Submitted by: aka.attrition
Why do we save wisdom?
Because it is fleeting and one of the most rare things.
We save wisdom because of the life lived to produce it should not be lost in time.
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Here is just one single snapshot of wisdom: pic.twitter.com/KKjb2bGlmk
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Nice share.
Thankyou!
Interesting. I don’t usually find wisdom in nigger rigging shit on my own house.
It’s all about definition. One man’s wisdom is another man’s folly.
You have me in shock. Your drug addled brain is actually showing signs of life.
TCS occasionally has moments of clarity….which are almost always followed by comments which indicate his mind has been altered by substance consumption.
My best guess? Distilled alcohol has captured him.
Keep guessing. It’s all you’re good for.
LANCELOT: You are in great peril!
DINGO: No, he isn’t.
LANCELOT: Silence, foul temptress!
GALAHAD: You know, she’s got a point.
LANCELOT: Come on! We will cover your escape!
GALAHAD: Look, I’m fine!
LANCELOT: Come on!
GIRLS: Sir Galahad!
GALAHAD: No. Look, I can tackle this lot single-handed!
DINGO: Yes! Let him tackle us single-handed!
GIRLS: Yes! Let him tackle us single-handed!
LANCELOT: No, Sir Galahad. Come on!
GALAHAD: No! Really! Honestly, I can cope. I can handle this lot easily.
DINGO: Oh, yes. Let him handle us easily.
GIRLS: Yes. Let him handle us easily.
LANCELOT: No. Quick! Quick!
GALAHAD: Please! I can defeat them! There’s only a hundred-and-fifty of them!
DINGO: Yes! Yes, he will beat us easily! We haven’t a chance.
GIRLS: We haven’t a chance. He will beat us easily…
[boom]
DINGO: Oh, shit.
LANCELOT: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
GALAHAD: I don’t think I was.
LANCELOT: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
GALAHAD: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
LANCELOT: No, it’s too perilous.
GALAHAD: Look, it’s my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
LANCELOT: No, we’ve got to find the Holy Grail. Come on!
GALAHAD: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
LANCELOT: No. It’s unhealthy.
GALAHAD: I bet you’re gay.
SCRUTINIZER: No, I’m not.
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HAPPY TUESDAY EVENING EVERYONE!
You’d best be careful. Keep talking like that and you’re gonna get eaten alive here.
I can face the peril.
[Shhhh, Ya got sandwiched scru!]
He has all those tools and couldn’t do it right the first time? Could it be that idiocy leads to wisdom? If he takes what he has learned and does not repeat it, that is the road to wisdom.
Not idiocy. Ignorance. Big difference.
Not knowing something (and realizing it) is the first step in understanding it. Everyone begins life in total ignorance. Like any race, we don’t all cross the finish line at the same time.
In a moment of conciliatory spirit…?
I agree.
We are all at different locations of awaking from lifetimes of lies
I think this guy is more into starting a project without thinking it through all the way first.
Why does he do this?
Because he has enough knowledge to workaround problems that would stop a less experienced human dead cold.
Not the kind of worker you want for repairing watches, but for things that do not require so much precision?
The guy is great!
Nice!
Workarounds….mmmmm.
Having the tools, knowing how to properly use them and knowing how to plan your project can be a problem for a guy with money and little experience.
Having the tools, knowing how to properly use them and knowing how to plan your project can be a problem for a guy with money and little experience.
Hmmm?
[Scratches head]
TN.P? Ya got me with this one.
Very good!
It’s a fine balance. They also need to screw up and face consequences otherwise they don’t learn.
I pushed my kids to be independent. Told them my gift to them was their independence. It’s worked well for both of us.
The real wisdom is finding out, through trial and error, what you can and cannot do. All my freecycle projects have challenged me to find creative ways to reduce purchasing new materials, but with the tradeoff that I may have to spend more time overall and get creative. Yet every time I do that, there is another payoff – learning what does and doesn’t work, and gaining even more skills and experience. The wisdom comes when you realize the journey could be even more valuable than the dollar saved.
