Non-quality images
These slides were taken with a Minolta spy camera since I didn't normally carry a camera when I traveled on business. The slides are 1/2 x 3/8 inch and not good quality.
About 6 weeks after Mt St Helen's eruption I chartered a 4 seat high wing plane to look at the mountain. The FAA would not permit flying closer than a couple miles from the crater.
The mud flow of ash and instantly melted glacier.
I was walking down a blocked off road near the base of the mountain. Mud and ash had washed across the road but I didn't realize the residue was getting deeper until I saw this sign which was probably 7 or 8 feet high.
How appropriate, a thread for images of questionable quality. I like.
Handheld (two hands!) shot. The bridge is not quite ¼-mile away. Max zoom on my camera through a itty-bitty 6 x 15 scope.
Where are xoB's images?!?!
Hey Bruce, still got those spy pics?
Where are xoB's images?!?!
Died of old age maybe?
Where are xoB's images?!?!
Since they were taken with a spy camera we must not have the required security clearance to view them. :3eye:
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Is this water or the new ground level?
I believe that's the ash and residue left after the water passed ...
Since the surgery, I've been passing a lot of water from my ash too. :o
I almost googled ASH, thinking it was an acronym.
Is this water or the new ground level?
I believe that's the ash and residue left after the water passed ...
vvvvvvvvvvv
I was walking down a blocked off road near the base of the mountain. Mud and ash had washed across the road but I didn't realize the residue was getting deeper until I saw this sign which was probably 7 or 8 feet high.
Bruce, Thanx for the repost(s). Very interesting pics.
Right after that sign I suddenly sunk in to my knees. I don't mean like stepping on mud and sinking, I mean like stepping on water and dropping. Scared the shit out of me. :sweat:
Again, I like this thread for sharing not quite good pics.
Two Miniature Roses not good enough for the flower or neat pictures threads.
My camera is stuck in high color mode, and reds just go over the top.
I like the effect. Pretty.
Thanx. I had to alter the color balance, saturation, and exposure a lot (in two separate photo editing programs) to get them looking halfway decent. The red just killed all detail of the flowers.
US cars aren't my strongest point but I think that might be pre-Thunderbird. I'm not sure they even gave them names. The rear quarter doesn't look right to me, too modern to my eyes - could it be a kit or home-build?
...and look at those door handles.
US cars aren't my strongest point but I think that might be pre-Thunderbird. I'm not sure they even gave them names. The rear quarter doesn't look right to me, too modern to my eyes - could it be a kit or home-build?
Oh it's certainly a kit of some sort, I just wasn't 100% on the vehicle that the kit was put on...
Where is xob? I'm sure he'd know something of this.
I don't like the rims/tires whatever you call them. Don't look right aesthetically.
It's surely a modern vehicle with an old front-end bolted on.
Yes, It's a newer T-Bird with an after market kit to make the front and rear look like a '49/'50 Ford.
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Rabirrelbit?
There's just not enough there to make a good pic.
Shoulda waited longer, I suppose, but, I was traveling.
Your my pic is better than my my pic...
heh
my pic *is* your pic.
The guy said "Who the hell stuck chewin' gum on mah building?"
I said "I got no id--that's not gum."
how fucking cool!
his motto:
Grip it and ribbit!
The guy said "Who the hell stuck chewin' gum on mah building?"
I said "I got no id--that's not gum."
shortly after Hurricane Andrew I took my parents back to their house in Fla ( just outside of Naples if you must know Brin. ) and in opening the storm shutters I was hit by a plague of frogs... they must have all gone for cover... each shutter I opened had five or six of the little buggers.
well, I like it.
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Non quality image can be vastly improved in the digital editing phase. Here are 3 from a recent for fun photo shoot I did while being incredibly bored in Munster, Indiana. There was a car show one evening near my hotel so I went and shot some car detail shots.
1. original RAW file saved as a jpeg
2. retouched to improve reflections, color vibrancy and contrast as well as remove lots of little things that were distractions.
3. Posterized for the Andy Warhol look.
Not completly happy with the my attempt to remove myself from the bumper reflections but if you didn't see the original you might not notice it. Also I still have a bit of something up in the sky on the left edge...
I like the 2nd image. The reflection removed is not noticeable at all, even when you are looking for it. I'm not too keen on posterizing. I never really understood the appeal, so the 3rd image doesn't do too much for me.
Here's my non-quality image. We had a birthday party for my FIL and his twin sister on Friday night in his new home at the assisted living facility we just moved him to. It was perfect timing that we had him moved in just a couple days before their birthday. From the penthouse party room, we saw this double rainbow. It was perfect. A double rainbow for the twins' birthday party.
Shot from my cell phone.
...
1. original RAW file saved as a jpeg
2. retouched to improve reflections, color vibrancy and contrast as well as remove lots of little things that were distractions.
3. Posterized for the Andy Warhol look.
Not completly happy with the my attempt to remove myself from the bumper reflections but if you didn't see the original you might not notice it. Also I still have a bit of something up in the sky on the left edge...
1. save original RAW as
BMP or TIFF
2. then do all the editing
3. then save the final result as jpg
That should avoid the jpg-artifacts (rectangles/steps) in the posterized version.
... and personally I wouldn't mind the original reflections in the bumper.
Thanks for the tip. PS is one big learning curve for me.
In that first one there's a boat floating through the air above the beach.
That's just crazy.
I like the lonely beach picture with the fence in the foreground. It reminds me of Lake Michigan.
I like the lonely beach picture with the fence in the foreground. It reminds me of Lake Michigan.
That one was taken on a cold windy day in April. I love the beach all year round.
That one was taken on a cold windy day in April.
:) When the tourists aren't there? :)
:) When the tourists aren't there? :)
Yup! Sometimes I prefer it then as well. ;)
Is the CG boat there to make sure no one tries to get out of New Jersey?
Is the CG boat there to make sure no one tries to get out of New Jersey?
Yup, because if we leave we might give cooties to the rest of the country.:p:
Samantha: Easy, sport. I got myself outta Beirut once, I think I can get outta New Jersey.
Mitch: Yeah? Well, don't be so sure. Others have tried and failed. The entire population, in fact.
Self-portrait.
