I don't know the time anymore (because my watch batteries' energy ran out).

Additionally: I have no tiny screwdrivers.

//God's sense of humor
holds your appreciation
or could not exist//

2-3x-2+0=2

...when I go naked,
hardly sharing anything,
my appetite's yours.

Tales of the country... episode one:

Twas a dark, dark night, when I pulled over to the side of the road, to re-adjust the spotlights on the bullbar of the truck. Hitting that big 'roo had caused them to point downwards, and become ineffective..

I was windy. Very windy. As I climbed down from the cab, I shivered a little. Was I cold? I only had shorts and a light shirt on, other than my boots, and it was probably nearly 30 degrees C, so I didn't think so.

I stepped to the front of the truck, to inspected the bar for damage, shining the torch underneath to check for any remmnants of the unfortunate animal. I adjust the lights to my satisfaction.

I need to drain the main vein, so I step slightly to the side, out of the brightness of the lights, and unzip... Crikey it's windy! Dust is swirling around the truck and it's trailers.

I start to head along the side of the truck, to do a load and tyre check.... Out of the corner of my eye, I see a flash of movement... WTF?

The hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The goosebumps flush all over me..

Maybe I'll check the tyres later... I spin around and slowly race back to the drivers side door.

Back up into the cab, where I slam the door and stomp the gas.... Back up though the 15 speed, and the heart is settling back down, and all is good...

The clock on the dash says 3.30 am, and I still have 7 hours to go.



(this is a true story...)

True story
left me wondering
what happened.

...what happened?

sounds like Dennis Weaver was in this story

I can't relate (no relation).

- - -

Thanks for the recount, Zooks. It helps the days gel.

Son served Jello shots
at the fire Saturday night
but it was still fun.

(2x3)+2+0=8

Tell starbuck I say hey.

Jet, Nick's post was in reference to the film, 'Duel.'

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...uel_poster.jpg

Zooks..what happened next?

His recent mysterious,
outrageously emo & touching,
rumination's on facebook...

(I will, darlin')

On my facebook profile info under "religious views" I show: wholly

So far under "favorite quotations" I only have one: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

GODDAMNSIT, BadNick,
in that we can see our hearts
& love us truly.

(2-3)+2+1=2

my fb bio: June 30, 1949 was a warm day in Braunau, Austria....>>>>and here we are today.

I plan to add to it as needed.

We'd be better friends
with additional input:
It's not never true.

& then Zooksport2,
in completing the circle,
could tell us the rest.

(2+3-2)+1=4

I searched fb to "friend" you, in case we needed to do that, but all I got was something about a sandwich, 3 foods never to eat, and some TFP stuff. The sandwich was a triple decker! ...or a quadruple decker, depending on if you count the bread slices or the stuff between

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...%206/ocmfb.jpg

It's our crazy modern world
so flying right up in our faces
it's ugly to think about.

...but I think it's beautiful.

There is no more to that story, as such. I stopped at daybreak and did my check, and carried on home. Don't know what I saw. Most likely my imagination.. It was just a really wierd, spooky, windy night. Gave me the creeps, never experienced before, or since.

I'll add another adventure soon, about a wedge tailed eagle I caught.
.
http://places.rnr.id.au/Healesville/...lle3171060.jpg

I await your raptor rapture! ...probably a better adventure than if it caught you

Hmmmm....I'm confused...nothing new though.

Welcome to TFP, G~man.

Nice avatar.

Why Thank you....

OK, let's dance.

Hi G~man. I think I recall another one...wasn't James Cagney a G-man?

Easing in gently
can't imagine a tough guy
like Nancy Reagan.

(Enter my helicopter...)

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7...583xo1_500.jpg
(this is what I feel like, stemming from yesterday, to the brutal day I had just now)

A neighbor just said
that I'm only a low-life:
I'll think about that.

Just kidding;
I have a handle,
internal.

I'm starting to really draw my own ire for continuing, in vain here, to inspire hope, creativity and applause.


How does the new year shape up for you? It's days away now.

I'm getting my shofar ready! September starts the real New Year - Auburn Reporter

I had no idea. There's that coincidence monster of mine again (or it could be my hunger).
Excellent follow-up link BadNick. Commendations! (is a shofar a hat of sorts?)

And, after 3-4 months of putting it on the shelf, I think I'm going to work out and tinker again with my idea to have a uniform calendar consisting of 27 days and 12 months, yet I'm still tinkering with notion of +3 hours, plus dusk / dawn settings, as well as whether a leap year comes every 3 years, or every 30.

It's arduous work, trying to change the world turns.

:thumbsup:

you might try harder
to notice your relatives
or think about it.

this is for fun, boy,
expecting applause for angst
isn't creative.

i hope your said ire
gives you much more cause for pause
than you're letting on.

:love:

It might look sort of cool if worn as a hat, but it's intended to be a horn blown during some religious ceremonies (I know Jewish, not sure about others); the most common are made from a ram horn, here's one made from a Greater Kudu horn:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...hofarSound.jpg

If you're feeling kinda horney, check these out:




I'm gonna get one of these to support these fine folk craftspeople

Almost could believe
a city's walls tumble down
under that assault.

