Knowing my propensity for thorough overkill it will be funny if one of the trees from the woods falls on this thing and just bounces off :3

Civil engineering seems so fun until I remember in practice it's mostly doing below ground sonar checks of shitty old bridge anchors and caissons while the council panic that they might need to spend money on maintenance.

Designing a solar pergola to build over the top of @dusepo 's workshop, for the dual function of shading her workshop in the summer and also providing a huge flat south-facing flat surface to mount a bunch of solar panels.

Really the only hard part is calculating the gust uplift potential from effectively building a giant wooden sail (albeit horizontal rather than vertical), and how much anchoring is required to resist it (and then the convex upward pressure on the rest of the structure as a result).

I suspect if we bore a 1m deep hole and sink some stainless steel anchors then the part most likely to fail will be the wood above ground when subject to enough dynamic load, which is an acceptable risk and easily mitigated with collaring.

Another problem solved with maths and collar ties :gothnails:

I think I've managed to power down the engineering part of my brain but all that's happened is that it has overclocked the yearn bus instead 🥺

Going slightly stir-crazy because I can't pick up anything more than a few kg for at least a few more weeks and that precludes a lot of my hobby nerd-engineering projects, but at least I'm getting a lot of reading done and listening to a lot of music :3

"The best version of anything, is the one with the most heart" - Noah Caldwell-Gervais in their latest video

Words to live by ❤️

The self-acceptance will continue until morale improves :3

"Don't lick the handrails on the London Underground, that's how you get prion disease"

Actually there *is* time

ℚ𝕦𝕒𝕔𝕜

This tremendous and majestic creature is pig-nosed turtle. You're welcome.

I was going to do some sketching but tired myself out finding my pencils; recovery life 😅. I kinda wanna doodle some arcane impossible steam engines, something about industrial machinery is fun to draw.

OpenJDK fork for anarchists that only changes the .class file magic bytes from 0xCAFEBABE to 0xACAB1312

BPD - British Personality Disorder

Filled up my water bottle at the femboy cum dispenser in Brighton today

*slurp*

This thought brought to you by waiting for prog spray to dry

I wonder how exposed the air intakes on gas turbines are (the ones being used for egregious datacenters) and whether, hypothetically, one could use a drone to drop bricks/glue/other stuff into them :breadthink:

It's good to be back on the juice (had to swap to gel for just before and 2 weeks after tummy surgery)

The hospital I visit has these little elephant chairs(?) and they are very cute :elephanthappy: :elephanthappy: :elephanthappy: