The CTRL-V Game

07-02-12 {or "02 Jul 2012" or even "Jul 02, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I only have a trio of updates planned for my website today...the first two concern my having performed spectroscopy of fluorescence of the 2009 NIA Commemorative Insulator in uranated* glass when irradiated with the "<5mW" 445nm Blue Portable Laser, and the last is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? If you guessed, "A photograph showing what you see when somebody is just totally lazy?" then YAY!!! AFTER JUST ONE "STRIKE" YOU GOT ANOTHER ONE CORRECT!!! YOU'RE GETTING GOOD AT THIS!!!

The update of that laser (with photograph) was posted on three other BBSs.


This is my "<5mW" 445nm Blue Portable Laser.



And this is my "Foto del Día".

Somebody has a water closet next to their couch.
This is almost the epitome of couch potato laziness; I say "almost" here, because Homer Simpson invented something he called the "Toilet Chair" -- a Lazy Boy-type recliner with a toilet built into the seat. Sitting in the chair, the user would only need to stand, pull his drawers down, then sit.

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

I have no outside trips planned as of this posting.



*"Uranated" - infused with an oxide anion of uranium, *NOT* piddled (uronated) on.
Commonly referred to as "Vaseline glass" because it has
a distinct pale yellow-green color when not being irradiated.

Note spelling: "urAnated", not "urEnated","urInated",
"urOnated", "urUnated", or sometimes "urYnated".

New evaluation: Life+Gear Glow 400 Flashlight (White & Blue LEDs)



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THE CANDYMAN,
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New evaluation: Zoink! "Laser Fun 'N Run" Pet Toy

Becki Boston said {and I quote}:
Hope your meet with the dick doc is painless. When will you know the results of the tests? Today?

Good morning Becki,

Getting the sutures removed hurt more than the operation itself (yes, even more than those gosh darn-diddly-arn nasty hypodermic syringes!) {especially that third suture -- it hurt like a mother!!!}, but after all was said & done, my urologist (coincidentally, named, "Stephen King") said that he had good news for me!!!
To wit:


So he won't have to "whack my pee-pee" after all!!!

--Craig

Becki Boston said {and I quote}:
Good thing you explained that Bear Bear was meowing and not pissed. He sure looks pissed. But cute none-the-less.

We made it through the 4th this year without any horses getting spooked by sight or sound of fire works. My neighbor brought her horse over and put him in my arena with my horse. Last year the horse saw fireworks going off across the street and ran through a wire fence injuring a leg. My horse doesn't spook at sight or sound of fireworks and he had a calming effect on the other horse. But all the neighborhood dogs...at the first sound of a fire cracker they all started barking. Including ours. The barking didn't stop until the wee hours of the morninig.

Hope you avoided an unsafe and insane 4th.

Good morning Becki,

Bear-Bear really does look royally pissed, doesn't he?
But he's a very nice cat in reality, and would never, ever look that way (once you heard the "meow!" issue from him while he's making that face you'd never in a million years think that he looks torqued off!!!)

Some dillhole was lighting illegal fireworks relatively close by here the other night (and last night too for that matter!) -- by "illegal" I'm thinking things like M-80s, Silver Salutes, that sort of crapola -- fireworks that do little more than make the loudest ***BOOM!!!*** which spooks kitty cats & puppy dogs. We kept our kitties indoors all day on the 4th for that very reason.

All of us stayed home (well, I *tried* to fly a couple of small R/C airplanes that morning, but the socker fields were unavailable so I went to the nearby baseball diamond but then found that it was way too windy so I "took my ball and went home" $0 70 5P34K {so to speak}) and nobody blew any fingers off with an M-80 or got hit with sparks from a rogue Roman candle. So yes, you could say that we all had a safe & sane 4th. :-)

