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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited January 2021

    Sucker shoes.indecision   Wheee, I'm a fly on the wall.cool

    Non-complaint:  Wow, Melbourne, Florida has made it into the news again for something other than a "Florida man" article.  I spent my college years in Melbourne at Florida Institute of Technology.  Then lived in the area for many more years.  I know it intimately.  I actually like it.  It's almost the perfect Florida city.  Not too big, not piddly small.  Not too exclusive, not too underclass.  Ocean, beaches, rivers & lagoons.  Fishing, hunting, cattle ranches nearby.  Moderate Florida weather.  Modern industry, excellent education opportunities, midway between all the other major cities of Florida (Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville).  You can easily watch rocket launches, and it's just a stone's throw southeast of Orlando (1 hour).  And it has a decent small airport.  I remember flying in and out of Melbourne Regional Airport back in the late sixties while in college.  It was a tiny little airport where I had to walk out onto the tarmac past the chain link fence and go up the built-in stairs into the Boeing 727 aircraft. for a 2.5 hour flight home to Buffalo.  The airport has grown over the years but I think you still don't have a jetway to the plane and still have to board the old fashioned way.  But it's really not a big airport. (photo below)  (Note: the big body of water in the photo is not the Atlantic Ocean, it's the Indian River Lagoon.  The ocean is another mile farther east, beyond the lagoon and the barrier island.

    But now, this news https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/as2-supersonic-jet-florida-hq/index.html

     The area around the airport is littered with electronic industries but there is still a lot of undeveloped space despite the airport that was once outside of the city now being in the middle of the city.  There has always been an airplane manufacturing company homed at that airport but it always seems that their product never gets off the ground.  But never a project this big.  It's always been small private jets similar to Lear Jet.  But this project, if it works, could possibly put Melbourne on the map for something other than "Florida man" stories or episodes of the "Cops" TV show.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    McGyver said:

    Mystiarra said:

    is peanut oil healthy like olive oil?

    i need an oil to cure the cast iron skillet?

    Peanut oil is higher in saturated fat, which is good at clogging up arteries and stuff, but peanut oil starts to scorch/burn at 450°F / 232°C, whereas olive oil (virgin olive oil) will begin to burn at around 350°F/ 177°C ... Olive oil has Omega-3 fatty acids which are good for you, but peanut oil has Omega-6 which if I'm not mistaken isn't as good for you as Omega-3... unless, I suppose you are from the planet Omega 6 in which case you are probably a sentient peanut (Mr. Peanut's home planet) in which case consuming peanut oil is cannibalism. 
    Olive oil has a more grassy lighter taste, especially extra virgin olive oil (it's from olives that have never ever dreamed of sex), and peanut oil has a more heavier oily taste.

    Olive oil really is better for food, peanut oil is better for high temperature cooking... or oiling a squeaky peanut...

    Avoid using baby oil... Most baby oil these days is no longer made from pressed babies and is not safe for cooking... unless it's specifically marked as Baby Cooking Oil, in which case it is safe to deep fry babies in... don't oil them with it though, because it tends to turn rancid and will smell... instead use a quality lithium grease or silicone lubricant designed for baby joints... always consult the manufacturer's owner's manual before taking a baby apart for maintenance.

    I generally use non-virgin olive oil (dirty, naughty little olives) I think it's okay for slightly higher temps and it tastes better... but that usually is on the food itself not for seasoning a pan... and it's more of a grill/skillet thingie I grill steaks and pork on in the oven... but it hasn't scorched yet at 450°F

    I'm guessing none of this was helpful.

     

    actually is helpful.  good safety tip.  np eatem heapem peanut oil.  jimmy carter.
    sso prolly pbj not so healthy
    also squirrels might beat me up for peanut oil

    what avocado oil?  is it a silent killer ?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sooo cold.   thank goodness for rapid boil tea pots.  emergency hot tea.

    there some kind of sonic thingee kee[s the spiders away?

    stop n shop doesnt take order for birthday cakes no mores.  another thing to blame on the virus.
    wanted a mylilpony themed cake for my bday.  i started whining, ' my birthday is ruined'  my really nice cousin said she'd make a unicorn cake.  she's a really great kid.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040

    McGyver said:

    Legit complaint...

    I just decided to wear a new pair of sneakers I bought a while ago... my older ones are "a bit" worn out... I generally buy the same brand because they fit my needs and are cheap... I forgot the one really annoying thing about them that lasts a few days or weeks after I first start wearing them...

    The thread detail has these weird little "cups" in the design... so when you walk on tile or even polished concrete (like the floor of Home Depot) the cups act like suction cups and you feel like some freakishly large tree frog or giant gecko... 

    I'm cutting little notches in them to see if that stops it... but god, that's annoying.

    ...have you tried to walk up a building with a glass facade, kind of like Batman and Robin did but without the Bat Rope ©?  

