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I love Ramirez’s cartoons. He scritchy-scratches the subjects face then provides impressively incredibly detailed backgrounds. Just look at the wall decorations. It is not necessary to convey the joke. Who does that? Ramierez does, that’s who.
Clearly, Ramirez does not like Shrillary.
So when does Obama get his “three days?”
Practical geometry question, wherein my math must be checked. No Common-Core math-please: there’s real money involved.
I am building two raised beds. One is an equilateral triangle with 5-foot sides. The area is 10.83 sq feet. The other is an irregular bed whose area is ~87.5 sq feet.
I want to fill each bed to a depth of 8 inches. How many cubic yards of dirt should I order?
I’m thinking that first I need to convert the area to inches, then multiply by 8, giving me the cubic inches. Then divide by 36 to get cubic yards?
Is that right?
No, I found a cubic-inch to cubic-yard converter.
Getting ~2.5 cubic yards for both beds. Sound right?
1 is 1/2 5 x 5 x .75 = 9.375 ft cu = 0.35 yd cu
2 – get a cubic yard to do both
That doesn’t seem like enough. Off the top of my head, I was thinking about 7.5 cubic yards (or 8, since potting soil / garden soil is sold by 1 cubic yard per bag).
triangles are half
‘Superior Male Mathematical Ability’
Nevermind, I went and looked. They aren’t that big.
@5x5x1 = 25 ft3 1 yd3= 3ftx3ftx3ftx1happyfeet=27ft3. doing triangles 1/2 less.
it depends how many chickens you have
99.33 sq ft x 8 in depth (or 0.67) for 66.5 cu ft. 27 cubic feet to cubic yard, so 2.5 cubic yards is correct.
A cubic yard is 3’x3’x3′. 1’x3’x3′ is 9 square feet, so a cubic yard is 9×3=27 square feet. You need 99 square feet, so 3.7 cubic yards.
I got 2.77 cu. yds and would round up, since good soil doesn’t tend to go to waste.
oh, I missed 8 inches deep. Spiny is correct.
Square feet, cubic feet, what difference does it make at this point?
I am building two raised beds. One is an equilateral triangle with 5-foot sides. The area is 10.83 sq feet. The other is an irregular bed whose area is ~87.5 sq feet.
I want to fill each bed to a depth of 8 inches. How many cubic yards of dirt should I order?
Simple. Bed 1 area + bed 2 area = 10.83 + 87.5 = 98.33 sq ft
98.33 sq ft x 0.667 feet deep = 65.56 cubic feet
65.56 cubic feet / 27 = 2.43 cu yds.
Add 10% for spillage and rounding, and you have 2.77 cubic yards.
you get what you pay for
That cartoon is obviously racist sexist ageist and ableist.
And quite possibly homophobic. But we can’t say for certain because to even ask is homophobic and probably racist as well.
> The other is an irregular bed whose area is ~87.5 sq feet.<
common communist condition
> The other is an irregular bed whose area is ~87.5 sq feet.<
so you have an irregular parcel and you "know" sortof a number. anywho get 3 yds your good to go. you be buying air too in cu yds.
Buying that much soil I would assume you are buying bulk, not packaged. Likely a guy in a loader will be loading it loose in a truck. It would be a couple of pick-up loads at least. Anyway, assumptions noted I’m with newrouter. just tell the guy to give you three yards. If you tell him 2.77 yards, he will probably roll his eyes at you.
Di,
Buy ten bags. If that’s not enough, buy ten more.
Return what you don’t open.
Why the hell do you people have to bring MATH into this?????
Me? I have to return a Briggs & Stratton fuel filter to ACE Hardware because, it turns out, my Toro lawnmower doesn’t have a fuel filter. That’s what I get for reading the maintainence page of the owners manual, without looking at the engine’s “features and controls” diagram, where the fuel filter is marked “(optional).”
I guess I didn’t “opt” for a fuel filter when I bought the damn thing.
now your fuel is just a melange of unfiltered chaos
That can’t be a good feeling.
I’ll be buying the dirt from a service that delivers soil in 1-cubic-yard bags.
I’ll order three.
I’m also shocked at getting the math right.
Not a game of “tag.”
BTW if you missed this because I linked it just before dicentra’s bleg it is worth looking at as this is what groups like Boko Haram want to impose everywhere. And it was what things were like in the Muslim occupied Europe of the past. It is what being a dhimmi is.
One cubic yard would be about (50) 40-lb bags of top soil (0.02 cu/yd per bag; 50 bags, 2000 lbs). That’s quite a few back-and-forth trips to Lowe’s. Puts a strain on the average Volkswagen.
