[QUOTE=jp_rsardeto;52988441]i'm finally graduated!
[sp]am i supposed to feel proud and happy because college ended? i don't really feel anything[/sp][/QUOTE]
I always think of graduating college as "Yay. I can go to work and have my soul sucked out now"
uni sucks my soul out too but at least when i graduate and start working i also get paid for it
[editline]18th December 2017[/editline]
also even though i basically failed a final and half assed a final project i managed to get an A in the class
the virtues of being on the prof's good side
I'm early enough into university that my enthusiasm for it hasn't been crushed yet
Job interview in 8 mins. Wish me luck lads.
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;52989035]Job interview in 8 mins. Wish me luck lads.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully it went well!
Report: The job offer would be incompatible with me going on student lab hours, so I'm going to pass the offer.
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;52989508]Report: The job offer would be incompatible with me going on student lab hours, so I'm going to pass the offer.[/QUOTE]
Well school is more important in the long run. You made the right decision.
i am now 20 :toot:
and still gay
[QUOTE=Vincentor;52989547]i am now 20 :toot:
and still gay[/QUOTE]
Congrats on making everyone else feel [I]old.[/I]
Also just had the nicest shower ever, but I think its more because I've been able to get rid of all this arm fuss that collected over the last month, haven't has the chance to get rid of it thanks to college work and even though its winter I don't care. Body hair must [B]die.[/B]
Wont be overheating like hell cycling now.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52988161]Holy fuck.
I mean it literally and without irony when i say, way to fuckin' go champ. That's incredible.
And here i am without an engineering degree twiddling my thumbs trying to get a job making fucking forza or some shit. And you're off making shit to land on the moon. Boy howdy.[/QUOTE]
Practice, practice, practice. Like yeah, it doesn't compensate for some serious luck but I wouldn't have this job if I hadn't built out my programming portfolio and spent hours upon hours improving my craft. And I've still got so far to go :D
also, seriously, this job was 90%+ luck to be fair
[QUOTE=Reagy;52989730]Congrats on making everyone else feel [I]old.[/I]
Also just had the nicest shower ever, but I think its more because I've been able to get rid of all this arm fuss that collected over the last month, haven't has the chance to get rid of it thanks to college work and even though its winter I don't care. Body hair must [B]die.[/B]
Wont be overheating like hell cycling now.[/QUOTE]
Once I can afford it, I am going to get laser hair removal for fucking [I]everything[/I]. It doesn't [I]remove[/I] hair permanently of course, but goddamn does the thinning and slowing of the growth rate sound divine. My biggest gripe atm is how goddamn quick my leg hair grows back, and apparently laser can slow that 2-3x + make it easier to shave since its thinner
this is all out of spite for having a twink bod buuuuuuut the long line of incredibly hairy genes my family is "blessed" with :v
As a hairy body boi, I hope potential mates are fine with it because it ain't going away anytime soon :v
[QUOTE=chickenlover;52991155]As a hairy body boi, I hope potential mates are fine with it because it ain't going away anytime soon :v[/QUOTE]
there's absolutely going to be people okay with that, body hair is a preference thing just like a lot of physical attributes
I'm home for christmas and my mother has already noticed my shaven arms.
uh oh.
[QUOTE=Sepia Gnome;52991391]I'm home for christmas and my mother has already noticed my shaven arms.
uh oh.[/QUOTE]
just tell her you're preparing for your role as one of santa's elves at the downtown musical, and she won't suspect a thing
[QUOTE=Sepia Gnome;52991391]I'm home for christmas and my mother has already noticed my shaven arms.
uh oh.[/QUOTE]
why shave your arms
just say "yea i shaved/removed the hair on my arms" because everyone knows it and its just more awkward if you give an awkward excuse lol
[editline]20th December 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52991453]why shave your arms[/QUOTE]
because if you're naturally hairy and you shave the rest of yourself then it kind of ruins the look by having gorilla arms and smooth everything else
[QUOTE=Louis;52991455]just say "yea i shaved/removed the hair on my arms" because everyone knows it and its just more awkward if you give an awkward excuse lol
[editline]20th December 2017[/editline]
because if you're naturally hairy and you shave the rest of yourself then it kind of ruins the look by having gorilla arms and smooth everything else[/QUOTE]
yeah i realized this contrast doesn't work right quick after shaving my legs
I'm too lazy to maintain shaved legs :v:
It takes me long enough to do just my crotch, I'm tempted to go halves with a mate in one of those home IPL machines but apparently they're painful as hell
Steak pie and tea for dinner, followed by scotch in the hot tub. Boy howdy that's my idea of an evening to myself
[t]https://puu.sh/yJyVr/10ee2bd37b.png[/t]
Also, made this for the T1 Trust winter newsletter. Pretty happy with the result, despite the fact that displacement on the snow refused to work.
