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Homercles

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  1. Ok when you set it to 0.1” or greater, probabilities are in the 5-10% range. Default map is for 0.01”. Feel a little better
  2. How do you get this view? Their website (at least on mobile) is like a Rundberg HEB
  3. Long days, short years. I’d certainly be more enthusiastic at the prospect if we hadn’t just completed three weeks of no school during the incredibly hectic Thanksgiving thru New Years marathon. As much as I love my kids (they’re 7/10)…kinda need a few normal weeks here.
  4. I’ve kinda already resigned myself to schools being closed Tuesday…seems like an annual requirement to have my kids at home for several extra days while I try to work.
  5. Gotta admit those MiG 28’s looked better in Soviet colors in that 1986 documentary Top Gun
  6. Next up, hand to hand combat training
  7. Basically expected this
  8. I’ve been ritually burning the dead from last icepocalypse in my Solo Stove as a warning to the others to keep their shit wired tight.
  9. I would just like to reiterate, for the record as a member of the left behinds, that Slorch does not represent us
  10. Man I remember 12+ years ago when I first joined the Shag, I lurked for a good six months and waded into the waters very gently when I finally felt I had something clever to contribute. I knew I wanted to be a part of this community but had seen the sheer mercilessness inherent in a ‘room’ full of drunken longhorn lawyers. I’ll never understand ‘people’ who go through the trouble to sign up, and instantly either join a contentious thread or burst in with regarded hot takes given it usually ends up poorly
  11. Saw my first Cyber Truck yesterday, on brushy creek road of all places. Holy hell is it ugly, looked like what a constipated ED-209 finally crapped out after eating a T-1000.
  12. Just rented it, and can see why this was an excellent pairing with Barbie…watching it after Oppenheimer would be like a sweet, simple dessert after finishing your shag roll at Uchi. In the same vein, Oppenheimer paired well with my on/off fascination with nuclear weapons. I’ve long been enamored with the assembly, operation and controls surrounding them but cared little for the personalities behind one of the greatest wartime engineering undertakings ever. Stuff like Always/Never (Sandia labs video), Swords of Armageddon and Dark Sun fascinate me. Therefore I’m more fluent on exploding bridge wire vs slapper detonators than I am on Oppenheimer’s role in the Manhattan project…or know more about the Teller-Ulam design than what Edward Teller was like as a person. “Oppenheimer” helped fill a void for me. Regarding the movie itself, I really enjoyed it and it left me with one of those ‘existential dread’ feelings that a smart, dialog-driven drama should. It also captured, very well, that transitional period where things went from an urgent wartime science problem into one dominated by the massive government/military personalities over their use. The fact that I missed so many cameos is testament that the story and personalities were the real star. Bravo. Was definitely a Nolan film with non-linear flow, challenging plot points and lack of cgi. I happen to enjoy that kind of film, but I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I agree with others in that this mostly wasn’t a “gotta see it in IMAX” due to fewer “holy shit” visual/score combos than something like Interstellar. Anyways, guess the point of my long cat post here is I’m glad I finally saw it and it’ll fuel my curiosity surrounding the people involved in that whole rodeo…but Interstellar is safely still #1 in my Nolan hierarchy.
  13. Was checking out the thread on Airliners.net and some genius said he’d wished Elon would have bought Boeing instead of Twitter…”at least he has an engineering mindset”
  14. Be careful fucking with someone that much taller than you…and old man strength ain’t got no chill
  15. Looking closely at the pic, looks like you can see the ridges where the pen skipped…so doesn’t look like it’s just the case
  16. We need our defensive backfield to grow up in a fucking hurry. Kills me seeing Jabbar tearing it up with Washington.
  17. Warning: long cat Yeah I don’t know how I feel about that…Rangel didn’t look all that great, and we haven’t even seen Flores yet. Obviously everyone will key on Ollie, he’s likely to get injured at some point, and our defense just isn’t at ‘21 levels to roll with a fully one-dimensional offense. If someone can beat the ‘back-foot throws into coverage’ out of him, and he plays up to his Bedlam-level potential…he’d certainly be more than serviceable. Obviously he knows our system and got us to ten wins, also he overall strikes me as a good ‘kid’…and that still counts with me in NIL/Superleague Land. Gundy always goes with experience and we will be opening with an FCS Team that’s vying for the title this Sunday + Arky so a big step up in noncon and a lot more road games = someone getting ready to withdraw social security ‘under’ center suits me fine. Weirdly I’m sad to see lil Gundy enter the portal. That designed QB run to the corner of the end zone against Aggy was creative, and the kind of ways to solve red zone woes when there’s 8 in the box eyeing Ollie but no respectable threat of a quick slant, effective screen or rub to the flat. I could use a JW Walsh clone in my life. Gundy knows we aren’t Tier 1, and never will be. There’s still a ton of opportunity for a school like us to be an attractive option for players to commit or transfer to, develop in a stable system, practice their craft and win a lot of games. The 12-team playoff presents a lot of opportunity to still be on the national stage occasionally and I hope all the donors ponying up to keep our core OL/RB/WR are rewarded with a successful season next year. And I love gundy as our coach. I hate his track record with QBs, wish he’d get a new OC, that he apparently watches bullshit OAN, and can be a total bonehead…but he loves my school, treats his players right, cut Tyreek Hill immediately, and obviously has character, not a bowl of dried rabbit turds like a Ryan Day.
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