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Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This

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.

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Java cat - Dec 18, 2013 2:16:16 pm PST #14955 of 30000

Not javachik

The Branson thing is from an April fools day missive.

aurelia - Dec 18, 2013 3:38:30 pm PST #14956 of 30000

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Right after I posted I really did climb a ladder to hang a light and some publicity dude was shooting video of me. I hope he gets stuff more interesting than that.

Jesse - Dec 18, 2013 4:29:41 pm PST #14957 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

One problem with buying presents online is when they arrive and look small and stupid. @@

Cass - Dec 18, 2013 4:46:49 pm PST #14958 of 30000

Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Munroe's lurking again. [link]

That is awesome.

Lee - Dec 18, 2013 5:43:22 pm PST #14959 of 30000

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

One of the meanest things I ever saw my father do took place on the catwalk of the big observatory at Palomar. [link]

We were walking around it with some visitors, and one of the women mentioned she was afraid of heights, and kind of freaking out about the catwalk, which at the time was unpainted metal grating.

My father's response was to lean down and pick up a piece of the grating to show that it wasn't bolted down.

SuziQ - Dec 18, 2013 5:59:30 pm PST #14960 of 30000

Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I'm planning on taking CJ to the Grand Canyon after Spring Training in March. Now I'm looking at hitting the skywalk on the western side instead of just joing to the south rim.

Consuela - Dec 18, 2013 6:03:28 pm PST #14961 of 30000

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Lee, your father is clearly evil.

I was going to make snickerdoodles tonight, but I might just lounge around. I'm so lazy.

sarameg - Dec 18, 2013 6:05:12 pm PST #14962 of 30000

Oh god, telescope catwalks. The main one I grew up with was solid concrete, I was fine. Then they built this one, ARC 3.5 m [link] - the doors on the bottom are oversized. Unpainted metal grating, not so bad at this angle, but when it is rotated 180, it's a steep drop. Grates are bad enough, the exit door ABOVE the railing? Worse. I always have to go out backwards, even now with the extra (which is recent.) However, there is a hatch on the top of the enclosure, and I've spent a lot of time up top. Just not near the edges. And I can't even deal with the Sloan platform at all: [link] (the boxy one at the front. ALL GRATING.)

I fear falling and the lure of falling as well. I have to go up the wallside more than 1 loop up from the bottom on our open stairwells (5 stories.)

NoiseDesign - Dec 18, 2013 7:00:58 pm PST #14963 of 30000

Our wings are not tired

Heights are one of the things that never really bothered me. When I was working on the sound for Space Mountain I had to walk around on the tracks more than once. It's a pretty high up when you have climbed to the top of lift hill three and are looking down into all the track inside the mountain.

aurelia - Dec 18, 2013 7:19:17 pm PST #14964 of 30000

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

My father's response was to lean down and pick up a piece of the grating to show that it wasn't bolted down.

Ha!

I'll have to find the photo of the Rolling Stones concert that shows my followspot haloing Mick from the top corner of the jumbotron. I don't have a fear of heights, but I have a healthy fear of falling. I used to crawl through triangle truss 100 ft up (with no fall protection) rigging rock shows but I never did anything I felt unsafe doing.

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