Random Drunken Thoughts Thread

[mac_1103]

Hmm, and here I am pulling the tap just so I can drink beer...

 

[Snuffy]

Hmm, and here am pulling the tap just so I can drink beer...

me too. in a really small glass so I get lots of pulls. one finger. wheeeeeee!

 

[seatazzz]

I had a hilarious (to me) response to the above tap-pulling posts, but will demur because it was slightly naughty. Also after I typed it, didn't make sense. Carry on.

 

[Snuffy]

I had a hilarious (to me) response to the above tap-pulling posts, but will demur because it was slightly naughty. Also after I typed it, didn't make sense. Carry on.

Yep. I set myself up for that one.

 

[Mr. Vern]

I am missing the ease to update old .wav notification sounds on the computer. Admittedly I spent far too much time customizing my desktop with funny noises.

To this day every time I click on the spam folder I want my computer to shout in Grahm Chapmans voice, "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!"

for those who like silly walks, here is the clip...

 

[Broken Crow]

I am missing the ease to update old .wav notification sounds on the computer. Admittedly I spent far too much time customizing my desktop with funny noises.

To this day every time I click on the spam folder I want my computer to shout in Grahm Chapmans voice, "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!"

for those who like silly walks, here is the clip...

Back when I still used Win 9x machines, I'd replaced the system-barfing 'Bonk' with a Kubrick sample: "I can't do that Dave."

 

[day_trippr]

I'm laughing because this didn't happen to me - regardless, no way am I putting Merc Money in a drive! - but that's not the point. I suppose this could happen to any marque these days...

https://www.torquenews.com/17998/my...ystem-failed-and-now-100k-car-wont-even-start

 

[Snuffy]

I'm laughing because this didn't happen to me - regardless, no way am I putting Merc Money in a drive! - but that's not the point. I suppose this could happen to any marque these days...

https://www.torquenews.com/17998/my...ystem-failed-and-now-100k-car-wont-even-start

And then you’d have the additional expense of Military School tuition.

 

[balrog]

I'm laughing because this didn't happen to me - regardless, no way am I putting Merc Money in a drive! - but that's not the point. I suppose this could happen to any marque these days...

https://www.torquenews.com/17998/my...ystem-failed-and-now-100k-car-wont-even-start

Holy mother pussbucket!

So back during the 70's gas crisis, we started putting locking gas caps on. Now we're going to have to put locking USB port covers?

 

[seatazzz]

Seatazzz' Helpful Hint of the Day:

Cats, wireless keyboards, and open bottles of acetone do NOT play well together. Last night was getting some crud off my nails while perusing HBT; youngest cat made a jump, OPEN bottle of acetone tipped over, and spilled all over said keyboard. Why was the bottle open, you ask? I don't know. I really don't. Cat scooted to the other end of the house due to horrified yelling on my part, managed to save my cute rgb mousepad, but the keyboard (at least the 10-key part) was ruined. Fortunately not all the acetone ran out, because I then needed it to get the melted black plastic off my hands when I tried wiping things up. Mouse was fine, and I do have an old spare wired keyboard for emergencies; but it's old, small, some of the keys are sticky, and I don't like it. Quick visit to the store on the way home and I now have a nicer wireless one, that I should have bought in the first place; quieter and the mouse is better. Also I now have another spare mouse to add to my collection (about six at this point). This does belong in the Don't Do That thread but that's for brewing related stuff.

 

[Dland]

The above post makes me glad I keep my shop and office activities separate. But perhaps post was about manicure stuff, not my area of expertise, except I know it is good to have clean and trimmed finger nails whilst playing instruments, and is a better look in general.

The cat we have now, my gal's familiar, wants nothing do with my shop. I used to have a cat that would hang out with me while I was mechanicing, a nice old tabby that adopted me, named him Slobbo, after the guy who as running the war in Serbia at the time, laying siege to Serievo, since the cat laid siege on the catfood I was providing for some other cats I was feeding. Those cats actually belonged to a friend who was traveling, and were named after NPR reporters. But surly, I digress...

A random drunked thought,... anyway, I hope everyone enjoys thier weekend, or at least hopefully some good beer and something good to eat.

 

[Broken Crow]

I've been drinking a bit so I'm posting this here because I'm annoyed that no-one has bothered looking into this:
I'm not Mulder, I'm Scully: Are you familiar with "The Falcon Lake Incindent"? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/falcon-lake-incident-book-anniversary-1.4121639
Though fascinated by 'the unknown', I only look into it because I want more science than we have and I don't believe anything that can't be scientifically quantified. I think UFO stuff is a bunch of hysteria. Statistical and Probablistic math were life-long recreational activities for me before my injury.
Years ago, while looking into nuclear accidents, I found a timeframe in which experiments with unconventional MOX fuel was being studied at the Whiteshell nuclear facility in Manitoba....My timeframe research in that area happened to bring up the "Falcon Lake Incendent" Here's the fuel rod bundle they used:

https://nuclearheritage.com/artifact/slowpoke-10-fuel-bundle-replica/
...and here's the nearby 'victim' of a 'UFO' just outside the range of the radiation monitors;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Lake_Incident
Sometimes things are just obvious and need more investigation to confirm, but I was injured so I passed my findings on to a CBC reporter and it was never followed up.
I want resolution.
@dmtaylor ..I saw in another thread that your work at a nuclear plant...can you share this with some of the staff and get thier accredited scientific opinion?

