A good HOA deals with stuff like taking care of the lake/river in the neighbourhood, keeps the grass and trees taken care of that don’t fall on a specific persons property. They also have rules in place to keep a set of standards in place: I.e. No rusted out POS cars parked in the front yard, keeping the fences…

I like the community service idea - don't want to pay (or can't afford) the monetary cost: do comm service.

Housing and Res Life staff will usually do a monthly round of room inspections, and have to CC the athletes paperwork to the athletic dept. Then a follow up might be done by escorting a coach into the room so he can see how bad it actually is.

If you get arrested, your ass should be suspended from the team - who the hell cares about a paltry amount of money?

Dirty locker = breeding ground for bacteria, which can quickly run rampant as a staph infection.

Dirty dorm room causes mold to grow, the athlete fails the Housing and Res Life inspection, gets fined $300 for the cleaning/disinfecting.

I dunno - from the little bit that I can see, I don’t see an issue other than these kids(guys?) don’t really have another source of income.

The “break the restaurant” story reminded me of my wife - she used to work up in the Oil Patch of Alberta as the town runner (town runner is exactly what it sounds like - they drive people into or out of the camps, runs errands like post or deliveries from vendors, picks up whatever is asked of - within reason).

Bit of a noobish question, but where would someone learn to do the wiring and programming for something like this?

That’s pretty cool - thanks for the info.

I wonder how he held the shutter open for 45 min without getting “star streaks”. Or is this “I took a bunch of photos of the meteor shower and composited it all together in photoshop”?

I was just about the post a picture of it also, but decided to check if someone else did first. Love seeing it with the setting sun making the windows light up.

About half of them are stupidly situational, a few are crazy, the rest are just good.

Does it fly? Can it still capture video? Then its still a useable asset.

“ If funded appropriately, the Border Patrol could clearly use them, along with other federal agencies, including the Coast Guard. During major natural disasters, MQ-1s could be launched to locate survivors and map destruction.”

I got thoughts on this article, but every time I try to write something, it all gets jumbled up. I want to defend something that helped me as a kid, but Kevin has alot of good points. But some of the things that hes pointing out that was a sign of the declining quality was what got me through the day.

The tech-weenies back at the station prolly wouldn’t agree with “it was worth it for the shot”.

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s the 12 book stores in my area refuse to order said book.

I was going to suggest tape (athletic or duct) in order to help hold bandages in place, slings, or splints, but someone else suggested paracord rope (about 10ft) and I think that might be a bit of a better option (although I might personally carry more than 10 feet.

My .02 on the matter: the cost they are suing for is just to get the people’s attention. I’m willing to bet if the family stopped feeding the birds, and then took measures to chase/discourage the birds from visiting en-mass, the lawsuit would be settled.