Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Carin needs a break from family stuff and cheap tippers, so this one is just for her. Some music to get you moving (Hotspur and Brewfan need not click). Rocketboy cranks this song up to 11. I know because I’ve driven the car after him and marveled that the mirrors were still attached.
I have to laugh every time I go looking for hot redheads and cute gingers, and the image search sends me right back here. So forgive me for a little retread.
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Get him, Carin, run, run!
We will return you to your regularly scheduled mix of brunettes, blondes, and the occasional baldy next week. Remember if you’re in Alabama, a good way to tip is take the tax on the meal (8-9%, depending on where you’re at), double it, and either round up or add a dollar. Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Do I carry the two or divide by pi?
Multiply by e^ix and integrate from 0 to 2pi.
From the last poat:
You may hate the money A-Rod makes, and what the Yankees spend, but they are still making money. They have the highest payroll in baseball year after year, and they continue to generate revenue, even after being penalized by the league for their extravagance. The organization itself is a machine.
Why not just move the decimal point one place to the left, and double that amount? 20%, easy peasy.
Why are all the guys commenting on HHD?
My favorite parts are the categories…HA! Roamy.
Good morning. I am praying for a dull day. Yesterday, my FIL fell, giving himself a cut and a black eye, there was drama at work that resulted in 47 Mb in my inbox in two hours (TILT!), Mini-me finished up her softball tournament, and I spent two hours trying to get a financial situation straightened out.
The best thing the Yankees ever did was to get rid of Ben Gazi.
He sucked.
I really liked #1 and #3, but I think the runner dude is my favorite.
*smooches Roamy, causing her to lose a few IQ points
sorry.
Ha ha ha … scott with the early morning funnah
*throws coins in his tip jar
47 Mb in my inbox in two hours
That could be like, 3 ppt files, so I ain’t impressed.
Yesterday blew the curve for me too. I was in the OR from 7:15 AM till 8 PM. Just when I thought I was leaving at 4:30 there was a kid with a dog bite on the hand that happened 24 hours before and was looking very nasty. “To the OR for you”—said like Soup Nazi guy
“47 Mb in my inbox”
Oh my.
Some dogs have nasty bacteria in their mouth. A guy I know has a dog like that. If he bites you, you will be in the ER within 24 hours or dead.
His own dog has hospitalized him twice.
I bet Mare can get about 100 Mb in her inbox.
Some nameless fucktard saw her in a small ER the day it happened. Washed 4 puncture wounds out with saline and then CLOSED the wounds with glue. NO antibiotics.
Fucking weasel dicked fucktard……
I was speechless when I heard the story.
Jimbro – my cousin’s wife (the one with the amputation) had to go back first to remove more bone, because the skin was infected, and so they could close it up again.
She was home (again) but then developed Staph in her arm drip (for antibiotics, etc) and now they’re saying she has a clot in her arm.
What do you think?
Extra nice work, Roamy!
Football man intrigues me with his pork chop combed locks.
You know all those videos of people holding their hands over their mouth and their eyes bugging out during episode 9 of Game of Thrones?
That was HotBride last night.
I bet Mare can get about 100 Mb in her inbox.
http://is.gd/mnQGHt
You should have filmed it for us Hotspur.
Washed 4 puncture wounds out with saline and then CLOSED the wounds with glue. NO antibiotics.
Obamacare is starting earlier than I thought.
If anything, the TV version was a let down. In the book, as Chief said, the leadup to the Red Wedding was 30-40 pages, and you just knew something was wrong, but you couldn’t put your finger on it. I wonder if anyone has been able to interrupt reading that part of the book. I know I couldn’t. The TV version was abbreviated.
I can still remember when Beasn was reading GoT Book #3 – all of us who had read the book knew when she had gotten to “that part” because she was ready to go all Hulk on George Martin’s ass.
Good times, good times…..
mornin gabe
>>>>IN Alabama…
What does that tip work out to in pies and moonshine?
I didn’t read the book, but I definitely had a sense of foreboding that something was terribly amiss, and wasn’t at all what it seemed. When they carried the bride and groom out and the doors closed, I thought “Oh shit. Now what?”
Car in, your cousin possesses the worst luck. These are all recognized complications (osteomyelitis, wound margin breakdown, line infections, upper extremity DVT, etc) but she is getting hit by them all. It’s never fair when this shit happens over and over to the same person.
Yikes, Car in – your cousin’s wife has had a rough go of it! Is she the one who is diabetic? That always seems to complicate things.
Does she smoke? I seem to remember reading somewhere that can sometimes interfere with surgery recovery – don’t remember why, though.
*wanders in to savor the new poat smell
Smoking—vasoconstriction
Diabetes—microvascular disease
Like the Cialis ad says: It’s all about the blood flow.
Microvascular disease killed it.
Jimbro, why is there an increased sex drive after exercise? Endorphins?
I’m asking for a friend.
Also, does this look infected to you?
Who made it acceptable to use periods in phone numbers?
1.800.474
Is nothing sacred?
* changes number to 1!800!456!8989 *
I think they use periods in European phone numbers. Some people probably consider it more sophisticated.
Poofters.
MJ, I’m guessing endorphins or feeling like you just chased down a womyn and dragged her back to your cave. Tell your friend it’s normal.
Also, pull my finger.
The same idiots that use commas before the cents, I suspect.
Q. Why do European phone numbers have periods?
A. Because they never get pregnant.
It likely stems from the cognitive dissonance inflicted by having to say “mil” when you mean “thousand”.
Heh. Murica. We will promise to convert to your metric system and then totally fuck you over and not do it.
Everyone must absolutely go read the article on drowning that geoff posted at IB.
cousin’s wife doesn’t have diabetes, nor does she smoke.
