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[docnet]

The derpiest snake in the world, Arabian Sand Boa.

 

[Flyboy]

Because of course you need a bottle opener on the bottom of your sandal…

 

[Borg]

When I first looked at the picture, I thought that it was a compartment for storing reefer.

 

[jtbell]

Or a flap covering Maxwell Smart's flip-flop phone?

 

[Flyboy]

I wish it was something that cool, but no. It’s literally just to open up your beer bottle.

 

[DennisN]

The band name "Die Toten Hosen" makes fun of this idiom.

I've seen that band live actually. In Berlin (east Berlin) on an outdoor music festival in the early 1990s after the Berlin wall had fallen. They were very loud. I also remember vendors were selling parts of the wall and Soviet/communist memorabilia there.

I bought a piece of the wall, and I still have it, so there will be a photo of it coming here soon.

 

[fresh_42]

They were very loud.

They (still) run under the label "Punk" so I guess loudness is the least you can expect.

 

[DennisN]

I bought a piece of the wall, and I still have it, so there will be a photo of it coming here soon.

I looked through my memorabilia and found I even had kept the ticket to the festival :

Ticket - front:

Only headliners appear on the ticket, but there were other artists playing too, including Die Toten Hosen. I went down to Berlin to see Simple Minds since I was a fan and they were on my bucket list of artists to see. I was not disappointed, they did a great live concert.

The date was 25-26 August 1990, so this was a curious time in history; The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and GDR/DDR was dissolved on 3 October 1990, so the festival took place in between those dates.
And the festival was in East Berlin, and this was my first visit to that part of Berlin.

Ticket - back (festival rules in German):

A piece of the Berlin Wall with graffiti on it, front:

A piece of the Berlin Wall, back:

 

[Averagesupernova]

They (still) run under the label "Punk" so I guess loudness is the least you can expect.

Or the most you can expect. Depends on how you look at it.

 

[fresh_42]

Or the most you can expect. Depends on how you look at it.

Die Toten Hosen are relatively melodic.

Spoiler: off-topic

They normally only sing on German but here's one of their more famous hits in English

Spoiler: still off-topic

They even made a song for @pinball1970:
(I would never go to FC Bayern.)

 

[jtbell]

The Lake Lure [NC] Flowering Bridge, re-purposed from an old highway bridge after a new one was built alongside it:

This is a panorama made from five separate photos. Here's a larger version.

It's early in the year, so there aren't many flowers out yet.

 

[Point Conception]

The Flathead V8. From when cars didn't look like they are made out of Electric shavers.

 

[fresh_42]

The photographer claimed he hadn't performed any manipulations. This is the original shot.

 

[Andy Resnick]

 

[fresh_42]

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"Where is the newspaper?"
"Dad, you're so old-fashioned. Here is my iPhone."
I didn't care. The fly is dead.

 

[jtbell]

More from Lake Lure last weekend. The lake itself was almost non-existent! Fortunately it's only temporary. [And as I note in a later post, this is a small, shallow section of a much larger and deeper lake.]

 

[jack action]

"Lake Maintenance"

Here are two words I never thought of seeing together!

 

[BillTre]

"Lake Maintenance"

Here are two words I never thought of seeing together!

Its a fisheries and aquaculture thing.

 

[nsaspook]

My solar panel plants are looking pretty good.

 

[berkeman]

Its a fisheries and aquaculture thing.

Where'd they put the fish during this maintenance?

 

[BillTre]

Where'd they put the fish during this maintenance?

Depends what they are doing.

Fish can be pumped out for harvest using special pumps.

 

[jtbell]

Where'd they put the fish during this maintenance?

I expect the fish migrated to deeper parts of the lake. The section I visited, with the marina, beach and water park, is at the end of the western arm of the lake, where the Broad River flows in. See e.g. Google Maps. This section is much shallower than the rest of the lake. I haven't found a depth map yet, but I did find a site noting that the lake has a maximum depth of 104 ft.

When I left, I drove along the south shore for a while before turning south. This road (US-74A) is rather twisty so I had to keep my eyes mostly on the road, not the lake. Nevertheless, I remember seeing clear stretches of water, with lake houses and their docks perched several feet above the current water level, at the top of bare slopes.

 

[BillTre]

Maintenance can involve doing different things with different requirements.

Lakes and ponds made for production purposes are often designed with features like deeper areas at one end where the fish will collect when the water level is dropped.

In addition, a big thing in aquaculture design and engineering is designing tanks and ponds for which are self cleaning to different extents which minimizes the maintenance required.

Fish are usually raised in batches (as opposed to continuous cultures) so the fish can be completely removed, simplifying maintenance.

 

[collinsmark]

======== Possibly off topic =========

But continuing the current tangent, a new video from Practical Engineering was released today about fish movement in man-made systems, particularly in this case: a dam. It's quite fascinating.



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[Averagesupernova]

======== Possibly off topic =========

But continuing the current tangent, a new video from Practical Engineering was released today about fish movement in man-made systems, particularly in this case: a dam. It's quite fascinating.



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I always thought that when the lights dimmed for about a second it was because a fish had gone through the turbine. Haha....

 

[Point Conception]

Thats $214 .for one lobster ? .So asked my Thai girlfriend to ask the vender.* She calls lobster shrimp in LINE translation

 

[BillTre]

They are panulirus (very small (tini-wenie) pincers) lobsters not humarus lobsters (big pinchers).

 

[DennisN]

Springtime is slowly arriving, so here are some early spring flowers:

 

[nsaspook]

Spring is coming.

 

[jtbell]

We're getting the first spring flowers here, too. For some reason, these like to grow in the cracks in our ancient asphalt driveway.

Once upon a time, a biology professor was conducting a botany lab by walking around campus with his students, identifying and sketching plants and flowers. A student spotted some small purple flowers. "What are those?"

Professor: "Hmm... damn if I know."

When the professor reviewed the students' lab notebooks, he found one with a careful sketch of those flowers, labeled "purple damifino".

So that's how I think of these when I see them every spring, even though they're more pink than purple.