whatcha doing?

[Bigshankhank]

In a meeting, trying to avoid GoT spoilers.

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In a meeting, trying to avoid GoT spoilers.

My wife and I just started season 1 recently. Everything is a spoiler for us. I think we're on episode 5 now. So far I'm pretty meh about it.

I did just finish season 1 of True Detective, man that was excellent.

[Jaeger]

In a meeting, trying to avoid GoT spoilers.

My wife and I just started season 1 recently. Everything is a spoiler for us. I think we're on episode 5 now. So far I'm pretty meh about it.

I did just finish season 1 of True Detective, man that was excellent.

The first season of True Detective is really awesome (and fuckin' DARK). Still, damn good. Also... HOLY FUCK Alexandra Daddario is hawt.

As for GoT, it's good fantasy. Amusingly, if you're a history buff, there are some serious parallels between that plot and the War of the Roses.

--Jaeger

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The first season of True Detective is really awesome (and fuckin' DARK). Still, damn good. Also... HOLY FUCK Alexandra Daddario is hawt.

--Jaeger

The darkness is what makes it amazing. There is a great video on YouTube of all of Rust's philosophical rants. That's what got my hooked on the show.

[xtian]

trying to decide if I'm too old/fat/bald to be a hipster and wondering why there aren't more cool flat tracker neo retro triumph
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trying to decide if I'm too old/fat/bald to be a hipster and wondering why there aren't more cool flat tracker neo retro triumph
https://www.baakmotocyclettes.com/fr/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Meh, ride what you like.

Some of those builds are saucy! Except the one with white walls, that's just awful.

[Bo_9]

Trying to figure out both what else I could do in this town for similar monies with less stress and drama, and if I can stand to keep "fighting the good fight" for the same company of the last 20 years for nothing but more responsibility and more 2am calls to fix crap that younger men should get. It's just maddening that they assume you will just keep on keeping on in an area with no ladder left to climb and no path to anything better than the current status quo.
I think I've hit peak apathy.

[DerGolgo]

So I went for my daily ~30 minute march and, quite drenched (I had wrapped up warm ... in 77°F weather ...), I hopped into the grocery store for some odds and ends. You know. Going grocery shopping on an empty stomach. The thing you must NEVER do.
And so a few junk-food-ish items end up in my shopping cart, I've decided to sin today.
And what happens while I'm packing it into my shopping bag? I see the fruit section, and some delicious apples. And suddenly, I start johnesing for apples.
Seriously what the fuck ...

[problemaddict]

I'm uploading a terrible video for my YT channel. Its terrible, sound/editing/lighting/framing/graphics/etc, but I'm learning... A few views every day, and a new subscriber or two every week. I'll take it.

[media]https://youtu.be/90xrU0zrZaU[/media]

[Bigshankhank]

Hunkering down in the path of Irma, that's what I'm doing.

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Hunkering down in the path of Irma, that's what I'm doing.

Stay safe and keep us updated. You're welcome to crash on the green couch again if you can make it outta town.

[Bigshankhank]

Hunkering down in the path of Irma, that's what I'm doing.

Stay safe and keep us updated. You're welcome to crash on the green couch again if you can make it outta town.

Kinda super drunk RN, plus I have a generator larger than the pistons in a Ducati Panigale so I should be easily capable of electrocuting myself if all hope is lost.

[Jaeger]

Hunkering down in the path of Irma, that's what I'm doing.

Oops. I just started a "So, BSH..." thread in 'News.' More fool me for not looking. It's you, so I trust you have a bunker of some variety. I hope so, anyway. We have friends on St. Maarten who report back the island is just fucked.

M's folks and 99yo grandmother managed to fly up here Thursday night, but her cousins, etc. are still staying in her parents' place -- which is an improvement over the cousins' beachfront 20th-floor apartments.

Kinda super drunk RN, plus I have a generator larger than the pistons in a Ducati Panigale so I should be easily capable of electrocuting myself if all hope is lost.

Sounds like you're preparing well, so bravo. Be sure to stock up on the hooch. You're going to need it.

Also, while it's always good to have a solid exit strategy, I don't think "riding" your generator would be as much fun as riding the Duc.

Stay safe out there, Brothah. Sounds like this one's gonna be a bitch.

--Jaeger

[Skkot]

Frying scrapple from this past February 4H butchering. Hard to handle once frozen, too crumbly; no flour, slices placed directly from knife on hot bacon grease in pan. Hope all is tight in FL

[Bigshankhank]

Chilling in Seattles airport, waiting to catch a flight to Hong Kong.

[Jaeger]

Chilling in Seattles airport, waiting to catch a flight to Hong Kong.

WTF? Is the flooding that bad in Florida?

--Jaeger

[Bigshankhank]

Chilling in Seattles airport, waiting to catch a flight to Hong Kong.

WTF? Is the flooding that bad in Florida?

--Jaeger

Actually had this trip for several months, so while everyone at work is pissed at me for flying around the world while they are cleaning up, well that's just tough nuggies for them.

