Well, yeah, it was cobbled together by a journalist who barely knew what he was doing. Get a few good engineers and give them enough incentive and I bet the resulting thing will be an oceangoing vessel.Jabberwonky wrote:That thing barely made it across the channel! What are you trying to do to me?GlytchMeister wrote:A modified Hilux seems to do the job quite nicely.Jabberwonky wrote:I've been through a few low water crossings that tested the amphibiosity of my vehicle...I'd give Hawaii a run with the right truck...
Although. With a few modifications, I still think it can be done...
Split Pea Soup
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Re: Split Pea Soup
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Split Pea Soup
Just needs some JATO rockets....
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Been watching MythBuster's lately, Taz?
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Split Pea Soup
Oww.GlytchMeister wrote:A modified Hilux seems to do the job quite nicely.Jabberwonky wrote:I've been through a few low water crossings that tested the amphibiosity of my vehicle...I'd give Hawaii a run with the right truck...
My father ended up with a modest scar at the very center of his scalp from a similar meeting with a boom. Rough water, a squall coming up, a motor which wouldn't start, and a gust of wind from an unexpected direction...
Re: Split Pea Soup
(browser folded it's tent before I could save as draft or hit send...)
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Qualified engineers? That takes all the fun out of it...GlytchMeister wrote:Well, yeah, it was cobbled together by a journalist who barely knew what he was doing. Get a few good engineers and give them enough incentive and I bet the resulting thing will be an oceangoing vessel.
"The price of perfection is prohibitive." - Anonymous
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Oh, trust me. Qualified engineers can also be mad scientists and/or rednecks, complete with the spark and/or good ol' redneck ingenuity.Jabberwonky wrote:Qualified engineers? That takes all the fun out of it...GlytchMeister wrote:Well, yeah, it was cobbled together by a journalist who barely knew what he was doing. Get a few good engineers and give them enough incentive and I bet the resulting thing will be an oceangoing vessel.
We know how to have fun, a la "High explosives and electricity! WOO!"
...
BOOM
"Holy crap! That almost killed us! Cool!"
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Split Pea Soup
Without losing body parts.GlytchMeister wrote:We know how to have fun, a la "High explosives and electricity! WOO!"
...
BOOM
Too frequently.
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That depends on what we're trying to do.Dave wrote:Without losing body parts.GlytchMeister wrote:We know how to have fun, a la "High explosives and electricity! WOO!"
...
BOOM
Too frequently.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Split Pea Soup
I suppose I should have referred to "our own body parts" there.GlytchMeister wrote:That depends on what we're trying to do.Dave wrote:Without losing body parts.GlytchMeister wrote:We know how to have fun, a la "High explosives and electricity! WOO!"
...
BOOM
Too frequently.
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Muahahaha.Dave wrote:I suppose I should have referred to "our own body parts" there.
I'm feeling particularly dark-side-y today. Not sure why.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
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I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Split Pea Soup
OK, here we go (again...)TazManiac wrote:(browser folded it's tent before I could save as draft or hit send...)
Reconstruction of next location in progress...
Somewhere, around, Oh, say here...
Is a Fantasy land, created by a very influential mogul of a by-gone era; he was a Newspaperman.
Purveyor of Information. Champion of Truth, Justice, and the American Way...
Orson Wells made Citizen Kane about this guy and the dude lived in a magical place called Xanadu (oops, well, the guy in the Movie lived in Xanadu...)
If you ever get a chance to take the tour, you might encounter the Swimming Pool
It's connected to the Swimming Pool
And then there is the Dining Hall
But beware of glancing up too fast lest you get dizzy...
This place is called Hearst Castle and at one time folks like Charley Chaplin and Errol Flynn used to stop by for get-togethers over the weekend...
Aaaaand, there was a Zoo on the grounds...
(OK, thats enough for now...)
http://hearstcastle.org/
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Been there. Quite amazing what money could do back then.TazManiac wrote:OK, here we go (again...)TazManiac wrote:(browser folded it's tent before I could save as draft or hit send...)
Reconstruction of next location in progress...
Somewhere, around, Oh, say here...
Is a Fantasy land, created by a very influential mogul of a by-gone era; he was a Newspaperman.
Purveyor of Information. Champion of Truth, Justice, and the American Way...
Orson Wells made Citizen Kane about this guy and the dude lived in a magical place called Xanadu (oops, well, the guy in the Movie lived in Xanadu...)
If you ever get a chance to take the tour, you might encounter the Swimming Pool
It's connected to the Swimming Pool
And then there is the Dining Hall
But beware of glancing up too fast lest you get dizzy...
This place is called Hearst Castle and at one time folks like Charley Chaplin and Errol Flynn used to stop by for get-togethers over the weekend...
Aaaaand, there was a Zoo on the grounds...
(OK, thats enough for now...)
Last year I went to Castle Neuschwanstein, quite amazing what money could do back then.
Nowadays it would come with built in surround sound and wifi.
