Yeah they ditched it in favor of the rainbow apple I think before they even started mass production of the Apple ][.

I’ve seen so many commercials where a realistic scene fades into the stylized logo that that’s what my mind went to.

The left is a better logo, fewer fine details, easy to silk screen, easy to laser print, hell you could make a branding iron and burn it into wood.

I’m guessing the college of cardinals makes that decision on a case by case basis.

Shouldn’t the pope be strong against holy damage? Unless…Holy shit someone call Dan Brown!

Who else is talking to them?

I can now attest it does help. For doing a sliding dovetail for example, I cut the tongue intentionally thick, measured the width of the bottom of the slot, measured the width of the end of the tenon, and then I adjusted the jig half that distance plus 1/128" to give me 1/64" tolerance.

It did need some way to quantify the movement of the template.

Is that when Doug broke his grill?

Okay wait let me do the math here, 10x26x26x26x10x10x10 = 175,760,000. The article says that commercial trucks get a different pattern of plate. So you’re telling me there’s 175 million passenger cars on the road in California? For scale, there’s approximately 350 million American citizens. For every two Americans, there’s a car registered in California? Not counting vanity plates or commercial vehicles.

What the intern fuck is going on there bud?

Someone’s acting their wage.

Very expensive. Hwuh huh.

I’m still processing Michelle Trachtenberg.

If Nickelback is butt rock, is this taint rock?

I’ve driven a pickup truck for 20 years and never once had anything stolen out of it. “Safest big city” as a phrase strikes me similarly to “most comfortable chest wound.”

What’s the limiting factor?

Remember when it was a joke that the iPhone cost that much? “It’s $500, you have no choice of carrier, the battery doesn’t hold a charge, and the reception isn’t very…”

Mouse. Singular. Cat.

Dammit I had one of those.

It’s actually funny going back and watching early episodes of The New Yankee Workshop and hearing Norm brag about the “new” glues that were coming available. “This is a one-part glue, you don’t have to mix it up, it’s ready to use in the bottle, it’s water proof and it cleans up with water! I wouldn’t have even tried doing this myself without these modern glues.” They avoided showing brand names and such on the show; Norm was usually careful to hold the glue bottle with the back facing the camera, but he’s clearly holding a bottle of Titebond 2, with it’s blue cap.

And I mean, yeah. imagine building furniture without PVA glue, you change how you think.

See, I came to a similar realization in what I hope is less critical circumstances: I’m thinking of starting a Youtube channel and asked both ChatGPT and Gemini to help brainstorm for a channel name/branding. And I came to that same realization…this thing is being a total yes-man. Everything I thought up was a good idea.

Okay so let’s strike a couple out of that list:

• LibreCAD is a 2D-only DXF editor. I think it’s a fork of an old version of QCAD, which is also a 2D-only DXF editor. Not very helpful for 3D printing.
• Sketchup is kinda useful for going “what would my room look like if I laid out the furniture like this?” It produces horrible 3D models. When I used to work at the job shop, I could tell the model had been designed in Sketchup because it had holes and reversed normals and other shit that wouldn’t print.
• Blender. Blender is a 3D sculpting and animation program; Be your own little Pixar, just add talent. It can be used to make models for 3D printing but it isn’t very good as an engineering CAD package.

I would also rule out AutoCAD because isn’t it like, architectural software? And like, OLD? AutoDesk’s engineering CAD was Inventor for the longest time, and they’ve been working on replacing Inventor with Fusion360. I’m personally done with AutoDesk, they’ve chafed my taint a few too many times so I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

OnShape is actually cool tech, but it’s drawbackware. In the words of Lando Calrissian, this deal’s getting worse all the time.

I personally use FreeCAD, it could be better in a lot of ways but it’s not commercial. It’s made by the kind of people who are very good at programming computers, but they get full body diaper rash from cornhole to corneas if they try to think about software usability. It’s why every concept is replicated 2-4 times in various forms of incompatibility. May the dread god Nyalathotep smite thee should thou chooseth to make a Clone instead of a Link. It’s also developed in English by mostly non-English speakers. So you go to their forums and ask “If I need to make two mirror images of a part, what is the correct way to model the left one and then mirror it to get the right one” and they can’t get past the grammatical puzzle you just spun for them to answer the technical question.

In conclusion, learn to use a pencil.