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040

    Mystiarra said:

    sooo cold.   thank goodness for rapid boil tea pots.  emergency hot tea.

    there some kind of sonic thingee kee[s the spiders away?

    stop n shop doesnt take order for birthday cakes no mores.  another thing to blame on the virus.
    wanted a mylilpony themed cake for my bday.  i started whining, ' my birthday is ruined'  my really nice cousin said she'd make a unicorn cake.  she's a really great kid.

    ...heart 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040

    ...speaking of cold, the forecast for Tuesday afternoon and evening calls for frozen water from the sky down to the valley floor.  That means in and around downtown, where I live.  Fortunately I am pretty well stocked up for the next stretch of cold rainy weather and don't have to go anywhere.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i want to retire somewhere my bones wont ache all the time.

    expecting sleet today.

    set my alarm 7am.  didnt recognize the sound. eek
    got some dayjob stuff to do.  work from no the same as a vacation.  i work more hours than when i actually go there.  cua i greateful to still have a job.  it's backwards.  they should be appreciating me more.  lol 

    mann i could really go for a ihop breakfast.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Mystiarra said:

    sooo cold.   thank goodness for rapid boil tea pots.  emergency hot tea.

    there some kind of sonic thingee kee[s the spiders away?

    stop n shop doesnt take order for birthday cakes no mores.  another thing to blame on the virus.
    wanted a mylilpony themed cake for my bday.  i started whining, ' my birthday is ruined'  my really nice cousin said she'd make a unicorn cake.  she's a really great kid.


    That's really nice of her...store bought unicorn cake never has any real unicorn in it, it's usually retired circus ponies or worn out Russian mining donkeys... 
    Good unicorn cake should be made with fresh unicorn. 
    Some stores will cheap out and use frozen unicorn pellets or concentrated unicorn shavings, which is mostly hooves and snouts... and never fall for "100% UniKorn" which is a synthetic polyurethane unicorn substitute.

    A reputable bakery with a fresh unicorn in the freezer is probably the best place to get a good unicorn cake... if you aren't sure check the dumpster for horns and hooves, if they have a rainbow glitter effect in sunlight, they are the real deal... that's one of the best ways to be sure.

    But the really best way to be sure is to make the cake yourself... Get your unicorn fresh from a unicorn farm or from the unicorn tank at the grocery store... if they don't let you pick your own, don't buy it... they'll alway pick the one with mange or diarrhea, so you need to choose the happiest looking one... one that still seems to have hope left.

    You also should make sure you have a good meat grinder or better yet a dedicated unicorn grinder at home.

    Oh and when making unicorn cake at home, remember to save the tears, as they have magical healing powers and are good for removing red wine stains from wool.

    Don't bother trying to sell the horn, ever since they started commercially farming unicorns, the horns really have no value... they make great coat hooks and hole pokers though... Actually I was just picking my teeth with one a moment ago... they really have a lot of uses, but nobody buys them anymore.

     

    As far as the sonic spider thing... as far as I know, that's a big fat scam... I know several folks who swear by them, but I've seen spider webs on the ones in their house, so yeah, maybe it was a masochistic or deaf spider, but to me it's evidence they don't actually do anything... it might work on rodents though... I dunno.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    @ LeatherGryphon 

    The early version of the AS2 in the pictures looks cool... like the old Cold War F-104 Starfighter.

    The newer version (2020 redesign) looks like the love child of a Concord and a Learjet... not bad, but not as sleek as the other earlier versions... 

    I wish them luck, lots of other companies have toyed with similar projects and it usually never gets past the rendered images phase.

    I have a weird feeling, people will be doing suborbital traveling before any sort of airline type concord replacements can catch on, so this sort of corporate jet idea is probably the most financially feasible in the short term.

    Big breakthroughs in the corporate space race could ruin supersonic passenger aircraft development.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited January 2021

    Mystiarra said:

    i want to retire somewhere my bones wont ache all the time.

    ...

    Look into Melbourne, Florida.  Much less exclusive or expensive than Sarasota or Venice.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sleet and snow, way passed pretty

     

  • Complaint:  Arghhh..., my microwave oven is making mechanical rattling noises as the platter turns.  2nd day of this malady.sad

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., my microwave oven is making mechanical rattling noises as the platter turns.  2nd day of this malady.sad

    an omen to order take out today.  quickly before the snow starts.  if it hasnt already. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., my microwave oven is making mechanical rattling noises as the platter turns.  2nd day of this malady.sad

    One of the wheels might be funkified... soak the wheel thingie (carriage?) in hot water, that works sometimes and make sure the glass is level and the trackway is unobstructed... unless it's the motor... but mostly is something to do with the wheels... sometimes the tiniest bit of gunk or a stray crumb can slow down the rotation, causing it stutter, squeak, or rattle.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    shee ssa snowin now.  the sky is falling the sky is falling

    badda bing badda fall

  • McGyver said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., my microwave oven is making mechanical rattling noises as the platter turns.  2nd day of this malady.sad

    One of the wheels might be funkified... soak the wheel thingie (carriage?) in hot water, that works sometimes and make sure the glass is level and the trackway is unobstructed... unless it's the motor... but mostly is something to do with the wheels... sometimes the tiniest bit of gunk or a stray crumb can slow down the rotation, causing it stutter, squeak, or rattle.

