You could have told me the anti christ had appeared on earth after showing me that picture and I might have believed you, that looks like something out of a movie where a bunch of guys with guns go hunt down the anti christ to save a girl.
Global doom and gloom.
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Well our doom looks a little closer, because clearly we have people in charge that think 12 x1 = 11.8 Maybe this is why all those buildings collapsed in Mexico City? They thought that the foot was only 11.8 inches!
I have been buying these for years and the package has not changed either.
I have been buying these for years and the package has not changed either.
(Esox, the discrepancy is not 2oz but 0.2oz & all weights are net weights in this case.)
This is what we called a metric "soft-rounding" error. Some numbers get rounded, so the totals can look incorrect.
28g x 12 = 336g and that's correct, because the math was done by a metric fellow.
If you look closely though, the individual pieces say both 1oz and 28 grams. This is false.
One ounce is really over 28-1/3 grams. (that's Twenty eight and one third grams. I know it's silly to use proper fractions with the metric math. Unless you have something like Mathcad, fractions don't display well here either.)
So each piece is really only about 0.987 oz and 12 x 0.987 = 11.84 oz rounded to 11.8 on the box.
In Mexico everything would make sense, ignoring the ounces.
Here I might feel shorted about 0.2 oz or 1/3g x 12 = 4 grams, or about 1/7 of a candy.
This is what we called a metric "soft-rounding" error. Some numbers get rounded, so the totals can look incorrect.
28g x 12 = 336g and that's correct, because the math was done by a metric fellow.
If you look closely though, the individual pieces say both 1oz and 28 grams. This is false.
One ounce is really over 28-1/3 grams. (that's Twenty eight and one third grams. I know it's silly to use proper fractions with the metric math. Unless you have something like Mathcad, fractions don't display well here either.)
So each piece is really only about 0.987 oz and 12 x 0.987 = 11.84 oz rounded to 11.8 on the box.
In Mexico everything would make sense, ignoring the ounces.
Here I might feel shorted about 0.2 oz or 1/3g x 12 = 4 grams, or about 1/7 of a candy.
Ignoring global Gloom and Doom, I continue working on my major wildfire crisis quarantine project: the dog kennel.
I had to fab the ridge bar last, to tighten up the canvas. This was fabbed from 1/2" electrical tube (EMT) I bent in 2 places with a conduit bender, arched by hand, and trimmed to fit. I welded a tab for two screws on each end, and shot it black with a spray can. I still don't have a MIG so I welded it with a #1 tip on the acetylene torch.
I did not sew the canvas myself, so I didn't have tight control over the dimensions. The ridge bar allows a final adjustment to get it all tight, so it won't flap hard in the wind.
So here it is, the kennel all finally finished.
I had to fab the ridge bar last, to tighten up the canvas. This was fabbed from 1/2" electrical tube (EMT) I bent in 2 places with a conduit bender, arched by hand, and trimmed to fit. I welded a tab for two screws on each end, and shot it black with a spray can. I still don't have a MIG so I welded it with a #1 tip on the acetylene torch.
I did not sew the canvas myself, so I didn't have tight control over the dimensions. The ridge bar allows a final adjustment to get it all tight, so it won't flap hard in the wind.
So here it is, the kennel all finally finished.
Over 900 structures now reported destroyed in the Creek Fire. It's still not contained, but many folks have been allowed to return to their property. Many who expected their homes to be saved were completely disappointed.
Meanwhile the high lakes remain closed, but Pine Flat has been opened and I am planning to go Friday. Being that it's one of the few lakes open, I expect it will be uncomfortably crowded and difficult to fish, but I'm going to go for broke and troll the main channel.
Meanwhile the high lakes remain closed, but Pine Flat has been opened and I am planning to go Friday. Being that it's one of the few lakes open, I expect it will be uncomfortably crowded and difficult to fish, but I'm going to go for broke and troll the main channel.
Well I decided that going fishing was not a good idea because the smoke has blown down into the valley & is very dense today.
Evidently the smoke from various fires is comingling into a delicious scent, as the Sierra Nevada barbecues.
When the Creek fire started I would smell a rubber tire burn every now and then, but it was very faint on the breeze. Now it’s just pure wood smoke coming down from the high sierra.
Evidently the smoke from various fires is comingling into a delicious scent, as the Sierra Nevada barbecues.
When the Creek fire started I would smell a rubber tire burn every now and then, but it was very faint on the breeze. Now it’s just pure wood smoke coming down from the high sierra.
Slater fire is now 75% of perimeter contained. After being closed over 2 weeks, our road to Oregon reopened. It was a hassle and we had to reschedule medical appts twice. 156,417 acres burned. I had a medical appt last week, so had to travel the road. Lots of clean up going on.
Sad to see some of the results, and it's just a little piece of the damage, being on the NW end of the fire.
They were scrawny trees, but still....
So glad the fire was contained before it reach our area with magnificent redwoods. It would have been irreplaceable devastation.
Sad to see some of the results, and it's just a little piece of the damage, being on the NW end of the fire.
They were scrawny trees, but still....
So glad the fire was contained before it reach our area with magnificent redwoods. It would have been irreplaceable devastation.
