Hello the Insulating Concrete Forms Manufacturers Association (ICFMA) together with NFPA recently demonstrated that ICF construction meets NFPA 285 standard for fire propagation. youtu.be/FiUF6M6OczU cc: @mjmoser.bsky.social

Hello. Happy national compliance officer day to those who celebrate In other news, ROCN Chen De (PFG-1208), first ROCN Lafayette to complete life extension upgrades. No longer sporting the silly navalized AIM-9s - refitted with a indigenous VLS system and integrated with BAE's Type 997 Artisan cya

Had some extended time incommunicado due to business travel. Obviously things are not great Bob but as far as I can tell, the folks doing nonstop screenshot posting and doomer shit on the interwebs don’t have any concrete roles in their communities or do work to make life better.

Well it’s the third time in 20 years that a new admin decided to throw a wrench into basic science research. Coincidentally always the same people who claim they want to be beat China.

Well that’s inconvenient.

The high efficiency furnaces that side vent with PVC are particularly vulnerable to this. Check them.

I ordered additional copies of birth certificates for my kiddo today and frankly the attack on jus soli is unworkable from an administrative perspective. birth certificate issued by state and county authorities don’t necessarily include both parents and definitively do not record any information

Not much new can be said about Ichiro's amazing career and quirkiness. But I want to highlight the Ichiro school of functional fitness, stretching and not lifting insane weights and eating corndogs and chicken wings.

8 years ago I lived a diff sort of life and didn’t have any social media so pardon my inexperience but stop cutting yourselves

Eric Berger really leaning in on the weather forecast and not white washing space today

New ship, new gym, same view. Mt. Whitney had a good gym setup. But I need to knock off the rust so I am ready for the CO PRT challenge in April. @concept2 Last 1000m brought to you by Big Wild: m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-be... #LCC20

Kiddo and I spending the day playin Turmoil and Minecraft.

Any other folks who remembered Sheldon Brown? My memory of him was he was extremely opinionated about headsets and frowned upon annoying weightweenies but also recognized toxic masculinity before we had a term for it. The granite real man saddle. www.sheldonbrown.com/real-man.html

My 20+ year old plastic rice cooker cup is disintegrated and we bought a metal one. The Anjin has an annual income of 250 koku. 1 koku is 1000 go. That’s a lot of rice dude.

Tryin to make kofta

Lazy Sunday.

I am 40+ and I do not have chronic backpain and that's after shoveling snow and chipping ice. Follow me for more workout and fitness tips.

2025 kiddo science fair Study involves BSL-1 organism and is exempt from prior SRV review and requires no additional forms or approvals.

I am not an anti-masker or covid denier. But no one is leaving you behind. You can keep masking yourself. Demanding society to become Quarians re all respiratory diseases is nonsense.

At 10°F (~-12°C) the atmospheric density of dry air is about ~1.3 kg/m^3. At 77°F (25°C) it is about the 1.168 kg/m^3. That extra 11% density has implications in convective heat transfer, as well as apparent wind. When it’s gusting 25 knots at 10°F - don’t be dumb.

Free insulation

Me, a transplant to Illinois from South Carolina: Look how beautiful everything is in the snow! People from Illinois: rolling their eyes and throwing salt on the sidewalk.

Should have turkey fried in the Florida property.

of course it is steiner weirdo who thought 90 degrees was bad and his architecture was basically intentionally stupid and made life difficult for anyone hired to build it

As of 2011 it was still a simple box.

Carpenter: the most cost effective shape is a box. Then followed by perpendicular surfaces. Someone building their next “forever home”: nah I want angles.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

In a classic prisoners dilemma without repeated play the only solution is gov regulation.

There’s gotta be some element of critical mass of Japanese players in the clubhouse that makes it easier to adjust. Makes it easier to move to a new country and new club and new life. Plus better Japanese food.

Say what you want about Mitterrand but if he was coordinating the response to intentional communication cable cuttings in the Baltic - it’ll have more bite than whatever is going on now.

the sad thing is most of space coverage media and the nerds who fantasize about going to mars, preposition logistics in orbit and fantasize about manned science exploration sound like this

Over at ATC land - bunch of flights were affected and you’d think the FAA is gonna take a hard look at this.

Checks weather three day report. Yep it’ll be cold after the weekend. Social media weatherman trying to build clout: DEATHHHHHH

Okay my suspension of disbelief re Interstellar is broken that ppl living in dust for decades haven’t decided to air seal their homes and put in a HRV and mechanically filter their air.

Kiddo and I are watching interstellar and she’s either gonna become a film critic or a space cadet.

My goodness some leftists are so insufferable. You can’t even convince your racist aunt or dad to vote the way you want and you’re ranting at ppl online about the correctness of your ways.

Pancake time

The more I learn about F1 entry and less I understand why GM is doing this.

Titanic is not a bad movie to rewatch if you go from 0:00-1:00 then fast forward to iceberg spotted

I’ve been seeing a lot of discourse about masculinity and the whole dialogue just seems like a massive contradiction in gender norms in the same way someone who wants to be extremely fluid but also extremely rigid about what’s gendered or not. Nothing in my life is made worse or improved by it.

We rented titanic at the library and kiddo is gonna get her mind blown. *gonna skip past the Renault scene of course*

Here’s a silly human interface quirk. In most microwaves - you can type in 99 seconds. But if you type 100 it is one minute.

Albert Pujols is 45 today. Or 47. Or 50. Or...

German Rollladen will be hence force be named "Soviet looting invasion" and building almost exclusively with cement/clay/aggregate materials shall be named "Marshall plan reconstruction/losing world war at home" and there's no fucking wood

Bricks and concrete consume huge amounts of energy to manufacture and have high carbon impact. My current home was built in the late 1950s before American urban brickworks terminally declined and so it is brick veneer with form poured concrete foundations and concrete block with brick veneer.

Ah yes. Europeans who have no clue having big opinions and feelings about California fires and lumber construction.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: We've received over 120 abstracts for the PRADS 2025 conference and are looking forward to welcoming naval architects and marine engineers from all over the world to Ann Arbor in October 2025!

My most millennial complaint is supposedly digital natives showing up not knowing how to map a printer.

automakers doing this claim it is because of aerodynamics and post-collision features. I think it is important to note that unlocking post collision is not new and doesn't require electronic door handles (it is tied to the unlock solenoids).

all Malthusians are idiots on matters of social and gov policy and you can go ahead and disregard anything they say going forward.