I have no idea regarding her gluten status.
periods are easier than dashes to type.
Everyone must absolutely go read the article on drowning that geoff posted at IB.
Agreed. Go read. I watched my Axeman do this about 4 years ago; my SiL laughed out loud at me as I slipped off my shoes, kept watching him, and jumped in to rescue my son.
IB still has content being posted to it?
I’ve seen it so I recognize what it looks like.
Hey, we’ve been having 3 or 4 posts a day for the past week and a half.
I didn’t realize that people were unaware what it looked like.
Well. State Farm says roof is a total loss. So that and the fence together means I already hit my deductible repairing the fence.
…errr…make that a couple posts a day for the past week and a half.
Sure seemed like more.
I didn’t realize that people were unaware what it looked like.
Never really thought about it, but when they described it, I knew that I could easily have been part of the 10% of parents who were watching it happen without a clue.
I didn’t, Carin.
I just watched him for long enough to see there was a problem and the MommySense kicked in.
Well. State Farm says roof is a total loss. So that and the fence together means I already hit my deductible repairing the fence.
That worked out well. I mean, given that you had to repair the fence anyway. And aside from the part where they’re going to be hammering on your roof for a few days.
What passes for “scholarship” in law schools today:
http://collegeinsurrection.com/2013/06/cambridge-univ-law-students-stunned-by-graphic-sexual-questions-on-exam/
Yep.
Good article geoff. I learned this stuff when I was a lifeguard in high school. Had absolutely no idea what it actually looked like until I was trained.
Very nice that your adjuster included the fence in your loss, Dave. Some of those guys can be meanies.
cousin’s wife doesn’t have diabetes, nor does she smoke.
Like Jimbro said, she must just be one of the “unlucky” ones, then.
Bummer.
Hope she is able to get over this quickly; doesn’t sound like she’s having an easy time of it.
It won’t be full replacement cost but he is going to see if he can finagle once he sees the photos I send him.
Some hail dings in the radiator fins of the AC compressor need to be combed out – I saw em, they aren’t too bad.
Thanks for the heads-up about that article – that one’s getting passed along.
It won’t be full replacement cost but he is going to see if he can finagle once he sees the photos I send him.
Your fence neighbor… did they file a claim? Between the two of you, you should get full RC with your pictures, Dave.
/hat off
(unless you have something in your policy about fences only being paid at ACV)
/hat off for realz
It’s probably Celiac Disease.
It was a 16 year old fence, I put it in when we build the house so I don’t think neighbor would have a claim. I expect some depreciation but even at 50% (the number he mentioned) that’ll cover more than 75% of the deductible for the entire claim.
However my sexy insurance goddess, when I get the settlement offer I will humbly ask for your opinion, and check my policy for the relevant clauses and coverage.
It’ll be like an insurance date, without the actual dating part.
A non-date date; let’s do this.
*points Shameless Suckup Meter at Dave; it redlines and explodes*
I didn’t think about asking Cyn about what to do when the branch came through my roof and crushed my loaner car.
That probably would have been a good idea.
Damn, those were so good, I forgot to scroll down to comments. ‘Lo, Dave.
>> *points Shameless Suckup Meter at Dave; it redlines and explodes*
I don’t do shame. It would require having character.
point
counterpoint
Olden times:
I don’t do shame.
Hence the “Shameless” label.
countertop
http://blurbrain.com/powerful-transgender-heckled-by-mentally-deranged-lesbian/
Everyone must absolutely go read the article on drowning that geoff posted at IB.
**pouts because I posted the same link yesterday, but Laura doesn’t read my dumb military blog.
>> Hence the “Shameless” label.
Oh. Well, ok yeah.
*gives xbrad’s blog a token click*
http://blurbrain.com/powerful-transgender-heckled-by-mentally-deranged-lesbian/
This made me laugh inappropriately. Good job, Jimbo
Sorry, xbrad.
**pouts because I posted the same link yesterday, but Laura doesn’t read my dumb military blog.
Sorry about that – haven’t been by in a couple of days.
Watching Jim McDermott (D) on with Megyn is hilarious! She is eating him up and he’s getting mad.
Geoff, not knocking you. I’m teasing Laura.
And it’s a good message.
I took a fantastic course on open water survival back in high school. It mostly focused on hypothermia, but it did talk about drowning as well. And having damn near drowned myself, I can attest that it’s impossible to call out.
As a certified rescue diver, we were instructed in all of that. When the “victims” began to flail around, the instructor would tell them “That’s not the way you do it. Stay more still until the rescuer gets near you, then try to take them down.”
However, you do need to be prepared for a panicky person pulling you under, grabbing your regulator, pulling off your mask, etc.
Reading your comment Hotspur reminded me of my Lifesaving merit badge course. The being dragged under thing was strongly emphasized. We were taught how to fight them off to save ourselves if we had to.
Greetings, peanut gallery members.
Part of my swim test in ROTC was doing a 50m rescue swim. I had to drag Gunny Cantu. Who, let us say, was “enthusiastic” about the whole “trying to drag you down thing.” Given that he was about 6’4″ and maybe 220# or so, trying to swim and pull him was a bit of a challenge.
So my “rescue hold” was not the approve over the shoulder/across the chest thingy.
I put him in a one armed choke hold. He quit struggling pretty quickly.
When approaching a victim we were instructed to dive under water 10 yards away, then swim under them, then around them, get them in a leg lock from behind, then inflate the hell out of your BCD.
I didn’t have the luxury of a BCD, H/S. Did I mention I was in uniform? It’s hard enough to swim in khakis, but dragging a petulant Gunnery Sergeant makes it just that extra bit of special.
Hahahahaha
Knee him in the nads.
