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The gorilla on the left is about to whip it out and take a leak.

This really sucks. I know you'll make the right decision one way or the other. I'm just sorry for both of you that you have to.

The brains of dead pigs have been somewhat revived by scientists hours after the animals were killed in a slaughterhouse: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/17/714289322/scientists-restore-some-function-in-the-brains-of-dead-pigs Hmmm.... this sounds familiar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03JHnQCGkbk

not to trigger vol, but is easy to recall 4/20 as the unofficial day o' weed celebration 'cause it coincides with hitler's birthday. freaking hippies. HA! Good Fun! I never knew that!

I will never again live in a place I can't see the stars: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6930051/Starry-skies-masked-veil-light-pollution-cosmic-census-shows.html Where I live the nearest town is Covington and it's 18 miles (about 30 km) away. No streetlights in any direction for a long way. I have spent many nights just looking up at the night sky and have never failed to be enthralled.

Spent the whole day collating a crap ton of data from different sources into a single Excel SS. It was tedious in the extreme but the finished product is a thing of beauty. Now killing the tedium with beer and baseball.

When you were in college you likely took a class call Strength of Materials, or Engineering Materials, or something along those lines. For me it was a four class series all Eng undergrads took no matter what discipline they were in: Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Strength of Materials. The Comp Sci guys were bored out of their minds!

Ironically the more stable a metal is atomically the lower it's melting point. Larger (atomically larger) metals that ionize easily (meaning electrical conductors) tend to have high melting points. This seems like something I used to know the why of but I believe that brain cell that held that data was killed by bourbon.

Lead melts at half that. Tin is pretty low too.

Nah, TN is good people. He's welcome anytime! His coyote can come too... just keep him on a leash!

Coyotes are more sympathetic. C'mon, tell me you never felt a little bad for this guy... even rooted for him a little: Besides, I'm not willing to trade my life to stop a coyote... and I won't ever have to. Other threats? It's not out of the question however unlikely. Besides, perhaps the willingness to do a thing makes it less likely we'll ever have to.

Breaking News: The Houston Astros are in trade negotiations with the Miami Marlins for Wei-Yin Chen. They are offering international cash in the amount of $1.37, an open bag of reduced fat, cool ranch Doritos from a school cafeteria, and two used condoms with the purported DNA of Nolan Ryan to be used for cloning. The Marlins would be crazy to turn that deal down!

Not necessarily. What's the first thing you do when you turn the AC on? You shut the windows!

tried to get cassowary into poe and poe2. am guessing having to come up with an entire new model made the request prohibitive. https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66520-rangers-getting-ranged-attack-animal-companions/?p=1474491 if it makes you feel better, TN is home to the most lethal animal on the planet. 725,000 human deaths attributable per year. humans are a distant second insofar as lethality is concerned. there is potential good mosquito news. HA! Good Fun! I've done a little work with those little guys in the past: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/92618-what-you-did-today/page-11?hl=mosquito&do=findComment&comment=1921461

The real problem is people in the US are being offered two different flavors of the same ice cream. Nationalist capitalism or Socialism lite. Both are just collectivism by different names. Both should be equally unacceptable to a people who value both liberty and sound economics. Apparently they are not which is why we are all utterly, hopelessly, and completely f----d. We are going to get a lethal dose of one or the other.

Florida man killed by pet Cassoway: https://vancouversun.com/news/weird/killer-cassowary-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-kills-florida-owner/wcm/1fbed275-9010-40e2-bd0b-408e1ba7737e The cassoway is the worlds most dangerous bird evidently. They are native to Australia. F-----g Australia. There there any flora or fauna from there that isn't venomous, man eating, or just all around dangerous? Apparently not:

It's hard not to feel some sympathy for that guy! https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/04/13/chris-davis-ends-historic-hitless-streak/

IIRC the Palin thing wasn't her e-mails, it was e-mails about her from the McCain campaign staff.

Oh nobody thinks that. We're just talking here.

The Luke in TLJ was what? 30 years older than TRotJ? Hell I'm not the same person I was even 10 years ago. 30 years ago I was 18 and really believed in things that the me of today finds laughable. Of all of our personality traits our cynicism is the hardest won. Don't begrudge Luke that.

You know I found Luke's story in The Last Jedi to be the best and most compelling part of the new trilogy. I've liked all the movies so far.Finn & Rey are both likable. The Force Awakens was a good (if unoriginal) story. The Last Jedi I like better. Both have some obvious plot holes, canon violations, and at times some lazy writing (Vegas meets star wars? Really?) But taking a look at Luke's arc, I like that the best of all. Most of us on this board are in out 30's & 40's now. We met Luke Skywalker as kids. He was the hero we all wanted to be. The young, virtuous warrior who would right the wrongs and save the galaxy. Just like we might have imagined we could do growing up. Now we revisit our childhood hero having lived the better part of his life, just as we have. The Luke we find today is a bitter and disillusioned man. A man who has realized everything he once believed in and held dear was BS. A man who dedicated his life fighting for something only to realize his efforts were mostly futile. He has realized the galaxy he thought he could save cannot BE saved. And probably does not deserve to be. Can any of you guys really tell me that isn't just a teeny bit relateable? Can any one of you, man or woman, look in the mirror and say you've grown into exactly the person you thought you would become? The one you wanted to be? Luke's story is all or our stories. That's why it was brilliant IMO.

Woke up to the sound of the chickens in an uproar. Opened up the loft window (quietly) and saw two coyotes trying their best to get in. Well, they (the chickens) were in no danger. I built that enclosure with coyotes in mind. Nevertheless I thought it would be better if these two didn't get away with the attempt. I have a Ruger 10/22 next to that loft window for just such an occasion. I stepped back from the window, had a good stock weld, sight picture, sight alignment, let out a half breath and began to squeeze.... but didn't. I had them. They were both as dead as fried chicken as Samuel L Jackson would say. But I just couldn't do it. 10 years ago I'd be digging a hole right now. Instead I leaned out the window and yelled at them to f--k off. They did. I must be getting soft in my old age.