Christian Ray

Hah yeah the incantations don't help much. I have tried wax/lube, etc. After some thoughtful reflection, it seems to occur most whenever I am trying to "correct" a tap hole that is a little uneven. Some day I will learn to use a syringe needle for that. In the meantime, I request government funding.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Brave man standing meme

#79 drill bits should be provided for free from the government #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #HOScale

The B end of a USRA box car in HO scale, unpainted.

The B end illustrates that I am more interested in detailing than operations. #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #USRABuild

Street capacity is a public resource to be allocated in the public interest.

Kansas City Railways, 1925

— from Fighting Traffic, fig. 6.1 (p. 160)

The A end of a USRA box car in HO scale with a visible brake hose.

Oh yeah, forgot to add the brake hoses. This baby will now need to wait for the weekend weather for painting. #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #USRABuild #HOScale

Please get a colonoscopy if you are over 40. Don't depend on the current generation of fecal or blood tests. Colonoscopies have an almost nonexistent false negative rate. The same cannot be said for any other existing test for colorectal cancer.

Building up my own museum one model at a time. bsky.app/profile/jcjr...

I was hoping it would be picked up with the hashtags. Glad you saw it!

I love following projects like this as they progress. Sometimes the best posts are self-replies, but you'd never know that the way the bsky algos bury them.

Side view of an unpainted resin model kit of a box car in HO scale. It is a USRA single sheath design as it would have appeared in the late 1930s.

Just a few more tiny details that are on order and it will be ready to be washed and painted. #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #USRABuild #HOScale

The A end of an HO scale box car (unpainted) showing the coupler cut lever.

Cut bar installation... #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #USRABuild #HOScale

Inverted HO scale resin box car, unpainted, with styrene supports for the roofwalk being installed. Underbody brake detail is apparent.

Inverted A end of an unpainted HO scale resin box car with styrene roofwalk supports installed. An HO scale ruler shows the scale width of the model.

Roof support installation... #ModelRaiload #ModelRailway #USRABuild #HOScale

DEPower: approximate power analysis with DESeq2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪

This Superbowl feels like both teams know the winner gets invited to the White House.

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

There is a spherical alligator joke somewhere here

Looks like a gator from the fat nose

a very through set of metal-grinding files

getting on that grindset

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers."

"...yet if any man would combine a knowledge of the theoretical part of any subject with the practical, he is bound to get better results than he would with the theoretical alone or the practical alone."

It's 3x 360 degree rotations of tea bags, obvs

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

I would really love it if articles about Epstein didn't graphically feature his smirking face in the preview.

The A end of an HO scale USRA box car with tiny black rivets visible against the gray cast resin of the model.

The sill at the bottom of the end had rivets, but the casting required enough sanding/filing cleanup that I need to replace them. Luckily Archer decals have the right size. BTW always sand or file resin wet to avoid making toxic dust! #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #USRABuild #HOScale

Driving is a social activity. AI is not “navigate multifaceted social situation” levels of smart right now.

HMS Defatigable

😊🧶🫠🧵

#knitsky #knitting #crochet #gayknitter

HO scale box car under a magnifying glass highlighting brass crosswalk supports.

Photo with alt text.

Adding the crosswalk supports, made out of brass strip. #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #Mesoscale