That's one mighty shiny knob yer got there pardner.
That's one mighty shiny knob yer got there pardner.
Yeah, it gets polished quite often. Too often, as a matter of fact...:p:
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Bad lighting, angle of the sun is bad, shot at a severe angle, through a triple-pane window. Take your pick.
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At least it's not going around a damn tree.
At least it's not going around a damn tree.
That's
my squirrel. Best not be no dang ol hunter circling
my squirrel!
Aw, he's so cute!
Squirrely, Squirrely shake your bushy tail!
Squirrely, Squirrely shake your bushy tail!
Wrinkle up your little nose,
Hold a nut between your toes.
Squirrely, Squirrely shake your bushy tail!
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If you go straight through this intersection, you're in the cemetery. Zombies...indeed.
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Saw this polebarn just outside of town...I guess those are supposed to be hayloft doors as art?
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Bad lighting, angle of the sun is bad, shot at a severe angle, through a triple-pane window. Take your pick.
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How about an after pic? After the shot?
The bullets I was using were made of electrons.
:D
Damn. We've been Rick-Margined.
From my lovely holiday weekend at a FOB at Camp Shelby. My guys snapped a pic of me in the port-a-john
A two holer? How did the cameraman get that shot? You don't look like you're looking at the door, though you might be looking at a camera stuck through the slightly open door... ha ha, let's steal a pic, etc. Funny!
Actually I was sitting in there to use the phone & the door wasn't locked. I swear to God, for some unknown reason the only place you can get AT&T reception is in the port-a-johns. We use them like phone booths!
There certainly was, Ollie, there certainly was.
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We partied like rockstars. You know, if rockstars partied on riverbanks...
Benny the Dinosaur takes a ride.
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Here's one of my many Venus transit fails. This particular fail was shot using a music cd (ZZ Top's Greatest Hits) as a filter, which wasn't quite dark enough, with an all-in 8x optical zoom.
Flare was mine enemy this day, but, made for at least one interesting, even if not visually acceptable, image.
Looks like Marvin The Martian shot one of his planet-destroying missiles at the Sun.
I understand Venusian transits make him angry. So very angry indeed.
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It's an okay image of a non-quality bird. Does that count?
If I hadn't been loving on Slick at the time, he woulda had that li'l feller for lunch. I grabbed fast, and all I got was his (Slick's) tail!
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I met him yesterday, his name is Billy, isn't he the fluffiest, cutest ever!
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BTW: That picture is totally a quality image. Belongs in the "Neat Pictures I Took" thread.
:D
Yeah Rhianne, wrong thread... that's a great picture. :thumb:
I like Billy. Very nice image.
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Explanation: As seen from Frösön Island in northern Sweden the Sun did set a day after the summer solstice. From that location below the arctic circle it settled slowly behind the northern horizon. During the sunset's final minute, this remarkable sequence of 7 images follows the distorted edge of the solar disk as it just disappears against a distant tree line, capturing both a green and blue flash. Not a myth even in a land of runes, the colorful but elusive glints are caused by atmospheric refraction enhanced by long, low, sight lines and strong atmospheric temperature gradients.
Headed out to do some fishing - trying to get a few of the sun rising on a boat doing 25 knots was probably not the brightest idea...
Took a few as the sun started to peek over the horizon.
And a few as she his behind the clouds.
Keep in mind fast moving boat and basic point & click camera.
Oh, and FTR - I don't think I've seen the ocean that calm in probably 25+ years.
We were about 10 miles offshore at that point.
Nice pics, Classic!
Usually, the far away pics don't get too bothered by the movement, as long as the shutter ain't open too long. Calm water helped too, I'm sure.
I like the visible rays in post #86.
They're hard to capture sometimes.
thanks Grav. I liked that one too. I can only imagine what a nicer camera with some sort of filter could have captured.
There's nothing great about this picture except for the fact that my nephew was really excited to see the planes fly across the sky. I was heading over to his place to read to him before his bedtime when I heard a loud noise above. I looked up and saw three planes fly slowly by. I thought to myself what pity my nephew didn't see them because he loves airplanes. I went in and told him about it. He was excited. While talking, we heard the loud jet engine sound again. I yelled, they're flying by again, and I ran out the door with my nephew and my sister behind me. He was so excited to get the tail end of it. Then I noticed that he didn't even where shoes. He ran out into the courtyard barefooted. LOL We went back in and five minutes later, we heard the planes again and again, we ran out. That's when I realized the planes are circling and they pass by us every 5 minutes. So, we all just stood there in the garage to watch the planes fly by for every 5 minutes until they stop. ....hihi
Sorry, my love of all things mechanical and sheer pedantry force me to correct you. You heard piston engines, not jet engines! Sorry, I won't do it again...
Piston engines, it is...:)
Are you in the US? I'd guess the two fighters are Mustangs but I wouldn't even be able to have a try at the bigger, less sexy plane. I have a friend though who could probably tell you what the pilots had for lunch.
...I wouldn't even be able to have a try at the bigger, less sexy plane...
B-25 Mitchell maybe? The tail configuration is similar (note the diagonally-cut horizontal tail surface), but, I'm not sure the leading edge of the wing is correct. The going away angle of Lola's pic may be deceptive, too.
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I liked that one too. I can only imagine what a nicer camera with some sort of filter could have captured.the main reason of non quality images is that when we use less quality papers.and non quality images is not acceptable for companies.
Are you in the US? I'd guess the two fighters are Mustangs but I wouldn't even be able to have a try at the bigger, less sexy plane. I have a friend though who could probably tell you what the pilots had for lunch.
Was this question for me? Oops, I'm sorry. I didn't realized a post was directed at me. In case you still care to know, the answer is yes, I live in the U.S. :)
I absolutely tripped out when I saw this on the horizon yesterday. Then I remembered that the 'Balloons, Tunes, & Bar B Q Festival' was this past weekend in Bowling Green, KY. I guess he was trying to get in one last ride before packing up. Not too many balloons this year, I understand. Usually a huge turnout though. Wrecked economy, I guess.
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I also saw some turkeys on the way back from the crick.
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Heheh...
Have you noticed the recent trend of the pics in this thread?
Since post #76, they all have something to do with the sky, or things that fly.
Both are nice! I get excited when I see an unexpected hot air balloon and especially when I see wild turkeys.
I wonder how excited we'd be drinking Wild Turkey in a hot air balloon?
If we want to keep the flying thing going...
Last week, I took about 200 pics, none - at least none of the actual flying ones - were very good, but since this is the non-quality thread I suppose it's okay to put this one up of a pair of dragonflies doing what dragonflies do.
...Last week, I took about 200 pics, none - at least none of the actual flying ones - were very good...
That's the greatest thing about digital cameras, those 200 or so pics didn't cost you anything besides battery power. Someone here said it best: Electrons are free.
Nice pic, btw.
:D
Hey look, gobblers. :haha:
Just bought myself another pen for the Retro 51 collection. Was admiring them so I took a snapshot. I thought I'd share my joy. :D
At least they don't eat much. :haha:
:lol2:
When I first saw your little hide-away there, I thought "A Zippo lighter body w/a tiny magnifying glass instead of a wick, how totally fucking awesome."
It's still pretty awesome.
At least they don't eat much. :haha:
Actually, not at all because they're not used. No ink leakage. :D
:lol2:
When I first saw your little hide-away there, I thought "A Zippo lighter body w/a tiny magnifying glass instead of a wick, how totally fucking awesome."
It's still pretty awesome.
I thought it was rather neat also. I thought it was tobacco. Hmm...beginner to wonder if it could be something else. Haven't seen other stuffs up close and personal so I really don't know. :p:
I thought this was an interesting looking papaya tree.
I thought it was tobacco.
'baccy ain't green, honey.
'baccy ain't green, honey.
:lol2:
I took this pic at my local park. Nice to know the money that we had to vote whether to spend, was well spent on these signs. [/sarcasm]
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A lift kit and big tires for Grand Cherokee One.
Provided by Nature.
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I took this pic at my local park. Nice to know the money that we had to vote whether to spend, was well spent on these signs. [/sarcasm]
It's no wonder Americans are obese. They couldn't walk the hundred yards?
The ironic thing would be if they were going to the park to exercise.
Yeah, my Dad just stopped in to mention that somebody drove around the gate between me and the game lands. So they bow hunt to get one with nature and catch some exercise but drive up a maintenance access road / private driveway and park on a food plot to avoid a 1/4 mile walk in the woods? Fucking lazy Vermonters.
Maybe they feel their vehicle is safer further from the road. No excuse for being dicks, though, I'm just trying to get into their heads.
Coming home from the river, I spied this doe (and five others who weren't interested in having their picture taken). She stopped long enough for this hurried, driving/moving shot. Wondering what she was looking at behind her, I kept watching when she took off again, and a little forkhorn buck came trotting along behind them, neck stretched out, mouth open.
I think he was still rutting. He was definitely still carrying his headgear.
Lots (and lots) of editing here. I mean lots.
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As bad as this pic is, it's tons better than the original.
I've got a fair number of crappy deer in the woods pictures. They blend in pretty well.
These are really non-quality.
On Friday, I went for a walk at lunch time because it was sunny out. I found myself in front of the White House. Across the street from the White House is the Blair House, where visiting heads of state stay.
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On Friday, the leader of Italy was there in that white building. The Italian flag was flying over the doorway. He was about to go somewhere, and his motorcade was waiting outside for him. So I stood around and waited for a couple minutes to see him come out. Just then a black Ferrari pulled up and joined the motorcade.
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I guess when you are the leader of Italy, you fly a Ferrari over to take part in your motorcade. Sweet. I had a little momentary fantasy of machine guns that would pop up out of the hood, and a smoke screen nozzle in the back. Total James Bond kind of thing.
Why do we only have Cadillacs and Black SUVs? Why not a Corvette or two?
As many great dead race drivers could tell you, Ferrari offers no protection.;)
Left the house the other day, got to the end of my street, and saw this:
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I called Popdigr, and when he answered, I asked "Are you feeling alright?"
Those are buzzards, ya see.
:D
One less dove in the world...
...equals one fat black cat that is one dove less hungry.
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So that's what it sounds like ...
...
...
... when doves cry.
Just Old Man River, from the back of the bar last night. My place is north a couple hundred feet (to the left in the pics.)
Note the bird feeders strung between the trees. There are always a bunch of finches and such.
I didn't see Oscar (the blue heron) or Snow White (the egret) last night.
that's a nice watering hole
Yes, the Great Miami River. I love it. Though my favorite river in these parts is Stillwater.
March was the anniversary of the devastating flood of 1913. My 'brary had a wonderful display of maps and pictures...it was endless. The Miami Conservacy District was established in 1914 and they built dams and levies.
Wiki say:
The Great Miami River (also called the Miami River) (Shawnee: Msimiyamithiipi [2]) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 160 miles (260 km) long,[3] in southwestern Ohio in the United States. The Great Miami flows through Dayton, Piqua, Troy, Hamilton, and Sidney.
The river is named for the Miami, an Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in the region during the early days of European settlement.
The region surrounding the Great Miami River is known as the Miami Valley. This term is used in the upper portions of the valley as a moniker for the economic-cultural region centered primarily on the Greater Dayton area. The lower portions of the Miami Valley fall under Cincinnati's economic and cultural influences and no not identify with the term in the same way.
This stuff fascinates me, of course. Bodies of water and old buildings enchant me. I think I have an old soul.
Snapped a few weeks ago after chasing a sunset.
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I like that. Especially the house porch and windows.
My own personal Rocky the Thieving Squirrel.
Right behind him/her is receiver hitch cover that says "Shoot To Grill". It's fixin' to happen, if I catch him chewing on mah house. He had been trying to get to six hickory nuts in a ziplock bag, inside that box on my carport.
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bang!
fucking bush tailed rats.
Momdigr would cry for a week. She makes little kissing sounds to our squirrels, and tosses them cookies. They won't come to her, yet. They have stopped running away, though. And it is funny to watch a squirrel chase down a rolling cookie.
BTW - Apparently, squirrels LOVE strawberry fig newtons. And strawberries. And every variety of tomato we have on the place.
Poison cookies. Bwahahahahaha.
yeah.
except when they go somewhere only a squirrel can get to to die and stink up the place.
For 37+ years, I have (literally) walked past this tree without noticing this...
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The neighbor had cleared some brush, and the sun was just at the right angle.
Terry Bozzio's kit:
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Snapped on my most recent photo safari:
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From the Eagles-Bears game ...
That's a wiiiiiiiide lens.
Actually that was taken on my new fancy schmancy I-Phone 5s. My first smartypants phone.
The addiction had begun. Once I found the panoramic & video settings ... it was complete.
I didn't get much sleep last night. The worms were drag racing on the patio all night.
And the slugs, they were doing doughnuts.:mad:
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You should have made a salt maze for them.
The risk of getting a shelter dog of questionable pedigree is you might get a slut.
I thought she was a stripper.
Then I saw the sign.
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The sign doesn't mean she's not. ;)
I don't know what he saw, but, it must have been amazing.
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Should say 'used' cat food.
How does it poop?
Good question. Wikipedia doesn't say.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatDog
Snapped at the crick, by yours truly. The man too dumb to roll down his window down to keep from shooting through scratched up, nasty-assed, 20 year-old window tint...:smack:
These might have been nice pics. But, they're shit.
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Oh my. Now we can test them to find out what in hell they're crying about when the answer to, "What's wrong?" is "Nothing".
I have to wonder if the tears are from the same person.
Only the onion tears should have a different make-up, they may be affected/effected (?) from the vapor/fumes of the onion. Seems to me the others, grief, change, and laughing would be the same. Made of the same stuff. Comes from the same place.
Change?
Tears of ending and beginning, evidently she very emotional.
I have to wonder if the tears are from the same person.
Only the onion tears should have a different make-up, they may be affected/effected (?) from the vapor/fumes of the onion. Seems to me the others, grief, change, and laughing would be the same. Made of the same stuff. Comes from the same place.
Yes same person, her
story is here.
Additionally, because the structures seen under the microscope are largely crystallized salt, the circumstances under which the tear dries can lead to radically dissimilar shapes and formations, so two psychic tears with the exact same chemical makeup can look very different up close. “There are so many variables—there’s the chemistry, the viscosity, the setting, the evaporation rate and the settings of the microscope,” Fisher says.
I'm beginning to have problems with her methodology (if that's the right word).
Still fairly fascinating.
You want something to cry about, I'll give you something to cry about...
I am reminded of happy and sad water. Or ice or whatever.
This picture was posted with the caption, "Random shot from the highway in Colorado".
That's it? Ho hum, random shot?
Unless that's some sort of advertising gimmick, how many miles... make that how many years, do you think you'd have to drive around Colorado to happen upon this shot?
...how many years, do you think you'd have to drive around Colorado to happen upon this shot?
If someone wants to finance me, I'd be willing to spend the rest of my life finding out.:yesnod:
ETA: Ƒantastic image, btw.
I am a little curious about that apparent hole in his head...
Yes, that's what made me wonder if it's a billboard for a ski resort or some tourist attraction? Along with the blasé random shot shit.
This is a subtle reminder of people suck. A small sign saying keep off the camel should be sufficient... just for people who weren't sure. But they had to add a second notice for parents who think restrictions shouldn't apply to their sweet spawn.
"Sure it says keep off but they surely couldn't object to me taking a picture of my sweetums on the camel, it would look so cute on facebook, and I'd tweet it for my worshipers, uh, followers, and email it to grandma, and post one on the fridge, and..."
I guess it's one of those cases where one wouldn't cause any harm, but, ten thousand and you gotta start taking the camel down to Earl Scheib's.
They would make more money if they built a durable camel that visitors could pose on. It's their right to have a "welcome, keep off" sign, but it kinda sends mixed signals for a tourist trap to do that.
I get a kick out of "this means you!" signs
She doesn't look impressed, maybe wishing she had a sandwich. :haha:
Liar!
That is totally a quality image.
Threw 30 bucks out the window (in the gas tank, actually), and took a short ride through the country...
Saw this, across the road from a small riding mower junkyard:
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That deserves to be painted. Not the house, a canvas. :haha:
A couple hours ago Momdigr sticks her head around the corner, and asks me am I feeling alright. When I asked her why, she said there's a buzzard in the back yard.
I immediately thought about my 19 yo cat, Slick. But, I also thought to grab my camera.
I get out back and there on a power pole, is a buzzard. I tripped over my cat (
alive) stepping off the patio.
Then, while editing and resizing the photo of Buzz...
...I saved over the original image.:eek:
Took me an hour to get it back.:mad2:
Anywho, Cellar, meet Buzz:
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75-100 feet away, ~50 feet up, full telephoto, handheld, no image stabilization
ETA: Spoke too soon. Taint no buzzard. Methinks it's an
American Black Vulture.
I thought buzzard was a blanket term, covering all those evil looking, baby snatching, night stalkers.
Encyclopedia Britannica says...
buzzard, any of several birds of prey of the genus Buteo and, in North America, various New World vultures (family Cathartidae), especially the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura). Similarly, in Australia a large hawk of the genus Hamirostra is called a black-breasted buzzard. In North America, Buteo species are called buteos, buzzard hawks, or simply hawks.
but they're probably out of touch too. :haha:
Anyway, nice picture. Considering the equipment and circumstances, a damn nice picture indeed.
buzzard, any of several birds of prey
Thar's your key phrase, right thar. "Birds of prey"...
Vultures (for the most part) do not "prey", they scavenge.
Or, so I've read. YMMV
I think you're right, that makes sense. I was pretty sure my definition was a lazy bird bunching, and surprised EB almost agreed.
But there's always one. :haha:
I had that as a blacklight poster when I was an early teen.
It was right beside the blacklight poster of the mouse flipping off the eagle, as he was about to become lunch, right above the definition of defiance.
This one:
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Snapped a few days ago...
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That's too bad. I bet it was a good house with that second floor walk out porch.
Yeah, the porch was removed some years ago, for the gingerbread, I would imagine. It was fairly ornate.
When we were kids we would party in that old house sometimes. Take the girls there for, uh, y'know...:doit:
Here is proof positive your government feels your pain, understands your desperation, and will make sure you don't die skinny.
