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sounds_sound  ·  1250 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rebuilding Notre Dame [with 3D printing]: a phoenix rising from the ashes

A true restoration should be the default strategy at this point unless someone can come up with a compelling design that is overwhelmingly beautiful. That may be impossible but it's a least a fun thought experiment. To my knowledge, Notre Dame in modern times remains an active participant in Parisian religious and civic activities. Historic but still at work. For that reason, I think it's worth considering how it can be renovated into the current image of the city, as cultural views on religion continue to change.

When I sold all of my pedals the only one I couldn't part with was The Rat. It sits on my work desk.

sounds_sound  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: I’m going to Paris in October. What should I do?
sounds_sound  ·  1765 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 336th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Panda Bear - Master. From Buoys, 2019. Listening on my new Sennheiser Momentum 2s. Pretty sweet.

sounds_sound  ·  2134 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Opa

Hey Buddy. Sorry for your loss. I know he meant a lot to you.

sounds_sound  ·  2577 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone listening to S-Town?

I never really got a sense of quantites for anything throughout the podcast. We had a witness of one gold bar coming from a box that maybe had more bars inside, but that was an assumption. We also have no idea how much guilding was actually being done, but because he was the only one in the country doing it, it could have been a lot.

Now I feel like I'm destroying a good storey by analyzing it too much. What I mean to say is "Thar's gold in them hills."

Also:

sounds_sound  ·  2578 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone listening to S-Town?

I finished it last night. Plowed through it actually. I am a binger at heart. I thought it fantastic as well. One thought I had that I didn't hear anyone on the podcast touch on, and maybe I missed it, but to me, there is an obvious connection between the gold bars that he has and the fire guilding that he does. i'm just wondering if his stashed gold in the forest isn't about him being rich, and more about regularly buying and using gold for horology. Thoughts?

sounds_sound  ·  2791 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vancouver Real Estate Bubble Has Burst

Yeah, I think you're right kb. And like I said to mk, my feeling is that their participation is closer to 25%. That 5% was taken from a dubious BC government study that was done with not enough sampling and in too short of a time frame to get an accurate sense of the market. Ultimately doesn't matter because that only tracks foreign buyers anyway. What is more important is the foreign money, which is more likely funneled into the country through other means and difficult to trace.

    BC started levying a 15% surcharge on foreign sales between last August and this August

It's even crazier than that. The tax went into affect on August 2nd, this year, with very little warning. So while June and July also had a slow down, August had a precipitous, jaw-dropping slow down. But it's not likely that the 510 homes that weren't sold this month falls entirely on the shoulders of foreign buyers. The way I see it is that the foreign buyer has kind of become the monster in the closet in Vancouver. Where even if it exists, the idea of it is more potent and pervasive than the actual thing. That, combined with the fact that the market has become so focused on investment and speculation has made people just stop to wait and see what's going to happen.

sounds_sound  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3 Questions with @goo

drunkguyfromcanada. :) that's brutal man. it's interesting that everyone has a different experience with this sort of thing. i met an american that's been in canada since the 1960's. he was going to school up here then. on the train ride entering through the border for the first time, a few fellow student asked him about his arrangements with his visa. at that point he realized that he hadn't thought of it at all and as such, had no provisions. he told the border guard that he had no papers and was led to an office where someone immediately registered him as a landed immigrant. no fees, no due dates, no hassle. he never left.

my story is entirely different. i went to grad school up here and have a class 'a' professional title, meaning that they want to keep guys like me up here. i got a work visa after school no problem and a pr with little issue after that (even took that darn english test). compared to your story, it's been breezy.

sounds_sound  ·  3064 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December photo challenge day 2: Identity
sounds_sound  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Coffee Shop Update Week 1

Nice read. Thanks for sharing. Maybe I missed this in your first post, but do you have wi-fi there?

sounds_sound  ·  3179 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 135th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Neither do I. Guess that's why they're overlooked.

Yep. Looks good to me. Nice job!

sounds_sound  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 8, 2015

I have a nervous image of you doing push ups in front of the tub, on the bathroom tile. Uhm. I'll just stop there.

sounds_sound  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple Watch Sales Drop 90 Percent From Opening Week

20,000 a day? Anywhere else, these sales figures would look impressive. Apple has a reputation that makes this example the outlier. I did just talk with a friend who told me that the only thing the Apple Watch is good for is vibrating for notifications. More and more, I put my phone away at work and at home because I'm sick of having the weight in my pocket (first world problem, i know). I'd prefer to have something less obtrusive to alert me. Too bad I don't wear watches.

sounds_sound  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your brain is like a wad of paper

    Similarly, there is no clean relationship between the amount of folding and the number of neurons, the total area of the cortex, or the thickness of the cortex.

