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Almost nothing. Finally I have a little time to get on with my model. It took me a while to get somewhere. Research, placing the rivets on the body (twice), adding panels, lights, redesigning the front windows and even drawing and 3D printing new parts, like the winch.
Now it's time for the weapons. Nothing special. Two lasers and launchers for seven proton torpedos on every side. Oooops, wrong model. That was an X-Wing. This is a UH-1E Huey gunship from 1967 with twin M60C machineguns and launchers for seven 2.75 inch rockets on each side.
Sorry for the facebook link, but this video is the best I could find of a UH-1E. There were around 200 of them built around 1967, so they were a rare sight to begin with: UH-1E in action[^]
I have now used my involuntary time at home to finish the almost final prototype of the starboard weapons. I also added some paint to get an impression what it will finally look like and to practice painting the complete heli aged and weathered.
Pictures of the model[^]
Edit: I was finally able to trick the editor into making the link really a link!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The worst should be over by now.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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So you are too sick to work, but not so sick you can't do complex finely detailed hobbies? 
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Too sick tof work
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I spent the last two days in bed and today nobody would expect me to show up for work. If my appetite (or sense of taste) has already returned, I might even leave the house and buy something to eat for tomorrow.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Don't worry - I'm a big fan of the "Typhoid Mary" school of Office Sickness: Keep the Elephant away from everyone else until you aren't infectious.
Herself works in an old folks home, and has to be interviewed to return to work after sickness - minimum 48 hours clear for diarrhea for example, and three days for a cold. I've known a couple of Contract Packers who won't even let service engineers in the building with a sniffle!
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Besides all that, I read what you recently wrote in that survey about constant stress and the consequences. The 'complex finely detailed hobbies' are my way of dealing with that. On days like this they give me something better to do than brood over what has happened.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My son is too sick to go to school, but not too sick to play video games. 
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Quote: Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la...
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I remember those days well!
/ravi
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Me too! A little more than a year before that magazine, as a senior in college, I remember being awed by the power of what I believe was a 486-30 MHz as it crunched numbers for Finite Element Analysis of a piston head deflection model. Whoot whoot! The speed! (Hours.... Now, would take seconds at most.)
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David O'Neil wrote: it crunched numbers for Finite Element Analysis of a piston head deflection model. Whoot whoot! The speed! (Hours.... Now, would take seconds at most.)
does that mean the engines now also run ["hours" -> "seconds"] 3600 times faster?
... go out and smoke a Varon - that'd be some whoot whoot.
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Byte Magazine[^] that's the one I used to wait anxiously to grab from the book store shelf.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I shredded a box of old quotes and invoices from that era.
We were making money hand over fist. Margins were outta sight.
$75.00 for a knockoff ide cd rom drive. Not writable, you had to be a king for that!
And the computer quotes 
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I remember buying those to get the accompanying CD and all the freeware/shareware it came with 
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If XKCD can't persuade you: xkcd: Listening[^]
The perhaps this can: Pet shaming[^] 
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Yet most people have had smartphones for many years.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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... which don't listen to everything you say (unless the NSA asks them to) just in case you give it a command to wake up and do something ... like order 2 tonnes of creamed corn.
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OriginalGriff wrote: which don't listen to everything you say
Some phones are voice activated which means, yes, they do listen to everything.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Okay, try saying "Ok Google" in front of any recent Android phone 
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