Skinny corpses are [strike]of no value[/strike] are disposal logistics problem. :angel:
Ladies and gentlemen of The Cellar, I present to you The Coolest Man on the Planet[SIZE="1"]®[/SIZE]:
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He doesn't give a shit what anyone else thinks of him, and that's the first step in being cool.
He's like Honey Badger.
Honey Badger don't give a shit.
I love Scooter Guy.
He doesn't give a shit what anyone else thinks of him, and that's the first step in being cool.
I'd say that's pretty much the definition of cool.
Or aspergers. One of the two :p
From a storm back in the spring. That was a pretty nice truck...
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My goodness, doesn't that chair look comfortable. :rolleyes:
Looks just like the stuff my father worked with, although I suspect his chair wasn't as comfortable.
A Motel 6 from 1975 called...
...wants it's chair back.
I can remember Momdigr reading Little Golden Books to me while we waited for clothes to wash at the laundromat.
She insists I was three.
That's because she doesn't want to embarrass you about sitting around the Laundromat naked, while your clothes washed, when you were 13. :stickpoke :haha:
hahahahahaaaaaahaahahaha!
Big Sarge got fired from his new job at the zoo. They found him naked, passed out drunk in the reptile exhibit again.
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One was snapped on a Jeep ride, the other was taken on a scooter ride...
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That pic of the old house is really nice... deserves a matt and frame.
I would LOVE to walk around that house. How awesome that is. Just looking at it makes me imagine how it was built
Threw 30 bucks out the window (in the gas tank, actually), and took a short ride through the country...
Saw this, across the road from a small riding mower junkyard:
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Fawn Knudsen your parents are calling you home......:cool:
JR
I would LOVE to walk around that house. How awesome that is. Just looking at it makes me imagine how it was built
Classic:
Here's a crop from the full pic.
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I really liked how each log was fitted individually, to its neighbor log. Even the foundation stone on the corner is fitted to the log.
I'm gonna see if I can find the house again (it's waaaay out in BFE), find its owner, and secure Popdigr permission to metal detect around the place. No telling what's there.
There's another house from around the same period, with very similar building technique near this place.
I really liked how each log was fitted individually, to its neighbor log.
The person who made this house knew what they were doing. Those notches are only on the undersides of the logs, not on the top and bottom like Lincoln Logs would have you believe it was done. By notching them on the underside and sloping off the corners on the top, the joint will shed rainwater. It's a brilliant design that was probably learned by trial and error over generations.
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You could save those logs with 50/50 mix of turpentine and linseed oil. That structure looks sound with a little sagging on the second floor.
You could save those logs with 50/50 mix of turpentine and linseed oil. ...
My cabin burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.
May Edna St. Vincent Millay pls forgive me
I was helping out picking up trash in a local stream with my Boy Scout Troop today. I won the "most unusual thing found" award. An old pocket watch, with a bullet hole through it.
It looks as tho it's an Ingersoll Equinox Pocket Watch
The link below has a similar one ("in good working order") @ $45
http://martin_bradford.tripod.com/watches/pw015.jpg
But it's not nearly as interesting as one with a bullet hole that came out of a river!
This is what it once looked like and you can get information on how to date it
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Yeah. There's no serial number anywhere. But I bet it's from somewhere around 1930 to 1960. And was shot more recently than that.
It's like a Rorschach test. Everyone has their own story. Mine involves someone being frustrated with a broken cheap watch and setting it in the crotch of a tree for target practice.
But a few people think it was in a pocket when it was shot. We'll never know.
You can market it on eBay as a zombie pocket watch. Someone will buy it.
I carried this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years...
:lol2:
I'd forgotten Walken's part in "Pulp Fiction".
I found a penny.
Penny.
Penny.
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Those Brits were junkies before it was cool. :haha:
That jogged a memory Bruce.
When I was a kid my grandmother used to 'swear by' Dr J Collis Browne's 'Chlorodyne'. It had a fearsome odour that could cause you to lose the power of speech at a distance of several feet.
I have a vague recollection of its withdrawal from sale as the ingredients were no longer considered safe. Judge for yourselves:
Dr. John Collis Browne’s Chlorodyne was marketed as a cure for coughs, colds, asthma, migraines and bronchitis, as well as for the treatment of cholera symptoms. One of the more famous patent medicines, it was a mixture of laudanum (an alcoholic solution of opium), cannabis tincture and chloroform and was a huge hit, inspiring a series of imitators to churn out their own versions of Chlorodyne. Many of the knock-offs replaced laudanum with morphine hydrochloride and soon Chlorodyne dependence was a big problem. Over the years, the tincture of cannabis was removed from the formulation and the morphine content gradually lowered. While these days Chlorodyne is confined to the history books, in the UK you can still buy Dr J. Collis Browne’s Mixture, a cure for coughs and upset stomachs, which contains morphine and peppermint oil.
Fearsome stuff.
10 Old-Timey Medicines That Got People High
Want some morphine in your cough syrup?The purpose of patent medicines (and most prescriptions), is not to cure but to make the patient feel better.
So following that creed, I'd say they were successful. :rollanim:
Edit: I printed the article at your link to see if my Aunt (born 1920) remembers any.
it was a mixture of laudanum (an alcoholic solution of opium), cannabis tincture and chloroform and was a huge hit
:lol2:...I bet it
was a huge hit!...:lol2:
:lol2:...I bet it was a huge hit!...:lol2:
Well, Grandma certainly seemed more at ease with the world after a couple of spoonfuls.
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Popdigr came in with this the other night:
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At first, with the dark whisky coloring, I didn't know if you were supposed to pour it in ya or daub it on ya, but, after popping the top, one whiff gave me the answer.
The stuff smells so bad it'd knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.
$13 for a bottle of camphor.
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The Welch have no sense of humor, outraged at
travel ads.
I suppose they can not ride all day for free.
sourpusses.
Let's see if this works or if I failed to notice a "minimum posts before allowed to add images" rule somewhere...
You should see a fella in a suit and hat. The pictures high on the wall are athletes, because one year not too long ago for Christmas I got to go see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (who have played for like THREE in-office presidents) in a high school drama auditorium with, seriously, like 140 seats. I got third row farthest to my left--fabulous view, but no pix until after the show. Unless you REALLY hate swing/jazz, spend the money to see these guys--they were at like 18 years with the original six dudes, and they are the best.
