I went camping



my truck rules

work <_<

all i want to do when the weather turnes like this is go camping....!!!

lookes like you had fun bored.

tested the whole .50 cal paintball thing.

lets see... friday had friends over played xbox... drank a few beers

saturday had friends over played xbox... drank a few beers

sunday played "chef" with the youngest... i never got my pancake but i read the "menu" and ordered a pancake like 5 times ... i did get a capri sun though so it wasn't a total loss

Watched a scooby doo movie with the kids

played halo ODST firefight with my son ... for about an hour and half

we went outside and my oldest decided to finally ride his bike with out trainers on it... played outside with kids and puppy for about an hour

came in cooked dinner... got mommy out of bed cause she basically had the day off to ummm... "recover" from her misadventure last night lol

Gained access to and started learning how to use two finite element analysis program suites, watched a few movies, caught up on chores, did the weeks homework and laid out a plan of preparation for finals. Lots of exercise, too.... I'm up to 4 consecutive pullups... at 210lbs; so it's not that bad, really.

Last weekend was AO South, next weekend has been promised to the family (with exams Mon-Wed following, ugh) so I pretty much had to sit this weekend out.

Friday:
Watched VMI beat Army
Went to bed

Sat:
Woke up at 11 (optional BRC and no parade woot woot)
Took a weekend (left at twelve)
Spent the day with family

Sunday:
Woke up in an actual bed (at 11), spent the day with family, came back, and found that my roommates got drunk and trashed my bed, blankets, shoes, etc.

Friggin' sweet.

Cleaned up an old PGP, no BBs in the bolt old....
Shoots tacks at 265 fps too. No rva to boot. Ill keep her stock.

I laid my best friend to rest. At approximatly 6 PM he drew his last breaths.

Nearly 15 years of faithful service and companionship. Im not sure if ive ever cried so much.

My best friend is my dalmation named max. He was around 14 years and six months old. Knew some cool tricks and was very loyal, I know for a fact he saved my arse on more than a few occasions.

The next day was spent it at the field with some good friends. Today I had to work.

RIP buddy.
You'll always be with me.

I'm sorry Chem. It always sucks to lose a pet that you've had for so long.



Friday, me and my roommates went to a friend of ours big party in the next state over (we drove from Atlanta to Spartanburg, SC). There we consumed a little drink known as Swampwater which consists of 2 gallons of green kool-aid, 4 Monster energy drinks, 1 liter of tonic water, a little over 1/2 a handle of Everclear, a handle of vodka, and a mason jar of pure Tennessee moonshine. Needless to say, after my second cup I couldn't feel my face.

Yesterday and today I've been working my butt off studying structural analysis.

Darn roger we missed each other by hours i was over in that area picking up 36 cases of paintballs for the feild i work at....


Billy

Saturday I helped my dad mend fences and do various other chores around the farm. Then we watched the UF/USC game, had my sister's birthday feast* (Greek food...mmmmmmmm), and watched the Bama/MSU game.

Sunday I went to the hospital and had lunch with the wife on her break, then got some Christmas shopping done. All her birthday and Christmas stuff is now sitting in the living room, in plain sight, already wrapped...it pisses her off to have to look at presents for over a month. :P




*Next Monday is MY birthday feast...GERMAN FOOD!!!!!
(...and beer.)

I turned water into beer... And what a beer.

Noodles was calling the shots on this one and she said she wanted to go big. Who am I to argue?

First test of the new RO system, water built to approximate Burton levels.

9# 2-row
3# Munich
2# Vienna
1.5# 40*L crystal
0.5# chocolate

3-step decoction mashed with rests at 122, 147 and 152. Gravity after sparging - 1.080. Boil with 2 ounces each Willamette, US Fuggles (both 1.5oz. for 60 min, .5ea. for 10) and Cascade (1 plug @ 10, 3 @ 2-5). Also added a pound of brown sugar and 2 ounces cocoa powder 10 minutes before flameout. Post-boil, OG: 1.095.

Using WYeast 1056 so with the advertised ~75% AA, you're looking at FG ~1.020 for ~9%+ ABV. Noodles wants to blend with a 750ml. of Kriek lambic at bottling. The Brett cultures might take the gravity down another 5 points of so over time to offset the dilution. End result should be a strong/old ale with a cherry/chocolate/awesome flavor kind of thing going on. If all goes well, we'll still be drinking this a year from now.

