OT - What are you doing right now?

Acn

GrateEggspectations

Acn said:

Love FLW’s work. We have a neighbour whose house was designed by one of his students. The influence is very apparent. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

Legume

Never had one, but as best as I can remember, that’s not like the picture in the ads.

Ozzie_Isaac

Legume said:

Never had one, but as best as I can remember, that’s not like the picture in the ads.

You would be correct.

Botch

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Just got a message and an email, my new 16" Macbook should be delivered tomorrow!  
After I placed the order several weeks ago, I started thinking maybe I should've waited until they were available locally.  Found a recent article on Apple's supply chain, which said anything ordered from Apple's website goes directly to China, and is then shipped back directly to the customer (no intermediate warehousing) but seeing all those freight barges backed up outside LA harbor, I was afraid I wouldn't see it until 2022.  But they came through, and I'm happy.    

They use airplanes for that high dollar stuff.

Thanks, I was wondering about that.  

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

Only one pickle?  Drive through?

The f*ck you at the drive through.

dbCooper

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

Do they still leave the membrane on?

Battleborn

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

Only one pickle?  Drive through?

The f*ck you at the drive through.

The McDonald’s by the house is drive through only. You can also order online and pickup, but half the time they say they didn’t get your order. 

Acn

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

I’m sorry.  I just finished roasted pig face with sunny side egg.

Ozzie_Isaac

dbCooper said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

Do they still leave the membrane on?

I am pretty confident is all just ground up membrane.

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just enjoyed a McRib.  (Enjoy is an overstatement, but I did eat most of one).  Now you do not have too.

Only one pickle?  Drive through?

The f*ck you at the drive through.

The pickle and onion situation was a major disappointment.  Those are what make the sandwich.

Eggdicted_Dawgfan

I’m not sure I have ever seen a more pathetic looking sandwich in my life. I think it’s safe to say you will eat just about anything. The commercial makes it look edible but your picture is a really sad sight. 

alaskanassasin

Somehow we crashed a Seawolf class submarine into a underground mountain? I don’t know anything about piloting a sub, other than what I read in “the hunt for red October”. But I can tell you if I was driving a $3 billion anything I would try not to run it into shvt. @lousubcap I am curious about your thoughts on this accident, as a resident expert. I was skimming the article and ran across this.  

  "Submarining is hard, it's really hard. Not everything goes right all the time," said Thomas Shugart, who spent more than 11 years on US submarines, including commanding an attack sub.

lousubcap

@alaskanassasin - I assure you no one wants to run into, ground or crash a submarine (or any boat/ship they are responsible for, professional or personal).  That said, the clarity of the undersea domain is not crystal clear.  There is a great amount of effort over many decades (and well into the past couple of centuries) to map the ocean bottom.  The mapping is far from perfect especially in several areas of the ocean.  
It appears that the SSN-22 hit an uncharted sea mount.  The key is uncharted.  As mentioned in many related stories, submarines operate without transmitting any emissions that would give away their presence.  Thus the passive mode relative to the sonar systems on board.  They listen (the passive deal) to the environment.  That coupled with other sensors and equipment enables the boat to assess what it is they are listening to.  
Operating in the third dimension can provide additional constraints.  The boat can only go "so deep".  However that depth can be limited by the depth of water they are operating in.  The other constraint is how close do you need to operate above the bottom (shallow water ) and not risk getting hit by a deep draft merchant ship running on the surface.  Given the hull is 40' in diameter and add another 20+ feet for the sail then you are talking about 65 keel depth to just be skimming the surface.  So, if you figure deep draft merchants are drawing 50' (+/-)  you can see where things can get tight.  
Hopefully this helps.
This will be excruciatingly and painfully examined.  
I won't get into Monday morning quarterbacking here.  