Just about everyone everywhere hates something about where they live. For me, it's that I'm fairly scared of fire and pretty badly allergic to smoke.
This is a sunset. Behind a mountain. I shot this from the parking lot of my apartment. The big black crap in the foreground is the roof of another building, and if you look REALLY hard you might see vague hints of mountain slopes just above it.
One of our local kestrels from a while back. Don't know how much longer we'll have our delightful little falcons for neighbors, because aquifer drainage for human use is killing all the big cottonwood trees they like to nest in; 6 have been cut down near me in the last few years because they like to nail moving cars to roadways with downer branches (there went all the big trees upside our county fairgrounds!).
Hope the bird shows up this time...
Nice pic ... and it's interesting that you got the moon to move over
and stand behind the bird while you took the pic.
And for the record: I take pretty pictures and have some downright extraordinary ones, but I know zero about actual techniques or equipment.
My camera is a Canon PowerShot A720 IS with 6x physical zoom (up to 24x digital but boy howdy quality sucks at that limit). I use two settings, the shutter speed for most things and the very nice macro for small things that won't run away. I borrowed one from a neighbor I like years ago and got my own as soon as I could afford it. It was a factory refurbish and I put 120,000-ish images (yay for OCD in small doses!) through it before it freaked out. I think the shutter's sticking open, but in a county with a population of 30K or so camera shops are few and far between. We tried ordering a set of fun polarizing lenses, which showed up 1/2" bigger around than the entire lens assembly and with no means of attachment even though I used the camera details as my search string, so I don't put any fancy lenses on my little Canon. They're tough, though...I'm on my second one, the one I originally borrowed, and it's performing just like its predecessor.
I have shot the ghost town of Coolidge, a silver-mining outpost 9,000 feet or so up in the Pioneer Mountains, and I have shot sunset standing on Rockaway Beach, Oregon. When we drove to Billings to see Alice Cooper with Rob Zombie (rocked and sucked, in that order, tix said NO PHOTO so I left the camera in the truck and oh yes I was severely annoyed when the security dude with the bullhorn said still photos would be allowed but the line was already moving) I got a shot of a meadowlark on a fencepost in about 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I've shot bald eagles from my own balcony with the same camera at -15 F.
I'm religious about using my lanyard because my hands like to randomly just say "NOPE" and snap open, but that doesn't mean it's never fallen off anything (It has. A lot.) I broke a bone in my hand when the lanyard swung the camera back around on me once as I was slipping on ice, that was fun. I have a legend-worthy capacity for ridiculous injury. Didn't break the camera, just my hand.
I don't use processing software because I suck so badly at tech & software...just so badly. I use IrfanView to resize & gamma correct if needed and (seriously) Paint to crop. That's why I put my images here--I figured to be high-quality, the images would need to be much sharper and cleaner than they come off the camera, plus editing software might be difficult as my computer has a teeny brain because I keep all my images on an external that holds a terabyte. My image count, midway through a heavy archive edit to remove duplicate scenes (same bird, same buildings, only need so many poses) and focus fails and the like, is just over 143,000 as of today (more yay for manageable OCD!) but I still don't know how to use Photoshop or work with a RAW file.
On a (slightly) serious note, I have many, many photos of different types of minerals, everything from exotics at shows to rare jaspers "in the wild" and ranging in size from things that will fit on the nail of my ring-size-2-1/2-pinkie to entire mountainsides. Anyone needs pictures of stones is welcome to contact me to find out if my work will suffice. I don't take money. Photography is not a business to me--it's the creative outlet I took up when that snapping-open trick and the fact that both of my pinkies and ring fingers are largely numb for no evident reason combined to make sculpting tiny animals in polymer clays impossible after 19 years at it. I'm okay with barter and great with "pay it forward", but I do not want money.
The stone I hope shows is either slate or shale, tan with huge dendritic markings that are likely iron oxide or manganese oxide. The posted version is 25% of the full-sized image, resampled but not cropped. It's from about 40 miles west of Missoula, right upside I-90 near a town called Alberton where there are spectacular outcrops of this stuff in tan, greens, purples, and even a whole mountainside of reddish-pink.
Time for me to quit clogging up your servers and attempt to be a responsible adult about my day, which is set to include an hour of horseback physical therapy and then just enough time to shower off the horsehair before I go ask my doc why he stopped renewing my pain meds out of freaking nowhere...
Lamplighter, the birds around here know me pretty well. The kestrels and the robins were the first to decide that I'm not dangerous. Using that mild OCD and the fact that I've spent my whole life training my eyes to lock on motion that doesn't match the environment, I've spent the last couple of springs chasing invasive European starlings out of the ornamental tree in front of my window. This year I've been rewarded--the cedar waxwings figured out only one tree on the block had any fruit left, and I got to see them learn that I only chase starlings. American crows are illegal to directly harass, but they do not like the range-finding light on my camera and they don't like being watched intently. Studies show that they can recognize human faces even with disguises AND they can teach their offspring which specific monkeys to avoid. No crow has perched within half a block of my apartment to bark about its territory in like 3 years now, a miracle of no small order considering we have a 20+ foot tall streetlight right across the road. That kestrel, the female of the breeding pair, just casually watched me out in a grassy field as I circled the tree to PUT the moon behind her :D. I have multiple moon-and-bird shots, but the real challenge is the magpies because those <unladylike words here> have a sense of humor AND don't like cameras.
I see you have uploading attachments figured out. Awesome! And good to see you.
If you want the picture to appear within the body of the post, instead of way down at the bottom after all your excellent commentary, you go back up to the paperclip a second time and click on it until you see "Manage attachments" and then you click on the attachment you want to manage, and it goes wherever your cursor happens to be. Like this.
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It sounds complicated, but it's really easy.
And you can have up to four pictures within a post that way, and have commentary in between each one.
Edit: And I see in another post that you are "not a him" so I guess that dapper dude wasn't you.
And for the record: I take pretty pictures and have some downright extraordinary ones, but I know zero about actual techniques or equipment.
My camera is a Canon PowerShot A720 IS with 6x physical zoom (up to 24x digital but boy howdy quality sucks at that limit). --snip
Like this one?
