Random Jabber Jibber thread

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
More cool stuff. On my street (literally; the surround is pavement) there is a young harvester ant nest. The symmetry of it is pleasing. I’m glad I got this shot before something in the rabbit weight class stepped on it. About ten inches

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Coupla days ago an F-35 did its thing overhead. It went two full circles, and in the 20x binos it was edge-on, maybe 75 degrees of bank.

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Yesterday - a winter afternoon sky and April is almost over.

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Earlier, a few scraps of fire rainbow.

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This morning, cool cloud ripples.

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Singlemalt

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More cool stuff. On my street (literally; the surround us pavement) there is a young harvester ant nest. The symmetry of it is pleasing. I’m glad I got this shit before something in the rabbit weight class stepped on it. About ten inches

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Coupla days ago an F-35 did its thing overhead. It went two full circles, and in the 20x binos it was edge-on, maybe 75 degrees of bank.

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Yesterday - a winter afternoon sky and April is almost over.

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Earlier, a few scraps of fire rainbow.

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This morning, cool cloud ripples.

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Try to get a pic of the nest each month as it matures, all sorts of fascinating crap they throw away during housekeeping
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Try to get a pic of the nest each month as it matures, all sorts of fascinating crap they throw away during housekeeping
I’ll keep an eye on it. Last year’s got run over in May.

I had a big one in the back. It had a great crescent of dark vegetable debris on the leeward side. It only last week showed signs of life. It’s been a dry winter. Last spring I had a solid carpet of weeds at this time. This season gave less than an inch of rain total, and the weeds, even counting late emergers, have been a coupla dozen. I spared a few from the hand-hoe, and half of those died on their own. I’ll terminate the experiment before the survivors set seed, and here seeds are mostly spines, hooks and barbs.
 

Metasynth

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So I was going to do the Lost Coast backpacking trip next week, but it’s supposed to be cold and windy, and my car is in the shitter.

I just checked, and luckily they had one permit open for July 5th. So I guess I’m pushin it back a couple months so I don’t have to rent a car for $400...lol

random jabber jibber
 

manfredo

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So I was going to do the Lost Coast backpacking trip next week, but it’s supposed to be cold and windy, and my car is in the shitter.

I just checked, and luckily they had one permit open for July 5th. So I guess I’m pushin it back a couple months so I don’t have to rent a car for $400...lol

random jabber jibber
It'll probably be a hell of a lot more enjoyable weather in July. Good call.

What's up with the car?


I am debating on booking a trip to Puerto Rico in December, for my 60th b-day. I'm just wondering how things will be then virus related. But It's a petty good deal. A cruise out of NYC one way to Puerto Rico, stopping in 3 other ports first...It's a repositioning cruise and they will sail from there all winter (they hope). Then I could chill in PR for a couple days, and fly back to NYC and be home a few days before Christmas...flights are cheap too. But, with Covid, who knows what things will be.

dabber-jabber :lol:
 

Metasynth

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It'll probably be a hell of a lot more enjoyable weather in July. Good call.

What's up with the car?


I am debating on booking a trip to Puerto Rico in December, for my 60th b-day. I'm just wondering how things will be then virus related. But It's a petty good deal. A cruise out of NYC one way to Puerto Rico, stopping in 3 other ports first...It's a repositioning cruise and they will sail from there all winter (they hope). Then I could chill in PR for a couple days, and fly back to NYC and be home a few days before Christmas...flights are cheap too. But, with Covid, who knows what things will be.

dabber-jabber :lol:
It’s a mid 2000s Volvo, I think I fried my ECM. I kept getting a bunch of weird error codes that shouldn’t have been there, then the power completely died with the key stuck in the ignition. Cant even remove it...lol.

I dunno, I don’t think that’s a cheap fix. I’ve been neglecting having it towed into a shop, but I finally called my Volvo guy and I’ll probably have him look at it next week.
 

raratt

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It’s a mid 2000s Volvo, I think I fried my ECM. I kept getting a bunch of weird error codes that shouldn’t have been there, then the power completely died with the key stuck in the ignition. Cant even remove it...lol.

I dunno, I don’t think that’s a cheap fix. I’ve been neglecting having it towed into a shop, but I finally called my Volvo guy and I’ll probably have him look at it next week.
Check the under hood fuse panel.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Try to get a pic of the nest each month as it matures, all sorts of fascinating crap they throw away during housekeeping
Presented is the latest flyover photointel of the target mound, URef designation 021sp34z.

Analysis reveals damage from three (3) separate adverse events or conditions.

Assigning “up from the opening” as positional angle 0 in radial coordinates, a major disruption of the perimeter is visible from p. a. 355 to 020, with lesser displacements extending to p. a. 070. While the intruder has not been directly observed, the damage is consistent with a collisional interaction from a Lagomorph-class heavy cruiser.

