[QUOTE=Mark Rose;431438]Ladle Rat Rotten Hut[/QUOTE]You win.

:cmd:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;431460]You win.

:cmd:[/QUOTE]
I knew a fellow that was named U Nguyen. I would see him at work every few weeks and would have to control my internal laughter.

[url]http://m.imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH[/url]

I'm running a 100m race in about two hours. Live results:
[url]http://www.apu.edu/athletics/live/trackandfield-bryanclay/[/url]

Some competitors:
Ashton Eaton (2012 Olympic Decathlon champ and world record holder)
José Carlos Moreira (ran the 100m and the 4x100 relay in the 2008 Olympics. Finished 4th in the 4x100)
Jamol James (Ran one of the legs in the 4x100 relay in the '12 Games. Competes for Arizona State University and has the second fastest 100 time -10.15 seconds- in school history.)

My qualifications:
First grade - Couldn't run more than a few steps without tripping over my own feet. Was separated from everyone else and put in a remedial physical education program.
Third grade - Passed the remedial physical education program. Tried out for school track team. Failed to qualify for team in any event.
Fourth grade - Finally was allowed to practice with track team. Finished dead last by almost a third of the distance in the only track meet I was allowed to enter.
Fifth grade - Was diagnosed with pectus excavatum (sunken chest). Doctors said it would restrict my heart and lungs. Was not allowed to participate in competitive sports.
Eighth grade - No improvement in pectus excavatum, but competitive activity restriction was lifted. Tried out again for track team. Qualified for team and actually won a race. Got injured a week before the next race and had to sit out the rest of the season.
High school, freshman and sophomore years - Qualified for the track team, which had a "no cuts" policy for everyone who showed up and put in the effort. Times were slower than some of the girls.
High school, junior and senior years - Finally ran faster times than the girls. Got a spot on the 4x400 relay team and won an 800 meter race by 70 meters. Had a pretty serious flu/cold before the races that would have qualified me for the state championships. Failed to recover on time.
College - Tried to join the college track team. Got injured again and failed. A full course load, internships, and work study prevented another serious attempt at making the team.
Post-college - Squeezed in some training time after work and on weekends. Somehow managed to equal my high school 400 meter time (55").

I'm the f***** underdog here. But if the last two decades have taught me anything, it's to never give up or underestimate the potential for improvement.

[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x-more-viruses-most-at-kid-face-height-than-other-dryers/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;431666][URL]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x-more-viruses-most-at-kid-face-height-than-other-dryers/[/URL][/QUOTE]
I never liked the kind with the slot. Far too easy to brush the edges. :yucky:

[url]http://i.imgur.com/ldPDMNA.gif[/url]

[url]http://cs.williams.edu/~freund/cs136-073/GardnerHexapawn.pdf[/url]

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[url]http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/opera-in-browser-vpn-client/[/url]

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Fun with Corgis :smile:!

[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/3dqelg/neat_trick_you_gotta_hand_it_to_him/[/url]

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;432486]:mike:[/QUOTE]

That's 60,000 miles a year! Your insurance company must really love you. Incidentally, assuming that this is the *only* travel that you do this year, you are averaging just under 7 miles per hour even when you are asleep!

Do you buy tires by the dozen? :grin:

[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;433208]Do you buy tires by the dozen? :grin:[/QUOTE]We think the tires will have to be replaced between 25,000 and 30,000 miles.

We have never had such fantastic tire life on any of our previous motorcycles. Even 10,000 miles is considered a lot for a motorcycle tire.

:mike:

[url]https://youtu.be/oXGm9Vlfx4w[/url]

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;433328][URL]https://youtu.be/oXGm9Vlfx4w[/URL][/QUOTE]
We have to wait until July for that film!

Weird Weapons of the Cold War
 

[URL="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/14/1513113/-Weird-Weapons-of-the-Cold-War"]Boondoggles[/URL] in the days of Anything Goes. It must have been great to be an arms merchant, especially of airborne follies.
[QUOTE]
The period from the end of WWII to the early 1960s was a time of massive change in the defense sector. Things that seem commonplace today like supersonic jet fighters, nuclear submarines and guided missiles all were either invented or came of age during this period.