:D
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Tree fire from a lightning strike.
Wow. I'd expect flames and smoke if there are hot coals like that and unburned wood present.
Not if there's no oxygen between the coals and unburned wood.
They make a bunch of different poppy themed wreaths and things too.
BigV Indeedy! Exactly, precisely, 100% like that one (though your photo looks slightly vertically stretched when I hold mine up to the screen next to the pic). If I can't get another one when this one dies, I may cry a LOT.
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As might be implied if you recognized my shirt from the first pic, one of the earliest revelations about me is that OMG I AM SUCH A HUGE GODZILLA FAN. When I met my biker neighbor almost 7 years ago, he vaguely remembered loving old monster movies he'd watched long before the skull fractures and other injuries mangled his detail memory. I spend a lot of time functioning as a volunteer care provider for him, and now we watch tons of kaiju movies...so many, so often, that when his cerebral palsy required him to swap out his Dyna Street Bob for a trike, he wanted a custom plate. With all of Montana having a population less than Pugetropolis alone, he had no trouble getting the one he wanted. [ATTACH]51866[/ATTACH] For those who don't zone out on Toho flicks, that particular MechaGodzilla (figurine) is nicknamed 'Kiryu' in the two movies it's in, and the IMDb trivia page says the nickname means 'mechanical dragon'. We're not gonna try attaching the figurine to the trike, but it would be SUPER AWESOME to find a local airbrush artist who could put the glowing sparkle-yellow eyes and red racing stripes on Kiryu's face on the trunk lid of the trike...
Since the edit function is giving me fits now, I want to add that the bolt visible near the bat is only 1/4 inch wide--this is probably a "little brown" bat from the genus Myotis, one of the more common bats and incredibly dinky.
glatt, sorry I didn't notice this part quicker, but you're entirely correct. That dapper dude in a suit is the lead singer of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, one of maybe a dozen musicians/groups I will still pay to go see. 2 decades together, all 6 original members still there, have played for 3 in-office Presidents of this country...not who you expect in a 140-seat high school auditorium, but WOW WHAT A SHOW.
Could this be Digr's car?
It might have been....if I were 40 years older.
Cool car, cooler cargo.
So yesterday I hear the freshly-fledged baby robins outside, and there's a shrill panicky sound I'm not used to from them. I go to check and a couple of little <explosion of unladylike words here> boys are chasing one of the babies around the building trying to catch it!
Oh hell no you will NOT!
So I snarled at them about the Migratory Bird Protection Act and how you don't have to be an adult to get in HUGE trouble with the Feds for harassing native wildlife, made sure they had scarpered off to whoever was supposedly responsible for them, and went to check on the bird that had been cowering in the far corner under the bottom step of the staircase that leads to my door. I found the bird in the front yard, thankfully undamaged. The birds in my neighborhood definitely know me by sight, and robins tend to be among the bravest when it comes to me and my camera.
This little guy actually hopped about two feet toward me before I got this picture, then went about foraging in the yard as if nothing had happened. Finding out that a wild baby bird is sure I will not harm it has helped a surprising amount with how I feel about losing all my access to physical therapy :(.
Lovely plumage.
So I snarled at them about the Migratory Bird Protection Act...
Do robins migrate?
How far can they carry a two pound coconut?
These bottles of SLURM had me puzzled.
Labels in English, price in dollars, but electronic price tags and
a cap that certainly wouldn't fly in the US/CN. It's in Singapore.
I wouldn't do this. :unsure:
So, I took some pictures...
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At last, plans for the perfect house...
The wedding cake of Princess Elizabeth. Just think what it would look like if she were already Queen. :yelgreedy
10 + 7 + 3 does not equal 18. WTF is that, Gypsy math or something?
The too young to work aren't counted in the total.
Or two aren't human.
Human is a synonym for "adult male."
Which, before you say it, probably is only sexist in translation. We still say things like "mankind."
Sidecar, and orphan sidecar...
A sidecar that looks like a car, and, a car that looks like a sidecar.
Kink-y.
You've seen the Oscar Myer Weiner car, and the Zippo Lighter car, and head people laugh at Americans for the silliness. Well Europe here's some of yours.:p:
Then after the left jab, the right hook... POW.
:lol2:
That is not "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka".
:lol2:
Well, for Utah it is. :blush:
The Firestone supplied race tires at Indy this year, list all the previous winners on their tires, on the sidewall.
Looks like recess is over...
Pokey and Beaty round up the three-year-olds...
Recent snap:
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Waves of amber grain. :thumb:
Early French Fooseball machine, with 4 ashtrays.
To be French, that's a lot of balls.
Chebbies...
I've always like the fastback-looking 48 Chebbolet.
Looks like it's going fast when it's sitting still.
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Should prove very popular with Fish & Chip shop owners the length and breadth of the land.
I see what you did there.
This was on my porch rail a few minutes ago:
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The aliens have landed.:3_eyes:
Grav, what is that? A red mosquito?
That thing was the size of the fucking Hindenburg!!!
Not a skeeter. Some type of child stealing fly. Srsly, GINORMOUS fly, of some type.
Easily an inch-and-a-half high, long, and wide.:bolt:
If only I'd had a saddle and a lariat. And some rodeo clowns.
A non-quality doe from a recent photo safari:
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It would make a nice desktop image if it was a better pic. Bad light, full telephoto (24x), I think, hand held, too. Bad pic before I ever pressed the button.
And a tiny, little non-quality rainbow, ending in a pot o' gold(en sweet corn):
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♪ ♫Rain makes corn♪ ♫
♪ ♫Corn makes whiskey♪ ♫
:jig:
But, m'trees are even more purple.
I got purple trees, people!
Same safari (I think):
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Lastly, here's my three-legged squrl, Three-Leg, (non-quality crop):
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Three-Leg is at least five years old.
When I see a critter like three leg, I don't know if I should feel sorry for him or be amazed at his adaptability. I'm pretty sure he doesn't feel sorry for himself.
I got a picture of Bobtail, too. Finally. I'll post it somewhere, sometime. Bob's a little older. He was there when my buddy moved in to The Shack. That was eight years ago, almost.
