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[lendav_rott]

Life would be boring if it was too easy, namsaying?

 

[zoobyshoe]

We had some fun speculating about the weight of the fish, compared with the certification test requirement of ingesting an 8-pound bird (the engine doesn't have to work after doing that, so long as it doesn't fall apart, catch fire, etc).

The fish went straight through without doing much damage, but probably got chopped into salmon steaks by the fan blades.

CSI, or some such show, had an episode where a guy was found dead in the desert. Cause of death was massive blunt force trauma to the head, and foul play was suspected. The murder weapon seemed to be a tortoise, of all things. A fresh, broken tortoise shell was found nearby.

Eventually they learned a local species of raptor had learned to open tortoise shells by flying them up into the air and dropping them onto rocks. They surmised the deceased's bald head had probably looked like a rock to the bird.

Given your salmon story, it's conceivable there may someday be a jet engine vs tortoise contest.

 

[Enigman]

CSI, or some such show, had an episode where a guy was found dead in the desert. Cause of death was massive blunt force trauma to the head, and foul play was suspected. The murder weapon seemed to be a tortoise, of all things. A fresh, broken tortoise shell was found nearby.

Eventually they learned a local species of raptor had learned to open tortoise shells by flying them up into the air and dropping them onto rocks. They surmised the deceased's bald head had probably looked like a rock to the bird.

Given your salmon story, it's conceivable there may someday be a jet engine vs tortoise contest.

Good God! Is nothing sacred? That story is a shameless rip-off of how Aeschylus died.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus

Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistook his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.

 

[lendav_rott]

I wonder when they don't suspect foul play in CSI/CSI-ish shows. :D

 

[AlephZero]

Given your salmon story, it's conceivable there may someday be a jet engine vs tortoise contest.

Actually, raptors are a pain for aviation. They are big, and they stooge around for hours at the top of thermals at 20,000 feet, waiting for their next meal to die.

You would be surprised at the things that really have got into engines. Somebody once tried (and failed) to ingest a horse that was running loose on an airfield. During the flight there were some complaints from the passengers about a strange smell in the cabin, the source of which was identified in the official incident report as "partially digested grass".

We have an open-air facility for doing bird strike tests. The birds (humanely killed beforehand) are fired from a device that looks like Rube Goldberg invented a cross between a multiple RPG launcher and a medieval siege weapon. One day, it had been loaded up with a salvo of ducks when some problem caused a delay. By the time that was fixed everybody decided to postpone the test till the after lunch and went off to eat.

The test should have been routine, but the result was a loud bang and a shower of broken bits of engine. Inspection of the damage revealed the curious fact that some of the ducks apparently had black and white fur instead of feathers. And the factory cat was never seen again...

I guess it had a nice lunch of fresh duck, curled up for a little nap, and then got a BIG surprise!

 

[AlephZero]

Eventually they learned a local species of raptor had learned to open tortoise shells by flying them up into the air and dropping them onto rocks.

I've seen herring gulls doing that to crack open shellfish - but only from a height of about 10 feet.

 

[Borek]

I give up. TL-WN725N v2 won't work with Raspbian and my router using DHCP.

Actually after spending last two days trying to configure it I think I am going to explode. Dongle works out of the box with DHCP under XBMC, my other Pi works without any problems with some older Raspbian, DHCP and TL-WN725N v1, using current Raspbian and TL-WN725N v2 I can see my home wireless with iwlist scan, but I can't connect and get IP from DHCP. No, nil, null, zilch, nada. Whatever.

 

[lisab]

I've seen herring gulls doing that to crack open shellfish - but only from a height of about 10 feet.

Oh yes, a fairly common sight here too, but from 20 or 30 feet (are our clams tougher here ?). But only the dumber ones do the dropping.

The smart ones hang out on the ground, waiting to swoop onto just-dropped clams.

All the parking lots at a marina near where I live are covered in shells from this activity!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Good God! Is nothing sacred? That story is a shameless rip-off of how Aeschylus died.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus

Wow, I'd never heard this story! You're right, they must certainly have used it as the template for the episode.

And the factory cat was never seen again...

I guess it had a nice lunch of fresh duck, curled up for a little nap, and then got a BIG surprise!

That's sad. Cats don't seem to do well in science. (Schrödinger, and all that).

 

[Bandersnatch]

I give up. TL-WN725N v2 won't work with Raspbian and my router using DHCP.

Actually after spending last two days trying to configure it I think I am going to explode. Dongle works out of the box with DHCP under XBMC, my other Pi works without any problems with some older Raspbian, DHCP and TL-WN725N v1, using current Raspbian and TL-WN725N v2 I can see my home wireless with iwlist scan, but I can't connect and get IP from DHCP. No, nil, null, zilch, nada. Whatever.

