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  1. Reloading endeavor update:

    I’ve purchased most of the gear I think I’ll need to get started. I splurged on an Rcbs Chargemaster Lite electronic powder measure, which should get here tomorrow.

    This evening I wanted to do some case prep, so I used an ultrasonic cleaner for starters, seemed to work well:

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    And then into the wife’s dehydrator for drying:

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  2. Y’all got it all wrong, it’s how she makes you feel, whether she loves you for who you are and if the two of you grow closer as you ride together.


    You mean enjoying the seas together?

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  3. Been researching about "How to grow big tomatoes" and seems that I'm going to either go with staking them or I'm leaning toward using homemade very large and tall cages. Plus lots of pruning along the way.

     

    6 x 6 x 10 welded wire mesh works better than any store bought cage I’ve used, roll and cut to your desired diameter. The big boxes and McCoy’s has it, probably in ~ 4’ x 8’ or 10’ sheets.

     

     

    You going determinate or indeterminate? I like indeterminate, but I have more loss of “tomatoes that will be perfect tomorrow” to birds I think because there are only a few ripe at a time vs a whole bush of ripe fruit.

  4. Gave my new cans a workout last week. Really enjoy both the 45 setup and this setup.

     

    Most of them blend in with the grass, but there are seven shell casings in the air in this pic. Good times.

     

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  5. I would also add traditional Chinese medicine to the list of Historical Chinese innovations. I haven’t seen the data, but I’ve heard that more people believe in traditional Chinese medicine than believe in the Bible. Seems like kind of a big deal.

  6. On 4/24/2018 at 11:38 AM, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I have a lot of suspicions about Chinese construction methods and material quality.

    A consistent theme I see in Chinese QC'ed construction/manufacturing is the impetus to remove most of the safety/service factor from the design. Things they make are frequently "just good enough" to nominally "work", but they fail very quickly under stress in comparison to comparable goods from elsewhere. In the manufacturing industry I'm in, every time someone tries to source something from China (without setting up a QC operation over there) it blows up in their face because the goods either end up not meeting the performance specs or don't last through the warranty.

    Here's a good case study from about 10 years ago on the construction side. Nominally reinforced hollow pile foundation on marginal soil.  Excavated on one side of the building for a garage, piled the dirt on the other side.  Then it rained and the piles snapped like twigs. All to save maybe $50k of additional concrete and steel on a ~$10M+ building.

    Everybody has their share of fuck ups like the FIU bridge, etc.; but I wonder if the Chinese have been building trillions of dollars of "hollowed out" infrastructure that is going to crumble fast. Over 10,000 students died in the earthquake about 10 years ago due to shoddily built schools. Fucking heartbreaking for a lot of good people. 

     

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  7. 5 minutes ago, XYZ said:

    Roger Moore Bond movies are so bad.

    If you appreciate the British humor mixed in the campy-ness isn’t so grating.

    For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy are  great Bond flicks. His next tier would be The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man With The Golden Gun, and Live and Let Die. Moonraker and A View to a Kill have probably aged the worst.

  8. 1 hour ago, slorch said:

    Movies about social moods are bigger stretches than technological pioneers, IMHO

    Saturday Night Fever, which has gotten a lot more social references than it should over the years. I can’t even imagine the “WTF?” expressions on kids faces if they saw it today.

  9. I’m a James Bond fan, and I liked Pierce Brosnan in the role at first, but by Die Another Day, I couldn’t stand the franchise anymore, it had become so campy while still taking itself seriously, and I think his string of Bond films is aging badly. The Daniel Craig films were much better but overcorrected and got a little too noir, especially Quantum of Solace.

  10. 12 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    I've never watched either one in their entirety.

    My nomination: Forbidden Planet (1955) - a wowza scifi for the day, but the storyline is too corny today.

    Holy crap you’ve never watched all of It’s a Wonderful Life? And where are you on Donna Reed v. Audrey Hepburn?

  11. 7 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    Try this one...

    So you enjoy all the screen time the film dedicates to Wyatt Earp's love life? They make his wife ridiculously  two dimensional to justify the affair with Delany's character, the hollowest in the film ("I want one"), escorted by the very awkward/overdone Billy Zane character. It would be so much better without all that shit. To me its a mash-up of a real western (the scenes with Doc, Johnny Ringo, and the Earps) and something like Mean Girls.

  12. On 4/30/2018 at 9:29 AM, Chad Fuck said:

    The Terminator.  I pulled this one up to watch with the wife, as she had never seen it and I was explaining how all the little boys of the time thought it was incredibly bad ass.  We hardly made it through the first scene.  The effects are just too dated to suspend disbelief. 

    I'm a James Cameron fan. The concept, script, direction, and noir elements of The Terminator were great, Cameron was just way ahead of his time and didn't have the tech for modern effects. Also, it is Arnold's most iconic role, with dialogue perfectly suiting him, and some unforgettable scenes. The noir feel of The Terminator make it a more rewatchable movie to me than T2, where the noir elements were swapped for better effects.

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