WTF

I want to fire The Judge... Just have not had the chance to. The one that I held when doing a transfer of ownership on it, damn... I want one!

We use a judge with 410 to handle snakes around here.

I can't tell you how many of my daughter's female friends wanted to be "marine biologists" because they had this idea that it was just about playing with dolphins and seals all day.

I was originally a biology major (switched in my junior year) and even then I encountered many female wannabe "marine biologists" who were very disappointed finding out that most marine biologists spend their days dissecting starfish, counting plankton under a microscope or trying to determine if that tiny worm has no asshole and is thus a gnathostomulid.

I don't think I knew even one person who actually became one, although I interacted with some later, and even published a paper with two of them on the interaction of spider toxin analogues with glutamate receptors in crayfish. And that was a rather inglorious project involving ripping their ventral nerve cords out.

Killed a Coral snake yesterday .. Walking out my sidewalk and he was slithering by.. That was the hardest snake to kill. Hit him once with the shovel and he started moving fast . Had to hit him several times before he went still. My neighbor told me a coral snake bite is like a cobra bite.

Any mention of dolphins reminds me of the dolphin escape scene from the first season of The Boys.

I can kind of sympathize with the notion of not wanting to get back in the ocean after something traumatic happens. But, for my own experience, it is stupid and I need to break the self-imposed notion...

Back in high school 1993 or 1994, I had to give my own father mouth to mouth resuscitation because he aspirated food and passed out, due to his declining health. It was not a fun experience, but, in that moment, I am glad that I already had the CRP and first aid training. Since that point of having to save my father's life, the self-imposed notion has been to be an overseer, be vigilant and 'be-at-the-ready' in case John Q. Public needed help. I have been to the shore plenty of times and have swam in pools plenty of times since that experience. But, for being in the ocean since that day of saving my father's life, I have only been at the most, knee deep in the ocean water.

In similar, when I worked at Lincoln Financial Field in Philly from April 2011 to July 2018, I had to be fan focused and not team focused, as my job was customer facing. It is only from last season's football season and now into this year's baseball season, that I am letting go of the employee mentality and returning to a fan mentality.

@funfor, there is an app that you can track the sharks with. It's interesting and scary too

When I was at UCSC my roommate was a marine biology PhD candidate. One of his jobs at the time was to train dolphins to carry equipment to (I'm going to explain this in a way that would make him cringe) basically swim up to Great Whites and tag them with telemetry transponders. The "marked sharks" and dolphins all had names. Anyway, it was pretty fun swimming with and feeding the dolphins. Amazing creatures.

I never realized they tag these things and track them . They also have names . You say Great White it throws fear . My friend with the surf shop . Just laughed , said he hoped it didn’t bother his tourist business. He said same as others have said ….They are around but nobody remembers when they had ever been to the western Gulf.

[quote=Goodenuff]"Dave claimed to have seen an 18-20 footer ..."

Dave's gonna need a bigger boat.[/quote]Lol!

"Dave claimed to have seen an 18-20 footer ..."

Dave's gonna need a bigger boat.

[quote=windowShopping7][quote=sorillo1000][quote=funfor2houston]Hanging out a friends surf shop today in Galveston . He gets all the bulletins on the Gulf . Comes across two tagged Great White sharks are headed toward Galveston . One is 17’ and the other is 19’ . I didn’t know they track these things. . He said that this is really unusual as around Galveston it is shallow and the water is extra warm.[/quote]That's unusual. Whites generally are found in much colder water, following food sources like seals, sea lions and various whales.

Lots of them in the Channel Islands here in Cali (Cali!!!) when they're in season. When I lived in SoCal, I used to go on fishing trips with a buddy of mine who had a 38' trawler. We'd occasionally see Whites cruising around the islands near the seal/sea lion hangouts. Largest one I ever saw was around 15' or so, off of Anacapa. Dave claimed to have seen an 18-20 footer further out towards San Nicholas in areas around the island not controlled by the Navy. They run a naval gunnery/missile range from facilities on the island. But he was kind of a bullshitter so I'm not sure I believe it...[/quote]I have a Megalodon tooth. It’s 51/2”. So that was probably a 30-35 ft behemoth.[/quote]See, stuff like that is why I don't mess around swimming the ocean anymore. I don't like being 3 steps down on the food chain.

Yes, I know they're supposed to be extinct. That's what they WANT you to think...

[quote=sorillo1000][quote=funfor2houston]Hanging out a friends surf shop today in Galveston . He gets all the bulletins on the Gulf . Comes across two tagged Great White sharks are headed toward Galveston . One is 17’ and the other is 19’ . I didn’t know they track these things. . He said that this is really unusual as around Galveston it is shallow and the water is extra warm.[/quote]That's unusual. Whites generally are found in much colder water, following food sources like seals, sea lions and various whales.

Lots of them in the Channel Islands here in Cali (Cali!!!) when they're in season. When I lived in SoCal, I used to go on fishing trips with a buddy of mine who had a 38' trawler. We'd occasionally see Whites cruising around the islands near the seal/sea lion hangouts. Largest one I ever saw was around 15' or so, off of Anacapa. Dave claimed to have seen an 18-20 footer further out towards San Nicholas in areas around the island not controlled by the Navy. They run a naval gunnery/missile range from facilities on the island. But he was kind of a bullshitter so I'm not sure I believe it...[/quote]I have a Megalodon tooth. It’s 51/2”. So that was probably a 30-35 ft behemoth.