I find this period so interesting because there was a lot of “anything goes” when it came to design. Some of it was good, some of it wasn’t, and some was just plain weird.

Part of this was due to good old-fashioned inter service rivalry. The Army, Navy and newly created Air Force were all fighting for a seat at the nuclear table.
[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=kladner;433348][URL="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/14/1513113/-Weird-Weapons-of-the-Cold-War"]Boondoggles[/URL] in the days of Anything Goes. It must have been great to be an arms merchant, especially of airborne follies.[/QUOTE]
An interesting article, but "nuclear submarines" is ambiguous - the distinction between nuclear powered and nuclear armed is important.

:mike:

[url]http://gawker.com/close-your-porn-tabs-before-posting-screenshots-to-your-1776955238[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;434198][URL]http://gawker.com/close-your-porn-tabs-before-posting-screenshots-to-your-1776955238[/URL][/QUOTE]
That's a fake, or campaign engineering. I don't know the guy and don't give a dime about politics there, but the first tab shows a beginning of a "D", and the initial reports were about Layla's "BODY", when in fact the movie is about Layla's "BOOTY". The error was later fixed in the text (which is also said by the article) but the images stayed. Now explain to me how the images shows a "D" there, where there should be an "O", there is no movie with "D", except in the mind of that who created the first version of the article (on the web, not on gawker, the one gawger took it from).

That is how he attracts attention. People voting for him will still vote for him, the one against him are still against him. This is targeting the "undecided" pool, from which some will now vote for him.

[url]http://photogrammar.yale.edu/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;434337][URL]http://photogrammar.yale.edu/[/URL][/QUOTE]
WOW! What a treasure trove!

Air Disasters
 

[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/19/deadliest-air-disasters-world/84578218/?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003[/url]
On the occasion of the crash of an Egyptian plane on the way to Cairo.

[URL="http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-1.MicroChess_%20Manual_for_6502.Micro-Ware/MicroChessManual.PETER_JENNINGS.062303071.sm.pdf"]http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-1.MicroChess_%20Manual_for_6502.Micro-Ware/MicroChessManual.PETER_JENNINGS.062303071.sm.pdf[/URL]

The first paragraph on page eight (NOTES) is entertaining. (The whole PDF is!)

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;434402][URL="http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-1.MicroChess_%20Manual_for_6502.Micro-Ware/MicroChessManual.PETER_JENNINGS.062303071.sm.pdf"]http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-1.MicroChess_%20Manual_for_6502.Micro-Ware/MicroChessManual.PETER_JENNINGS.062303071.sm.pdf[/URL]

The first paragraph on page eight (NOTES) is entertaining. (The whole PDF is!)[/QUOTE]Entertaining and impressive.

You try writing a chess playing program with only those resources available.

Some of us are old enough to remember doing real work on computers with those capabilities.

[QUOTE=xilman;434404]Entertaining and impressive.

You try writing a chess playing program with only those resources available.

Some of us are old enough to remember doing real work on computers with those capabilities.[/QUOTE]
Actually, if you want to do something comparable, write a program on which that program can be run. Remember that you only have a couple of kilobytes of R/W storage and that you need to emulate a cassette player.

If it helps, go out and spend $20 or so on a PIC development kit to have real hardware rather than have to emulate it.

:paul:

Thanks for sharing that!
We remember with nostalgia that we wrote a z80 emulator long ago... which could run Sinclair Spectrum games - also loaded from a tape player, but we skipped that part, by using the games already converted on a convenient format and stored on the floppy disk...

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;434613]:mike:[/QUOTE]
Been in Amish territory, have we? :smile: I hate to think where the other sign might be. There are too many candidates, all over the country. :no:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;434613]:mike:[/QUOTE]Here is a road hog that is not sharing the road. Disobeying the signs even.

[url]http://imgur.com/vNttzAD[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;434791][URL]http://imgur.com/vNttzAD[/URL][/QUOTE]
I have no pictures, though others do, but we had a duck situation where I work. It seems a mama mallard found a third floor roof-top planter with large shrubs an ideal nesting site. Unfortunately, said roof is probably between forty and fifty feet above a concrete sidewalk. When people became aware of the situation, Mama was at ground level, and the ducklings ( 12 total) were either clustered at the edge of the roof deck, outside the railing, or had jumped off. Of the early jumpers, one died on impact and another got into a storm drain.

