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Which ever one I shoot better....Quote:
Originally Posted by roberth
[ROFL1]Quote:
Originally Posted by JM Ver. 2.0
Killing zombies
http://www.addictinggames.com/shooti...mbies-game.jsp
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Someone wrote me a PM about the LaRue I have on order. Who was it? (It got deleted by accident)
Evening whore dogs
Writing performance reports sucks.
"Read the whore-erscopes and eat some whore-derves"
LMFAO
"I'm a ho, you know I'm a ho. How do you know? Cause I told ya so"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVMT_itVC4
Ho'in on a Saturday night can be lonely. [Shake]
Awww, GG I'm here for you to ho with!
Watching the 1998 Godzilla movie. I think I like the original ones from back in the day better.
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I am not alooooone!Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
So Buff, what exactly do you do there? Look for ET's and stuff?
Just stepped outside to take a whizz Damn near a full moon. Beautiful night up here.
Funny. I walk past the bathroom so I can whiz off the deck. [LOL]
Oooooooooo, maybe I can make it to 2000 tonight.
Tonight and last night i've been watching movies and waiting for the thunderstorm to move on so the humidity drops and the dewpoint differential rises above 3degC.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
But normally, I'm a telescope operator (astronomer) and observe a set of pre-determined coordinates until we get the quality of data required for each target. Our telescope is a survey driven telescope, so we're basically observing the entire observable night sky. We have several instruments that are on our telescope and soon we'll be starting the fourth survey (next summer that is). Then we'll pick up two more instruments.
Having this floppy toe is annoying as hell.
So are you on the lookout for new stuff to show up? Quasars and novae and stuff?
I miss being in the science field. I was geologist in my former life. Love them rocks.
Well, one of our instruments is looking at baryon oscillations (which are kind of ripples from the big bang). Another is looking at the center of the milky way and is getting a never before seen look at it because it looks in infrared and is able to see through the dust lane.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
We've already observed pretty much the entire observable sky here twice now, on the third survey. The first survey was an imaging and most of those images are used in googlesky or wikisky. After we give our collaborators proprietary access to our data for a year, we release the data to the general public so universities and scientists world wide can use the data to do research and publish papers. As such, the data collected from our telescope is some of the most used for papers making our data much more published than data from the Hubble (if you can believe that).
Pretty cool stuff. I used to subscribe to Astronomy magazine just because I thought all that shit was mind blowing. The scale of time, etc. Geology relates in a way - the crazy time scales that is. 10 million years? Baaaah! Just a blip of time.
Googlesky? WTF do they NOT have their hands on? Jeeeez.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
http://www.google.com/sky/Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
Its really quite cool you can look around, zoom in on objects, view things in infrared, microwave or look at historical overlays.
That is pretty damn cool! The historical overlays are neat. Ho's back in the day were doing some serious psychedelics to come up with some of that shit.
So, in your humble opinion, is Pluto a planet or not? [Coffee]
Yea, those hostronomers were a CRAZY bunch! [LOL]Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
With any luck, I'll be moving back to the hardware side of things within the next couple of months. The observing side is nice, where else can you get a full salary and only work 8 days per month? But other than that, the schedule really sucks! We observe 365 days per year, including all holidays. Since there are only 9 observers on my telescope and we need 2 observers per night, you end up working Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years every single year. I have worked every single Thanksgiving the past 3 years, 2 New Years' and 2 Christmas'. That really sucks to be away from family on those holidays, especially since the weather usually prevents us from opening and we're blizzarded out. Those holidays REALLY suck because you KNOW there is no chance of opening/observing, yet we still have to stay and monitor the instruments and other systems.
Haha, YES, it is a planet damnit!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
For starters, it orbits like our other planets (albeit on a tilted plane, so technically it could be a captured asteroid/whatever). It is smaller than some of Jupiters' moons, but Mercury is also smaller than a few other moons (Ganymede - Jupiter and Titan - Saturn), so if you want to downgrade Pluto's status as a planet, you might as well downgrade Mercury too!
8 days a month. Damn, hard to beat that but yeah, I hear ya about working holidays. In the casino biz you just have to assume that you're working holidays and weekends. Sucks on the holidays, but I don't miss the weekends much. Having off during the week has it's advantages.
Of course, now I'm off every single day. But I have a few things working. Be back to work soon.
And Pluto - hell yeah! PLANET
Yea, that definitely sucks that you're off permanently now! On the plus side, we get 2 months off per year too... So technically I only work 80 nights per year LOL!
We have 1 month off for "Professional Development" where we get a monetary stipend to spend on developing ourselves, be it classes, training, time off for writing papers, etc. We also get 1 month off in July/August (rotates yearly) for summer shutdown where they take the telescope apart to clean it and do preventative maintenance. We do it in July because of the monsoon season. We haven't opened the telescope in the past 5 days because of the rain and high humidity. Tomorrow is the last night before shutdown starts, then it ends on August 23rd, but my next shift doesn't start until 8/30.
I REALLY can't argue with those! Then again, I have already hit the glass ceiling. I will not be able to move up in my position unless I get a Masters or Phd. And doing those part time at 1-2 classes per semester, it would take at least 5-10 years.
I have a telescope that I haven't busted out in years. I need to get the 8 year old looking at the moon through that. He'll get a kick out of it.
Back in 10min, time to go get dinner ready.
<sarcasm> I worked more than 8 days a month in college and had a full 15-17 credit hour schedule! </sarcasm> I get it though. Life gets super complicated. Even with NO job, I can't imagine going through school again. 3 kids, wife, cutting firewood, maintaining a house and the vehicles, fishing, hunting, etc. [panic]Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
Incredibly frustrating! The sky is mostly clear, the radar returns have moved far away from us, but the humidity is pegged at 97% and the dewpoint differential is at 0.2degC, so as you can imagine, everything outside is wet. So we can't open.
Haha, I did too in college. I'm currently taking 2 classes a semester, getting another degree (Mech Engr) just for fun and for better job security. I think my heart lies with working with the hardware and instruments than using them to observe lol. And still, it will take me about another 3.5 years to finish only the core classes for the degree.