Had a similar issue a couple months ago with sending money to my WS TFSA in a way that required a chequing intermediary account, and I also remember being boggled by the conditions attached (and ended up cancelling the transfer instead). Fortunately I don't have much over there yet, just been testing the waters. Aviso's Qtrade is probably next up for me to try.
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You should grab a burnisher for that card scraper...
Looks like it's only ITS sequencing ("barcoding") which is really old/cheap technology compared to modern whole genome sequencing (PacBio + HiC, etc). It's a very limited view of the genome, but still useful for broad phylogenetic analysis though, and definitely worthwhile since it'll be a while before we have a meaningful fraction of fungal species fully sequenced. I suspect there isn't much grant money out there for fungal diversity...
If you're going to try it, my advice: mix some very fine sanding dust (maybe 120 or so) with some poly with a putty knife until it's a really thick paste, and then jam it into the cracks... it'll shrink a little so be liberal with it and just sand it before you do the final finish. If you're really artsy too, you can actually paint on matching grain with acrylic and an incredibly fine brush to help it match. I've also just filled up cracks with sawdust and applied a few drops of poly, but it never seems to match quite as well for me that way.
I actually need to try something new for my next oil finish project too, so I'll be keeping an eye on this post, haha.
Always worth doing a test piece first. I haven't had any good results with glue (wood or CA), but if I'm finishing with polyurethane, making a filler with the same poly as the 'glue' is next to perfect.
I'm going to have to try this! Very curious about just how hard it turns out to be in the end.
Just been thinking about this a lot because the feet really bug me somehow. I think it probably is do-able as other people have mentioned, but also, are you sure this is a real box someone made and not AI-generated? I hate to have to ask it, but these days... and man, why don't the feet visibly support the box? I guess it could be inlaid... like I said, I don't think it's impossible. Just odd somehow.
Oak's the one that really gets me.
Lovely! Does the top just slot into the body?
Do you think kids in Thunder Bay are worse off than Montreal because of the time zone relative toe sunrise? They're both on EST, but sunrise is about an hour off between the two of them. Or is it about kids going to school in the dark, because I have bad news for you regarding most of Canada...