Nuke Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 was on another medicaid trip to anchorage to escort mom to her orthopedist. it was the kind of appointment they could have phoned in and spared the expense of round trip air travel and hotel for two to the taxpayer, made even more expensive by the fact we got to return in two weeks. upside was today on the way back saw a dreamlifter at anc, i wanted to get a photo but didnt get mom's phone out in time. i was like damn, you could get a house on that thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman.Spiff Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 We found out there is a raccoon that is living part-time in our attic and may have babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CatastrophicFailure Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 17 hours ago, Nuke said: was on another medicaid trip to anchorage to escort mom to her orthopedist. it was the kind of appointment they could have phoned in and spared the expense of round trip air travel and hotel for two to the taxpayer, made even more expensive by the fact we got to return in two weeks. upside was today on the way back saw a dreamlifter at anc, i wanted to get a photo but didnt get mom's phone out in time. i was like damn, you could get a house on that thing. I work right near Paine Field where the Boeing plant is, sometimes when I’m out on lunch one of those monsters will come lumbering in so low it feels like you could just reach out and touch it. It is surreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeb1969 Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 I was brainstorming acronyms, and I came up with a rather hilarious one involving a drone similar to what is on Mars at the moment. Presenting the: Transplanetary Unmanned Research Drone. Who knows maybe the head engineer happened to be on the toilet, or is Shelly from South Park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 58 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: I work right near Paine Field where the Boeing plant is, sometimes when I’m out on lunch one of those monsters will come lumbering in so low it feels like you could just reach out and touch it. It is surreal. The Superguppy was in town a month or so ago. That thing is just odd to see in flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 37 minutes ago, razark said: The Superguppy was in town a month or so ago. That thing is just odd to see in flight. Aww man, the old prop-driven one? That would be a thing to see. And hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Just now, CatastrophicFailure said: Aww man, the old prop-driven one? That would be a thing to see. And hear. Yup. She was in town for a week, doing a lot of touch-and-go practice. Since I live a couple miles from the field, I got to see quite a few decent passes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: And the listing says “no mechanical defects.” It has defects? Maybe you should go to the auction and ask about the broken thingamabob? Maybe get the car back for old times' sake? Edited April 30, 2021 by Shpaget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 52 minutes ago, Shpaget said: It has defects? Maybe you should go to the auction and ask about the broken thingamabob? Maybe get the car back for old times' sake? Well, I can see they already fixed the stuck window. I would assume hope anyone actually considering buying a 17-year-old Ford 6-liter diesel instead of running away screaming knows what they’re getting into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 Four things happened today. First off, I had my second ever FTL hard mode run that got to Sector 8, this run being a boarding build (and a fairly poor one at that) of Mantis B, the boarding part of which crumbled in the last few sectors as my 3 mantis 1 rock boarding crew died and I had to jankily patch together a new boarding crew last minute, at times even resorting to using Engi boarders. I immediately failed the flagship fight. I had a plan but it relied on me being able to disable shields with ion bombs. However I forgot to account for cloaking disrupting both my teleporter and my weapons, and I got shredded in fairly short order. Second, I procrastinated studying for my Calc II final (a very bad idea) by going for a walk. Turns out, campus is absurdly beautiful in the spring. I walked around for far longer than I should have, getting near the band room. I wanted to use a practice room to play piano because I was in a good mood, but couldn't find out how to sign up, but did find on the website that the college has a few organs and such, although you practically have to be enrolled in music classes to get anywhere close to them... Maybe I can pull some strings... And then I ended up at the library. I thought I'd walk around and just see what's there. I walked around the lobby looking at art for a few minutes and then decided to take the building floor by floor. Floor 0 contained a room full of microfilm, newspapers, dvds, cds, and videos, and also a long room of shelves containing various fictional and philosophical works, including poetry and 1-3 whole shelves dedicated to the works of Herman Melville (Moby Dick guy I think) and analysis thereof. However, then I went down a long hallway, trying various doors. They were all locked save one. I found an industrial looking room of various pipes and electrics, and briefly wondered if I had strayed into somewhere I shouldn't. However at the end of the hallway I spied regular study desks and bookshelves. I had just stumbled into the science room. Shelf after shelf of mathematics journals, crammed together very closely, row after row, each with a more varied topic than the last, dating back decades and centuries, copies of stuff the Royal Society had made, shelves dedicated to the works of people with names as prestigious as Newton, Einstein, Fermi, etc. most of it too complex for me to begin to comprehend. In awe I worked my way through the bookcases, just skimming the titles, occasionally pulling out a book to skim over and then put back after I inevitably could not understand a single thing. I kept going through the room, wondering when I'd reach physics. I got halfway through the room when I saw the staircase. I was like "Oh, this part is two floors, physics is probably up there." I finished the room, which was mostly math and some physics, and then headed up the stairs. I cannot recall if I saw the second staircase now or later, I will assume it was later because it makes a better story, but I skimmed it all, it was science, of all kinds, nuclear, solid body, cryogenic, quantum, high temperature, and with shelves upon shelves of