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How to Finish Drywall: 18 Steps to Smooth Joints
There are few home improvement tasks greeted with more dread than finishing drywall. If you're like most people, you hope that you've already done your last finishing job. Unfortunately, if you enjoy working on your home, you are bound to be confronted by this task again. So it's worth your while to check out the tips and techniques we discuss here. Before You Begin The selection of tools we show here are not the only ones that work. Your selection of compound is just as important as your selection of tools. You also have a choice when it comes to joint tape, between paper tape and self-sticking fiberglass mesh tape. One last tip: If you buy your taping compound in 5-gal. pails, which is what we did, be sure to buy an opening tool. What You'll Need Tools: 5-, 8- and 10-in. flexible drywall-taping knives, joint compound pan, bucket-opening tool, electric drill, mixing paddle, respirator Getting Started There are probably as many approaches to the finishing process as there are finishers.
Books that will induce a mindfuck
Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Albert Camus, Paris, 1944. Coney Island, New York, 1946. Romania, 1975. Naples, Italy, 1960. A football game, Michigan vs. At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966. Uzbekistan, 1954. Visitors from kolkhozy to the eleventh-century Alaverdi monastery, 1972. Improvised canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol, 1954. The Arbat, Moscow, 1972. Chelny, Russia, 1973. Boston, 1947. New York, 1935. An African-American student is denied entry to a theater. Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, 1960. Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris, 1946. Dessau, Germany, April, 1945. Nehru Announces Gandhi's Death, Birla House, Delhi, 1948. World's Fair, Brussels, 1958. Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, 1946. New York, 1960. Bankers Trust, New York, 1960. Near Strasbourg, France, 1944. The arrival of a boat carrying refugees from Europe reunites a mother and son who had been separated throughout the war, 1946. Communist students demonstrate against the black market. McCann-Erickson Agency, Madison Avenue, New York, 1959. New York, 1947.
Former "Seasteaders" Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle
The seasteader-in-chief is headed ashore. Patri Friedman (that’s Milton Friedman's grandson to you), who stepped down as the chief executive of the Peter Thiel-backed Seasteading Institute in August, has resurfaced as the CEO of a new for-profit enterprise named Future Cities Development Inc., which aims to create new cities from scratch (on land this time) governed by "cutting-edge legal systems." The startup may have found its first taker in Honduras, whose government amended its constitution in January to permit the creation of special autonomous zones exempt from local and federal laws. Future Cities has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to build a city in one such zone starting next year. Seasteading, i.e. the creation of sovereign nations floating offshore, is enshrined in libertarian thought as an end-run around the constraints of stodgy nation-states. Instead of seasteading, Future Cities is modeling itself on “charter cities.”
funeral
Dear friends, It is with the saddest heart that I pass on the following. Please join me in remembering a great icon. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly-greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs.
When the State Becomes God, By Lee Penn (All rights reserved, SCP)
During World War I, American activist Randolph Bourne had warned, "War is the health of the State."1 His prophecy has proven accurate; the post-1914 years have been an era of total war and the total state. It had seemed that with the fall of the Soviet Union, the state of permanent war, permanent mobilization, and permanent emergency would end. This hope has not been realized. Instead, the US and the world are now laying the groundwork for high-tech totalitarianism; liberty is in retreat, just as occurred almost everywhere between 1914 and 1945. Precedents from the 1790s through World War II Federal power grabs have been a bi-partisan policy, long before the War on Terror. During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus for the duration of the war. World War I established Big Government as a permanent feature of American life; when the US entered the war in 1917, civil liberty went out the window. Erosion of liberty during the "peacetime" 1990s The PATRIOT Act
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Top 17 Secret Compartments You'll Not Want to Miss :
Here’s a set of 17 Secret Compartments, which are hidden in cars, houses, books and even coins. I think most people (including myself) have a fascination with secret compartments, hidden doorways and such-like. Here are the rest if the images. Enjoy… Hidden Stairway Compartment Drawers Above: Hidden Staircase Compartment [link]. Hidden Sunken Driveway Above: Hidden Secret Garage in Garden [link] Hollow Coins Above: Secret Compartment Hidden in Coin [link] Secret Space Under Stairs Above: Secret Space Under Home Stairway [link] Secret Watch Compartment Above: Secret Compartment Wrist Watch [link] The Classic Hollow Book Compartment Above: Secret Compartment Hidden in Book [link] …and one for an iPad: Above: Secret iPad Book Case [How to make one of these: © link] Truck Compartment Above: Dodge Ram lockable compartment for fishing rod or rifle [link] Secret Room Please Stumble this Post: Above: Well, this is more of a room than a compartment, but it’s still secret! Surprise Ring Compartment in Book