 

[dmtaylor]

@Broken Crow Uranium oxide fuel assemblies do in fact look like that, in a grid format, but the odds of a hot one being out in the open or exposed on a UFO are of course astronomical. Could be possible I suppose that a UFO wanted to dump its nuclear waste in the middle of nowhere but… yeah somehow I think not. But we do have a few hundred assemblies like this sitting in a parking lot at every nuclear power plant in the nation and probably the world, awaiting burial where they will decay slowly for millennia. They are housed in thick concrete structures. Facts.

 

[day_trippr]

That assembly is just a baby. Send it back and let it grow to full size

 

[Broken Crow]

Sorry...been drinking too much so I probably wasn't as clear as I should have been on this part:

while looking into nuclear accidents

..at that exact time they'd had a few unstable bundles from an experiment that involved isotopes other than the usual uranium/plutonium and the 'ufo incedent' happened just outside the ring of radiation monitors in an isolated location that could conveniently be used to allow a horizontal venting casket to cool off in secret. In the years that followed, there was a statistical uptick in thyroid cancer along the jetstream path.
...just sayin. Please ask about this at work and let me know if I'm just nuts.

EDIT: PS: I forgot to hightlight under his index finger; the burn is larger and conforms to the control rod channel.
I believe he was exposed to a venting casket from an experiment that didn't work out and was covered up. At the time I was reseaching health statistics in proximity to nuclear accidents....this just came up in my search and I recognized the fuel bundle pattern immediately.....coupled with the experiments they were doing at the time and the uptick in thyroid cancer, while still trying to be careful and not jump, conclusions offered themselves on the footpath but I'd like some certainty because I still don't accept anything without an abundance of data. I had more, but much it seems to have vanished from the internet since I made some inquiries.

 

[balrog]

Jack Handy Deep Thought.
Vodka tonic ain't the same when you run out of tonic.

Or lime..


Discuss.

 

[jschein]

Jack Handy Deep Thought.
Vodka tonic ain't the same when you run out of tonic.

Or lime..


Discuss.

Put the vodka in the freezer, wait as long as you can and drink. Not a problem at all

 

[lumpher]

These posts about experimental nuclear ufo assemblies being dumped in Central Park are frying my unstable brain. Might need some vodka to clear the cerebral pathways for more coherent thought...

 

[Broken Crow]

Ok... first thing I wasn't clear on: I'm drunk and this is rambling thoughts pertaining to an unresolved irrational question that bugs me.. Second thing: because I'm drunk, my usual sloppy wording is even worse and I haven't been clear that I don't believe in ufo's.. I think there was a nuclear accident that had a victim who believes it was a ufo encounter. Plently of ufo believers will point to this incident as 'proof' because the guy was actually burned and did register on a geiger-counter. I can't ignore the coincidence of that style of fuel bundle from a nearby plant being a perfect match for the so-called 'evidence'.
I'm not a tinfoil hatter and have no patience for conpiracy nonsense.

 

[Agent]

But we do have a few hundred assemblies like this sitting in a parking lot at every nuclear power plant in the nation and probably the world, awaiting burial where they will decay slowly for millennia. They are housed in thick concrete structures. Facts.

And my brain still can't grasp how this is clearly better than recycling the used fuel rods.

 

[doug293cz]

And my brain still can't grasp how this is clearly better than recycling the used fuel rods.

Recycling of spent fuel rods can produce weapons grade plutonium, which represents a tremendous risk to the world, if any of it goes missing. Also, there is a large amount of radioactive waste left over after reprocessing. The reprocessing does nothing to reduce the amount of radioactivity, or shorten its lifetime. So, it does not solve the problem of what to do about long term storage of radioactive waste.

Brew on

 

[Broken Crow]

And my brain still can't grasp how this is clearly better than recycling the used fuel rods.

