Re: The Random Discussion Thread (RDT)

by flyingturns89 Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:04 pm

gwoodard41 wrote:Alas, I will not have a valentine for said day, nor have i had one previous to today, my life sucks

^This.

by Guest Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:08 pm

BurningThunder wrote:
f1fan12 wrote:
BurningThunder wrote:And the record for furthest distance between anyone and their valentine goes to me.

Russian Girl?

Good call! Yeah, the distance is about 5500 miles, but somehow we make it work out. Her and I met about 10 months ago in St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), and we've been really close since then. I could go into more details but I don't want to bore you, even though it is a pretty entertaining story. Most of the ISRA guys have heard it so they know what I'm talking about xD

You should go into details because, as we've proved by being on the internet, we've nothing better to do with our lives. Razz

by day500champ1 Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:46 pm

flyingturns89 wrote:
gwoodard41 wrote:Alas, I will not have a valentine for said day, nor have i had one previous to today, my life sucks

^This.

I 3rd this. Although, I wouldn't say my life sucks.

by Guest Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:56 pm

day500champ1 wrote:
flyingturns89 wrote:
gwoodard41 wrote:Alas, I will not have a valentine for said day, nor have i had one previous to today, my life sucks

^This.

I 3rd this. Although, I wouldn't say my life sucks.

4th, but I bet you gentlemen are like me and haven't tried do to rock bottom self-esteem. Whoo, lack of self-confidence for the win!

by **Cynon** Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:29 pm

My girlfriend and I ...

...

... yeah, didn't do anything because we were busy today. It's not a day we particularly care about anyways...

by navycook75 Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:51 pm

The Random Discussion Thread (RDT) - Page 10 Demotivational-posters-haters

that's awesome....

by Racerfan275 Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:10 pm

navycook75 wrote: that's awesome....

no comment Laughing

by navycook75 Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:17 pm

Racerfan275 wrote:
navycook75 wrote: that's awesome....
no comment

but "No Comment" is a comment.....

by flyingturns89 Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:23 pm

Ward Burton is a trending topic on racing-reference.info Very Happy

by day500champ1 Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:27 pm

navycook75 wrote:
Racerfan275 wrote:
navycook75 wrote: that's awesome....
no comment
but "No Comment" is a comment.....

So, it's a comment that consist of a lack of comment. Or is it a comment within a comment? Question

by flyingturns89 Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:39 pm

day500champ1 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Racerfan275 wrote:
navycook75 wrote: that's awesome....
no comment
but "No Comment" is a comment.....

So, it's a comment that consist of a lack of comment. Or is it a comment within a comment?

/inceptionmoment

by Sparkz47 Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:54 pm

day500champ1 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Racerfan275 wrote:
navycook75 wrote: that's awesome....
no comment
but "No Comment" is a comment.....

So, it's a comment that consist of a lack of comment. Or is it a comment within a comment?

The Random Discussion Thread (RDT) - Page 10 Xzibit

by day500champ1 Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:00 pm

I don't see what is so hard about this.

All I'm trying to figure out is can you respond to a comment with a non-comment when in fact that non-comment is a comment. It's that simple.

by flyingturns89 Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:04 pm

day500champ1 wrote:I don't see what is so hard about this.

All I'm trying to figure out is can you respond to a comment with a non-comment when in fact that non-comment is a comment. It's that simple.

Don't hurt yourself Ryan. Very Happy

by day500champ1 Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:07 pm

flyingturns89 wrote:
day500champ1 wrote:I don't see what is so hard about this.

All I'm trying to figure out is can you respond to a comment with a non-comment when in fact that non-comment is a comment. It's that simple.

Don't hurt yourself Ryan.

Don't worry about me. I blew my mind out once, so it's prepared for this.

by Jason Hamilton Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:55 am

Popcorn FTW

by pepsibottle1 Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:18 am

My Valentine's day was just like any other. Went to school, dealed with the idiocracy, came home, did my homework and blasted the stereo. I feel sorry for those who take the damn day so seriously and set themselves up for failure/heartbreak but hey, they had it coming. If you know you aren't going to get any, why do you think today is going to be any different? As for myself, I enjoy the single life. Right now, I don't want to be bound by anyone else and besides, my high school is full of sluts anyways so why bother?

