small progress
2010-Jul-11, Sunday 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerPhysical exertion didn't exhaust me today like it did yesterday, so I made more progress on the patio. I would have done better, but sporadic bursts of rain have chased me inside already.
The books and articles mentioned 10'x10' (or 12'x12') patio decks. They detailed exactly how many of each kind of brick was necessary to complete a 10'x10' patio. What all of the papers FAILED to mention, however, is that if I were to add just a single inch onto the size (10'1" x 10'1") then I could lay the patio without cutting any of the bricks. Me and power tools are a really bad idea, so of course I chose to push out a cinder block border by one additional inch. A quick test run with some bricks showed me that, yes, they now fit squarely within the border without needing to cut any of them. Yay!
So that's where I'm at now. Ready for sand, then bricks. Progress, slowly but surely.
The books and articles mentioned 10'x10' (or 12'x12') patio decks. They detailed exactly how many of each kind of brick was necessary to complete a 10'x10' patio. What all of the papers FAILED to mention, however, is that if I were to add just a single inch onto the size (10'1" x 10'1") then I could lay the patio without cutting any of the bricks. Me and power tools are a really bad idea, so of course I chose to push out a cinder block border by one additional inch. A quick test run with some bricks showed me that, yes, they now fit squarely within the border without needing to cut any of them. Yay!
So that's where I'm at now. Ready for sand, then bricks. Progress, slowly but surely.
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Date: 2010-Jul-13, Tuesday 02:54 am (UTC)Example of the resizing problem: you have a photo that is 4" wide and 3" tall. You want to fit it in a column that is 2" wide. How tall would the resized photo be? Yes, this was beyond many of the undergrads, even armed with calculators. Being an ass, I started bringing a slide rule to class to do the ones I couldn't figure in my head or on paper. (I never used it.)
Anyway, it looks really nice. It should be useful.