There was a small crowd on the sidewalk, with Mama under a parked car. When they devised a safety net from somebody's jacket, I went back to the roof deck, alerted the rescuers, and gently shooed the remaining ducklings over the edge. All were caught in the jacket, accompanied by such comedies as one duckling going down a sleeve.

In the end, the ten survivors were collected in a cardboard box with towels and a grill on top to keep them in. Someone tracked down a rescue organization, "Chicago Bird Collision". This is a group which hunts through downtown Chicago early in the morning, looking for dead or injured birds which have run into buildings. They transported the ten ducklings, plus two more found downtown, to a nature center in Lincoln Park. From there, they were to be taken to a suburban center which specializes in fostering and releasing orphaned and injured birds. There, they were to join a proper duck family for natural rearing. :smile: :<3:

Sadly, Mama was back throughout the evening, searching around the deck for her babies. :sad: The rescue people assured us that despite the pathos, the offspring had a far better chance of survival than if she had tried to lead them the several blocks to the lake shore.

[QUOTE=kladner;434837]we had a duck situation where I work[/QUOTE]
Very nice story, thanks for sharing it! :tu:

[QUOTE=LaurV;434853]Very nice story, thanks for sharing it! :tu:[/QUOTE]
:smile:

Apparently it pays to apply new thermal paste when moving a computer. I had moved my computer to a couple of offices and didn't think much of it. Anyway, I ended up reapplying the thermal past on my CPU computer last night and temperatures dropped almost 20°C while running mprime.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;434903]It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.[/QUOTE]:confused2:

[QUOTE=kladner;435371]:confused2:[/QUOTE]|As always, the opld ones are the best.

Let me help you out.

You're at the end of the road again. You should be able to see better now.

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[QUOTE=xilman;435391]|As always, the opld ones are the best.

Let me help you out.

You're at the end of the road again. You should be able to see better now.[/QUOTE]
The Light Finally Dawns! :smile:
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_%28monster%29[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;435672].[/QUOTE]
How long did it take to double that from the previous picture?
Facetious answer: "Fifteen thousand miles."

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;435669].[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the fantastic picture of Dog3! I love the position. Blissful!

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;435672].[/QUOTE]
Not shiny enough! I can't see your face.
Back to the duster, wax, mop, whatever!
:razz:

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[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/what-is-open-access-free-sharing-of-all-human-knowledge/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;436078][YOUTUBE]czgqOe6b5ss[/YOUTUBE][/QUOTE]Any guess how long one of these blades are?

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;436591]Any guess how long one of these blades are?[/QUOTE]I have seen the towers moving overland on special trailers (the dollies mount on the tube fore and aft) as well as the nose cones, and the houses. Have seen the blade on their special train cars.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;436591]Any guess how long one of these blades are?[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.energy.siemens.com/us/en/renewable-energy/wind-power/wind-turbine-technology/blades.htm[/url]

[QUOTE=bsquared;436598][url]http://www.energy.siemens.com/us/en/renewable-energy/wind-power/wind-turbine-technology/blades.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
That is some cool technology; much better than I expected. It's nice to see it receiving progressive improvements too.

I think the old thatched ones are nicer to live in.

Muskrapture of the deep
 

[URL="http://www.hngn.com/articles/200991/20160622/tesla-tesla-model-s-float-electric-cars.htm"]Tesla Model S Can Float Like a Boat[/URL]
[QUOTE]"You simply don't want the entire undercarriage of your vehicle to be submerged regardless of if it consists of a large battery pack or an exhaust line. In the case of the Model S, the battery pack is sealed, but there are still plenty of complications from submerging the vehicle," wrote Fred Lambert of Electrek. Lambert added that most car warranties or insurance, if not all, would think twice about covering flood-related damage.