[DerGolgo]

Playing KSP, random youtube stuff in the background.
Two firearms retailers complaining about restrictions in gun ownership. "They gonna take your guns! It's the road to socialism!"
About one minute later, though, they are on the subject of machine guns. And that only rich people can afford to own machine guns. My ears perk up. Hm, that sounds like red talk, kinda ...
I decide they just don't notice, moving on ... one of them calls it. Actually describes machine gun ownership in the US as a "class struggle".
No, seriously. "class struggle". He used those words to describe the state of affairs where only rich people can own machine guns. Only about a minute after complaining about badevil socialism, and a minute before he complains about badevil socialism yet again.
The video is from 2012, so when they talk about the "current administration" with the contempt they got, it's the Obama administration, obviously.

Check it out. These guys are kinda funny.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kt0U2cO9e0&list[/media]

[Bo_9]

@19:26- "It's the higher up people that have the money now that have the fun toys"...
No shit...

[DerGolgo]

I solder, therefore I am!

I wanted a cheap and simple digital clock to attach to my monitor. I had gotten used to having a big "widget" clock on the screen, but I also got tired of sacrificing that screen real-estate. I bought a really simple and cheap clock on amazon. Problem: cheap and simple LCD displays are useless unless some light is directed right at them.

So, further research. I don't want an alarm clock, I don't want a radio-alarm-clock, I just want a small 7-segmend LED clock that I can read in the dark.
Finally, I found one. Only available in kit form, though.

Well, I think, I've got a really nice soldering iron and all the stuff from when I was working on another project. So I buy it. It arrives the day before yesterday, and I get to work.
Half the plastic parts end up with scorch-marks. When I turn it on, half of the LED segments are dead. I try to re-solder the connectors, but no joy.
So that was my tuition fee I think and order another one. Wasn't expensive. It arrives today and this time I know what to watch out for and how to work it. Only plastic getting scorched is the little plastic clamp I used to hold a component in place while I'm soldering from the other side.
I'm done, I take a break, then I plug it in. Utter darkness, nothing. So I think probably the power supply and get to work on improving the soldering job on all bits of the power supply. Along the way, I notice nimrod, you have to plug the fucking microchips in for it to work!
And voila, it comes to life! A few segments on the right most digit are missing, but soldering some more solder on the connections, and boom, done!
The damn thing keeps switching to temperature, date, and what I think may be the light-level for some reason. Took me half an hour to figure out how to un-set the alarm. But now I'm happy, I've got a nice big clock right where I want it, and for about 45 seconds out of every minutes, I can see the time, haha!

[DerGolgo]

So it's like 10:40 PM, and for the past few hours, I've been feeling more under the weather than before.
I'm dizzy, I'm feeling queasy, headache in forehead in addition to the center of the noggin, generally unreasonably unwell, even for my current situation.
I'm considering going to bed a wee bit earlier than usual, and adjust my glasses. My smaller frame glasses. The ones that are for very close stuff, like books. Or like a circuit board I'm soldering stuff onto. Which I don't usually wear, and which are really, really unsuitable for wearing for anything other than stuff that's right in front of me.
And which I've been wearing since late this afternoon when I did my soldering. So at least I know it wasn't a weird reaction to medication or something ...

[Jaeger]

I'm dizzy, I'm feeling queasy, headache in forehead in addition to the center of the noggin, generally unreasonably unwell, even for my current situation.

Result of beating your head against a desk?

...for very close stuff, like books. Or like a circuit board I'm soldering stuff onto. ... wearing since late this afternoon when I did my soldering. So at least I know it wasn't a weird reaction to medication or something ...

Fumes from the soldering? Alternatively, combination of frustration (see above), fumes, and wearing Coke-bottle glasses?

--Jaeger

[DerGolgo]

Fumes from the soldering? Alternatively, combination of frustration (see above), fumes, and wearing Coke-bottle glasses?

--Jaeger

Reaction to fumes should have set in pretty much instantly. Lungs are the quickest way to the brain, pharmacologically.
Wouldn't call it "coke bottle", but I'm pretty sure it was having to focus on stuff through lenses set up for distances of maybe eight inches or under, while looking at stuff a foot or more away.

[guitargeek]

Enjoying Facebook jail for a few days, watching the new Ken Burns doc.

[DerGolgo]

Do they at least tell you what evil you have committed?

[guitargeek]

Do they at least tell you what evil you have committed?

Ken Burns?
Yes, hubris.

Facebook?
Yes, I used BAD WORDS when talking about why I'd been blocked a few days ago for using BAD WORDS.

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[Jaeger]

Do they at least tell you what evil you have committed?

Ken Burns?
Yes, hubris.

Touché.

Facebook?
Yes, I used BAD WORDS when talking about why I'd been blocked a few days ago for using BAD WORDS.

Uh... WTF did you say? You're not allowed to say "fuck" any more? Whose Wheaties did you whiz in now?

--Jaeger

[guitargeek]

Watch the video...

32:50

[Jaeger]

Watch the video...

32:50

OFFS.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what's wrong with political correctness -- not to mention the recent crackdown on 1st Amendment rights. *sigh*

--Jaeger

[Bigshankhank]

Wife and I are buying a house, so by default we have a bunch of money in the bank. Then today my local MC shop calls me to let me know they have a fresh batch of unsold BMW G310R's on the floor. Why do bad things happen to good people with little willpower?