I'm not really sure what's contained in the spreadsheet entry on me, so I'll just make sure I cover the basics.
- Born in Atlanta in 1970 (I'm 52 now), lived in the Dallas area as a kid, then moved back to Atlanta (Sandy Springs) when I was 8, so any ATL sports interest I have I came by honestly.
- Had never even heard of Virginia Tech prior to my junior year in HS, when dad (a GT alum) suggested I consider it when looking at schools. Visited over spring break and was really impressed with the campus and surrounding area. Still, had housing deposit in for GT when I just on a whim decided I didn't want to go to school 15 minutes from home. Not the best decision financially, but a home run decision in every other way.
- Started math, considered engineering, changed to physics my freshman year. Not a great student (2.045 QCA), took 6 years to graduate due to class failures and sequencing. ADD really took a toll on me the first few years when I was trying to make it meds-free. Eventually graduated, was accepted provisionally to grad school, and got a MS in Physics in 1997, for a total of eight years in Blacksburg.
- Was in the Corps of Cadets and the Highty Tighties my first four years, though only ROTC for the first year (grades, didn't get a three year guarantee picked up). Dcwilson40, Hokie Bird 94, and HTHokie93 and I are buds; we all started in the HTs together. They know a lot of the stories that may or may not come out in this AMA.
- Taught high school physics in Georgia (East Coweta High School) for two years, did some missile defense research in Huntsville for a couple years, then moved back to Virginia to work for the Navy in Dahlgren, where I've been since 2001. Living in King George since 2005. Have done requirements analysis and software testing for the Trident missile system (mainly Fire Control and mission planning software). Was able to watch a test flight once from the launch area support ship, one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
- Played several sports (tennis, baseball, football, basketball, soccer, golf) at least once in my life, was never really good at most of them. I'm obviously a fan of Virginia Tech sports (IS THAT NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE). Have been a Braves fan since the early 80s, the Dale Murphy / Bruce Benedict / Bob Horner / Glenn Hubbard era. Been increasing in interest in NFL recently, mainly due to the field tilting / increasing lack of parity in college football, but unfortunately am a Falcons fan, so yeah. Painful. Have been getting into F1 recently (¡Vamos Checo!), mostly due to the Netflix show. Loving the physics involved. Always looking for more long-form (not video) F1 content.
- Met my wife in 2007 playing World of Warcraft, which I'd started playing that year and played up until last year. Married in 2008, and have two girls, 13 and 10. My oldest is going into high school (!!!) this fall, and sings chorus, was selected into District chorus last year her first year singing, and will be in select chorus as a freshman. At current, she wants to study bioengineering (e.g. developing plants that give greater crop yields, her idea, I don't even know if that's something that hasn't been solved yet). My youngest has not yet found her niche, but is participating in the District 15 8-10yo softball tournament right now (King George is in the finals); she has her father's athletic ability though, so is a late-inning defensive replacement in right field, IYKWIM.
- Have been riding a motorcycle for the past four years, took my first multiday trip last week, you know most of the details from the crowdsourcing eats thread. Watched Orioles, Phillies, Yankees, Red Sox, and Mets home games on five consecutive days, and man is my ass sore. From the bike. ;^)
- Played golf off and on since I was about 23, hit a hole in one at 25 (#7, Draper Valley), and that burns my father up who's been playing since he was nine and hasn't done that yet. I never really played enough to get good, hitting under 100 is a good day for me. Haven't played since the pandemic hit, been doing other things in my spare time (see previous paragraph).
- Been having some health issues since getting near my 50s, mainly gout and more recently, diabetes (type 2). Lost a good bit of weight before it was diagnosed, and some more after stabilizing. Everything is managed now, and I'm 80 lbs lighter than my heaviest in Jan '22, but some days I'm just too impulsive (see: ADD) to keep with the low carb diet 100%. (Not keto-low, but low nonetheless.)
- Currently have an obsession with hot sauces. I've spent waaay too much at https://heatonist.com/ over the past two years. I put something on breakfast (usually a couple frozen egg/cheese/meat frittata-like thingies) every morning. I usually go to the garlicky or fruity kinds, not too too hot, maybe max out at a 6/10 for regular usage, though I have done the Last Dab from Hot Ones. Current go-tos are Heartbeat's Pineapple Habanero, Hot Ones Garlic Fresno and Chili Maple, Zesti's Garlic Parm XXXHot (which is medium heat at best, the regular has zero heat), and Butterfly's Maple Wood Smoked Onion. I will never try Da Bomb. Not gonna happen. Nope.
