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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day
« on: June 16, 2014, 07:33:08 PM »
Neither a selfie nor from today, but look what I did this weekend...  :w:

How you doin'?


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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day
« on: June 15, 2014, 11:06:34 AM »
Ooh.  What's in that?

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Anarchy / Re: A Boring Life
« on: June 12, 2014, 10:15:27 PM »
Oh cool.  I've heard of that guy.  He's a good teacher from what I know.

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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day
« on: June 10, 2014, 08:52:59 PM »

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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day
« on: June 10, 2014, 08:52:05 PM »
Hawt.

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Anarchy / Re: A Boring Life
« on: June 10, 2014, 08:51:15 PM »
Who is your sensei?

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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: 2014 Book Thread
« on: June 10, 2014, 08:53:25 AM »
1.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3.Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
4.Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
5.Shadow Hunter by Michael Reaves
6.Lockdown by Joe Schreiber
7.Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
8.The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
9.Hannibal by Thomas Harris
10. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
11. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
12. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
13. The Waste Lands by Stephen King
14. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
15. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
16. Song of Susannah by Stephen King
17. The Dark Tower (book VII) by Stephen King
18. The Wind Through The Keyhole (book 4.5) by Stephen King
19. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
20. Desperation by Stephen King
21. The Regulators by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

Currently reading Dexter's Final Cut by Jeff Lindsay.

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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day
« on: June 04, 2014, 08:07:29 PM »
dafuq?

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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: What are you listening to?
« on: June 04, 2014, 08:04:04 PM »

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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: 2014 Book Thread
« on: June 03, 2014, 10:29:28 PM »
1.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3.Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
4.Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
5.Shadow Hunter by Michael Reaves
6.Lockdown by Joe Schreiber
7.Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
8.The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
9.Hannibal by Thomas Harris
10. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
11. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
12. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
13. The Waste Lands by Stephen King
14. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
15. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
16. Song of Susannah by Stephen King
17. The Dark Tower (book VII) by Stephen King
18. The Wind Through The Keyhole (book 4.5) by Stephen King
19. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
20. Desperation by Stephen King

Currently reading The Regulators by Richard Bachman (Stephen King).

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Anarchy / Re: Future Seek Links
« on: June 03, 2014, 06:25:50 PM »
also, like, three days of measurement per sample.

Ahhhhhhhhh, okay.  That'll do it.  Really, that's about the only way you can detect stuff that minute.

While I was soaking up government-issue radiation, I underwent yearly rad monitoring to determine how much radioactive particulate might be nested in lung tissue.

For that, I got to sit in front of a shielded radiac that was pointed at my chest.... for about 30 minutes straight.  I'd sit there, reading a book, and it would just quietly soak up any gamma or neutron radiation anything floating in my lungs might be emitting, and because you can only make a detector so sensitive, the time is necessary to make any measurements that fine.

As a side note, my lungs were always really clean as far as radiologicals go.  That's because I took anti-contamination equipment very seriously in my work then, something I'm sure my lungs thank me for now (which is about when I'd be developing lung cancer if I'd had any significant inhaled exposure in my 20s).

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Anarchy / Re: A Boring Life
« on: June 03, 2014, 11:11:25 AM »
Sometimes I pour chocolate milk on my cereal....

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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Re: Help!
« on: June 02, 2014, 09:18:00 PM »
I do have a batch script that might be able to do it, if you're interested....

 :w:

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Anarchy / Re: Future Seek Links
« on: June 02, 2014, 09:16:25 PM »
But the coolest thing about this is the astonishing sensitivity of the equipment. He can measure radiation as low as 1 Bq per cubic meter - 1 Bq is one radioactive decay per second. So basically he's catching and counting individual gamma rays, quantifying their energy (so you know which isotopes they come from) and adding them up. That's ... that's amazing. It's like you've got Maxwell's Demon as your lab tech.

Whoa, W.T.F.?  How the hell is he doing that?  :-o

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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: #HN Bash
« on: May 28, 2014, 10:22:20 PM »
-!- hackess [Adium@rox-C5BF441E.lightspeed.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net] has joined #naked
< hackess> Because, eventually, we're all naked.
<@MFS> Indeed
-!- mode/#naked [+o hackess] by MFS
<@MFS> except for the nevernudes
<@MFS> but they're not allowed in here
<@hackess> BAND NAME

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Anarchy / Re: cookin' and bakin' and shit
« on: May 27, 2014, 08:47:30 PM »
With my mime on my money and my money on my mime!

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Anarchy / The Rocky Fellowship Palantir Show
« on: May 26, 2014, 08:39:47 PM »
I'll just... leave this here.

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Anarchy / Re: cookin' and bakin' and shit
« on: May 26, 2014, 08:14:08 PM »
That sounds like pretty fucking good shit.

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Anarchy / Re: Future Seek Links
« on: May 23, 2014, 09:12:38 PM »
Why Is The Future So Boring?

Because we live in the post-science-fiction golden age and our current state of technology has taught generations what is possible.... and humans are impatient.

Myself, I don't consider the future boring. I'm excited for it, even though I may not live to see some of the things that I know are likely coming.

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Anarchy / Re: Anyone know binoculars?
« on: May 23, 2014, 07:33:53 PM »
:RandomWordsBetweenColons:



EDIT: Do NOT make a goatse joke of that, Pb!!!!!!!!!!   :x

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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day
« on: May 23, 2014, 07:30:14 PM »
I'm all bleedy after getting hit with rocks while edging the curb/driveway.

Bad.  Ass.

This ain't exactly a selfie, but then again it ain't exactly today ....



And ... in case you're wondering, I don't remember if that's actually a black eye or it's just dirt.

Where was that taken?

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Anarchy / Re: cookin' and bakin' and shit
« on: May 23, 2014, 07:28:32 PM »
I have an idea for a cocktail.  It's called the Goatse and all you do is pour about 8 fingers worth of any shit alcohol....

  I think I'll leave that out of the specialty cocktail book I'm working on...

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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: 2014 Book Thread
« on: May 22, 2014, 11:58:45 AM »
1.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3.Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
4.Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
5.Shadow Hunter by Michael Reaves
6.Lockdown by Joe Schreiber
7.Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
8.The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
9.Hannibal by Thomas Harris
10. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
11. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
12. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
13. The Waste Lands by Stephen King
14. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
15. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
16. Song of Susannah by Stephen King
17. The Dark Tower (book VII) by Stephen King
18. The Wind Through The Keyhole (book 4.5) by Stephen King
19. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Currently reading Desperation by Stephen King.

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Anarchy / Re: We have invaded KOL
« on: May 22, 2014, 11:15:40 AM »

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