The 2.5 meter telescope is downhill some 30+ yards from the 3.5, and most of the LN is stored in the bottom floor of the 3.5 (3 story facility). Years ago, one of the 2.5 people was carrying a small pressurized LN dewer down to the telescope, and there was a flock of wild turkeys on the path. The male of said flock took umbrage and started challenging the guy, so the guy squirted him full in the face with liquid nitrogen.
This really pissed off the turkey and it charged him!
The astronomer was able to make it into one of the 2.5 telescopes' buildings where he was able to call for help, which basically was everybody else laughing at himm until the turkeys left the area.
There's plenty of crossover between geek and jock. When I worked at the game company Flying Buffalo, they had an indoor soccer team that played for a couple of decades. We went out and did paintball when it was starting up, played volleyball, and we sometimes saw the sun come up after playing Champions or something else all night long.
The cartoonist John Kovalic who draws Dork Tower and is also a game designer recently took up Tae Kwan Do because his 10-y/o daughter wanted to do it, and they're progressing through the ranks at the same speed.
And then you've got Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: both are pretty tough guys and both play D&D. I'd forgotten about Kurt Schilling, very famous baseball player and World Series Champion being a gamer & D&D player, along with Robin Williams and Dame Judi Dench.
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Date: 2019-02-16 01:34 am (UTC)This really pissed off the turkey and it charged him!
The astronomer was able to make it into one of the 2.5 telescopes' buildings where he was able to call for help, which basically was everybody else laughing at himm until the turkeys left the area.
There's plenty of crossover between geek and jock. When I worked at the game company Flying Buffalo, they had an indoor soccer team that played for a couple of decades. We went out and did paintball when it was starting up, played volleyball, and we sometimes saw the sun come up after playing Champions or something else all night long.
The cartoonist John Kovalic who draws Dork Tower and is also a game designer recently took up Tae Kwan Do because his 10-y/o daughter wanted to do it, and they're progressing through the ranks at the same speed.
And then you've got Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: both are pretty tough guys and both play D&D. I'd forgotten about Kurt Schilling, very famous baseball player and World Series Champion being a gamer & D&D player, along with Robin Williams and Dame Judi Dench.
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