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Felix

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  1. According to my Ambient station in the back yard I got exactly 1 inch of rain, making exactly 8 inches for the month of October. Was .98 when I woke up and the last light shower we had pushed to exactly 1. My (minor) OCD is satisfied.
  2. Saw this last night and thought it was good. Obviously they couldn't leave it vague like the actual story, but thought they handled the historical aspect well. Story was told in three chapters each from the point of view of one of the principles and culminating in the duel which was really well done. No punches pulled on the brutality of the time, but the characters were interesting and pretty well fleshed out. I'd recommend it unless you're squeamish about blood or rape. Obviously they aren't speaking French but that doesn't take anything away as far as I'm concerned. It left me thinking about a few things which is nice in a movie.
  3. Yeah unfortunately there's a fair percentage of dudes who couldn't get laid in the proverbial women's prison with a handful of pardons.
  4. Can confirm. 4.58 per the Ambient station in my back yard.
  5. Kind of glad this popped up again. My CPAP (2nd one) is pretty old. Maybe 8-9 years. I feel like maybe it's not doing the job any more or my stuff has changed. Should I have another sleep study? I understand the newer machines can report back to the provider. I think mine has a smart card that I can send it but not sure. Just wondering if I need a new one and if I'll have to do another sleep study as my last one was like 15 years ago.
  6. Thank God all I had to do was crank the come-along once my grandfather got in there and did the dirty work.
  7. Historically the most powerful ship in the Navy have born the name of States. Makes sense. What carries more destructive power than a ballistic missile sub?
  8. Anybody happen to see Jay Haas fly his drive through a tree and into the golf bag on one of the caddie's shoulders on the short par 4 yesterday? I can't remember the hole. Was switching over to golf channel between innings of the Astros game and caught it. 309 yard driveable par 4. Group on the green waves them to hit. Caddie is standing behind the tree off to the right of the green. Haas flies it through the tree and directly into the mouth of the bag. Caddie knew it was coming close and was standing there frozen. He got a free drop and I think he ended up making birdie. One in a million shot, doc!
  9. Man when I first saw that picture I thought Cunningham had gone full hippie on us.
  10. And none of that has anything to do with a scrimmage kick. It's an entirely different rule. One he has the ball in his hands it's dead right there regardless of momentum or any of that. If he only touches it then it stays live but due to the illegal touching (best penalty ever) if the receiving team picks it up and runs with it, they are basically ensured of a positive outcome because the worst that can happen is the ball comes back to the spot where the illegal touching occurs. There are no possession rules on a scrimmage kick except the muff rule is in effect.
  11. 3.29 inches in Manchaca on the Ambient weather station.
  12. Thomas has to sit in the afternoon. His putter is a serious liability.
  13. I bet I can back in faster than you can park forward.
  14. Willy Jack is hiding some huge tracts of land under her loose fitting clothing. I love this show.
  15. But probably too old to participate.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Paging @wd40 to the courtesy phone.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. The twins on the bikes kill me.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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