Is it Monday yet?

Mako · Post by **Mako** » Sat Mar 09, 2002 8:13 pm

o/~ I want my 21st Century Fox ~o

My refridgerator is empty, my hard disk is full and my dog ran away with the cat (that cheap hussy!) and I'm going through 21CF withdrawls bad, someone please send new strips soon....

In other news, I got this far yesterday:

http://www.caspeed.com/images/383-headson1.jpg - It almost looks like an engine again. One more week and it's a done deal I hope.

Mako
Prozzyzx - Mothers little helper since 1985

Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Sun Mar 10, 2002 2:23 pm

On 2002-03-09 20:13, Mako wrote:
o/~ I want my 21st Century Fox ~o

My refridgerator is empty, my hard disk is full and my dog ran away with the cat (that cheap hussy!) and I'm going through 21CF withdrawls bad, someone please send new strips soon....

That's odd! It must be Monday already!

Crazy crazy weekend folks. And I only got
3 strips in. I normally garantee at least 2.

I went on an impromptu road trip yesterday, which turned out to be a wild weasel chase. I didn't find any SAM sites, nor did I find any weasels. Still, it was a nice chance to drive down I-37 here in South Texas.

If you ever have to drive through South Texas, I-37 is a really nice drive. Nice straight road, 4 lanes, plus 4 lanes of access road.

I was supposed to intercept the owner of a Weasel, but I got held up in traffic, so by the time I got there he was long gone.

This is the sort of weasel I was looking for:
http://www.battlefront.com/resources/mv ... m29_weasel

The top comes off. It's a convertible. (I guess it converts into a ferret.

http://www.caspeed.com/images/383-headson1.jpg - It almost looks like an engine again. One more week and it's a done deal I hope.

Yay!

Sorry I'm behind in mail and posts and all, things are just a bit on the scatterbrained side down here. No major disasters, but enough small ones happening with sufficient rapidity that it's got me distracted.

Scott

Mako · Post by **Mako** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 3:13 am

That's odd! It must be Monday already!

Woohoo!

It's a good thing the hotel employs rabbits, given the rate at which they provide VERY personalized catered in room meals

Crazy crazy weekend folks. And I only got
3 strips in. I normally garantee at least 2.

I'm tail waggin' happy Scott, tnx

I went on an impromptu road trip yesterday, which turned out to be a wild weasel chase. I didn't find any SAM sites, nor did I find

Now how the hell do you know about the Wild Weasels? You are either exceptionally well read or were born with an F4G stick in your paw.

Now a days, they are flying F16sumthings packed to the wingtips (and beyond

with heavy duty ECM pods and other 'tronics.

Almost all the F4's are now either grounded or were used as missile test targets. That's about the loudest (and smokiest afterburner

single engine fighter I've ever heard. Hard to mistake the sound of an F4 engine on the burner for any other aircraft, that's for certain.

If you ever have to drive through South Texas, I-37 is a really nice drive. Nice straight road, 4 lanes, plus 4 lanes of access road.

And not a Zzyxz in sight

This is the sort of weasel I was looking for:
http://www.battlefront.com/resources/mv ... m29_weasel

The top comes off. It's a convertible. (I guess it converts into a ferret.

Ha!

Ain't that cute? It's an amphib too iirc...

Sorry I'm behind in mail and posts and all, things are just a bit on the scatterbrained side down here. No major disasters, but enough small ones happening with sufficient rapidity that it's got me distracted.

Nods, I know how it goes.

Saturday was a great day for the local motorheads here. My very good friend finally got his Z28 into the 9's at Sacremento. The car has a way pumped up drivetrain, 6 point cage and the full interior, stereo, AC - the works. He drives the damn thing to work!

This is one of the more amazing cars out there, and I'm not saying that just because I've given up my fair share of blood and busted knuckles turning wrenches on it. If your into 700HP+ daily drivers:

http://para.noid.org/~lj/ will do nicely.

And for you South Park fans, you'll be happy to know that the valve train gnomes showed up in my garage today and bolted the rest of the valvetrain into my engine for me, wheeee!

They even took another photo for me and posted it onto my web site, wheee II!

http://www.caspeed.com/images/383-valvetrain1.jpg

Now all I need are the intake angle milling gnomes to pop in for a quick .070" shave on my intake and I'll be stuffing that bullet back into Red's chamber for a little test firing next week, I hope...

Tnx!
Mako
ZZyzx Gnome In Charge

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Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 6:04 pm

On 2002-03-11 03:13, Mako wrote:
Woohoo! It's a good thing the hotel employs rabbits, given the rate at which they provide VERY personalized catered in room meals
The Embassy Stalls Hotel chain doesn't appear to hire very intelligent bunnies...

{Weasels}
Now how the hell do you know about the Wild Weasels? You are either exceptionally well read or were born with an F4G stick in your paw.
I don't get as much time to read as I used to with the History Channel around. (Good grief? You mean there's actually something *good* on the tube?!?)

{F-4 Phantom IIs}
That's about the loudest (and smokiest afterburner single engine fighter I've ever heard. Hard to mistake the sound of an F4 engine on the burner for any other aircraft, that's for certain.
I'm not at all certain, but, I when I was about 4 or 5, my family went to see the Blue Angels, and I *think* they were flying F-4s. But, I'm not sure when they switched from F-4s to A-4 Skyhawks.

