Architects or advertising executives. Sometimes lead male is one and lead female is the other.

I think it was one of the writers on Cracked that opined it’s because those are the only jobs screenwriters partially understand. They’re people who pitch ideas to customers, kind of like screenwriters do with scripts. So you get a lot of main characters that have a weirdly large amount of down time, a looming deadline to present an idea for an ad campaign or building to your boss and the three executives your boss is kissing up to. Is it the moment of triumph for our main character, has our main character had a change of heart that he can’t run a greenwashing campaign for ExxonMobile anymore because hippy dippy love interest got to him, and now his previous life is going to fall apart and he’s going to start over as a shop owner in a small town or something…

I don’t really have any before/after pics of today’s project; not a lot about the building changed in a meaningful way (I moved some clamps I don’t use very often to the roof.) I mostly jus kind of cleaned up and put things back where they go. I’ll give you a tour though; these pictures have a little age on them but they’re basically current. Won’t take long, it’s a 10x12 shed.

This shot is standing in the doorway looking in, on the left hand side you’ve got the router table on that godawful old kitchen table, drill press on its cart, the mill cart with planer and jointer beyond, end of the aisle you’ve got my table saw folded up there’s no hope of using it in the building, it has to get wheeled out for use) and then the work table with miter saw station on the right. Stock loft above the back wall at convenient head hitting height, with the supply shelf below.

Detail shot of the workbench, with a rack of cheap parts bins from Harbor Freight for hardware and such below, along with scrap storage. Most of those tool cases have been moved under the drill press. Note the clamp department over there to the right, near the door. The pipe clamps have been replaced with parallel jaw clamps. That stock support to the left of the miter saw is a mistake, in fact I’d like to rethink that whole damn table. But, I built that table before I knew this was going to be a furniture shop. So. Also: Don’t get the brown pegboard. get white pegboard. Absorbs less light.

Other side of the shop…I am personally unimpressed with that Bosch router table and would recommend buying a lift and building your own router table than buying that one. Once I get my peertube channel off the ground I’m going on a longform rant about it.

When you have a space as small as this, you do have to make use of any little space you can. Everything but the router table is on wheels and everything can go right out the door and down the ramp, so my 10x12 foot shop unpacks to be, well, backyard sized. A minor thing I did today was install some hooks between the joists of the stock loft so I can hang some smaller scraps up there.

A lot of offcuts and scrap have piled up along the back wall, I need to come up with some projects to use some of that up. If I had a shop twice this one’s size, I’d instantly pack it this dense.

We were each given like a quarter teaspoon of grounds and a toothpick.

Gah you fuggin beat me to it!

It’s not going to get better until we start killing office buildings full of these people.

I was agreeing with your particular point, there’s nothing really notable about being merely a passenger. Even an aviatrix as famous as Amelia Earhart isn’t remembered for being the first woman to ride across the Atlantic.

You just did an excellent job of proving my point.

In 1928, Amelia Earhart entered public notoriety for being the first female passenger to be flown across the Atlantic Ocean. In her own words: “Stutz did all the flying–had to. I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes. Maybe someday I’ll try it alone.” This is the first time she made the papers, it’s where the general public first heard her name, but it’s not really what she’s remembered for today.

“Someday” came four years later in 1932, when Amelia flew her Lockeed Vega solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a bit over 14 hours. Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross. This achievement IS on the list of what we remember her for today, it’s usually the third bullet point down after “was a pilot that was also a woman” and “disappeared in an attempt to fly a Lockheed Electra around the world in 1937.”

Amelia Earhart is not really remembered as the first trans-Atlantic airplane passenger.

Are they LEDs or neon lamps?

I’m not sure “I’m a poor judge of character” is the flex you think it is.

66.5, even. Wright flyer flew in December, Eagle landed in July.

Some, like sulfur, have an aura of stink.

I was taught that Jupiter had 17 moons, Saturn has 12 and Pluto has 1. Many more have been discovered since.

Then there’s the whole “different areas on your tongue taste different flavors.” Like you only taste sweet with the tip of your tongue, the middle tastes salty, etc. I remember being given various substances by my fifth grade teacher like sugar, coffee, lemon juice, table salt etc. and we tried putting them on different areas of our tongues and we were like “…no, we taste everything everywhere.”

I distinctly remember my fifth grade teacher trying to pull that.

Not while Ticketmaster exists.

So…the one that ran for those 90 days is the original?

You want another try?

What have you got against the IT staff?

Method and apparatus for rattling a hoohaa.

Does the phrase “vote with your wallet” mean anything to you?