The Trailing Edge

Hello there! Welcome to this place on the internet. I'm a Drafter/Designer for an Gas-Process Engineering company with interest in all sorts of random things like engineering, CAD, art, and numerous others. Check out what's here, ignore what you want, stay a while or have fun on your way to wherever you're trying to go. DeviantART Twitter

[depsidase]

[mathew]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[chopnuts]

SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

@paperstorm

[raychleadele]

Just an absolute fucking orb of a creature

[edgec]

As before, here's some extra detail shots from the Edwards AFB Airshow last October. Lots of shots of the F-35 Lightning II's F135 Engine because I love my engine details.

[edgec]

So the day after our local Airshow last October, I decided to wake up stupid early to drive to Edwards AFB for their first airshow in 13 years because I just had to go. There was some must-sees there, including SOFIA(the airborne telescope on her last flight), numerous NASA Test Aircraft, and flights of a B-1, F-22, KC-135 refueling, The Thunderbirds, and of course the multiple real sonic booms. The desert sun and heat kinda sucked and the drive home was long, but it was hard to beat watching aerobatics while eating lunch in the shade of a B-1 Bomber.

[edgec]

CLICK FOR FULLSIZE! More from last October's Airshow! But this time more of the shots I'm really getting into: showing and highlighting little details and mechanisms, as well as getting some interesting foreground/background composition. I dunno, I'm probably talking out my ass but I know what I like and what I have fun trying to capture and these are a good handful.

[edgec]

Happy 4th y'all! here's some stuff I took at our local airshow last October that was probably the best show overall I've been to. Low clouds kept it all close and the temperatures cool, plus the higher humidity gave wonderful vapor trails and cones.

[edgec]

with twitter slowly dying, figured I should start posting more stuff here. so lets get started with the hobby I literally tripped into: Photography. With only 1 of these bought new, the rest have been bought off coworkers, or found in local thrift stores(2 of them are 35mm film, and that 120mm kodak)

expect some pics up soon.

[love-me-a-good-prompt]

50 WORDS TO USE INSTEAD OF “SAID”

Do you ever find yourself over-using the word “said” in your writing? Try using these words/phrases instead:

stated

commented

declared

spoke

responded

voiced

noted

uttered

iterated

explained

remarked

acknowledged

mentioned

announced

shouted

expressed

articulated

exclaimed

proclaimed

whispered

babbled

observed

deadpanned

joked

hinted

informed

coaxed

offered

cried

affirmed

vocalized

laughed

ordered

suggested

admitted

verbalized

indicated

confirmed

apologized

muttered

proposed

chatted

lied

rambled

talked

pointed out

blurted out

chimed in

brought up

wondered aloud

(NOTE: Keep in mind that all of these words have slightly different meanings and are associated with different emotions/scenarios.)

[neil-gaiman]

Also remember that “said” is invisible on the page, and that you aren’t ever overusing “said”, even if you’re scared you are.

You could write a novel using nothing but “said” to indicate that people are speaking and nobody will ever notice, complain, or think you’re a lazy writer.

[paranoidgemsbok]

I gave the beebs a jelly cup as a treat and pyramidhead stepped in it and got SO upset

[boigameista]

i dont think i posted these but here i made a little frog pattern to make tiny frog toys with my grandma

this is the first lil guy I made while still learning how i should sew it

[boigameista]

AAA ok so a lot of people have been asking for the pattern to this, tho I’ve been using just these two little papers to do the cut outs lol

i tried my best to translate it into digital so that people get a bit more accurate look at them. Tho bear with me I’ve never done an actual pattern design sheet before!

so basically my hope is that anyone could print these out to any size of their choosing and get the same result, but ive never tried anything larger than approx. 3 inches with these sooo idk if you try it tag me!

the goal is to sew the backs together to the lines at the tip of the head to the middle of the butt. then leaving a space along the belly piece near the butt end and sewing from one side of the butt including all the legs and the “mouth” to the other side with its legs to get back to the butt. if that makes sense

i usually pause sewing up the body once the head is fully sewn together,, usually after ive sewn both arms and ill yank it inside out where ill start sewing on the little poofball eyes so i know theyre in a good place, then resuming the body, and then pulling the whole thing inside out and pushing out the tips of the limbs with a skinny blunt object like a dull pencil until i can see the stitches. if you attempt this piece definitely make sure you stitch up the arm and leg crevices very well!!!!

then just stuff the lad and sew up his back end and its done :)

one suggestion for fabric is always try to use a stretchy soft fleecy fabric with these because its much easier if mistakes are made during sewing and to hold the ROUND shape better

Overall its a very good use of scraps if you’ve accumulated a lot and don’t know what to do with them 👍👍

[atomicelixir]

So I made a frog (huge)

[boigameista]

I literally can’t I’m losing my mind over the sheer girth of this frog.

Absolutely incredible.

11/10 and godspeed.

[penny-anna]

having a job is very weird bcos by and large your coworkers will be a variety of ages and you will not all be at the same stage of life. your coworker will be like, well I’m off home to spend time with my husband & child, what are you going to do with your evening? and you’re like, well, I plan on playing Rollercoaster Tycoon for as much as it as possible

[delacrumo-deactivated20191011]

anyway to p*rate ebooks literally just google “BOOK_TITLE EPUB VK” replace book title with the book and youll find like 400 results honestly stick with EPUB as your original search result and use calibre to reformat the ebook to literally ANY format

[delacrumo-deactivated20191011]

hit this in google

click the first result normally its the first result but you might need to scroll. a good way to tell is if the description of the website has your book title and the epub extension in bold

then just scroll down and youll find it eventually sometimes the vk walls can be long but its there also this works 100% for school books or c*pyrighted material i just used alice in wonderland as an example

[ferrousferrule]

I collected a bunch of "haha I don't have 2020 vision" "oh God not like that" posts

[atmosfer-deactivated20241016]

[bouncyirwin]

I wouldn’t mind a sequel to this post 🤣

[oldtvandcomics]

I have kept coming back to this post to see the reblogs, so I can give you the ones other people collected all in one place:

This one I actually found myself!

And I don’t think that this counts, but it still has the beautiful “Ah, fuck” vibes the rest of the post does:

And let’s not forget the cursed “Supernatural GIF Perfectly Describes 2020″ one:

@ferrousferrule:  You said you were looking for more and going through the reblogs, right? In which case this isn’t going to be of much use to you, but still. Just in case it is. :)

[kaijutegu]

everyone stop what you’re doing and look at this baby pelican

[kaijutegu]

[kaijutegu]

his power grows

[kaijutegu]

please… he’s getting too strong…

[kaijutegu]

please… stop… i beg of you…

[color-palettes]

I;m thinking about thos Beans - Submitted by meowstic-seer-of-the-future

#EEEEE9 #C0BBAE #ABB6C4 #313132 #ED7923

[axebombah-deactivated20150404]

[steveisnotonfire]

This has been in my queue for four months.

[color-palettes]

Optimistic Ostrich - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#32312f #797671 #d89753 #ebeae8 #6b7d91