OT - What are you doing right now?

sumoconnell

Botch said:

LCS?  

I think it’s Zumwalt class and not freedom or independence LCS. I’m officially talking out of my backside though.  All I really know is that was a cool photo!

lousubcap

@Botch it's DDG 1000 Zumwalt class target. (only two types of ships in the world-submarines and targets  ).  The class build was truncated at 3 targets as the technology and perceived warfighting gains were found (don't know who found) too expensive.  Suffice to say the lead ship has yet to deploy overseas (commissioned in 2013) as the technology and warfighting gains promised far out-weighed the true deliverables.  

lkapigian

lousubcap said:

@Botch it's DDG 1000 Zumwalt class target. (only two types of ships in the world-submarines and targets  ).  The class build was truncated at 3 targets as the technology and perceived warfighting gains were found (don't know who found) too expensive.  Suffice to say the lead ship has yet to deploy overseas (commissioned in 2013) as the technology and warfighting gains promised far out-weighed the true deliverables.  

Hometown Native from Tulare Ca..

TideEggHead

SGH said:

Bought a carbon steel Detroit pizza pan. It probably don’t do anything that my aluminum pan don’t do. But the snob in me has to see. 

Picked up some of their dough mix and pan grippers as well as lid for the pan. I thought why not. 

Post the results/pictures! SWMBO says we are doing Detroit pizzas this weekend.

Botch

Thanks, Navy folk!  I had trouble identifying an F-22 from a -35 for the longest time, don't even start me on Navy targets ships.  

Botch

Tonight I quit, again, a forum I'd been a member of for (iirc) eleven years.  The first time I was gone for 4 years or so, but retirement/COVID left me bored and I rejoined; the two militantly-arrogant members had both been kicked out, and I felt at home again for a year and a half.  Not anymore.
I won't do details, this forum doesn't do politics, which is a good thing I guess.  
I know a lot of retirees eventually die of loneliness; even as an extreme introvert I'm starting to understand that dynamic.    

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

Tonight I quit, again, a forum I'd been a member of for (iirc) eleven years.  The first time I was gone for 4 years or so, but retirement/COVID left me bored and I rejoined; the two militantly-arrogant members had both been kicked out, and I felt at home again for a year and a half.  Not anymore.
I won't do details, this forum doesn't do politics, which is a good thing I guess.  
I know a lot of retirees eventually die of loneliness; even as an extreme introvert I'm starting to understand that dynamic.    

My two favorite forums "Rimfire Central" and "Egghead".  Most other ones have a terrible dynamic.  Either not active enough, or ruled by jerks.  I do like AVS too, but I keep that one to just technical.

alaskanassasin

Get some dang corgis @Botch. You can find a way to travel with them. FWIW 

ColbyLang

First bottle is a hand picked barrel by “rare bird”…whatever that means. Solid sips of the rest plus an EH Taylor Barrel proof and a Buffalo Trace Batch 2020

dbCooper

alaskanassasin said:

Get some dang corgis @Botch. You can find a way to travel with them. FWIW 

@Botch

Foster homes for dogs are always needed, basically you're their caretaker until a forever home is found.  Might be an option for you.  Check with the rescues in your area for further details if interested.

poster

dbCooper said:

alaskanassasin said:

Get some dang corgis @Botch. You can find a way to travel with them. FWIW 

@Botch

Foster homes for dogs are always needed, basically you're their caretaker until a forever home is found.  Might be an option for you.  Check with the rescues in your area for further details if interested.

Fostering this little girl myself for the next couple weeks

ColtsFan

Getting my fancy white girl drink

Ozzie_Isaac

ColtsFan said:

Getting my fancy white girl drink

More impressive than the drink, you got chauffeured to Starbucks.  I believe the kids call that ballin'.

fishlessman

closest i can get to this girly pumpkin thing....THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN

looking forward this weekend to these with some liverwurst sandwiches. Guinness over pumpkinhead

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

closest i can get to this girly pumpkin thing....THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN

looking forward this weekend to these with some liverwurst sandwiches. Guinness over pumpkinhead

Black and tans are great.   Been a while since I've had one.  I need to rectify that.   

Have a good weekend, fish.  

Gulfcoastguy

Cranberry Mocha Frappe or at least it was.

FarmingPhD

lousubcap said:

@Botch it's DDG 1000 Zumwalt class target. (only two types of ships in the world-submarines and targets  ).  The class build was truncated at 3 targets as the technology and perceived warfighting gains were found (don't know who found) too expensive.  Suffice to say the lead ship has yet to deploy overseas (commissioned in 2013) as the technology and warfighting gains promised far out-weighed the true deliverables.  

Marketing over promising what engineering can deliver, what? Who’d a thought…. Marketing isn’t all to blame either, plenty of engineers who think they know how to solve everything.  Obligatory engineering making fun of project managers….


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

Battleborn

Fantasy Draft time. 

