Somewhere in between bringing the two sheets together into two-ply paper, and winding it onto the wide rolls, a notched blade must come down every so many fractions of a second and perforate it, usually every 4″, so that it will tear into squares.
I was watching for it to happen but didn’t see it.
…
It can’t be done to the sheets separately, because the perforations line up exactly, and anyway, you can see that they went through both layers together.
Once it’s rolled, there’s no way to do it.
The things you have to think of, to design the simplest objects!
Think about just designing a zipper.
…
BTW, like most TP, the brand I prefer has had 4×4″ sheets for years and years…
Companies say they don’t profiteer off pandemic buying and shortages… uh huh…
but not only does it cost at least 20% more than it did in 2019…
the sheets are now 3.8″ wide.
….
It doesn’t sound like much… but when you save 0.2″ of paper from every length cut from those wide rolls, you might get a whole extra roll every 20 rolls… millions of times. It adds up!
Regardless of details:
As you said, at 3.8″ width per roll instead of 4″, they are now cutting 21 rolls per 80″ of raw “log” (and that accepts your rolls are still cut at 4″ long per sheet).
To keep it simple, selling price of each roll was and remains $1.00.
So at best the price increase is 5% per roll on base.
At an accepted increase from 100,00 to105,00 rolls per day production rate …. … … yes it does indeed add up.
The attachment is the menu of the “Bar Pisellino” (side by side with, to me, surprising information / I changed the top description to a caption)
Note the cost of a Martini — $17.00 —.
If that is not a tax-in price, that $17.00 will be subject to combined New York state and city taxes of 8.875% and do not forget the bottom of the menu:
“a 10% NYC “Covid Surcharge will be added to your bill”
So that martini could end up being $20.19 plus tip.
As high as I go, depending on service, is tipping 15% on the total owed at the till. So my total, if I lived in New York City, could be as high as $23.22 (OUCH ! !).
There’s got to be less expensive bars.
As a side note, Selena Gomez’s television address as Alex Russo is only about five blocks north.
As for today: Somebody has been reading too much Alan Dean Foster, I think.
I don’t go to bars, but I suppose neighborhood bars still charge that.
I agree that 15% is a very low “maximum” tip. Anything less is embarrassing around here.
…
A month or two ago, my nephew and his wife, a restaurateur, were visiting from Los Angeles, and took me to a new, rather hip, restaurant, in my local area, considered way out in the sticks compared to San Francisco.
I don’t normally go to places like that…
Entrees, mostly vegetarian, were around $30-$35…small plates designed to be augmented with several $20 appetizers, which we shared.
They each casually drank a couple of chic cocktails in the $14-$16 range.
M’appari tutt’ amor,
Il mio sguardo l’incontrò;
Bella si che il mio cor,
Ansioso a lei volo;
Mi ferì, m’invaghi
Quell’ angelica beltà,
Sculta in cor dall’amor
Cancellarsi non potrà:
Il pensier di poter
Palpitar con lei d’amor,
Puo sopir il martir
Che m’affana e stranzia il cor.
M’appari tutt’amor,
Il mio sguardo l’incontrò;
Bella si cheil mio cor
Ansioso a lei volo;
Marta, Marta tu sparisti
E il mio corcol tuo n’ando!
Tu la pace mi rapisti,
Di dolor io morirò.
You made “Rum Ribs” on Monday.
I could well be wrong, but I doubt you bought any rum to make them with, so my warped mind came up with this little ditty, and I’m told (use your best “acting-excited-disk-jockey” voice):
“It’s going to be number 1-oh-1 with an —” ! !”
“No Rum Rum Rum”
MontanaLady makes her “Rum Ribs” without rum
No rum- rum- rum- rum No rum- rum- rum
They taste really good but they have no rum
No rum- rum- rum- rum No rum- rum- rum
Since they have no rum
“Rum-less Ribs” they are
And though they do taste good
No rum- rum- rum- rum No rum- rum- rum
As I said: “warped mind” 🙂 — and recipes are only guidelines anyway.
These are offered their due apologies:
Songwriters: Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry / Georges Aber / Philip Spector
All right, people. All right. I’m gone for the day.
No rum-rum-rum ribs! They really tasted good! I don’t get out as often to shop anymore, and you have to go to a state liquor store to buy the rum, so this is the easy way out. LOVED your ditty!
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
3 years ago
When the hatch flew up on Robocar and the cannon popped out, I thought for sure that Cleo was going to respond in kind. She probably wishes she would/could have. But I imagine that she was out of ammo, and they were on their way to Projectiles R Us to stock up.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
3 years ago
The Little Nash Rambler song sounds a lot like The Teddy Bear’s Picnic.
What happens when somebody just walks in front of a self-driving car and wanders back and forth for 20 minutes? Are they equipped with the ability to back up and go around? Maybe call for help? Decide that the person is doing it on purpose and run over them 2 or 3 times to make sure they don’t do it to somebody else? “I can’t do that, Dave.”
