i have an electro-mechanical puck bowler - you'll need to check that out someday....
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i have an electro-mechanical puck bowler - you'll need to check that out someday....
Im free to go balls deep into this if needed..
gtluke
The Moped
does your hose smell like corn starch?
House?
It smells like corn starch and cigarettes. There is some delam on the surface - put it on the list of stuff to do some day.
I saw a guy driving with the belly pan of his car dragging the ground last week. But it was in the parking lot of an assisted living facility.
Monday, August 3, 2015
I am working again. It is the first day of the project where I am truly working from home for real. Last Friday was technically that, but nobody was doing anything last week after the week of travel. I had sent an email late afternoon that never got answered. This company pretty much checks out at 3pm every day. Fine by me, whatever.
So the Julia Summer Camp Roulette Wheel has started, which means that this week she is not in camp and we need to figure out what to do with her. I pretty much always take her, since it means extra time with me regardless of my working or not. So bright and early at 8am she comes plowing through the door and she's at the kitchen table reading. No good morning, no hello, no hug/kiss, nothing. Ok well, kids. I'm glad she likes to read.
As opposed to letting her sit on the iPad all day I break up the iPadding with coloring, then making beads. All in all she seems to be a nicer human being when she does some sort of craft. I think this goes for all kids. When they stare at the iPad for too long, their brains begin to melt and ooze out of their ears. For those parents with post-toddler kids, you know what I mean. The 2 older ones have taken to watching some Brit play Minecraft. Yes I will say this again on its own line.
They watch someone else play a video game.
Don't get me wrong, as a teen I used to play video games like nobody's business. I remember listening the the Replacements Don't Tell a Soul and playing some sort of Hobbit-based video game on the C64 for literally 12-18 hours on end. Like this my whole day at times. I totally get the mind-melting-into-video-world vortex. I really do. And I remember in post-college when people would watch me play Tetris (I was not Japanese Guy Insane Good but I was pretty good). But watching literally hours and hours of some guy play Minecraft is not something I can wrap my head around.
Anyway, I get her to do some crafts to prevent the mind melt. In general it works. I had some other stuff lined up but her mother is done with school early and comes by to get her at 1:00. Ok, well the rest can wait another day.
As for work, I am still trying to figure out if this project is as easy as it seems, or there's a gotcha of some sort. I did work through some of the bugs of converting my first report. Last week I had gone through the work the previous guy did and fixed some of his bugs, and made some changes for Angie. I was pretty confident going into this week but I hadn't done anything from scratch. It took maybe 6 hours to nail this one down which is a bit longer than I hoped, but in the end within my target of doing it end of day. So far, so good.
Bike Work
Ok so now we line up things for the fall season also known as cross season. I'm not going to say that I am or am not targeting much of anything this fall other than to do some races. I want to do better than last year, and I want to make my crossresults score better. I also want to not burn out and have the most amount of fun I can on the bike, all while destroying the souls of anyone who lines up with me. Or something like that. I'll be racing 45+ this year, if that means anything.
I went out Monday to actually try some efforts again. I rode my bike and gave 5 different Strava segments the old "college try" as it were.
1. Round Top Ripper (Moritz)
2. Allen Road (Moritz)
3. Mount Airy (2nd rate one)
4. Some random BS thing out of the swamp (2nd rate)
5. Sawmill (close to house)
Overall I ended up 2nd on #2. The others I did less good than my best ever. I will say that on #5 I had more in the tank than I would have at any other point in the last 2 years on a ride like this. My endurance seems to be getting better but my legs felt heavy as shit. I guess this is to be expected after riding so much in July. And I have not done an interval since June. But still, this one hurt for any number of reasons.
Strava ranks aside, this was really an effort to see what sort of power numbers I could come up with. Here's what the day looked like, and I understand if most of you DGAF about this. I put this here for the few people who do. This won't be the bulk of the discussion here. Just today I digress to see what power looks like.
1. 4:54 @399w
2. 5:22 @390w
3. 3:07 @390w
4. 2:52 @342w
5. 2:54 @400w
I think #5 was telling there. This was almost 1:40 into the ride and I was able to knock that one back up to 400w. I don't put much stock in #4. I hate that climb and always have just because it's not a very enjoyable road to me. So whatever. But I felt like on #5 I pushed the gas pedal a little harder, and the engine responded. This is the first time I have had that feeling where you push it over the rev limiter and instead of the engine faltering, it actually responded. It was not an amazing ride but that would be my small takeaway from everything.
