One of my favorite things about Neil is that he was a music journalist first.

It's that kind of leap so many of us only dream of, and he actually did it. How beautiful.

u/Dangerous-Cash-2176 — 2 months ago

Advice on simple tree fence

Hello, I'm test building a guard/fence for urban tree pits/islands on city sidewalks. I am mimicking wrought iron designs, and want to paint them black. These are garden stakes cut to 22". I plan on 4" into the ground. The slats are 4" apart, and the horizontal support is 3" from the top. I used 1 1/2" galvanized nails and pre-drilled holes, but the nails are bending and having a difficult time hammered into the wood. Only one of them is flush, but then the vertical stake swivels, which will make driving it into the ground difficult. I had a feeling this wood was going to be stubborn. Any advice? Should I use screws? Or is there a different method of construction altogether? I want to keep materials simple and process as easy as possible. Thank you.

u/Dangerous-Cash-2176 — 2 months ago

How would you remove this chassis?

Old Majorette, metal chassis, one single deep set rivet. What's the best method of removing the chassis?

u/Dangerous-Cash-2176 — 2 months ago

Look who showed up in the water

So I have a knack for faces, and I was just watching a clip of Jaws (a summer tradition) and finally recognized this woman and her shrill exaggerated voice as Dorothy Fielding, aka Alison's evil mother "Mrs. Parker"! Have a great summer.

u/Dangerous-Cash-2176 — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/Jaguar

Sheesh are the X308 really THAT bad?

Especially if you find one that's been driven and reasonably kept with over 100k miles. How bad can the car be? Assume Nikasil is solved. What else, the transmission?

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u/Dangerous-Cash-2176 — 3 months ago
▲ 512 r/Urbanism

Somebody tell US cities not to bother with bricked crosswalks anymore.

In EVERY city I've been to these shallow brick crosswalks are in a state of hideous disrepair. This one looks like it's framed with concrete slabs, which act as a border but seem to only make it worse over time. Inside pieces of brick get dislodged and fly off to the curb and then the quick fix is to fill in the hole with asphalt. The whole strip eventually turns into unintentional inverted speed bump from all the undulations that form because of the constant stop and go pounding to an unstable surface. Every single intersection that uses them degrade this way. What's the point? Have municipal planners not learned? Just dig it up and replace it with all asphalt.

u/Dangerous-Cash-2176 — 3 months ago