“I put him in a one armed choke hold. He quit struggling pretty quickly.”
heh
Just starting reviewing the airlift plan for TFG’s next overseas trip. Dublin and Berlin. 16 C-17 missions total.
Then he turns around and goes to Africa. That will be a logistical nightmare.
Then he turns around and goes to Africa. That will be a logistical nightmare.
Any chance we could leave him there?
*reports agile to ATTACKWATCH*
Looks like Moochelle will also be travelling to Dublin.
Well, he IS an O’Bama……
*reports agile to ATTACKWATCH*
Yippe! I’ve made the big time!
Obama’s appointment of Rice is a total dick move. But then, this prick is all about dick moves.
How he grew up without a broken nose, broken jaw, and several missing teeth are his greatest accomplishments in life.
As an added bonus, he’s appointed Samantha Power to take Rice’s UN position.
The UN position is mox nix to me. Nobody gives a shit about those impotent worthless assholes.
Evidently Samantha Power is also married to Cass Sunstein. I did not know that.
I bet Glenn Beck had a little bit to say about that on his show today. He’s had a hard-on for Sunstein for years.
Howdy, cretins!
It’s sort of weird to have a president that hates half of the country and be so open about it.
Susan Rice. What a C-UNT. Samantha Powers. Smart power C-UNT.
Gonna be a long 3.5 years. I can’t even see 2016 from here.
Yes; very, very long.
Will Ted Cruz and Rand Pauls be only only Republicans will balls enough to oppose Rice?
It doesn’t matter. The senate has no say.
It’s sort of weird to have a president that hates half of the country and be so open about it.
You know, in all the stuff I’ve read about Lincoln, I never got the impression that he actually hated the South. And he would have had a hell of a lot better excuse.
Power is a way bigger deal to me that Rice as NSA. Power is an avowed anti-semite.
Samantha Power is just plain dangerous to Israel. Beck has done a great job exposing her issues.
Xbrad wrote up a good piece on Rice, Donilon, and Jones as NSA. I see he has a poat up about Power too.
Just got an email that the new stock I ordered for my Mosin/Nagant sniper rifle finally shipped.
This is going to be bad ass:
http://tinyurl.com/kro8ft5
What dave said:
http://tinyurl.com/l7raw7o
And I noticed TFG actually praised her for her work fighting anti-semitism.
Nice Phat! We’ll need video when you take it to the range!
MCPO,
As cool as the stock is, the selling point for me was the 10 rd magazine. The orignal 5 rd internal was a pain to load.
I’ve got 880 rds of surplus 7.62 x 54r that I’ve been dying to go shoot. It’s about the cheapest ammo you can get these days. .
And I noticed TFG actually praised her for her work fighting anti-semitism.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew!
I saw a Rand Paul bumper sticker on a car in my neighborhood today.
Did a little (heh) voice inside your head say “Don’t look back, you can never look back”?
Oh no, that pistol grip puts it one step closer to an assault rifle!
Couldn’t you find a bayonet lug?
Pew Pew Pew is one of the best memes ever. So fun to say!
J’ames, those two posts were written by one of my coauthors. I’m glad you enjoyed them.
Hey Hostages! Put a little magic into your life!
http://is.gd/SaqQyv
Hey! Good one, MCPO!
is.gd is working again! Yay!
Awww, Cyn! I didn’t mean you. . . unless you wanna? >_<
“Obama’s appointment of Rice is a total dick move. But then, this prick is all about dick moves.
How he grew up without a broken nose, broken jaw, and several missing teeth are his greatest accomplishments in life.”
My thoughts exactly.
Keep your eyes on Jordan. Holy crap we are moving a lot of stuff into there for Exercise ‘Eager Lion’.
F-16’s, Patriot Batteries, and lots of bang bangs.
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion it really isn’t an exercise…
/btw, it’s now in open source, so I’m good on OPSEC.
I just watched Becky Garritson’s testimony and Megan Kelly destroy that fuckwad Jim McDermott.
It is my conclusion that Obama won the election by politicizing much of the bureaucracy that wasn’t fully in the political realm before.
And so it will be forever.
What a total dick.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Jordan shares a border with Syria.
Xbrad,
Just stopped by your blog. Good stuff today. Can’t believe i didn’t have it bookmarked at work.
. . . unless you wanna? >_<
Race you to the dumpster out back!
Oh I dunno, MJ, I’m looking forward to the Planned Parenthood/OFA/NAACP/LWV audit.
Oh for crissakes.
Just put a nuke in every one of these countries with a giant red button that says, ‘don’t touch.’
The all we have to do is teach one asshat in each country to read, then BOOM! Curiosity always gets ’em.
*claps hands together.
Problem solved.
*gets laid off
*gets online CPA
*gets IRS job
*cackles madly
A friend of mine and I used to have an idea for a molecular nanotechnological superweapon:
A giant, widely-spread net that would crawl through the ocean and sift out gold dust, then it would swim to an enemy beach and projectile vomit it up onto shore. We figured the destabilization would devastate most countries, and the UN couldn’t do anything to you.
Worth noting: if you could make this, genocide would be trivial and much less funny.
Phat, all the good stuff today was by a coauthor. A Marine, of all things. Who knew they could write without a crayon?
How he grew up without a broken nose, broken jaw, and several missing teeth are his greatest accomplishments in life
He:
1) Ran to hide behind mommy and/or
B) Had other kids do his fighting for him.
Nothing’s changed in all these years.
Anyone land an indoor swimming pool addition to a house today?
How many water heaters go with that?
It’s going to be geothermal, plus they want to convert the house (about 7,000sf). So probably about (12) 400′ deep wells.
Gorgeous DG. . .
How old is she now MCPO?
Cute as a bug.
