{"id":231,"date":"2005-12-21T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T05:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-03-04T02:30:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T06:30:39","slug":"company-xmas-party-2005-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Company Xmas party 2005 pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually on Dec. 3, but I only just now got the pictures back :-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sleepykitten.net\/image\/mhp2005\/index.htm\">Clicky for pictures of my coworkers and I on the piss<\/a>, including entirely too many pictures of me with my big red <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purelyrics.com\/index.php?lyrics=cfaaofya\" title=\"Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress...\">balls<\/a> swinging around.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring a great dinner, open bar, hilarious video* (to us; but with inside jokes that require much explaining to mere mortals) by our very own Manionator, and the&#8230;drumroll&#8230;.Bush Job of the Year! (From the SA expression &#8220;just pulled it outta the bush (shrubs)&#8221;, i.e. jerry-rigging something with the resources at hand.) Winner was a prototype of a SMA waterborne-vehicle-buoyancy-adjuster, demonstrated on its &#8220;submarine&#8221; (a project enclosure sealed with black goop, with large nuts and bolts epoxied to the inside as ballast weight), complete with high(-ish) voltage wires sticking right into the water. Ugly, but it proved the concept. I&#8217;ve never won the much-coveted BJotY, but dammit I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/images\/pdasopen.jpg\" title=\"epoxy, duct tape, CF, and 1 delayed flight because they thought it was a bomb\">trying<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>* not posted here for obvious copyright reasons&#8230;and because it shows an IPF prototype failing miserably (all done by special effects, I tell ya!). If you know me in person, ask real nice and I&#8217;ll show it to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually on Dec. 3, but I only just now got the pictures back :-) Clicky for pictures of my coworkers and I on the piss, including entirely too many pictures of me with my big red balls swinging around. Featuring a great dinner, open bar, hilarious video* (to us; but with inside jokes that require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}