If you’re using the Google Music beta but are missing a means to scrobble your music to Last.fm, Daniel Slaughter comes to your rescue! This makes Google Music that much more useful for me…
On my bucket list:
#3041: While on a road trip across the US, make sure to drive through Nebraska. On the outskirts of Omaha, start navigating my way out of the city through progressively smaller roads until I end up driving along a narrow two-laned blacktop next to a corn/soybean/wheat field. At an appropriate spot, pull over onto the shoulder, roll down the windows, blast this song as loud as my stereo will allow, sit on the hood of my car and just look and listen. After the song ends, get back into my car, get back on the highway, and drive away to my next destination.
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Is that like six yards of mulch? 10? More power to you.
Actually, this is only 4.5 yards of mulch:
For comparison, here is the 8 yards of mulch that I originally put into the play area 2 years ago:
That is the same 15x20’ tarp underneath the mulch both times. The 8 yds mulch pile was about 3 feet high, if I recall correctly
The original mulch was made out of shredded wooden palettes, and was VERY dense. The most recent mulch was cypress chips and was much less dense. It made for an easier time shoveling into a wheelbarrow, but I’m pretty sure that means it’s going to pack down more quickly and I’ll probably have to replace it earlier than I did with the old mulch. Time will tell, I guess.
Details of my “early summer” project, where I turned this:
into this:
I’ll tell you. For fathers like mine who won’t let you have the instant gratification of the tiny bursts of coolish air that that pitiful excuse of twirly wood gives you. No, you have to put it on reverse so the cooler air will come up from the floor and EVENTUALLY making it slightly less balls…
Hrm, sounds like we need to get your father in a basic thermo class.
When you have the reverse setting on, it pulls air up, runs it across the ceiling, and down the walls, so it is meant for winter use when you want to recirculate hot air trapped along the ceiling to the rest of the room. The forward setting pushes the same volume air in a much more focused area (a cone directly under the fan) so even though you are pulling hot air from the ceiling down, you get much more of a cooling effect from the wind-chill effect for anyone sitting under the fan. This is not the recommended direction for winter because you will get the chilling effect at the same time you are trying to recirculate warm air, defeating the purpose of the fan.
Of course, if you have a fan in a tall-ceilinged room or in an entranceway where you want to keep the upstairs cool, you may do the reverse of the above to help pull cooler air upstairs during the hot summer months. But that’s not the normal means of using the fan.
I always wondered why fans always seem to have this sequence: OFF - HIGH - MED - LOW, rather than OFF - LOW - MED - HIGH. Ross?
I’m thinking it probably has to do with the pitiful little motors most fans have - if they go from OFF to HIGH, they can ensure the motor starts up properly and gets the whole assembly turning. If it went from OFF to LOW, there’s a chance the motor won’t be able overcome inertia to get the whole assembly rotating, the motor will overheat, and burn out on you (or worse yet, start a fire). Once the fan is rotating, it’s easy to reduce speed (let inertia help slow down the blades) and coast to a stop.
Either that, or fan vendors just like to screw with us, and make us pull that damn cord a million times before we get it to the proper speed.
I’ll tell you. For fathers like mine who won’t let you have the instant gratification of the tiny bursts of coolish air that that pitiful excuse of twirly wood gives you. No, you have to put it on reverse so the cooler air will come up from the floor and EVENTUALLY making it slightly less balls…
Hrm, sounds like we need to get your father in a basic thermo class.
When you have the reverse setting on, it pulls air up, runs it across the ceiling, and down the walls, so it is meant for winter use when you want to recirculate hot air trapped along the ceiling to the rest of the room. The forward setting pushes the same volume air in a much more focused area (a cone directly under the fan) so even though you are pulling hot air from the ceiling down, you get much more of a cooling effect from the wind-chill effect for anyone sitting under the fan. This is not the recommended direction for winter because you will get the chilling effect at the same time you are trying to recirculate warm air, defeating the purpose of the fan.
Of course, if you have a fan in a tall-ceilinged room or in an entranceway where you want to keep the upstairs cool, you may do the reverse of the above to help pull cooler air upstairs during the hot summer months. But that’s not the normal means of using the fan.
A few years back, I renamed my wireless router’s ID to “The Internets”.
As expected, since then, I’ve received a number of calls from my wife where she couldn’t “connect to The Internets”.
When you’re the most technically-minded in the family, you get your kicks where you can.
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper’s Delight
For kristynibbles
Apparently it’s not just Madonna and Ace of Bass that Lady Gaga can copy - this track seems like it was nabbed straight from Shania Twain’s mid-90’s B-sides collection.
(FYI, the track is You and I off the new Born This Way album.)
