OT - What are you doing right now?

JohnInCarolina

SonVolt said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Putting together another proposal to NSF.  These things are always a PITA to write, but my track record over the years is pretty good.  This one will look at the mechanics of crack nucleation during nano-pulse lithotripsy.  

Will this lead to breakthroughs in kidney stone treatment? 

There's definitely a connection and that's the hope, that by better understanding some of the fundamental science we can hope to improve treatment protocols.  

SonVolt

Snap, I was just making a joke. That's really cool though. Never had one, yet *knock on wood*

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina said:

Putting together another proposal to NSF.  These things are always a PITA to write, but my track record over the years is pretty good.  This one will look at the mechanics of crack nucleation during nano-pulse lithotripsy.  

Maybe use a low energy frequency sweep to find specific resonance and up the energy at those harmonics to blast apart.  Or just throw patient into Eagles home game with opposing team colors and let the fans kick his guts until it fractures stones. 

Just spitballin' here.

Mark_B_Good

Canugghead said:

FYI @Mark_B_Good, price probably higher in your affluent neighbourhood though 

That's absurd .... wow. I thought I was getting a deal at $4.97 per lb last week when I bought 2 legs.

Battleborn

JohnInCarolina said:

Putting together another proposal to NSF.  These things are always a PITA to write, but my track record over the years is pretty good.  This one will look at the mechanics of crack nucleation during nano-pulse lithotripsy.  

Sorry John, I figured that out last week. 

ColtsFan

Restoring a 14 TB ESXi datastore to a new virtual disk

kl8ton

ColtsFan said:

Restoring a 14 TB ESXi datastore to a new virtual disk

Are people waiting on you?  Restore as in data was lost or something went wonky?  I always hated restoring/repairing our old Microsoft Exchange databases.  Just watching the blinking cursor with no indication of progress for hours - thru the overnight. . . just hoping that services would be restored by 8am the following day.

ColtsFan

Re-read this. Great read that changed my life years ago. Check it out. 

Canugghead

Grand daddying our first, just built him a Traeger! Brilliant marketing, too young to do the colouring though.

ColtsFan

kl8ton said:

ColtsFan said:

Restoring a 14 TB ESXi datastore to a new virtual disk

Are people waiting on you?  Restore as in data was lost or something went wonky?  I always hated restoring/repairing our old Microsoft Exchange databases.  Just watching the blinking cursor with no indication of progress for hours - thru the overnight. . . just hoping that services would be restored by 8am the following day.

They're waiting on me/us. Power failure resulting in a failed RAID array where 3 physical disk went missing. ESXi host two Windows servers. Replaced the disk and restoring from backups. ETA 6.5 hours with 10 GB connections between their NAS and ESXi. Ancient hardware and slow disks are the bottleneck.

SGH

ColbyLang said:

My view is not near as good as yours  

What we looking at brother @SGH? I see fire retardant insulation for sure

Reformer furnace catalyst tubes. 

Acn

Gonna start a Lonesome Dove reread.  Might listen to some of the kid’s music while I do it.

JohnInCarolina

Battleborn said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Putting together another proposal to NSF.  These things are always a PITA to write, but my track record over the years is pretty good.  This one will look at the mechanics of crack nucleation during nano-pulse lithotripsy.  

Sorry John, I figured that out last week. 

Damn man, I knew I should have called you first!

Battleborn

Heyyyy you guyyyysss!

ColbyLang

Battleborn said:

Heyyyy you guyyyysss!

“Chunk like Baby Ruth?”

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

https://youtu.be/isMFxOLbiro

ColbyLang

Reading a well written newspaper article that I was quoted in in my epic battle against the city and short term rentals....except they got my name wrong. Wow

fishlessman

first covid shot today at the shop and shop pharmacy. walk up to the pickup counter, give name, they grab my paperwork thats already in a basket with syringe, sterilized, rubber gloves, sit down in the chair and the shot was given in maybe 3 minutes. could not have been easier, glad i skipped the massvax locations

Acn

Got a take out Reuben for lunch.

nolaegghead

alaskanassasin

april fools @nolaegghead ?

kl8ton

nolaegghead said:

Ah hahahaha

kl8ton

TEXASBGE2018

Signing up for my 1st round Covid shot on Saturday

bucky925

Went out for dinner tonight and ordered this 
It was very good but I see no reason I can't replicate this at home at half the price and better wine.   Moquica Mista .   this will happen soon!

