OT - What are you doing right now?

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina Good call to roll out there now instead of the middle of winter.  I thought that lab was primarily focused on nuclear research. 

Nuclear energy research is their main mission, Frank.  I actually have a current PhD student doing an internship out there, and they are working on fuel modeling.  

Like most of the labs, in addition to the main mission there are many staff members working on a wide variety of projects.  The reality is that the level of sophistication needed to accurately simulate what happens inside a nuclear reactor gives rise to codes that have great capabilities for a good range of applications.  And so technical staff members at the labs tend to work on a fairly broad set of projects that are in the energy space and fall under the purview of the Office of Science.  

GrateEggspectations

Watching all three Eggs hum along on a clean burn. 

ColbyLang

Reminds me, I need to yank my grills out and do my XL. She greasy

GrateEggspectations

For today’s burn, I am using a new charcoal for the first time. Picked it up at Costco. Any experience, @paqman, @canugghead?

paqman

@GrateEggspectations not yet, waiting to try it too

Canugghead

@GrateEggspectations xylo has been around a few years, never saw it at Costco. THTHBBQ.com (reincarnation of Ontario Gas BBQ, then Barbecue World) had it on clearance last year IIRC, didn’t buy.

fishlessman

destroying property values

bass boat in the front yard........

fishlessman

fished 11 days with a friend of about 45 years,  and a few with dad, brother, and godson.

and just one food pic of some venison

ColtsFan

@fishlessman those are some nice bass. 

alaskanassasin

Good lord those are some nice fish @fishlessman

Legume

Fishlessman "property taxes are too damn high from all of these weekenders"

Friend with bass boat "hold my beer"

alaskanassasin

Awfully hazy around here @canada you guys leave a cigarette burning or something?

fishlessman

ColtsFan said:

@fishlessman those are some nice bass. 

except for the large mouth, all the big fish came from behind the house from about twenty feet from the dock upstream about a half mile. probably did a hundred miles searching different areas only to come back  to the dock

fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

Good lord those are some nice fish @fishlessman

one off my neighbors bought a mile stretch and had it rezoned for conservation, will never be a house up there. its crazy fishing in the spring, ive never seen another bass boat up that stretch

fishlessman

Legume said:

Fishlessman "property taxes are too damn high from all of these weekenders"

Friend with bass boat "hold my beer"

still inline tax wise but suspect the taxes to triple in the next few years with the new covid price increases. people went crazy updating homes the last few years

JohnInCarolina

Mildly surprised @fishlessman posting pics of himself... holding fish... didn't break Vanilla's software.

lousubcap

@fishlessman - independent of the catches, what quality time in a beautiful environment right there. 

Once ashore how did the beer and gin lockers hold up??

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Mildly surprised @fishlessman posting pics of himself... holding fish... didn't break Vanilla's software.

You made a few questionable assumptions:

1. At least one of the photos is of @fishlessman . He mentioned fishing with multiple people.
2. Person holding the fish caught the fish.

As an "educator" I would expect more thoughtful analysis of situations.

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Mildly surprised @fishlessman posting pics of himself... holding fish... didn't break Vanilla's software.

You made a few questionable assumptions:

1. At least one of the photos is of @fishlessman . He mentioned fishing with multiple people.
2. Person holding the fish caught the fish.

As an "educator" I would expect more thoughtful analysis of situations.

lousubcap

I cannot stand the word "assume".  An escape clause for too many things that end up going south.  Off mini soap-box. 

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

fishlessman

JohnInCarolina said:

Mildly surprised @fishlessman posting pics of himself... holding fish... didn't break Vanilla's software.

bass fisherman..... who drives a boat into a 20 mph head wind with 3 foot white capped chop in a modified surfboard with a 225 merc strapped to the back at 75 mph. im lucky i could stand......

Botch

Wow.  
I haven't been this geeked out since walking thru that doorway at Palmdale and looking up at the new B-2 bomber, parked right in front of me.
 
Just finished watching Apple's WWDC, 2 hours ten minutes; it was long as they had cancelled their February show, and showed both new hardware and OS development in this one.  New 15.3" Macbook Air (18 hours battery life!) $1,299.  New Mac Pro, $OMG.  Some neat OS tricks coming up.  All stuff I was expecting.
 
"Oh, and One More Thing..."    Their upcoming AR headset, the Apple Vision Pro.  I can't even try to describe how this thing works, how much amazing design is in it, and how much (provided it works as advertised) this is going to completely change education, design, art, entertainment, training, sports, office work, just... everything.  Dayam.  I'll see if their new TV ad is up on their website, and post it here.  
 
EDIT:  Right here:  https://youtu.be/TX9qSaGXFyg
 
I expected to see a price between $6,000 and $10K.  It'll be $3,499.  

Canugghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Mildly surprised @fishlessman posting pics of himself... holding fish... didn't break Vanilla's software.

You made a few questionable assumptions:

1. At least one of the photos is of @fishlessman . He mentioned fishing with multiple people.
2. Person holding the fish caught the fish.

As an "educator" I would expect more thoughtful analysis of situations.

Which one is thefishwhisperer?

dbCooper

Some maintenance and repair on the Impala.  Midrange speakers in the doors have been "weak" for the past year or so.  Listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan do Little Wing at proper volume on our last road trip ended them.  Also replaced the tweeters in the A-pillar, just because.

Then ran braided cable thru all four sunroof drain holes.  Once had one get plugged up, found out during a thunderstorm, it was a mess.  Luckily no back seat passengers when it happened.  Clean them yearly ever since that.

GrateEggspectations

dbCooper said:

Some maintenance and repair on the Impala.  Midrange speakers in the doors have been "weak" for the past year or so.  Listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan do Little Wing at proper volume on our last road trip ended them.  Also replaced the tweeters in the A-pillar, just because.

Then ran braided cable thru all four sunroof drain holes.  Once had one get plugged up, found out during a thunderstorm, it was a mess.  Luckily no back seat passengers when it happened.  Clean them yearly ever since that.

If there’s a song worth killing your speakers for, you really nailed it. Zakk Wylde said that recording was proof that God exists. 

GrateEggspectations

Some Greek neighbours just stopped by unexpectedly with homemade spanakopita. 

fishlessman

GrateEggspectations said:

Some Greek neighbours just stopped by unexpectedly with homemade spanakopita. 

Love that stuff

lousubcap

GrateEggspectations said:

Some Greek neighbours just stopped by unexpectedly with homemade spanakopita. 

Classic "Better to be lucky than good" right there. Looks incredible. 

fishlessman

Canugghead said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Mildly surprised @fishlessman posting pics of himself... holding fish... didn't break Vanilla's software.

You made a few questionable assumptions:

1. At least one of the photos is of @fishlessman . He mentioned fishing with multiple people.
2. Person holding the fish caught the fish.

As an "educator" I would expect more thoughtful analysis of situations.

Which one is thefishwhisperer?

He stayed home drinking bud light using a quart of luuuube.....not that there's anything wrong with that

DuckDogDr

Just got home from Jiu jitsu and cussing because the A/C has gone out at the house .
I feel I need to clean before he even comes to repair 🙄. House is a wreck .. mostly been out of town the past month

Although it doesn’t look like it… this is me getting my arse kicked