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Quoteyep, I have a bunch of snakes in my yard. mostly corn/rat snakes, one large indigo, and we caught a fews pics of this one about 6 months ago.
Makes us worry, the dogs (6 of them) are outside a lot. if they decide to get curious with the wrong snake - it will be very bad.....
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Quotetoday, just now, about 2 feet long - what kind of snake is this? I am thinking a cottonmouth, but I know shit about snakes
Hi, TK. Like everyone else is saying, definitely not a moccasin. But, don't worry! There is certainly no shortage of cottonmouth moccasins around Zhills and central Florida. (or eastern diamondbacks, or pygmies! Lots of coral snakes too. You just don't see them as often.) -
QuoteShuttle landing in about 30 minutes...... scheduled for 2:14 pm (CST)
I Heard the Shuttle's characteristic double sonic boom during the Thunderbirds performance at MacDill AFB Airfest. For a moment I thought one of the Tbirds went supersonic in the distance until I remembered that the Shuttle was scheduled to land about that time. A nice added treat to an already great airshow! -
QuoteWell I read the article regaring videoman and they discussed if the videoman had tried a Mr. Bill for deployment and they said somewhere in the nature of 1,500 lbs of snatch force is what one encounters from deployment at terminal. Of course thats distributed throughout the harness so its not painful per say but no one would be able to hold on by human means through a deployment.
Oh, I wasn't considering whether such a situation would be survivable. I'm just saying that if the plane was going down and someone had a rig, he would probably have to fight someone (everyone?) over it. If one of the other passengers ends up with the parachute he/she probably wouldn't be educated enough to consider other hazards (exit speed, engines and other parts in the way, etc.) He's maybe thinking "I've got the chute. I live...everyone else dies." -
QuoteWhat if it was a planeful of whuffos?
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I have to agree with grimmie. I think that most whuffos in that situation would think parachute=life and no parachute=no life........even if he didn't have any idea how to use it. Too many movies, cartoons, etc.
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For anyone who'd like to hear some good acoustic picking & singing on youtube check out "fretkillr". I found him while searching for some old Paul Brady stuff (a lot of that on there, too!) Good stuff if you like that sort of thing. -
QuotePeople that use the automatic handicap doors when they are physically able to open the doors!
I didn't know this practice irritated some people. I used to impress my kid when he was younger by magically commanding the doors to open. Now he realizes that I was just full of sh!t.
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Quote.........People who come to the airport in there pajamas. What the fuck? Put some damn clothes on!..........
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QuoteQuoteQuote.................... Stay at "The Village" (calling it Teton Village marks you as a tourist
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Yeah! I'm sure the northwestern mountain folk won't be tipped off by his Brit accent. If he just doesn't say things like "anti-clockwise" or call a hotdog a "sausage" he'll blend in unnoticed.
Actually, there are probably more "Fur-in-ers" there as cheap labor/ski bums then there are local mountain folk.
You're probably right..... Kinda like some big DZ operations.......(not that there's anything wrong with that)
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Quote.................... Stay at "The Village" (calling it Teton Village marks you as a tourist
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Yeah! I'm sure the northwestern mountain folk won't be tipped off by his Brit accent. If he just doesn't say things like "anti-clockwise" or call a hotdog a "sausage" he'll blend in unnoticed.
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Here's a warning sign from a park in BC, Canada. Found this somewhere on the interweb. I'm sure it's good advice in Yellowstone, too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmlau/2756629523/
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Incredible! I bet she can't do that now!........probably break a hip or something! -
QuoteI've been saving up for my big shopping trip to Mall of America for like 2 1/2 weeks now. Took the day off work, was planning on leaving tomorrow am and spending the whole day in Minneapolis. And then, the weather. HUGE snowstorm expected to dump 12-14 inches of snow, with freezing rain and blustery winds followed by brutally cold temperatures.
This trip was to be my stress relief after weeks of hell and finding out I lost out on 2 jobs in one shot and trying to deal with the 6 month anniversary of my mom's death. Retail therapy is my solution for everything and the weather is putting a damper on this!
Ok I'm done ranting.
Just saw the weather forecast this evening. Looks like the highs for the next 7 days are going to swing between 80 and 82. The lows at night are about 60 and increasing to 65 by the weekend. White puffys all over the place. No precip. What is this "snow" you speak of. Sounds like fun!
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QuoteQuoteFirst guy nearly died when they messed that up.
