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Friday Fun Thread for April 24, 2026

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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  • Websites listing fan conventions: 1 (including a hidden list of adults-only fan conventions), 2 (apparently poorly translated from French)

  • Websites listing professional conferences: 1, 2, 3

Do you think anybody would attend a meetup on the topic of nonconsensual editing? (This is approximately half a joke.)


My vomit-inducing custom house is approximately three-fourths complete.

  • Photograph 1: Apparently, in plumbing the modern practice is to divvy up all the water pipes through a "manifold" (like a circuit-breaker box), which looks pretty cool.

  • Photograph 2: Spray-foam insulation

  • Photograph 3: Behold! A boring beige box!


Which variations of the cylindrical equal-area projection are your favorites?

I am inclined to pick Behrmann (standard parallels ±30 °, so that exactly half of the map's area is stretched vertically and half is squashed vertically; aspect ratio ∼2.4) and Smyth/Craster (aspect ratio 2∶1; standard parallels ∼±37 °).

My vomit-inducing custom house

I don't know, I think it wouldn't look out of place as a supervisor's office at some remote lumber mill or mine.

But right now it looks like an anti-Georgist countermeasure.

According to § 155.03.01 of the Standard Specifications of the New Jersey Department of Transportation, a contractor's field office must have at least one room with 288 ft2 of area. Unfortunately, my design does not fulfill this requirement, as the living/dining room is only 214 ft2 (though you arguably could add the adjoining kitchen to that area). However, the Pennsylvania DOT's requirements (§ 609 table A) are not so picky—they have no minimum room area.