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#3261886 20-Jul-2024 17:59

If you are thrown with your neighbor into the wilderness with a backpack and a knife, you have to function in order to survive. It is now up to you to what extent you acquire techniques so that this covers YOUR probabilities in YOUR usual life context or not.

Example: If a lion attacks you, you don't have to be the fastest runner in the world to escape it, you just have to be faster than your neighbor.

That is called Darwinism. 😁

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#3261889 20-Jul-2024 18:05

Tinkerisk: If you are thrown with your neighbor into the wilderness with a backpack and a knife, you have to function in order to survive.

Well, you've got food, utensils, and hopefully can make a fire, so you're all set.

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#3261891 20-Jul-2024 18:09

This slight mod to the attic access that I should have done years ago:

Previously you had to support your body weight from about chest up by holding onto the top rung of the ladder and pushing yourself upwards, with the extra bit of 3x2 across the top you can now haul yourself up by that. It looks insignificant but just that tiny change...

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#3261893 20-Jul-2024 18:24

neb:

Tinkerisk: If you are thrown with your neighbor into the wilderness with a backpack and a knife, you have to function in order to survive.

Well, you've got food, utensils, and hopefully can make a fire, so you're all set.

What about building traps, constructing a shelter, interpreting weather phenomena, supplying drinking water, … and last but not least, internet connection? 😉

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#3261894 20-Jul-2024 18:26

neb:

This slight mod to the attic access that I should have done years ago:

Previously you had to support your body weight from about chest up by holding onto the top rung of the ladder and pushing yourself upwards, with the extra bit of 3x2 across the top you can now haul yourself up by that. It looks insignificant but just that tiny change...

Well done! Do you think that in 10-15 years you will still be smiling about it when you have to go up there? 😋

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#3262565 22-Jul-2024 08:59

I bought two new drives to increase NAS storage. Ordered on Sunday 1 PM from PB Tech, being shipped from Auckland and having it delivered Monday in Wellington:

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#3262623 22-Jul-2024 09:31

freitasm:

I bought two new drives to increase NAS storage. Ordered on Sunday 1 PM from PB Tech, being shipped from Auckland and having it delivered Monday in Wellington:

I'm particularly impressed by how they allocated a tracking number before you even ordered it.😁

New Zealanders, on average, have one testicle.

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#3262625 22-Jul-2024 09:34

Yeah, probably pre-paid tickets.

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#3262650 22-Jul-2024 10:24

freitasm:

Yeah, probably pre-paid tickets.

I think where I work is the only place still using prepaid tickets and the numbers are really short - 2 letters, 9 numbers and 2 letters.

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#3263358 23-Jul-2024 08:40

Someone in the office... "I got my son a phone a few days ago. I was telling him off this morning, and he hung up on me! He's not supposed to be able to do that!"

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#3264252 25-Jul-2024 13:22

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#3264362 25-Jul-2024 17:26

I had to smile at the poor Dyson sales guy in Albany mall, trying so hard to make the headphones with built in air purification look like a good idea!

Such an awful looking product that just seems to be a solution looking for a problem!

Anyone here going to fess up buying a pair ? :-)

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#3264364 25-Jul-2024 17:53

Mark: I had to smile at the poor Dyson sales guy in Albany mall, trying so hard to make the headphones with built in air purification look like a good idea!

Is that the Chindogu model?

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#3265107 27-Jul-2024 11:59

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds Hot Ones Episode. Have been waiting a while for it, it didn't disappoint.

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#3265114 27-Jul-2024 12:21

This morning Mrs Code suggested that we watch the replay of the Olympics opening ceremony. I’m not a big fan of such things and said meh - but of course we watched it anyway.

Have to say I was blown away. Not so much by the parade of nations’ boats - but by the cultural stuff - music, dance, showmanship, storytelling etc. IMO it was beautiful, stylish, smart. As a stereotype comment, pretty much what you might expect from the French - but they out-shone themselves. Brilliant.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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