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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.

    That’s an impressively sturdy floor.

    Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.

    The block weighs 54.7542 tons.

    So this is indeed a decent prize at $18,616 USD.

    All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.

    Edit: corrected to a less whelming but still difficult to transport prize thanks to chiliedogg.





  • It was often owner/managers that couldn’t stay the f out of the way of employees who knew what they were doing, didn’t have a menu that was cost- and manpower-effective, or didn’t get rid of bad employees.

    The show was obviously edited for effect, but IIRC the businesses were legit. They were usually on their last financial “leg”, and owners would give up.

    Virtually all the failures otherwise were because the owner or management refused to follow Ramsay’s advice.




    • Small push, ball rolls a very short distance and stops
    • No color
    • Male, maybe an extension of myself doing the push
    • I did not visualize a complete person, only a suggestion of a body, and a arm/hand to push the ball
    • Size of two fists together
    • I did not visualize a full table, more like a camera view of a tabletop. Nondescript wood finish.

    Did I already know? Sort of… My brain rotated through multiple possible imaginings. It worked forward, then reversed the logic to complete the scene. Nothing was set in stone: My brain decided that the ball would not roll off the table. Why? The ball has an uneven surface, it wobbled when stopping. Why? Because it has a surface like a soccer ball. Why? Because that was the first “look” my brain landed on that answered the question. I recall rotating through different colors and finishes, but after my brain imagined the ball stopping I had to come up with a why.



  • I really like airplanes, especially the historic ones. The speed and sound is amazing. The engineering and skill in building and operating those aircraft is top-tier.

    However, the airshows often extoll the fear and damage the aircraft can do to their targets, especially the modern ones. Really not interested in the bodycount or terror these aircraft inspire, but plenty of people enjoy the flex.