don’t make a promise you can’t keep

It's asking questions; 'Is this...all I am? Is there nothing more?'

“Yeoman don’t embellish sir.” “Admiral’s privilege” Oooh early days Tiner so placid, so competent, so on program. “A good yeoman memorizes numbers.” I’m dying. Also lol bowtie webb. Bud has a sister winnie apparently lol (or he’s nervous and lying) ooohy tiner is so baby im gonna die. Rabb/Webb interactions are so fun. And once again, I miss Palmer. I felt so robbed that he didn’t show up for one last bit of hijinks 😔😔

Truly embarrassing to watch through “the Tiner episodes” when 2 of every 3 episodes it’s literally it’s just a pan past him at a desk (BUT ALSO the sun is shining through his hair and he’s a little angel baby okay? GOD.)

Someone to take care of annie: Tiner’s EMPTY desk is an affront to me personally. Harm is so cavalier with Josh lmfao just hey Bud i’m in charge of this child but uh, your turn, bye! And hey kid i’m just gonna smoke up real quick okay? I loooove Bud’s apartment. What’s in the terrarium Bud!!! A tortoise? I feel like it’s gotta be a tortoise. Or a gecko. (Not a snake lol) Tiner lets Annie in like ‘the admiral is wrestling with a child and its so normal and I definitely haven’t asked five times if I should intervene.’ Poor Annie i would diiiiie she has it so hard.

Chains of command: Tiner letting Dalton in like ‘sowwy lol’ aw man. Flashy b-roll!! Lookit them putting the flag to bed. Man by the end its the same three shots of the courtyard—three black people! The women! Generic white guys! And a couple trunk searches. Bud’s dyed hair is so weird? Oh I forgot what a scumbag dalton is lmfao. Love this as a followup for crossing the line which isn’t my fav. Omg they picked the same song. Omg Rabb is a bourbon boy biiiig smooch. And Bud too!! Broken heart club :’)

The stalker: Today’s two second Tiner: fix your hair??? Also I see a marine in the bg and I go !!! But we’re in season 3 😔😔😔 I love Rabb’s lil topgun getup. Nice jeans dude. At the party he’s dressed like he’s been hired as a Jazz musician??? And Mac is wearing the crocheted number out of the house lol. Oh god I FORGOT nnno!!

Wedding bell blues: Love that mom is dressed as a venomous octopus. V appropriate. Mac’s baby seal poster will never not make me laugh. Why is it there.

Two seconds of Tiner update: Dorky digital watch!!! You KNOW Gunny has a nice watch and hassles Tiner about his. Tiner, incensed like “It has a calculator! And four alarms!! And it’s got a light!!!” “Tiner if I ever hear your watch alarm I am throwing it away.” (Not a flashy watch but a good one, the internet suggests a marathon gsar, (tbh the 90s were digital watch era but Gunny’s old fashioned, right, maybe digital when he was deployed tho))

Innocence: Omg office baseball??? JAG vs god squad lmaooo. Tiner as a catcher in blue i’m gonna faint lmao. LEAVE. Backwards baseball cap tussled hair oooohhhh. Bright red shorts chrrrist. The time out to answer the cellphone and the way he stands at attention mid call, oh i hate him. Jesus his arms fffrick. I would wear this outfit lol.

(yeah i frickn... don't know how to take screencaps okay!!!! lmao)

Oh hey it’s the doctor’s son lmao (omg hes the ncis guy. And thackery binx?!? Lmaooo). Wow the 90s were soooo… something. The japanese characters… this guy is a shitty admiral lmao. Man, everyone is in japan and they don’t get to have a little trip? Was japan not like touristy in the 90s. Is Tiner here. Does a yeoman travel with? Put that giant blond on a subway carrr. I love a c130 😭😭 da big boi. (I keep spacing out and just. Tiner in the shorts lmao….) ahhh the 90s “You don’t remember? Jail. Jail for lying victim.

The people vs mac: Man Christopher could be related to Tiner lol. And tbh Benny could be related to Gunny?? Should I watch the one before this. Probably. Brumby is…so aggressive lmfao, some severe bedroom(??) eyes. How does the phone system work, why is Tiner fielding Rabb’s calls. He needs a friend……. I hope Mac doesn’t still like her steak well done b/c wtf lol. They screw Mac over sooo bad with these relationships lmao no wonder she had haters when it was airing, y2k was rrruff. I’m maybe done lollll.