To me, it was just another day in the office. Errrrm, mental prison Laughing

by Rykia Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:29 pm

pepsibottle1 wrote:My Valentine's day was just like any other. Went to school, dealed with the idiocracy, came home, did my homework and blasted the stereo. I feel sorry for those who take the damn day so seriously and set themselves up for failure/heartbreak but hey, they had it coming. If you know you aren't going to get any, why do you think today is going to be any different? As for myself, I enjoy the single life. Right now, I don't want to be bound by anyone else and besides, my high school is full of sluts anyways so why bother?

To me, it was just another day in the office. Errrrm, mental prison

Great outlook on life! Smile

by Tanrar Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:25 pm

New avatar. Thank you very much, Ben.

by Magus978 Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:39 pm

Your avatar needs moar of this...stolen shamelessly from old EFR, something we need to have back here.

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The Random Discussion Thread (RDT) - Page 10 SAni_kittydance

by Cardinals5 Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:31 pm

So, while I was busy programming (or, more appropriately, UNprogramming the bad program from) a CNC machine, someone walked off with my TI-89 calculator. I figured that as a JUNIOR in college this is the kind of crap that wouldn't happen. I mean, it's not like I need that calculator, I'm only a mechanical engineering student in two machine design courses.

Also, anyone who can program halfway decently, the CNC program I had to deal with today would give you a stroke Laughing

by **Cynon** Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:08 am

Cardinals5 wrote:Also, anyone who can program halfway decently, the CNC program I had to deal with today would give you a stroke

I've never written anything for CNC, but I could probably figure it out. I had to sift through code for an open-source paint program with documentation in RUSSIAN (with no English support for it, to boot) and figure out where everything was... Mad

Were you doing it with EMC/EMC2? I only ask because I'm quite the fan of open source stuff.

by Cardinals5 Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:54 am

Cynon wrote:
Cardinals5 wrote:Also, anyone who can program halfway decently, the CNC program I had to deal with today would give you a stroke

I've never written anything for CNC, but I could probably figure it out. I had to sift through code for an open-source paint program with documentation in RUSSIAN (with no English support for it, to boot) and figure out where everything was...

Were you doing it with EMC/EMC2? I only ask because I'm quite the fan of open source stuff.

No, we were using OpenCam and the various things with it. We got the solid model working in Solidworks (i.e. we defined an origin and what we needed done to the material). It wrote an INI code to do the work, but we discovered that somewhere in the actual set up of the CNC machine, there's a program to move the spindle head that basically froze it in the Z-axis (meaning it would move left to right but not up and down, rendering it basically an expensive spindle sander). When we got the Z-axis to move, the spindle didn't spin.

Granted, this is better than it was. The previous programming was in German. Also, it was from 1977, so the programming language was...odd.

by flyingturns89 Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:25 pm

Cardinals5 wrote:So, while I was busy programming (or, more appropriately, UNprogramming the bad program from) a CNC machine, someone walked off with my TI-89 calculator. I figured that as a JUNIOR in college this is the kind of crap that wouldn't happen. I mean, it's not like I need that calculator, I'm only a mechanical engineering student in two machine design courses.

Also, anyone who can program halfway decently, the CNC program I had to deal with today would give you a stroke

I had to do CNC work in seventh grade. I then thought it was some of the hardest stuff I'd ever done. Me and my partner would ask the teacher something, and he'd always laugh and say that it is easy. I didn't take any more of those classes after that.

by f1fan12 Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:39 pm

Cynon wrote:
Cardinals5 wrote:Also, anyone who can program halfway decently, the CNC program I had to deal with today would give you a stroke

I've never written anything for CNC, but I could probably figure it out. I had to sift through code for an open-source paint program with documentation in RUSSIAN (with no English support for it, to boot) and figure out where everything was...

Were you doing it with EMC/EMC2? I only ask because I'm quite the fan of open source stuff.

Get Burningthunder on it. Very Happy

by **Cynon** Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:05 pm

f1fan12 wrote:
Cynon wrote:
Cardinals5 wrote:Also, anyone who can program halfway decently, the CNC program I had to deal with today would give you a stroke

I've never written anything for CNC, but I could probably figure it out. I had to sift through code for an open-source paint program with documentation in RUSSIAN (with no English support for it, to boot) and figure out where everything was...

