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kl8ton

kl8ton

I went back to the main page and am now wondering what was nuked.... maybe the placeholder post? 

FarmingPhD

kl8ton said:

FarmingPhD said:

Enjoying a Friday afternoon trying to solve an actual technical engineering problem.  Hydraulics + dynamics + software is always a good time, we’ll, most of the time.  Reading the Friday threads like a tabloid between software builds.

Engineer:  this is exactly how much x we need and it will withstand y.

Project manager:  triple it and order it up.  

My engineering problems are usually in the area of “do you think we could automate that?” or “so his thing sucks, can you make it better with just software?”  

Testing out pressure based over the original flow based hydraulics for a control system today and learning mostly what not to do.

Botch

kl8ton said:

FarmingPhD said:

Enjoying a Friday afternoon trying to solve an actual technical engineering problem.  Hydraulics + dynamics + software is always a good time, we’ll, most of the time.  Reading the Friday threads like a tabloid between software builds.

Engineer:  this is exactly how much x we need and it will withstand y.

Project manager:  Too costly, order up Option C.  

FTFY.  

Terpderpitude

Botch said:

kl8ton said:

FarmingPhD said:

Enjoying a Friday afternoon trying to solve an actual technical engineering problem.  Hydraulics + dynamics + software is always a good time, we’ll, most of the time.  Reading the Friday threads like a tabloid between software builds.

Engineer:  this is exactly how much x we need and it will withstand y.

Project manager:  Too costly, order up Option C.  

FTFY.  

What is the government joke?  You can get things that work, you can get them fast, and you can get them cheap, but you can only choose two.  

Yno

I don't think you can even choose one anymore...

Botch

Spent a couple hours at a local pond, high-contrast lighting but I fiddled with this shot in Affinity, once I made it monochrome it looked suitably Halloweenish:
 


No idea what it is; had a vulture's face but swam/preened like a duck.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Little bit of yard work.

TEXASBGE2018

Gettin ready for a show.

JohnInCarolina

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Gettin ready for a show.

Nice.

Eoin

FarmingPhD said:

kl8ton said:

FarmingPhD said:

Enjoying a Friday afternoon trying to solve an actual technical engineering problem.  Hydraulics + dynamics + software is always a good time, we’ll, most of the time.  Reading the Friday threads like a tabloid between software builds.

Engineer:  this is exactly how much x we need and it will withstand y.

Project manager:  triple it and order it up.  

My engineering problems are usually in the area of “do you think we could automate that?” or “so his thing sucks, can you make it better with just software?”  

Testing out pressure based over the original flow based hydraulics for a control system today and learning mostly what not to do.

What's the problem?

Eoin

CPFC1905 said:

Goodbye BST, hello DST.  With the Summer a distant memory it’s time to fettle the fourth dimension, that unprovable concept called time.  ‘An extra hour in bed’ for me & @Eoin on Sunday so that farmers can get the hay in, or we can build more Spitfires - or something.  Whatever, PL is back…

Saturday;

Leicester v Arsenal : thrills and spills here for a multi-goal-athon. 3-2

Burnley v Brentford : first season sensations Brentford still ride high.  Burnley are being very Burnley.  One goal thriller. Er, 0-1 although could be the reverse of that.

Liverpool v Brighton : 86 - 0 please.  

Man City v Palace : as above, please not. (3-0)

Newcastle v Chelsea : questionable ownership derby #1 of many this season.  Toon are still rubbish despite our flaccid attempt to beat them last week. 0-3

Watford v Southampton : well after last week’s unimaginable humping of Everton I’ve got to go with the horrible Hornets 2-1

Spurs v Man Utd : great time to host Ole’s clown squad after their shellacking last week 2-1

Stoke v Cardiff : chance to get the show back not he road as the Bluebirds on a hot streak of 5 defeats.  @Eoin will want the Potters to show bounce-backability and nail this 3-0.

Sunday;

Norwich v Leeds : will Bielsa’s boys get under way at the Canaries? Probably 1-2.

Aston Villa v West Ham : double name double header - tricky to call as each team can’t decide if they’re actually any good or not.  I feel the home side are on the slide and the Hammers are solidifying. 0-2

Monday;

Wolves v Everton : early season ‘Everton Cup’ play-off here as both have 7th place stamped across them already. Toffees on a losing run 2-1

There you go flag-fans, take a munch on those while you’re carving pumpkins and wearing Scream masks.  

Stoke 10/11 looks tighter than it should be.

ColbyLang

Opening morning of rifle for whitetail. Cameras showing lots of activity, watched a spike act like King Kong chasing does yesterday afternoon, rut not too far off

Foghorn

Foghorn said:

CPFC1905 said:

Goodbye BST, hello DST.  With the Summer a distant memory it’s time to fettle the fourth dimension, that unprovable concept called time.  ‘An extra hour in bed’ for me & @Eoin on Sunday so that farmers can get the hay in, or we can build more Spitfires - or something.  Whatever, PL is back…

Saturday;

Leicester v Arsenal : thrills and spills here for a multi-goal-athon. 3-2

Burnley v Brentford : first season sensations Brentford still ride high.  Burnley are being very Burnley.  One goal thriller. Er, 0-1 although could be the reverse of that.