Afternoon.
Hey, Jewstin, how much money did you make for your capitalist pig employers today?
She is almost 13 months old!
I am making 5 lbs or roast beef tomorrow.
It probably wont see Sunday.
Today I built three (3) of these:
http://tinyurl.com/aovntoe
Hotspur, that’s about $7,000.
You should make them at home Jewstin.
China can ship you the parts for about .37 cents.
Hmm. I have to hard rivet them.
*Checking noise ordinances.
They didn’t build that.
Indoor pool?
Capitalist pig.
Oso and Carin are gonna be pissed they missed that photo link!
Indoor pool. meh
Do they have a credit card processor in their bathroom?
Can they ring up sales in their dining room?
Nah, MJ, they got their money the old fashioned way.
In Ann Arbor? Socialist pig, almost certainly.
MCPO, she’s such a beautiful little one. And the flag in her hand makes me want to cry!
http://tinyurl.com/k8xg3tk
Terrible person test: did you laugh?
Saul Goodman hardest hit.
http://tinyurl.com/k93jj3n
Did insty poat this?
http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/153717/michelle_obama_is_a_single
Yes, yes I did Leon.
And do they or do they not look like child molesters or serial killers and minimally “swingers” (the ones that don’t get picked).
Lynn is clearly a cannibal.
Was.
Is the old way, stealing it?
I’m betting there were some creepy bedroom practices.
>>>Terrible person test: did you laugh?
Haven’t stopped laughing yet.
No, youngling, the old way is inheriting it.
Man-whoring.
The powerball winner lives in Tampa MJ.
She’s 84. Get busy.
I laughed too.
I can’t imagine what an 84 year old taco looks like.
I’d rather be poor.
Rats. I’m a terrible person.
“I can’t imagine what an 84 year old taco looks like. ”
^^^^
This is why Gynecology was never a serious career consideration for me
Hahaha.
“I’m going to kill myself”
I can’t imagine what an 84 year old taco looks like.
I’d rather be poor.
Ah, good, one less competitor.
*shines head and trims beard, picks some flowers*
MJ, your future is full of old tacos.
MJ is going to buy another convertible this weekend.
I can’t imagine what an 84 year old taco looks like.
Like an older 40 year old taco. Just wait ’til your 84 year old bits hang into the toilet water.
*smacks MJ upside the head*
Besides, if the lights are off you won’t see it.
Ah, good, one less competitor.
I’m impartial. I’m in.
*Picks up bag of Werther’s Original and tub of liniment.
MJ is an idiot.
TiFW ♥♥♥s Beasn.
(And you owe me a new keyboard, missy!)
Just wait ’til your 84 year old bits hang into the toilet water.
>>>I’d rather be poor.
Just close your eyes and imagine four 21 year olds
No tacos viejos.
I’m impartial. I’m in.
Dammit!
No tacos viejos.
Pero mucho dinero!
Did anybody pick anybody else last for their kickball team today?
Flaming Lips?
Flaming Lips?
http://youtu.be/Rf7YTwy4AeI#t=39m13s
Just wait ’til your 84 year old bits hang into the toilet water.
*giggles*
>>>http://i.imgur.com/FkjD6PW.gif
You will be assimilated…..
One of us… One of us….
Never.
MJ is an idiot.
———————–
Correct. How is the rabbit poo?
Uh oh…
One of us… One of us….
I just turned up the volume on a Radiohead concert.
It’s starting isn’t it?
**pinches Wiser on the hiney, points at Cyn when he turns around**
Just checked my records. I’ve put on 10# since March. I think maybe half of them were good pounds.
You will be assimilated…..
One of us… One of us….
Um, The Borg say “Resistance is futile,” not “One of us…One of us…”
*hikes up pants, adjusts tape on glasses*
>>>**pinches Wiser on the hiney, points at Cyn when he turns around**
How YOU doing?
Neither one of us…
Wiser, I had a much better day today than yesterday. Hoping this is a trend for the week.
I also got to work on a satellite that has a smartphone for control rather than a regular computer. It won’t last long in space, but it will last long enough for what they want to do.
>>>I also got to work on a satellite that has a smartphone for control rather than a regular computer.
You are the coolest person I know, bar none.
Thanks, wiserbabe.
That IS pretty cool, Roamy.
I’m listening to your radio show and realized that I confused “Dreamgirls” with “Showgirls”. Not sure if that means I’m clueless or I need a nap.
Cubesat type deal? Comm or sensor?
Hi!
Smartphones in space. I want the contract putting up the cell towers.
The administration is working on a satellite that controls your smart phone. Because security Tea Party terrorists shut up.
Cubesat swarm, Leon. Secondary payload on a launch out of Hawaii. I want to go to that launch. I didn’t know we launched out of Hawaii, but it’s going to be out of Barking Sands Pacific Missile Range Facility.
Handy if it works. Is the short lifespan a hardware limit or orbital decay?
George, this isn’t the administration. It doesn’t involve green energy, paying off donors, or gun control. It actually accomplishes something positive.
Leon, more the hardware limit, but it’s near maximum solar activity, and that increases drag.
No no, Roamy. I make joke. Not good joke but a try.
Interesting. I know XCor was pushing strongly to get into the microsat business, so I’ve done a bit of reading in case I’m ever cool enough to apply for a job there.
Maybe it is time for patriots to untether and break out the mimeograph machines.
Wiser, did any of the music from your show get posted?
Gives new definition to “data in The Cloud” doesn’t it?
I am so. fucking. sick. of The Cloud.
*punches Cloud right in the thunderbolts*
If you watch that Flaming Lips video I linked, one of the keyboard players “plays” an iPhone during Great Gig in the Sky.
Coincidence? Or prescient?
