Jim is driving hard towards the basket! lol No I’m not into basketball just picked up a few things,
But I do believe he’s showing he’s not only determined but well prepared as well.
I figured that’s what the rat was inferring was the case if the shitbats are that uncouth I’m surprised
they didn’t come up with a reason sooner. I figured Shitbats would try something else, glad to
see the P’tero were already on top of it. Must be a reason they are so determined to talk to the dogs
other than to punish them…
I’d place more like early 50’s although the grill does look in the late 30’s, nice
retro look to it, that P’tero looks kinda youngish might be the perspective but
he/she looks shorter than the 3 while the one’s the admiral met were well over
a foot taller than the cats.
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Now the Bats are simply careless.
The result of the vote, especially the Dragon’s involvement, is probably sending
shock waves around the planet at the moment.
The news of the Bats unsuccessfully trying to strong-arm an ambassador will follow
soon. Not to mention who was having dinner with who and who defended who will raise
interest.
And if those guys can have a rescue bus there in time as well as a diversion for
the ambush? Others will know too.
Their message is rather clear. “We don’t care about the rules or diplomacy” Sure,
it was like this for a long time, but I’m guessing not this openly. So this will
shake things up.
The Bats are only starting to figure out that something is going on in the fringe.
Many of the others will have less, if any, information.
As for that party? They better plan big, because I’m thinking a lot of uninvited
people will be interested in attending. There will be quite a few that will want
to meet the new kids on the block. And they will want to know what is going on here.
The “rocks” have started to fall. All the major players got took down a notch or two and they are panicking.
So of course they are lashing out at their favorites? PC knows, but I suspect the P’tero seen the vote and
knew the ambassadors might need backup, which proved correct. The party will have members that supported
the vote and a few that wanted to but were afraid to speak out. The Shitbats and Hammerheads will show up,
but with that many witnesses they will have a hard time forcing anyone! And if they do, their actions will be
against the treaty, so it’s my hope they will be removed from the counsel.
Farms are the same way granted in the USA mostly still use imperial but they
use acres for fields and pastures rather than feet, yards, and miles.
A tree farm is still a farm and Jim has shown them a much bigger one!
An Acre is assumed to be a square while if you use the meters you have
to give the dimensions. Our land is trapezoid-shaped so that’s a long sentence LOL!
see in the US.. us farm boys know the size of an acre,, one football field..
so one square mile is 640 acres.. so that 23,000 would be 35.9 square miles..
or roughly the size of Congaree national park SC.
but ask us that fancy metric cra.. stuff. an you get blank looks..
Actually the metric unit for large areas is the Hectare (approximately 2.4 acres)
So my 59 Hectare property works out as 140 acres.
The USA will have to go fully metric sooner or later for economic reasons,
and the longer it takes for you to do so the more it will cost you.
I’m learning it, mainly because my 3D printer
was made in china, so everything is in metric.
1 kg is 2.2 pounds, an inch is roughly 2.7 cm, and so on…
(ok my head hurts… gonna lay down now… LOL)
“The USA will have to go fully metric sooner or later”
I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. We can be stubborn when we take a
mind to be. Actually, in many ways we already are metric. Most
consumer goods are sold in metric units or marked in both. But I do not
see the U.S. going exclusively metric any time soon. Question. What
would the economic reasons be for us going exclusively metric? We’re doing
fine right now with a mixture. You also have to understand the American
mindset. The fact that you Europeans are so insistent that we go metric is
(to many folks’ minds) a strong argument AGAINST doing so. We tend
not to take having stuff forced down our throats well.
I agree Bill, they were teaching in when I was in high school, mostly conversions.
And where it came from and why. Wasn’t fun or easy and like most students my
eyes tended to glass over LOL.
Just keep in mind in the corporate world, yes the CEO has final word, but does usually take advice from their advisors.
And the share holders and so on if everyone else in that room agrees I’m sure so will the boss, given the conversation
with Emma, I suspect Carl will give a convincing counter argument that leaves some fear in Jim of him. I’m sure Jim will
win out, but he’s going to be Jim and think Carl is pissed at him.