Fire away.
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What's the dumbest thing you have ever done?
Whats the nicest thing you have ever done?
What's your favorite sound?
What's your guilty pleasure?
Whats the oddest/strangest thing you have ever seen happen, where you literally said to yourself: 'I cant believe that just happened right in front of me?
If you could remove one thing from existence in the world, what would be? It could be a person past or present, a thing, an emotion, .....anything.
So many possible answers here. I always wonder what doors would have opened that were not previously had I done different things. But then maybe I wouldn't be where I am now with a good, stable job and two kids I love and a wife I'm very fond of. Maybe trying to tackle the first few years of college without medication for ADD?
I would consider saying the times I've driven drunk, but fortunately nobody ever got hurt, and I got a lesson from that (DUI) that I really needed to experience at the time.
Or maybe something like trying to steal the star off the top of the Blacksburg town Christmas tree while drunk. That was just pretty dumb. I'll go with that.
Gonna have to think about that one a bit. Will get back to you.
I have to say my wife's laughter. She has this great, medium-high-pitched giggle that you can hear from across a crowded room. Unfortunately I don't hear it a lot, as I mostly tell dad jokes, which usually just garner a look from her. But I hear it when she's on the phone and it makes me smile.
The Below Deck franchise. I've watched all of them, save the most recent season that hasn't finished yet. That and the Amazing Race. Mainly because I enjoy watching people experience new places. But something about Below Deck makes me wish I'd tried that in my early 20s.
What comes to mind right now is a solo traffic accident on the way to work several years back. Guy in a truck drifts just off the tarmac to the right, hooks his tires and veers left into the next lane (2 lane road), overcorrects back to the right, and off the road rolling his truck several times. He was okay, just a bit bruised, but just a moment's inattentiveness caused him to probably total his truck.
At some point later in the day I'm sure something else will pop into my head that I'm just not remembering right now. That's the beauty of ADD sometimes. lol
Intolerance. I just can't stand that. ;^)
Seriously, though, the lack of empathy that intolerance brings is one of the major factors in the polarization we're experiencing today. And I'll admit that I wasn't the most empathetic person in my younger years. But it saddens me that people are so unwilling to at least try to understand what another person is going through. Having a brother come out as gay over a decade ago, and currently having a person close to me struggling with gender dysphoria, I find the current level of intolerance towards those in the LGBT+ community just...disheartening. Nobody would ever choose to experience the level of discrimination and outright hate that they receive.
Thoughts on the current Below Deck Sailing season?
None. That's the only one I haven't watched yet, but I've been seeing a lot of spicy comments in my reddit feed. Looking forward to when I can sit down and binge it. (Maybe next week.)
Season is focused a lot on Gary's womanizing of course! But plenty of other fun unexpected spice too.
Yeah, Gary seems to put a little too much emphasis on that, IM(ns)HO.
Also watching below deck with my wife. It's the only reality tv I can stand to be in the room for while she's watching.
I see there are a few of us yachties here today
If I could do my early 20s over again I'd be a yachtie for sure. Those women alone make up for the hard work
Sage parenting advice, please :)
I have very little sage advice. Sometimes I just feel like I'm winging it, doing the best I can day-to-day.
Keeping in mind that my kids are still young-ish, so I'm not seeing the results of my parenting choices fully, I think my best piece of advice would be to give your kids some sort of agency in their lives. Being open to their wants and desires, and supporting their choices. Early on, giving them a choice from a limited list rather than dictating things to them (like, say, what's for lunch), and as they grow, they'll be more accustomed to understanding what they want and how to go about getting it. My kids often surprise me with the choices they make, what they want to do, something that I would never have suggested, and sometimes (not always), they end up being good choices. When they're obviously not, I try to explain to them why the choice won't work, and that gives them ammunition to make better internal decisions down the road. After all, making good decisions is the most important skill they'll need to learn to thrive as an adult, and we can't always do it for them.
We'll see how they turn out.
Two trains are driving toward one another. The first train leaves Town A at 5am traveling at 60 miles per hour. The second train leaves Town B at 7am traveling at 70 miles per hour. the distance between Town A and Town B is 455 miles.
