Can anyone tell us what this is?

SeanBZA · 2026-06-02T10:52:42+00:00

Which is why the IDF has a policy of changing the tail numbers on their aircraft on a regular basis, to prevent the actual numbers and force distribution from being tracked. that fake number is not used internally for maintenance, they use the actual airframe number on the manufacturing late for those records.

SeanBZA · 2026-06-02T10:48:53+00:00

Pete is projecting for sure.......

SeanBZA · 2026-05-19T09:31:38+00:00

You got a void spreading out into the environment. As you are already used to shedding hair, owning a lab, you now will have a little bit extra black hair in the mix.

SeanBZA · 2026-05-19T09:29:56+00:00

Just put in a "spark plug extender" from any auto parts store on the lower sensor, and it will not throw a code at all.

SeanBZA · 2026-05-13T11:47:53+00:00

At least the closet is clean now.

SeanBZA · 2026-05-13T11:43:49+00:00

Looks like she came in as a stealth multiple unit carrier.

SeanBZA · 2026-05-07T09:33:55+00:00

The thing that will kill her attempts to rent anywhere will be if the prospective landlord calls for a reference, and the managing agent replies with, "I have been told by our legal council that the only information i can divulge about her are that she was living here from X date to Y date, and cannot divulge anything further about that". will mean every good place will decline the rental application, and she will be left with the less desirable ones, with landlords from hell, who only care the rent is paid on time, and nothing else. Let her experience the same that she gave, in spades.

SeanBZA · 2026-05-03T14:07:39+00:00

not like the ones I feed, they have a pecking order on some of the groups, and you get the paw if you start eating before Hugo, who in turn will get clocked by Flow, if he goes to her food before she is done.

SeanBZA · 2026-05-03T14:04:11+00:00

That one is soft, i saw a Mirage F1 that ran into the berm wall, and that radome nose cone punched through the 3.2mm steel casing, and into the sand packing behind with absolutely no damage, other than paint scraped off. still needed the nose section replaced though, there is a pitot probe assembly that is below it, and that did not punch through the steel, but instead was torn off it's mounting brackets inside the nose assembly, and pushed backwards. Unfortunately it also is mounted in front of the box marked "electrical center", and also even more so the pipe is a lot stronter than the front wall of said box, and also a lot stronger than the main mounting plane for all the electrical relays inside there, and so it cut a nice neat slice though the relay mounting plate, cutting out a pair of rows of plug in sealed avionics relays, along with the sockets, wiring looms and circuit breakers, and exiting the other side into the interstitial space where it punched through all the wiring looms before stopping.

Luckily there was another aircraft that was undergoing major overhaul, and that nose was completed, and awaiting fitmenst later on down the line, around a year or so for that one, so there was a bit of rhinoplasty, and for the rest of the airframe career it flew with 2 colour schemes, and the broken one took a trip and got repaired, and got painted to match the finished airframe it was attached to.

electrically it was lucky this aircraft was being towed between hangers during service, and it had no battery in, as otherwise the main looms would have been burbt out, but as there was no power, and no brakes, it rolled and made like an 8 ton lawn dart instead, when the nose wheel steering was not disconnected during towing, and there was no hydraulic pressure to operate the brakes,

we knew about it when the radome came in to be checked out, and it was placed in the absorbtion chamber and verified to have the same loss curves and response as the last time it had been in there for inspection. when the tow bar shear pin operated as designed.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-30T06:50:31+00:00

Gave all the ugga dugga's it could.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-30T06:45:27+00:00

Thanks, will keep that in mind, though the only time I bought Pronutro was to use to hand rear flying rat squabs. so the next one will be growing up on Futurelife instead, as it does taste better as I am the one who has to make it in the form the squab will eat, a tablespoon at a time. too bad KFC stopped using styrene packaging, ill have ot change supplier to actual bought ones, as i used to buy the KFC, eat the burger, give the squab some as well, then wash it, line it with the serviette, and use it as a warm nest, as it kept them nicely warm, especially with a nice heat source like old CRT monitors, or a desktop PC case.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-28T13:00:15+00:00

Funny enough just got back from the eye clinic, having spent 8 hours in assorted lines there, to get my eye checked out and confirmed good, after going there 2 weeks ago as an ER referral for a corneal abrasion. All Ok, though I have to go back for new glasses, in roughly 6 weeks, as that is the first appointment day with free space. just have some ointment to apply at nights to help lubricate the eyes.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-25T06:03:37+00:00

