The random thought thread

[Iowatech]

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Seems like a good tip.
As always, open he link at your own peril.

[Iowatech]

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How to turn an enemy into a friend.
Also, actual science on why shoelaces become untied. I always tuck the loose ends in between the tongue and the upper, so most of the time I don't have that problem. It looks less sloppy that way too.
As always, open the links at your own peril.
Speaking of shoes, you ever notice that some of the cheaper ones have ridiculously long shoe laces? Wal Mart used to have some cheap but decent looking shoes that were pretty comfortable and had a facsimile of the Vibram boot sole that worked well enough in the mild winters here. But the shoe laces were long enough that I could have used them on my steel toed boots that I had to keep in the car because OSHA.
Heh, the time I went to Fort Leonard Wood, the support shop we were working in made us wear corrugated metal covers on our boots. We affectionately nicknamed them moose lips.

[Geo]

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Remember when you were young and would just leap over small fences with no effort?



http://i.imgur.com/cA3Gu9z.mp4

Thanks for depressing me....

[fixthecopier]

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Remember when you were young and would just leap over small fences with no effort?

http://i.imgur.com/cA3Gu9z.mp4

[BLADE]

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you have a great dog

[Iowatech]

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Morels.jpg

[Iowatech]

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Isaac Newton says we can't have flying cars? Aw...
Well, if that's the case, this will do:

[TheBlueOrleans]

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Ugh, sauerkraut is supposed to be sour, not sweet.

Per Google Translate (however accurate that may be) that would be "nicht sauerkraut".

[Iowatech]

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Ugh, sauerkraut is supposed to be sour, not sweet.

[Iowatech]

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Space X launched a rocket recently that had their first recycled first stage. I got to see most of the the feed of that flight.
Also, the lounge area that used to be on Boeing 747s. I've only been on a 747 once during the flight back to CONUS from one of the humanitarian missions while I was probably in the Reserves. It may have been a cargo conversion (it was an Evergreen Airlines aircraft, and if I am wrong I sincerely apologize!), but since there was only several hundred people on board it was a fairly pleasant flight. So if fate and circumstances allow you to travel on a 747, I encourage you to consider it a positive thing.
Finally, if you are in the northern hemisphere and the sky is clear, you might look for the Fool's Comet Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak. Theoretically it should be visible with binoculars in the northern sky now, but the link will have some coverage of it too.

As always, open the links at your own peril.

[slimslob]

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Killdozer? Not quite. More like Soylent Green's riot trucks.
Open the links at your own peril.
Still, MUAHAHAHAHA!

Here's a YouTube of the thing. You only need to watch it halfway though, as it starts over then (when you see the donuts for the second time).

I think a snowplow train would also work.

[Iowatech]

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Killdozer? Not quite. More like Soylent Green's riot trucks.
Open the links at your own peril.
Still, MUAHAHAHAHA!

Here's a YouTube of the thing. You only need to watch it halfway though, as it starts over then (when you see the donuts for the second time).

[Iowatech]

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Killdozer? Not quite. More like Soylent Green's riot trucks.
Open the links at your own peril.
Still, MUAHAHAHAHA!

[Ratchet2501]

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Hmm, what a week it has been.

Went to the Doc's for a routine check up last week. A day later I was diagnosed with late stage cancer.

My doc says I need chemo and radiation asap. I think I'm going to move into a specialized hospital in Texas or somewhere on the west coast by next week.

Anyway, I won't be around anymore.

Wish me luck......

Give em hell brother!

[TheBlueOrleans]

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Got some lyrics stuck in my head, first heard them ages ago in the opening credits of the movie "Blown Away" (I know, don't remind me).
So for our friends from Eire, here are the lyrics to what I'm pretty sure is the first verse of The Prince's Day.
I'm working on this on violin, scratching my way through it. Tough challenge for a beginner.


"Though dark are our sorrows, today we'll forget them
And smile through our tears like a sunbeam in showers.
There never were hearts, if our rulers would let them,
More formed to be tranquil and blessed than ours.

But just when the chain has ceased to pain
And hope has en-wreathed it 'round with flowers,
There comes a new link our spirit to sink.

Oh, the joy that we taste, like the light of the poles
Is a flash amid darkness, too brilliant to stay.
But though t'were the last little spark in our souls
We must light it up now on our Prince's Day."


Now that I've gotten that typed out, maybe I'll get something else stuck in my head.
Maybe "PRN" by Ryan Delahoussaye of Blue October. Now there's a challenge for a beginner violinist.