    Good idea. yes I imagine that if I were a drop of oil living in a bath of microwaves and flaking, spraying, baking, food debris for 5 years I'd get a little stiff too.surprise 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited January 2021

    ...frozen water from the sky started about 40 min ago. Not sticking to pavement as it's warmer and wet but is starting to collect in grassy areas. Local weather service issued a "winter storm warning" with about 2 inches, which for Portland is a major snow event. 

    Meanwhile, as we used to say in Wisconsin...

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    does pesto harden arteries?  i think is pignoli oil. pine nuts.  dont think is from pne trees.  pine tree babies are acorns.  it was scrat's acorn that cracked hte pangea supercontinent to the world it is today.  talk about a lil guy changing the world.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    kyoto kid said:

    ...frozen water fro, the sky started about 40 min ago. Not sticking to pavement as it's warmer and wet but is starting to collect in grassy areas. Local weather service issued a "winter storm warning" with about 2 inches, which for Portland is a major snow event. 

    Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...

    snow cones!! 

  • Acorns come from oak trees.  Pinecones come from pine trees.indecision

    "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow".  -- paraphrased/translated from Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374 

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208

    Mystiarra said:

    does pesto harden arteries?  i think is pignoli oil. pine nuts.  dont think is from pne trees.  pine tree babies are acorns.  it was scrat's acorn that cracked hte pangea supercontinent to the world it is today.  

    Pine nuts are from pine cones, not from acorns!   Acorns are from oak trees!

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    just noticed the RRRR game threads not around no moars

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Acorns come from oak trees.  Pinecones come from pine trees.indecision

    "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow".  -- paraphrased/translated from Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374 

    chaucer was kewl in 'a knight's tale'

    not many blind poets.  wouldnt be much vividry to write about.

    'darkness, o what is darkness?' 
    the sound of rain drops falling,
    humid and dampness is calling

    car alarm car alarm
    lourder than an angry school marm

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,808

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., my microwave oven is making mechanical rattling noises as the platter turns.  2nd day of this malady.sad

    We have a very basic, low power microwave. I wanted to replace it with a fancy overblown one whenever it stopped working. But the darn thing won't stop working. It's been just horribly reliable for more than a decade. The person who bought it for us doesn't remember buying it. Maybe he didn't buy it. Maybe that thing has always been there.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    DanaTA said:

    Mystiarra said:

    does pesto harden arteries?  i think is pignoli oil. pine nuts.  dont think is from pne trees.  pine tree babies are acorns.  it was scrat's acorn that cracked hte pangea supercontinent to the world it is today.  

    Pine nuts are from pine cones, not from acorns!   Acorns are from oak trees!

    Dana

    pine nuts sure are tasty.  

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited January 2021

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Acorns come from oak trees.  Pinecones come from pine trees.indecision

    "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow".  -- paraphrased/translated from Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374 

    "The mightiest and bravest elephant will always grow from the smallest and humblest of acorns." --Anaximander of Miletus, 638 BC, during the festival of Dionysus, translated by Stanley of the Bus Station, 1983 and inscribed on a dried, pressed rat.

    Historians will argue that the original statement was actually a question...

    "Does not the greatest and mightiest of elephants grow from the smallest and humblest of acorns?"

    This is because Anaximander during his alcoholism phase (after he studied from Thales, he adopted some of the teachings of Alcoholus) was fond of putting everything in a the form of a question as he felt it challenged the listener and covered up the fact he had no idea what he was talking about because he was usually drunk.

    But who are you going to believe?... A stupid boring historian or some weird hobo who makes books out of dried rats?

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the snow is xtra crunchy today

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040

    NylonGirl said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., my microwave oven is making mechanical rattling noises as the platter turns.  2nd day of this malady.sad

    We have a very basic, low power microwave. I wanted to replace it with a fancy overblown one whenever it stopped working. But the darn thing won't stop working. It's been just horribly reliable for more than a decade. The person who bought it for us doesn't remember buying it. Maybe he didn't buy it. Maybe that thing has always been there.

    ...I used to have an early Amana Radar Range™ that came with the old flat I previously rented.  It was pretty basic with no revolving platter.  Worked perfectly fine for the 18 years I was there and even outlasted the fridge and flooring.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040

    Mystiarra said:

    the snow is xtra crunchy today

    ..but the important thing, does it taste good? 

  • Mystiarra said:

    DanaTA said:

    Mystiarra said:

    does pesto harden arteries?  i think is pignoli oil. pine nuts.  dont think is from pne trees.  pine tree babies are acorns.  it was scrat's acorn that cracked hte pangea supercontinent to the world it is today.  

    Pine nuts are from pine cones, not from acorns!   Acorns are from oak trees!

    Dana

    pine nuts sure are tasty.  

    Some people say that of Rocky Mountain Oysters.indecision 

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