Ok that is all on bike training. I'll try not to bore people too much on that. I took no pictures on this day. So it goes.
I am working again. It is the first day of the project where I am truly working from home for real. Last Friday was technically that, but nobody was doing anything last week after the week of travel. I had sent an email late afternoon that never got answered. This company pretty much checks out at 3pm every day. Fine by me, whatever.
So the Julia Summer Camp Roulette Wheel has started, which means that this week she is not in camp and we need to figure out what to do with her. I pretty much always take her, since it means extra time with me regardless of my working or not. So bright and early at 8am she comes plowing through the door and she's at the kitchen table reading. No good morning, no hello, no hug/kiss, nothing. Ok well, kids. I'm glad she likes to read.
As opposed to letting her sit on the iPad all day I break up the iPadding with coloring, then making beads. All in all she seems to be a nicer human being when she does some sort of craft. I think this goes for all kids. When they stare at the iPad for too long, their brains begin to melt and ooze out of their ears. For those parents with post-toddler kids, you know what I mean. The 2 older ones have taken to watching some Brit play Minecraft. Yes I will say this again on its own line.
They watch someone else play a video game.
Don't get me wrong, as a teen I used to play video games like nobody's business. I remember listening the the Replacements Don't Tell a Soul and playing some sort of Hobbit-based video game on the C64 for literally 12-18 hours on end. Like this my whole day at times. I totally get the mind-melting-into-video-world vortex. I really do. And I remember in post-college when people would watch me play Tetris (I was not Japanese Guy Insane Good but I was pretty good). But watching literally hours and hours of some guy play Minecraft is not something I can wrap my head around.
Anyway, I get her to do some crafts to prevent the mind melt. In general it works. I had some other stuff lined up but her mother is done with school early and comes by to get her at 1:00. Ok, well the rest can wait another day.
As for work, I am still trying to figure out if this project is as easy as it seems, or there's a gotcha of some sort. I did work through some of the bugs of converting my first report. Last week I had gone through the work the previous guy did and fixed some of his bugs, and made some changes for Angie. I was pretty confident going into this week but I hadn't done anything from scratch. It took maybe 6 hours to nail this one down which is a bit longer than I hoped, but in the end within my target of doing it end of day. So far, so good.
Bike Work
Ok so now we line up things for the fall season also known as cross season. I'm not going to say that I am or am not targeting much of anything this fall other than to do some races. I want to do better than last year, and I want to make my crossresults score better. I also want to not burn out and have the most amount of fun I can on the bike, all while destroying the souls of anyone who lines up with me. Or something like that. I'll be racing 45+ this year, if that means anything.
I went out Monday to actually try some efforts again. I rode my bike and gave 5 different Strava segments the old "college try" as it were.
1. Round Top Ripper (Moritz)
2. Allen Road (Moritz)
3. Mount Airy (2nd rate one)
4. Some random BS thing out of the swamp (2nd rate)
5. Sawmill (close to house)
Overall I ended up 2nd on #2. The others I did less good than my best ever. I will say that on #5 I had more in the tank than I would have at any other point in the last 2 years on a ride like this. My endurance seems to be getting better but my legs felt heavy as shit. I guess this is to be expected after riding so much in July. And I have not done an interval since June. But still, this one hurt for any number of reasons.
Strava ranks aside, this was really an effort to see what sort of power numbers I could come up with. Here's what the day looked like, and I understand if most of you DGAF about this. I put this here for the few people who do. This won't be the bulk of the discussion here. Just today I digress to see what power looks like.
1. 4:54 @399w
2. 5:22 @390w
3. 3:07 @390w
4. 2:52 @342w
5. 2:54 @400w
I think #5 was telling there. This was almost 1:40 into the ride and I was able to knock that one back up to 400w. I don't put much stock in #4. I hate that climb and always have just because it's not a very enjoyable road to me. So whatever. But I felt like on #5 I pushed the gas pedal a little harder, and the engine responded. This is the first time I have had that feeling where you push it over the rev limiter and instead of the engine faltering, it actually responded. It was not an amazing ride but that would be my small takeaway from everything.