At p.a. 275 a smaller breach suggests a not-aggressively prosecuted raid, probably by a Raven-class corsair. Due to continuing atmospherics, an unguided strike by a trashteroid cannot be excluded.

Finally, a general loss of definition affecting the entire fortification is attributed to sustained atmospheric effects (v.s.) displacing high-drag components of the structure.

Closer inspection reveals that the 71st “Seed Rangers” are active onsite and receiving logistical and demolition/construction support from the 403rd engineer battalion “Arthropod Architects”.

Also, several platoons of the 9th Shock Force Division “Toxic Telsons” are observed joining elements of the 1st Division “Vicious Vermin” in rapid realization of fully prepared defensive emplacements by nightfall. Some attrition of frontline troops is projected as a result of ongoing adverse atmospherics.

A Meteorological Support Team lieutenant (name and serial number withheld by request) has summed up the threat as “inFUCKINGcessant wind”.

A more senior source expressed optimism that a complete restoration of the mound would be achieved in short order, then in a quiet aside, “barring the Autopocalypse of course”.

Despite increasingly pointed requests from HM’s Own Deep Command, no estimated time commitment to completion of repairs has been communicated.

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Further photoreconnaissance missions are in advanced planning, their operation interval contingent on atmospherics being within assigned go/no go limits.
 
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curious2garden

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Staff member
Presented is the latest flyover photointel of the target mound, URef designation 021sp34z.

Analysis reveals damage from three (3) separate adverse events or conditions.

Assigning “up from the opening” as positional angle 0 in radial coordinates, a major disruption of the perimeter is visible from p. a. 355 to 020, with lesser displacements extending to p. a. 070. While the intruder has not been directly observed, the damage is consistent with a collisional interaction from a Lagomorph-class heavy cruiser.

At p.a. 275 a smaller breach suggests a not-aggressively prosecuted raid, probably by a Raven-class corsair. Due to continuing atmospherics, an unguided strike by a trashteroid cannot be excluded.

Finally, a general loss of definition affecting the entire fortification is attributed to sustained atmospheric effects (v.s.) displacing high-drag components of the structure.

Closer inspection reveals that the 71st “Seed Rangers” are active onsite and receiving logistical and demolition/construction support from the 403rd engineer battalion “Arthropod Architects”.

Also, several platoons of the 9th Shock Force Division “Toxic Telsons” are observed joining elements of the 1st Division “Vicious Vermin” in rapid realization of fully prepared defensive emplacements by nightfall. Some attrition of frontline troops is projected as a result of ongoing adverse atmospherics.

A Meteorological Support Team lieutenant (name and serial number withheld by request) has summed up the threat as “inFUCKINGcessant wind”.

A more senior source expressed optimism that a complete restoration of the mound would be achieved in short order, then in a quiet aside, “barring the Autopocalypse of course”.

Despite increasingly pointed requests from HM’s Own Deep Command, no estimated time commitment to completion of repairs has been communicated.

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Further photoreconnaissance missions are in advanced planning, their operation interval contingent on atmospherics being within assigned go/no go limits.
You flipped your camera 180 degrees, more consistent mission planning required.
 

raratt

Well-Known Member
Presented is the latest flyover photointel of the target mound, URef designation 021sp34z.

Analysis reveals damage from three (3) separate adverse events or conditions.

Assigning “up from the opening” as positional angle 0 in radial coordinates, a major disruption of the perimeter is visible from p. a. 355 to 020, with lesser displacements extending to p. a. 070. While the intruder has not been directly observed, the damage is consistent with a collisional interaction from a Lagomorph-class heavy cruiser.

At p.a. 275 a smaller breach suggests a not-aggressively prosecuted raid, probably by a Raven-class corsair. Due to continuing atmospherics, an unguided strike by a trashteroid cannot be excluded.

Finally, a general loss of definition affecting the entire fortification is attributed to sustained atmospheric effects (v.s.) displacing high-drag components of the structure.

Closer inspection reveals that the 71st “Seed Rangers” are active onsite and receiving logistical and demolition/construction support from the 403rd engineer battalion “Arthropod Architects”.

Also, several platoons of the 9th Shock Force Division “Toxic Telsons” are observed joining elements of the 1st Division “Vicious Vermin” in rapid realization of fully prepared defensive emplacements by nightfall. Some attrition of frontline troops is projected as a result of ongoing adverse atmospherics.

A Meteorological Support Team lieutenant (name and serial number withheld by request) has summed up the threat as “inFUCKINGcessant wind”.

A more senior source expressed optimism that a complete restoration of the mound would be achieved in short order, then in a quiet aside, “barring the Autopocalypse of course”.

Despite increasingly pointed requests from HM’s Own Deep Command, no estimated time commitment to completion of repairs has been communicated.

View attachment 4889108

Further photoreconnaissance missions are in advanced planning, their operation interval contingent on atmospherics being within assigned go/no go limits.
Go with a synthetic aperture radar, not affected by atmospheric conditions.
 
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