Doesn't the article directly contradict this statement? What am I not understanding?

sounds_sound  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Random Photo Challenge - Height

On the Chief. Squamish, B.C., Canada. Just past my foot is a 2,000 foot fall. Straight down. I like to lay on my belly and stick my head over, but I can only do that for a few seconds before I start getting freaked out.

sounds_sound  ·  3215 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Welcome to Hubski

I haven't heard any version that rolls off the tongue yet. I thought that being a skier could be fun because we don't surf the web, we ski it. I also like hubbie. As in "Where my hubbies at!?"

sounds_sound  ·  3218 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Leap second' set to delay midnight

See below from Wikipedia. Basically, things like earthquakes and melting glaciers redistribute the earth's mass, thus shifting the moment of inertia and making rotation vary unpredictably.

    Leap seconds are irregularly spaced because the Earth's rotation speed changes irregularly. Indeed, the Earth's rotation is quite unpredictable in the long term, which explains why leap seconds are announced only six months in advance.

    A mathematical model of the variations in the length of the solar day was developed by F. R. Stephenson and L. V. Morrison,[12] based on records of eclipses for the period 700 BC to 1623 AD, telescopic observations of occultations for the period 1623 until 1967 and atomic clocks thereafter. The model shows a steady increase of the mean solar day by 1.70 ms (± 0.05 ms) per century, plus a periodic shift of about 4 ms amplitude and period of about 1,500 yr.[12] Over the last few centuries, the periodic component reduced the rate of lengthening of the mean solar day to about 1.4 ms per century.[17]

    The main reason for the slowing down of the Earth's rotation is tidal friction, which alone would lengthen the day by 2.3 ms/century.[12] Other contributing factors are the movement of the Earth's crust relative to its core, changes in mantle convection, and any other events or processes that cause a significant redistribution of mass. These processes change the Earth's moment of inertia, affecting the rate of rotation due to conservation of angular momentum, sometimes increasing earth's rotational speed (decreasing the solar day and opposing tidal friction). For example, glacial rebound shortens the solar day by 0.6 ms/century and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is thought to have shortened it by 2.68 microseconds.[18]

sounds_sound  ·  3218 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Duplicate comments

Same here. I hit reply 5 times before I just gave up.

sounds_sound  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Definitive and Final Ranking of All 50 States

Michigan is well represented by the Hubski community since it is based out of Ann Arbor. Hubski loves the Mitten State!

sounds_sound  ·  3221 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Methlab on a sailboat catches fire. Only in Vancouver.

The office I worked for did a job for a developer out that way. I personally made a few renderings and fly-throughs for this multi building complex. Each had a engine repair shop on the main level and caretaker units on the top. It was designed for 150'+ yachts to be worked on. I had the feeling that it was seen as an early sign of gentrification to that area and wasn't getting much support for the community. I'm not sure what it's like down there now. I left shortly after that project and moved to California for a bit. Wasn't exactly excited about the type of buildings my office was designing.

Sounds like your work was more interesting. Did you enjoy it?

sounds_sound  ·  3221 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Methlab on a sailboat catches fire. Only in Vancouver.

Salmon Bay. I knew it. Did a few projects over there in '06. Always seemed like a shady area to me. Only in the Pacific Northwest shall we say.

sounds_sound  ·  3221 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 129th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Alabama Shakes : Shoegaze. Has a real Pavement feel to me.

sounds_sound  ·  3232 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 17, 2015

Nice. Highway 90 I assume? Be sure to take your time in Glacier. One of the prettiest parts of the U.S.

sounds_sound  ·  3235 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 127th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Bibio - À tout à l'heure. This track is a few years old, but it's got a great summer vibe that'll work for any and every nice day to come.

sounds_sound  ·  3237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Robot Argument on IRC

Totally. Bitch needs a saint of a counterpart. Then it could be a menage a trois of sorts.

sounds_sound  ·  3238 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Quit My Job Today. (And so can you!)

It's a difficult transition indeed. The trouble with university is that one is only exposed to canonic buildings of which there are very few in the world. As is often the case, unique circumstances led to their creation which do not occur in the everyday for most people. That said, if you find a client with similar values - and a bit of money to spend - it can be a rewarding experience.

sounds_sound  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The New Green is visiting Vancouver. -Lets have a meetup!!

Actually, It looks more like this:

sounds_sound  ·  3272 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Cards

very cool. nice work guys.