Dungaree Justice: i also don’t like this one lol. UGH look at him filling out the uniform i’m trying to be respectful!!! His hair is so fluffy… conspiring with Bud awwww. The admiral comes in and Tiner just “If i don’t move he can’t see me” and doesn’t look at him haha. The little relieved sigh, oh he needs more hijinks... such a gunny moment lol. I do wish they had kept Mikey as an artist, it was cute. Alas.

Shakedown: why this. Like. Of all things. Why this guy. Why Tiner speaking with his lil self-effacing grin. Knows everything about everyone’s business. I wanna give him a frikn swirly fkn nerd cutw fknsnama ARGH. Cute aggression!!! Bite him!!! (Baseball Tiner is still haunting me btw…) I love when they give him bonkers expository dialog and Chuck just goes no prablem and makes it so earnest and just. He’s a Good Boy??? It should not work??? The uniform really does hide the bulk on this man. Rude. He works so hard…

Anyway love watching the show specifically for the Tiner moments and when Tiner shows up I have to walk out of the room. Very cool very normal.

Jesus who wrote this Mac is so mean in this episode?? Number one mac hater in the house. Like sure charitably she’s concerned for Harm but the average bear is gonna haaate her for this one lol.

Second sight: “sky over virginia” my ass if this isn’t the santa clarita valley between ventura and filmore i will eat an entire biplane lol.

The way Tiner’s ears are all pink from the light through the window as the admiral is dressing him down and he’s just lookin at the floor unable to maintain eye contact= BABY. Certified baby. Grade A. Reluctantly answering questions truthfully. Ohhhh my god. When he lets the breath out murder me. My boy has never once won at poker in his life. I love when they let him be smart. Lookit this guy talking tech with Bud like two peas in a pod. Gonna squeeze these nerds til they pop. Ooooh my perfect idiot (data point 4: tiner went to junior college (lived on campus?) and siphoned power from the stadium lmao) lol. Anyway is this the first episode Tiner is a real character?

Wilderness of Mirrors: Palmer is just, such a delight. Also there was no Tiner in this episode?!? more likely I missed him I guess?

Soul Searching: Bud went to college in San Diego! LMfao Brumby what a dick (It must be said the aussie cover is nice with that lil sun motif) Why's Tiner's uniform weird? Where him stripes. TIL there were no stripes on the summer uniform, interesting! Good choice adding the piping on new ones imo, v classy.

Goodbyes: Okay I skipped yeah baby b/c I saw it recently and I think I would OD on Tiner, so we're here and I'm sooo sorry but that is one ugly baby lollll. Anywayyyy. Bud hugging Harm goodbye, and Harm being awkward about it, and seeing Tiner like omg I'm embarrassed and Tiner TURNING HIS EHAD AWAY. Like, 'Oh! Uh, yeah, lemme give you privacy, sure, I'm not watching.' I barked. Oh and he closes his door to say goodbye to Mac. Omg and Tiner gets to stand in the goodbye lineup. He's a real boy now!!! I should make a geocities bio for him btw.

King of the Greenie Board: WE'RE BACK it's THEM time. Lookit Tiner being a whole character. Look at the Admiral being Aggrieved AF that his yeoman is too busy cooing over a baby to do his job. Look at Tiner being terrible at filing—god remember how delighted he is during the ad with Renee. Oooogh it boils me, "Me and gunny revamped the file system and everything works so much better now I love gunny I mean i love a good system." (the admiral finger crooking lol,;;;;) There are so many hot pilots lmao, like, did we think we'd spin this off or spend more time here? woof. (Tuna would kiss any of them im just sayin)

Oooooh do not make me look at the character. Gunny sitting fiddling in Mac's office, through the blinds, like you can't even see him and I need to take a lap. sTOP

For as much time as i spend thinking about The Characters. I spend as little time as feasible looking at them.

Is it looking at the sun? Is it psychic damage? Is it a gender thing? I do not know. I will never learn to draw their likenesses. They live in my head as little color-coded cartoon guys.

