What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.

[Greg Furtman]

Is that the Boundary Waters? I used to make almost annual trips up to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, its beautiful up there.

@mbeels I grew up in Duluth, MN. My parents loved the outdoors and camping. Every fishing opening my Dad and his fishing buddies would head north to fish what would one day be the BWCA. And when I was old enough he took me with. I'll be 70 next month. I've been going to what is now the BWCA for probably 60 years.

 

[jsdemar]

Sunset tonight in Las Cruces, NM...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/cewcPEYhcs6Qg1Sv7

 

[shawn_rocket]

@mbeels I grew up in Duluth, MN. My parents loved the outdoors and camping. Every fishing opening my Dad and his fishing buddies would head north to fish what would one day be the BWCA. And when I was old enough he took me with. I'll be 70 next month. I've been going to what is now the BWCA for probably 60 years.

Love BWCA. I've taken Scouts up there a few times with an outfitter I trust...great times!

 

[heada]

Love BWCA. I've taken Scouts up there a few times with an outfitter I trust...great times!

About 30 years ago I was a scout in a troop of about 15 of us that spent 2 weeks canoeing in from MN into Boundary Waters and back. One of the best trips of my life. We paddled a good 50 miles over those 2 weeks.

Another few years and I'll do the same trip with my younger brother and nephews.

 

[Cape Byron]

Watched the 1965 12 Hours of Sebring race. Again.

 

[Hobie1dog]

went to my daughters house, ate dinner, played with the 3 year old and 5 year old grandsons, had a blast.

it's hard to find anything on this planet better than listening to a 3 year old giggle and laugh till they fall down

 

[mrwalsh85]

I was there in the '82-'83 school year, and didn't get off camput much. The highlight of my culinary week was usually a walk to Naugles. Sometimes in the wee hours when one would have to walk through the drive through (not that that was bad; a midnight Naugles run was fun). And I literally never had any good pizza. As far as I could tell there simply was no good pizza. Period. (Not that I mightn't have been wrong, but that was my experience at the time.)

(I also never saw the arch, never got downtown, and I'm not sure I ever actually got into St. Louis proper, as opposed to University City, where the campus is. I lived in a dorm suite with five other guys and no one had a car. And I went through a semester long bought of undiagnosed depression, which is why I was only there for one year.)

Was Pointers around? Probably 2 miles south of Wash U on Big Bend.

I mentor the new WashU SLI team and live a stone's throw from @shawn_rocket so I'm familiar with the modern day equivalents of what he's talking about. I was born in '85 and moved to Maplewood in '15 so not really much familiarity with the older locations other than Pointers. That being said, I've learned over the years to get pizza from the mom and pop joints. Imo's is not a favorite of mine in any way. I'd rather have Domino's junk over that.

That being said, I'm working holiday shutdown today... So I gain some OT and some PTO for next year. I think I'll really enjoy having flexibility in my PTO next year.

 

[shawn_rocket]

Was Pointers around? Probably 2 miles south of Wash U on Big Bend.

It was and still is. Home of the Pointersaurus which is a 28" 2 meat/4 veggie pizza that weighs about 10lbs! You can win money if 2 people can finish it in one sitting.

mentor the new WashU SLI team

Is the SLI team the Student Launch team?

 

[Cl(VII)]

Set a new personal (post HS) best.

 

[jqavins]

26 hoirs and 59 inutes? I migjt manage to give you a run for the momey on that kind of time. Maybe.

 

[mrwalsh85]

It was and still is. Home of the Pointersaurus which is a 28" 2 meat/4 veggie pizza that weighs about 10lbs! You can win money if 2 people can finish it in one sitting.



Is the SLI team the Student Launch team?

I have been wanting an excuse to order the Pointersarus just to say I did... And now with COVID, hard to get that many folks in one setting to help me eat it. You could probably get me to try the $500 challenge ten years ago... But now I can hardly look at a large pizza without regret...

Yes, the Student Launch Initiative team.

 

[Hobie1dog]

woke up at 4:30 am, let my wife sleep in and was rewarded later by getting my eyes crossed, met our daughter for Mexican as her youngest son turned 3 today. He is a blast.

 

[OverTheTop]

After driving for a couple of days we are spending a few days at the Blue Mountains. Weather is foggy, wet, not warm, and visibility is miserable. Still getting in some bushwalking and enjoying the reduced number of tourists. Pretty location. At least we are away from home for the first time since March.

Currently sitting back in the BnB with a wine and looking out the back window onto the National Park.

 

[GrouchoDuke]

Whipped up a quickie design for an iPhone dock/speaker horn so that my wife & kids can (hopefully) easily plop down an iPhone on a 3d printed thing and have semi-non-horrible sound when listening to audiobooks at the breakfast table. Printing it now...