--Craig




07-06-12 {or "06 Jul 2012", or even "Jul 06, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I have seven updates planned for my website today...the first is a new eval. of the Glow Keychain Light (White/Red LEDs), the next four concern my having performed normal & narrowband spectroscopy of its LEDs, the next is an update to my Rigel Yellow DPSS Laser Pointer's eval. to indicate that I performed a power output analysis using known-new AAA cells (and furnishing the chart that my LPM pooped out of its USB cable), and the last is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? A flooded toliet bowl with several of those translucent, yellow-lidded peecups (urine specimen cups) floating in it in the restroom of a pissology (urology) lab? The bloated and somewhat fungused body of a crow in a plugged-up storm drain (the stupid dead bird is what's clogging up the drane to begin with)? A rather expen$ive pseudo-3D RGB laser projector ruined because some dimbulb butt dumpling {somebody engaged in total & complete asshaberdashery} dumped a whole can of Diet Mt. Doo-Doo into it? NO YOU SILLY GOOSE!!! IT'S A NEW PHOTOGRAPH!!!


This is my Glow Keychain Light (White/Red LEDs).


This is my Rigel Yellow DPSS Laser Pointer.



And this is my "Foto del Día".

High voltage switches on a utility pole in north Sacramento CA. USA. Note the free insulators on the left side of the pole; though you would probably get seriously zapped (and almost certainly become worm food {or flaked fish food!}) if you attempted to make off with them.

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

I have a trip planned to the park to fly my newly-repaired Estes Flightmaster ROG (Rise Off Ground) R/C airplane. I say, "newly-repaired" because it had broken wings & tail from damage in last autumn's move...but if all looks kosher this morning I'm gonna try and fly it.

Here's what that airplane looks like:

07-08-12 {or "08 Jul 2012", or even "Jul 08, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I only have a trio of updates planned for my website today...the first is a new web page for, "Our Semi-Domesticated Raccoon Bandi & her Babies", the next concerns the addition of a video to my Estes Flightmaster ROG R/C Airplane's eval. that shows it failing to ROG (Rise Off Ground) but subsequently shows a pair of decent flights after being hand-launched, and the last is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? A bug of some kind clinging to an outside wall? YAY!!! YOU GOT ANOTHER ONE RIGHT!!!


This is one of the photographs that I put on my, "Our Semi-Domesticated Raccoon Bandi & her Babies'" web page.


This is my Estes Flightmaster ROG R/C Airplane.



And this is my "Foto del Día".

A female crane fly clinging to an outside wall of our home in Federal Way WA. USA.
Photograph was taken on the afternoon of 07-6-12 (or "06 Jul 2012" or even "Jul 06, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer).

Note if you will that two of the insect's six legs are gone. This bug isn't dead by any means; it moved several times and eventually flew away somewhat after this photograph was taken.

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

I have a trip planned to the park to fly my Transformers Starscream, Tuffoam Fun Flyer, and Tuffoam A-10 Thunderbolt II R/C airplanes.

(Edit 07-08-12 5:35am PDT): These flights have been scrubbed. I need to go to the store in less than 3 hours to pick up some dry cat food and dry dog food; this will leave me too tired to make the flights...well, I could still do them, but it would seem like a chore instead of something fun to do.

New evaluation: "Blue Waterfall" LED Nightlight

07-11-12 {or "11 Jul 2012", or even "Jul 11, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I only have a trio of updates planned for my website today...the first concerns my having added a video of a rather successful flight of the Syma S031G R/C Coaxial Helicopter to its "videos" web page, the next is an update to my Tuffoam™ Fun Flyer ''Park Flyer'' R/C Airplane's eval. to add a video of a fairly successful flight (which includes a liftoff from the ground -- something it was never designed to do!), and the last is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? Flowers of some kind? YAY!!! YOU GOT YET ANOTHER ONE RIGHT!!! GOSH DARN-DIDDLY-ARN!!! YOU'RE ***REALLY***, GETTING SUPER-DEE-DUPER (as Barney the Purple Toilet Dinosaur would say) GOOD AT THIS!!!


This is my Syma S031G R/C Coaxial Helicopter.


This is my Tuffoam™ Fun Flyer ''Park Flyer'' R/C Airplane.







And these are my "Fotos del Día".