CPFC1905

Remember, remember the 5th November?  Maybe you don’t but Bonfire Night is the only news in town around here. Martyrs, Founding Fathers and burning barrels of tar. Go here: https://www.lewesbonfirecelebrations.com for a startling mix of politics, religion, challenging ethnic perspectives and peculiar rivalries. None of that in the PL of course, so here we go;

Friday; 

Southampton v Aston Villa : the visitors are in injury and suspension turmoil, the hosts seem to be pulling it together now.  2-1.

Saturday;

Man Utd v Man City : still all bonkers at Old Trafford and despite Citeh misfiring they are too good for Ole’s men.  Grim affair with the points going Blue. 1-2

Brentford v Norwich : solace for the Bees as the reality of the PL begins to bite.  The Canaries offer nothing and seem to be planning for next year in the Championship already. 2-0

Chelsea v Burnley : there’s one version whereby the Clarets are resolute and thwart the Blues but that’s a slender likelihood. Business as usual 2-0

Palace v Wolves : Astonishing scenes after the Eagles outplayed Citeh last week and this is potential banana skin.  Wolves have slipped the shifter from N to D and are in solid form.  All three results possible here. 1-1

Brighton v Newcastle : moral conflict alert. Toon as a team are falling apart whilst arguably the richest club in the world but paralysed until January. The growing narrative is which players will be attracted to a truly awful team fighting relegation?  If only both could lose, but for the good of the game then it has to be a home win 2-0.

Luton v Stoke : Eric Morecambe (Google/Ewe Chube him) would be thrilled that his team are 8th and host 6th place Potters with chance to sneak int o the play-off places.  Tough game and hard to call, narrow home win 2-1 but that’s not cut and dried. 

Sunday;

Arsenal v Watford : training ground neighbours meet while the Gunners are in the ascendancy and talk has shifted from cataclysmic collapse to the greatest team since the Invincibles (not the cartoon) inside three weeks.  Routine home win 1-0. 

Everton v Spurs : a couple of wobble clubs fight out another round of the Everton Cup. The Toffees  are on a hot losing streak and Spurs on a milder losing streak, but have a new manager.  The visitors were in Europe and that may tip it towards a home win, but 1-1 feels about right. 

Leeds v Leicester : a free hit win over Norwich shouldn’t cloud the fact that Leeds have severe second season syndrome.  Nothing better than seeing the Foxes’ Screaming Scrotom miss a penalty, which he did last night. That alone guarantees his hat trick on Sunday, 1-3. 

West Ham v Liverpool : as credible as the Hammers are, the Reds are on another level and should have this covered.  I don’t think it’ll be easy but real quality should pervade 0-1.

First frost of the year this morning, so I am out to scrape the ice off with a credit card.  I do work from home but it’s good to keep your skills up, isn’t it?

MasterC

Waiting to  be discharged, ready to go home.

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 - just read about Bonfire Night.  Learn something new dang near every day here.  Quite an event(s).

lousubcap

Regarding the USS Connecticut (SSN-22) submarine grounding.  The hammer has swung,
I just read where the Commanding Officer, Executive Officer (#2 in the command structure) and Chief Of the Boat (senior enlisted member of the command) were fired due the standard trip-wire; "Loss of confidence in their abilities to execute their duties and responsibilities."   

ColbyLang

Seems like a scapegoat tactic to me Frank. Last time I checked, there were no windows on a sub. They hit an uncharted mountain. Cmon man. 

PS, my cousin was Commander of USS Santa Fe for the standard 3 year hitch. Now at the Pentagon 

lousubcap

@ColbyLang - someone has to pay and the accountability starts with the bottom of the food chain, so to speak.  I'm sure the string will be pulled to figure out how the uncharted sea mount was missed but that will be well after this gets out of the press.
Congrats to your cousin for his command tour.  Now, the Pentagon assignment...