With that in mind, what should I have for lunch today?
If it were Tuesday, I'd say tacos. I had some birria tacos from the food truck yesterday, and they were outstanding. And if you don't know what birria tacos are, you need to watch Taco Chronicles on Netflix. I'd link it, but Netflix is blocked at work. Maybe someone can save the day and link it.
But I still have questions. Is the train leaving from Town A (let's call it Train A) heading towards Town B? Is the train leaving from Town B (let's call it Train Q) heading toward town A? If the answer to these two questions is yes, then they would have a relative speed of 130 mph towards each other, and would cover the 335 miles between them (after Train A travels 120 miles between 0500 and 0700) in about 2h 34m 37s, colliding about 154.6 miles from Town B.
If Train Q is travelling away from Town A, regardless of the direction of travel of Train A, then they will never collide. If Train Q is travelling towards Town A and Train A is travelling away from Town B, then at a relative speed of 10 mph between them, they will cover the 575 miles between them (after Train A travels for two hours away from Town B) in 57 hours 30 minutes, 2,995 miles to the far side of Town A, assuming neither train stops for another town or conductors sleeping or tracks running into the ocean or whatnot.
Shit. Went through all that, and missed this important detail at the start, as I went straight to the numbers. I swear my brain is defective. But are they on the same track? ;^)
All that aside, the answer to your question is an MLT: mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They're so perky, I love that.
So, I ran the scenario modified a bit through Google Bard and its answer was kind of hilarious:
Prompt: Two trains are driving toward one another. The first train leaves Town A at 5am traveling at 60 miles per hour. The second train leaves Town B at 7am traveling at 70 miles per hour. the distance between Town A and Town B is 455 miles. What time do the trains collide and where do you bury the survivors?
It also told me I should have a sandwich for lunch but didn't mention an MLT. Inconceivable.
Legs to you both for any Princess Bride references!
What's the soundtrack to your life?
What's your favorite story (about you)?
My soundtrack changes drastically depending on my mood. I have two playlists on Apple for riding, mainly just ripped from CDs I've bought over the years: Angry Ride, which is just uptempo hard rock / metal (Living Colour, Metallica, Tool, Skid Row, Rush, etc.) and Slow Ride, which is downtempo hard rock (think Nugent's Stranglehold, AC/DC's Ride On, Skid Row's 18 and Life, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, etc.) I also have an electronic playlist I called Chill and Pump pulled from songs I listened to while gaming (ranging between Conjure One's Center of the Sun-Solarstone Remix, to Running in the 90s or Hot Hot Racing Car). But I haven't done a lot of personal curating of music. I usually let others do that, as I find myself choosing a channel on XM based on mood: Classic Rewind, Rock the Bells (classic hip hop), 80s on 8 (the kids like that channel, parenting done right), Chill (downtempo electronic), sometimes even Yacht Rock in the summer.
What is the single most exciting moment of VIrginia Tech sports you witnessed live or via television?
The punt block against Miami, 2001. Live. Miami that year was in the conversation of one of the best college football teams in history, and despite downright rotten QB play (4 for 16, 81 yards, 4 INTs and a fumble), we hung with them well into the fourth quarter. But that punt block by Eric Green, the pickup and runback by Brandon Semones, that was the loudest I have ever heard Lane Stadium. Or probably ever will.
Excellent choice....
I still have you on deck- wanna go next?
Sure! I'll give it a go after lunch tomorrow.
my experience with "some missile defense research"
favorite exchange from that episode:
"Yeah sure, I have it on my Zune."
"Great! Wait, you have a Zune?"
"No. No one has a Zune."
finding an image or gif reference was surprisingly difficult. This show is vastly underappreciated.
Hey, Keep at it with the low carb anti-diabetes, it'll take time. You'll get it handled and keeping blood sugar controlled will lessen the opportunity and impact of the host of other chronic diseases caused and or made worse by excessive glucose..
That you've lost that weight is an excellent start. It'll just take time for your bodily processes to get fully onboard with the new normal.
You need somebody to chat with, drop me a line.
I've got a new meter arriving today combination glucose and ketone.
2 questions.
How many sets of pants did you go through?
What's your favorite nearly/keto meal?
