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Felix

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  1. Thomas has to sit in the afternoon. His putter is a serious liability.
  2. I bet I can back in faster than you can park forward.
  3. Willy Jack is hiding some huge tracts of land under her loose fitting clothing. I love this show.
  4. But probably too old to participate.
  5. It's an incredible time to be alive if we can navigate the societal changes. I wish I were a few years younger as I won't be around to see the really cool stuff.
  6. Commercial space flight doesn't just include tourism. The applications are virtually limitless if the price is right. Giant solar arrays that beam power back to the ground via microwave or some other medium are the ultimate in clean power. Years away but no longer just the realm of science fiction. Asteroid mining and in orbit processing and manufacturing would be a game changer. Obviously we're years away from that but smaller scale space industry is close to being profitable if the price of lifting material is reasonable. Not to mention it's basically an exponential growth curve once the first facilities come on line. You can build in orbit and thus your lifting costs are nothing except for people and people are light. You can even make your own oxygen and water. Still probably decades away from even beginning to be viable but we are watching the first steps. If there is a chance at a profit, industry will make it happen eventually.
  7. My neighbor is in that top picture. She actually sent the pic to me a while back when we were talking about NDT for some random reason. She still looks pretty much the same except older, married and with two kids. Cool chick.
  8. Paging @wd40 to the courtesy phone.
  9. Saw it Saturday and enjoyed it very much. Fun movie with some interesting themes that actually make you think a little if you feel like it.
  10. Yeah about that. I have approximately 17 bunches of black bananas in my freezer and that's only because I've secretly thrown out 10 bunches. Nobody eats that much banana bread.
  11. The twins on the bikes kill me.
  12. I'm telling on myself here unfortunately. Did OSUT at Ft. Knox so basic/AIT combined for tankers. My cousin was married to a Captain who was in JMOC school there at the time and he, being a really cool guy, and also urged by my cousin came to visit me on like the 2nd Sunday I was there. I'm minding my business cleaning shit or whatever we were doing in the barracks when the runner come up and says DS wants you at the CQ desk. I shag my ass down there and there's 4 Hats there staring at me as I come around the corner. I'm wondering WTF and then I see CPT L standing there in civies. Totally choked when I saw him and said "Chris! What are you doing here?" I thought those guys were going to stroke out. CPT L takes me out to the parking lot to see my cuz and ask me if I need anything and all I can think of is "Those guys are going to roast me when I get back in there." Had a nice 15 minute visit, they promised to bring me some M&M's or some shit and back in I go to face the music. Only one left there is my Senior DS and his eyes are as big as saucers when I walk in. First thing out of his mouth is "Chris? Chris? Don't you mean Captain L?" He hit me for 20 but his heart wasn't in it and that was last I heard of it, which shocked the hell out of me. Got my M&M's the next week too.
  13. I got a really nice weather station from Ambient Weather on 7/2 and set it up on 7/3. I'm in Manchaca. Since setting up I've had 7.81 inches of rain at my house. In July and August. I have yet to register a temperature over 98.9 F. My kind of summer.
  14. Hello skilled photographers. I've found that I'm getting interested in birds. I'd like to get a good camera/lens combo for photographing them. I'm a beginner obviously so I was looking to get some insight on a good low to mid range set up to get started with. I'm fine spending a little to get started but not like 5 grand or anything. I'm doing some online research but I find this community to be an outstanding resource for things like this. Thanks in advance.
  15. Felix

    2021 MLB Thread

    Or maybe the Indianapolis 500.
  16. I started laughing my ass off when the ship dropped. Had to pause it to explain the significance to my wife and daughters. No pics.
  17. Felix

    Whatcha reading?

    Just finished A Higher Call by Adam Makos. WWII non-fiction about an incredible incident in the air war over Germany. Fantastic read. Second Makos book I've read and I may have to read them all. He tells a great story.
  18. We had one of these knuckleheads that worked for us a few years back. I knew he was weird but didn't really know the whole deal. One day he's gone and I ask about it. "Oh he's doing 25 years for tax evasion. They took him to jail yesterday." I guess his nonsense arguments weren't respected by the man. I didn't feel sorry for him because he was an ass, but I did feel sorry for his 6 kids.
  19. They are replacing my coil under warranty next week. $1598 for labor and refrigerant. I haven't seen the breakdown but I doubt they are charging me $1200 for the juice and $400 for the labor, but who knows.
  20. So this isn't tax evasion? Isn't this the very definition of tax evasion? Isn't tax evasion what put Al Capone in jail for 1000 years or something?
  21. I'd say this was an IT lunch but too many chicks. I'm leaning towards State Social Services now.
  22. Bullshit. The Englishmen were all white. English men of war had incredible diverse crews. Of course the officers were all English. As for the foremast Jacks they didn't give a fuck what you looked like as long as you could pull a rope, trim a sail, or charge onto an enemy deck with a boarding axe. They didn't even care if you spoke English.
  23. Who do you think we're playing? Southern hasn't won 28 all year.
  24. Yeah that was pretty bad. He was jerky enough when he was dominating his first match, but I couldn't believe the way he acted in the semi.
  25. Yeah but he was a spearchucker. That's what made it funny. He threw the javelin in college. It's not like they were making fun of him. It was intended to be ironic. The character was a neurosurgeon, so no exactly marginalized. They were poking fun at the stereotype.
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