Kayak

lousubcap said:

Regarding the USS Connecticut (SSN-22) submarine collision.  The hammer has swung,
I just read where the Commanding Officer, Executive Officer (#2 in the command structure) and Chief Of the Boat (senior enlisted member of the command) were fired due the standard trip-wire; "Loss of confidence in their abilities to execute their duties and responsibilities."   

My brothers sub, the USS Nathaniel Greene, hit a charted seamount. When they got back to port, the top three were escorted off to the ends of their careers. The boat went off to the breakers, once they sawed out the missile bay and reactor.

alaskanassasin

Thanks for the clarification Frank. The wealth of information and resources on this forum amazes me, and I thought I would lean into that a bit.

CPFC1905

lousubcap said:

@CPFC1905 - just read about Bonfire Night.  Learn something new dang near every day here.  Quite an event(s).

My home county, Sussex - is mad for it.  From late September to Christmas (the season) there is a 'Bonfire Night' every Saturday night with societies from across the county gathering to parade.  Only Lewes is allowed to be on a 5th November when it falls on a Sunday, though.   

Frankly I loathed it,  there's only so many times being on the receiving end of a firework can make you smile.  Efforts to contain it / make it safe have been resisted but what might scupper things is the contemporary attitude to cultural appropriation.  There's quite a bit of symbolism linked to historical events that are not celebrated now, mainly colonialism.  I don't know why some groups think blackface is OK or what it has to do with Guy Fawkes, but they won't be told and will get in deep bother sooner or later about it. 

Lewes, all bar one day of the year, is a charming and interesting town.  It's castle dates from soon after the Norman Conquest of 1066.  Seventeen protestants martyrs burnt at the stake in the town between 1555 & 1557, and, the White Hart pub has a copy of the declaration of independence on the wall in respect of Thomas Paine.

More recently, the last 150 years - it has become synonymous with artists and artisans.  When the train-line from London opened, alongside its proximity to the always Bohemian Brighton there was surge of contemporary artists to the area - especially the secluded rural manor and country houses.  For example Lee Miller and the Bloomsbury set. 

Visit today and you'll find a strong, but sedate, sprint of independence.  There's a notably scarce selection of national chain shops, its an oasis of liberal politics deep inside the right-leaning heartland, hemp trousers with wooden jewellery abound and couscous has been a staple since the 1970's.  

ColbyLang

Day 5 with the FDA. Could’ve finished yesterday if they would work more than 2.5 hours at a time. Borderline harassment at this point 

fishlessman

ColbyLang said:

Day 5 with the FDA. Could’ve finished yesterday if they would work more than 2.5 hours at a time. Borderline harassment at this point 

been there with osha before, learned they need to fine you to pay for their time there. last time it was 2000.00 bucks and i had to build hand rails on a long shelf. easier than if i complained. time before i was putting a new plug on a machine we just bought, didnt lock out the power but we were not wiring it in, just getting it ready. best one though was no training on fire extinguishers, had the fire department send in a guy with the first grade training tape, drop and roll. somehow that flew its a weld shop, we all have used fire extinguishers, even more than the safety fireman

ColbyLang

This is 99% documentation….do you have a document to support the document 

fishlessman

ColbyLang said:

This is 99% documentation….do you have a document to support the document 

here the hardest is the documenting of the materials, its the easiest thing to find something wrong with as every material i use has different ordering procedures, receiving procedures, marking procedures, certification standards, storage practices, etc. i get inspectors in on most every job, then a team yearly, and a national review team every three years. that three year review is a nail biter, im sick the whole time, takes me a month to prepare and get everyone here to respond correctly to the inspectors at the national level. the three year review is about 40 k plus hotel expenses, flights etc, you dont want them finding anything and coming back for a repeat visit at your expense

lousubcap

@fishlessman - I did not realize that you have to fund your own trail and sentencing at the national level.  I would think the inspecting/certifying agency would get gubmint funding to support their charter.  Dang-

ColbyLang

we pay for a third party audit annually as well, at the request of our customers. Costs us about $10,000 with expenses.