Nahhh.
THIS is weird:
Posted on 10/28/2011 6:16:08 PM PDT by anotherBarbarian
Edited on 10/28/2011 6:36:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Nahhh.
THIS is weird:
True, that is weird as well.
Nobody here objects to the vacuum much, unless it gets very close, but something bad must have happened to Jake involving a plastic bag, before we got him. He runs off if we’re unloading groceries or if we use a bag to collect trash.
This morning, Tom was moving some boxes and stepped on the bags I keep upstairs for diapers. Sad for Jake; he went to sleep in Elen’s bed instead.
The other cat they had was just an old laid-back tom, named “Poopsie.” He used to torment Tokyo, as well. She was a rescue, but it would seem she went from the frying pan into the fire.
Roomie looks at me on one of her bad days and said, “When you move out, take that effin’ cat with you.” I didn’t have to be told. I had already planned on it.
Like my poor Wednesday, who went from her old abode to a place full of byos.
Yepper. Tokyo spent her last days in a peaceful surroundings, being loved and groomed and she never missed a time to let me know she appreciated it.
From the first day I cut the mats from her back to the day she died, she was my little shadow. I know she couldn’t see, but I always talked to her so she would know I was there. She would wake up on the other pillow in the bed, stretch out one of her paws, spread the toes, retract the velcro, and pat me on the face with a little “mrrrf?”
I wouldn’t mind another like her. I think she was at least 17 when I got her, and I had her for almost six years, so at least those six years were good ones.
She sounds like a good kitty. May she meet you at the Rainbow Bridge.
I believe all animals that die in my care will be mine when I get to the Rainbow Bridge. I believe that for everyone. I mean, we all need family, and critters are just family extensions, so why wouldn’t they be there to greet us? Reminds me of that gif with the soldier who came up the sidewalk, and someone in the house opened the door enough to let the dog out. THAT is the definition of “joy.”
I’m working on finding the Flat Surfaces in the house, so I can dust before Advent. Progress is slow ...
Tonight we have Cub Scouts, always James’s favorite thing of the week. The sun has come out, just in time for it to get dark. It’s going to be cold tonight.
My dad was a “weather-ometer” when I was growing up. He would stand out on the front porch at about 10:30 every night, for about 15 minutes, then come in and tell us all what the weather would be for the next day. He was NEVER wrong!
(Musta been his pioneer heritage...)
Sounds like Anoreth.
We have the Weather Dragon, but when he forecasts, “Stay in bed all day,” I still have to get up!
I need to sort a load of laundry. Frank is pushing a Barbie car around the living room. Ash says she’s going to die in the half-hour before her dinner time.
A P229R is chambered for .40. It’s also less of a pain to carry around than an M14 or a M240, which is a machine gun anyway.
And a M104 is not nearly subtle enough.
My eyes are on a .40 Baretta Storm.
A P229R is chambered for .40. It’s also less of a pain to carry around than an M14 or a M240, which is a machine gun anyway.
And a M104 is not nearly subtle enough.
My eyes are on a .40 Baretta Storm.
I get it.
One for each hip.
Hmmm. What if I said 9mm to see if you were on your toes?
;)
(I think it's also available in .357 Sig. but I don't blow holes in things as often as you you do, nor does Uncle Sam pay me to do it. Thanks for your service.)
Reminds me of the story "Pigs Is Pigs". Enjoy the laughs.
Welcome to the UT ganag JRios!
It’s the best place to visit on FR when you don’t want to debate politics.
We are planning to grind meat in a food processor to make Chicken Wing Balls this weekend. :-)
This technology is already on-line in active use, and growing. In fact, there are companies on the internet who will take your 3D geometry as a file upload, produce the piece on their equipment, and ship you the physical part.
Run a search on "rapid prototyping" or "3D printing." You'll get results like this.
Although the video shows a printer that uses plastic media, there are others that can use various metals to enable the production of parts that have all the necessary strength to go straight from the printer table to installation in in-service equipment.
Think what a military supply chain could do with the capability to print parts in 6061-T6 aluminum, or titanium, or 316 stainless steel. A support depot might need just one large-capacity print unit and a few hundred pounds of metal dust to keep dozens of helicopters, trucks or other vehicles operational.
The possibilities are endless.
Chicken Wing Balls would also make an awesome name for a rock band
Precisely.
I got the germ of the idea from a series of short stories in Analog, which featured a house that could assemble and disassemble devices on a nanometric scale.
But we don't have nano-assemblers quite yet.
I thought something of a small-enough scale, yet large enough to encompass a variety of capabilities in each microscopic piece (such as a micro-miniature USB functionality), that could be assembled and disassembled by an advanced concept layering machine, would simulate some of the capabilities expressed in those stories.
One is only limited by the inherent circuitry designed in, and the needs that can be addressed by them.
It's noteworthy that to build a camera, for example, you would need at least one overly-large component, the lens, around which all the other fabrication could evolve.
Even something like a clock radio should be buildable from the component level, if the components have the right level of simplified sophistication.
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