[quote=funfor2houston]Hanging out a friends surf shop today in Galveston . He gets all the bulletins on the Gulf . Comes across two tagged Great White sharks are headed toward Galveston . One is 17’ and the other is 19’ . I didn’t know they track these things. . He said that this is really unusual as around Galveston it is shallow and the water is extra warm.[/quote]That's unusual. Whites generally are found in much colder water, following food sources like seals, sea lions and various whales.

Lots of them in the Channel Islands here in Cali (Cali!!!) when they're in season. When I lived in SoCal, I used to go on fishing trips with a buddy of mine who had a 38' trawler. We'd occasionally see Whites cruising around the islands near the seal/sea lion hangouts. Largest one I ever saw was around 15' or so, off of Anacapa. Dave claimed to have seen an 18-20 footer further out towards San Nicholas in areas around the island not controlled by the Navy. They run a naval gunnery/missile range from facilities on the island. But he was kind of a bullshitter so I'm not sure I believe it...

Unfortunate when profiles like Over7Under8 come on here, say what's on their mind and then poof. Gone.

Hanging out a friends surf shop today in Galveston . He gets all the bulletins on the Gulf . Comes across two tagged Great White sharks are headed toward Galveston . One is 17’ and the other is 19’ . I didn’t know they track these things. . He said that this is really unusual as around Galveston it is shallow and the water is extra warm.

Todays single male award goes to a guy from Toronto.. " Hi your wife is beautiful, photos opened"

Guess he cant read.. one line profile not one photo in his public profile.. and the one he sends is a DICK photo...

You just cant make this crap up! Instant BLOCK!

Another WTF moment with me. Ex wife had been painting her nails. After noticing, I asked if ahe was doing a fashion statement. She looked at me odd as to what I was getting at. I told her that one hand has 3 nails painted a different color than the rest. She looked at me in disbelief... but quickly brought two polish bottles by two different manufacturers. To her their colors looked the same. To me it was obvious, and I'm Red/Green color blind.

Now for the big WTF moment.

I had a tester on the assembly line stop work flow, to return a finished product for rework. They pointed out one of the 6 LED boards was orange, while it was to be yellow. They pointed out the board and I clearly noticed the color was orange. From all the commotion, others on the line got involved to see for themselves. With all the questioning going on, the tester could not identify the board from the 6. I quickly pointed out the orange board, and asked are you color blind? Nobody believed me that I identified the orange board. The tester placed the finished product on his bench and powered it on... sure enough I was correct. I told them they're all color blind not me. I guess it was a true blind leading the blind moment.

[quote=tbrmskss]"Love the tip."

I've heard that about you.[/quote]Hey! Who doesn’t love the start of something good?

Here is a WTF moment I was part of.

I was working on a network issue and my supervisor came in and asked me a technical question to assist a tech on site to resolve an issue.

The squirrel in my head while trying to keep my focus on my issue, combined my issue with the question and I quickly gave my answer without a second thought.

My supervisor asked me with a stern face, "Do you realize what you just said, doen't make any sense?"... what scares me is I completely understood you. :o)

[quote=tbrmskss]"Love the tip."

I've heard that about you.[/quote]LMAO

"Love the tip."

I've heard that about you.

[quote=windowShopping7][quote=vabeachcouple33]Here's an even better dessicant. You're gonna need to do some homemade chemistry and be a little careful, but this is the best you'll get.

You can make your own anhydrous magnesium sulfate from Epsom salt. I'll give the chemistry explanation at the bottom.

Put some Epsom salt in a glass oven safe dish in an oven at 475 F. Let it sit there for at least 2 hours. It will lose a little over half its weight. It will change from sparkling crystals to white powder. Shut the oven off and let it cool down with the door closed.

When it's cool enough to touch the dish with your bare hands, remove the dish and transfer the now anhydrous magnesium sulfate to a jar with a tight fitting lid (like a mason jar).

To use it, put the befouled electronic device or other thing you want dessicated in a lidded container (plastic takeout containers are great) about twice it's footprint. On the other side, carefully spoon some of the magnesium sulfate beside it. Be careful not to get it ON your electronics.

Close the lid and give it a couple of hours. Putting it somewhere warm (80- will speed it up.

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Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, meaning it has 7 water molecules for each magnesium sulfate ion pair. 1 "mole" (a chemistry unit for the quantity of atoms in something) weighs 246 g. Once those waters are all driven off, a mole of anhydrous magnesium sulfate weighs just 120 g. So if you want to know if you've succeeded, measure the weight before and after. 100% success means a 51% weight loss. Don't worry if you don't quite get there - it'll still work.

Fun Fact: Epsom salt is more than 50% water :)[/quote]God you’re so hot when you get all scientific.

Love the tip. Saving this to memos.[/quote]Thank you. :)

I should add that this generates a LOT of water vapor, so I wouldn't do more than perhaps 1/2 a pound/250 g at a time. The water vapor from that much has a volume of more than 200 L (7.5 cubic feet) and that's all gotta go somewhere.

Probably much safer to do on a outdoor grill if you can, although you probably don't want to use a glass pan on that.

"Furthest north on the East Coast for a Buc-ees is Virginia"

there were rumors that Pennsylvania was getting one

Bucees brisket sandwich is legit