23/23=1

if not just the walls, I bet this could bring down all of humanity

Knowing what they want
can only insulate you
from providing it.

Loving who we are
has other connotations,
less unconstructive.

...well done on that number

tvtropes.org is my new wikipedia.

I go there looking for one thing, and end up staying there for hours, because I followed that one semi-relevant link.

trivial fact:

so far, my journey has consisted of (back-tracking):

7
6
5
4
3
2
1

It may not seem like much, but I've been on this site since the sun was shining, and now, there's only 12 states in the Union that can still state they have daylight.

I beg to differ.
The planet keeps rotating.
That's why I'm dizzy.

(2x3)=(2x3)=6

Test.

Okay, the new avatar won't load..time to go bug the staff.

seems Pete admires
your visualizing
& the skinny man

I had fun using that avatar on FB for a few days.

Great movie. You must see, Waking Ned Devine.

A.Word.A.Day --obambulate

+ bonus

what could this be?

fun makes even the longest day seem shorter

Oh, I forgot.

infinitely large or infinitely small pose similar conceptual problems for me

Stunts do some dulling
of their meanings & meaners
& I believe you.

(2x3)-2=4=4

Your dimple, and your dimple, oh, your goddamn dimples.

What a coincidence, PT! Facial cheek dimples, butt cheek dimples, or those cute dimples some women have on their lower backs right above their butts...I like those a lot.

Thank you for bumping this thread.

(something I've had in my notes for over a month)
http://9gag.com/photo/10950_540.jpg
Lucy Star (?)

poor Lucy :( she's just a K short of Lucky

Is there an anime series called Lucky Star?
It'd be very coincidental if there was. ;)

So anyways, I'm tootlin' along, sittin' on me 100, (km/hour) headin North, middle of the day. Only half a load of hay on, so tyre heat is not going to be an issue. Lots of roadkill layin' about, with crows and eagles getting their fill. A couple of dead cows here and there, but mostly roo's. The bar up front has hit many roos in its lifetime, along with a cow, a camel, and even an owl. I swear he hit ME! I was almost completely stopped, when "THUD", and this bleedin' owl slaps into the windscreen. Lights must have blinded it, poor thing. He flew away though, so that was nice...
Anyhow, back to the crows and eagles... Most of them fly off a ways when they hear a vehicle approach, but the eagles are slow, so you gotta give them a little lee-way. I'm on a long straight, and I see a big eagle atop a dead roo, right in the middle, and as I approach, he's not looking up, 'cause he's busy getting a belly full.
I ease up a little, and toot the air horn. He sits up and looks over his shoulder, and sees me bearing down on him. He starts to take flight, so I gets back on the gas. But hang on, the dummy has decided to fly north too, instead of veering off to the side.

I catch up pretty damn quick too, and although I don't want to hit him, I'm not too concerned if I do. I give a few more blasts of the horns, and start braking, hoping he will veer off, but the fellow just keeps on going straight.
He's about 4 feet off the ground, and I'm looking down on him, as his huge wings slowly flap up and down, as he tries to gain altitude. He must have a full load, cause he's not gaining height very quick. He dissapears out of view, below the windscreen, and it looks as though he just managed to get away....

I don't see feathers or anything in the mirrors, and don't have a great view out the left hand mirror, to see if he's off to the side, so I'm thinking all is cool, and get back into it...

Stay tuned for part II...

^looking forward to it!

//If part of our ground,
& mostly ephemeral,
constitutes problems,

I'd gladly bow out
but find it impossible,
I know you know why.

If you don't, I'm limited
in trying to communicate this:
We're really fucking needy

So loud, mean, & too vicious,
we can't span the gaps between ourselves
even when they're very small.//

(abs)

cool story Zookman. I await part ll with bated breath. Which might bring up the question, is it "bated" or "baited"? To which I defer to the Bard:

...Or
Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;...

or

Geoffrey Taylor, in his little poem Cruel, Clever Cat used the confusion over the word to good comic effect:

Sally, having swallowed cheese
Directs down holes the scented breeze
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

On another note, I figure the shortest route to Australia from here is boring right through the Earth. Of course, or "off course", if I am off by a mere 1 degree in my boring direction, though I'm sure they would be interesting, I would miss my groundbreakthrough by 138 miles.

Eager.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l82y7aeHPR1qb25dg.jpg

Without electrolytes,
so Gatorade would tell us,
we have to slow down.

(2x3)-(2x5)=-4

Here's aqiss for you AQiss = Instant Nano Hydration and Cell Armor technologies, providing instant, direct delivery of rehydration...


disclaimer: I have beloved family involved in this business

The sort of family I can't refuse, eh, Nick-o?

EDIT-Re-confirmed:
Ah, you were right Nick. There is an anime called Lucky Star.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...me.php?id=7222

Maybe not as much as a coincidence as it was a typo. Did you just guess?

