
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  2. I'm surprised the engine could even cycle. Great attempt!
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  3. Everyone alive today is contaminated by the nuclear testing that has occurred in the past. Scientists even use the contamination to date things now. It is called the bomb carbon effect.
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  4. The Nazis on the dark side of the Moon still hold out! There's a documentary about them called Iron Sky.
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  5. They don't build as many houses. The USA builds more single family homes than the entire rest of the world combined. So elsewhere is building a lot less homes. We do that by building houses the cheapest and easiest way possible.
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  6. It is the law of high numbers. Given enough occurrences chances increase to certainty that certain events transpire. People occasionally die. And enough people are logging enough hours in the air that some of them are going to die while flying in the air. There's just too much overlap for it to not happen.
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  7. I strongly suspect that you haven't read the license too closely. Microsoft has covered their ass six ways from Sunday. They always reserve the right to revoke your license at any time for no reason whatsoever. Just using the software you have to agree to not litigate.
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  8. German sub pens were targets we didn't have a whole lot of success against bombing them. They still exist to this day. The roofs were like 10 feet thick reinforced concrete. The Germans knew they were going to be targets so they built them tough. We cracked a couple pens. Mostly they did OK though. We had these things called earthquake bombs. They were just big bombs. 15,000 pounds. We defeated the U boats at sea. Cracked the German naval code.
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  9. I've been running Linux for a long time and I've noticed fonts in Linux are a mess. It was worse in the past though. Once upon a time we didn't even have TrueType fonts. We just had bitmapped fonts. They were rough. Very sharp though.
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  10. Farmer power!
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  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ase0GXjx4w
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  12. 27%? I thought I was a procrastinator! Get on the stick already people. Windows 10 is not that bad. So upgrade already.
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  13. The coiled wire wrench holders are great.
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  14. Actually if you get to the bottom of the spotted owl issue Enron was behind it. They ended up selling the Headwaters to the government for an incredible amount of money. They probably hired the environmentalists to protest. They were likely just actors. It was a huge scam. Around that time they were also clear cutting and causing mud slides. If you remember around then mudslides were all over the news. So that was them too. Oh and the brownouts. They engineered those too. A few bad people can do a lot of damage.
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  15. The world is always scary. You only realize it sometimes though.
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  16. Graphite and motor oil is what I like to call sludge. But let's see what happens.
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  17. The price is certainly right. That PC lacks some features I have found to be essential for me though. I have to have a SPDIF audio out. To get that I know what it ends up costing. About half that whole build.
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  18. Linus' accent has changed some in 30 years. To the point where he pronounces his own name differently depending on what language he's speaking. He didn't move to the USA until 2004. That's when his accent started to change. We've corrupted him.
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  19. I get maybe 50 sharpenings on a blade. So that's like $1,100 of new blades. When I sharpen a blade it is sharper than they come new too. Plus I can sharpen a blade whenever I feel like it. Going out and buying a new blade isn't something I want to do all the time. Not that I'm ever too excited to sharpen blades. But I gotta do what I gotta do. Really what sucks is taking the blades off and putting them back on again. Sharpening is the easy part. I got to jack my tractor up to get the blades off and on. And drag out the impact gun. I have a dedicated gun for just removing the blades. I leave the socket on it.
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  20. This video really highlights just how connector illiterate I am. There's no way I could possibly remember all of that. 3, maybe 4 things sure. But here I don't even know how many things he rattled off. Most of the time I don't even know what connector I'm looking at.
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  21. In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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  22. I'm glad I bought a lot of genuine Vise Grips years ago when they were made in USA. I still pick them up used whenever I run across them. But I have a lot now so I'm pretty set.
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  23. How does any of this make sense? Oversupply does not lead to inflation. Talk about an uneducated economist. No, we're getting robbed!
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  24. I was never personally a fan of chestnuts myself.
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  25. Hey, it could have worked. You never know for sure until you try.
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  26. Ma Deuce; dishing out horse tab sized freedom pills for over 100 years.
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  27. You couldn't put that tool in a box in the west for $10 let alone build the whole tool.
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