World Gawne Mad – Sweet Sixteen Thursday Open Thread

And then there were 16.  Including the 4 repping the wack-a-doo South region, which gets they turn tonite!

#11(S) Loyola-Chi**** (+1.5, +110) v. #7(S) Nevada (7:07, CBS)

The matchup nobody predicted, largely due to the Wolf Pack (like the vibe, hate the spelling).  NV went down 14 to Texas, fucking 22 to Cincy – each in the second half, before roaring back to win.  How deep a hole will they dig this time?  And can they overcome the Ramblers’ counter tendency to win with a dagger in the last 5 seconds?  Will the efforts of both sides kill that poor, nice old nun?

#7(W) Texas A&M (+3, +130) v. #3(W) Michigan (7:37, TBS)

I would say bet heavy on the Wolverines here (shout out, Mister Winkles!!), but TAMU did the world like the hugest favour last Sunday and I shan’t soon forget it.  Who knows, maybe these fucks are actually good?  Michigan broke mah heart against Houston, so they can get fucked.

#9(S) Kansas State (+5.5, +210) v. #5(S) Kentucky (9:37, CBS)

Speaking of getting fucked…K State was hacking and flopping all over the place to ruin the UMBC Cinderelly story.  So…Coach Cal and Kenfucky are the white hats this round.  Weird, I know.  Reconcile it with getting to see their hot cheer/dance squadrons all weekend.

#9(W) Florida State (+6, +220) v. #4(W) Gonzaga (10:07, TBS)

Are Seminoles an ancient Indian (no ofence) curse against Jesuits?  Should they do to the Zags what they done to Xavier (i.e., rip out their still-beating hearts over the last 6 minutes and change), one will have to answer in the affirmative.  Hippo will continue to wish nothing but the best FOAR the ACC middle class.  SOLIDARITY!

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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Fronkenshteen

Uuhhhhhh…..shot selection?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Not in Vegas.

herodotus450

Nor a local school.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

What is the aim of your comment?

herodotus450

Tequila, ideally. But vodka will do as well.

WCS

I’ll take bourbon, Irish whiskey, or, weirdly enough, gin. Thanks!

herodotus450

I’ll see you and raise you Jaeger and Rumpleminz

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

“Might be a tough inbound, but, K-State could still call a timeout.”

— Chris Webber

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

A Calipari team that doesn’t make their free throws? Next you’ll be telling me the Patriots signed a white slot receiver, or a republican wants to brutalize criminals and cut taxes and rule like a king

Senor Weaselo

Again, not sure if I’d use “Diallo” and “destroyed” in the same sentence.
/Evening lizard people

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

Like Baccarat and trigonometry, I will never understand how the possession arrow works.

herodotus450

The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
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WCS

ME TO MYSELF: That’s a right triangle, you idiot!

herodotus450

Fun* Fact**: The sum of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the remaining side.
*Funness guaranteed
**More of a corollary to be fair

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Senor Weaselo

Hey, David Carradine’s doing the best he can with those free throws!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Fucking Grasshopper!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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he died doing what he loved.

Unsurprised

motorboating.

Fronkenshteen

That seems big.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Large?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

In charge?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Your mom’s dildo arrived!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Still in the closet.

Fronkenshteen

Big McLargehuge!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Let’s go Cats. Need ya to stretch this out five more baby.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Different stretch.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Stop taunting Ashley. It’s fucking up Gamblor double reverse jinxism.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

I ummmm…..like the way she fondles those nuts.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Me likey; brb.

JustStopDude

I fucking hate acronyms. One of the things i do when I give training is explain all the acronyms…only I realize now there is one used throughout our drive logic…but I can’t figure out what its supposed to mean…

NACR (IccPWM)

PWM is obviously Pulse Width Modulation.

I am almost certain that the ACR is referencing Automatic Current Regulator.

But the N and the Icc I have no real idea.

I spent the day reviewing Japanese manuals, trying to translate the acronym because none of our English manuals translate it but it just keeps showing up as an acronym in the Japanese documents. I finally gave up and just started asking people….like folks that have worked on our shit for decades…and no one has a fucking idea.

The best thing is people keep telling me not to worry about it. I am certain that at some point in my 40 hours of training, one of the customers will ask me what NACR (IccPWM) means because this is a crane job that uses this logic in the converter.

herodotus450

“Icc” maybe a literal translation of I2C? Or some current analoge of Vcc i.e. supply voltage?

JustStopDude

Effectively, if one were to leave normal PWM in the drive logic, the filter will burn out insanely fast due to the harmonics generated.

At least that is my dumb mechanic thought. I know it takes the reactive and apparent current references, compares them to the three phase current feedbacks, and basically there is a hysteresis boundary that if the resultant value between the feedbacks and the references is not within, it causes the IEGT’s to stay on or off longer.

So like normal PWM, its the currents feedbacks and references generated two voltage references (apparent and reactive), which are turned into a three phase reference based on the phase angle of the incoming power.

Or i could be wrong. I am a self taught drive engineer. God how the fuck did I become the trainer.

herodotus450

I got nothing.