ColbyLang

Babysitting the wife….sinus and septum surgery finally happened today after multiple postponements. Kids at the lake with my parents for the long weekend…..6 hours in, I ain’t cut out for being a nurse

Botch

FarmingPhD said:
Marketing isn’t all to blame either, plenty of engineers who think they know how to solve everything.  Obligatory engineering making fun of project managers….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

I had to watch this accurate, but very disturbing, video through to understand your sarcasm.  
Having spent a career trying to explain Reliability Confidence levels to 3-star generals with a bachelor's in PE, and a simple economic analysis to a (supposed) engineer chief who wanted our entire CAD/CAM system on the open intranetz (despite the Stuxnet/Aramco/Flame and newer banking/city government hacks) I so understand this, and it took me a couple weeks after retirement for the nightmares to stop.  
The above video will have me awaken screaming for the next night or two, but hopefully it subsides quicker this time...  

GrateEggspectations

@sgh

ColtsFan

Botch said:

FarmingPhD said:
Marketing isn’t all to blame either, plenty of engineers who think they know how to solve everything.  Obligatory engineering making fun of project managers….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

I had to watch this accurate, but very disturbing, video through to understand your sarcasm.  
Having spent a career trying to explain Reliability Confidence levels to 3-star generals with a bachelor's in PE, and a simple economic analysis to a (supposed) engineer chief who wanted our entire CAD/CAM system on the open intranetz (despite the Stuxnet/Aramco/Flame and newer banking/city government hacks) I so understand this, and it took me a couple weeks after retirement for the nightmares to stop.  
The above video will have me awaken screaming for the next night or two, but hopefully it subsides quicker this time...  

This gives me flashbacks of our weekly team meetings

Gulfcoastguy

Yes it took me a while to get over running construction projects put together by a team of young engineers who had never built a project in the field. I frequently asked to have some time to review the plans before bids were held. It seldom happened. I think that my record is 14 separate change orders on a single project. Someone told me once “ the baby is born “ to which I replied “I believe in birth control “. 

TEXASBGE2018

Ya thanks for saving me and all dad but this cone thing wasn't part of the deal....

Ozzie_Isaac

FarmingPhD said:

lousubcap said:

@Botch it's DDG 1000 Zumwalt class target. (only two types of ships in the world-submarines and targets  ).  The class build was truncated at 3 targets as the technology and perceived warfighting gains were found (don't know who found) too expensive.  Suffice to say the lead ship has yet to deploy overseas (commissioned in 2013) as the technology and warfighting gains promised far out-weighed the true deliverables.  

Marketing over promising what engineering can deliver, what? Who’d a thought…. Marketing isn’t all to blame either, plenty of engineers who think they know how to solve everything.  Obligatory engineering making fun of project managers….


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

Living this dream every day.  Very very close to calling it quits and becoming my wife's admin.

kl8ton

Ozzie_Isaac said:

FarmingPhD said:

lousubcap said:

@Botch it's DDG 1000 Zumwalt class target. (only two types of ships in the world-submarines and targets  ).  The class build was truncated at 3 targets as the technology and perceived warfighting gains were found (don't know who found) too expensive.  Suffice to say the lead ship has yet to deploy overseas (commissioned in 2013) as the technology and warfighting gains promised far out-weighed the true deliverables.  

Marketing over promising what engineering can deliver, what? Who’d a thought…. Marketing isn’t all to blame either, plenty of engineers who think they know how to solve everything.  Obligatory engineering making fun of project managers….


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

Living this dream every day.  Very very close to calling it quits and becoming my wife's admin.

I can relate to Anderson. SMH.  

nolaegghead

FarmingPhD said:

lousubcap said:

@Botch it's DDG 1000 Zumwalt class target. (only two types of ships in the world-submarines and targets  ).  The class build was truncated at 3 targets as the technology and perceived warfighting gains were found (don't know who found) too expensive.  Suffice to say the lead ship has yet to deploy overseas (commissioned in 2013) as the technology and warfighting gains promised far out-weighed the true deliverables.  

Marketing over promising what engineering can deliver, what? Who’d a thought…. Marketing isn’t all to blame either, plenty of engineers who think they know how to solve everything.  Obligatory engineering making fun of project managers….


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

I don't get the consternation here.  The solution is pretty obvious.  Lines don't only exist in 2 dimensional space.  The solution requires a multi-dimensional space, maybe half a dozen.  Insofar as the color goes, OBVIOUSLY the pen color will be used for drawing (line manufacturing) in one medium with a refractive index that is different that the observational medium index of refraction.  It's a density thing.... Oh, wait, that won't work...hmmmm....ok, got it.  I'm an expert, see?  The line relative to the observer must be accelerating/decelerating to cause a doppler shift in frequency thereby changing to the color specified by the definition of work.

Stick a one-tined fork in it, we be done.

Botch

Remember, "ex" is an unknown quantity,
and "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
(this joke is funnier when spoken)    

SGH

Getting ready for college football 🏈 

SGH

Really looking forward to Georgia vs Clemson 👍