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Rules of Engagement Marine Corps Rules 1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one. 2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough. 3. Have a plan. 4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won’t work. 5. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet ­ even your friends… 6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a “4.” 7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive. 8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral & diagonal preferred.) 9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible. 10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours. 11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose. 12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived. 13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to shoot. Navy SEAL’s Rules 1. Look very cool in sunglasses. 2. Kill every living thing within view. 3. Adjust speedo. 4. Check hair in mirror. US Army Rangers Rules 1. Walk in 50 miles wearing 75 pound rucksack while starving. 2. Locate individuals requiring killing. 3. Request permission via radio from “Higher” to perform killing. 4. Curse bitterly when mission is aborted. 5. Walk out 50 miles wearing a 75 pound rucksack while starving. US Army Rules 1. Curse bitterly when receiving operational order. 2. Make sure there is extra ammo and extra coffee. 3. Curse bitterly. 4. Curse bitterly. 5. Do not listen to 2nd LT’s; it can get you killed. 6. Curse bitterly. US Air Force Rules 1. Have a ****tail. 2. Adjust temperature on air-conditioner. 3. See what’s on HBO. 4. Ask “what is a gunfight?” 5. Request more funding from Congress with a “killer” Power Point presentation. 6. Wine & dine ‘key’ Congressmen, invite DOD & defense industry executives. 7. Receive funding, set up new command and assemble assets. 8. Declare the assets “strategic” and never deploy them operationally. 9. Hurry to make 13:45 tee-time. 10. Make sure the base is as far as possible from the conflict but close enough to have tax exemption. US Navy Rules 1. Go to Sea. 2. Drink Coffee. 3. Deploy Marines

Since I had a long week working, I cut out early today, came home to a cup of tea and then binge watched Good Omens. Interesting to see what they've cut and changed around from the books to make the tv adaption, but dang, Tenant and Sheen knock it out of the ballpark as Cowley and Aziraphale.

Mindcircle - Man builds realistic tree in living room for his cat

Little random thing from Neil Gaiman:

Pondering on the job future. The Project Head, a consultant brought in to run this thing, seems overly focused on the High level view, with absolutely no understanding of the lower level and what it actually entails. He keeps making the asusmption that it's all "we just grab x and y and they'll fit together perfectly" and thus, making plans and estimates for like, 2 weeks work. Work that we keep telling him is actually about 3 months mapping before we even talk about cleansing. But he keeps just referring to us as "the cleansing team" in emails, and we have no idea what he thinks we actually do, or what the system provider and integrators will be doing. Of course, that's another thing. Going by the project plan they were meant to have signed all the contracts and started a month ago. But.. no. Still in discussions, and going back to the Project board to increase the budget to get the contracts signed. This does make one wonder just how things will shake out....

Repositioned that mask to re-print it out. Which for various reasons (it needed more supports in that position) turned it into a 70 hour print. Did end up with this: Had a couple of layer shifts towards the end, but it does add a certain interesting pattern to the effect:

Realised Lucifer Season 4 was now out on Netflix and managed to catch the first couple of episodes. Looks like they've done a very focused 10 episode season, so not expecting random filler episodes, but it also seems that Netflix is enjoying the fact that it's not Fox, and can push the boundaries a little more.

" The back end of a motor bike attached to the ****pit of a plane attached to the front end a car. You cannot tell me this wasn’t made in Florida. "

Was planning to start my first, really lengthy print - The back half of my Sith Facemask, so it would become a full helmet piece for London. So, since it would take between 2-3 odd days to print... I set up a Raspberry Pi with Octoprint, linked it to the printer and attached a webcam. Now as the day goes on I can use my phone to check on how it's doing, and in case of emergency hit the pause or stop to cancel the print and not waste anything. Or at least, reduce any wastage if I see it go horrendously wrong. Finally, putting to use that Internet of Things unit I took at university. Edit: Dang. Around 36 hours into what should be around a 45 hour print.. I hear a crash, and find the model had torn loose from the baseplate and was somehow on the floor, with the printer printing strings in the air..... Leaving me with just this:

The Reunion people had to miss...