Two solid anchors:
Outside our thermal chamber room:
diagAbby road:
Viborg, SD. I prefer a shotgun, but whatever floats your boat.
An homage:
36A will flow through my circuit, but forgot to size the wires leading to it... result, smoke:
Said circuit, routing 36A with measured 21.6mV voltage drop... that's 600uOhm if you're keeping score.
Components hacked onto our $2,000,000 (thus far) new design... my job for the past 9 months:
A buddy's parents bought some new land on a cliff. We bushwacked the first of (hopefully) many routes: Provisional Endeavor, 5.10c:
Lizard at the base of one of our rigged anchors:
Howie rocking my back (front):
Taking a measurement that requires you to leave the cube (otherwise there's too much static, movement etc, all of which affect the measurement):
A giant stick bug checking out a Pelican case:
Night climbing at Gus:
A throwback to AE, supporting a customer, literally banging my head against the floor:
Finishing the annual 100 mile Shiner Ride in 5+ hours on a single speed. My complements to Kreutz; next time I'll be sure to "visibly display [my] race entry tag" so you can properly categorize who I am.
The knob of an X-07 Group 1-R electronic lock...
...the only lock design that has never been successfully picked. The knob turns a generator that causes a computer in the locking mechanism to spit out random numbers on the top. You stop turning the knob when the number hits your code and then spin the other way... there's no way to 'feel' inside the lock, hence it's impossible to determine the correct combination, which can be up to 6 codes long (i.e. one trillion possibilities). Of course, the likely entry method is now a skill saw with a cutting wheel, but for cheap on eBay, it's definitely neat.
An M16A1:
Hidden behind the safety-selector switch is the magical word "AUTO". One trust, 20+ hours of research, and many, many hard-earned dollars later, I anxiously await an ATF envelope containing a cancelled $200 tax stamp, like the one below:
I'm actually waiting for two (2) tax stamps: one for the M16, another for the silencer I'm going to put on the end of it... because there's nothing more Texas than a silenced, fully automatic, short barreled rifle. Absolutely illegal in California in every possible manner.
Aside: you can get around many of CA's anti-assault-weapon laws with the $15 Bullet Button.
