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I'm opting for turkey in the oven again, partly because I like stuffing in the bird, I like the crispy skin, I have a really good bourbon glaze recipe, and this year's turkey is on the large side for the smoker. I'll probably cook my first whole smoked turkey some non-holiday weekend, though I've got a turkey breast and some turkey drumsticks in the freezer, and I always like how they turn out smoked. Yesterday I scored a prime rib roast that I'm planning to smoke for Christmas, with a cherry glaze recipe I've had tucked away. Been looking for a prime rib roast for months--they're hard to find around here, other than immediately before Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Agreed! And thanks for the 'science' link you initially posted. Some good info in there.

"suckitphil" would be a fine serial number. Alphanumeric is allowed.

They still do that in my town. We're off the beaten bath, but one year we were late in renewing our dog's license and the town sent someone to the house. "Knock Knock Knock" "Bark Bark Bark" "Here's your ticket" was the way that interaction went down (the inspector didn't need to come in the house, the dog 'confessed'). Year's earlier, we were given a plush toy sheltie that looked a bit like our dog. When our dog passed this year, we put the stuffed dog in what had been our dog's favorite spot looking out the window. We didn't renew the dog's license, of course, and didn't think more about it until we got another ticket in the mail, stating that the inspector had come to the house and confirmed we still had the dog. We sent the unpaid ticket back, with a picture of the stuffed toy in the window and a note saying "Do you mean this dog?" Never heard anything more about it.

I've always listed my own number at work as my employer's number. I've never gotten a call.

We agree on the use of air. Air 'molecules' are mostly nitrogen molecules, so that's a wash. It's true, oxygen molecules are a little smaller; I don't know if that makes a practical difference in how fast tires lose pressure. Helium balloons stay inflated for a much shorter time than air balloons. Helium is a tiny, slippery little atom. It's true, air compressor air will almost always be moister than commercial compressed nitrogen, so maybe that's relevant (less so if you rarely have to add gas to your tires). And this one I had to look up: at the pressure found in auto tires, nitrogen and oxygen are within maybe 0.01% of each other in terms of how pressure changes with temperature. The deviation from ideal gas laws really isn't a factor until the pressure gets to be a lot higher. pressure/temperature relationships. I've also noted that the folks selling nitrogen to fill tires for all of the reasons called out in the various posts above never seem too alarmed about the outside of the tire being exposed to air, and there is a lot more surface area to be affected on the outside. Yes, external pressure is lower, but a 30 psi difference doesn't mean much in terms of chemical reactivity.

OK, somebody make this post a sticky. It will save everyone the time and effort of posting photos of their Glocks. Open this image: Glock 17 That's a photo of a Glock 17, a standard size Glock. The other standard size Glocks (G20, G21, G22, etc) look exactly like that. Now move closer to your screen. See how the gun looks bigger? That's a competition model (G34, G35, G41). They all look the same. Move a little closer to the screen. You are now looking at a long slide (G17L, G24, G40) There is no need to look at photos of the individual models; they're the same damn thing. Now, from your normal viewing position, move a little further from the screen. See how the image got smaller? You are now looking at a compact model (G19, G23...). Finally, move back just a little more. You're now looking at the subcompact models (G26, G27, G29, G30...) That's it. The entire Glock pistol model matrix, in one photo. Mods--you may now close this thread.

Oxygen, even the 21% found in air, can react with the rubber to some extent; I'd think it would mostly go after the sulphur crosslinks formed in the vulcanization process. That said, I have no idea if there is actual data to show this causes meaningful degradation of the rubber over the life of the tire. I fill my tires with air, and don't worry about it further. Tires wear from the outside in a lot faster than they degrade from the inside out.

Did you catch the "Message from the Democratic National Committee" bit on SNL last night? It was actually pretty funny. Message from the DNC

No range time today, but two matches tomorrow took advantage of the great flying weather today. It was so clear that you could see Manhattan, Philly, and Atlantic City all at the same time, from only about 2k over Great Adventure.

That's a nice gun, but precision target implies bullseye (more the domain of semiautos, but revolvers show up too) or police revolver competitions, and a single action is almost unworkable for either of those. 586/686 is what you'll usually see there.

What upper? I don't know what you're talking about.

I'm in an almost similar situation. I had a belt-drive 48" Bobcat that I loved; the motor went, but I figured the rest of the machine had plenty of life left. So I dropped $850 on a new motor. Ten hours later, the gearbox failed. :-( A couple of the local walk-behind shops convinced me it wasn't worth fixing, even with the new motor. So I've also got a parts machine, with a low-time 17 HP Industrial/Commercial Briggs and Stratton. That was an upgrade on the original motor on the 48", if you think it might be of use on your Scag, let me know.