Took about 7 hours, start to finish. Not my longest brew day, but those decoction mashes sure take a bit of time. The advantage is that you get great extract quality without overdiluting the mash. Both critical on big beers, I think. Of course, with such a thick mash, it takes forever to sparge. I set up the fly sparge, refluxed it and balanced it and then just walked away for an hour. It was still going when I came back. Patience is required here.


I also played a little MW2 solo campaign and rolled my eyes a lot at how much they ripped off The Rock. I was really expecting CAPT Price to start hollering about winners and prom queens.

Also, I get than an EMP will wipe out an EOTech (neat detail in the game, really), but tell me, how the hell is it going to kill the illumination on an ACOG? Eh, whatever.

my condolences Chem, thats rough.

dosen't the emp killed the batteries in the red dot and acog scopes TM???????



Billy

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D~

ACOG's don't have batteries; they use tritium and fiber optics.

An EMP cannot hurt a battery. A dry cell is a dissimilar transition metal salt compound that produces an electric potential when allowed to red/ox. It's like saying an EMP would zap your salt shaker or something.

Electromotive force induces current in a conductor per Faraday's law. With a large, powerful pulse of energy (such as is generated during the detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude) and a relatively fragile, low-voltage device (such as an unshielded circuit board), the impressed current is great enough to blow capacitors, melt conductors and all sorts of other fun things.

To resist EMP, you need a cage or "shield" of sufficient saturation capacity to absorb and redirect the induced current away from what you're trying to protect. Note that most consumer communication devices such as cell phones are shielded to reduce "noise" from RF signals. Good A/V cables are also shielded for the same reason. I have never ripped apart an EOTech, but I'd imagine their electronics are shielded as well. They're at least shock-mounted but I don't know how much an aluminum housing would really protect it from EMP. I doubt that common RF shielding would be enough to resist a nuclear EMP, though.


The other way to resist EMP is by not having electronics at all. An ACOG uses tritium gas for illumination and contains no batteries or electronics. The gas does degrade atomically and has a useful life of about 15-20 years before the element should be replaced. There should be no effect on an ACOG from EMP.

You see what a CS degree gets you.... :P

My condolences, Chem. (Buy a crap ton of gear while the misses is taking pity.)

Bored my poppa has a 79 with 60,000 original miles. Excellen truck.

I worked on home stuff. Ordered a new countertop and started taking the door off my cabinets for painting.

I then took my vette out for a while then chilled out sunday night and wath The Rock on tv.

JB.

The Rock is a bi-weekly event at my parents house. It's a great movie and all, but damn...

fri - went home from college and played some guitar with band

sat - hung out with friends

sun - said band broke up.. so now i have to make a new one.... BUT i did get my first GF sunday night :)... well technically monday morning

I've got two weeks' weapons training!


Now I feel old, hearing people talking about their first girlfriends. (I guess, technically, I'm still on GF#1 but eh, details.) Geez, 2sic, when you were born, the only Thundercats were reruns! (of)

haha i was born in '91 (18 years old...)

things are going great in life so far... New cocker/sniper project going great.. awesome girl in my life... college going good so far (except calculus :().... and i think i already have ex-band members replaced already haha.

im so ready to play at some shows and rape some faces!! lol

*feels a little old perhaps*

:lol:

http://www.midnighttutor.com/recent.php
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-0...tures/index.htm

If that doesn't help you, only Father Time can...which is a life-long struggle.

If you're really stuck, shoot me a PM.

Is that a rain cover or a shoulder thing that goes up?

Gopher mating call.


I was gonna say, Siress, Calc is a breeze. 2sic, if you really need help, there are dozens of us who can get you through it. Just give it an honest try first. My best suggestion is to have two books. A lot of times, one book doesn't explain something very well, or not in enough detail. Having two books makes it very simple.

Invariably, one book is going to be more technically in-depth than the other. Do not fall into the trap of taking the easy route out. Make sure you read both and understand it. It's one thing to memorize the work-around but when you actually understand the process, you'll never forget it and it'll make it much easier when you try to build on it in the future.

Archerec . . . its a rain cover . . . er . . . a raincover

:lol:

same here. calculus is driving me nuts. ill check those places out and see if they help.

You have TANSTAAFL on your truck! Awesome!

Worked 37 hours from fri to sun. Went out drinking fri and sat night.

It's only a breeze after you've finished the class, :P (or maybe the first half-dozen or so that rely upon it) Besides, coming from a guy that tutored mathematics at the collegiate level, yet failed Algebra twice in high school, not everyone figures the whole math thing out; and not everyone needs to.