How about that Mars Lander ? One little math error
and it is Mar's flattest extraterrestrial object.
Extramartial object
"Frikkin' meters..."
Agreed, but it's way better than BS or Whitworth.
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I've heard it said that if you halve the distance
between you and an object - and then do that
repeatedly, you'll never reach it.
Well, at least down to ~0.0000000000000000000000000000000000016 m. Then you either have to stop or go the rest of the way to the object. -
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You're mixing your apples and oranges scientifically. Weight is measure of mass in a gravitational field. Vacuum is the absence of atmosphere. People often confuse those points because they equate weightlessness with being in orbit around the Earth. According to your logic, the astronauts would have been weightless on the moon, not just much lighter. An object in an evacuated bell jar on Earth would drift around weightlessly, mindless of the gravity affecting every other object on the planet.QuoteIn vacuum, weight is irrelevant, only mass is relevant. Weight is the function of gravitational acceleration between two objects.
As usual, Happythoughts logic was impeccable.
A mass accelerated by a gravitational field (unimpeded by externally applied forces like air or a scale or thrusters, etc.) has no weight at all, hence the term "weightlessness". Weight appears only when the mass is not allowed to accelerate naturally in the field. Weight = mass of the object X acceleration of gravity and is related to F=ma. Weight is really a measure of the force applied by a massive object accelerating in one reference frame to another massive object accelerating in another frame. A ball can weigh 3 pounds when weighed on a scale resting on the surface of the earth.......or the earth can weigh 3 pounds on a scale resting on the surface of the ball. No difference.
The same ball weighs approximately 1/2lb on the moon, in a vacuum.
Yeah, and the moon only weighs ~1/2 pound from the ball's point of view. Vacuum is mostly irrelevant. -
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You're mixing your apples and oranges scientifically. Weight is measure of mass in a gravitational field. Vacuum is the absence of atmosphere. People often confuse those points because they equate weightlessness with being in orbit around the Earth. According to your logic, the astronauts would have been weightless on the moon, not just much lighter. An object in an evacuated bell jar on Earth would drift around weightlessly, mindless of the gravity affecting every other object on the planet.QuoteIn vacuum, weight is irrelevant, only mass is relevant. Weight is the function of gravitational acceleration between two objects.
As usual, Happythoughts logic was impeccable.
A mass accelerated by a gravitational field (unimpeded by externally applied forces like air or a scale or thrusters, etc.) has no weight at all, hence the term "weightlessness". Weight appears only when the mass is not allowed to accelerate naturally in the field. Weight = mass of the object X acceleration of gravity and is related to F=ma. Weight is really a measure of the force applied by a massive object accelerating in one reference frame to another massive object accelerating in another frame. A ball can weigh 3 pounds when weighed on a scale resting on the surface of the earth.......or the earth can weigh 3 pounds on a scale resting on the surface of the ball. No difference. -
My high score so far.... "0". (3 tries).....although I think I did duplicate a couple of the more interesting dives I've been on.
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Quotewho is Felix Mendelssohn?
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QuoteHope no one ever has to signal their dire emergency by flying that thing upside down. I sure as hell won't notice.
Now an American flag, or a nice Canadian Maple Leaf is a whole nother story.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/51549719/afp?axd=DetailPaging.Search|1&axs=0|51549719|0
What the heck was a dad-blame foreign baseball team doing in the World Series anyway!
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QuoteThe rule I try to live by is my age divided by 2 plus 7. The is the youngest age I would date, or have a serious relationship with..
If I used that rule I would have to date only old ladies.
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QuoteSo I guess I'm almost ready to start the fun...
Any recommendations on software?
I've used TurboTax mostly....but I'm curious what else is good out there. Looks like TurboTax hiked their prices...
Be very careful with Turbotax!! The Secretary of the Treasury used it and it (allegedly) caused a $34,000 error!!! It must be very difficult for us commoners to use.
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Maybe he left the lights on so he could find the truck in the heavy snow after his work was done. ......Probably still looking for it.
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White puffys all over the place. No precip. What is this "snow" you speak of. Sounds like fun!
My back yard....
in The Bonfire
Down here in Fla I learned it as:
"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow; Red touch black, friend of Jack."
I always found it easier to notice at a glance whether the snake had single black bands or double black bands. In my opinion and experience in this part of the state, the scarlet king snakes are much more rarely seen than coral snakes.