Though on a brief search I can't find a definitive answer about the specific fuel used at Point Beach, it's likely to be MOX which is already recycled having used reclaimable isotopes from previous fuel-cycles. Statistically speaking; There's a high likelihood you know at least a few people who are alive today because of isotopes harvested from spent fuel. A sad and sobering fact about useful isotopes from nuclear waste is that we have an abundance of waste and only a fraction of it is re-usable. I'm normally an environmentalist but I also look to the whole of human history and try to see the big picture: At this point in our evolution energy is critical to our existential existance and though nuclear waste is a truly massive problem; I have seen in my lifetime, numerous monumental scientific problems solved. For my entire life "Fusion Power" has been just around the corner and finally it really could be solved tomorrow or at least within a few generations. Fusion reactors bring with them the promise of being able to literally burn the longest lived waste. Also on the drawing board are hybrid fission/fusion plants that break down the riskiest of waste onsite leaving shorter lived isoptopes....even further down the drawing board is solving the heat problem associated with extreme high-temp plasma assemblies that can target specific isotopes and break them down into albeit highy dangerous, but more compact masses...In parallel: The drive to lift things to space has the theoratical 'space elevator' which is likely to tried out if the money to do so can ever be found, and with it a safe way to eject our over-abundance of neutrons into space.

 

[mac_1103]

Yeah, most people haven't got a clue about just how amazing the scientific and technological advancements of the last few decades really are or what is likely to happen in the next few. OTOH, the singularity has been 25 years away for the past 50 years, so there's that.

OK, so that wasn't random or drunken, but it is a thought. Or two.

 

[Broken Crow]

Full disclosure: I went a few weeks with now beer, but my kegerator is now refilled....Second day drinking too much.
More disclosure: One of the most aggrivating parts of the brain injury is that I am no longer able to picture 3D models in my head and as a consequence, I can't draw them very well either.
@mac_1103 ..I've got a singularity stuck in my head now.... Ever since the 3-Mile Island partial meltdown, I've studied nuclear power plant design, operation and safety... In the early 90's as former Soviet documents were slowly coming out I finally got to read the true details about Chernobyl and hey: From an engineers perspective, using long steel headers on the control rods was a win, but any nuclear physicist worth thier salt would have seen the disasterous potential...dogmatic soviet bureaucracy at work! But since that time I've tried to devise a method to reduce critical mass. Reinvigourated by the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, I came up with a "Critcality Arrestor"...a large concave 'dish' to sit under the reactor which contains a modular assembly on rails (for disassembly if needed) consisting of cadmium not conical, but octagonal spikes and filled in with Borax for the Elephants Foot to land on when it melts through the bottom of primary containment. As the lava decends, these spikes would spread the mass out into an ever thinner layer thus reducing critical mass fissionability and the associated emissions making it possible after meltdown to separate the mass in smaller more managable chunks.
I included the above disclaimer because while I could see it in my head before the injury, it was a real struggle to draw it now and it shows:

 

[balrog]

ull disclosure: I went a few weeks with now beer, but my kegerator

Is "now beer" like true beer?

 

[Broken Crow]

Is "now beer" like true beer?

OMG! "with now"?!!? That was supposed to be "without". I'd like to blame it on the brain issues, but truly: I was drunk.

 

[balrog]

OMG! "with now"?!!? That was supposed to be "without". I'd like to blame it on the brain issues, but truly: I was drunk.
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Ha!
I don't need no stinking drinking to cause my typos, reposts, bad humor memes!

 

[Broken Crow]

Ha!
I don't need no stinking drinking to cause my typos, reposts, bad humor memes!

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

A sobering thought...

 

[Agent]

Yall - I have never been this excited for the possibility of having a Spectrum bill.
They are burying cables as we speak.

 

[day_trippr]

Coincidently we're supposed to have our NH house lit on Friday after 41 years of surviving up there on dial-up and then low rent DSL (no cell service, we're deep inside the National Forest). 100mbit symmetric is going to be heavenly by comparison (we don't really need gig service up there)...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

we don't really need gig service up there

But...but...but...all the UnderDeckNestCam feeds! You have your adoring public to consider!

 

[day_trippr]

That's back in my primary residence in MA - where this year's phoebe couple have nested under the upper deck. If I remember I'll put the cam up for that tomorrow.

No phoebes or really any interesting nesting birds at our NH place. But we have lots of roaming wild turkeys, deer and black bears. One of da bearss ate my trail cam up there and I've been a bit reticent to replace it...

Cheers!

 

[Snuffy]

No phoebes or really any interesting nesting birds at our NH place. But we have lots of roaming wild turkeys, deer and black bears. One of da bearss ate my trail cam up there and I've been a bit reticent to replace it...

I bet those were interesting pics.

 

[balrog]

Fun fact: a McDonald's Big Mac has 580 calories.
A standard pour of whiskey has 97 calories.

So you can have 6 whiskeys for the same calories as a Big Mac.

Follow me for more dieting advice.

 

[day_trippr]

Probably healthier than a Big Mac, too

 

[balrog]

Apropos of nothing, but you can feed a whole lot of live squirrels into the pneumatic tube at the bank before the teller finds the off switch.

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[seatazzz]

Just thought I'd share our grocery list for the week.