Really nice job capturing the texture and metallic nature of the subject!

Professor baseball players have been struck out by women's softball pitchers.

The reaction time in softball is almost half as much as baseball.

https://fanbuzz.com/college-sports/college-baseball/softball-vs-baseball/amp/

Women's reaction time in softball is faster (less overall time) than men's professional baseball due to the shorter distance from mound to plate.

"ESPN's Sport Science broke down the speed of both games, pointing out that a 70 mph softball pitch -- from its shorter distance -- reaches home plate faster than a 100 mph baseball pitch. That means a softball player has less than half the time (.025 seconds) to decide to swing compared to a baseball player (.055 seconds). Now imagine trying to decipher whether or not that pitch headed your way is in the strike zone or not."

Source: https://fanbuzz.com/college-sports/college-baseball/softball-vs-baseball/amp/

Roughly a 45% raise for board members.

"The county executive proposed a 2% raise for all county workers."

"The board is set to adopt the FY 2024 budget on May 9, "which currently includes a roughly 7% increase in the tax bill for the average resident. Ninety million dollars in the FY 2024 are unappropriated,""

I am both amazed and not amazed how much attention Tiger still draws.

On one hand he's a living legend, easily one of the best to ever play.

On the other, he's had a lot of time out of the spotlight, obviously out of his prime due to many factors, and yet still commands headlines anytime he plays, more so than many of the current's top talent.

That investigation has been ongoing for years. My money is on nothing ever happening to him at this point.

The tears to rain I get, very nice.

But the rain in front of the cars is confusing. Different shape, and looks like it's coming out of nowhere.

I'd edit it out if It were me, but overall nice design.

Seems to be on par considerably the FAA's reason for their system crashing...

Redundant testing systems are clearly too expensive. /s

Now I want a dusk rose colored sports car...

Wow, that's impressive.

Lol

I wonder if he knows he's an arrogant prick and is like yeaaaa, that's me, sure let's make some dough for charity.

Yea that looks pretty blatant.

Unfortunate no call there for UNC.

Self tap: individually drill holes for each t-nut.

Self tap were the wrong words to say what I meant.

If you are going to be inverted on the ceiling holds I would never trust lag bolts or any other vertically screwed anchor. You risk them pulling straight out of the wood and falling on your head/neck.

The only truly safe ceiling anchors are thru-bolted through the joists horizontally so you rely on the shear strength of the anchor bolt. Just make sure its anchored in the upper 1/3 of the joist so there is plenty of wood below the bolt.

If you must do some sort of vertical fastener then Climbing gym setups are the ideal solution for thru-bolting. I think they use at least 3/4" plywood with rear metal anchors that bolts screw into. They are Best for a angled or vertical walls because you are using the shear strength of the bolt. But because they have a metal backing they are probably also ok for ceiling mounts. You could try to get extra large metal backings with a large washer to mitigate any potential pull through risk.

Attach the plywood to the joists with carriage bolts (lots of them). That will distribute the load across the whole plywood and not just a single lag like the monkey bars in the link you posted.

You'll have to self tap all the screw holes for the metal anchors on the back side tho. Search custom rock climbing walls for lots of tutorials.

Also you may want to double check your homeowners insurance. They may not cover damage to the house structure if you happen to deform or break anything because of your use case.

Not trying to be a downer but a person I knew fell from aerial equipment that failed and ended up partially paralyzed.

This is already being done with simple design software that uses lots of prefab pieces for people to click and drag to make their designs.

AI software may exacerbate this trend, but at the same time everything starts to look the same when using those tools. I suspect the same will be true to some level for AI design and art.

Unique design work will still probably be best served by a quality designer. Whether they use those tools or not will be their choice. But implementation and art direction are something AI will take a long while to catch up with. Just like self driving cars can do some things really well but fail at other aspects.

I'm a graphic designer and have been professionally for the last 16 years. Just the capabilities in non-ai based design software have made leaps and bounds of progression from when I started. The benefit in those improvements have cut my working time for specific tasks. I think future AI will mostly cut work times more and allow people with fewer resources greater access to more professional looking design.

But tools don't make good design, I've seen lots of garbage from people with access to the same tools as myself.

Yep, I'd been told that years before the first time I was fitted for one.

I split a helmet in half once while snowboarding. Went off a jump, landed fine, then caught my heel edge with a ton of speed and it whipped me onto my back and head.

I got up a bit dazed and my friend comes over to check on me and is like holy shit your helmet is cracked in half. The only thing hold it together was the plastic outer cover.

That helmet saved me from major injury or death that day. I can't understand why anyone nowadays rides anything without at least a helmet.

This is such a high risk, eat major shit move too.

Catch a foot and rotate awkwardly into concrete while falling face first into concrete.

Miss board and fall into concrete on your shoulder.

Hit board but slip out and crack against metal stairs.

I'm always amazed by people that pull off crazy gaps while skateboarding.