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TWEAKER TIP #80085

I’ll explain this tip with a story of what happened earlier today instead just saying what it is like I usually do…

Homie- “why do you always smoke thru a bong? is it just cuz its a bit healthier?”

Me- “well yeah thats one of the reasons, cuz harm reduction is always a good thing, but this is the main reason why…”

**puts a few drops of the bongwater in another bowl and boils it down while rolling it around in circles (to speed up the reduction process) until it began to smoke, then i cooled it down with a rag**

Me- “I’ve smoked about 6 grams through this water. every time the water level in the bong got too low from smoking through it and making it thicker, I add the bare minimum amount of water to make it hit right again. bro, this shit right here is so concentrated, imma tell you right now it’s gonna straight fuck you up dawg. hell, for real I don’t know if you’re ready for this shit bro, it’s way Fuckin stronger than what you’re used to…”

Homie-“what? yeah right bro, lemme hit that shit!”

Me- “alright, don’t say I didn’t warn ya dawg haha! ”

then he hit that pipe hard only 3 times and was so Fuckin gone that once he could move again, the fucker started cleaning my damn house and shit for like 4 hours straight even tho I kept telling him to chill lol! he vacuumed every rug in the house (i got bamboo Hardwood floors), swept the floors and mopped my kitchen, washed the dishes by hand even tho I got a dishwasher, then started doing yardwork lmfao!!

— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle  (via n-c-x)

Compton/Downtown/Inglewood/Watts

Compton/Downtown/Inglewood/Watts

Compton/Downtown/Inglewood/Watts

Dear my fellow struggling/recovering addicts.

Its obvious tweaker nation is no longer is as strong as it once was. Even the founder won’t respond , and the tag is dead. So I’m creating this post in hopes we can find ACTIVE BLOGS and help one another once again. The one thing we all struggle with is disconnection whether it be from friends, family, life or even ourselves at times… We need each other . So lets find each other

“When I thought no one understood and refused to see I tried.

WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL DIGITAL CAMERA SEES CONSTRUCTION GREEN

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC. The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera – the world’s largest – at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Assembled at the DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the camera will be the eye of LSST, revealing unprecedented details of the universe and helping unravel some of its greatest mysteries.

The construction milestone, known as Critical Decision 3, is the last major approval decision before the acceptance of the finished camera, said LSST Director Steven Kahn: “Now we can go ahead and procure components and start building it.”

Starting in 2022, LSST will take digital images of the entire visible southern sky every few nights from atop a mountain called Cerro Pachón in Chile. It will produce a wide, deep and fast survey of the night sky, cataloguing by far the largest number of stars and galaxies ever observed. During a 10-year time frame, LSST will detect tens of billions of objects—the first time a telescope will observe more galaxies than there are people on Earth – and will create movies of the sky with unprecedented details. Funding for the camera comes from the DOE, while financial support for the telescope and site facilities, the data management system, and the education and public outreach infrastructure of LSST comes primarily from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The telescope’s camera – the size of a small car and weighing more than three tons – will capture full-sky images at such high resolution that it would take 1,500 high-definition television screens to display just one of them.

This has already been a busy year for the LSST Project. Its dual-surface primary/tertiary mirror – the first of its kind for a major telescope – was completed; a traditional stone-laying ceremony in northern Chile marked the beginning of on-site construction of the facility; and a nearly 2,000-square-foot, 2-story-tall clean room was completed at SLAC to accommodate fabrication of the camera.

“We are very gratified to see everyone’s hard work appreciated and acknowledged by this DOE approval,” said SLAC Director Chi-Chang Kao. “SLAC is honored to be partnering with the National Science Foundation and other DOE labs on this groundbreaking endeavor. We’re also excited about the wide range of scientific opportunities offered by LSST, in particular increasing our understanding of dark energy.”

Components of the camera are being built by an international collaboration of universities and labs, including DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and SLAC. SLAC is responsible for overall project management and systems engineering, camera body design and fabrication, data acquisition and camera control software, cryostat design and fabrication, and integration and testing of the entire camera. Building and testing the camera will take approximately five years.

SLAC is also designing and constructing the NSF-funded database for the telescope’s data management system. LSST will generate a vast public archive of data—approximately 6 million gigabytes per year, or the equivalent of shooting roughly 800,000 images with a regular 8-megapixel digital camera every night, albeit of much higher quality and scientific value. This data will help researchers study the formation of galaxies, track potentially hazardous asteroids, observe exploding stars and better understand dark matter and dark energy, which together make up 95 percent of the universe but whose natures remain unknown.

“We have a busy agenda for the rest of 2015 and 2016,” said Kahn. “Construction of the telescope on the mountain is well underway. The contracts for fabrication of the telescope mount and the dome enclosure have been awarded and the vendors are at full steam.”

Nadine Kurita, camera project manager at SLAC, said fabrication of the state-of-the-art sensors for the camera has already begun, and contracts are being awarded for optical elements and other major components. “After several years of focusing on designs and prototypes, we are excited to start construction of key parts of the camera. The coming year will be crucial as we assemble and test the sensors for the focal plane.”

The National Research Council’s Astronomy and Astrophysics decadal survey, Astro2010, ranked the LSST as the top ground-based priority for the field for the current decade. The recent report of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel of the federal High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, setting forth the strategic plan for U.S. particle physics, also recommended completion of the LSST.

Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle  (via n-c-x)