For the longest time I was a size 40 waist, then over the last five years gradually went up to 42s then 44s, then about a year and change ago was when the blood sugar issues started, and quickly went down to 40s, and when those were falling off me, finally bought some 36s. Those are fitting fine right now, and I intend to keep it that way. Soo many jeans/khakis over the past year and a half.
Salmon, usually the prepackaged seasoned kind from the grocery store, with a side of broccoli, and I use a garlic hot sauce on both. Which reminds me, I forgot to put my current obsession with hot sauces on the up top.
https://heatonist.com/products/hot-ones-the-classic-fresno-edition
I'll have to try that.
It's not at my local kroger. I bet I can get it online.
https://heatonist.com/
I put my go-tos in the intro up top, too, last paragraph.
Lemon Pepper. That's a bitchin idea.
That's on my list for my next purchase. If you get it, let me know how it is (and I'll do as well).
While we are talking about Hot Ones, can I just add that Da Bomb might be the most evil shit ever created? That thing is just straight up pain. I've only gotten about 1/4 through the bottle I got a year or so ago and I don't think I'll ever finish it.
I'm surprised you tried it a second time. Based on the reactions to it on the show, I absolutely refuse to try it.
I can take the heat (I have video proof of that below). I just refuse to put up with the heat if there's no flavor to it. The Last Dab actually tasted quite good. From everything I've heard, Da Bomb does not. Throw that shit out!
I keep it around more as a challenge and talking point or party foul/punishment than for my own use.
It really is just straight heat. There's no flavor to it, it exists to inflict pain. It wasn't the hottest by scoville rating in the gift pack my wife got me, but its absolutely the one which sucked the most to have.
Have you always lived in Sandy Springs or did you live elsewhere in ATL? Where in Sandy Springs do you live now? My parents and my in-laws both live nearby the Abernathy/400 ramp.
We lived in Sandy Springs both when I was born and when we moved back in 1979. I don't live there now, haven't since I left for Tech, but we lived right off Abernathy as well, off Glenridge (Messina Way).
Oh shit, my in-laws live on Messina Way/Wybombe!
Small world.
as an xkcd fan, how much time did you waste on this one:
https://xkcd.com/2765/
Well, fuck. There goes any productivity I would have had for the day!
What are some of the practical struggles that you have to deal with on a daily basis having ADD?
Executive Dyfsunction: This is just a killer. Makes it difficult to start projects that are large and/or long-term in nature. Sometimes even smaller projects. I find myself procrastinating things way too much. And while I can laser-focus in on things sometimes when they're in Quadrant I (Urgent, Important), it may not have been necessary, and it tends to crowd other things out. I find I'm pretty good in a fire drill, but it's sometimes because I've set the fire (Arsonist).
Memory issues: Really have to write things down and review notes a lot. To quote Cathy Ryan (from Tom Clancy novels), "If I didn't write it down, it didn't happen." Little things like forgetting a jacket running out of the house to an 8pm softball game where rain was in the forecast, to forgetting to RSVP to an upcoming wedding. If I'm reminded to do something, and I'm not in a position to start on it (say, I'm driving at the time), it's not going to happen. My wife has learned to text me grocery list items rather than tell me. (Actually, we use AnyList app, which is great for all sorts of things.)
General Inattentiveness: My mind will spiral off when something said in a conversation reminds me of something else. If it's important, I really have to focus hard to maintain a conversation. And I really should do that even when it's not important, I've come to realize. Soo many arguments over that where it's discovered that I really didn't hear what someone was saying to me because I'd tangented out of the conversation before that point.
There's a lot more, but those seem to be the Big 3.
Love that book! But for today's younger generations, it probably needs to be either 'if it isn't on video, it didn't happen" or "if I don't post on (insert your fave social media app/site), it didn't happen"
Side note- in my older years now(58 this year) I have bee intentionally taking less pics at events, places, gatherings- only a very few at most- and of those mostly candid pics); I am then able to focus on the actual event and folks I'm with rather tan recording it all for posterity and missing it happening live., Particular examples are concerts and fireworks!
Same. I've tried to capture a snippet here and there, maybe 30sec to a minute, and put the phone down and enjoy the performance.
Love the hot sauce suggestions! I'll definitely be trying those you mentioned. Have you tried Dustin Poirier's (Louisiana Style) hotsauce? I've wanted to give it a go but not sure if it's worth it.