Ok that is all on bike training. I'll try not to bore people too much on that. I took no pictures on this day. So it goes.
nice ride...
They are looking to monetize the 'watch other people play' - as in the final rounds of tournament play in call of duty may be ppv. guess it is like watching golf on tv?
or some bicycle race on terrain which we can not reproduce......
They are looking to monetize the 'watch other people play' - as in the final rounds of tournament play in call of duty may be ppv. guess it is like watching golf on tv?
or some bicycle race on terrain which we can not reproduce......
It is Stampy Cat or Diamond Minecart
My son was into stampy until he found Diamond Minecart. Somehow these inspire him to build more stuff in Minecraft amd some times i look at his Mincraft worlds and think "oh shit, he built this!?" Stampy is pretty harmless but Diamond Minecart dude gets into some borderline this is appropriate for an 8 year old stuff and has spin off stuff and apprently some type of video blog type thing. Mind you this is from what I overhear when he is watching it with in earshot.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
I loved video games as much as any kid, but damn was it boring to watch someone else play when it wasn't "my turn". Not sure how these kids do it. I have 13 year old brothers that do the same thing. I need to come up with a YouTube concept that gets millions of hits, that's really what it's about in the end. As I write this from the " break room", I don't think the idea that just popped into my head is going to work. Well, not in YouTube anyway...
Having overhead it enough, Minecraft lends itself well to the whole watch me play thing because people can make their own stories. That stampy cat one has a whole storyline behind it with bad guys and dare I say, some depth. The diamond dude with do stuff like, I can going to build this thing to throw my virtual friends off so they die type thing, so it is one, very creative, but similar to anyone telling a story.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
@davidcarson48 is in Cali right now, probably driving 120mph on the 5 freeway and using his NJ badge to get out of tickets and short cut lines at disneyland. 🙂
@davidcarson48 aka Captain Beef Dart is probably throwing a dildo at someone as I post, he ain't got time to enforce ex post facto laws.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
I'm home now! I am hoping the Chief decides to drug test me; it means a day off the road in this heat.
No one in NJ really cares about speeders. That's somewhere like #9 on the priority list behind coffee and lunch and scoping out the condo pools for tail.
We did more like 20mph on the 405 all weekend. The motorcycle ride to Temecula was a little more spirited, doe.
From what I hear, CHP writes other Cali cops, so I'm sure they wouldn't GAF about writing some East Coast douche.
No one in NJ really cares about speeders. That's somewhere like #9 on the priority list behind coffee and lunch and scoping out the condo pools for tail.
We did more like 20mph on the 405 all weekend. The motorcycle ride to Temecula was a little more spirited, doe.
From what I hear, CHP writes other Cali cops, so I'm sure they wouldn't GAF about writing some East Coast douche.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
I wake up at 6am and by 7am I can confirm that this project is as easy as I had been thinking. Well, let me restate. The core project of converting the reports into the tool is easy. I get today's report done in less than 30 minutes. The challenge here will be working with the people on both sides. These are the users (Angie) and some set of people producing the data. So far the report producers are a mixed bag. Angie has been easy to work with.
I go pick up Julia today because her mom is sick and I need to run errands. I have 6 things to do:
1. Drop some stuff off at Simon's daycare
2. Get Julia
3. Run to Shop Rite
4. Stop at Panera to get a free coffee
5. Go to the hardware store for paint
6. Get gas for the lawnmower
#5 is Julia's project of the day. She gets to paint the bat house. This is the first step in trying to get them out of the house. The amount of bat shit & nyjer seed on the patio is disgusting. They need to go.
At 11:30 we are off to meet my parents for lunch in Clinton. They are taking her for a few days so we're meeting up at the house of butter also known as Cracker Barrel. While we're out there we see my aunt/uncle not-really-cousin Heather, who used to have a totally random connection with @davidcarson48 as I think she dated his dispatcher years ago. We talk a bit, then eat lunch, then I'm off back home. Rest of the work day is unremarkable.