Were you doing it with EMC/EMC2? I only ask because I'm quite the fan of open source stuff.

Get Burningthunder on it.

Little late for that, I've already replaced all the documentation with my own annotations in English. Laughing

Cardinals5 wrote:
No, we were using OpenCam and the various things with it. We got the solid model working in Solidworks (i.e. we defined an origin and what we needed done to the material). It wrote an INI code to do the work, but we discovered that somewhere in the actual set up of the CNC machine, there's a program to move the spindle head that basically froze it in the Z-axis (meaning it would move left to right but not up and down, rendering it basically an expensive spindle sander). When we got the Z-axis to move, the spindle didn't spin.

Granted, this is better than it was. The previous programming was in German. Also, it was from 1977, so the programming language was...odd.

At least you're not doing it in assembly... Laughing

by Guest Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:30 pm

Ahh, you people that have programming for all these years...I have 3 weeks under my belt. Beat that. I learned if-then statements in java.

by Sparkz47 Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:14 pm

Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.

by Blake Camphausen Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:16 pm

Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.

Most entertaining thing that has to do with Tennis I have ever read.

by navycook75 Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:34 pm

Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.

reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

by Mystrsyko Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:10 pm

Not sure how many of you are "experts" on bowling, but I figure this new ball I got should be good for a laugh at least
The Random Discussion Thread (RDT) - Page 10 IMG_5636

The Random Discussion Thread (RDT) - Page 10 IMG_5636

yes, that has too extra holes, and yes, I throw it just fine that way. I have nicknamed it "Four Eyes", lol

by RealRacer4 Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:22 pm

^I actually have seen this before. Tbh, it's the kind of preference I have for using a bowling ball. You can pretty much put as much power down as you want. Being that I'm a n00b, it kind of makes me feel good about it.
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by Cardinals5 Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:30 pm

Mystrsyko wrote:Not sure how many of you are "experts" on bowling, but I figure this new ball I got should be good for a laugh at least

yes, that has too extra holes, and yes, I throw it just fine that way. I have nicknamed it "Four Eyes", lol

Actually, I wouldn't mind having a ball like that, being that I'm ambidextrous and I sometimes hate bowling righty

by flyingturns89 Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:47 pm

navycook75 wrote:
Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.
reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

I played racquetball dodgeball once. Game ended after I got knocked unconscious. True story. Got nailed right in the temple.

by bartman97 Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:21 am

flyingturns89 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.
reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

I played racquetball dodgeball once. Game ended after I got knocked unconscious. True story. Got nailed right in the temple.

YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUGG OUT!!!

by Mother of Invention Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:51 am

Mystrsyko wrote:Not sure how many of you are "experts" on bowling, but I figure this new ball I got should be good for a laugh at least

Does Keith Sherman post here? I know he's a huge bowling fanatic.

by flyingturns89 Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:55 am

bartman97 wrote:
flyingturns89 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.
reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

I played racquetball dodgeball once. Game ended after I got knocked unconscious. True story. Got nailed right in the temple.

YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUGG OUT!!!

Damn right. Then I got up and just shook it off. I can't remember anything from that day, but otherwise I'm fine.

by pepsibottle1 Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:15 am

Mystrsyko wrote:Not sure how many of you are "experts" on bowling, but I figure this new ball I got should be good for a laugh at least

yes, that has too extra holes, and yes, I throw it just fine that way. I have nicknamed it "Four Eyes", lol

Whatcha using? I've got a Storm Dimension for my main ball and I use a Brunswick Crown Jewel for my corner spares. Averaging 173 right now in my league. Believe it or not, I'm an avid bowler myself. Been bowling for 8 years now Cool

As for programming, I'm doing mini Sumo-Bots and just said fuck it after a classmate put sonar on his and I'm so far behind. Electronics is not my forte. Gimme a challenge involving 4 wheels and a gasoline powered engine though and I'll whip his ass Very Happy

by Mystrsyko Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:34 am

pepsibottle1 wrote:
Mystrsyko wrote:Not sure how many of you are "experts" on bowling, but I figure this new ball I got should be good for a laugh at least

yes, that has too extra holes, and yes, I throw it just fine that way. I have nicknamed it "Four Eyes", lol

