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[Tom R]

That's quite a range for FG!
Never seen FG exceed OG before...

 

[Dland]

speaking of "hold muh beer"

Do the kids these days still do this?

I mean... I never did this *wink wink*, was just wondering if it was still done

the first winter I lived in Atlanta, we had a big snowstorm that shut the city down

& by "big snowstorm" it was about 5 inches over 3 days, but would melt a little during the day, refreeze overnight.

I remember seeing 2 MARTA buses at the bottom of a huge hill on Buford Hwy.

of course, WE knew how to drive in that ****. only cars on the road were mine (learned to drive in NJ & NoVA) & my roommates' (from Hollywood, MD)

with a bunch of rednecks hanging off the back & sides.


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That was a pretty common winter pastime in the suburb of Detroit I lived in in the '70s. We called it "skitching". Did that a couple of times, but even as an adolescent I realized it was pretty stupid thing to do, what with all the pot holes in the roads around my neighborhood.

 

[skunkape]

 

[corkybstewart]

These 3 javelinas spent 2 hours with me yesterday. I'm trying to clean up my workshop and they hung around watching me. Even after I went inside they hung out at the water trough or on the patio. They were very curious about what I was doing, especially the adolescent one.

 

[Tom R]

I just read on Wikipedia that the collective noun for these animals is a "squadron".
See, I learned something this year, and just in time!

And I'll bet that they'd be really tasty after a stint in a smoker.

 

[corkybstewart]

I just read on Wikipedia that the collective noun for these animals is a "squadron".
See, I learned something this year, and just in time!

And I'll bet that they'd be really tasty after a stint in a smoker.

This appears to be a family squadron, papa, pregnant mama, and teenage piggies. It was the teenage one that followed me around, finally making me nervous that I would come out of my shop and startle him. Several times I caught him looking through the garage door. I'd yell and he'd run off but he'd come right back.

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[skunkape]

This appears to be a family squadron, papa, pregnant mama, and teenage piggies. It was the teenage one that followed me around, finally making me nervous that I would come out of my shop and startle him. Several times I caught him looking through the garage door. I'd yell and he'd run off but he'd come right back.

Are they dangerous?

 

[Jonakr]

Are they dangerous?

Yes. They’ll attack with long, sharp teeth.
They also smell bad and don’t taste very good. I had jalapeño summer sausage mixed 50/50 with pork and that was tolerable.

 

[corkybstewart]

Are they dangerous?

If there are babies in the squadron, they will be very protective. If you're out with a dog they apparently associate dogs with coyotes and will chase the dog. But normally they are extremely shy, they flee as soon as I open the door, and they don't come back for a while. That's what was so bizarre about their behavior Saturday.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

If there are babies in the squadron, they will be very protective. If you're out with a dog they apparently associate dogs with coyotes and will chase the dog. But normally they are extremely shy, they flee as soon as I open the door, and they don't come back for a while. That's what was so bizarre about their behavior Saturday.

What normally happens with your spent grain? Maybe they've just figured out where their randomly-appearing sweet snack comes from?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[balrog]

What normally happens with your spent grain? Maybe they've just figured out where their randomly-appearing sweet snack comes from?

I never see any activity around my spent grain pile.
But I'm a few furlongs from the southwest, being in New England.

 

[corkybstewart]

What normally happens with your spent grain? Maybe they've just figured out where their randomly-appearing sweet snack comes from?

It goes into a composte bin they can't get into. It's made of pallets screwed together on edge (4' by 4', 4' high) with a pallet on top. Nothing but mice and rats ever get into the compost bin.

 

[corkybstewart]

What normally happens with your spent grain? Maybe they've just figured out where their randomly-appearing sweet snack comes from?

 

[corkybstewart]

They are very, very common critters to see out here. In town they get used to people, but out here in the boonies none of our critters are accustomed to being around people, there are only 10 people within a mile.

