Aja on 5/8/2021 at 15:05
Quote Posted by Brethren
Man, that workbench looks too nice to actually work on.
Thanks. It's already full of dents and scrapes, and yeah, I did accidentally drill through it a little bit once. It's five inches thick, though, so it can be resurfaced many times. Workbenches in this style are traditionally joined together with (
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/drawboring-resurrected/) drawbore pegs, not glue, so they tend to last for hundreds of years. I'm hoping mine will outlive me and be used by future craftspeople.
For those interested, I posted a (
https://imgur.com/gallery/zEj36ik) photo build diary of the bench, which took place over many months last year.
Renault on 5/8/2021 at 21:33
The bench just looks really solid. I built my workbench years ago out of a solid core door I bought 2nd hand, and I thought it was pretty damn sturdy, but this puts mine to shame. Again, nice work.
No pressure, but you're kind of required now to build more things.
faetal on 6/8/2021 at 10:32
You need a massive rustic douglas fir eurorack case now :D
Gray on 9/8/2021 at 02:20
Since I have CFS, I was pretty much living life as in lockdown long before Covid, so my life did not change as dramatically as it did for normal healthy people. I did stop going to the gym, and bought some more home equipment. I probably lost some muscle mass, but got overall more fit. Slimmer, less bulky. I was already in the habit of taking long walks, but with the lockdown, that became one of the very few forms of exercise available, so I did that more and for longer. I was very much aware during lockdown #1 that I would later look back fondly on how quiet and empty the streets were, and how calm and peaceful the city felt. Not so much in lockdowns #2 and #3, when people stopped caring.
Back in my home country, 12-odd years ago, I used to have quite a lot of plants. Since moving over here, none. Until now. With too much spare time, I bought a couple of plants, and some tomato seeds, so for the better part of this year, my tiny flat has turned into a small jungle. I did manage to kill a few cactuses, but so far, everything else seems to still be alive. No tomatoes yet, though.
For exercise, I usually walk a lot, but since lockdown #1, I've been trying to avoid people, who at the time tended to congregate in the parks I would usually go to, so I had to think up other plans. This meant that I more or less by accident discovered a lot more local back streets, and local geography than I probably otherwise would have. Now I know my way around this part of the city a lot better than only two years ago.
But really, due to my illness, I was already doing most of the stuff already, it was just ramped up a little bit. For my birthday last year, my stepdaughter got me a card that said "You were social distancing before it was cool". How true.
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One thing I did do a bit more was to focus a bit more on my music. I'm not an actual musician and I never will be, I don't have the talent, but I quite enjoy making noise. Most of it will never escape my headphones, because quite frankly, it's... with the best of will, shit. There are two or three tracks that I'm slowly beginning to feel a bit proud of, but they will need a lot more polishing before they're done. And there's about 500 half-assed pieces of crap that will never go anywhere. The other day when I was drunk I thought that maybe I'd try to learn playing the cello, but that'll probably never happen, I can't play the instruments I already own. But I do love the sound of a cello. Maybe I should start with something simpler, like the ukulele I got 14 years ago and still can't play. Any day now. Except it's in a box in a country far, far away. I'm getting pretty good at playing the drum machine.
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I often make jokes about me being an old fat middle aged white guy. Some of that is mildly exaggerated for comedy value. I'm only about 4 kg overweight, which I consider to be pretty good for a guy turning 50 this year. But it's such an open goal to clump all of those bits together, to highlight how irrelevant I am. Point being that young people should ignore everything I say. I have no desire to join the Gammons.
I'm still boringly white and middle aged and male and heterosexual. Sorry about that. But hey, at least I'm poor, so I have no power over anything, so surely that must be good.
demagogue on 11/8/2021 at 07:42
Quote Posted by Tocky
And I've never quite understood how people think of the forces of the universe as meshes and the like. To me it's areas of energy. Some opposing and some interacting. Individual bits with forces of their own and collective masses made of those with a collective force unique to the whole.
I was thinking of responding to this and never got around to it. But (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEDSAheh8Os) today's episode of Space Time explained exactly what I wanted to say in an intuitive way. Rather than summarize it badly, I'll just let anyone interested watch it from that link above. The bit that explains this part is 4m30s to 7m13s, but it's good to watch the whole thing. (And interesting because the topic itself is so interesting!)
Tocky on 12/8/2021 at 03:22
Indeed. But it still doesn't make me think in 2D about wave functions. 2D just seems how we simplify when it isn't simple or 2d. It's interesting that the first thing I thought of was communication when the instantaneous particle reaction thing was first mentioned on here. How long back? Ten years ago? And here that is what he talks about. Only then he throws in 4D with time and 5D with multiple universe splitting when all you need is sender and receiver knowing about each other and observation of yes-no reactions to form Pictures much like the 01 we are doing now. Multiverse just muddies the use of a tool for me. We can talk to our space travelers. That and 3D understanding of waves is plenty for me. I'll leave the other for the larger minds. And we can even produce those by manipulation of DNA if we (and by we I mean those smarter than myself) are brave and meticulous as we will have to if we expect to cross vast stretches of space. There had better be some water bear DNA mixed in for those trips. Hell, throw in the 4D and maybe we are the "grays" visiting ourselves to sample and get back to a semblance of human.
I think I've said all this before but maybe it was multiverse me.
Colone on 17/8/2021 at 09:07
Well I stopped doing any sport :laff: and started to cook more in Berlin property (
https://tranio.com/germany/berlin/) here. And I am surprised but my dishes come out really tasty and I enjoy the process of cooking now. Before I wasn't much into it. Also started to listen to more music
Aja on 19/8/2021 at 18:34
Some absolutely classic pandemic hobbies in this thread. :thumb: