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[zoobyshoe]

Why would the irish mob want to kill a CEO of gaming company
>.<

They based a game on the mob's known history, using insulting pseudonyms?

 

[Ibix]

Name another one like the Piraha.

I guess I should provide a link about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_people#Culture

I need to name two more to have many.

I was just being silly. I understand that there are a lot of languages with interesting foibles, but I'm not aware of any others with that particular oddity. There's one in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, but I don't think that counts.

Not very high, anyway. :D

 

[Ibix]

Probably working through the sequence Pre-Boomerang, Boomerang I, Boomerang II, Mulitvariable Boomerangs, Nonlinear Boomerang Algebra, ...

They're quite relaxed about those classes, though. If you miss one, it comes around again pretty soon. :D

 

[dkotschessaa]

They're quite relaxed about those classes, though. If you miss one, it comes around again pretty soon. :D

It wasn't that bad. I've just been waiting all day to use this image for something.

 

[OmCheeto]

It wasn't that bad. I've just been waiting all day to use this image for something.

You three, all get complimentary 1/2 million dollar yachts.

 

[lisab]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

 

[AlephZero]

I once watched a helicopter picking up bundles of fence posts and rails from a truck, and dumping them along the line of where the fence was going to be built (the terrain was too rough to drive over). Not quite as quick as that Oregon guy, but close.

Notice there are no people standing around the trucks. It he screws up, he only kills himself!

 

[DennisN]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

I don't know.

Speaking of choppers I came to think of this video by a really serious DIY guy, controlling a tricopter over the Niagara Falls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMHr6LQhTRE

and also his Space Glider - FPV to Space and Back! (weather balloon, camera and glider reaching ca 30'000 m).

 

[Enigman]

My pineal hurts.

 

[OmCheeto]

Any helicopter pilots here? This looks legit; is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

The weather looks right.

Late for work!

Withrotor Aviation, Inc.

Christmas Tree Harvest - Every year we provide 40 days of helicopter support for the Christmas Tree Harvest in northern Oregon. With our Hueys we sling 3,000 pound pallets of Christmas Trees from the fields to the landings while we use our Jet Ranger to sling 700 pound bundles of Christmas Trees to the landings. All totaled we operate for 40 days and fly 280 hours. We are responsible for helping move 575,000 Christmas Trees.

Someone do the math!

 

[lisab]

My pineal hurts.

 

[Enigman]

No idea why...happens every time I do too much math (mild pressure around the general area). May be a benign cyst or something...

 

[dkotschessaa]

I once watched a helicopter picking up bundles of fence posts and rails from a truck, and dumping them along the line of where the fence was going to be built (the terrain was too rough to drive over). Not quite as quick as that Oregon guy, but close.

Notice there are no people standing around the trucks. It he screws up, he only kills himself!

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

 

[dkotschessaa]

No idea why...happens every time I do too much math (mild pressure around the general area). May be a benign cyst or something...

It's just the math muscles getting bigger, and bulking up to be more awesome.

That's what I tell myself anyway.

 

[dkotschessaa]

3 minutes until the end of my self imposed goof-off time cutoff. Will I go back to studying, or extend the threshold?

 

[Borek]

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

Makes me think of

 

[dkotschessaa]

(at approx 1:47)
3 minutes until the end of my self imposed goof-off time cutoff. Will I go back to studying, or extend the threshold?

Welp.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

The other week I was riding my bike to school, and saw a helicopter directly overhead. I was starting to get a little paranoid, like it was following me or something. Then it came lower...lower... OMG it was heading right for me... I was starting to really freak out.

Then I realized I was riding my bike through a medical campus and it was a medivac.

I saw it land and tried to snatch a picture. The attached isn't very good. But there it is.

Have you watched Goodfellas recently?

 

[dkotschessaa]

Have you watched Goodfellas recently?

No, but it passes through my mind almost every time I see a helicopter overhead. So the notion never really dies.

 

[zoobyshoe]

No, but it passes through my mind almost every time I see a helicopter overhead. So the notion never really dies.

Quit the mob now. Squeal, and go into witness protection.

 

[zoobyshoe]

You buy a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one, it's just been superseded by something much better. But you don't throw the old one away.

Months or years later, you pick up the old one. Which applies to you?:

a.) It feels as familiar as the back of your hand. You can operate it as if you've never put it down.

b.) It feels like you've never seen it before. Your attempts to operate it are clumsy.

 

[Enigman]

I have an urgent need to [STRIKE][strike]troll[/strike] [/STRIKE]Hecatoncheire...

It is for the better that I don't have the time too...

 

[dkotschessaa]

You buy a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one, it's just been superseded by something much better. But you don't throw the old one away.

Months or years later, you pick up the old one. Which applies to you?:

a.) It feels as familiar as the back of your hand. You can operate it as if you've never put it down.

b.) It feels like you've never seen it before. Your attempts to operate it are clumsy.

c.) your wife made you throw it away when she made you buy a new one.

-Dave K

 

[Enigman]

Quit the mob now. Squeal, and go into witness protection.

That did NOT go well for M. Alice...until she got mad after that the mob was the one doing the squealing.
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[STRIKE]CEO[/STRIKE] Lawyer and Irish mob thingy...

 

[Ibix]

You buy a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one, it's just been superseded by something much better. But you don't throw the old one away.

Months or years later, you pick up the old one. Which applies to you?:

a.) It feels as familiar as the back of your hand. You can operate it as if you've never put it down.

b.) It feels like you've never seen it before. Your attempts to operate it are clumsy.

(a)

I recently had the opportunity to program a BBC Model B for the first time in nearly 20 years. It was like riding a bike. The only weird thing was I'd forgotten how freakin' fast a ROM based OS boots...

 

[zoobyshoe]

(a)

I recently had the opportunity to program a BBC Model B for the first time in nearly 20 years. It was like riding a bike. The only weird thing was I'd forgotten how freakin' fast a ROM based OS boots...

Congratulations!

I posted this because I've been having the opposite experience with old cameras.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time. It sounds like a very happy little heartbeat. Stuck in my head like a song.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There was a very firey sky behind this fire station I passed this evening at sunset:

 

[Astronuc]

This Town Just Keeps Getting Worse…

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/06/this-town-just-keeps-getting-worse…/

This Town just loves its circular metaphors — spinning and news-cycles and the revolving doors. As much as ever, it is a city of movers and shakers getting nowhere, except richer.

. . . .

 

[Borg]

This Town Just Keeps Getting Worse…

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/06/this-town-just-keeps-getting-worse…/

This Town just loves its circular metaphors — spinning and news-cycles and the revolving doors. As much as ever, it is a city of movers and shakers getting nowhere, except richer.

. . . .

And, it's not just the politicians. The DC area has 6 of the 10 richest counties in the United States.

For the second consecutive year, Loudoun County, Va., a 520-square-mile suburban mass that sits 46 miles from the White House, weighs in as America’s richest county.

While Loudoun ranks at the top, it’s far from alone on the list of wealthiest counties that surround Washington. In fact, it’s just the beginning. The neighboring counties of Falls Church City, Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William in Virginia and Howard County in Maryland all make the cut, giving the D.C. area six of the nation’s ten wealthiest counties. All boast median household incomes between $93,000 and $117,000 annually.