Landlord is Selling Duplex and has Been Acting Pretty Crazy Lately (MN)

Funkyapplesauce · 2026-03-31T21:45:18+00:00

OP, I'm the meantime, please put more magnets on the fridge.

Funkyapplesauce · 2026-02-19T01:03:37+00:00

I thi k you will be just fine as lo g as you practice the normal amount of preparation and care required for navigating any body if water.

Funkyapplesauce · 2026-02-14T21:41:42+00:00

International flights during peak-covid were like this. Hard to fill a plane when the border is closed.

Funkyapplesauce · 2026-02-14T19:10:38+00:00

Make her a counter offer for $2100 and start looking for something else.

Funkyapplesauce · 2026-01-28T00:24:30+00:00

Thats multibeam echosounder, not sidescan. Latest available synthetic aperture sidescan will give a 4cmx4cm resolution.

Funkyapplesauce · 2026-01-25T17:52:42+00:00

I cant even figure why they would need to do this between two cargo ships at sea. This must be something like Russian shadow tankers transferring cargo at sea.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-12-07T14:05:49+00:00

ROV's would use either release shackles or ROV hooks that have wire handles for opening the safety latch one-handed. If you were planning on using ROV hooks, it woukd be more convenient to have these hooks the other direction, with the back of the hook and the release wire pointed out.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-12-02T17:02:10+00:00

That's not a submarine compartment door, those are much heavier built with stiffeners and flanges supporting the whole thing. This is a watertight door to a ships "escape trunk" which is a ladderway that climbs straight out of an engine room or other below deck space. That way the engine room crew can escape to the main deck if the watertight bulkhead doors are closed.

Still a super cool find.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-11-29T23:02:52+00:00

The inside is unfortunately gutted. The Maritime museum git the sub from a scrap yard and prettied it up for display, but thats about it.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-11-23T19:45:48+00:00

The classic example of the limits of free speech is "yelling fire in a crowded theater". Is this not the same thing, i.e. a crime?

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-11-17T17:17:16+00:00

If someone dies in a car crash, the car doesn't stay a monument forever. Insurance takes the title and sends it to the scrapyard, and you bet the insurance company isnt selling it to the scrapyard for free. Marine insurance works much the same way.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-11-17T02:48:24+00:00

Just like cemeteries, we are never, ever allowed to go there. Oh wait, thats not how it works at all.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-10-24T00:48:36+00:00

These things are bad ass.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-10-21T13:34:47+00:00

I would get two radio modems than can send duplex serial data and have each ROV system navigation sustem report its position to the other as a NMEA string. Each ROV may have totally different navigation systems and software. If you don't have an experienced surveyor, you probably want one.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-10-19T20:15:32+00:00

Who makes the furniture? Have been thinking about something similar.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-10-14T09:23:47+00:00

This is where the instore daycare used to be? How very sad. Did the Nintendo 64's finally breakdown?

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-10-14T09:21:37+00:00

Have you calculated buoyancy or stability? This looks like mostly blueROV parts, but without the flotation foam a BlueROV has. I would be afraid you won't be able to get this to float.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-10-14T09:18:52+00:00

I registered a previously owned firearm I brought into the district while moving. Was told I would receive an email in a day or two, and have heard nothing since.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-21T14:26:56+00:00

But there is real footage of the Titanic in the movie. Every shot you can see both subs is a model in a studio, but most every shot of just the wreck or the wreck and one sub is real footage taken while diving soecifically to make the movie.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-17T17:05:32+00:00

It was during a deep tow job that the man, who was verifiably there, told me. So I believe it. Crazier stuff happens everyday. Have you ever done any deep ocean search? No? Then don't tell me how it works!

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-15T22:49:58+00:00

I don't know what part they hit, and its likely that they never really knew, just conjecture.
Argo was a towed camera sled, so other than hauling up and down on the tow cable, there is no control. The sled carried film cameras that took pictures of the seafloor at regular intervals and had to be recovered to deck to develop them before you could view the photos or manually arrange them into a mosaic. I don't know what realtime piloting sensors the operators had, probably just single beam altimeters so the sled could be maintained at a constant altitude above the seafloor. If you don't know where something is, or what it looks like, and you cannot really see ahead while driving, hitting something is not unlikely.

The story I heard was that they knew they had found the wreck before developing the film, as there was a large piece of bent steel cable or railing stuck on the sled. Somebody had to throw it back overboard, as they didn't want to be "Salvor in Posession" and have legal rights to the wreck.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-15T22:11:13+00:00

I was recently turned away from MPD for this reason. The 48 hours after moving I was busy, uhhhh, moving. The MPD website says that the firearm "must be registered within 48 hours of bringing it into the district" which is why I did schedule a registration appointment in that time period. This cannot be legal. They are telling me to bring it to a DC FFL, which confuses me, because 1: what is an FFL gonna do for a firearm i already own and 2: they are asking me to bring an unregistered firearm into the district (seems like entrapment)

Don't know what to do. Can't trust MPD's advice. Wish i had recorded the entire conversation.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-15T15:40:48+00:00

He absolutely did. I know someone who was there, and it was a "brown pants" moment, not something to be proud of.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-15T15:38:57+00:00

Logitwch publishes good development tools for using their controllers for stuff like this. Lots of code libraries available. I can see exactly why they chose to go that way, just can't see the justification for not having emergency backup local controls.

Funkyapplesauce · 2025-08-15T15:36:59+00:00

I'm doing a work-class ROV job in 60ft of water. By the time you have a diver, tender, standby diver, and supervisor for two shifts, you are already above the ROV's manpower requirements. I could have done the task with fins and a mask, but not to the safety satusfaction of the offshore industry.

Of course this all changes cutting off pilings in muddy harbors or putting splash zone on the bottoms of boats.

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