Some barn art from a photo safari:
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Ya can still see the red and white "God Bless", but the blue "America" is almost completely faded away.
On a flatbridge waaaaay out in BFE:
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Yeah, no. I don't get it.
Thank again 'Toad, for increasing the max attachment file size.
Wonder if it's some tagger's nickname?
I thought someone was paying their respects to Castro at first glance.
Car wash.
Gonna wash away those troubles, make a clean breast of it. Well maybe just a touch of body paint, but that's all, no waxing. :blush:
Yep. Went to Hogeye the other day.
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Is that squirrel eating cigarette butts?
No, that'd be silly.
He just put one out.
First the Wall Street Bull now this poor guy...
His finger and his package are both being fondle the most.
Ladies equivalent of a spittoon...
See what sun and fresh air do for you....
I'm not sure that's a person.
I think it's a tree.
Women have always been handy to have around...
From a recent safari:
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When I was a kid, I had dreams for several years, where these things came to life, and were walking across the landscape. No idea where they were going.
Invasion of the tower cats... cool. :thumb:
Nah, we don't have to tie that baby down, it ain't goin' nowhere.
From a recent safari:
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When I was a kid, I had dreams for several years, where these things came to life, and were walking across the landscape. No idea where they were going.
Trollhunter. Watch it, relive your childhood.
Pusey patent application...
Someone sent me these for my birthday.
I said, thank you, but you realize I won't be seen in public wearing them.
She said, why not?
I said because I don't want to scare the children. Kids are afraid of clowns now.
Went over her head because... She said, they're plumbers not clowns
I said, thanks again. :rolleyes:
When my old man said he would fix my wagon I don't think this is what he had in mind. :headshake
This is the first gas station in the US that was designed and built to sell gas. It was in Pittsburgh, PA, which was home to Gulf Oil and near the PA oil fields in Titusville where Drake struck oil.
I assumed Gulf oil was named after all the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. They started in PA and named themselves after the Gulf??
It probably was named for the Gulf of Mexico be cause it started with a refinery in Texas, but headquarters was in Pittsburgh because the Mellon Family/Bank was in Pittsburgh. As always, follow the money.;)
I think the word is entrepreneur... or maybe conman...
It'll work till the pen barrel melts.
I knew people who built bongs that way in college
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Plastic, lots and lots of plastic... at an island belonging to Honduras.
On the upside, the day probably can't get worse...
Apparently, crumple zones have gotten smaller and firmer over the years.
In hard times ya do what ya gotta do.
I image searched that and wasted 2 hours.
This is where that picture took me.
https://9gag.com/I avoid 9gag, gave me a virus one time.
Thanks I'll remember that.
I suspect he's a Brit. :yesnod:
That teapot looks both short, and stout.
Unless the collector dies and his kids don't know the value of the items and/or don't want to work to find somebody who will pay top dollar. They end up in a thrift shop and somebody buys them for fun to use.
Two companies in Europe produce this wall mounted radiator called Heatwave.
Sure. Get that heat up as high as ya can, away from the peoples.:eyebrow:
Purty, though.
They coulda purtied the valve handle some.
It's called a *flower* cause it's on a stem.
pfft.
This outfit in Belgium was the first to import VWs to a country outside Germany.
Who else thought that van said "Midget Porn" ?
That's cool. Kinda steam punk or something. What kind of engine does it have? Is that a Model T under there with a bus top?
Nope, engine from a beetle.
There's a whole story here with a lot of characters involved. A scooter rider, a concrete contractor, a contractor's customer, possibly some medical professionals, police, witnesses, parents, lawyers, reporters, teachers, peers, and a pet.
There's a whole story here with a lot of characters involved. A scooter rider, a concrete contractor, a contractor's customer, possibly some medical professionals, police, witnesses, parents, lawyers, reporters, teachers, peers, and a pet.
It requires a lot of effort to make a good impression.
"In other news, a local boy was scooter-jacked by a wild boar this afternoon..."
Two Welsh blacksmiths become millionaires overnight..
On the Indian sub-continent, spare wheels are still known as 'Stepneys', the original company having ceased trading after WW1.
Q. Living and working in Saudi Arabia for 12 years brought me in contact with many different nationalities. One day I was out with one of my Indian colleagues when we had a puncture and he immediately asked if we had a Stepney. Having never heard of the term I finally deduced it to be the spare wheel. It’s a term not used in the UK. Any comments?
A. This odd-sounding term for what we in Britain call a spare wheel or Americans a spare tire is known in some countries of the former British empire and colonies, including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Malta.
World Wide Words
I note that the top ad is dated 1907 and that the firm also traded from Berlin.
I wonder how long that arrangement lasted?
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History.This is what happens when you have a bunch of pinstripers partying at SEMA.
Presumably the outboard motor is an optional extra?
Get the radio controlled electric trolling motor so you can run it back and forth along the shoreline for the outdoor funeral.
Or over a tall waterfall.
Tracks of the Jersey Devil.
Pay no attention to the dead workers, look Devil tracks!
In the interest of full disclosure, I watched their AHL affiliate beat the hated Americans 1-0 in OT Saturday night.
Tracks of the Jersey Devil.
I used to work the night shift and saw many odd animals run over on the way home. A lady who fed any cat who was hungry and so had a collection of kittens at any given time. Many fine people would stop and pick a kitten for their child or spouse.
My old cat Bigfoot was getting seedy so I stopped by for 2 kittens and it worked because he started eating again and looked good. I picked an orange one that looked like it never ate and a gray one that it's left eye was clawed by a cat and stuck out from infection. Yup I have always been a sucker for a poor animal.
Upon leaving her house was a mountain lion run over. I went back and got her and we walked down to look at it. This is before phones had cameras. She called the paper for them to come and look at it, but somebody picked the cat up and was gone. The lady said her kittens were disappearing. Now we knew where they were going.
The government says in the paper frequently that there are no big cats here. I beg to differ.
When Hugo hit Charleston in 89 all the cats escaped when trees fell on the fences. Leopards, Panthers, Lions, Tigers, Cougars. Where did they go?
Africa be big, damn big...
Man Africa is a big country .
I didn't know all those places were in Africa.
Oh, they've been changing the maps for years. You gotta keep up, man!