CPFC1905

There’s something about the PL coming back this weekend that reminds of an ancient story.  Can’t remember the details but chocolate and rabbits are involved somewhere.  But less of that  - we’ve got mediocrity ahoy and diminishing returns to plough through.  Stirring stuff, right?  

Saturday; 

Chelsea v West Brom,  Tommy T hasn’t lost in 14 games and the Baggies look like they’re heading down the plug-hole.  I half expect Big Sam to ‘spend more time with his family’ i.e throw in the towel after this match to preserve his never-relegated CV.  2-0

Leeds v Sheff Utd,  a White Rose derby that is all but a pyrrhic entity.  The hosts will be certain of safety after a routine win against a ‘transitional’ Blades. 3-0

Leicester v Man City, One of the more lively encounters of this set. Pep Roulette means that predicting the Citeh XI is impossible but whoever turns out will have just enough to push past Big Bren’ and his sparkly gnashers.  In adjacent news Sergio Aguero says he’s on his bike at the end of the season.  I couldn’t give less of floaty one if I tried.

Arsenal v Liverpool, 43 points - thats was the gap between these two at the end of last season.  Currently it’s four and the Gunners aren’t exactly great. As to the travails of Liverpool, see my comment re; Mr Aguero. 1-2.

Sunday

Southampton v Burnley, more life-sapping bilge on display here as each team inch away from fiscal calamity and plan for more mid-table mediocrity next season.  Southampton were top of the league at one point,  they are far from that now.  If ever you needed a manifestation of ‘regression to the mean’ it’s that. 1-1

Newcastle v Spurs, hang on this promises to be even more of a spirit sponge than the  one I just described.  Toon really are flailing,  no that’s a verb - try recumbant. Any verb is misused on their performances. Relegation will be self-actualisation manifest for the Geordie doomsmiths.  0-1 and Jose will claim to have risen again.  Oh, isn’t that the chocolate bunny story?

Villa v Fulham, the hosts are stalling but safe so we really need Fulham to win this to heap pressure on Toon. 1-2

Man Utd v Brighton, looks like the filthy Seagulls will sustain due to the hapless Toon and/or Fulham. Walk in the park of Ole’s boys here. 3-0

Monday

Everton v Palace,  2-0 the Toffees. Standard.

Wolves v West Ham, the recently buoyant Hammers have come unstuck a bit recently and Wolves are rediscovering the obduracy necessary for PL credentials.  Could go either way but in my heart I don’t want The Irons anywhere near Europe next season. 2-1.

Potters Special - 2 x mid table time fillers this weekend. Today away at Bristol City & Monday home to Millwall.   All 3 teams are safe and so with just a few games left there’s little to be concerned with.  Even the prize money per place is not all that.  

Fun Fact : Denise Coates, the daughter of the owner of Stoke earned £469m last year,  that’s about $470m.  Zero of that from the profits at Stoke, because there are none, but she does run a £3bn a year business.  Nearly as much as some of our Egghead friends.   Oh and the scores 1-1 and 1-1.

Ok lads - I have stuff to do, well a SWMBO with a list actually,  so I can’t be hanging around here all day.  Tally Ho! 

GrateEggspectations

This is kind of neat. 

https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1377874504374960130?s=20

Figure you may enjoy it, @JohnInCarolina.

JohnInCarolina

GrateEggspectations said:

This is kind of neat. 

https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1377874504374960130?s=20

Figure you may enjoy it, @JohnInCarolina.

Yep.  I have a couple of colleagues here at Duke that study this kind of thing more broadly.  It's not my subfield but I appreciate it.  

GrateEggspectations

Watching little man wield the remote.