Although you have the right and freedom to express your ideas and ideals as you wish, you also need to respect the interpretation and misinterpretation of that from others. IE: You can name your kid after objects like “Blanket”, “Apple“, or even “Ocean”, but you’re going to seem a bit odd by social standards.
So this is a MOC (My Own Creation) that I did a year or so ago in a similar design, but never documented it. I’m a lot happier with the lower profile of this incarnation over the boxier first version I did.
My initial intent was just to test my abilities with gears and the technics set. I was going to set out making some sort of car, I knew, but I wanted to use my battery pack to make it either be remote controlled or at least self propelled. As it turns out, my LEGO motor no longer works, and I have no idea why, and it seems most battery sticks from the early 90’s, like mine, no longer work. So that already discouraged me from doing what I wanted to do. The next obstacle was having enough “sticks” that were long enough. I wanted to create something like a racecar framework, but I didn’t have the joints and pieces for that. Lastly, I have a ton of gears, but i have no more rubber-bands that would look awesome in a car, so I had to use gears instead of the pulley wheel designs.
All told, I like how the tractor turned out. The mower deck is a little lame, I know, but it was something simple to throw together and use the trailer hitch. The front loader functionality worked better in my original iteration, because the bucket doesn’t quite tilt back all the way, but it would just need a little more tweaking to fix, and I figured I spend enough time on this already.
and a video to show you all the movable parts (hood, steering wheel, engine piston, mower deck, and front loader):
Have you ever heard of the miracle fruit? It is a plant that produces berries that make sour taste sweet. The effect lasts for about 30 minutes, and you can eat a lemon and it will taste like lemonade.
Its use was discovered in the 18th century in West Africa. In the 1970s, there was a push to have it become a food additive, but it ultimately failed. Many point the fingers at the sugar industry, and even the government, since this would replace the need for artificial sweeteners and sugar in foods and drinks.
You are able to get it in pill form as a dietary supplement, but it’s not labeled a sweetener. That said, you can get the plants to grow at home and tasting parties are becoming more and more popular. There’s also a lot of new research going on for the applications to those with diabetes.
There should always be a point or objective to arguing. Arguing for the sake of arguing or even pure self entitlement is just silly and possibly destructive. If you can’t offer a potential resolution on your own, or if you can’t think of something the other side can offer to resolve the conflict, then you’re not ready to begin the argument. You should be prepared to identify the problem and offer peace, otherwise, you’re just complaining.
This goal is certainly not very likely to happen, but the idea of it really appeals to me. If I was ever capable of making a large donation to a university or institution, I’d love them to name the building “Josh Hall”.
Nothing is universal. What works for you may not work for others. What’s also important here is to remember to think objectively and inversely. ie: What does not work for you, may work for others. An example of this would be the modern social networking tools out there. Just because you don’t use RSS feeds, twitter, or even facebook, doesn’t mean that other people find them extremely efficient and useful. People’s values are different.