Around 4:00 I saddle up and ride to Lewis Morris where I meet @UtahJoe for a little, then we meet @Dominique, @gtluke, @ajcourain, @Santapez, and @IDontKnowAly'sScreenName for Aly's birthday ride. We ride around for a while and around 7:30 we go back to the cars and then drive to some all-you-can-eat sushi place in Denville where we meet up with some wives & girlfriends, including @MissJR and @IDontKnowMaria'sScreenNameOrIfSheHasOne and @MrsUtah.
We take our seats and the table is 14 people, so we have a natural split of our half, and their half. We have the heavy hitters on our side, notable myself, Utah, and Luke. D is also a big player in the sushi game and can hold her own. They have a bunch of thin people on their side. So we embark on this gluttony and it goes like this...
Round 1. We get a sushi boat and 2 plates. They get a plate and a boat. We obliterate all our stuff then have to finish their boat.
Round 2. We get another plate with 7 or 8 rolls and the waitress tells us we have tapped them out on all their sushi rice so she can't give us all we ordered. They get a single roll. We destroy our plate in about 3 minutes.
I am fairly sure that Luke, Utah, and I could take on a ship full of vikings in a sushi contest. This was not an official Team Tuesday ride but damn, I think we need to consider going back here again like once a month or so. This was really good and well beyond what I would have expected from anything tagged as "all you can eat". Next time we'll need to get there earlier so they know to keep making the rice. Like Luke asked, does it look like we had all we could eat? This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where they go to an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant and Homer eats them out of everything, then they ride around town all night looking for another place to get more seafood.
I wake up at 6am and by 7am I can confirm that this project is as easy as I had been thinking. Well, let me restate. The core project of converting the reports into the tool is easy. I get today's report done in less than 30 minutes. The challenge here will be working with the people on both sides. These are the users (Angie) and some set of people producing the data. So far the report producers are a mixed bag. Angie has been easy to work with.
I go pick up Julia today because her mom is sick and I need to run errands. I have 6 things to do:
1. Drop some stuff off at Simon's daycare
2. Get Julia
3. Run to Shop Rite
4. Stop at Panera to get a free coffee
5. Go to the hardware store for paint
6. Get gas for the lawnmower
#5 is Julia's project of the day. She gets to paint the bat house. This is the first step in trying to get them out of the house. The amount of bat shit & nyjer seed on the patio is disgusting. They need to go.
At 11:30 we are off to meet my parents for lunch in Clinton. They are taking her for a few days so we're meeting up at the house of butter also known as Cracker Barrel. While we're out there we see my aunt/uncle not-really-cousin Heather, who used to have a totally random connection with @davidcarson48 as I think she dated his dispatcher years ago. We talk a bit, then eat lunch, then I'm off back home. Rest of the work day is unremarkable.
Around 4:00 I saddle up and ride to Lewis Morris where I meet @UtahJoe for a little, then we meet @Dominique, @gtluke, @ajcourain, @Santapez, and @IDontKnowAly'sScreenName for Aly's birthday ride. We ride around for a while and around 7:30 we go back to the cars and then drive to some all-you-can-eat sushi place in Denville where we meet up with some wives & girlfriends, including @MissJR and @IDontKnowMaria'sScreenNameOrIfSheHasOne and @MrsUtah.
We take our seats and the table is 14 people, so we have a natural split of our half, and their half. We have the heavy hitters on our side, notable myself, Utah, and Luke. D is also a big player in the sushi game and can hold her own. They have a bunch of thin people on their side. So we embark on this gluttony and it goes like this...
Round 1. We get a sushi boat and 2 plates. They get a plate and a boat. We obliterate all our stuff then have to finish their boat.
Round 2. We get another plate with 7 or 8 rolls and the waitress tells us we have tapped them out on all their sushi rice so she can't give us all we ordered. They get a single roll. We destroy our plate in about 3 minutes.
I am fairly sure that Luke, Utah, and I could take on a ship full of vikings in a sushi contest. This was not an official Team Tuesday ride but damn, I think we need to consider going back here again like once a month or so. This was really good and well beyond what I would have expected from anything tagged as "all you can eat". Next time we'll need to get there earlier so they know to keep making the rice. Like Luke asked, does it look like we had all we could eat? This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where they go to an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant and Homer eats them out of everything, then they ride around town all night looking for another place to get more seafood.