Are those a special operating system, or are the iOS or Android?
>>>Wiser, did any of the music from your show get posted?
Nope. I won’t post it. I was horrible as a DJ. Technically, it was okay. No dead air, etc., but I totally screwed up creatively.
I kept the music up to loud while I talked, so it was impossible to hear me talking the songs up.
I listened to it Monday and it totally sucked.
Wiser – Slap yourself -repeatedly!!
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/edsn.html
says “open source”
(I measured the white, gray, and green bits.)
Most embedded systems have custom or at least customized OSs. The risks of a fault state are too huge for a normal OS, because the user can’t usually get to them to fiddle them out of the fault.
The PLCs I worked on used MQX, which isn’t even an OS, just a resident program with high priority. The GPS task I wrote was for VxWorks, which is a neat little embedded OS with a unified symbol table.
says “open source”
Probably one of the embeddable linux distros or a BSD variant.
This one seems pricey, but it’s Linux and i386 compatible!
http://www.clyde-space.com/cubesat_shop/software/367_cubesat-on-board-software
English, Leon; English!
Didn’t think it would be the whole iOS or Android platform, but the development end might be handy to develop in. But if you’re doing specialized stuff, then that might not be a good idea. You’d spend more time developing functionality around their objects in their framework.
I don’t program them, I just help the thermal guys make sure they don’t melt.
I know it’s a problem coming back down, but is it that big of a problem on the way up or in orbit?
PLC = programmable loop controller. If you have a programmable thermostat, you’ve used one.
OS = operating system. You’re using one right now.
Embedded = usually means it’s built into the hardware and isn’t readily changed or reconfigured. Normal operating systems aren’t up to this task.
GPS = guppy partitioning system. It cuts up small fish.
Any time it’s operating, it’s generating heat that has to be radiated away in space. No convection or conduction.
Makes sense, thanks!
Rule of thumb for orbiting satellite materials is -150 degrees to +212 degrees F.
They needed leon’s GPS on Regula 1 when Khan was torturing Chekov!
I suppose there isn’t very much room for a nice heavy heatsink either!
>>>Wiser – Slap yourself -repeatedly!!
Already done.
Seriously, it was cringe-inducing.
A sink is only useful if it dumps. In space, nowhere to dump.
On the plus side, no one can hear you dump.
>>>Any time it’s operating, it’s generating heat that has to be radiated away in space. No convection or conduction.
Why not just open a window?
That should cool it off quite nicely.
Well seeing as we are talking shop, I got to use something I have seldom used in my carreer. I am designing a site that has hills! I used the slope of the hills to increase the velocity of the fluid in the pipe therefore increasing the capacity of the pipe. I was able to save about $100,000 in pipe cost. I was able to cram the a 48″ pipe volume running flat at 3 fps into a 24″ pipe running at 10 fps.
I did have to use energy dissapators to slow it to under 8 fps slightly increasing the cost for a net savings of 80k.
There
I know XCor was pushing strongly to get into the microsat business, so I’ve done a bit of reading in case I’m ever cool enough to apply for a job there.
I did a little work with Jeff Greason back in the late 90’s when he was just learning the rocket business. EE from CalTech, but he really picked up up propulsion stuff quickly.
*applauds Vmax’s fluid mechanics*
>>>Well seeing as we are talking shop, I got to use something I have seldom used in my carreer. I am designing a site that has hills! I used the slope of the hills to increase the velocity of the fluid in the pipe therefore increasing the capacity of the pipe. I was able to save about $100,000 in pipe cost. I was able to cram the a 48″ pipe volume running flat at 3 fps into a 24″ pipe running at 10 fps.
I did have to use energy dissapators to slow it to under 8 fps slightly increasing the cost for a net savings of 80k.
There
Ummmmmm……. Whut?
Jeff’s TEDx talk made me wish I’d made better choices in college.
I was able to cram the a 48″ pipe volume running flat at 3 fps into a 24″ pipe running at 10 fps.
I do pipe flow calculations pretty much every day of my life. Kill me.
Wait wait wait, you’re saying there’s MATH?
*turns up Pink Floyd
>>>>I was able to cram the a 48″ pipe….
There’s a joke here, but I’ll leave it for XBrad.
Jeff’s TEDx talk made me wish I’d made better choices in college.
Well, like I said, he completely reinvented himself about 15 years ago. Decided he didn’t want to do EE anymore, so he joined a launch company startup (Rotary Rocket) and taught himself the aerospace biz.
Unfortunately Rotary Rocket had a pretty goofball concept for reusable launch vehicles. But Greason’s rocket motor design work was solid.
Sit on this rocket and rotate!
Well maybe there’s still hope for me.
*gets serious about studying alchemy
I do pipe flow calculations pretty much every day of my life. Kill me.
Crack pipes?
Yes Geoff,
I suspect you involve things more interesting than looking up the daily flow from the average household and seeing that you can serve 300 homes with a 8″ sewer.
I love my job I get paid for solving puzzles.
Yes Wiser I left out a word
The capacity of a 48″ bla bla
I’ll bet the Xbad household has above normal flow wrecking the capacity curve.
Or Dolly gets flushed in a fit of frustration and roto rooter is required. Or Jet Flush with robocam.
Ick
Do you have to increase pipe diameter if there are a lot of Mexican restaurants or Long John Silver’s in the area?
“She could put a 70″ vacuum on a 48″ pipe!”
Well maybe there’s still hope for me. *gets serious about studying alchemy
XCOR seems like a pretty decent company, though I never thought of Greason as CEO material. Chief Engineer certainly, but I’m surprised he’s been so successful in a management role (he was kind of a micromanager when I knew him). I guess he shut me up: he’s managed to become a national figure in space policy as well as directing a very successful startup.