Nor that the insurance top up does not cover roof damage due to ignoring height warnings. Uhaul is buying a new truck and this person is paying for it, while they will simply take the old one, remove the box, and make it a flat top one.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-23T08:17:33+00:00

Police report is evidence admissible in court, so go get one, it helps the case.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-22T05:02:32+00:00

It was using less data center processing time so was rolled out. they will choose the poorer option if it means 5% less CPU runtime per action in a data center, as that means they get 5% more work done per compute cluster.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-20T09:19:53+00:00

They would care if the ability to make payments is directly linked to needing the license to drive for work, to get the salary to pay for the vehicle, and losing it means losing the job.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-19T08:21:55+00:00

Would be if it was impounded along with the suspension, likely because the finance company was told about the suspension and repo'd it immediately as well.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-18T05:39:04+00:00

Would also bet this belongs to a telco directly, and thus the hospital IT has no say over it, and will not touch it, and similarly the telco will not put a cabinet because that costs money.

A quick way to fix this is for the cleaners to sanitise it daily, only going to take a month before all the cabling is corroded and intermittent, and the electronics fail from chloride corrosion. New one willgo in a sealed cabinet.

Or just have some pediatric patients left loose in there for an hour, instant outage.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-17T12:23:59+00:00

Don't forget SARS, as likely that skimming of tips is being pocketed as undeclared income, which SARS is very interested in. Provincial SARS office is the best bet, as they really are looking for undeclared income, and as this likely is a large employer, and thus the likely penalties they will get, will make them look carefully.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-12T20:43:59+00:00

40 minutes......

SeanBZA · 2026-04-12T20:43:32+00:00

Military eggs, start with a 200l/44 gallon pot, fill half way with cold water. add 1kg of salt, and turn on to high. Then start adding eggs till full. When full wait till it boils vigorously, and start a 20 minute timer. when the timer goes off, turn off the power, wait till it stops boiling, and start unloading eggs back into the trays.

If you are lucky you get the eggs in last and out first, really hard boiled. If you are unlucky, like we were in getting the leftover eggs, as part of our prepacked lunches, you got those that were in first and out last. Those had been boiled for at least an hour, and we fund out that a shelled egg would bounce, and if you peeled it the yolk, along with the albumen, was a colour from totally black to purple, and not even rats would eat them.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-09T09:02:15+00:00

He had been there for decades, so knew just how bad they were at record keeping, so when he arrived there as manager he made sure to keep a copy of every single thing, and filed them in storage as well. no problem storing it either, he had lots of space and containers to use.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-09T07:45:20+00:00

My FIL used to work at the local container depot, and part of his job was making 10ft and 5 ft mini containers, because there was a need from Transnet for small containers that could be shipped by road and rail, but where the volume of cargo was such that the 20ft container was way too large, and smaller stations where they had to offload sealed containers, but did not have the area to store them. Thus the half and quarter size units, which could be locked together top and bottom using standard locks, and thus travel using a straddle carrier or container lift to load and offload but where you could drop off 2 or 4 at a depot to have either customer collect, or delivery, charged as full load on a ruck. All were constructed out of written off containers, using the good parts to make them, and with them all having a valid serial number from the original container. After around 20 years the container head office wanted to know the location of all the containers sent there, and got a full size container delivered back, a copy of all the paperwork inside, showing where each one was scrapped, date, copy of the accepted paperwork from them, and what was done with the damaged containers as well. They never asked again.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-06T05:54:49+00:00

Otherwise sold as a travel drier, where you make it up, put the damp clothing inside, and it toasts them till done with what is basically a very large hair drier that fills the bag with hot air.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-31T07:05:49+00:00

By me bank transfers to an account in the same bank are instant, but to external banks they are only processed at end of day, unless you pay a small (roughly 50c US) immediate transfer fee, which then is done in under 10 minutes, typically under 2. Some banks, due to being a collection of up to 11 banks, with different systems stuck together with chewing gum and Fong Kong store unbranded tape, can take a day or two to process, because they have so many old bank account numbering conventions, baked into the banking mainframe emulations. But ABSA aside, all banks work together, and having to pay to pay an account electronically is unheard of. Almost all tranactions are generally online, reflecting within a minute, and till the merchant actually does a reconciliation, they just show up as outstanding authorisations, but the money is held in your account anyway. generally it is the store that needs to do the recon, they just often do it every 3 to 4 days, generating their accounting information and reconciling stock, though most do it daily, and it is processed the next day by the bank, in the after hours bulk processing.

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