Don T

A colleague put in his business card MMFIC. Guy’s more caricature than douche.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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So high; the cherry pie was good tho.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Fronkenshteen

Flying to Florida on Monday to spend a week with my parents. I haven’t flown in over a decade. How do you get weed on a plane these days? Is it even possible anymore? What if you get caught with that small of an amount (enough for one idiot manchild for 5 days)? Do you automatically get arrested, or do they toss it and let you go with a STERN WARNING? I used to just tuck it under my balls, hold it in place with a pair of tighty-whiteys, and wear boxer briefs over that. I guess the underwear bomber fucked that all up. You guys fly. What’s the deal these days?

herodotus450

I would imagine that would show up on the scanners these days. You could probably* leave it in a carryon since that only gets x-rayed and they don’t seem to care that much. Worst case scenario you get arrested, strip-searched and put on the no fly list for the rest of your life. And miss your flight.
*For some definitions of probable.

Strike all of that; just put it in the pocket of the person in front of you in line, then pick it back out after throug security. No risk!

Unsurprised

Ask for a pat down instead of the machine because they won’t actually touch your balls.

If you get caught, you’re federally fucked and the Keebler AG has a giant hard-on against pot.

herodotus450

Calories are calorie-free, right?

JustStopDude

So I am down a cool 20 pounds since i started walking every day. I do between 6 and 8 miles a day, for about two hours after work. I’m honestly surprised how well this is going (though I also significantly changed my diet).

The downside is that I am noticing that it takes me forever to get tired and go to sleep. I have shitloads more energy…until its 630 am and I cannot get my ass out of bed.

JustStopDude

On a positive, as long as I have headphones on, I can rant to myself while I power walk.

herodotus450

Melatonin supplements are surprisingly effective for falling asleep, and ALL-NATURAL supposedly.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Nice work!

Col. Duke LaCross

Right on!

Unsurprised

Congrats. I need to double the amount of walking I do now that it’s spring.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Shoulda taken that FSU ML apparently.

Fronkenshteen

Yeah. Unless Gonzaga shoots the lights out in the second half, looks like they’re gonna get outmuscled by the big, bad motherfuckers from the ACC.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Fronkenshteen

JPP to Tampa, huh? Well I guess Jameis has another “W” to eat.
/because his hand has three fingers, you see

Croooow

Wow, Zags roared into the lead.

herodotus450

That’s as high as they can count, once without shoes and shorts.

Fronkenshteen

I explained that one to the wife and she enjoyed it immensely.

herodotus450

Hippo lobs them up, I step into them and take my base.

theeWeeBabySeamus

What are the odds that Calipari’s halftime speech incorporates the phrase “field ninjas”….?

Hippo, set a line on that.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Spur
Unsurprised

I can’t wait for the sun to come back. Rain sucks.

Spoiler

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Spur

you in Cali and/or Nevada too?

Unsurprised

Portland. It has been a dry winter, but spring comes and NOW it fucking rains.

Dick E. Phuck

No Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers, please.

Dick E. Phuck

Not unlike Coach K, who is literally a living mass of cancer.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

They Zagad when they should have zigged.

Croooow

John O’Hurley coaches Kansas State?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Damn. My shoes are barely lasting six months.

WCS

TRUE WCS FACT: My aunt taught Calipari in third grade. Rumor is, he was recruiting the top-preschool talent in the area to the Kindergarten team.

(That second sentence may not be a TRUE WCS FACT)

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Horatio Cornblower

Can’t wait to watch Syracuse v. Duke tomorrow. It’s like a version of ‘Sophie’s Choice’ where she hates both of her kids.

Dick E. Phuck

That makes the film even more sad!

Fronkenshteen

So! Bolton, huh? War with Iran & N. Korea simultaneously then?

herodotus450

And printers.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Spur

Can it be fall already?

theeWeeBabySeamus

We no can haz dog dayz of summer?
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theeWeeBabySeamus

Stop fucking around, Kentucky.

Unsurprised

Hi

JustStopDude

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!!

Unsurprised

Okay.

FUCK YOU!

Fronkenshteen

Evening all. Hope everyone was on the Michigan side of things, GAMBLOR-wise.

Dick E. Phuck

We gamble here? I thought this was a Christian site?

litre_cola

No commentators right now, this is perfect.

herodotus450

“What’s that?”
-Bill B.

theeWeeBabySeamus

There’s a funny MILF joke there, but I’m neither drunk nor high enough yet to craft it.

herodotus450

There’s a funny MILF joke there…

Done and done.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yeah, it really doesn’t help the skin that much.

Dick E. Phuck

From the New England Patriots to The Nazis: Some of the greatest empires in human history have been built upon the appreciation of mothers, so show some respect.

Dick E. Phuck

When my friend told me there was going to be a catfight on live TV this was not exactly what I expected.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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JustStopDude

I love a lot of the movies Charles Bronson was in…but I never really understood why Bronson was able to get gigs.

He always played the same role…baseball glove face…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Brexit is fucking everything up.