2022-05-30
In order for success to exist something opposite of it has to exist as well. For every up there is a down. For every left there is a right. It is only logical. In order to know success one has to know failure as well. They are inexorably linked – the only way to not know failure is to not know success. Society heavily favors success. Again this is logical. We are bags of mostly Read more…
2021-11-11
It usually starts with a really weirdkinky fetish, and this time is no different. For some reason or another I wanted a really really solid alpha-unit of a fence. After doing some slight maths followed by even slighter maths assigning the cost I realized that I was perfectly a-ok with a beta-unit of a fence. This is of course still heads and shoulders above the omega-non-unit that is a standard stick-in-the-mud fence. As was demonstrated Read more…
2021-11-06
I think this is my new favorite image macro (it’s not a meme, you savage!) It very succinctly represents … life (not to put too much pressure on your comic, Van Oktop). The devil, as they say in platitude college, is in the details. Smart people choose to undertake endeavors where the details are on the less laborious side. Other people choose to jam out with their dog to to Snap! on a Saturday night. Read more…
2020-07-20
Now that we have a defensible way to calculate wind force per square foot of fence we need to put that to practical use. The main load bearing part of a fence is the fence post. We’re interested in the load generated on the post above the ground where the fence attaches to it. This will also play into the footer design later. The way fence post loads are calculated, and I swear I saw Read more…
2020-07-19
One of my next substantial projects is building a fence. Because of the type of person I am (insufferable) I want a fence that’s better than the standard ‘stick a 4×4 in the ground and nail some wood onto it’ type of fence. Not that there is anything wrong with that type of fence, I just want better. As part of the project I though it would be fun to go through and do the Read more…