Somebody planted some cutterbups ("buttercups") along the outer perimeter of the socker fields at Celebration Park in Federal Way WA. USA...I guess they wanted some buzzlegums to show up...O WAIT!!! I guess I've been watching the television program "Viva Piñata" too much again!!!
"Buzzlegums" are bee-like characters that are especially attracted to buttercups...in the episode "Queen for a Day", Franklin Fizzlybear plants buttercups in his garden hoping that buzzlegums will be attracted enough to them to make a hive in the garden so that Franklin can get some honey...needless to say, he got a LOT more than he bargained for.

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

I have a trip planned to the park to fly my Tuffoam P-38 Lightning airplane and my Syma S031G helicopter later this morning.

Becki, the video directly below (going on one of Nikki's web pages tomorrow) shows my special little fuzzbomb giving me plenty of "titty" "tisses" (kitty kisses) set to the song, "Fight 'Em 'Till You Can't" by...o cummon you ought to know this one by now considering that I'm a known metalhead...




If you guessed, "Hozay Feliciano" ¡¡¡POR EL BIEN DE INFIERNO NO!!!
It's Anthrax you silly goose!!! Of course you knew that by now!!!

Ken Scheffel said {and I quote}:
Craig, I used to make my model, rubber band aircraft using balsa wood, tissue paper and "dope". I had to cut out the balsa using a single edge razor blade. Airplane glue was the new tube type glue, that no one sniffed. It was also very flammable, but dried very fast. Later I bought small alcohol powered motor and replaced the rubber bands. I never made any remote controlled aircraft, but watched many fly.

Good morning Ken,

I remember that model "dope" -- usually Testors brand -- and it was actually called 'model dope' too!!! It was in reality somewhat sniffable and was subsequently abused (as an inhalant drug) but while I enjoyed the odour while using it to assemble models, I did not partake in the "sniffing" fad.

My first foray into model aviation was making paper airplanes after church; I came up with one design that stayed airborne much, much longer than the "arrow-shaped" paper planes that were by far the most common design back then (the early- and mid-1970s). Mine was mainly square (when looking down at it from the top) with the front edges of the wings (both port and starboard) folded at a 45° angle; it also had the wingtips folded upward into a pair of short vertical stabilisers. If I remember, the fuselage was composed of a number of folds so that the plane was very stable in flight (it kept the CG well under the wings). I can no longer remember how I made it though, so I cannot attempt to make one now.

I've never tried substituting rubber-power with any type of motor, so that is something with which you have me beat (you have had experience with this while I have not).

--Craig




Friday the 13th (07-13-12) {or "13 Jul 2012", or even "Tire-Bent-Stick, Stick-Boobs, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I only have a quartet of updates planned for my website today...the first is an update to my Pride® Celebrity X3 Scooter's web page to explain that the battery charger for it pooped out but that I successfully used the one for my Quickie Pulse 6 electric wheelchair, the next is an update to my 3CH. R/C Hughes Defender Coaxial Helicopter VIDEOS web page to add a video of three half-assed flights of the 3CH. R/C Hughes Defender Coaxial Helicopter that took place at Celebration Park in Federal Way WA. USA -- approx. 10 minutes away by scooter or electric wheelchair), the next is the addition of a video of a flight of my Tuffoam™ Fun Flyer ''Park Flyer'' R/C Airplane at a baseball field in the same park, and the last is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? Another TV commercial mascot with its ass in a sling? YAY!!! YOU GOT ONE CORRECT!!!


This is my Pride® Celebrity X3 Scooter.


This is my 3CH. R/C Hughes Defender Coaxial Helicopter.


This is my Tuffoam™ Fun Flyer ''Park Flyer'' R/C Airplane.

And the following two are my "Fotos del Día".

Here are two ways to deal with that sickly-sweet Snuggles laundry bear.
It just loves dryers, so let's see how well it likes THIS one:

Hasta la vista, you sock-eating Snuggles piece of {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}!!!


DOWN THE {vulgar slang term for a fece}BOWL YOU GO!!
Note: If you buy a toilet, drop a stool in it for Christ sakes -- don't stuff a fracking teddy bear down there! You'll ruin the pipes for crying out loud!!!