It took a lot for me to go behind the top engineer and indirectly my boss to fix that machine right and I heard about it
every chance he got. The lesson is (for him) think of the thing to make/do/buy and talk to the operators AND the mechanics
as to what’s wrong with it BEFORE you build it or buy it. Been saying that about the automotive engineers since I was 16!
Ah, geeze… I remember visiting an engineering firm in Kansas when a couple of engineers
boiled out into the hallway, trying to beat the hell out of each other. Why?
One of them specified 3/8″ grade 3 bolts in an assembly, the other kept changing them
to 5/16″ grade 5.
They’d probably been annoying each other for years.
Grade 3?!? Hell I would of beat that guy! That’s the garbage grade I only used grade 8 on everything
and stainless steel on anything exposed to water etc… Yeah grade 3 was cheap and that’s all, I could
twist one off in a vice with 2 fingers and a wrench. They were made with the throw-away “bad batch”
at the foundry. Might as well used lead bolts…
Sure, like holding guards in place and other light duty apps. Too often
someone would use them in a normal repair and of course they’d fail
requiring an un-needed repair. Or worse a major one! I worked on machines
that measured in the thousands of pounds to tons, you CAN’T fudge
around like that!
I spent a day on my back, laying in an inch of water replacing 34 3/8″ bolts
that held a convenor track that had broke loose and started a big fire
because someone didn’t bother to check the grade, yeah all they heard
my cussing load and clear that day! It’s a good thing I’m not claustrophobic
it was pretty tight under there. Not to mention I had to free it and drag it
out, cut off the chewed up end and fab up a replacement to weld on…
What’s even worse are the counterfeit fasteners. They’re everywhere, and people don’t
realize it. I learned that in the Army when we saw injuries caused by low-grade fasteners
marked as high-grade. Some of them came from the factory that way, like the seat belt
bolts in a run of XXXXXXXXX. They were all replaced, but I never saw a recall for the civilian
version, the XXXXXXX. Hmmm…..
(Xs because I don’t want to be sued. It never happened, y’know?)
One of our suppliers introduced a “new grade” that was called 8.1 turns out it was grade 3
they “rebranded” as that to boost sales… luckily we figured it out or it could of cost the factory
up to millions in damage and downtime over time.
I know what you mean what we made was pretty flammable and bits of metal in the grinder/blender
was very bad. I was caught in a small explosion from the fire suppression system not 2 days after
I started there… almost quit on the spot! Felt like someone had slapped me with a sheet of plywood
flat on! Plus there was no air and I had no idea where I was or where the exit was. One of the in-house
fire team got me out thankfully.
So I am away (in hospital) with a busted leg for a couple of months.
Still not allowed to drive for another four to six weeks.
Naturally I expected the comic situation to change
somewhat and Boy have they!
I hadn’t expected the council vote to come up so soon,
and knew it would be close but a tied result wasn’t expected,
with the dragons actually voting to break came as a surprise.
Looks like a few core species are still reeling from the shock
of things not going their way for once and reacting without
thinking – really big mistake.
OUCH hang in there! yeah it’s rough trust me I know.
Shattered a bone in my foot was in a cast for 8 weeks.
what was bad is I had a stick shift in my car, try driving
that one footed and it was my right foot to boot! An
old ’73 Nova converted to a floor shift.
HMMM! Sounds like it might be an appealing deal.
Rescued by a “Knight’ in a bus named Pegasus.
Does the bus fly by any chance?
HMH-463 Pegasus. Marine unit.
Jim is driving hard towards the basket! lol No I’m not into basketball just picked up a few things,
But I do believe he’s showing he’s not only determined but well prepared as well.
I figured that’s what the rat was inferring was the case if the shitbats are that uncouth I’m surprised
they didn’t come up with a reason sooner. I figured Shitbats would try something else, glad to
see the P’tero were already on top of it. Must be a reason they are so determined to talk to the dogs
other than to punish them…
Patience, Scarsdale, patience.
Oh i am, just curious…
“Hammerheads”? Have we encountered them before? Would appreciate
a page reference to refresh my memory.
Not yet. I have the character, but haven’t shown it yet.
