'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
OMG, I am exhausted. I just started to walk out of my kitchen with a burner lit, after using it to light a cigarette. Luckily, I left it on the clicky part, where you have to turn it to to light the gas, and the sound reminded me as I walked out. I got busted for my lighter at the airport, and apparently have no matches in the house at all. @@
Dude! You were my inspiration behind smuggling matches back from San Francisco! I'm so disappointed.
Turns out the thought of people causing other people consensual pain wasn't enough distraction. Not even learning about dilators and tuning forks (no dirty words at all) and how they're used to play did the job.
how they're used to play
I'm curious and afraid all at the same time.
And, I'm baking cookies to distract me from my job hunt.
The FLIP research vessel (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only ship in the world having the ability to flip from a horizontal position to a vertical position while at sea.
FLIP is 108 meters long and weighs 700 long tons. According to Alan Bellows, "when in horizontal traveling mode, the long, hollow ballast area trails behind. When it reaches the desired location, the "tail" is flooded until the nose sticks straight up into the air, taking about twenty-eight minutes to reach vertical position".
During the flip, the crew stand on the outside decks. Scientists and crewmembers literally walk up the walls to stay upright. Suddenly, the aft side of the barge becomes its floor. That makes for some ingenious engineering feats in equipping its bridge, galley, crew quarters and scientific laboratory. Even its head, or bathroom, had to be constructed to operate in a vertical and horizontal position.
Freakish bathroom - it has a regular sink and a "sideways" sink. When the ship tilts, the sideways one becomes the regular one.
Astonishing Flight thru the Endless World-
Awesome. Surreal artwork - your p.o.v. zooms in and in and in....
Oh, there is a massive Digg rebellion underway right now....
This is insane, all of the stories on the Digg home page are currently related to a HD DVD encryption processing key that has been cracked. Under pressure from the MPAA, Digg admins removed the original articles and then Digg users started rebelling in protest, burying normal stories, while digging up the HD DVD stories.
It’s a pretty fascinating study of how online communities can react as one massive group. I’m sure Kevin, Jay and the gang are working hard to resolve this issue.
Digg A lot of pissed off users.
Would we get busted if I posted the encryption code here? It's so tempting.
I'm a horrid skipper, so I'm sorry, but I have no idea if this was posted already, but I just got this on e-mail and wanted to share.
Speaking of the General Lee, my daughter decided yesterday that she now wants to always enter our car through the driver's side window. This is less than practical, since it's a Ford Focus (with doors that fully open).