I’d hope that facing that huge cannon would teach Cleo how an unarmed little squirrel feels, facing the size and firepower of a basset with a bazooka.
Actually, though…. I think she doesget it… the problem is that she doesn’t care.
In fact I’m sure she’s glad to realise that a squirrel would feel so overwhelmed.
…
Meanwhile, maybe the real ones don’t have cannons… but the idea of driverless cars is scary to many of us anyhow.
I mean, sure, they’re technical marvels… but hey… so are computers… and they never make any mistakes, right?
People get killed on escalators, even elevators… moving devices without human operators…
usually not because the machine makes a mistake, but because some human does something stupid, and the machine neither sees it nor “knows” how to correct for it.
…
This particular robot is armed and dangerous… but even a cannon-less car without a human inside is a ton or two of moving steel… or these days, probably steel, plastic and fiberglass…
that only knows what it’s been programmed to know, and only responds to a finite set of events.
Even with AI, and being able to use a certain sort of logic… I don’t trust that a computer can totally predict human illogic.
…
So far, the law in most places says that an alert human MUST be behind the wheel, even when a car is on autopilot… but I’m sure that will change.
When they’re finally allowed out on their own, it will be after they’re proven to respond well to known types of dangers…
but it will always be the unforeseen that scares me.
.
12, am I right?
I get 10. Puppies.
Closer to the 12 Dennis sees.
Me too… I get 10.
I was convinced there were 11, but while I was having a lull in my internet service, I doodled outlines around them…
While some are hard to distinguish, I think I separated them.
Oh… I guess I can share that,
This is just a rough doodle, not perfect outlines… as they say… your mileage may vary.
You are tooooooo clever, Ms. Sunshine!!!! Good idea!
Hard to make heads or tails of them…so to speak.
..
That is the place i would like to be.
Me and my dog, with no place that i need to be.
Your observations about T.P. and Paper Towels as a 2nd grader, were spot on.
The P.T. machine in action. (3 minutes 18 seconds)
This one is just for fun.
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Two leopard cubs.
They’re cute; right now. (1 minute 45 seconds)
The picture link from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” below is about Orangey. He had a long and distinguished career.
Somewhere in between bringing the two sheets together into two-ply paper, and winding it onto the wide rolls, a notched blade must come down every so many fractions of a second and perforate it, usually every 4″, so that it will tear into squares.
I was watching for it to happen but didn’t see it.
…
It can’t be done to the sheets separately, because the perforations line up exactly, and anyway, you can see that they went through both layers together.
Once it’s rolled, there’s no way to do it.
The things you have to think of, to design the simplest objects!
Think about just designing a zipper.
…
BTW, like most TP, the brand I prefer has had 4×4″ sheets for years and years…
Companies say they don’t profiteer off pandemic buying and shortages… uh huh…
but not only does it cost at least 20% more than it did in 2019…
the sheets are now 3.8″ wide.
….
It doesn’t sound like much… but when you save 0.2″ of paper from every length cut from those wide rolls, you might get a whole extra roll every 20 rolls… millions of times. It adds up!
Regardless of details:
As you said, at 3.8″ width per roll instead of 4″, they are now cutting 21 rolls per 80″ of raw “log” (and that accepts your rolls are still cut at 4″ long per sheet).
To keep it simple, selling price of each roll was and remains $1.00.
So at best the price increase is 5% per roll on base.
At an accepted increase from 100,00 to105,00 rolls per day production rate …. … … yes it does indeed add up.
The attachment is the menu of the “Bar Pisellino” (side by side with, to me, surprising information / I changed the top description to a caption)
Note the cost of a Martini — $17.00 —.
If that is not a tax-in price, that $17.00 will be subject to combined New York state and city taxes of 8.875% and do not forget the bottom of the menu:
“a 10% NYC “Covid Surcharge will be added to your bill”
So that martini could end up being $20.19 plus tip.
As high as I go, depending on service, is tipping 15% on the total owed at the till. So my total, if I lived in New York City, could be as high as $23.22 (OUCH ! !).
There’s got to be less expensive bars.
As a side note, Selena Gomez’s television address as Alex Russo is only about five blocks north.
As for today:
Somebody has been reading too much Alan Dean Foster, I think.
I would rather have a $7 martini and tip 20%.
I don’t go to bars, but I suppose neighborhood bars still charge that.
I agree that 15% is a very low “maximum” tip. Anything less is embarrassing around here.
…
A month or two ago, my nephew and his wife, a restaurateur, were visiting from Los Angeles, and took me to a new, rather hip, restaurant, in my local area, considered way out in the sticks compared to San Francisco.