I thought it meant 'across the universe', to make sure the buyer isn't a prohibited person on whatever planet Schumer and Pelosi are from.

I've heard that Montville is quite good

I confess, I'd not heard of Stanislav Petrov before today. And he actually died May 19, though word was late in getting to the Western press. His story was told in the 2014 documentary film The Man Who Saved the World On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was working his shift, overseeing the staff at a missile detection center near Moscow, when the launch detect system sounded the alarm that five Minuteman ICBMs had been launched from the Western US, and were inbound to the Soviet Union. It seemed almost plausible; weeks before, the Soviet Union had shot down a Korean airliner, and tensions were running high. The satellite-based launch detection system assigned it's highest level of confidence that the launch had occurred. Lieutenant Colonel Petrov's job, at this point, was to confirm to his superiors that missiles were inbound, and recommend a full retaliatory nuclear strike. But he didn't. After several agonizing minutes, he decided the data was likely wrong. It was only a hunch, but he successfully argued it up the chain of command, with the recommendation that the Soviets NOT launch a counterstrike. Being right effectively ended his career, but the rest of us can be glad that he had the intelligence to make the right call, and the courage to stand behind it. Vechnaya pamyat, Stanislav.

I'm pretty sure that's how Pennywise gets back and forth between your home and the sewer.

In case anyone is interested in more detail of what happens when an aircraft is intercepted for violating the presidential TFR (temporary flight restriction), I attended a pilot briefing in Bedminster tonight. It was put on by a local pilot association, the head of the Allentown TRACON (they control a huge chunk of airspace in Eastern PA/Western NJ, the secret service agent responsible for the team who handles airspace security over the president, and a Coast Guard pilot who is currently on duty flying intercepts in NJ. The same air crews follow the president around, so they're normally based in DC, but could be here, Florida, NYC, wherever. Since the inauguration, there have been over 130 TFR violations when Trump has been at the golf course, half resulting in military intercepts, the rest generally resulting in the aircraft being tracked until touchdown, where it is met by local police, who hold the pilot until a secret service agent gets there for the interview. 130 violations is an embarrassment (hence the seminar), because while the TFR is an enormous pain in the butt, there is no excuse for not knowing when the TFR is in effect. That said, the top three excuses cited by pilots have been 'I didn't know the TFR was in effect', 'The Garmin gave me bad directions', and "I was just flying around the airport pattern, I know I was too low to show up on radar'. New information (to me) was that whenever the president is here, there is airborne radar monitoring the TFR from afar. One might normally be below the radar at 1200 feet or so, but they assured us that if the president is in Bedminster, they know if your wheels leave the runway. They didn't talk about what kind of sanctions were being imposed, but as I'd noted in a post above, 'it depends'. Interception of small aircraft (which have accounted for 90% of the violations) is normally done by an unarmed Coast Guard helicopter, flying out of Somerset Airport. The copters actually have a digital message board on the right side of the fuselage, so that they can pull alongside the errant aircraft and type out instructions to the pilot if they aren't able to establish radio contact. The armed fighters (which could be F15's, F16's, or F22's--all are used at different times) are often more of a backup, in case the helicopter doesn't immediately get the desired response from the trespassing aircraft. This coming weekend, F22's will be on patrol. At times, the fighters may get there first, but they have a hard time slowing down enough to pull along side a light plane. There will always be two fighters; you won't see the one on your six. The fighters can be VERY persuasive in getting a light plane to alter course. There were a bunch of questions from the audience about what kind of screw up would it take to actually get shot down, and while the answers were evasive, the secret service did say that such a decision could only come down from very high up--they'd normally try to get a quick decision from the Secretary of Defense, and if he wasn't available, the call tree didn't go down many levels at all, like only down to a four star.

When did they stop being 'hats'?

Should we tell Bob now that every one of us got ripped off by this vendor? <kidding...>

I've bought from them a couple of times, never had a problem.

The students who showed up for testing did so 'voluntarily'. The hospital wouldn't know (or perhaps wouldn't care) what coercion was going on in the background, only that they had people showing up and asking to be tested. Though I now wonder if there is a minimum age of consent for such a test...does anyone know at what point you need a parent or guardian to sign off?

That's 264 fps. Paintball gun velocity. Only the projectiles are lawn chairs, shopping carts, downed limbs, etc.

No, thermodynamics shot that down.

No, never lived in a city. I'm from the wilds of Idaho. The bark was gone by late winter/early spring, well before the bucks were in the velvet. The trees had just been planted the previous year, and the spindly trunks weren't yet much over an inch in diameter, so they wouldn't have been of much use as a rub.