Recent content by otlski

I don't know how true or correlated all this is but local lore is that early on, the epicenter of Lyme disease in the world was in Old Lyme Connecticut. Old Lyme is just across from Plum Island in Long Island Sound. Plum Island was a US government biological research facility.

I have interacted with AI in a few ways. Before getting into that, let me say that at this point I would not trust AI to opine or report on any controversial topic. That said, doing such was my first real interaction. At the beginning of the Ukraine Russia war I chatted with an AI asking its...

We have several types and use one all the time. Chicken or veal parmigiana are fork-cuttable tender. Other lightly breaded chicken fillets with a salad as summer meal. Pound out a whole pork tenderloin into a thin sheet to stuff and roll up with spinach, onions, and mushrooms. Also, helps...

We used epoxy anchor kits at Cape Kennedy to secure equipment in the old Shuttle processing facility. The concrete floor was allegedly 10 inches thick. No wonder too, our hammer drill went into it way faster than it ever should have. It was like hardened sand. I see McMaster has some but I...

So it seems your main concern is that your decretive concrete is not say 3000 psi but something weaker? Correct? Otherwise, the load rating would be valid and you would not have to worry. Two alternatives perhaps. One, use epoxy anchors to spread the shear load more intimately. Two, go up...

I believe that there is a menu setting to co-sight the two cameras. This, from my memory a few years back.

Ion engines cannot lift a launch vehicle out of earth's gravity well: the thrust is too low. They would be very suitable for a transfer of crew while in orbit, then go from there.

If you buy a side by side with a heated cab and a plow, you will have a mild winter. This works better than all of them.

In Connecticut. Surveyed a 600 foot property line dispute with neighbor. Located six out of twelve pins on 12.5 acres heavily wooded, steep rocky terrain, with swamps and a brook. Produced stamped drawing. Took surveyor 9 months to show up (neighbor picked them). Cost $2500. They found in...

Musk finds himself on the wrong side of the current cabinet appointees. The timing was supposed to be September but is pushed off until late November curiously.

No. Not good in the mud at all..

A thank you letter to Canada from an American. Thank you Canada for hockey. Thank you for a mostly quiet border. Thank you for Rush. Thank you for all those Molsons I drank in my youth

I have had mine out on rocky unproved trails, loaded so it is compressing the springs a fair amount. I have not had problems with it. It is slow but the hydrostatic transmission just feathers down and keeps going. You won't get anywhere fast. Even unloaded going downhill on a smooth dirt road...

Wish you were here

The bolded part is where I started laughing.