[QUOTE=Vincentor;52989547]i am now 20 :toot:
and still gay[/QUOTE]
im now 21 [del]and bi[/del]
I dont even remember my age half the time
and im glad im mellowing out, at least a bit, on sexuality, soon ill be a wizard
I've finally got to my first duty station for the army, and I'm throwing myself into the dating pool. It's kind of scary because I haven't dated anyone in years due to trying to get my life together. But there are some really cute guys here in Georgia, so that makes me happy!
[QUOTE=Ap0c;52993313]I've finally got to my first duty station for the army, and I'm throwing myself into the dating pool. It's kind of scary because I haven't dated anyone in years due to trying to get my life together. But there are some really cute guys here in Georgia, so that makes me happy![/QUOTE]
good luck!
I've had frustrating experiences trying to date as of late. I'm tired of usually doing the pursuing for my dates, so I was hoping I'd get someone to make the first move on OKC but here I am up a couple dozen likes to ~240 and still only have 5 messages in my inbox. [sp]all from super subby dudes, sorry but that just doesn't work[/sp] . So back to messaging people I'm interested in and not getting responses, and getting messages from people I just don't feel interest in (even if I tried to force it).
tinder is somewhat the same. i try to like generously but haven't had any matches yet, and i've probably liked 3-4 dozen people in the past two weeks. the most attention i've had in a while was a gay friend almost twice my age (sorta a mentor-esque dude?) get [I]extremely[/I] creepy barring on outright sexually harassing me in a text, so that's a thing i guess
I don't mean to be a debbie downer, because I've just always had exceptionally bad luck and I'm not that affected by it all. Doggo and Work keep me busy and buoyed up, for the most part. The holidays are always hard for me though, I'm anxious, miserable, and on edge from now until the new year :/
During the winter my seasonal depression hits me right on the nose.
I feel like a zombie just walkin through the day sometimes.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52991695]Steak pie and tea for dinner, followed by scotch in the hot tub. Boy howdy that's my idea of an evening to myself
[t]https://puu.sh/yJyVr/10ee2bd37b.png[/t]
Also, made this for the T1 Trust winter newsletter. Pretty happy with the result, despite the fact that displacement on the snow refused to work.[/QUOTE]
The late-stage PRR steam locomotives with duplex drive are my favorite. Powerful, fast, and with all prior steam innovations, they rocked. I wonder what we could make with today's engineering and metallurgy.
[QUOTE=Metalcastr;52993715]The late-stage PRR steam locomotives with duplex drive are my favorite. Powerful, fast, and with all prior steam innovations, they rocked. I wonder what we could make with today's engineering and metallurgy.[/QUOTE]
ACE 3000, basically.
I've been doing the reading on Porta's second gen theory. Add a gas producing firebox, properly proportioned front end with Kylchap exhuast, rotary cam poppets, sealed roller bearings and light weight reciprocating parts, y'all are gonna approach 20% thermal efficiency and a third of the maintenance cost of traditional units with a marked decrease in complexity with modern kit to regulate the boiler. Add in some new tricks, like coupled duplex drives to balance the reciprocating mass, compounding and a condenser, you're gonna get up to 30% with perfect mechanical balance. Just balance the revolving mass and away you go. (or could that be balanced across the axles?)
What's funny is that C&O 614 was tested for the ACE 3000 baseline by Norfolk. And despite being in the worst weather conditions possible at the height of winter, and with a lot of gadgest stripped off (no feedwater heater, no booster etc), it did the work of three brand new EMD units while costing less to run than two. All the while rocking a 2.5-3% thermal efficiency at the drawbar.
