The Waco Kid

Me too! I’m ready for them!

@DovesOfFreedom He has good water pressure

Ukrainian farmer waters a Shahed drone that crashed in his garden.

SOMETIMES, THE MACHINE KNOWS You've all experienced it. You urgently need to print or copy a document, and the printer stubbornly refuses. Have you ever heard the tale of the haunted printer at Princeton University? Lend an ear. Once upon a time, the physics lab at Princeton had a large laser printer and it worked fine unless a certain famous quantum physics researcher, call him Dr. X, visited. Whenever Dr. X was in the lab, the printer would fail completely. I mean, stop dead cold. Wouldn’t print a thing. And the first few times, they’d call the printer repair man, but by the time he’d arrive, Dr. X would have packed his backpack and gone back to MIT or Penn or wherever he was from, right? And guess what? As soon as Dr. X was gone? Printer worked perfectly. No defects. These are scientists, right, so they decide to keep a running tally. After two years, they established a one hundred percent perfect correlation between Dr. X’s presence and the printer failing. Conclusion? That human consciousness can affect machines. But there’s more to the story. One day, a day that Dr. X was not present, the printer failed. For fifteen minutes, that printer was as dead as if Dr. X were visiting in the lab. Later, they told Dr. X about the data point disproving the theory that he was causing the printer to fail. Turns out? He’d been on a Northeast Corridor train that had stopped at Princeton Station for fifteen minutes, on that exact day, at that exact time.

@elonmusk @elonmusk you need to add LIDAR so we can have a truly full self driving experience.

Did you know Tesla FSD was this good?

@joecourtemanche @nucmmcmss75451 @MikeyDiMercurio Hint

@WacoJim @nucmmcmss75451 @MikeyDiMercurio How I know it: married a nerd girl. Also a linguist in the Navy. The movie escapes me, however.

Some twit hit my mailbox, leaving behind their mirror. I deconstructed the mount, hacksawed off the retaining bolts and hammered the door back into shape. All I need is a new mount. Considering a hunk of phone pole I have. @MikeyDiMercurio would still be staring at the box wondering if there was mail inside. Practical things are a no go for the Canoe U gradumate. Blue shirt and proud of it.

@joecourtemanche @nucmmcmss75451 @MikeyDiMercurio Nerd girls are hot! You get one toy from the COBs goodie bag if you can name the movie she was in!

@WacoJim @nucmmcmss75451 @MikeyDiMercurio Completely. Multilingual nerd with a computer sci degree (AA), a lot of questionable sea stories, and an unhealthy interest in ghost peppers.

@joecourtemanche @nucmmcmss75451 @MikeyDiMercurio

My high school had two national champion activities: marching band and debate/speech. (And there was crossover between the two.) I cannot tell you how many disgusting stories I heard about band trips. My one regret was that I got cut from marching band as a sophomore. (not really, hated playing the trumpet) Debate trips were much more tame. You know, the kind of 300 mile bus trips where you sang THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD several dozen times to annoy the debate coach driving the bus. youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6h…

Live shot of a NASA tech working on the toilet issue aboard the Artemis II

Photo of the Columbus SSN-762 as she conducts an emergency surface training exercise, 35 miles off the coast of Oahu, HI. 4 June 1998. 🇺🇲⚓

@joecourtemanche @MikeyDiMercurio Too Funny!

@WacoJim @MikeyDiMercurio Nah, I picked his work up at Barnes and Noble. That picture of him on the back cover almost killed the purchase.

13 miles at 32 miles an hour behind a moron with his 4-way flashers on. Yes, donkeybrain, it is raining. It is Florida during the rainy season. Speed up, turn off the flashers or get off the road until it's dry in November.

@MikeyDiMercurio @az_andersons

Hey moron. A ship is a vessel greater than 100 tons. Early submarines were smaller than that. Thus, boats. Modern submarines are called boats from tradition, although the official procedures call them ships. Example from the Internal Communications Manual - "Submerge the ship to one five zero feet."

Unfortunately, the weak part of Tesla‘s full self drive is that it uses cameras only, so technically isn’t full self driving because the driver/pilot is still required to monitor the road and have hands ready to take control of the steering wheel. Unlike Mercedes, which uses LIDAR so the driver is allowed to watch a movie or read a book while the car is in motion on the highway.

If you want to know what’s really safe or what’s not, just try buying insurance for it

@80s_channel Having sex with a woman with a hairy Coochie and then drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon, jumping in my Camaro and driving to the bowling alley to play video games and play pool!

Moron! We’re not going to the moon we’re going around the moon.

@joecourtemanche Other than having to flip the tape on the zenith reel-2-reel in sonar this was the next greatest technical advancement for us!

USELESS TECH INFO - MAYBE. I have a USB SSD drive that's been quirky since day one. Just vanishes and then pops back. Finally got around to putting in a warranty claim. I'd checked it on 4 machines, 4 or 5 different cables, etc. Bad on every chassis, laptop, etc. Maker says, dive into device manager and change power handling for USB hub. Huh? Isn't that pretty standard? Well, seems that more recent versions of windows allow the system to turn off remote USB devices without warning and SSD drives don't eat much power so they look like they're dead/not on. Changed the setting and it's now going on an hour of up time with no bouncing. Hell, who wulda thunk.

Why the largest submarine in history is actually five submarines welded together. During the Cold War, the US Navy perfected the "Single Hull" submarine. It was an aerospace-grade tube of HY-80 steel. It was sleek, hydrodynamically flawless, and incredibly efficient. But it had a fatal flaw: if a Soviet torpedo punctured that single layer of steel, the entire multi-billion-dollar machine violently imploded and sank. The Soviet Brutalist Solution: The USSR didn't care about sleek efficiency; they cared about apocalyptic survival. When they built the Typhoon Class (the largest submarine ever constructed), they completely abandoned the single hull. Instead, Soviet engineers took two incredibly thick, massively heavy, separate titanium pressure hulls and laid them side-by-side. They placed a third hull on top for the command center, and two more for the torpedo rooms. Then, they wrapped all five separate titanium tubes inside a massive, violently ugly outer steel shell. The Forbidden Physics: The space between the outer steel and the inner titanium tubes is entirely flooded with ocean water. If an American torpedo hits the Typhoon, it detonates against the cheap outer steel. The incompressible water safely absorbs the kinetic explosive shockwave, leaving the actual crew inside the titanium tubes completely unharmed. Ugly wins wars.

@RetroMoviesDB Highlander

Lets hear it!

Stop it 🤣🤣🤣