My other question, you are stranded on a desert island and get one option for a snack/food and a movie/TV show. What do you pick and why?
Haven't tried that. I don't mind straight hot sauce flavors, but I usually try to get something with an interesting flavor to it, like something sweet or savory.
Chicken wings. I could eat them every day for the rest of my life, and they would never get old. As for TV/movie, I'd pick something with a lot of episodes that I haven't seen too many of, like South Park or the Simpsons, something to make me laugh and take my mind off of where I am. I'm guessing I'd be there for a long time. Alternately, if there was some sort of show that could help me make a boat out of chicken wing bones, that might be a good choice, too. ;^)
I'm with you on tht. I don't like straight heat.
I'm working on the concept of roasting a bulb of garlic and blending it with a bottle of Tabasco.
Double concur, I like flavor with heat too. I'm most interested in the maple creole hot sauce he has, that sounds interesting!
Yeah, but I'm not sure on the maple.
I'm thinking more like bacon creole hot sauce.
Bacon creole sounds amazing too!
I'm just intrigued by the sweetness mixed with spices and then some heat in it as well.
Is this what you're looking for?
https://heatonist.com/products/the-classic-chili-maple-edition-hot-ones
Yeah that would be one I'd try as well! I hope to order some bottles after payday tomorrow 🤪
I had no idea that site existed. Thank you!!
That sounds fantastic, and I'd love to try it.
I now have a project for Sunday.
I bought 3 bulbs so I have a good one to choose from.
I'll start with just the garlic then think about whether caramelized onion would be an improvement.
I'll report back.
I tried something similar that came out pretty good, but much hotter than tabasco. I combined roasted garlic and onions, seeded fresh tabasco peppers, and some thyme in a home fermentation jar for 4 weeks and blended and strained. Fermenting definitely mellows the heat if you saucing something that is too hot to eat raw, and the do it at home mason jar kits are cheap online and easy to use.
I can't wait for you to expand on this in your AMA. This is something I've really considered getting into.
As this popped back up, I did 3 hot sauces when the peppers (most from Bakers heirloom seeds catalog) came in last year, all using the home fermenting lid on a quart jar. Lemon Spice Jalapeños, raw garlic, onion, 21 day fermentation, drained, blended the solids, and mixed back in the fermenting liquid, champaign vinegar, fresh lemon juice and some sugar, all to taste, and then strained out the solids. Fairly mild, but very tasty. Next was Habeneros, Sugar Rush Peach, and Rain Forest peppers. Fermented for a little less time. Adjusted the final flavors with pineapple juice and apple cider vinegar. Very hot, but the flavor really came through. The last batch was all the hot peppers still on the plants but not yet ripe when the first frost was called for. Fermented for 1 week. Came out very hot and a little green tasting. Went with it and blended in grilled onion and tomatillos, lime juice and cilantro stems for a salsa verde profile. Still a little too hot for the flavors in it, least successful.
Egbert, how'd that turn out?
Thanks for reminding me of this.
I did do that, the garlic came out nice and aromatic and sweet.
That bottle never made it back from the beach.
I need to do that again for this summer's beach trip.
Any chance I can convince you to make an additional bottle or two? ;^)
If I get around to it but, I'm working 3rd shift now with overtime everyday. I barely have time for sleep. I'll drop in and let you know if I can get to it.
Have you had the garlic cholula? I'm sure it's not as good. But, could fill the void until Egbert is allowed to sleep again.
I did not know about this. I will look for it. Garlic Cholula.
This thread got me thinking about this stuff again.
I have a bottle of the mango Pick a Peppa which is great when I'm in that kind of mood.
I thought about doing a Louisiana style vinegar sauce with pickled or fermented garlic.
I have family members on low salt and commercial varieties normally have high salt. I thought about doing a low salt version of some sauces once pepper season comes so I can get some fresh. So much better than hothouse.
I'm thinking a sauce with poblano fresh and roasted base with roasted garlic would be nice. Use some potassium chloride and other stuff (Like maybe nutritional yeast) to make up for the lower salt.
On my recent trip to Puerto Rico, I learned that I love Puerto Rican hot sauce. Has a unique flavor and goes with everything. You can buy it on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Boripique/dp/B0143N0FYK/ref=asc_df_B0143N0FYK/?ta...
Sofrito and the use of culantro really do add to a meal.