Love the lines on that bus, very 1930s.
Does it roll on wheels? Or float on….?
Wheels. Frame 8 by the blue circle is a wheel.
It looks like a 50s style white wall.
heh,, both, the wheels retract when it reaches speed…
I’d place more like early 50’s although the grill does look in the late 30’s, nice
retro look to it, that P’tero looks kinda youngish might be the perspective but
he/she looks shorter than the 3 while the one’s the admiral met were well over
a foot taller than the cats.
And I’d love to see how this handsome stranger’s family
is going to keep the Bats and the Hammerheads busy.
I suspect we’ll see it as they drive by. I’m sure we’ll at least hear about it.
I’m sure it’ll be a good laugh at least! The P’tero have a good sense of humor 😉
Now the Bats are simply careless.
The result of the vote, especially the Dragon’s involvement, is probably sending
shock waves around the planet at the moment.
The news of the Bats unsuccessfully trying to strong-arm an ambassador will follow
soon. Not to mention who was having dinner with who and who defended who will raise
interest.
And if those guys can have a rescue bus there in time as well as a diversion for
the ambush? Others will know too.
Their message is rather clear. “We don’t care about the rules or diplomacy” Sure,
it was like this for a long time, but I’m guessing not this openly. So this will
shake things up.
The Bats are only starting to figure out that something is going on in the fringe.
Many of the others will have less, if any, information.
As for that party? They better plan big, because I’m thinking a lot of uninvited
people will be interested in attending. There will be quite a few that will want
to meet the new kids on the block. And they will want to know what is going on here.
The “rocks” have started to fall. All the major players got took down a notch or two and they are panicking.
So of course they are lashing out at their favorites? PC knows, but I suspect the P’tero seen the vote and
knew the ambassadors might need backup, which proved correct. The party will have members that supported
the vote and a few that wanted to but were afraid to speak out. The Shitbats and Hammerheads will show up,
but with that many witnesses they will have a hard time forcing anyone! And if they do, their actions will be
against the treaty, so it’s my hope they will be removed from the counsel.
Think the mouse-over text is good for both story lines!
Though Jim’s is much friendlier and win-win for those involved :}
So they measure distances in kilometers, but area in acres?
(The 1000 acres are roughly 4 km², the 20000 acres are 80 km².)
Farms are the same way granted in the USA mostly still use imperial but they
use acres for fields and pastures rather than feet, yards, and miles.
A tree farm is still a farm and Jim has shown them a much bigger one!
An Acre is assumed to be a square while if you use the meters you have
to give the dimensions. Our land is trapezoid-shaped so that’s a long sentence LOL!
see in the US.. us farm boys know the size of an acre,, one football field..
so one square mile is 640 acres.. so that 23,000 would be 35.9 square miles..
or roughly the size of Congaree national park SC.
but ask us that fancy metric cra.. stuff. an you get blank looks..
Actually the metric unit for large areas is the Hectare (approximately 2.4 acres)
So my 59 Hectare property works out as 140 acres.
The USA will have to go fully metric sooner or later for economic reasons,
and the longer it takes for you to do so the more it will cost you.
I’m learning it, mainly because my 3D printer
was made in china, so everything is in metric.
1 kg is 2.2 pounds, an inch is roughly 2.7 cm, and so on…
(ok my head hurts… gonna lay down now… LOL)
“The USA will have to go fully metric sooner or later”
I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. We can be stubborn when we take a
mind to be. Actually, in many ways we already are metric. Most
consumer goods are sold in metric units or marked in both. But I do not
see the U.S. going exclusively metric any time soon. Question. What
would the economic reasons be for us going exclusively metric? We’re doing
fine right now with a mixture. You also have to understand the American
mindset. The fact that you Europeans are so insistent that we go metric is
(to many folks’ minds) a strong argument AGAINST doing so. We tend
not to take having stuff forced down our throats well.
I agree Bill, they were teaching in when I was in high school, mostly conversions.
And where it came from and why. Wasn’t fun or easy and like most students my
eyes tended to glass over LOL.
I watch a show named “Escape To The Country” on Dabble. British real estate —
they refer to the size of land in acres.
