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[InspectorJon]

Some things one might find at a local brewery.

 

[GrogNerd]

the Details magazine article that started my obsession: April 1993.

yes, read when it was brand new.

was brewing my own by the next spring

still have it around here somewhere

 

[grampamark]

 

[corkybstewart]

Went looking for an old mine, didn't find it but on the way back I found this chunk, about the size of a dinner plate, of fossilized crinoids from 340 million years ago. We spent 45 minutes looking but didn't find anything else worth collecting.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[El Whedo]

 

[El Whedo]

My wife and I were in Cimarron,NM yesterday. This guy seemed really interested in us.

 

[beermanpete]

 

[pvtpublic]

Fall colors in Montana are so nice this time of year!!

 

[bracconiere]

i have no idea who this guy is....

but living in arizona, and seeing the snow in montana..i thought it was funny he will lick oreos for you and apparently sell them in a signed box

 

[grampamark]

Fall colors in Montana are so nice this time of year!!

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Yes, they are, aren’t they.

 

[pvtpublic]

@grampamark I see you have the snow harvesting heads on them machines! Haha

 

[grampamark]

@grampamark I see you have the snow harvesting heads on them machines! Haha

Normally we would have put the equipment in storage a month ago. But, we‘ve had a lot of really strong (as in hurricane force) wind this year and both doors on our machine shed are damaged. The material needed to repair them is somewhere in transit.

 

[pvtpublic]

Normally we would have put the equipment in storage a month ago. But, we‘ve had a lot of really strong (as in hurricane force) wind this year and both doors on our machine shed are damaged. The material needed to repair them is somewhere in transit.

Tell them to put wings on it, it'll probably get to you faster. I dont miss the hi-line winds, or the ones in SoDak either.

 

[balrog]

 

[bracconiere]

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LOL, i thought it all was for twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and pron?

 

[bleme]

 

[day_trippr]

Sad but true...

 

[day_trippr]

Rounded up what should be my entire collection of dead or obsolete disk drives to be functionally destroyed. 26 3.5s and 3 2.5s, some go back to the early 80s. I stripped the controllers and snapped them in half, and drove a punch through the cases and platters. Fun!

I also have a DEC BA123 SCSI2 enclosure with redundant power and cooling built in that might actually be saleable. Last time I checked (maybe 10 years ago) they were still in demand. Wouldn't surprise me if a warship might need one. Freakin' thing is a heavy beast.

Cheers!

 

[BrewSomeMore]

Take the rare earth magnets out of the HDs. They come in handy for stir plates and other contraptions.

 

[balrog]

Rounded up what should be my entire collection of dead or obsolete disk drives to be functionally destroyed. 26 3.5s and 3 2.5s, some go back to the early 80s. I stripped the controllers and snapped them in half, and drove a punch through the cases and platters. Fun!

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I also have a DEC BA123 SCSI2 enclosure with redundant power and cooling built in that might actually be saleable. Last time I checked (maybe 10 years ago) they were still in demand. Wouldn't surprise me if a warship might need one. Freakin' thing is a heavy beast.

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Cheers!

I thought I had a lot and barely have 1/2 that many. Sadly, it was because "I might go back to that data" and about 30% failed to read again after years of sitting, and I count myself lucky it was that few. It simply proves I really did not need to save whatever dreck it was.

 

[day_trippr]

I did a lot of design work over the decades from home and from the early 90s onward had all my designs, libraries and simulation models on mirror sets - which had a doubling effect, both wrt to capacity upgrades and failures...

Cheers!

 

[Dland]

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I had a 1961 B-61 looked a lot like that, but had split windshield and two rear axles. Triple frame, duplex tranny, at least it was not a tri or quad. Former pit/local truck I think, wound out to governor redline at 34 MPH in 10 gears.. Had a twelve yard sander when I bought it, drove it two years on contract for state highway dept, then passed the opportunity on to someone else.

Driving those old rigs was hard work, and not for the faint of heart. But they are beautiful.

 

[BongoYodeler]

On our way to a wine club event earlier and pulled over to snap a pic of the hot air balloon off in the distance.

 

[ehall]

we usually take our bad HDs to the gun range to 'wipe' them...

 

[day_trippr]

I had actually considered using my powder actuated nailer on 'em.
Decided the risk of errant shrapnel wasn't worth the effort

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Driveway + hammer here.
I go low tech on my high tech, @ehall

 

[doug293cz]

Brew on

 

[corkybstewart]

After a really strong monsoon, our Gamble's quail are much fatter and numerous than usual. It's common to see 20 or more at a time, within minutes of me putting the birdseed on the ground.

 

[balrog]

Squirrels store nuts.

I'm no squirrel.

Now that Fall gives way to cooler temps, my patented hatchway beer storage emporium comes back into usage.

 

[Imhoppy]

It works like this. No kidding lol.

 

[Rodent]

The struggle real, people

 

[BongoYodeler]

I'm getting mixed signals here....

 

[balrog]

 

[El Whedo]

I took this picture July of last year floating over the valley where my village is. The building below is a brewpub run by the nephew of the rancher that owns most everything as far as the eye sees.

 

[BongoYodeler]

I took this picture July of last year floating over the valley where my village is. The building below is a brewpub run by the nephew of the rancher that owns most everything as far as the eye sees.

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Beautiful!!

 

[grampamark]

 

[BongoYodeler]

Catching this evening's sunset.

 

[corkybstewart]

We've been scanned. I'm not sure what instrument this was, but it flew a grid pattern over the area adjacent to our house(and our house as well on the first pass)where Freeport is about to open a new copper pit mine.

 

[corkybstewart]

Take the rare earth magnets out of the HDs. They come in handy for stir plates and other contraptions.

That was my first thought.