I mostly meant that 14 years into a career isn’t too late to re-formulate. I’ve been debating taking the GRE and trying to get into Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Engineering master’s program. I’m not sure I want or need to do any additional formal schooling, but I’m not sure where else to start. In my present position I’m learning SAR by osmosis, which is at least something.
SAR = ?
>>>SAR = ?
Stupid Ass Republicans?
Synthetic Aperture RADAR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_aperture_radar
It’s mostly a signal processing problem. The raw data isn’t an image, so you have to transform it to make it into one. Then you get into a series of polishing and weighting and remapping algorithms that clean it up and make it useful.
Took me forever to figure out how SAR and ISAR work.
I’m not a natural at digital signal processing, so the image-formation process is something I’ve mostly gotten used to rather than fully grasped. I’m pretty good at image processing now, though.
Comment by MCPO Airdale on June 5, 2013 10:05 pm
Maybe it is time for patriots to untether and break out the mimeograph machines.
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Too busy inhaling the mimeograph fluid………….
Can you p-shop a picture of MCPO wearing Depends?
I’ll have to get you to explain it to me sometime. I’m supposed to start understanding how CAT scans work, but I haven’t gotten any traction there yet. I imagine SAR math is similar.
Job opportunity!
Teach a High School Science Class!
Low Pay! No Respect! Action Packed Environment!
Any takers?
blerg
we close at 10. At 9:30 I get a 6 top, and at 9:45 I get another.
srsly?
We had three waitstaff on, and a shitton of people walked in the door 20 min before we close. Everyone was freaking.
Good money was made, though. At least by me.
I work every Wednesday night. Last wednesday sucked and I walked with $65 or something dismal (it is a shorter shift though 5-10 usually). Tonight I walked with more than twice that.
$60 off my last three tables.
Owning comments ——->
I had to break up a fight today between two girls. What were they fighting over? A Boy? A facebook post?
Ohnononono….they were fighting over the one girl using the other girl’s nail polish color.
/pounds head on table-top
I feel so much better now… <>
I can do better than that.
Owning comments———————————–>
*not satisfied.
And it wasn’t her using the bottle of polish, no…the other girl BOUGHT her color
*kicks Mundane’s ass for using my nailpolish
This is going DOWN
At the core of it there’s a 2D IFFT, with the swath of the beam as one dimension and the path of the beam as the other.
In related news, I got to eat a 9 oz filet Mignon today.
WTF is Leon talking about?
Soup or salad, Leon. That’s the level I’m at right now.
Soup. Or. Salad.
mundane, I don’t envy you. Not after being me in high school. Smart ass kids.
And I love the people who walk in 15 mins before you close. They are the reason I think everybody should work a job like that at least 1 year of their life. Then they’d learn how to treat people correctly.
$60 makes that frustration go away pretty quickly.
What is the soup of the day, Car in?
(someone else better follow up on this one)
Can I substitute fries for the side salad?
Can I substitute a small steak for the supersalad? I like to have a side of steak with my steak.
Can I substitute a side of wings for the parsley decoration?
What’s the soup of the day?
What kind of salad dressing do you have?
(orders Ranch)
WE DON’T HAVE A SOUP OF THE DAY
WE HAVE THE SAME FUCKING SOUPS EVERY DAY.
And, there is no such thing as a “Super Salad.”
What kind of dressing does the Caesar salad come with?
How is the medium well steak cooked?
Are you open?
Are your breadsticks gluten free?
Can I get the salad before the meal, but after the beverage?
No. No. No.
There is an upcharge for everything depending on my mood.
This fork is dirty.
So is that one.
Here, buy yourself something nice, toots.
(hands over 25 pennies and a nickel)
Can I get a glass of icewater, no ice…
“What’s that? You want the Cesare salad with ranch dressing on the side? Got it. “
I didn’t say medium well, I clearly said medium rare.
Someone tipped me 8 dollars in those dollar coins last week.
Can I get an order of hot wings?
Hey, I didn’t order the spicy ones!
My friend and I will just share a steak.
Wow, it must really suck to work on such a nice day!
“Mam – THIS STEAK IS BLOODY. I wanted it medium well.”
*looks at steak and notices (sadly) that it is a perfectly ruined steak cooked to medium well with absolutely NO blood or red, but a very faint blush of pink.
“Ok, mam, I’ll have them cook it some more for you.”
Perhaps next time you’d like it done well?
We use those dollar coins in pool tables and dart machines, so they are getting more popular.
What is the soup of the day?
Can I taste the house dressing before I order?
“My friend and I will just share a salad”.
(that actually happens all the time.)
Good stuff Carin
My neighbor did no cook me dinner tonight.
Bummer
I just want your best chocolate dessert and a cup of decaf.
I’ve been to a restaurant half an hour before closing and been told the kitchen’s already shut down. There’s a small restaurant on the arsenal that quits serving hot food when the lunch crowd clears out but will sell you a coldcut sammich until 3:00.
am – THIS STEAK IS BLOODY. I wanted it medium well.
I see you waited on relatives of mine.
I would like a diet coke with a splash of lemonade in it. But the sugar free lemonade…
It’s 50/50 on late diners being assholes.
DG with the flag is Squeee!!!! I have no idea what Roamy said but I KNOW an actual rocket scientist! (Doesn’t count my Uncles because they didn’t work for NASA)
I am making cheeseburger in paridise soup but I am missing Jalapino’s and bacon. Wait I have bacon somewhere.
What kind of cheese do you have for your cheeseburger?
If my manager seats them (which she will), the kitchen will serve them. It’s a small town and the owner (Lucky) would hear about it. He owns about 6 or 7 restaurants w/in a 100 mile or so radius.