nuclear fusion journals, and that's just scratching the surface! At the end of that half of the room were the meteorology records, including daily records of rainfall across the whole state and country dating back to the 20s or 30s. I went to the other half of the room on the other side of the staircase, and I finally found something I could make sense of - The beginning of the space section. I pulled out a book marked "Space exploration through the year 2000" or something expecting it to be a history, but no, it was plans from the 1980s for up to the year 2000 detailing pre-challenger plans involving preparations for a Mars sample return mission and a comet sample return mission. I also looked at a book with all of the Gemini III IV and V pictures. And all of the books I saw were just part of the science section, which was two floors tall, with several books marked for transport to the library storage building - so there must be more. But then I realized that it was 7:00 and I was late for movie night! So I went back to the staircase to find the exit - and there were stairs to a third floor. So I went up. There were more stairs. So I went up. Passing incomprehensible amounts of knowledge. I lost count, but probably 6-7 floors in the science section alone, assuming it is all science - and the stuff from the most recent 20 years or so is mostly not there. It may not be in the collections, or it may be in another place... But, wow. So you know, I was already feeling overwhelmed in the first poetry section with how much information - how many people's life's works - were right there. But I understood a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what I saw. What I saw is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the knowledge contained in that building. The knowledge contained in that building is the important highlights, but that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what is known by humanity. And what is known by humanity is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what remains to be known. It was a very eye opening experience and left my head spinning for a while. It made me feel very, very, very small, like I will never truly understand anything. Change of pace, but the third thing to happen today was I saw a cloud shaped like a fidget spinner. And fourth, at movie night we watched John Carter. And. I. LOVED IT. Not necessarily because it was good in all aspects (It did bomb at the box office and had largely mixed reviews) but because it seemed like the exact kind of story I would write, with just how all over the place the plot is. I'm half convinced I invent time travel in the future and went back in time to write the story myself. So yeah today was very eventful. I will now proceed to cram for the Calc II final and hope I start understanding Taylor series soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 Today, a Google street view car passed right in front of me, so in a few days I should expect to become world famous, or something. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 My towels hanging from the balcony are always visible on the Google Earth street view. They could mark the google years for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 8 hours ago, Shpaget said: Today, a Google street view car passed right in front of me, so in a few days I should expect to become world famous, or something. Right? Nah, they just blur your face out or digitally remove you, but... 7 hours ago, kerbiloid said: My towels hanging from the balcony are always visible on the Google Earth street view. They could mark the google years for me. ... @kerbiloid’s dirty laundry is on display for the entire world to view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 16 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Nah, they just blur your face out or digitally remove you, but... ... @kerbiloid’s dirty laundry is on display for the entire world to view. Clean laundry. That's why hanging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 37 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Clean laundry. That's why hanging. When I moved to South Africa I asked my girlfriend where the clothes dryer was. She said, "It's big and bright and hanging in the sky for half of each day." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YNM Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 (edited) I hope the depicted event doesn't happen to someone (nor has it happened to me... I think) but it's a delight to watch the animation. So far he has only released one more similar thing just before it. On 5/5/2021 at 2:18 AM, Shpaget said: Today, a Google street view car passed right in front of me, so in a few days I should expect to become world famous, or something. Right? My friends were actually in google street view from like 6 years ago. Sadly I sat too far from the road where the car was passing... Their faces (heads, really) were all blurred but the clothing was a pretty dead giveaway of who we were... Edited May 6, 2021 by YNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB182 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 (edited) yesterday, i found another secret on Google Earth! its a flight simulator! no need to buy or install flight simulators, but the Google Earth flight simulator just dont have any other view. just that. but u could feel what it like to be a Pilot. Edited May 13, 2021 by JB182 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB182 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 oh yeah, and my cat pee on my blanket when i sleep with THAT BLANKET!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Why do you sleep on the cat blankets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB182 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 1 minute ago, kerbiloid said: Why do you sleep on the cat blankets? that blanket is mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 14 minutes ago, JB182 said: that blanket is mine. You marked it, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB182 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Just now, kerbiloid said: You marked it, too? marked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 7 hours ago, JB182 said: my cat pee on my blanket This way. Otherwise, how can you prove that it's your blanket, not cat's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB182 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Just now, kerbiloid said: This way. Otherwise, how can you prove that it's your blanket, not cat's? the blanket was so large and it could be a cave for cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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