Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch-Part Six

[Von Vape]

Thanks for your prayers everyone. I will keep you informed. Love you all.

Love you guys too Matt! Peace & Comfort...............

So relieved ya'll got dere in good shape. Can't properly express my heartfelt sorrow for Doree's and your situation!

This ^^^^

Here ya go, biggie!
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Idunno, may have to clear FDA "tobacco product" scrutiny?????????????

Keep watching it builds.

That's what I told her!

400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ - BBC News

Okay, Dave, I'll "bite", aren't sharks made up of cartilage for a "bone structure", rendering them an IN-VERTIBRATE????

Well I'm not going to try to catch up today.

(I think we ALL know what I mean......... )
Super Duper Happy 32nd. Anniversary though, Pat & Ginny

 

[Debadoo]

Putting in my applications now...

to nursing homes, or locked mental units???

Haha! Got ya! What I said was that my GF grilled a turkey burger for me. As in George Foreman (grill).

My very first thought of course was GF, but pretty quickly realized it was your George Foreman.

 

[Rotowoman]

I know I've been MIA, but I am SO sorry to hear about Doree's mother @MattB101 Please accept my sincere condolences and prayers.

 

[Von Vape]

Hope you're not "over doing it" Roto.

Ya'all have a good one, I'm bouncin'......
V V

 

[Sir Kadly]

That's it!

Sent from my LG-V700 using Tapatalk

Oh sure, give the credit to Iffy, whom I beat by a full 3 minutes.



I'm just funnin with ya, of course.

 

[umanbean]

Oh, I found the printer pw, it didn't work neither.

Well dang! Sorry hun... Please let me know if you want to keep foolin' with it, we'll get it figured out. Didja 'unzip' the DL'd driver? Some of them self-install, others you have to do everything manually, some'r in between. Go into devices and Printers and click 'add printer'... then click 'add network,wireless, or bluetooth'. If the computer can see it, it'll show up there. Wanna take this to PM?

Matt, condolences to you and Doree and her family.

 

[bigbells]

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Okay, Dave, I'll "bite", aren't sharks made up of cartilage for a "bone structure", rendering them an IN-VERTIBRATE????

Want me to Google that for ya?

Vertebrates have skeletons. Fish are vertebrates. Sharks are fish.

 

[umanbean]

Anyone who has 3½ minutes, needs to watch this.

Great pick me up first thing in the morning! Men should to pay special attention at 1:16... and - especially for the Ladies - check it out at 1:37

 

[umanbean]

Y'all, I swear, I think that whatever seemingly random song I wake with in my head every morning must have some unconscious connection to something that happened to me the day before!

That video I linked above is what I had in my head this morning.

We spent yesterday transporting my daughter and her stuff to college - the second-largest college in GA... something like 20,000+ students!... Class starts Monday, so there were people everywhere.

'Every Kind Of People' - and that may very well have been a phrase that tiptoed thru my head sometime during the day.

Every shape, size, culture, color - and so many folks it reminded me of a kicked antbed. Traffic was, as daughter said, insane.

On the way home, Mrs. Uman (or is that Mrs. Bean? ) and I stopped ~9 for a late supper at a nice Mexican restaurant... we didn't get home 'til ~11:30 - then crashed and died! This morning, I'm sore from head to toe... muscles, joints, you name it. Daughter and Roomie live on the second floor, they had to go to a dorm meeting, wife's got a hurt foot, so old Dad carried up everything out of two carloads!

It's cloudy and misty out right now, probably gonna rain off-and-on all day, bedroom a/c is on 'high' and cold enough to hang meat in there, so I can see a day of R&R is in order - mostly under the covers with a good book!

 

[bigbells]

A little closer look at the crop across the creek. I flew past the trees and then decreased altitude until I started to lose the signal, at which point I elevated again to regain the signal. A friend who knows more about crops than I do says that those are probably soybeans.

 

[Semiretired]

I flew past the trees and then decreased altitude until I started to lose the signal, at which point I elevated again to regain the signal.

So the trees block the signal?

 

[bigbells]

So the trees block the signal?

They do their damnedest, same as with other short-wave transmissions (such as cell phones). Best conditions are when there are no obstacles between the remote control and the quad copter. Flying from my yard, the trees start getting in the way immediately. High altitude would give more distance but I stay below the FAA limit of 400' altitude. I'd have to override the software in order to go any higher; could do that but I'm not interested in trying, because I'm in a military flight path plus there's a very small private grass strip airport a couple of miles away. I was about 1000' away when I lowered the drone; got down to about 70 feet above the ground.

 

[Semiretired]

I'm in a military flight path plus there's a very small private grass strip airport a couple of miles away.

I can understand that - I would not want to bring down an airplane either...

 

[3mg Meniere]

. High altitude would give more distance but I stay below the FAA limit of 400' altitude. I'd have to override the software in order to go any higher; could do that but I'm not interested in trying, because I'm in a military flight path plus there's a very small private grass strip airport a couple of miles away.

Don't want to endanger your freedom.

 

[bigbells]

I can understand that - I would not want to bring down an airplane either...

Don't want to endanger your freedom.

Here's a video from 2.5 years ago coming down from 1000' altitude up in Princeton NJ. This was before there were quad copters that had camera-steadying gimbals, and before the FAA established altitude limits for drones.

 

[Semiretired]

This was before there were quad copters that had camera-steadying gimbals, and before the FAA established altitude limits for drones.

Yea, I can see the wobble in the pic, but pretty stable if you ask me. Shoot my old home videos wobble more than that.

 

[bigbells]

Yea, I can see the wobble in the pic, but pretty stable if you ask me. Shoot my old home videos wobble more than that.

My home-video camera wobble increases with alcohol.

Compare the wobble in the previous video with the lack of wobble in this video, from just a few months later, in April 2014, after I got a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ shortly after DJI starting producing it. No audio with this one.

More recent quad models have also reduced the amount of horizon curvature caused by wide-angle lenses, that is very noticeable in the video below.

 

[DavidOck]

My home-video camera wobble increases with alcohol.

The trick is to be in the same state when viewing, as it then looks normal...

 

[Kenna]

Oh sure, give the credit to Iffy, whom I beat by a full 3 minutes.



I'm just funnin with ya, of course.[emoji38]

Ack! Forgot to scroll up to check for skipped posts! So here's your Thank you!

 

[Kenna]

Well dang! Sorry hun... Please let me know if you want to keep foolin' with it, we'll get it figured out. Didja 'unzip' the DL'd driver? Some of them self-install, others you have to do everything manually, some'r in between. Go into Devices and Printers and click 'add printer'... then click 'add network,wireless, or bluetooth'. If the computer can see it, it'll show up there. Wanna take this to PM?

Matt, condolences to you and Doree and her family.

Her laptop might not have bluetooth. The printer might be trying to connect.via BT by default.