But electric car enthusiasts who are hoping for a Tesla car upgrade in the future with submarine-like features, there might be hope. Musk also tweeted that Tesla is working on a "sports sub car" as a side project for now due to a "limited market potential," BGR reported.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring-the-legendary-1970s-gui-computer/[/url]

Well, friend,

[QUOTE=LaurV;416827]You forgot antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianismization... :razz:
That is the process to join the antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianism movement.[/QUOTE]

you certainly were right. Thanks for joining!

[url]http://theawesomedaily.com/seconds-from-disaster/[/url]

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[QUOTE=MooMoo2;437505]...6h2.xyz/american_fdji_LYIN-MEXICO_8o2la_BUILD-THE-WALL_link[/quote]
Mother, did it need to be so high?

Nothing is very much fun any more. And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as razor blade, tight as a tourniquet, dry as a funeral drum.

Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Do you think I'm serious? Well, do ya, punk?

[URL="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hostess-gores-20160705-snap-story.html"]Beverly Hills billionaire to take over Twinkies maker Hostess Brands[/URL]
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In 2012, the ARA Libertad, one of the fastest tall ships in the world, was impounded in Ghana at the request of a hedge fund claiming money from Argentina:
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Libertad_%28Q-2%29#Ghana_incident[/URL]

It was later released and is currently visiting Amsterdam as a training ship of the Argentinian navy. I had an enjoyable visit.

Nice. Thanks for sharing it.
Now that ship has to go to Arkhangelsk, to repair the historical mistake... :razz:

fun mfaktc numbers
 

Once I noticed these, I was really hoping for a 222.22. But one hasn't turned up, yet.

Ah! Now one has!

[url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1238881/Web%20Pics/Gifs/car%20launch.gif[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;438309][url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1238881/Web%20Pics/Gifs/car%20launch.gif[/url][/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3600932/How-NOT-tackle-roundabout-Reckless-driver-flies-air-hits-curb-falling-asleep-wheel.html[/url]

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Fun Numbers in CUDALucas
 

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[URL="http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/233073/look-fashionable-2000-year-old-roman-shoe-recovered-in-a-well"]LOOK: ‘Fashionable’ 2,000-year-old Roman shoe recovered in a well[/URL]

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[url]http://i.imgur.com/Fo5hljo.gif[/url]

Today I caught a train whose engine was numbered M4.

Trump and NAMBLA - SEARCH IT!
 

A collection of links regarding the [U][B]possibility [/B][/U]that Trump is hiding his tax returns because they would show large donations to the North American Man/Boy Love Association. I don't really know. Just asking. It seems unlikely, since it would not be tax deductible, but one never knows. Many very smart people are saying it, I've heard. I even reddit on the Intertubes. I'm sure, if there are such donations, that they are really to the North American Marlon Brando Lookalike Association. Trump probably did not donate to NAMBLA, but many of the best people are saying it.

[url]http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/many-people-are-saying-donald-trump-donated-to-nambla.html[/url]

[url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/08/nambla-becomes-donald-trump-s-birther-moment.html[/url]

[url]http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/9/12411904/trump-nambla-donation-fake-scandal-reddit-bot[/url]

[url]http://www.snopes.com/trump-did-not-donate-to-nambla/[/url]

Vandals censor image of Putin snogging Trump in Lithuania
 

[URL="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/12/vandals-censor-image-of-putin-snogging-trump-lithuania"]Much-published mural[/URL] of Russian president and US presidential candidate destroyed with white paint in Vilnius
An image of [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin"]Vladimir Putin[/URL] and Donald Trump engaged in a passionate embrace was apparently too much for some in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.


[QUOTE]The internationally famous mural of the Russian president and the US presidential candidate, dubbed on the wall of the BBQ restaurant Keulė Rūkė, was covered over with white paint last night.

The work of local artist Mindaugas Bonanu went viral on social media after it was unveiled in May, and has since become a popular backdrop for selfies.

Restaurant owner Dominykas Čečkauskas said that the censorship was more than “simple vandalism” but “a terrorising attack on freedom of speech in Lithuania”.