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

This is a Friday the 13th; normally I'd go to the park to fly one or two R/C aircraft, but I'm a bit superstitious about Friday the 13th, so I'll very likely be staying home today -- though there is a slight but not insignificant chance that I'll fly my Syma S031G heli and my A-10 Thunderbolt II airplane later this morning anyway. It'll just be one of those, "wait & see" situations.

Ken Scheffel said {and I quote}:
Craig, rubber band power was a 3/8 in thick, six to eight inch long rubber band attached to the inside tail strut and the prop which when twisted by the rotating prop could the be released to spin the prop and thus power the plane. The balsa and tissue plane had to be light weight. We also made carved models from basswood for display. I remember carving a Bell Cobra and a P 38.

Good morning Ken,

¡¡¡HUSOOS CRISTO EN UNA MULETA!!! That's a huge condom band...er...uh...I mean rubber band!!!
I used to fly those pre-formed rubber-powered airplanes, but the rubber band powering them was never ***THAT*** large!!!

That P-38 must have been a real {term used to describe a female dog} to carve -- the P-38 Lightning is a fairly "complexicated" airplane!!!

--Craig




07-15-12 {or "15 Jul 2012", or even "Jul. 15, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I only have a quartet of updates planned for my website today...the first is an update to my Pride® Celebrity X3 Scooter's web page to (with photograph) to show the battery meter indication when travelling that last uphil leg home after flying some R/C aircraft at a local park, the next is an update to my Tuffoam™ P-38 Lightning R/C "Park Flyer" Airplane's eval. to state that most of the YourTube videos have been given their own web page, the third is the addition of that web page to my website, and the last is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? Yet another TV commercial mascot with its ass in a sling? YAY!!! YOU GOT ANOTHER ONE CORRECT!!! DAMN, YOU'RE GETTING GOOD AT THIS!!!


This is the photograph that I added to my Pride® Celebrity X3 Scooter's web page.


This is my Tuffoam™ P-38 Lightning R/C "Park Flyer" Airplane.



And this is my "Foto del Día".

This is the only way Hamburger Helper should be served.

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

I have a trip to Celebration Park to fly my Syma S031G heli and my A-10 Thunderbolt II airplane later this morning.

I went to the park and flew the Syma S031G heli & my Air Hogs X-Twin R/C airplane yesterday just for Christ sakes. For some as-of-yet unknown reason, the most excellent flights of my helicopter never got recorded; though the two flights of my X-Twin did.

Dapper Stage Laser Light Show






Newest spectrometer software settings used.  

07-18-12 {or "18 Jul 2012", or even "Jul. 18, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer}.
Just making my daily check-in from Federal Way WA. USA...I only have a pair of updates planned for my website today...the first is an update to my Transformers StarScream Micro Flyer R/C Airplane's eval. to add a video of a reasonably successful flight, and the second is an update to my "Foto(s) del Día" web page with...well, what else could it be? An expen$ive pseudo-3D RGB laser show projector ruined because some butt dumpling spilled an entire 2 litre bottle of Diet Dr. Pecker into it? An astrophotograph of Saturn's moon Titan taken by the Huygens probe that clearly shows a Borg sphere in Titan's upper atmosphere? An Olympic-sized swimming pool literally crawling with tens of thousands of mosquito wrigglers (larvae) that got that way because the pool's owner (somebody involved in extreme asshaberdashery) never once bothered to put chlorine in it, drain it & douche it out with Chlorox, or even put a cover on the asinine thing for Christ sakes? No you silly goose! It's a new picture...well, TWO actually because they go with one another!!!


This is my Transformers StarScream Micro Flyer R/C Airplane.





And these are my "Fotos del Día".

Sunset as viewed from my home in Federal Way WA. USA on 07-16-12 (or "16 Jul. 2012" or even "Jul 16, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer).

My weblog (or "blog" if you prefer) requires no updates as of this posting.

I have a trip to Celebration Park to fly my Syma S031G heli and A-10 Thunderbolt II R/C aircraft later this morning.
I went to the park and flew the Syma S031G heli and my A-10 Thunderbolt II R/C aircraft yesterday -- yes, these are the same two, but I had such good flights yesterday that I really want an encore today!!!