A new build design would cost about twice that of a new EMD. But with upwards of 7000 horsepower and producing only carbon dioxide as a byprouduct and rocking 30% at the drawbar? Yeah you could make one hell of a case for that. I have a quiet dream that steam will come in to replace ICE's for long distance hauling once electric takes over for short range runabouts. They compliment each other quite nicely.
And yeah, i'm all about late steam power, especially pennsey stuff. People talk shit about late PRR steam, the T1's in particular, but it's all basically bullshit. Like the idea that the T1's were so bad that some units only got 2,300 miles put on them per month when new. But that's simply a lie. The T1's had the highest monthly milage of any PRR class, and in all history was second in monthly milage only to the NYC Niagras, coming in with an average of 12,000 miles per month across the class over their entire lifetime, including the later years when relegated to backup duty and reigonal mail trains. And the monthly milage record for a single unit went to NYC's own 5500, which was also the only Niagra with Franklin Type A poppet valve gear, further destroying the idea that the franklin gear was an unworkable burden.
[QUOTE=paindoc;52993575]good luck!
I've had frustrating experiences trying to date as of late. I'm tired of usually doing the pursuing for my dates, so I was hoping I'd get someone to make the first move on OKC but here I am up a couple dozen likes to ~240 and still only have 5 messages in my inbox. [sp]all from super subby dudes, sorry but that just doesn't work[/sp] . So back to messaging people I'm interested in and not getting responses, and getting messages from people I just don't feel interest in (even if I tried to force it)[/QUOTE]
Online shit just seems like a kafkhaesque mess that just isn't worth the effort frankly.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52994059]ACE 3000, basically.
I've been doing the reading on Porta's second gen theory. Add a gas producing firebox, properly proportioned front end with Kylchap exhuast, rotary cam poppets and light weight reciprocating mass, y'all are gonna approach 20% thermal efficiency and a third of the maintenance cost of traditional units with a marked decrease in complexity with modern kit to regulate the boiler. Add in some new tricks, like coupled duplex drives to balance the reciprocating mass, compounding and a condenser, you're gonna get up to 30% with perfect mechanical balance. Just balance the revolving mass and away you go. (or could that be balanced across the axles?)
What's funny is that C&O 614 was tested for the ACE 3000 baseline by Norfolk. And despite being in the worst weather conditions possible at the height of winter, and with a lot of gadgest stripped off (no feedwater heater, no booster etc), it did the work of three brand new EMD units while costing less to run than two. All the while rocking a 2.5-3% thermal efficiency at the drawbar.
A new build design would cost about twice that of a new EMD. But with upwards of 7000 horsepower and producing only carbon dioxide as a byprouduct and rocking 30% at the drawbar? Yeah you could make one hell of a case for that. I have a quiet dream that steam will come in to replace ICE's for long distance hauling once electric takes over for short range runabouts. They compliment each other quite nicely.
And yeah, i'm all about late steam power, especially pennsey stuff. People talk shit about late PRR steam, the T1's in particular, but it's all basically bullshit. Like the idea that the T1's were so bad that some units only got 2,300 miles put on them per month when new. But that's simply a lie. The T1's had the highest monthly milage of any PRR class, and in all history was second in monthly milage only to the NYC Niagras, coming in with an average of 12,000 miles per month across the class over their entire lifetime, including the later years when relegated to backup duty and reigonal mail trains. And the monthly milage record for a single unit went to NYC's own 5500, which was also the only Niagra with Franklin Type A poppet valve gear, further destroying the idea that the franklin gear was an unworkable burden.
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Thank you! I'll keep you in mind to talk about steam power, you have way more knowledge than me. Great to know that there are ideas out there about modern steam, I'll have to dive in, might not come back lol.
It's all out there on the web. Porta spearheaded the majority of it and worked it all out to a rediculous degree.
Got a perfect score on the database project but she graded my final hard af. I legit thought I had that test in the bag until she put a question no one thought would be on it.
So while unpacking my things from the move, a three piece suit turned up in my things which i do not recognize. And it ain't anyone's in my family, since my dad's much smaller than i am and it turned out to fit me pretty well. No date or manufacturer/tailor's tags on it, but it's really well made.
[T]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/164885247220121600/393592635304050688/IMG_1065.JPG[/T]
It's a shame i don't have any christmas parties to give me an excuse to use it
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