Saw Godzilla last night.
In Godzilla the US Pacific Fleet more or less escorts Godzilla to San Francisco so he can stop a pair of monsters from Nevada and the Phillipines from breeding. Also there is some nuk-u-ler bomb stuff. And a gas explosion.
Also, Brian Cranston is not the one who knocks.
Godzilla fights Muto the monogamous cisheteronormative reproductive couple monster who also has EMP powers.
The bizarre barking mad psuedo -science and long, slow, superfluous first 1/3 of the movie were authentically Godzilla-esque.
Special praise goes to Ken Watanbe as the clandestine research organization “scientist” for getting in a US Navy Pacific Fleet Admiral’s face about Hiroshima, literally with a stopped watch, and to Hollywood for having the admiral bow his head in a mixture of awe, respect, and shame, instead of having the admiral say “OMG! Whip ’em out buddy! C’mon, put ’em right on the table here! I can’t wait to see them because THEY MUST BE ENORMOUS! And I bet they’re even shiny too! ” and hold his arms out at maximum width while sneering.
Better millions of Japanese and hundreds of thousands of Americans had died in an invasion than using those Atomic bombs, right?
“Are you complaining because we only nuked two cities and not your whole damn country? ‘Cause we won’t stop at two if there’s a next time. And it sounds like you’re spoiling for a next time.”
Di, get a small dump truck load of top soil/mushroom soil/clean dirt. That’s about 8 cubic yards. It’s much cheaper than buying it at the home improvement store and they will deliver it and dump it in your driveway or in your yard (if you don’t mind tire tracks).
Get thee a shovel and dig in!
It’s always pleasant to hear tears of sympathy for the Japanese from the comfort of 70 years removed.
It’s become something of a habit for me that any time I’m renting a pickup from Menard’s (usually for hauling yard waste to the county compost site), I stop in at Kern’s and pick up a yard of mulch, or soil, or some such thing.
Mr. Kern has a marquee out front that often says amusing things. Back in April it read “WILL WHOEVER IS PRAYING FOR SNOW PLEASE STOP.” Before that, it read “WATCH OUT FOR NINJAS.” This week, it reads “NOW AVAILABLE: GLUTEN-FREE MULCH.”
I love that place.
Puts a strain on the average Volkswagen.
I drive a Fiesta, but the same principle applies.
Get thee a shovel and dig in!
I have to lie down and rest after changing a light bulb or taking a shower. Yes, the effing idiopathic fatigue persists without respite.
I’ll be using a bunch of Mormons with shovels & wheelbarrows to transport the three cubic feet into the two beds. Otherwise, the growing season will be over before I get all that stuff back there.
di, have you looked into the possibility of it being Fibromyalgia? It’s a “diagnosis by exclusion” (which means they have to eliminate everything else it could possibly be instead — multiple blood tests, X-rays, MRIs, CAT scans, et alia), and it took them seven years to come up with that diagnosis in my own case, but it’s since been repeatedly confirmed.
http://www.fmnetnews.com/fibro-basics/symptoms
I wonder how long before we start seeing this in America.
I suspect it won’t be long. What would you like your church to do if and when it does?
Personally I advise the approach used by Jesus against the merchants in the temple over the ‘turn the other cheek’ thing, but then I don’t buy Islam as the religion of peace. YMMV.
I don’t know what Christians are going to do. But I have a pretty good idea what would happen to a Christian who went a mosque proclaiming Jesus Christ. Both here in the West and in the Middle East.
“When people ask ‘What Would Jesus Do?’, it is wise to remember that turning over tables and lashing people with whips is among the options.”
Islam is not the ‘Religion of Peace’, because Islam doesn’t mean ‘peace’. It means ‘submission’, and its followers refer to themselves as “slaves of Allah”.
di, have you looked into the possibility of it being Fibromyalgia?
I went to an open house at a fibromyalgia and fatigue clinic and they explained the symptoms of both. I also go back to look at the fibro and CFS definitions from time to time and take the diagnostic questionnaires, etc.
I don’t have muscle or joint aches or general malaise, so I’m ruled out for those two afflictions.
On one CFS doctor’s site, he listed a buncha things that ought to be ruled out before considering CFS (which his quiz indicated I don’t have) and I don’t have any of those, either — they’ve either been medically ruled out or I don’t have the symptoms (many scary) that go with the disease.
The closest one I saw was acquired glycogen storage disease, which can be autoimmune, but I don’t have the severe muscle cramps that come from exertion, just the default lack of energy and zero endurance.
Besides, it requires a muscle biopsy for a definitive diagnosis, and I’m not gonna do that without a compelling reason.