 

[Joshua Smith]

Got a spinal cord stimulator surgically implanted. Time to look for vulnerabilities in its bluetooth software stack

 

[jqavins]

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Damn! that's clever.

 

[Cl(VII)]

Road trip to Austin for BBQ. Currently waiting for my takeout.

 

[GrouchoDuke]

Damn! that's clever.

I can't claim the idea - there are several similar designs for older, smaller phones. I just drew this one up to fit my wife's phone. I also didn't do any real math for the proper horn design. TLAR!

 

[Vitruvius]

It sounds like pizza wars are the next epoxy wars here on TRF...

Personally, I am very ecumenical about pizza. My favorite is the from-scratch pies my wife makes though.

Now that I agree with. Lady J makes THE best home made pizza I've ever eaten...any where!

 

[Vitruvius]

I have lived my whole life in the NJ/NY area, so I am conditioned to most appreciate thin-crust pizza.

That said, New Haven has the best pizza. Take your pick, Sally's or Frank Pepe. I've had what I consider to be equally good pizza at the Frank Pepe in West Hartford, although some claim it's not the same if it doesn't come out of the original oven on Wooster St.

What Chicago has... it may be good, but I'm reluctant to call it "pizza". It's really a different food. Yes I've been there and had it. Not my cup of tea, but I don't begrudge Chicagoans their love of their home-town food. Likewise, if Cincinnatians (?) can actually enjoy Skyline Chili that's their business.

Sometime back in the bronze age, I was in California for grad school for a year... couldn't find any good pizza. One day, I asked someone if there was anywhere I could get good pizza. They said "Domino's". I said "No, *good* pizza". They said "What's wrong with Domino's?" Thus ended my search for pizza in CA (I imagine the situation is somewhat better nowadays). Also couldn't find a decent bagel to save my life, but that's another story...

I live in Fairborn, Ohio, just up the road from Cincy where, as You know, they just adore Skyline and Gold Star chili. Skyline was designed by a Greek immigrant Gentleman as a Greek version of Chili. I haven't looked up the origin of Gold Star, yet Both are pretty much liked around this part ( southwest Ohio) Ohio, S. E. Indiana and parts of Kentucky. It's not my favorite either, but to each their own. Fwiw, I prefer a cracker crust, LOL! Cheers!

 

[Knuckledragger]

Studied for my HAM Tech license; two weeks to go! Topped up my airlocks of two gallons of mead.

 

[Joshua Smith]

Road trip to Austin for BBQ. Currently waiting for my takeout.

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Did you get there super early in the morning, or did u just roll in?

 

[Joshua Smith]

Studied for my HAM Tech license; two weeks to go! Topped up my airlocks of two gallons of mead.

Did you by chance work in the ICBM missile field? I know knuckledragger is a common term, but we used it to describe missileers who worked in the 564th Missile Sq

 

[Vitruvius]

Studied for my HAM Tech license; two weeks to go! Topped up my airlocks of two gallons of mead.

Good Luck on it!

 

[Cl(VII)]

Did you get there super early in the morning, or did u just roll in?

No day of during Covid. I placed order 3 weeks ago for pickup. I got there at 8am on a Thursday in the before (COVID) times, and the line had already maxed out at 7:30am...no BBQ that try.

I can say now having had the brisket, ribs, pulled pork and sausage that it is the best bbq I've eaten at, hands down. The ribs, pulled pork and moist brisket were probably unbeatably good for my taste. The lean brisket was very good, and the sausage was well above average, but not quite my favorite style. I generally like sauce on my bbq, but didn't want any on this, it was too good.

Overall, well worth the price and drive.

 

[Charles_McG]

I’ve been using the holiday break to work on a Mostly Printed CNC. I bought the hardware pack, and am printing away. I’m using the original control board of my CR10S, so I had to build a custom firmware for it. Coming along slowly. Lots of learning.

 

[Knuckledragger]

Did you by chance work in the ICBM missile field? I know knuckledragger is a common term, but we used it to describe missileers who worked in the 564th Missile Sq

F-15 crew chief but several ICBM guys came over to engines, comm/nav in the 80s. Four of my supervisors in '86 were former missileers.

 

[beeblebrox]

Set up my new 55" 4K Ultra LG Smart TV

 

[Cape Byron]

Happy New Year!
Sunrise at Tallows Beach, Cape Byron, Australia.

 

[boatgeek]

Processing some 3D scans from a customer's boat that we took yesterday. The equipment is pretty amazing--23 million or so points measured with color in about 5 minutes. This is a small piece of one of the models, built up from 10 separate scans and then reduced down to points every 1/4" or so. Sure beats holding a measuring tape (though it's not without its flaws, including price of the scanner).