(Help his hands....) god he's so fucking pretty and PRINCIPLED!! He's such an unrepentant snoop. Him sitting looking up at Mac with that lil basset hound face... oh im feral.

radiation damage from the smile when he says “Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas” literally Gunny cannot leave the marines without getting punished for it, he’s just like oh well im here forever with the biggest grin.

Diary of a Would-Be Stunt Woman

By Amanda Tapping

Yeah! 'Smoke and Mirrors'! O'Neill is charged with murder and Sam goes off to the NID. I got to wear more normal clothes, sort of Men in Black stuff, and a nice pretty skirt. See - what's really important about this episode is that I actually, for the first time ever in the history of six years of Stargate, got a stunt operator. I probably should have gotten some in the past because of the outrageous things I've done. You should see some of the ridiculous things I've flung myself at! But with this one I went up to our assistant director and said, "I'm charging down concrete steps, leaping over a wall and a building is exploding behind me. I'm pretty sure that's a stunt." So we, (Peter Flemming, who played Barrett, and I) practiced. We run to the end of this wall and we have to do a leap. Now, there is a mat in one position and there are cameras positioned all around it and there's this whole 'Don't hit the camera, leap over here, land on this big fluffy mat' vibe. But every time we rehearsed it, as soon as I get close to teh wall, I'd do this little gymnast-style hop, skip and leap. And people were like, "Amanda- just run and leap. Run, and leap. What's with the gymnast thing?" So I keep landing on the mat and I'd spring up and go, "Whoo Hoo! Six point four from the Russian judge!" which I thought was quite funny, but the crew were getting nervous: "She's gotta get this right. She has to get it." I mean, God bless the crew. I think they really like me, but they also know that I'm completely uncoordinated and therefore a great source of entertainment on a daily basis.

Anyway, I'm scared. I have to run down these concrete steps and they weren't built to code if you know what I mean, they're too narrow, but I can't back out becuase it's this huge shot and the whole neighourhood has turned out. The spectators are all going, "Wow! They're going to blow up this house!" and though we won't actually blow it up, there is going to be a big explosion, which has taken all day to set up.

So - its the last stunt of the day. The crew is trying to reassure me: "No worries, Amanda!" One of the stunt guys has grabbed hold of the end of the mat, to hold it up, so that when I land I don't come sliding off the end. However on the last rehearsal I come flying at him, I land . . . and he litterally punches me in the face because he's holding the mat and I collide with his fist. Then I'm holding my nose going "Oh crap" and he's all apologetic, saying "I was trying to help you" and I'm like "No! No! I'm an accident waiting to happen!" I then remember I have a gun in my hand, and that's something else I have to contend with.

Finally, we're all set to shoot. Go! I'm running down the stairs, everyone is watching. There's five cameras rolling - it's just the huge-est thing. I do the leap. I'm all good. I realise the camera is in front of me so I have to tuck in. I do it, land . . . and as I land . . . I smash myself in the face with my gun! I'm lying stunned and I can feel the heat of the explosion and I'm like "Oh Boy!" I touch my face, which is all wet, and I thought it was blood. Turned out it wasn't - it was just snot. But my eyes are watering because I smashed myself on the nose.

Everyone is going, "Wow. That was fantastic!" I turned to Jack from creaft service and said, "You know, just once I would like to do a stunt where I didn't incur some sort of injury." Then Dan Shea, our stunt co-ordinator and big wrench carrier comes up and says, "I've never worked with an actress who does her own stunts." I say, "Ya think I should stop?" and he replies, "Yeah. Amanda God is sending you messages." You know what? I think next time, I'll listen.

In brief, one of the main ways that stealth aircraft avoid detection is by passively reducing their radar cross-section – or, in plain English, being shaped in a way that reflects radar signals in unexpected ways, thus making them appear “smaller” than they really are to anything that pings them.

The math required to calculate an object’s radar cross-section is impractical to do by hand, and even the computers that were available in the mid 1970s could only do it for relatively simple models with low polygon counts and few or no curved surfaces.

Unfortunately, the results from the simplified computer models were found not to be effective when applied to the complex shapes of real aircraft, so the designers of the F-117 found a workaround: they built it to be the same shape as the low-poly model from the simulation.

Stargate SG-1, 08.09 Sacrifices

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