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Re: Split Pea Soup
Tannerite can be amusing when agitated using high-powered rifles.GlytchMeister wrote:Oh, trust me. Qualified engineers can also be mad scientists and/or rednecks, complete with the spark and/or good ol' redneck ingenuity.Jabberwonky wrote:Qualified engineers? That takes all the fun out of it...GlytchMeister wrote:Well, yeah, it was cobbled together by a journalist who barely knew what he was doing. Get a few good engineers and give them enough incentive and I bet the resulting thing will be an oceangoing vessel.
We know how to have fun, a la "High explosives and electricity! WOO!"
...
BOOM
"Holy crap! That almost killed us! Cool!"
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I think they use tannerite on that "Red Jacket" TV show. Looks very similar.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Split Pea Soup
a few Posts back...
I had started that entry last night, on the small screen phone, it crashed, and I subsequently co-piloted a trip a few miles North (200 approx) where, crazy as my existence is currently I have a better Internet Experience than at current Base Camp.
In the background, as I type, are the sounds of my host 'sawing logs' (he's predisposed to Early to Bed, Early to Rise...)
As for me, the Night Owl, I think all that is just more yackity-smackity, (who the hell wants to eat worms anyway?)
Co-joining the snoring is a DVD playing 'Davey Crockett' (Wait, it just ended and as I return I now have the Iron Giant playing as background... (aaaah, much better.
PS- Modified HiLux; (I can't, at moment, watch videos as they suck up too much of the DATA cap, but well, dayum. Just watching Mrs. Miniver's husband disappear to aid @ Dunkirk was enough Channel crossing for me...)
Tannerite - Hmmm, I probably shouldn't even be typing that, let along Googleing it, over the Internet. These days 'those folks' just don't understand the innocent exploration of 'things that go Boom!'.
ehh, I was a Red Diaper Baby, I know they started a file on me prior to conception...
I had started that entry last night, on the small screen phone, it crashed, and I subsequently co-piloted a trip a few miles North (200 approx) where, crazy as my existence is currently I have a better Internet Experience than at current Base Camp.
In the background, as I type, are the sounds of my host 'sawing logs' (he's predisposed to Early to Bed, Early to Rise...)
As for me, the Night Owl, I think all that is just more yackity-smackity, (who the hell wants to eat worms anyway?)
Co-joining the snoring is a DVD playing 'Davey Crockett' (Wait, it just ended and as I return I now have the Iron Giant playing as background... (aaaah, much better.
PS- Modified HiLux; (I can't, at moment, watch videos as they suck up too much of the DATA cap, but well, dayum. Just watching Mrs. Miniver's husband disappear to aid @ Dunkirk was enough Channel crossing for me...)
Tannerite - Hmmm, I probably shouldn't even be typing that, let along Googleing it, over the Internet. These days 'those folks' just don't understand the innocent exploration of 'things that go Boom!'.
ehh, I was a Red Diaper Baby, I know they started a file on me prior to conception...
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Red diaper baby? Wassat?
And wait, base camp? Co-pilot? Are you in the military, deployed somewhere?
And wait, base camp? Co-pilot? Are you in the military, deployed somewhere?
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He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
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I'm too much!
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They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
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Rocket City Rednecks.GlytchMeister wrote:That depends on what we're trying to do.Dave wrote:Without losing body parts.GlytchMeister wrote:We know how to have fun, a la "High explosives and electricity! WOO!"
...
BOOM
Too frequently.
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Re: Split Pea Soup
Way back when, before WWII, all Last Century and everything, Pops had investigated Communism, and upon the looking and the seeing he was disillusioned with human beings' practical implementation of a seemingly beautiful concept. on paper. theoretically speaking.GlytchMeister wrote:Red diaper baby? Wassat?
We used to tease him from time to time as my siblings and I grew older and had heard the family history and so on.
(Full disclosure; there was a copy of Mao's 'Little Red Book' in the home library somewhere but we where never coerced to actually read the damn thing.
I think it was around for completeness' sake and as reference.
(further biographical musing redacked...)And wait, base camp? Co-pilot? Are you in the military, deployed somewhere?
I use lots of jargon, like the NATO phonetic alphabet, that seems Military in nature but I'm using Base Camp in this context more like Sir Edmund Hillary.
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YES. That is the show I was thinking about, but I couldn't remember the name. Thank you.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Rocket City Rednecks.
Ok, now I get the commie baby thing, but what does the first (or was it the Sherpa?) guy to climb Mt. Everest have to do with Base Ca-TazManiac wrote:(further biographical musing redacked...)GlytchMeister wrote:And wait, base camp? Co-pilot? Are you in the military, deployed somewhere?
I use lots of jargon, like the NATO phonetic alphabet, that seems Military in nature but I'm using Base Camp in this context more like Sir Edmund Hillary.
Oh, just remembered mountaineering terminology. Base Camp is where you go when you don't make it to the next good spot to sleep, or something, right?
...
What the heck are you doing that involves base camps, co piloting, and yet still have time and capability to post stuff to the Wapsi Forums?
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!