Liverpool v Brighton : 86 - 0 please.  

Man City v Palace : as above, please not. (3-0)

Newcastle v Chelsea : questionable ownership derby #1 of many this season.  Toon are still rubbish despite our flaccid attempt to beat them last week. 0-3

Watford v Southampton : well after last week’s unimaginable humping of Everton I’ve got to go with the horrible Hornets 2-1

Spurs v Man Utd : great time to host Ole’s clown squad after their shellacking last week 2-1

Stoke v Cardiff : chance to get the show back not he road as the Bluebirds on a hot streak of 5 defeats.  @Eoin will want the Potters to show bounce-backability and nail this 3-0.

Sunday;

Norwich v Leeds : will Bielsa’s boys get under way at the Canaries? Probably 1-2.

Aston Villa v West Ham : double name double header - tricky to call as each team can’t decide if they’re actually any good or not.  I feel the home side are on the slide and the Hammers are solidifying. 0-2

Monday;

Wolves v Everton : early season ‘Everton Cup’ play-off here as both have 7th place stamped across them already. Toffees on a losing run 2-1

There you go flag-fans, take a munch on those while you’re carving pumpkins and wearing Scream masks.  

Wow @CPFC1905.  These seem to be amazingly accurate predictions - with a couple of infinitesimally small exceptions.

You are off by 84 goals on the Liverpool-Brighton prediction - but you knew that.

And Arsenal don't have it in them to score 2 goals against Leicester.

The Gunners were only too keen to prove me wrong in only 18 minutes...

Botch

ColbyLang said:

Opening morning of rifle for whitetail. Cameras showing lots of activity, watched a spike act like King Kong chasing does yesterday afternoon, rut not too far off

Do whitetails have a later rut than mulies?  Telephotos usually migrate to Yellowstone end of September/first half of October for mulies/elk rut.  

Acn

SWMBO Jr’s favorite soup, because she can slurp and SWMBO won’t make an issue out of it.

JohnInCarolina

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

Enough with the tease, John. What have you got/will you have on there?

Gulfcoastguy

Botch said:

ColbyLang said:

Opening morning of rifle for whitetail. Cameras showing lots of activity, watched a spike act like King Kong chasing does yesterday afternoon, rut not too far off

Do whitetails have a later rut than mulies?  Telephotos usually migrate to Yellowstone end of September/first half of October for mulies/elk rut.  

Different weather patterns. Colby is in Southern Louisiana, Yellowstone is nearly in Canada. Rut is dependent on cold weather.

JohnInCarolina

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Enough with the tease, John. What have you got/will you have on there?

Baby back ribs again.  I think I will probably keep doing those until I feel like I really have them dialed in.  They were very close last time.

GrateEggspectations

@JohnInCarolina: I expect to see pics.

Foghorn

Congratulations to @CPFC1905 on the victory over Man City.  Definitely wasn't predicted by anybody.

CPFC1905

Foghorn said:

Congratulations to @CPFC1905 on the victory over Man City.  Definitely wasn't predicted by anybody.

Very true and yet another warning to us all about forecasting football.  A dignified close defeat was my hope.  Burnley up next,  a reality check for sure.

Eoin

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

Congratulations to @CPFC1905 on the victory over Man City.  Definitely wasn't predicted by anybody.

Very true and yet another warning to us all about forecasting football.  A dignified close defeat was my hope.  Burnley up next,  a reality check for sure.

Don't forget to mention the T20 world cup for our transatlantic friends. Daily match predictions would be awesome. Any of you who missed England humiliating the Aussies in today's group stage match really should try and catch it. Amazing performance.

JohnInCarolina

GrateEggspectations said:

@JohnInCarolina: I expect to see pics.

2 hrs in

ColbyLang

Gulfcoastguy said:

Botch said:

ColbyLang said:

Opening morning of rifle for whitetail. Cameras showing lots of activity, watched a spike act like King Kong chasing does yesterday afternoon, rut not too far off

Do whitetails have a later rut than mulies?  Telephotos usually migrate to Yellowstone end of September/first half of October for mulies/elk rut.  

Different weather patterns. Colby is in Southern Louisiana, Yellowstone is nearly in Canada. Rut is dependent on cold weather.

This….I hunt in North LA, but same same. Our rut is usually around the new moon of November, so basically later part of next week. They’ll have a second rut 4 weeks later. Younger bucks chasing does this morning. I’m holding off for big brother or daddy

JohnInCarolina

Just about done - these cooked fast:

JohnInCarolina

I used the Japanese bbq sauce @Mickey recommended on these.  That stuff is awfully good.

lousubcap

Nice cook @JohnInCarolina.  Good ring given the speed of the cook.
Gotta admit that I had not cooked pork ribs in quite a while but the St Louis spares I did earlier this week got me back into them.  I like that the spares have more fat for flavour than the BB's i can find but to each their own.  

johnmitchell

@JohnInCarolina. Geez John you certainly have that thingymigig dialed in. Great looking ribs