the 2012 trivial drivel thread

[username]

I think that Mock has been pretty quiet since you first posted your comments.

Dick is just acting like he has a life now because of Maggot's post.



Pussy.

[Maggot]

nevermind

[Lady Cop]

Will somebody go on youtube and look up "corner pocket" and tell me what they see.

no. i don't trust you. it's probably something disgusting.


User i never ignore you! what is TRW? i'm drawing a blank.

[Duchess]

nevermind

I was going to say Count Basie. Hahaha!

...but when I clicked on quote a completely different post came up. Whoa.

[Lady Cop]

LC has a ton of trees around her, not many maples though, but a very scenic area. Very breathtaking in the spring. I still want to target practice in the sandpits up the road but they would probably have me arrested.

posts 13 & 14 at link here are my street. i have a big lake i can walk to, it's called a pond but is huge. clean and beautiful.
i have maples but they were planted, not wild. i wish i had white birch.
around the corner up the road is a sandpit that Maggot mentioned, i have no idea what it's for. next to it is a very typical old New England cemetery. it's beautiful here, i love it. my favorite time is the Autumn, all the trees and color.
the other house i built here years ago abutted the State Forest, so my kids grew up in the woods and by the lakes. nothing but woods and forest and camping.


http://mockforums.net/thread-3925.html

[username]

User i never ignore you! what is TRW? i'm drawing a blank. [/b]

It doesn't exist anymore...it was acquired by Northrop Grumman.

TRW Inc. was an American corporation involved in a variety of businesses, mainly aerospace, automotive, and credit reporting. TRW Inc. was active in the development of missile systems and spacecraft, notably the early development of the U.S. ICBM program under the leadership of the Teapot Committee led by John von Neumann. TRW pioneered systems engineering, and created the ubiquitous N2 chart and the modern functional flow block diagram. They served as the primary source of systems engineering for the United States Air Force ballistic missile programs.


Thanks for asking. I like thinking about my dad. The TRW name originally was initials for some of the founders although my dad said people that he worked with called it Tiger Ready Willing (this was pre-Tiger Woods--talk about foresight).

Funny, I just googled Tiger Ready Willing and TRW and apparently there was a team called Tiger Team that was assembled to carry out some department of defense mandate. My dad's boss's name is in there so I guess that's why they called it that. Learn something new everyday.

I'm sure glad I'm posting this in the boring, drivel thread.

[Cynical Ninja]

For the life of me, I can't post a link that works but if you google CBS Sacramento Rugby Tournament you'll see a video. My boy-o is the one talking about how to throw a ball and getting tackled to the sound of a car crash.

Your son is a real man if he plays rugby, not like the pussies in crash helmets and shoulder pads that play gridiron.

[Lady Cop]

User:
I'm sure glad I'm posting this in the boring, drivel thread.


i understand perfectly. i wish i could talk about my Dad too, but there is too much identifying information. he was internationally known and involved with the first A-bomb that we dropped on Hiroshima, one of Oppenheimer's men at Oak Ridge. and our space program. i went to the Pentagon with him several times as a girl. and the White House. i know you're proud of your Dad, and i am also. i sometimes will discuss him with trusted friends, but don't say much online. he wouldn't want me to.

[username]

That's cool LC!!

[Lady Cop]

That's cool LC!!

is your Dad living?

i miss mine very much and know how you feel.

i'll tell a little story in the Cuba thread soon.

[username]

is your Dad living?

i miss mine very much and know how you feel.

No. He passed away in 2007. It seems like yesterday.

Your dad sounds like a very impressive/interesting man! I didn't always have a perfect relationship with mine but damn, I definitely respected him. His undergraduate degree was in mathematics and his masters was in engineering administration. When he solved the rubik's cube, he didn't just solve it, he figured out and wrote down a damn formula for solving it.

Too bad I didn't inherit his abilities or interest in math!

[Maggot]

Dammit!

[Maggot]

The Constitution was written on hemp paper.....................

[Cracker]

User:
I'm sure glad I'm posting this in the boring, drivel thread.


i understand perfectly. i wish i could talk about my Dad too, but there is too much identifying information. he was internationally known and involved with the first A-bomb that we dropped on Hiroshima, one of Oppenheimer's men at Oak Ridge. and our space program. i went to the Pentagon with him several times as a girl. and the White House. i know you're proud of your Dad, and i am also. i sometimes will discuss him with trusted friends, but don't say much online. he wouldn't want me to.

I just watched a movie about that the other day. About the Germans and how our rocket program was really their rocket program and about how Oppenheimer was charged with being a Soviet Agent and about how Einstein hated the bomb.

I've always wanted to visit Oak Ridge, TN. I like the feel of places histroy was made. I've been close to White Sands, but never been on the actual site.

I visit places like that on my vacations (trying to give the little one the love of science I have). Except this month, we are going to a beach maze and Ripley's. haha Gotta have time for the weird stuff, too.

[Lady Cop]

i lived in Oak Ridge until age 2, then we moved to DC area for good.

god i'm boring. sorry.

[Cracker]

Thanks for asking. I like thinking about my dad. The TRW name originally was initials for some of the founders although my dad said people that he worked with called it Tiger Ready Willing (this was pre-Tiger Woods--talk about foresight).

Funny, I just googled Tiger Ready Willing and TRW and apparently there was a team called Tiger Team that was assembled to carry out some department of defense mandate. My dad's boss's name is in there so I guess that's why they called it that. Learn something new everyday.

I'm sure glad I'm posting this in the boring, drivel thread.

That's cool, user. This is Lockheed country. TECH has an awesome research facility that sits by Dobbins AFB. Of course Alabama has a rich history (Redstone Aresenal and the home of NASA's German Brigade). People think it's all nigs and podunk around here, but I'm pretty sure this would be a primary target if shit went bad wrong.

I remember the TRW commercials:
Tiling. Most people don't see it as math, but it is. Tiling, Madlebrot Set, iteration. Interesting stuff.

[Duchess]

then we moved to DC area for good.

I'm so surprised that NYC traffic would bother you after have lived inside the beltway. The beltway is hell on earth & that's no exaggeration.

[Cracker]

i lived in Oak Ridge until age 2, then we moved to DC area for good.

Did he suffer any health consequence from working with the Oak Ridge alloy? (enriched uranium)

[Lady Cop]

Duchess,i moved to Mass. at 19, so i was spared the worst of it.

Maryland where i lived was nearly rural, and they hadn't built the beltway. where it is now i used to walk through woods to school.

and going into the District was a breeze.

it terrifies me now! like NYC. it's so bad it prevents me from visiting my sister and brother.

Cracker, not that i knew of.

[Maggot]

Traffic in the city changes every month, unless you drive it just about everyday you are screwed.