{I-37 in South Texas}
And not a Zzyxz in sight

Actually, it's fairly well under patrolled. The highway runs about 150 miles with only a very few small towns along it. This is one of the reasons I like it alot.

{Mako's Camero}
Lookin good! Hope she gets on the road soon!

Scott

Nebulous Rikulau · Post by **Nebulous Rikulau** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 8:35 pm

On 2002-03-11 03:13, Mako wrote:
Woohoo! It's a good thing the hotel employs rabbits, given the rate at which they provide VERY personalized catered in room meals

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On 2002-03-11 18:04, Kellogg wrote:
The Embassy Stalls Hotel chain doesn't appear to hire very intelligent bunnies...

So it's a good thing that they breed like
umm...
like rabbits, I guess.

Nebulous Rikulau

Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Tue Mar 12, 2002 5:06 am

On 2002-03-11 20:35, Nebulous Rikulau wrote:

So it's a good thing that they breed like
umm...
like rabbits, I guess.

In case anyone wondered, the genetically modified bioluminescent rabbits of this world have established warrens in Antarctica and on the moon. They're the only places that glow-in-the-dark bunnies can live long enough when surrounded by intelligent carnivores.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/ ... 00918.html

Scott

Nebulous Rikulau · Post by **Nebulous Rikulau** » Tue Mar 12, 2002 7:27 pm

On 2002-03-12 05:06, Kellogg wrote:
In case anyone wondered, the genetically modified bioluminescent rabbits of this world have established warrens in Antarctica and on the moon. They're the only places that glow-in-the-dark bunnies can live long enough when surrounded by intelligent carnivores.

I would have thought that they would have gone in for further gengineering to develop photophores like some squid have.

Imagine trying to hunt in a field of randomly flashing bunnies that only move when they have blinked out.

Intelligent predators or not, on a moonless night that would be maddening.

Nebulous

Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Tue Mar 12, 2002 8:25 pm

{Glow in the dark bunnies}

On 2002-03-12 19:27, Nebulous Rikulau wrote:
I would have thought that they would have gone in for further gengineering to develop photophores like some squid have.

Imagine trying to hunt in a field of randomly flashing bunnies that only move when they have blinked out.

Intelligent predators or not, on a moonless night that would be maddening.

Good point! Though, most of the night hunting predators have good enough night vision that they could see them anyway. But, if you could really control it like a flash bulb to dazzle somebody...

Mako · Post by **Mako** » Wed Mar 13, 2002 10:25 pm

Glow in the dark rabbits are readily available at your nearest nuclear power facilty ;-P

This bad boy is almost ready for stuffing under the hood, yay!

http://www.caspeed.com/gallery8/images/ ... p1-320.jpg

I had some phun phun phun today hacking poly bushings into my motor mounts (which are some way beyond phunky parts). I got to use all sorts of power tools and my favorite tool ever: The Mini Sledge Hammer.

There is precious little that a mini sledge can't fix/calibrate/modify/restore/smash into tiny bits. Those few automotive items a mini sledge can't handle requires either a plasma torch or the Big John Sledge-o-matic,

Life Is Good

Mako
16 Ton's 'o Zzyzx

Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 2:59 pm

On 2002-03-13 22:25, Mako wrote:
Glow in the dark rabbits are readily available at your nearest nuclear power facilty ;-P

Now That's a great idea!
Fewer predators would be inclined to eat glowing bunnies near a nuclear reactor. Perfect camoflage, unless you happen to find a predator who happens to know something about how radiation really works.

Still, I bet a lot of those rabbits would pursue a career in nuclear energy.

This bad boy is almost ready for stuffing under the hood, yay!

She's definitely looking more like an engine, instead of a pile o parts!

There is precious little that a mini sledge can't fix/calibrate/modify/restore/smash into tiny bits. Those few automotive items a mini sledge can't handle requires either a plasma torch or the Big John Sledge-o-matic

But... Does it work with watermelons?

Scott

Mothspiral · Post by **Mothspiral** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 8:00 am

On 2002-03-14 14:59, Kellogg wrote:
But... Does it work with watermelons?

Watermelons require broadswords.

ZOMBIE USER 6611 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 6611** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 9:54 am

Watermelons require broadswords.

Ahh, I did see the most amazing demonstration involving a young girl, a watermelon, and a katana. The guy was very good indeed -- and blindfolded. One slip and she would have been...melancholy.

===|==============/ Level Head

Icefox · Post by **Icefox** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 2:00 pm

*To pun or not to pun... that is the question... Ah well, he started it...*

The guy must have been very level-headed to undertake such a feat...

Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 7:34 pm

On 2002-03-16 14:00, Icefox wrote:
The guy must have been very level-headed to undertake such a feat...

One would hope he wasn't De-feeted.

Scott

ZOMBIE USER 6611 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 6611** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 8:10 am

On 2002-03-16 19:34, Kellogg wrote:
One would hope he wasn't De-feeted.

I'm certainly not the only one here who dabbles both in wordplay and swordplay.

I appreciated Mr. Kellogg's comment about the rabbits at a nuclear facility -- not really scaring off predators if they understood how radiation works.

For most people, it is trendy to think terrible things about such places:

"Pre-faded genes only beyond this point"

Kellogg · Post by **Kellogg** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 11:23 am

On 2002-03-17 08:10, LevelHead wrote:

"Pre-faded genes only beyond this point"

Oooooh!
(Head in hands snickering.)