OT - What are you doing right now?

gonepostal

@thetrim yes i made the biscuits from scratch.  Mine are inconsistent and sometimes suck and are sometimes decent. Got lucky last night with some different measurements/temps and will see if i can duplicate next time...

WeberWho

The good quality paint looks exactly like the crappy $8 sample paint in the sun. That's what I figured was going to happen. It's the dark color, texture, and satin finish that causing the effect. I bought a lighter gray paint and threw some up on the house. I can already tell I'm not going to like it. The gray is going to look silver in a distance. Time to throw up the white flag and stick with a color around the beige we have on the house. I know that doesn't reflect or change color and I can still use satin on it.

Since I can't paint any more today, I might as well find out why my air conditioning stopped working since last night. I can't wait to go sit in a 80 degree house. I'm afraid to even go look in the fridge to see if I have a beer left. 

Tomorrow will be better... 

ColtsFan

Restoring backups of 4 servers from the cloud. A client managed to get a ransomware and decided to wait a few hours before notifying us. Cryptolocked 4 servers and their NAS as it chewed its way through their network.

kl8ton

Reverse sear. 

SGH

Eoin said:

This is last week, a trip to London for a meeting, so we met up with our daughter for lunch. I failed to snap my lunch, which was monkfish and prawn curry. Me and the creme brule in the final picture.

SGH

gonepostal said:

Felt like cooking indoors tonight...
Meatloaf gravy 
Biscuits 
And plated 

Cornholio

Dinner is on:

Botch

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Botch

YEMTrey said:

After seeing the extended netting installed at many ballparks on the news lately, it kinda looks like there's Plexiglass filling in below that silver rail, is that the case?  
If so, a lot of money spent to provide protection for only the bottom row of fans, methinks.  

Botch

Scenes from a Chinese Restaurant (approximately 11:10 am today, north-central Utard):
EXPERIENCED WAITRESS:  Now write down the orders as you take them in a clockwise direction.
NEW HIRE:  Okay, I think I got this.
CUSTOMER:  I'd like mine with no MSG, please.
EXPERIENCED WAITRESS:  Okay, write that down right under his order.
NEW HIRE:  Okay.  Um, how do you spell "emessjee"?  
EXPERIENCED WAITRESS:    
 
 
Somewhere, in the distance, a dog barked.  
 

Cornholio

Wife approved:

kl8ton

Starting pool robot for his nightly mission

lkapigian

kl8ton said:

kl8ton said:

Starting pool robot for his nightly mission

Starting pool robot for his nightly mission

Looks like it's ready to swim,up the tube in search of an Egg

Ozzie_Isaac

WeberWho said:

The good quality paint looks exactly like the crappy $8 sample paint in the sun. That's what I figured was going to happen. It's the dark color, texture, and satin finish that causing the effect. I bought a lighter gray paint and threw some up on the house. I can already tell I'm not going to like it. The gray is going to look silver in a distance. Time to throw up the white flag and stick with a color around the beige we have on the house. I know that doesn't reflect or change color and I can still use satin on it.

Since I can't paint any more today, I might as well find out why my air conditioning stopped working since last night. I can't wait to go sit in a 80 degree house. I'm afraid to even go look in the fridge to see if I have a beer left. 

Tomorrow will be better... 

  That is a bummer.  Crazy how the satin interacts with the wood texture to give the "rustic" look with just the right sun angle.

I imagine some hipsters would dig that look.

JohnInCarolina

Preparing orientation slides for a fresh batch of PhD students in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke.  

JohnInCarolina

Botch said:

YEMTrey said:

After seeing the extended netting installed at many ballparks on the news lately, it kinda looks like there's Plexiglass filling in below that silver rail, is that the case?  
If so, a lot of money spent to provide protection for only the bottom row of fans, methinks.  

I suspect those are there more to prevent people from leaning too far over the railing and falling to the seats below, rather than to stop baseballs from hitting fans.  

northGAcock

JohnInCarolina said:

Preparing orientation slides for a fresh batch of PhD students in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke.  

So changing the dates on last years and making a couple other edits?

JohnInCarolina

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Preparing orientation slides for a fresh batch of PhD students in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke.  

So changing the dates on last years and making a couple other edits?

That's what they pay me the big bucks for!  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Preparing orientation slides for a fresh batch of PhD students in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke.  

So changing the dates on last years and making a couple other edits?

That's what they pay me the big bucks for!  

Do you actually press the computer keys, or do you have a grad student do it for you.

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Preparing orientation slides for a fresh batch of PhD students in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke.  

So changing the dates on last years and making a couple other edits?

That's what they pay me the big bucks for!  

Do you actually press the computer keys, or do you have a grad student do it for you.

Ha!  My own PhD students are the ones who do much of the real work in my research group, I'm just a manager of science in practice.  But I still do write plenty of my own code.  

milesvdustin

Firearms training on the range, I'm doing an armed prisoner transport course today and tomorrow. 

alaskanassasin

@milesvdustin You guys turn the lights down and watch Con Air?

milesvdustin

Hahaha that would be sweet! 

Lots of shooting, we went through about 500 rounds each today, will do at least that many tomorrow 

fishlessman

just got done climbing on a city sewer pump, never seen a pump that big. just the motor is 18 feet tall. fingers crossed i dont get sick, gross

kl8ton

milesvdustin said:

Firearms training on the range, I'm doing an armed prisoner transport course today and tomorrow. 

I'm against armed prisoners.  :-)  Thanks for what you do!

fishlessman

almost caught a zebra finch, not gonna make it up here buddy

northGAcock

fishlessman said:

just got done climbing on a city sewer pump, never seen a pump that big. just the motor is 18 feet tall. fingers crossed i dont get sick, gross

Out of sick days?

GrateEggspectations

Nursing either a stomach flu, or food poisoning. Had dinner with my lady at one of my favourite restaurants last evening and by the middle of the night, I was fully sick. Feeling a little better after the day in bed, but still getting over it. Hoping that it is food poisoning such that I won’t give it to my wife and kids (one of whom is a two month old baby). 

pgprescott

GrateEggspectations said:

Nursing either a stomach flu, or food poisoning. Had dinner with my lady at one of my favourite restaurants last evening and by the middle of the night, I was fully sick. Feeling a little better after the day in bed, but still getting over it. Hoping that it is food poisoning such that I won’t give it to my wife and kids (one of whom is a two month old baby). 

Hoping for the best for you as well. You didn’t replace a city lift station pump yesterday by chance? Asking for @fishlessman. Usually hepatitis takes a bit to set in 

alaskanassasin

Hopefully fish has better luck than you did @pgprescott