My basement is now finished; 750 sq ft complete with full bathroom and bar-kitchenette. More lessons learned, more skills added. Will have to get the writeup on my blog soon.
that would be great to Orangutan!
I finished my steps/deck last summer and ran into a few “unforced errors” Anyways I had to do some thinking but managed to fix the problem, I miscalculated a rise/run on step down because of a slight change in grade, without tearing one deck apart. It was only an inch and half difference but it just didn’t look right.
It was fixed without compromising safety, all the while learning a few bits along the way…
I would have gone with rise/run and just poured a baby pad at bottom of stringers,am I missing something in this?
Yeah I will do that next time. The problem I had was I didn’t have a laser level to get the grade right. I didn’t pour a baby pad either and was using patio stones for the landing. And just to be clear the deck does not bear on stones, there are only two steps down and then ground as the deck is only 21 inches above grade.
And I was doing everything with reference to house as a datum. I put down the patio stones first. Everything was compacted by professionals. In my defense I presumed that they had gotten the grade right or at least close. And I suppose they did. In their defense they were probably trying to slope pad away from house a bit to drain water properly.
If you look at it the gravel base follows the covering on the foundation. The problem ended up being that the covering is down on end with Granny edition..
The first deck had three steps 7 inches on rise to ground. All good! For the second step grade ended up being and inch and a half lower. Doesn’t sound like a big deal but it is. Anyways didn’t realize the mistake until almost done. After all the patio stones were down and deck was for the most part built.
So I had to redo the math… and yeah its amateurish but in my defense it is safe.
I have spent a few evenings watching what “professional grade” is considered by some.
Conclusion reached is there is some pretty shoddy work out there…
Everyone who sees the deck says it turned out nice. They don’t notice that rise and run is different from one deck to another. Not much granted and I notice it but it is what it is..
I know there are mistakes here but I can live with it. I had to do it myself because I could not afford to hire a carpenter and bricklayer. The cost for both of those items exceeded my ability to pay by about 10 thousand dollars. And even if I had the money I’d probably still be waiting for someone to do it because here where I live it is near impossible to get a contractor to do anything in a timely fashion..
The last thing I wanted was my house turned into a worksite especially in the summertime..
The view makes up for any misdeeds….
Different from one deck to another is fine,perhaps not aesthetically pleasing to the dis discerning eye but tell to bugger off!
Even differences is rise between landings while not perfect are certainly safe.
That said,was in my opinion not a issue of lack of level ect. but once again the evil that is the metric system striking!
Excellence (i.e. mastery) achieved as the result of fixing mistakes. A thought-provoking perspective, indeed. Ask my offspring how to get better at anything and they will respond in unison with one word: Practice.
The lessons learned by correcting mistakes should lessen the chances of the same mistakes recurring. But “should” can be a tricky word for some people
I am a carpenter with a builders license and other useless certs./a plethora of tools ect. and I still make mistakes.
I like the idea of using slider sideways as a window,first,make sure the seals are good and do not bang around hard as you can break them/also make sure you have a adequate rough opening for said unit that is plumb/level and square that has a minimum of 3/4″ wider/taller then unit in case you still need to still center/level a tiny bit.A lot more involved to install a said slider as a window but those ideas would have solved his issues before he installed.I would also say reusing a used slider would if only need one use the fixed unit as less stress on it as opening unit and thus seal probably in better shape.Be a bitch to install a unit and trim it out to find you have a leak and window unit fogging up!
A lot can be learned from fuckups!
The guy admits he did not know what he was doing and was using a door as a window, but he was smart enough to fix his problem without starting the entire project over. Experience is how you learn.
His definition of craftsman sucks. Master craftsmen don’t make many mistakes. They did all the mistake making before they became master craftsmen. I used to run a window plant with some master craftsmen that had as much as fifty years experience. You could spot them by their missing digits in almost all cases. They could sketch, lay out and build from scratch the most amazing conservatories by hand and without engineering drawings. Mistakes couldn’t be covered up – make a mistake and you toss that bit, or the entire structure out. Compound curves, curved rebates, all waterproof and to tight tolerance. Mistakes are for apprentices, not so much for master craftsmen.