Random Picture Thread

[balrog]

I was going to say something about the warped wood stakes lying near the floor but was too lazy to look up what Hawaiian wood looked most like hickory.

 

[GrogNerd]

Warp drive.

just down the road from us. near the mall

HQ for Orbital used to be on this road, now it's a division of Northrup Grumman

don't take that exit with it engaged, it's a sharp right turn into a traffic circle.

Grog's Useless Trivia™: pedestrian bridge is the Washington & Old Dominion Trail, a 45 mile long hiking/biking trail thru Loudoun & Fairfax Counties.

Grog's Bonus Useless Trivia™: this part of VA State Road 28 is known as Darrell Green Blvd & you can see the Commandos (spit!) HQ from here

 

[balrog]

AI Rick Rolled....

yeah, um, AI puts too many fingers in...

 

[Broken Crow]

yeah, um, AI puts too many fingers in...

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Maybe the AI networked with a 'sibling' from the same base-code to produce it?

 

[corkybstewart]

I had 4 mule deer bucks together outside my window this morning. They hung around for almost 20 minutes, keeping a close eye on me.

 

[balrog]

Who WOULDN"T?

 

[balrog]

 

[day_trippr]

 

[Rodent]

first tree down the river this Fall. first of many, many to come and on the small side for what will pass by during high water in March/April

 

[corkybstewart]

first tree down the river this Fall. first of many, many to come and on the small side for what will pass by during high water in March/April

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Trees and rivers are such an odd concept for me. Normally the Gila River "nearby" is a foot deep so trees don't float. But in the summer of 2022 strong monsoons brought 4 times our usual rain so some pretty big trees did get washed downstream.

 

[corkybstewart]

When we left our town in France the river was dangerously low, barely even enough water to operate the nuclear power plant just downstream. Now there's flooding in the streets with another 10 days of rain expected. Our house is on top of a ridge 200' above the river, but my wife is heading there after Thanksgiving. Hopefully the roads will be passable, they were not back in 2016 when even the railroads were shut down.
The bridge was built by Eiffel, long before he started building towers.

 

[GrogNerd]

google translate: floodable road

I'd say

 

[day_trippr]

Is that sign on an actual flooded road?
"inondable" looked like it could have been an obscure English word rather than French.

Cheers!

 

[GrogNerd]

Is that sign on an actual flooded road?
"inondable" looked like it could have been an obscure English word rather than French.

Cheers!

was my first thought

like some bureaucratic pencil pusher discovered a thesaurus & then flexed to get the Word of the Day onto a street sign

 

[balrog]

was my first thought

like some bureaucratic pencil pusher discovered a thesaurus & then flexed to get the Word of the Day onto a street sign

Just imagine if they let us lot at HBT do street signs.

The mind reels.

 

[ehall]

every single stop sign would have 'hammertime' below 'stop'

 

[balrog]

Or "in the name of love"

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Or for the youngins

"Drop, shut 'em down, open up shop"

Edit.. I still like hammertime the most

 

[GrogNerd]

collaborate & listen

word.

to ya mutha

 

[corkybstewart]

Is that sign on an actual flooded road?
"inondable" looked like it could have been an obscure English word rather than French.

Cheers!

This road floods once the river hits the top of the banks, but before water gets into legit downtown. So it is a low spot but it's probably 30 feet above the normal level of the river.
The word is from the same root as our word "inundation", inundare-"to overflow".
The Vienne River drains a huge area of central France, to the east and south-it's one of the rare rivers that actually flows north for much of it's length.

 

[ncbrewer]

Or "in the name of love"

Probably only the old folks will know what that's about.

 

[balrog]

and stay off my lawn!

 

[balrog]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[balrog]

 

[day_trippr]

...and takes his dog...and his mom.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

And heads to uncle dad's.. or wait. Nm.

 

[GrogNerd]

Uncle Daddy

 

[ehall]

'duncle'

 

[balrog]

I remember having to learn the slide rule in High School chemistry. “Calculators” did not exist.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Is that sign on an actual flooded road?
"inondable" looked like it could have been an obscure English word rather than French.

Cheers!

To be fair English is a mish-mash language with mostly West-Germanic roots, some influence from the original Celtic languages of the native Brits and a lot of Anglified French loan words...

 

[balrog]

Once again, and I cannot over-emphasize this fact, I have to say, with courage, foresight and total conviction, "we are not".

Nor do we give two hoots about any particular personality or popstar, or whether they, or anyone else, goes to a sports match.

 

[GrogNerd]

carrying on the theme, somewhere other than the dedicated MEME thread

you can add the heir apparent & his brood. plus Depp/TurdHeard

& pretty much every other celebrity couple, with the exception of Meghan Mullaly & Nick Offerman.

the BigHair: "aww... **insert annoying celebrity couple** broke up

me: "who are these people & why should I give a rodent's rectum about them or their relationship?"

 

[balrog]

Public Service Announcement time, boys and girls.

Ya know when you make a hoppy pale, and it's nice, and after the second pour something clogs the works, but it still flows? And you turn up the gas and it makes no difference? And you "burp" the liquid out side with CO2, and it doesn't fix it, but you hate Hate HATE opening the keg on a hoppy pale so you put up with 38 some odd pours that are 37seconds which is not too bad?

And then, THEN, you kick the keg and put it on the Mark II keg washer, and after that it flows GREAT, and think to yourself, "Well, now, WELL, **THAT** should take care of it!" But you ponder and stew and fret and ruminate and look up things on the internet like, was that Sarah Paulson with Jamie Lee Curtis on an episode of "Bear"?

And you finally OCD into a tiz and grab the socket and...

Oh yeah. Clean your poppets boys and girls.
Clean 'em.

 

[day_trippr]

 

[doug293cz]

Public Service Announcement time, boys and girls.

Ya know when you make a hoppy pale, and it's nice, and after the second pour something clogs the works, but it still flows? And you turn up the gas and it makes no difference? And you "burp" the liquid out side with CO2, and it doesn't fix it, but you hate Hate HATE opening the keg on a hoppy pale so you put up with 38 some odd pours that are 37seconds which is not too bad?

And then, THEN, you kick the keg and put it on the Mark II keg washer, and after that it flows GREAT, and think to yourself, "Well, now, WELL, **THAT** should take care of it!" But you ponder and stew and fret and ruminate and look up things on the internet like, was that Sarah Paulson with Jamie Lee Curtis on an episode of "Bear"?

And you finally OCD into a tiz and grab the socket and...
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Oh yeah. Clean your poppets boys and girls.
Clean 'em.

I always remove the posts and clean all the pieces every time I clean a keg. It's not that hard to do.

Brew on

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Wait...
They come apart?

Edit, green font didn't work.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

OT me and a few brewers from my hb club filled this jack Daniel's barrel with RIS that we each brewed the same recipe of. Oh and we put some jack in there too.

 

[day_trippr]

I always remove the posts and clean all the pieces every time I clean a keg. It's not that hard to do.

I respect folks that take that extra effort. It's probably for the best

That allowed, I stopped routinely breaking down kegs between batches many years ago. I do a hot water flush in my brew sink with the lid removed, stick 'em on my Mark II with the hottest tap water I can muster with two tablespoons of PBW for five minutes, then rinse with the same hot water for a couple of minutes, then add a few ounces of Star San, lube all the external O-rings, seal 'em up, and hit 'em with ~20 psi from my compressor to check the poppets for leaks. If they get that far they move to the "ready" area for their next batch.

I've never had an evident infection...

Cheers!

 

[Sailingeric]