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What Does Your Computer Desktop Look Like?

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Jesse said:
Quit a desk you have there Willie. It's got everything and a place for it all - sweet!
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I used to work for a company that let us build anything we wanted for ourselves during the Christmas period of two weeks. All we had to do was pay for the materials... and they gave those to us at their discounted price. I was there eight years. You should see my medicine cabinet.

One guy built a mobile log splitter trailer.
 
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Obadiah said:
Oh, much respect on the Jet Ranger. I never could really get the hang of it. Seems what an acquaintance who instructs in Jet Rangers in real life said is true: "Teaching someone to fly a helicopter is like trying to teach someone to ride a unicycle on top of a beach ball"!
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YES! As a crewchief before Vietnam I got a lot of stick time and my Pilots like to have never cured me of landing fifty to seventy-five feet off the ground and then easing to the ground. Your left hand is controlling the throttle as your left arm pulls pitch which overloads the blades for you power setting and must be continuously adjusted as you pull the pitch.

And as you pull pitch and accelerate the torque created by the blades wants to spin your nose to to the right requiring a smooth but steady application of the tail rotor through the pedals to keep the craft from corkscrewing itself into an oil well several thousand feet under the ground and when it lifts it is perched atop a bubble of air that is as slick as snail snot, wanting to slide off it and strike the ground with the main Rotor blades, breaking the transmission loose and exiting the airframe through the pilot.

Now you're hovering, both hands moving in different directions, continuously as are your feet all regulated by what you feel in the seat of your britches. Now you ad a little throttle, pitch and with your finger tips only you think froward as you play with the pedals to keep it from running into a building or a car and it slips off the bubble requiring you to ad more pitch, power and tail rotor adjustment. As you hit about 20 knots the craft shudders into transitional lift and, actually, begins to fly. and as the wind whips past the vertical stabilizer you must, proportionally adjust the tail rotor, watch the front to see what awaits up front as you watch the rotor and air speeds praying the oil, fuel and temo do not require your attention until you are high enough to have time to look at them.

Now you're flying and the, really, dangerous part comes into play. It is at least three times harder and more dangerous to land this bucket of screws and bolts. And you, entire, life depends on the "Jesus Nut." No, I did not make that up, it is affectionately called just that, the Jesus nut because it is the one nut between you and eternity and meeting your maker. It is the only nut holding the Main Rotor onto the aircraft.

Choppers are fun!
 
It's all in the "hunch" you develop in your seating. (You civilians can Google that... "helicopter hunch")
 
Willie T said:
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I used to work for a company that let us build anything we wanted for ourselves during the Christmas period of two weeks. All we had to do was pay for the materials... and they gave those to us at their discounted price. I was there eight years. You should see my medicine cabinet.

One guy built a mobile log splitter trailer.
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That's your medicine cabinet! In your bathroom on the wall?

It's a huge!

Nice perk, it'd be fun doing that. I made a shield recently. I used 2 different kinds of wood. I'll try to get a picture of it on here.
 
WIP said:
How do you find what you're looking for? I see desktops that look like this on my colleague's computers and I can't begin to imagine how hard it is for them to find what they are looking for.
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Mine looks almost identical. I guess it's all in the way you think. I'm pretty global, not very compartmental.
 
Jesse said:
That's your medicine cabinet! In your bathroom on the wall?

It's a huge!

Nice perk, it'd be fun doing that. I made a shield recently. I used 2 different kinds of wood. I'll try to get a picture of it on here.
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Yep 39" x 46", and 9" deep, inside.
 
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The old man figured it out!
 
Willie T said:
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I used to work for a company that let us build anything we wanted for ourselves during the Christmas period of two weeks. All we had to do was pay for the materials... and they gave those to us at their discounted price. I was there eight years. You should see my medicine cabinet.

One guy built a mobile log splitter trailer.
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Here it is, I made it for my mom. I bent the steel rods, welded them together, glued them on, the left corner I wood burned a trinity sign, the other side knowledge and wisdom. Glued the pieces together to form a cross in the middle, used oak and poplar. The candle holders are pieces of steel tubing. "W" is stain glass (learned how to do that in high school), our last name initial. Took me about 40 hours all together - long time.

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We're big people, Jes. I also built my kitchen cabinets, and they are all 39" off the floor. Our microwave is 59" to the bottom, off the floor. And the tops of the upper cabinets are 86".
 
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