Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We have about 8 of these, which we have bought of the last few years. [link]
They are great because they fold up to move. They are also incredibly flexible. You can put them on top of each other for tall shelves, or side by side. They also look like nice furniture, which is a bonus.
Those are nice Robin... they look like they are easy to move AND like they are real wood!
Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks
There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door
And a guy with depression
And a whole lot of questions
And the bird always says "Nevermore."
There was a man who, at low tide
Would walk with the Lord by his side
Jesus said "Now look back;
You'll see one set of tracks.
That's when you got a piggy-back ride."
MEXICO CITY - A 16-year-old U.S. tourist fell 1,000 feet to his death at an abandoned mine in central Mexico, and rescue workers were trying to recover his body on Saturday.
Witnesses told police that Taylor Crane tried to jump over the 10-foot-wide shaft of the Cinco Senores mine in Guanajuato state and fell in Friday, said Jose Felix Velazquez, a spokesman for police in San Luis de la Paz, where the mine is located.
Damn. How far could a typical 16-year-old jump? An athletic 16-year-old?
The long jump world record is on the order of thirty feet.
I'm pretty sure I could clear 10 feet with a bit of a start, but not so sure I'd want to try it over a gaping mine shaft.
A quick google shows winning long jumps in high school competitions a bit over 20 feet.
30 feet, by people with bodies like Plastic Man, and with a nice running start and good form.
More to the point, where does one test one's longjumping abilities? Over a 1000 foot mineshaft is not my first choice.
I need new bookcases -- inasmuch as my old ones are both tippy and ugly -- but I think that I am waiting for the One True Bookcase, which frustratingly does not live at IKEA.
30 feet, by people with bodies like Plastic Man, and with a nice running start and good form.
I think 10 feet is reasonable. Stupid place to test...it's not so much about good form and running start as much as it's about a physical configuration tailored to the long jump. One slip on the foot and...well, there's probably a reason they don't have the competitions over a pit.
I need a new bookcase. But I want a new TV.