 

[skunkape]

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These 3 javelinas spent 2 hours with me yesterday. I'm trying to clean up my workshop and they hung around watching me. Even after I went inside they hung out at the water trough or on the patio. They were very curious about what I was doing, especially the adolescent one.

Are they the same thing as peccary?

 

[skunkape]

Are they the same thing as peccary?

Nevermind. I researched it and apparently they are the same thing. Also known as the "skunk pig". Possibly my spirit animal.

 

[nobadays]

Spent grain.... I call a friend who has chickens.... she calls it "chicken crack!" When she brings a bucket of spent grain into the chicken coop apparently they run over each other to get the first taste.

The Javelina are nasty and abundant here in Central AZ

 

[Dimax]

Spent grain.... I call a friend who has chickens.... she calls it "chicken crack!" When she brings a bucket of spent grain into the chicken coop apparently they run over each other to get the first taste.

The Javelina are nasty and abundant here in Central AZ

"Goat crack also"

 

[day_trippr]

The new computer I've been building now sports an IPS screen atop the processor water pump. It's programmed to display the CPU and GPU package temperatures while picking up the "mural" motif in the outer RGB ring, like this:

but it can also display gifs! Like my youngest grandkiddies celebrating the New Year!
That'll definitely score some points with my youngest DIL

Ain't technology amazing! What a time to be alive!

Cheers!

 

[Skeeter686]

The new computer I've been building now sports an IPS screen atop the processor water pump.

Your CPU cooler looks like it has more computing power than my first PC

 

[balrog]

first used or first owned?
Trash80, C64 here.

and, yeah, the computing power of a toaster nowadays mocks the uber-cool card-reading TI-59 I used to use.

 

[Skeeter686]

First used for me was probably an Apple II. First owned would've been a C128. I kinda miss the magic of a BBS rendering more slowly than I could type.

 

[balrog]

Define "high speed".

Ah, the memories....

 

[GrogNerd]

1st PC used: Atari 800
1st PC owned: off-brand 386

one after that was the first Pentium, with the FDIV bug

 

[pvtpublic]

Heh

 

[balrog]

settle down Francis

 

[Skeeter686]

 

[GrogNerd]

Corn?

When did I have corn?

 

[pvpeacock]

Great movie. Bobby Carradine (right side of the photo aka "Lewis") was my junior camp counselor at Catalina Island Camp when I was 9!

 

[balrog]

Sad.

True, but sad.

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

Ah, the memories. I actually think we learned to use slide rules in 10th grade chemistry. Maybe.

 

[GrogNerd]

I'm of the first handheld calculator generation. We never learned slide rules.

Early 70s Me: why do I need to do this arithmetic by hand? I can just use a calculator.

Teacher: well, you won't always have a calculator to use.

Today me:

 

[balrog]

Yeah, but back then:

 

[doug293cz]

Ah, the memories. I actually think we learned to use slide rules in 10th grade chemistry. Maybe.

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Those scales look linear. Someone who doesn't really know anything about slide rules designed a T-shirt.

Brew on

 

[balrog]

Those scales look linear. Someone who doesn't really know anything about slide rules designed a T-shirt.

Brew on

Well, nuts. It was a good idea, slide rules, adding logarithms equaling multiplication, but another fine idea dumbed down for the t shirt mega industrial complex. I was gonna pic my grandfather's but I fear <choke> that the second of the two "once in a lifetime" basement floods finally took it. There is nothing like the horror of realizing you can no longer find that "thing" you held onto for so long. <sigh>
It looked like this

 

[day_trippr]

I came across the slide rule my dad used at Columbia in the early '40s, and that I used at the University of Denver in the early '70s....and that my oldest son took to school for "show and tell" in the 80s to show how old his dad was

The beams and slider are in good condition, but oxidation has ravaged the plastic parts of the cursor to where it's literally crumbling. It's accompanied by a circular slide rule that my dad's engineering company would hand out at customer meetings...

Cheers!