I don’t normally go to places like that…
Entrees, mostly vegetarian, were around $30-$35…small plates designed to be augmented with several $20 appetizers, which we shared.
They each casually drank a couple of chic cocktails in the $14-$16 range.
So it’s not just New York City.
“Breaking Away”: The “Serenade Scene” lyrics..
from Friedrich von Flotow’s Martha
M’appari tutt’ amor,
Il mio sguardo l’incontrò;
Bella si che il mio cor,
Ansioso a lei volo;
Mi ferì, m’invaghi
Quell’ angelica beltà,
Sculta in cor dall’amor
Cancellarsi non potrà:
Il pensier di poter
Palpitar con lei d’amor,
Puo sopir il martir
Che m’affana e stranzia il cor.
M’appari tutt’amor,
Il mio sguardo l’incontrò;
Bella si cheil mio cor
Ansioso a lei volo;
Marta, Marta tu sparisti
E il mio corcol tuo n’ando!
Tu la pace mi rapisti,
Di dolor io morirò.
The attachment is from the end credits.
You made “Rum Ribs” on Monday.
” ! !”
I could well be wrong, but I doubt you bought any rum to make them with, so my warped mind came up with this little ditty, and I’m told (use your best “acting-excited-disk-jockey” voice):
“It’s going to be number 1-oh-1 with an —
“No Rum Rum Rum”
MontanaLady makes her “Rum Ribs” without rum
No rum- rum- rum- rum No rum- rum- rum
They taste really good but they have no rum
No rum- rum- rum- rum No rum- rum- rum
Since they have no rum
“Rum-less Ribs” they are
And though they do taste good
No rum- rum- rum- rum No rum- rum- rum
As I said: “warped mind” 🙂 — and recipes are only guidelines anyway.
These are offered their due apologies:
Songwriters: Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry / Georges Aber / Philip Spector
All right, people. All right. I’m gone for the day.
No rum-rum-rum ribs! They really tasted good! I don’t get out as often to shop anymore, and you have to go to a state liquor store to buy the rum, so this is the easy way out. LOVED your ditty!
When the hatch flew up on Robocar and the cannon popped out, I thought for sure that Cleo was going to respond in kind. She probably wishes she would/could have. But I imagine that she was out of ammo, and they were on their way to Projectiles R Us to stock up.
The Little Nash Rambler song sounds a lot like The Teddy Bear’s Picnic.
The risks of self-driving cars are still being discovered. This one seems to have taken some tips from Cleo.
Cleo! You’ve met your match!
Oops!
I liked the Caddie vs Rambler song before I ever saw the animation. The animation confirms that some things are better left to the imagination.
What happens when somebody just walks in front of a self-driving car and wanders back and forth for 20 minutes? Are they equipped with the ability to back up and go around? Maybe call for help? Decide that the person is doing it on purpose and run over them 2 or 3 times to make sure they don’t do it to somebody else? “I can’t do that, Dave.”
Hullo, Cleophiles and Clevelanders…
I’d hope that facing that huge cannon would teach Cleo how an unarmed little squirrel feels, facing the size and firepower of a basset with a bazooka.
Actually, though…. I think she does get it… the problem is that she doesn’t care.
In fact I’m sure she’s glad to realise that a squirrel would feel so overwhelmed.
…
Meanwhile, maybe the real ones don’t have cannons… but the idea of driverless cars is scary to many of us anyhow.
I mean, sure, they’re technical marvels… but hey… so are computers… and they never make any mistakes, right?
People get killed on escalators, even elevators… moving devices without human operators…
usually not because the machine makes a mistake, but because some human does something stupid, and the machine neither sees it nor “knows” how to correct for it.
…
This particular robot is armed and dangerous… but even a cannon-less car without a human inside is a ton or two of moving steel… or these days, probably steel, plastic and fiberglass…
that only knows what it’s been programmed to know, and only responds to a finite set of events.
Even with AI, and being able to use a certain sort of logic… I don’t trust that a computer can totally predict human illogic.
…
So far, the law in most places says that an alert human MUST be behind the wheel, even when a car is on autopilot… but I’m sure that will change.
When they’re finally allowed out on their own, it will be after they’re proven to respond well to known types of dangers…
but it will always be the unforeseen that scares me.
That has me drooling on my keyboard!
Last Scene: That’s a good look for Clara.
She should run and jump in the BOOM car and declare herself to be …
BRIDE OF ROBOTSTEIN!
Kewl new vid!
TGIF Cleo phans! Snow today here…woohoo!
Happy 90th Mom!
Y’all have a great day. (((((HuGz!)))))
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mom!
Happy bday, Old Pharts Plods’ Mom. You are 1 year ahead of mine (89th bday last Sat)
happy birthday again, Dorothea!
The new version of the “3 R’s”…
Readin’,Ritin’, andRithmaticis now
Robot Road Rage
Christine!
Any more questions, Claude??