Hmm, have you tried using reciprocating dingle arm?

 

[Borek]

No, but I am thinking about using my heel.

 

[Evo]

Gave blood at the Red Cross bus today. No one spoke like a pirate, so it was a bit of a let down, but they did create a red cross around my arm with tape, so that was kind of piraty.

 

[dlgoff]

I give up. TL-WN725N v2 won't work with Raspbian and my router using DHCP.

Actually after spending last two days trying to configure it I think I am going to explode. Dongle works out of the box with DHCP under XBMC, my other Pi works without any problems with some older Raspbian, DHCP and TL-WN725N v1, using current Raspbian and TL-WN725N v2 I can see my home wireless with iwlist scan, but I can't connect and get IP from DHCP. No, nil, null, zilch, nada. Whatever.

You need a beer my man.

 

[dlgoff]

Got my flu shot yesterday. Double dose = Old man

 

[DennisN]

I give up. TL-WN725N v2 won't work with Raspbian and my router using DHCP.

Actually after spending last two days trying to configure it I think I am going to explode. Dongle works out of the box with DHCP under XBMC, my other Pi works without any problems with some older Raspbian, DHCP and TL-WN725N v1, using current Raspbian and TL-WN725N v2 I can see my home wireless with iwlist scan, but I can't connect and get IP from DHCP. No, nil, null, zilch, nada. Whatever.

Life was easier once;

 

[AlephZero]

Oh yes, a fairly common sight here too, but from 20 or 30 feet (are our clams tougher here ?).

Mussels, not clams.

But only the dumber ones do the dropping.
The smart ones hang out on the ground, waiting to swoop onto just-dropped clams.

Yup, same over here, but I once saw a really dumb one dropping a shell several times onto a patch of mud. Maybe it was competing in a bird-brain contest, or starting cargo-cult religion.

 

[lisab]

Gave blood at the Red Cross bus today. No one spoke like a pirate, so it was a bit of a let down, but they did create a red cross around my arm with tape, so that was kind of piraty.

I think I'd be worried if a phlebotomist came to me with a needle saying, "Arrrg! Gimmee yer arm, wench!"

 

[lisab]

Mussels, not clams.


Yup, same over here, but I once saw a really dumb one dropping a shell several times onto a patch of mud. Maybe it was competing in a bird-brain contest, or starting cargo-cult religion.

That made me !

 

[AlephZero]

That's sad. Cats don't seem to do well in science. (Schrödinger, and all that).

Hm... that one must have been Schrödinger's anti-cat. It died because it wasn't observed.

 

[dkotschessaa]

My wife says she totally supports the idea of me going all the way for a PhD. Even if we have to move and she has to change jobs. She thinks my brain is sexy. Perhaps my PhD thesis will be an attempt to calculate how lucky I am to have her.

 

[Enigman]

Hmmm...Is the sisterhood still active?
Or did they dissolve?

 

[dkotschessaa]

I can't order an odd number of pizzas for math club that favor pepperoni or plain. I always have to split it right down the middle. 2.5 pepperoni and 2.5 plain.

 

[Pythagorean]

2 pep, 2 plain, 1 sausage and mushroom with light tomato sauce and a sprinkling of oregano, spun three times on the tip of a blessed dowsing rod and kissed by a virgin.

 

[OmCheeto]

One of the strangest things I've ever seen:

http://imgur.com/gallery/opNnoOx

There be monsters in my brain!

 

[DennisN]

One of the strangest things I've ever seen:

http://imgur.com/gallery/opNnoOx

There be monsters in my brain!

Yes, that's really fun. I also like the very simple Leaning tower illusion.

 

[OmCheeto]

Yes, that's really fun. I also like the very simple Leaning tower illusion.

I like that too!

Brains are funny.

 

[OmCheeto]

What are the kids standing in line for at the Crystal Ballroom?

Who the hell is Matt Nathanson?

I can't keep up.

Good night.

 

[lendav_rott]

2 pep, 2 plain, 1 sausage and mushroom with light tomato sauce and a sprinkling of oregano, spun three times on the tip of a blessed dowsing rod and kissed by a virgin.

why ruin a good pizza with the last 2 things

 

[Evo]

Hmmm...Is the sisterhood still active?
Or did they dissolve?

Lisab and I are the only 2 still very active, ~christina~ comes and goes, MIH pops up for my birthday, and TSU left a long time ago.

 

[Pythagorean]

why ruin a good pizza with the last 2 things

Because you have at least one ridiculously complicated pizza in every party-sized order. It's blasphemy not to. As an appeal to my own authority, I am a 33rd degree pie spinner of the fifth dimension.