You can have three guests over for dinner from any time period in history. Who do you choose and why?
I think it's want to take some of the brightest mind in three different fields. For Science, I'd probably go with Nikola Tesla, a true pioneer and theorist in the early years of electromagnetism. For Politics/Economics, I'd probably go with Alexander Hamilton. Yeah, the musical is nice and all, but I read his biography, and he seemed to be really ahead of his peers in devising the economic foundation that made America into the economic power that it is today. So many possibilities for the third field, but I think I'd have to go with Music and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. All three are one of the greatest in their fields, and I think it world be interesting to learn what I can from them.
What did the Last Dab do to you?
Favorite guest from Hot Ones?
It was a slow buildup of heat, but it kept building and kept building, and kept building until I couldn't stand it anymore, and then kept building and kept building some more. At the end, I was putting my mouth under the bathroom sink just to keep a constant flow going. Took about 25 minutes before the heat died down to a manageable level. Some mild discomfort the next day coming out.
But I'll let y'all decide how it affected me.
You can hear my wife chuckling in the background. She was holding the camera and having a great time at my misfortune.
So many that I really liked on that show:
Gordon Ramsey - Brought so many remedies for the heat and they didn't seem to help him. Showed how to cook the perfect scrambled eggs at the end.
Dave Grohl - Brought alcohol and was doing shots with Sean.
Steve Austin - Was never into wrestling, but he was really engaging and told some good stories.
Paul Rudd - Just a funny, down to earth guy with great stories
DJ Khaled - Just laughing at him as he tries to spin not being able to eat more than the first two wins. "You just played yaself." What a tool.
But my favorite episode is absolutely Bert Kreischer. Not only does he tell a great story that had me laughing out loud (the Flying Dildo story), he shows everybody exactly how to eat the flap wing.
Don't know if you listen to Pardon My Take, but they just had Sean on and he told the DJ Khaled story as his "worst guest" because apparently he was eating pizza before the show and Sean was like WTF
Favorite way to enjoy the New River?
How did you sneak booze into games as a student?
Thanks for the hot sauce suggestions. Me likely some hot sauce, and salmon.
In an innertube with a six pack of beer floating in the water beside me (tethered, of course). Though I have also enjoyed the New River by floating a hibachi grill out to one of the middle rocks and grilling burgers (along with beer, of course).
I didn't really do that my first four years as a student, as I was in the Highty Tighties, and that would've been frowned upon. Later on, I'd use a boda bag under my jacket and bring in about a fifth of Captain Morgan's.
Though I did smuggle in a fifth once inside a tenor drum while doing alumni band. That was a fun time.
Lost track of your 'travel journal' on the eats thread.....wanna connect the dots after Boston? Where'd you go in NYC/NJ and elsewhere on the way back? Wish I could have met up with ya, but weekdays are tough for me, especially between memorial day and labor day.
For NYC, I got in late afternoon, so I just headed over to Citi Field and ate at the stadium. And for NJ, I was looking at a long day in the saddle, so I just ate breakfast at a Chick-fil-A at a travel Plaza on the NJ turnpike, and revisited Pioneer Pit Beef in Baltimore for a late late lunch.
Best vacation you ever had?
Worst vacation you ever had and why?
Weirdest thing that ever happened on vacation good or bad?
Hawaii, last November. Since my brother in law planned it, it was scheduled out every day with activities, but we did a lot of interesting stuff that I might not have done otherwise (I tend towards lazier vacations), so I really enjoyed that.
I don't think I've ever had a bad vacation, as even the worst vacation is better than a week at work. Part of my wants to say that same Hawaii trip, because I had some bad poke the first day there and was just sick with the runs for the first six days. I probably would've done more of the hikes had I been feeling better. But given that, I'm proud as hell that I didn't ball on the Diamondhead Crater hike, and made it up to the top, even though by the time I got there I could only stay about ten minutes.
Not a vacation, but a band trip to Baltimore. Had a gas/stretch your legs break at the Wilco at Stuart's Draft on I-81 on the way back. Since most had gone home for Thanksgiving from there, there weren't but about 15-20 on the way back. Whoever was responsible for counting heads aid STTEO "One, two, three, fuck it, we're all here." Spoiler alert, we weren't. The first sergeant had to drive all the way back for me.
What does little Bobby tables mean? And why isn't it little booby tales?
