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What Does Your Computer Desktop Look Like?

Sharp shield, my man!
 
Willie T said:
6' 6" Wife is 5' 11"
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Yes, I agree, you're both tall. I hope you played some basketball in your day.

One of my brothers is 6'5", but I'm only 5'11", they said it was because of the radiation to my head, it displaces and they are pretty sure it hit my pituitary gland.
 
Nice job Willie T!!

Did you add on to your house? Wondering because of the last pic you posted and the siding there.

BTW, did you have to clean out your sink, too, before taking the pic? haha
 
Jesse said:
Nice job Willie T!!

Did you add on to your house? Wondering because of the last pic you posted and the siding there.

BTW, did you have to clean out your sink, too, before taking the pic? haha
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That's not siding. :lol That wall is done in shingles. (Cedar Shakes) The other side of it is a bookcase, backed with mirrors. And the whole West wall is exterior paneling... from the front door, all the way back through the Living room and Kitchen, to the door leading to the Dining room. We were going for a rustic look.

No, to the sink. The wife is fanatical about keeping that huge farm sink, spotless.
 
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Willie T said:
It's all in the "hunch" you develop in your seating. (You civilians can Google that... "helicopter hunch")
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LOL! People rejectt it but it really is flying by the seat of your pants instead of perfected technique. My Pilots like to have never convinced me to stop micro managing the machine and just let my body tell the aircraft what to do. It is a lot of fun once a person relaxes.
 
Willie T said:
That's not siding. :lol That wall is done in shingles. (Cedar Shakes) The other side of it is a bookcase, backed with mirrors. And the whole West wall is exterior paneling... from the front door, all the way back through the Living room and Kitchen, to the door leading to the Dining room. We were going for a rustic look.

No, to the sink. The wife is fanatical about keeping that huge farm sink, spotless.
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Oh! Well, I feel stupid now. haha I have never seen a wall done in Cedar shakes - very cool! Low maintenance.
 
th1b.taylor said:
LOL! People rejectt it but it really is flying by the seat of your pants instead of perfected technique. My Pilots like to have never convinced me to stop micro managing the machine and just let my body tell the aircraft what to do. It is a lot of fun once a person relaxes.
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After so many years on the sims I like to fantasize that if ever given the chance I might be able to fly a real airplane. Maybe not perfectly, but at least well enough not to die. But helicopters... All I can say is it's a very good thing I was never put in the seat of a real one!
 
Obadiah said:
After so many years on the sims I like to fantasize that if ever given the chance I might be able to fly a real airplane. Maybe not perfectly, but at least well enough not to die. But helicopters... All I can say is it's a very good thing I was never put in the seat of a real one!
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If you have a cockpit control set, where your feet are on the pedals, and can still your nerves, you should be trained. Much of learning to fly is best learned in a simulator, the crashes cost, considerably, less and the possible damage to one's body is just that, possible if.

I can't imagine a good sim for a chopper that would cost less than a hundred thousand so it is cheaper, though dangerous, to train in the real thing at better that a hundred an hour. One of my boy's has his private jet ticket and found a trainer in Houston that will qualify him at $125 an hour with an absolute minimum of ten hours. He works in the oil field and is looking for the company to foot the bill, so, maybe some day. Right now he is the top man on the platform.
 
th1b.taylor said:
If you have a cockpit control set, where your feet are on the pedals, and can still your nerves, you should be trained. Much of learning to fly is best learned in a simulator, the crashes cost, considerably, less and the possible damage to one's body is just that, possible if.

I can't imagine a good sim for a chopper that would cost less than a hundred thousand so it is cheaper, though dangerous, to train in the real thing at better that a hundred an hour. One of my boy's has his private jet ticket and found a trainer in Houston that will qualify him at $125 an hour with an absolute minimum of ten hours. He works in the oil field and is looking for the company to foot the bill, so, maybe some day. Right now he is the top man on the platform.
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I've got the controls, but just a desktop computer with MS Flight Sim X. I think I better stick to that instead of the real life stuff! (as far as the helicopters are concerned anyway.) I can fly it some and usually take off, fly somewhere, and land again without crashing, but I've never been able to do it at all smoothly or to develop that "seat of the pants" feel for it like I could in the airplanes. The way I fly it, if it were real life with an instructor, I don't think I'd be given a second chance! :biggrin2
 
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my work desktop
 
Obadiah said:
After so many years on the sims I like to fantasize that if ever given the chance I might be able to fly a real airplane. Maybe not perfectly, but at least well enough not to die. But helicopters... All I can say is it's a very good thing I was never put in the seat of a real one!
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If you can handle the drive, they have lessons at Paine Field, you can get a one hour beginner lesson for $100. :)
 
Mike S said:
Cool beach, what beach is it?

Upstate NY is where I was raised, good to see you here.
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Not sure, found it when I looked for some nice beach wallpapers last year.
What part of Upstate? - I'm in the Mohawk Valley area.
 
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