OT - What are you doing right now?

SamIAm2

@Ozzie_Isaac - is that the cup for putting green practice on left rear?  Doesn't look regulation from here. Could be my eyes! No flag? How will you ever practice with that water running all the time?

Ozzie_Isaac

SamIAm2 said:

@Ozzie_Isaac - is that the cup for putting green practice on left rear? No flag??

Haha, nope those are lights and sprinkler heads.  That is a good idea though.

dbCooper

Have a little 4' side pathway/garden area that is beagle restricted as it's open to the free world.  The new hound is showing impressive vertical leaps, so added a couple feet to the 3' gate to that area.  Past experience has taught us to be preemptive in this area.   🙂

nolaegghead

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

Sounds legit guys, I dunno.

SamIAm2

@Acn - was looking at the third photo in your post and wondered about the carved quotation in the stone. Had to look it up  "El que estàs fent, fes-ho de pressa John 13-27/ What you are about to do, do quickly". 

alaskanassasin

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Battleborn

Got my call to be a training officer today. Very modest raise, but I get day shift and weekends off. Pretty excited for the opportunity. 

BigreenGreg

https://youtu.be/VHxja1ALjbU

Watching Brock Lesnar grill Tomahawks on the Big Green Egg with the bearded guys. Looks good to me.

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

lousubcap

Battleborn said:

Got my call to be a training officer today. Very modest raise, but I get day shift and weekends off. Pretty excited for the opportunity. 

Way to obviously excel in the field.  Congrats on the recognition.  As I have always said, "Training is King."  Get that piece right and life is much less hassled.  
Stay healthy and safe out there-

alaskanassasin

And here I thought "irrigated astroturf" was a parodox. I stand corrected sir I am way out of my element here, carry on.

BTW  I would not recommend this perfectly green, maintenance free, irrigated solution to our HOA challenged @TEXASBGE2018, he might get his spare time back.

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

And here I thought "irrigated astroturf" was a parodox. I stand corrected sir I am way out of my element here, carry on.

BTW  I would not recommend this perfectly green, maintenance free, irrigated solution to our HOA challenged @TEXASBGE2018, he might get his spare time back.

Don't let Californians know.  They will demand all turf be removed too.

fishlessman

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

màle dogs need a target,. Put it off the yard grass,. Put a silver dollar target around the corner of the house, some will use the target others will say.....look what i found

fishlessman

fishlessman said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

màle dogs need a target,. Put it off the yard grass,. Put a silver dollar target around the corner of the house, some will use the target others will say.....look what i found

Look what I found...JIC

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

fishlessman said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

That needs to be irrigated.

Cooled off for the dogs in the summer, turf can get really really hot and also washed off and pet urine washed away.  I will need to spray an enzyme cleaner occasionally, but sprinklers will work for 80% of my needs.

màle dogs need a target,. Put it off the yard grass,. Put a silver dollar target around the corner of the house, some will use the target others will say.....look what i found

Look what I found...JIC

I’m not sure there’s enough room on the forum for more than one drunk taking shots at me at once, but… sure.  

MediumRarely

GrateEggspectations said:

@MediumRarely

If I’m not mistaken, it was your view that had all of our jaws agape!

We do seem to enjoy the view when we wake up from the bed, breakfast, cooking (with and without the Egg), sunsets and dinner. The rest of the time I prefer the view from the helm of Persuasion. Like most people here on the forum, we are truly blessed.

alaskanassasin

I never thought about pets using fake grass as a restroom. That does take away from the allure.

alaskanassasin

Instead of mow it you wash it. Got it.

MediumRarely

Ozzie_Isaac said:

This is too funny.

Ships name is "Ever Forward", which clearly is a lie.  Also, the ship is owned by the company that blocked the Suez Canal too.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/cargo-ship-stuck-marylands-chesapeake-bay-presenting-coast/story?id=83455048

Probably will declare "General Average". Had that done to me once upon a time.

MediumRarely

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Turf was just installed.  I did not realize all the steps to laying turf.  Took a crew of 3 guys 7hrs of non-stop work.  I have learned a lot watching them do the install.

Wow! Not disappointing my expectations. Nice cactus.

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

Plotting trajectories to strength surfaces, in principal stress space (projection onto sigma_3):



The green surface is our best guess of what the strength surface for this material could be.  The blue, red, and yellow lines correspond to an analysis of three different specimens of a notched Aluminum material.  The points where they end are where the specimens all failed.  The fact that they just touch the surface seems to indicate that failure is being governed by strength in this case, as opposed to energetics.   