Given their job titles, there’s really only one person Jim needs to convince.
Everyone else is an advisor.
Just keep in mind in the corporate world, yes the CEO has final word, but does usually take advice from their advisors.
And the share holders and so on if everyone else in that room agrees I’m sure so will the boss, given the conversation
with Emma, I suspect Carl will give a convincing counter argument that leaves some fear in Jim of him. I’m sure Jim will
win out, but he’s going to be Jim and think Carl is pissed at him.
It took a lot for me to go behind the top engineer and indirectly my boss to fix that machine right and I heard about it
every chance he got. The lesson is (for him) think of the thing to make/do/buy and talk to the operators AND the mechanics
as to what’s wrong with it BEFORE you build it or buy it. Been saying that about the automotive engineers since I was 16!
Ah, geeze… I remember visiting an engineering firm in Kansas when a couple of engineers
boiled out into the hallway, trying to beat the hell out of each other. Why?
One of them specified 3/8″ grade 3 bolts in an assembly, the other kept changing them
to 5/16″ grade 5.
They’d probably been annoying each other for years.
Grade 3?!? Hell I would of beat that guy! That’s the garbage grade I only used grade 8 on everything
and stainless steel on anything exposed to water etc… Yeah grade 3 was cheap and that’s all, I could
twist one off in a vice with 2 fingers and a wrench. They were made with the throw-away “bad batch”
at the foundry. Might as well used lead bolts…
Nah, grade 3 is useful in some places.
This was more a case of engineers being so territorial.
You know, “How dare you make changes to my design!
Sure, like holding guards in place and other light duty apps. Too often
someone would use them in a normal repair and of course they’d fail
requiring an un-needed repair. Or worse a major one! I worked on machines
that measured in the thousands of pounds to tons, you CAN’T fudge
around like that!
I spent a day on my back, laying in an inch of water replacing 34 3/8″ bolts
that held a convenor track that had broke loose and started a big fire
because someone didn’t bother to check the grade, yeah all they heard
my cussing load and clear that day! It’s a good thing I’m not claustrophobic
it was pretty tight under there. Not to mention I had to free it and drag it
out, cut off the chewed up end and fab up a replacement to weld on…
What’s even worse are the counterfeit fasteners. They’re everywhere, and people don’t
realize it. I learned that in the Army when we saw injuries caused by low-grade fasteners
marked as high-grade. Some of them came from the factory that way, like the seat belt
bolts in a run of XXXXXXXXX. They were all replaced, but I never saw a recall for the civilian
version, the XXXXXXX. Hmmm…..
(Xs because I don’t want to be sued. It never happened, y’know?)
One of our suppliers introduced a “new grade” that was called 8.1 turns out it was grade 3
they “rebranded” as that to boost sales… luckily we figured it out or it could of cost the factory
up to millions in damage and downtime over time.
I know what you mean what we made was pretty flammable and bits of metal in the grinder/blender
was very bad. I was caught in a small explosion from the fire suppression system not 2 days after
I started there… almost quit on the spot! Felt like someone had slapped me with a sheet of plywood
flat on! Plus there was no air and I had no idea where I was or where the exit was. One of the in-house
fire team got me out thankfully.
Reminds me of the guy that tried to grind a magnesium sheet for some reason.
When the wheel got clogged he just pushed harder, until…
So I am away (in hospital) with a busted leg for a couple of months.
Still not allowed to drive for another four to six weeks.
Naturally I expected the comic situation to change
somewhat and Boy have they!
I hadn’t expected the council vote to come up so soon,
and knew it would be close but a tied result wasn’t expected,
with the dragons actually voting to break came as a surprise.
Looks like a few core species are still reeling from the shock
of things not going their way for once and reacting without
thinking – really big mistake.
OUCH hang in there! yeah it’s rough trust me I know.
Shattered a bone in my foot was in a cast for 8 weeks.
what was bad is I had a stick shift in my car, try driving
that one footed and it was my right foot to boot! An
old ’73 Nova converted to a floor shift.
I hope you are doing better. Wish I’d known.
There are a lot of readers who used to comment but no longer do, I miss them and their input.