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Everyone keeps telling you that you need to practice your fundamentals. What the hell does that mean, and how do you do it? This subreddit's all about concrete exercises that you can do to improve your fundamentals. We'll give you homework and we'll tell you where you're going right and wrong.

Go to Ebay and run through fifty or so better US commemoratives that are offered for sale from the 1893-1930 period. This was the era in which the United States produced our stamps through a printing process known as flat press printing. In flat press printing most of these issues were printed in large sheets of 200 stamps which were later perforated and cut into sheets of fifty for shipment to Post Offices for sale. The details for each issue varies slightly, but for the US Columbian Exposition issue there were no perforations along the outer edges of the sheet of two hundred. This left each pane of 50 (that is a quarter sheet of the 200 pane that had been printed and then separated) with ten stamps in one row with a straight edge and five stamps in the the other row straight edge with one stamp being the corner stamp and having a straight edge on two sides.

This meant that on the Columbian Exposition issue that fourteen out of every fifty stamps (or 28%) were straight edge. So go to Ebay-bet you can't find 5% straight edges or stamps described as being reperforated. Collectors in the earlier period didn't like straight edges so unscrupulous dealers obliged them by reperfing the offending edges to make them appear perforated on all four sides. Some time reperfing is easy to see (the $5 Columbian above is reperforated on the left hand side). But most of the time it is not so easy. But most of all, collectors have, for the most part, stopped caring. Very quality conscious collectors still care and certifying boards still point out reperfing on certificates (when they can tell), but mainstream Ebay buyers don't seem to care much because they grew up in an all sides perforated environment and don't think to question whether the perforations are real or not. This same phenomonon is happening (and will continue to happen) with gum. Collectors only want NH stamps, so that is what is being supplied. Eventually regumming will be so ubiquitous that only a small set of highly motivated, condition conscious collectors will know the difference or even care. This is not good, but is part of the satisfaction with mediocrity that seems to happen with so many things.

I am passionately convinced that design isn’t what happens after you understand the problem. Design is how you understand the problem. Every rough sketch or clumsy prototype is an investigation into the shape of it.

And yet I see so many designers who seem afraid or reluctant to put the proverbial pen to paper. Afraid of having a point of view. Afraid that someone will point out what they haven’t thought of, or that something doesn’t quite make sense. But surely that’s the whole point! Putting an idea out there is how the gaps get found.

This chapter of the Stamp Smarter "How To" series covers the process of digitally comparing stamp perforations (also known as the Srail method).
For more stamp collecting resources visit stampsmarter.com'

Srail method of detecting reperforations

Watch Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/hfv_Ga43tKY

Spreading Shoe Goo after it is deposited is a hassle because it is so sticky. However, there is a simple step that makes using Shoe Goo easy and almost ... fun, without the mess. This video describes how to apply and spread the initial layer of Shoe Goo. I use this method to repair sneakers, motorcycle boots, etc. Mineral spirits, aka mineral turpentine, is a petroleum-based solvent used for thinning oil-based paints and degreasing surfaces before painting.

WALPEX 2026 will be held on the weekend of October 24 & 25. We plan to have:

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ISNULL and COALESCE differ on result type, truncation, nullability, and how often they evaluate their input. When to use each.

The first difference is the result type and length. ISNULL takes the data type of its first argument and forces the whole result into it.[2] COALESCE follows data-type precedence across all its arguments and picks the type with the highest precedence.[3] When the first argument is narrower than the replacement, ISNULL truncates.

And COALESCE is ANSI standard SQL while ISNULL is specific to T-SQL, so COALESCE ports to other database engines and ISNULL does not.

I reach for COALESCE by default, for the standard syntax, the multi-argument fall-through, and the result length that accounts for all its string arguments rather than truncating to the first.

Ronzino rises from the ashes of our former brand typeface (Arial, sigh) to bring a new spin on the cult classic, improving on its (many) drawbacks while retaining a similar information-driven feeling – anonymous and nondescript.

Also:
https://www.collletttivo.it/typefaces/necto-mono

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There are only four reasons for reperforating a stamp. They are:

To eliminate straight edges.
To eliminate faults.
To center a stamp.
To change a stamp’s basic catalog number by changing
the perforations on one or more sides.

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If you've ever sat down on the floor, spread your legs wide, and tried to fold forward — and your body just stopped — this video is for you.

0:00 Why the pancake destroys most people

1:02 What the inner thigh burn actually means

1:53 Why your back rounds (and what's really causing it)

3:26 Fix 1 — Standing Pancake Holds & Hinges (adductors)

5:21 Fix 2 — 90/90 Hip Switches (pelvis rotation)

7:22 Fix 3 — Jefferson Curl (hamstrings)

9:35 Fix 4 — Seated Hip Flexor Lift-Offs (hip flexion)

11:29 Fix 5 — Straddle Active Reach (full integration)

12:57 The honest timeline

If your lower back has been aching and you can't figure out why, watch this next: https://youtu.be/3e2r4_i3KnI

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1. Everything has a home
2. Don't Sacrifice Surfaces for Storage (Surfaces are Sacred)
3. Proximity follows Priority
4. Don't Organize Junk
5. Visibility beats memory (Labels)
6. One motion is better than 2
7. Build for Flexibility

Shop jigs can help make your work faster, safer and better. Here's how to make 7 of them.

Bridle Joint Jig
Splining Jig
Door and Drawer Pull Jig
Picture-Framing Jig
Half-Lap Jig
Sacrificial Fence
The story stick
Jay’s Jig Kit

Your entire LLM stack now fits in a single executable file.

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