I get to make closing announcements over the PA starting at 8:15. Guess when I get all my new memberships and credit apps and phone calls?
I’ll have the fried chicken. Can you make that skinless?
Ok, I think I can go nighty night now.
See you guys in about 7 hours. I hope. I’d love to sleep in until 7.
70/30 if they are drunk.
Can you make this plate warmer?
Nitey nitey Car in
This parsley is wilted. Do I have to pay for this steak?
Can I pick the steak you will grind for my hamburger?
This food is horrible. And such small portions.
I want to talk to the manager!
This food is horrible. And such small portions. I could barely finish it.
FTFY, Wiser.
70/30 if they are drunk.
Oh my, there’s a memory. Denny’s in PA somewhere at 1 AM.
I’ll have what she’s having, except I want it different
Helped a Mexican National today with some EBT purchases. She used a translation app on her iPhone. I don’t know if it was an Obamaphone.
night all
I’m gonna do something crazy, and go to bed before midnight.
Wish me luck!
I want a salad without the onion.
I’ll have a Ceaser salad, hold the croutons, hold the cheese, and can I get that with Ranch dressing on the side?
**leaves a redhead and $5 as a tip for Carin**
Squishy hugs and good night!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/if-companies-had-realistic-slogans?utm_campaign=socialflow
We found you hiding, we found you lying
Choking on the derp and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands
The service on this blog is less than adequate.
I’d like to see the waitress’s ass please. I mean, I’d like to see the manager.
Good morning all!
Can’t tell if we are doomed or not doomed. Some of the commenters actually understand what is going on.
You know I just had to click Roamie. You are the master of reverse psychology 🙂
Wakey wakey.
I failed to sleep in as long as I wished. Been up for 45 min already.
MJ: Do you find much worthwhile or even “ok” content on reddit? I always wrote it off as a lefty site but it’s pretty popular all around the web from what I’ve seen. What do you say? Worth it if you know where to go?
That’s nice as a “pre-meme” heads up. I’m sure my lefties will be posting that meme on facedouche today.
If you are making money, make sure to check with The Left™ to see if you are keeping the proper amount of money for yourself.
/logic
I use reddit to find funny stuff for Friday posts, and there’s a sub-reddit for basically everything you can think of. Need a few pictures of a big boob girl in a star wars outfit? You got it.
Plus it’s a veritable GIF machine.
The content is pretty subpar. It’s mostly youngish, and lefty. There is a pretty good effort to correct misinformation or to explain obvious concepts such as the idea around profit to revenue ratios, as seen in the post above.
An idiot thinks a company making low profit margin is good because they’ve been taught that profit is evil. Eleventy.
Eventually someone is going to explain the concept of ‘compared to what’ and the idea of free market capitalism. My guess is that most of the turds that post there could care less, and enjoy the bubble that allows them to be ignorant, but it is my hope that my above statement is correct—that they’ve never heard or thought beyond what they’ve been told and that the opposing point of view will open their eyes to the bullshit they’ve imbibed.
Much of the comments are contrarian, and therefore good for the default lefty mindset. At least from my point of view.
Good morning citizens!
On shift for another 12 hrs of airlift excellence.
Your Dear Leader was just in San Fran, LA and Palm Springs collecting some of that sweet, sweet cash. Still working on moving his shit back to DC.
If no one has a new poat I will throw one up in a bit.
Wait, I thought he was going to LA today?
It’s so funny too. Apple is bad for making 26% profit. Or so I found out browsing reddit on my iPhone.
Obama Schedule || Thursday, June 6, 2013
by Keith Koffler on June 5, 2013, 10:08 pm
12:05 pm || Departs White House
1:35 pm || Arrives Charlotte, North Carolina
2:30 pm || Tours Mooresville Middle School; Mooresville, North Carolina
2:55 pm || Delivers remarks at Mooresville Middle School
4:15 pm || Departs Charlotte, North Carolina
6:00 pm PDT || Arrives California
7:00 pm PDT || Delivers remarks at Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser; private residence, Palo Alto, California
8:25 pm || Delivers remarks at Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser; private residence; Portola, Valley, California
Is there a douchebag convention in LA?
Obama is sort of orange.
If no one has a new poat I will throw one up in a bit.
Gross.
Correction, we’re still delivering the helo’s and limos to Cali. Dear Leader arrives today.
You’re welcome, California!
Please keep him.
Reddit app(apalooza) to be investigated by me for occasional surfing when I’m hanging around waiting for things to happen.
Son is graduating from high school this Sunday. Mil has decided to go on vacation with my sil and miss it.Hasn’t called HIM or sent him anything- card, nada.
I’m going to start interviewing for a new grandma for my kids. I think Kathy would be nice, and her kids haven’t started producing yet. She could think of it as a warm up.
I bet she’d make him that pecan pie.
It would be loverly if California would keep OBama. Or, isn’t he going to Dublin? He could stay there.
Someone save me. Youngest boy is in question mode.
He was reading about New Zealand, and I showed him on the map where it was, etc, and told him *interesting fact* that it was used for filming his favorite movie (LOTR).So now, I’m getting a million questions.
*one of those edumacation tricks
Carin, you did send an invitation, yes? When my niece decided not to send out invitations or announcements for her graduation, she got nada presents.
http://abstrusegoose.com/511
For the math majors among us.
No. I’m not sending out invitations ask family members for gifts, and I do not expect any of the family to gift him for the mere act of graduating from High school, since now-a-days it’s not that big of an accomplishment.
But his grandma was invited, knew it was coming, yet planned a two week vacation during the time. She hasn’t been up to seem them in months and months, and also *skipped* his last football game where he was in the homecoming court. Hadn’t gone to any games in two years.
