Sex for Science! Chapter 0: The Prequel

[tacit]

Sex for Science! Chapter 0
Sex for Science! Chapter 1
Sex for Science! Interlude
Sex for Science! Chapter 2
Sex for Science! Chapter 3
Sex for Science! Chapter 4The English language has no word to describe the experience of watching a pierced, tattoed woman you've only just met have a huge, screaming orgasm, then pull off the electrodes for the EEG

Comments

[zastrazzi]

I think I just hit the LJ version of 'like' and added you - anyone who features as prominently and frequently as you do in Tacit's journal, I'd have to be a special kind of smrt not to ;)

[nisaa]

There is (or rather, was--they've recently announced they're going out of business) a BDSM-themed coffee shop called Wicked Grounds in San Francisco.

They're fundraising to stay open. If you or any of your readers can help, even if you don't live in SF, there's a post about it here:
http://fetlife.com/groups/6892/group_posts/1321616

[candidgamera]

Did you check out the video game museum near the submarine? I was there last year - very cool things, including some of those vintage coin-operated erotica devices from the early 20th century.

[tacit]

We did! They had a lot of coin-operated penny arcade machines, but sadly no erotic devices.

[candidgamera]

Well, no, not erotic devices, but those 'short clip of a lady in lingerie' kind of peepshow things.

[tacit]

Ah. Those we saw. Now I want to design a coin-operated erotic device, though.

More photos

[fx4]

I don't use Livejournal much, so if you would like to see more of the photos from this (and other trips) start at http://photo.fx4.net/blog . Feel free to poke around there

-- his friend Scott (who seems to be getting the blame here)

Re: More photos

[edm]

Cool photos. Thanks for sharing.

Out of curiosity what are you using for the photo gallery software? It's simultaneously more shiny and more functional than most I've seen.

Ewen

Re: More photos

[fx4]

I use Lightroom, with the HighSlide Gallery Pro web template fromhttp://theturninggate.net/

[pstscrpt]

According to The Wiki, the submarine you toured is the same class as the one I've toured:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lionfish

It looks like maybe less of the Pampanito was closed off than the Lionfish.

I'm pretty sure American WW2 submarines all used four locomotive engines (accounts from the time always include decisions when they surface of how many engines go to charging the batteries and how many are used for propulsion). Only two were open to the public on the Lionfish tour, but you could see the other two in another room through a window if you knew to look because there ought to be two more engines somewhere.

[tacit]

Interesting. There was another deck beneath the main deck in the engine room that we couldn't get access to; I'd assumed from the recorded tour information that it was used entirely for batteries (all of which had been removed), but it's entirely possible there could have been two more engines down there.

[fx4]

There were four engines, in two sequential (and basically identical) rooms, imaginatively called the forward engine room and the after engine room. The engines are two decks tall. (we were in the room with the tops of the cylinders and valve heads, here) The electric motors are in the room below the rheostat cage (collectively, those two rooms (decks?) are called the maneuvering room, which is odd, since they only control propulsion, not direction)

The after battery room is below the galley and crew quarters, the forward battery room is below the officers quarters. The pump room is below the control room (the red lit room)

Yes, I am a submarine geek, Pampanito is the fifth I've been aboard.