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  1. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    R.E.M. - Orange Crush

     

    We would circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and centered on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all this here county, hell, any county it's just like heaven here, and I was remembering and I was just in a different county and all then this whirlybird that I headed for I had my goggles pulled off. I knew it all. I knew every back road and every truck stop.

  4. Music-themed groups

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    Doe: Martial artist with superleap, fast running, and levels with a move-through attack.

    Ray: solar-powered energy projector.

    Me: a mimic, so characters fight themselves.

    Far: speedster, with heaps of Combat Skill levels vs Range.

    Sew: has a device that fires small spikes with rope entangles.

    La: a Follower for Sew.

    Tea: boils water vapor from the air to create energy blasts and steam clouds.

  11. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    I don't think you'd actually need sine or cosine to find it. I think Pythagoras would be sufficient.

     

    Consider: The diameter of the pipe is 10 feet. Half its diameter (the radius) is 5 feet.

     

    Half the circumference of the pipe (the bottom, where the chain is) is 5*pi. The length of the chain not touching the pipe is 40-5pi. This is the total length of chain from the hook to where it touches one side of the pipe and from the other side of the pipe back up to the hook (assuming the chain is tangent to the side of the pipe at its widest point). The distance from the hook to either side of the pipe is therefore half of 40-5pi, or 20-2.5pi.

     

    This gives you the hypotenuse (20-2.5pi) and one side (5) of a right triangle. The distance from the center of the pipe to the hook is the other side, which you can find using Pythagoras. Subtract the radius of the pipe (5) from this result, and you have the distance from the hook to the top of the pipe.

     

    Right?

     

    Wrong (IMHO). The question is unsolvable, because you have the diameter of the pipe, which is irrelevant. What you need is the length. Here's an image of a pipe held by a chain sling to demonstrate the problem:

     

    Pipe%20Chain%20Sling%20with%20npi.jpg

     

    Although, there are other ways to sling a pipe, so perhaps it is solvable, except you don't know which method is used:

     

    14026_20_1.jpg

     

    My answer would have been "Insufficient information provided."

  12. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    We've had a cat at the sanctuary that was freaked out by cameras. He'd run if you brought a camera in. Didn't matter if it was a big SLR or a tiny point and shoot. He'd know.

     

    And quite a few dogs dislike cameras. They freak them out for some reason.

    They know that cameras STEAL YOUR SOUL. Mwuhahahaha!

  20. Musings on Random Musings

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    I onyl have one ex, and she was a psycho stalker, so I am unqualified to give advice on this matter.

     

    I prefer cash to gift cards, or even to gifts. I can spend it anywhere I like, I can get exactly what I want, and it goes further during the post-Xmas sales.

  22. Armed and Non-Armed Professions

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    It sounds vaguely like a Robert Heinlein novel, the title of which escapes me at the moment. MOST people went armed; those who didn't wore brassards (badges) proclaiming their unarmed status.

     

    Those who were unarmed weren't considered full citizens and/or adults. They had special protections--were immune to being challenged to a duel, for instance--but were also expected to mind their place. That is, saying or doing things that would, had they been armed, have gotten them challenged to apologize or fight wasn't allowed.

     

    Some professions may have routinely been considered appropriate reason to go unarmed. It's been a long time since I read the novel.

    IIRR everyone (or just the women?) wore full-face masks as well, in fact I think "Masks" was the title of the story (and it was a short story, not a novel). Can't remember if the author was Heinlein or not, but I suspect not.

  23. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    I took some time off the boards earlier this year to finish my degree. However, since I finished, I have been feeling very burnt out. There were things I wanted to do instead of study, but kept putting them off. Now, every time I think about these other things, which are supposed to be fun, I put them off because for some reason they seem like work. Even posting to this board takes an effort of will. Which is why I am making this post - I am going to start doing some of these things I have wanted to do, but wasn't able to, and start enjoying things again. Maybe I'll finally get around to doing some of the HERO-related stuff I have been thinking of for the past few years, and finally increase my post count!

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