So, she gets no pass for not calling/sending a card, visiting him during this day of transition, etc. She’s his fricken GRANDMA.
Car in,
Not only is he going to Dublin, but Michelle is flying separately. Awesome.
New poat will probably raise your BP a bit. Give me 30 minutes. Got a meeting then will try to build it. The AF version of IE doesn’t work well with wordpress, but I’ll give it a shot.
I’m so glad that guy wasn’t in my quantum course.
And my sil knew the graduation would be during this trip, since she’s a teacher; knew my son was a senior (duh – she has two kids, just a few years younger); and planned the trip for when her school year was over.
bitch.
You’ve got to be fucking me, Phat.
Car in, NZ is awesome. I spent a month touring the south island. We camped tents and motels. Lots of good memories of that trip back in ’92.
Carin, this is one of those life events where you can teach your kids how to deal emotionally with difficult people, and about what a few fireworks can do to grandma’s mailbox.
My husband has allowed me to dis-invite her from all further graduation festivities for the other kids, because how would that feel if she showed up for Matty’s stuff next year when she blew off Ian’s?
Of course, I’m very sure she’ll make the 9 hour drive south to see my sil kid’s graduation.
I’m not doing the whole graduation party thing. I just don’t get into that – as I said, graduating highschool meets a minimal standard in my book. But it is a big transition in life. No longer a boy, bla bla bla. I planned on a nice little celebration here at the house with close family before we attend the ceremony. Would have been nice to have grandma here, especially with all that’s going on with my dad in the house.
Everyone has these “open-houses” and I’ve already been invited to a few of Ian’s friends’. Sigh. Ian’s just going to have a bonfire and have his friends over for his friend celebration.
Carin, is your son good with electricity?
If she was invited, she should show up. Mr. RFH made a special trip to bring his parents to their grandson’s (our nephew’s) high school graduation.
Fireworks in a mailbox … not bad.
But I bet Scott could come up with something better.
Carin, is your son good with electricity?
My other son is really good.
Ian could, though, do something like perhaps lighting a tire?
Scott’s busy. I’m doing the best I can over here for cryin’ out loud.
*huffs off to sit in a corner and pout*
Don’t you love it when you get woke up to fix something at work RIGHT NOW ELEVENTY!!1!!1 then it’s decided that nothing needs to be done right now?
Oh I didn’t mean to criticize.
I just though Scott was the one who handled exploding/burning stuff.
You should invite her to the next graduation, but the invitation should be wrapped around a brick and chucked through her window at 3 am.
http://abstrusegoose.com/511
Hahahahaha. Actual first day of class in physical chemistry. “Are there any philosophy majors in here?” (checks hallway and repeats) “Okay, good.” (draws box on chalkboard) “This is the universe…” and proceeds to teach about entropy.
I can picture a shaken old woman in the wee hours of the morning, stepping around broken glass and unwrapping the brick…
“Dear___Grandma___, it is our pleasure to announce…”
>> then it’s decided
STOP USING THAT GODDAMNED PASSIVE VOICE
What’s going to be the N-Word for today?
Heh, that’s something I haven’t been accused of today, Dave.
I think I’m in trouble when I go in to work.
Well, Carin, sometimes with loved ones subtlety is called for. Let’s say that every time Grandma touches the bathroom doorknob she gets a tiny shock.
Or perhaps, when she wakes up in the morning one of her trees is engulfed in flames.
I don’t have to go lookin for trouble. Trouble finds me all by itself just fine.
*renames self ‘Trouble’ *
Grandma still has 4 days.
Maybe he puked on her once too often when he was a baby.
heh
http://freepatriot.org/2013/06/04/barack-obama-never-attended-columbia-university-says-his-graduating-class/
You can take a mailbox clean off of the post with ordinary household items.
A baseball bat works, but so does a screw driver. I say replace it with something really offensive.
CaRiN,
Take a lot of pictures of the ceremony, have him make a special “Hi Grandma!!!11!” sign.
Is grandma on facebook? This is probably the only thing that place is good for.
“Have a great time on vacation! We’ll miss you at the graduation party! I’ll save you a plate for later!”
And then put the plate of food in her mailbox for two weeks.
Don’t know what the hostility to mailboxes is about this morning. Sorry.
Pupster’s idea is great.
I wasn’t done. Make a bunch of copies of the hi grandma picture, wad them up and fill her mailbox with them and set on fire.
Don’t know what the hostility to mailboxes is about this morning. Sorry.
SHE HATES THESE MAILBOXES!!!
Secretly replace all gramma’s size 91/2 shoes for 7’s.
I found that confusing pranks and acts of vandalism were always better than the straightforward house egging, for example.
Why on earth would someone put 1000 sporks in the yard? Of why leave a cooler filled with barbies on the porch with a ransom note from Ken?
She’ll be sure to “enjoy” her “vacation” then.
Agree, MJ.
Why take a coworkers (at a county park) camera from his locker and stage pictures of kids flouting facedown in the pool?
Nice, Pupster.
Or you could take the ‘Hi Grandma, we miss you!’ picture and make a Mia Farrow valentine with it.
Or send her an invoice for $100.
HA HA HA HAAA
And send it net-15 so it’s already late by the time she comes back from vacay.
Found Grandma’s cake!
Heh. I especially like the fact that the cake is for a six-year-old.
Happy Birthday you selfish little bastard.
Yeah….6 year olds are known for thinking of others!
New poat.
The AF version of IE does not play well with the wordpress dashboard, so the formatting may suck.
Amend it, pretty it up, or delete it as you wish. I live only to serve….
Hire another woman to be his grandmother in all the pictures. Identify her as “new grandma”
I am training a Pandora station to play me nothing but stadium rock.