What method is employed to cause failure?   Is this metal forming?  Metal cutting? Abrasive testing? Temperature testing?   Other?  I'm just curious as in my past, I did FEA on the feasibility of proposed tooling to produce automotive parts.  I'd evaluate. . . Er the computer would evaluate if a proposed forming process would result in product fracture or excessive thinning.  I enjoyed it.  

MediumRarely

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

So I'm guessing the artificial turf is so realistic that sprinkler heads are included in the base price.

Ozzie_Isaac

MediumRarely said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

So I'm guessing the artificial turf is so realistic that sprinkler heads are included in the base price.

Lol!  Base price.  They didn't even include pool chemicals in the base price.

nolaegghead

Done

MediumRarely

Ozzie_Isaac said:

MediumRarely said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Nice.  What exactly constitutes this “turf”?

It is artificial turf.  According to the brochure it is made of unicorn fur, soaked in orca oil, and extruded and woven with Goldilocks very own hair.  Also has anti-microbial properties and odor reducing magic.  Pretty sure it was blessed by a Shaman and a Rabbi.

So I'm guessing the artificial turf is so realistic that sprinkler heads are included in the base price.

Lol!  Base price.  They didn't even include pool chemicals in the base price.

Ah, so you wanted water in the swimming pool we built you. And for swimming. Well sir, that will be a contract change for a small fee.

Battleborn

lousubcap said:

Battleborn said:

Got my call to be a training officer today. Very modest raise, but I get day shift and weekends off. Pretty excited for the opportunity. 

Way to obviously excel in the field.  Congrats on the recognition.  As I have always said, "Training is King."  Get that piece right and life is much less hassled.  
Stay healthy and safe out there-

Appreciate it Cap. 

JohnInCarolina

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Plotting trajectories to strength surfaces, in principal stress space (projection onto sigma_3):



The green surface is our best guess of what the strength surface for this material could be.  The blue, red, and yellow lines correspond to an analysis of three different specimens of a notched Aluminum material.  The points where they end are where the specimens all failed.  The fact that they just touch the surface seems to indicate that failure is being governed by strength in this case, as opposed to energetics.   

What method is employed to cause failure?   Is this metal forming?  Metal cutting? Abrasive testing? Temperature testing?   Other?  I'm just curious as in my past, I did FEA on the feasibility of proposed tooling to produce automotive parts.  I'd evaluate. . . Er the computer would evaluate if a proposed forming process would result in product fracture or excessive thinning.  I enjoyed it.  

Here we are performing simple 3-point bend tests of beam-shaped specimens.  What we're doing is enhancing our understanding of crack nucleation vs propagation.  It turns out they seem to be governed by fairly different physics.  

We use FEA for the calculations, and compare results to experiments conducted at a lab in Tel Aviv.  I actually teach a couple of different graduate courses on linear and non-linear FEA here at Duke.  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Plotting trajectories to strength surfaces, in principal stress space (projection onto sigma_3):



The green surface is our best guess of what the strength surface for this material could be.  The blue, red, and yellow lines correspond to an analysis of three different specimens of a notched Aluminum material.  The points where they end are where the specimens all failed.  The fact that they just touch the surface seems to indicate that failure is being governed by strength in this case, as opposed to energetics.   

What method is employed to cause failure?   Is this metal forming?  Metal cutting? Abrasive testing? Temperature testing?   Other?  I'm just curious as in my past, I did FEA on the feasibility of proposed tooling to produce automotive parts.  I'd evaluate. . . Er the computer would evaluate if a proposed forming process would result in product fracture or excessive thinning.  I enjoyed it.  

Here we are performing simple 3-point bend tests of beam-shaped specimens.  What we're doing is enhancing our understanding of crack nucleation vs propagation.  It turns out they seem to be governed by fairly different physics.  

We use FEA for the calculations, and compare results to experiments conducted at a lab in Tel Aviv.  I actually teach a couple of different graduate courses on linear and non-linear FEA here at Duke.  

Out of curiosity, how do you control the surface finish on your specimens?  You theoretical data matches the empirical data so closely, you must be doing a pretty spectacular job of controlling the variables, surface finish, in my mind, being one of the critical ones.