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Sounds like a really cool rifle. Is it flintlock or percussion?

Apparently they've been trying, unsuccessfully. It's a small and fast moving target that's airborne in a populated area. Doesn't get much harder than that. I work on jet engines and have seen the results of several bird strikes. Sully's airplane got more than a couple geese, each engine sucked up probably half a dozen birds. The birds don't do catastrophic damage to the engine. The engine can chew up a single bird pretty easily. Multiple big birds just clog up the inlet. No air in, no thrust out. Those giant fan blades spinning at several thousand rpm will chop up a plastic drone quite readily. As you're aware, any commercial multi-engine aircraft is designed to take off and land just fine with only half its engines running.

Sounds like an afternoon's entertainment. These people aren't playing, they're absolutely doing it intentionally. The fun part is that it would take a really, really big quadrotor to do any sort of significant damage to an airliner. But even a small one with a little C4 for payload would be really bad news, which is why they shut the airport down.

Kinda makes me smile at how totally unprepared they were and how inept they've been at solving it. It completely sucks for all the passengers who're stuck.

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Merry Christmas y'all.

Well, ok. I can see that given your vocation. I have a desk job where I rarely go more than 30 minutes between "hey, come look at this..."

I can't figure out how people find time to listen to podcasts.

Lowes had 210 lumen 3 color Lux-Pro headlamps for $10ea a few days ago. I could only find 2 and bought them both. They work plenty good for my purposes. https://m.lowes.com/pd/Lux-Pro-210-Lumen-LED-Headlamp-Battery-Included/999918364

Heh, I never understood the words to that theme song.

We watched LaVerne & Shirley pretty regularly when I was a kid. She was a good director too. RIP.

Hunting, trapping or possession of albino deer is prohibited as set forth in TCA 70-4-130. An albino deer is a deer with a lack, or significant deficiency, of pigment in the skin and hair, and has pink eyes https://www.tn.gov/twra/hunting/big-game/deer.html

Pushing back is a fine line. You need to have a good relationship with your management. You need to be open and honest that there's more work that can be done, and have them prioritize what gets done first. If management doesn't respect your opinion, your probably better off moving on to something else anyway.

As long as it's not badly corroded, yep.

Yep, we have wifi now. There's probably a way to check data, I just don't know how. I'm not computer illiterate, just that between the wife and kids, I hardly ever use the PC. ATT has comments to the effect that their data limit is comparatively huge, which it may very well be, but they're also trying to sell me something.... I'm just trying to validate that.

So having finally upgrade to a "smart" tv, we're talking about turning the dish off and going the hulu, Netflix, prime route. My first question regards data usage. We'll have to upgrade our internet service and u-verse seems to be the best option, but it's a 1TB monthly limit. Is that enough? There's 4 of us using the wifi and I'm not sure what adding streaming tv on top of that will do. I read that HD programming is roughly 3GB/hr which means 333hrs per month. That's probably more than double what we'd normally watch, but the phone/iPad/pc surfing will add to that. I've no idea what our current monthly data usage is.

The simple, but sometimes not so easy, solution is to push back. Don't answer those after hours calls. Make them leave a message and then decide how important it really is. Most of it can wait until tomorrow. Train and empower others to handle the simple stuff. Don't fuss if they mess it up, reward them for doing something instead of nothing. Go to disconnected places for vacation. No cell service, no wifi. I read somewhere that it takes the average American about 4 uninterrupted days to really relax and start enjoying a vacation. And you start dreading going back to work 2 days before vacation is over. So on a typical 1 week vacation, you get 1-2 days if you're lucky. I've got enough work to do that I could work 100 hrs/wk for several months and likely still not get ahead of the curve. But I'm not gonna work that much so some stuff simply isn't getting done. If management doesn't think it's important enough to allocate or incentivize the available resources, then they must accept the delay. It is what it is. It causes me some stress because I don't like being buried with work, but work isn't priority 1. I'm working through it to the best of my ability and that's all I can do.

The K-BAR's could be in the $60-$100 range depending on the details. Don't know about the other 2.

I'd much prefer the stress be released through a series of small tremors instead of building up to "the big one".

I heard a thump (which woke me up) then a rumble, and the house shook gently for 15-20 seconds. I could hear stuff on the shelves wobbling. I only heard the 2nd one, don't recall feeling any motion. Thankfully I went back to sleep.

Engine blocks and wheels. It's pretty rare for whole blocks to be mag, but pretty common for there to be covers, brackets, and such. Fun story.... many years ago the Porsche club people would bring fragged magnesium engine blocks with them to the Daytona 24hr race. They'd dig a hole in the infield, start a bonfire, and toss a block on when it got dark. It would be daylight within 100yds of there all night long. Anyone who's been to Daytona knows the airport is right next to the track. Pilots complained about the blinding light coming from the track so the FAA made the track stop them from burning magnesium in their bonfire.

Indoor ranges are coated in powder residue. Watch any of the slo-mo videos of bullets exiting a muzzle and you'll see lots of unburned powder come out. I saw a guy with a .50 Desert Eagle set the wall next to him on fire. That was a minor and very slow burning fire, kind of mesmerizing to watch actually. It certainly didn't become the conflagration that happened here.

I usually put rum or brandy in my 'nog. Or maybe the other way around. I like my whisky with ice or coke.

I thought it was a G2. Do they claim it's different? https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/05/the-differences-between-the-taurus-g2c-and-taurus-pt111/ So they changed the trigger bar and the grip texture.

I remember it every year, it's my son's birthday.