Dude.
https://xkcd.com/327
Thanks for the assist.
It still doesn't make sense to 90% people who have no idea what the comic is saying.
If you understand how SQL databases work there is a common vulnerability that unless you have good coding practices you can let people wreck havoc on your data. This is called a sql injection. The developer in the comic (not shown) didn't sanitize the inputs meaning they didn't treat the name as a string in the proper way. So when the database sees the ; it assumes the insert command for the record is done then read "drop tables" which removes all data from the database. The drop tables should never have been treated like a command because users shouldn't have access to commands of your data.
Also there is a 2nd issue of permissions, the application shouldn't privably not have permission to drop a table, but that's a side note to the comic not the main thing the comic is about
I think Little Booby Tales is a better joke that doesn't require 3 paragraphs of information that still only a handful of people understand.
I dont know if little booby tales is a joke or a point version of veggie tales
But if you get the what is happening in the comic, it's really funny.
Niche comedy will get after ya.
What bike?
What WoW build is your favorite and why was it an Orc Shaman?
I have a 2012 Honda Shadow Aero (750cc). This pic is the day I got it four years ago, and the only difference now is that I've added lockable hard leather saddlebags instead of the strappy ones, and occasionally I take off the windshield because I like to feel the wind against my chest.
I think for Bike 2.0, I'd like to go with something with a bit more power, maybe a Road King (similar build, saddlebags, removable windshield) or a Springfield. Though I wouldn't mind a Scout Bobber for riding around. Don't know if I can give up the storage space, though.
I've done an Orc Shaman, it's alright, but totem management is not my forte. I've always been partial to a Rogue; I start out with sneaky-type characters in any game I play. I played Combat all the way up to the redesign where Combat became Outlaw, and switch to Assassination because I hated the RNG aspect to Outlaw Rogue. Mut spec is a bit slow, though, so I'd been losing interest in my rogue in favor of a Priest recently. Most of Classic and some of late Retail I've been doing more healing, and I've gotten really used to the Holy Priest gameplay. And yes, I know Disc is better, but I'm not as good at the preventative style. I hate wasting shields on someone that doesn't eventually take damage. See bar drop, fill it up.
Very nice and good bike.
My Fatboy is a similar configuration with the sofybags and removable luggage rack. Great configuration for going to the grocery or a long trip. Remove the extra stuff to tool around town or just run up the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Have you been to kg high games and working on recruiting that wr ? I went to W&L, and I hear he is a beast. I think I saw that he is going to a camp at tech this weekend. Wrap him up!!
I have not. I need to start catching those KGHS games, now that my eldest is going there in the fall. We don't usually have P5-level talent, so it'll be fun watching him this season, especially if he commits to VT!
Work on mekhai white too
You are transported back to the 1400s and get to choose a position in the court of some European king. What role do you choose (area of responsibility in parentheses) and why? Other is an acceptable answer if explained.
General (army/conquests)
Admiral (navy/exploration)
Foreign Mijister (diplomacy)
Archbishop (religion)
Royal Alchemist (science/magic)
Chief Steward (food/parties)
I think that given my background in Physics, a Royal Alchemist position would work to my skills, especially since I might be able to evolve the position beyond that to incorporate some more modern concepts. But the exploration direction intrigues me. If we're in the 1400s, that means that there's a lot of the world to discover, and I know where most of that is. Also, the modern scientific method would be useful in using the material capabilities of the time to building better/stronger fleets, along with improving their offensive arsenal. One more thing: I would put a lot of effort towards usurping John Harrison's place in history by building the first marine chronometer 300 years early, thus solving the longitude problem, which was one of the biggest issues an explorer had.
So, yeah. I'd become the Royal Admiral and beat Columbus to America.
https://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-Problem-eboo...
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I read it twenty-some years ago, but as I typed that post, I bought the kindle version because it deserves a reread.
Just got the audible,TY
Great Book well worth reading
Regarding hot sauce with really nice sweet heat, this is my favorite!! Nothing extra fancy and I don't love that it has liquid smoke in the ingredients -- but the agave gives it a really nice sweetness that pairs so perfectly with the chipotle. It's not super hot either, on the milder side. But loaded with flavor.
https://beastfeastmaine.net/shop/ols/products/chads-obsession-hot-sauce
I went to look for the link on their website and saw they have it back in stock so i ordered two bottles lol