Whatcha using? I've got a Storm Dimension for my main ball and I use a Brunswick Crown Jewel for my corner spares. Averaging 173 right now in my league. Believe it or not, I'm an avid bowler myself. Been bowling for 8 years now

In my Thursday night league I'm averaging 199 using mostly a 6 year old Ebonite Ice, and my Sunday league is on PBA patterns, so i'm only averaging 169, lol. I throw pretty much everything I own in that league trying to figure out the oil. My Brunswick Ultimate Inferno seems to get the most use. This new ball is just a White Dot. I got it as an experiment to see how I like the grip. If it works out I may drill a reactive that way

by bartman97 Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:14 pm

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/air-australia-collapse-strands-4000-overseas/story-fn7x8me2-1226274250547

If there was a category for a reject airline, I believe this would be in it.

by PackerMan71 Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:48 pm

bartman97 wrote:
flyingturns89 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.
reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

I played racquetball dodgeball once. Game ended after I got knocked unconscious. True story. Got nailed right in the temple.

YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUGG OUT!!!

by flyingturns89 Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:33 pm

PackerMan71 wrote:
bartman97 wrote:
flyingturns89 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.
reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

I played racquetball dodgeball once. Game ended after I got knocked unconscious. True story. Got nailed right in the temple.

YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUGG OUT!!!

As previously stated, yes I did.

Anyways, went on YouTube to find on some videos a 30 second ad for Nickelodeon's new show for internet celebrity Fred. Here's what it said:

"Hey it's FRED!!!!!!!!!!!
Woah, woah, woah, don't push the skip button."

I didn't hear the rest of it cause I pushed the skip button.

by navycook75 Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:40 pm

flyingturns89 wrote:
PackerMan71 wrote:
bartman97 wrote:
flyingturns89 wrote:
navycook75 wrote:
Sparkz47 wrote:Just got back from my first day of tennis practice. I returned a hit really hard and hit a girl right in the face. She was fine, but I still feel kind of bad about it. The sad part is it would have been a beautiful cross-court shot if it hadn't been...um...interrupted.
reminds me of the time I got hit in the nuts with a tennis ball.....needless to say that was the last time we were allowed to play tennis ball dodgeball.....

I played racquetball dodgeball once. Game ended after I got knocked unconscious. True story. Got nailed right in the temple.

YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUGG OUT!!!

As previously stated, yes I did.

Anyways, went on YouTube to find on some videos a 30 second ad for Nickelodeon's new show for internet celebrity Fred. Here's what it said:

"Hey it's FRED!!!!!!!!!!!
Woah, woah, woah, don't push the skip button."

I didn't hear the rest of it cause I pushed the skip button.

don't push the skip button? who the hell does he think he is? the internet police?

by Vincent Giacalone Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:59 pm

The Random Discussion Thread (RDT) - Page 10 Photo_10

Eleven years ago today.

by BWard Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:03 pm

Nascarboy426 wrote:

Eleven years ago today.

Yep. I think we all know what happened on this very day 11 years ago. Great way to pay tribute to Dale Earnhardt Sr though.

by pennst24 Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:06 pm

Nascarboy426 wrote:

Eleven years ago today.

Yes, I remember that day. Took a massive crap at the ripe old age of 5.

by navycook75 Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:10 pm

Nascarboy426 wrote:

Eleven years ago today.

11 years ago was the hardest I cried....then ten years later I cried almost as hard again...

on a happier note....I finally caught up to Chives!

by Rykia Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:23 pm

Nascarboy426 wrote:

Eleven years ago today.

No, the silver was not too much. That's really cool.

by PackerMan71 Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:47 pm

Dude, what the hell? There were 138 users online at the same time about two hours ago. The most we had at the old forum was 88.

WTF???? What is this I don't even...

by navycook75 Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:49 pm

PackerMan71 wrote:Dude, what the hell? There were 138 users online at the same time about two hours ago. The most we had at the old forum was 88.

WTF???? What is this I don't even...

we broke a record tonight boys....

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