“The purpose of the attack was to remind us, the people of the free world, that there are still active advocates of authoritarianism in our society,” he said on [URL="https://www.facebook.com/keule.ruke/?ref=page_internal"]Keulė Rūkė[/URL]’s Facebook page.
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[url]https://media.giphy.com/media/d31w9XkZbn5kIL7i/giphy.gif[/url]

[url]http://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/[/url]

[url]https://m.imgur.com/lyVtFMK?r[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;440218][URL]https://m.imgur.com/lyVtFMK?r[/URL][/QUOTE]
That is really amazing! Such curious creatures, and a really cool cyclist, too!

[url]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/hbm3-details-price-bandwidth/[/url]

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[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/29/more-than-300-reindeer-killed-lightning-norway/89528480/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;440968][url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/29/more-than-300-reindeer-killed-lightning-norway/89528480/[/url][/QUOTE]
That is going to be a lot of work harvesting hides and meat before it goes bad.

Here is an explanation of lightning killing large quadrupeds.
[url]http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-very-simple-explanation-for-how-lightning-killed-323-reindeer-at-once[/url]
[QUOTE]You may have already heard the news that will surely terrify Rudolph-loving children for the next few months: 323 reindeer were killed by lightning in Norway this weekend. On Sunday, the country’s Environment Agency [URL="http://www.miljodirektoratet.no/no/Nyheter/Nyheter/2016/August-2016/322-villrein-drept-av-lynet/"]released some pretty gnarly images[/URL] and reported that the herd, which included 70 calves, was killed during some intense thunderstorms Friday.

Though the number of animals killed is unusual—I poked around and couldn’t find solid evidence of this many animals being killed by lightning before—animals being killed by lightning isn’t. Just a few months ago, [URL="http://www.citylab.com/weather/2016/05/a-single-lightning-bolt-killed-21-cows-in-south-dakota/484778/"]21 cows in South Dakota died[/URL] when a lightning bolt hit the metal bale feeder where they were having a mid-rainstorm snack. It happens pretty frequently to cows, sheep, deer, and yes, reindeer.
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[URL]http://www.cycleworld.com/harley-davidson-motorcycles-new-milwaukee-eight-big-twin-engine[/URL]

[url]http://www.cycleworld.com/2017-harley-davidson-milwaukee-eight-powered-fl-models-riding-impression[/url]

:mike:

A real biker
 

[URL="http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-general-news/motorcyclist-‘threw-bike-floor’-slide-under-collapsed-m20-bridge"]Motorcyclist ‘threw bike on the floor’ to slide under collapsed M20 bridge[/URL]
[quote]...you almost get crushed by a falling bridge, throw yourself off, suffer five broken ribs but think 'bugger, I liked that bike'.[/quote]

Been there, done that, though not quite as dramatically and not for over 20 years.

After failing to keep the shiny side up, bikers invariably think in the order: is the pillion rider OK? Is the bike OK? Am I OK?

Before the computer, there was something almost as complex: the Chinese typewriter
 

(from the sidebar to the taco truck story.)
[url]http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-chinese-typewriter-snap-story.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Chinese typewriters look something like a cross between a deli-meat slicer and a small printing press. There are no keys, just thousands of little metal characters arranged in a grid system. Because Chinese has no alphabet and no alphabetical order, the operator must essentially memorize the location of each character — about 2,500 on a typical machine.
They’re heavy — roughly 30 to 40 pounds.
[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=kladner;441472](from the sidebar to the taco truck story.)
[URL]http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-chinese-typewriter-snap-story.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
Wow! Never heard of one! And I worked there for years. Nice sharing!

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[url]http://www.tvu.com/PSCylTEngweb.html[/url]
[url]http://papers.sae.org/840379/[/url]

an a newer one
[url]http://ltces.dem.ist.utl.pt/lxlaser/lxlaser2006/downloads/papers/24_3.pdf[/url]

Thanks, Mike and Uncwilly, for sharing this tech. :smile:

[url]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/samsung-ssd-960-pro-evo-price-specs-release-date/[/url]

:mike:

[url]http://i.imgur.com/ZA3lPvQ.gif[/url]

Idiot with death wish smokes habenero in his bong
 

[url]https://www.facebook.com/GreenRushDaily/videos/567319420135767/[/url] :numbskull:
The title says it all. Apologies for the FB link.