Well so far I haven't gotten any free cases of the stuff, nor would I expect to. But I love my cousin.

(sighs from the nose)

I was supposed to disappear an hour ago. I don't like feeling this need to overachieve in order to assert my well-meaning aims, never have, and even moreso does it dishearten how definitively (I looked up the stats) others go to avoid my attempts at apperception and dialogue.

I'm a miasma-cloud wielding coin-counting bunny. They must hate me for it.
(I love speaking in hypotheticals and paranoia and melodramatics, don't I?)

http://i52.tinypic.com/2d14mlg.jpg
by James Elston

Yes and I had no idea there was a Lucky Star anime when I said that. But I did know there was no K in Lucy. So I chalk it up to just another lucky guess...which I think does have an element of coincidentalness to it.

I'm mellow-dramatic.

I can vouch for that,
though of course not in public,
except I just did.

2/3 + 2/6 = 1

Mathematics Zen.

you're inspiring

23 from 26 = 3

Is a sigh from the nose a 'snort', or does this sort of action even have a word?

I don't think so, Jet. A snort is sort of a bit more vulgar sound, and a bit harsh and with a tinge of rasp to it. A sigh ..well, it's a sigh. Although my search about "nasal sigh" did turn this up:

cyanocobalamin nasal
Generic Name: cyanocobalamin nasal (sigh ah no ko BALL ah min)
Brand Names: Nascobal

Otherwise, this being the longest thread and not the nasal sigh thread, I found out that Australia Hwy 1 is the longest national highway in the world. It circumnavigates the entire Australian continent at approximately 9000 miles in length, which is enough to make me let out a nasal sigh.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...traliaHwy1.png

I very much like your random tangential research, BadNick.

It's also quite cool (and confusing) as to how the same highway passes over a pass in the Pacific to link up to that smaller island below (I'm guessing: could that be Tanzania?).

Close, and I know what you mean, but it's Tasmania, home of the Tasmanian Devil.

A little over an hour ago I was watching a documentary on TV about hippos and they talked about the special communication sounds that hippos emit from their nostrils, including hippo nasal sighs...now there's another coincidental surprise! I didn't know that hippos are most closely related to whales...very closely, in fact. They used the analogy of humans are to apes as whales are to hippos. They said that hippos are the only animal on earth that can communicate both above and below water. But I don't know about that, since I recall seeing those alligators vibrating their throats to transmit sounds through the water and this also transmits sound through the air which, to me, seems like it effects other alligators nearby on land.

Hm, shifting to animals I see.

Ever since I started reading Moby Dick three years ago (I'm halfway done) I've been pondering what land mammal whales used to be - there has to be a reason pirates use the term 'you slimy seadog' and 'that scallywag of a sea-rat', so I just am assuming that a whale used to be an overgrown rodent who really liked to swim a lot, and then adapted to it.

Same with pigs, deers and I think, hippos as weel: they all evolved from rats of varying sizes and circumstances.

(ah, yes; is 'the devil' of Tasmana a rodent as well? I learned some very iteresting facts about this animal the other day - it is quite the glutton!)

Seems I've always thought
the Tasmanian Devil
is marsupial.

...could easily be wrong; I've tended to think hippos were related to horses...

You're right in the sense that if we go back far enough, all living things merge. For example, see that Pegasoferae ..ala Pegasus!... is in the horse family, while the Cetartiodactyla eventually led to the Hippo and Cetacea (whales), so if we step back to the Ferungulata they're from the same family.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../cladogram.jpg

While fancying that,
also freely admiring
your wild research skills.

As I've often said,
the higher & deeper piled,
the better we know.

"ferungulata" sounds like something I like to do with my tongue, maybe to Laura Siatheria

I have to agree;
did you post it on "naughty"?
//this thread's lead has slipped//

I slipped my lead along time ago.
Takes one to know one.

so I sez, "Can't you arrest me for something?"
She looked at me like I was fucking with her & sez, "No, not right now."

-2-3=2-7=-5

I forgot about the other term: the "sea cow", mighty manatee. They look very similar to Hippos, but had thought to lose the stumpy legs in favor of more able-bodied flappers and flubbers.

The mini-horse used to have fingers.

We know trees and other vegetation communicate via chemcial pathways, perhaps others, also. I wonder if my very large and old willow tree in back of my house is trying to tell me something. About half hour ago, a huge branch on one side broke and fell on my neighbor's garage, and some of the upper small branches on the hood of his car; it also pulled down some wires behind our houses. The electric company hasn't showed up yet but we still have power; if it's Big Bird who comes, I'll ask for his autograph. When it broke it sounded like a bunch of firecrackers going off and that's what I thought it was until I looked outside. The several branches that were snapping made loud, sharp sounds.

Happy Fathers day, all you blokes what are fathers....

Trees, always telling,
by being, all kinds of things,
like a father should.

Thanks, Zook. I'm a 3 timer.

I just realized Aussies do it on Sept. 6 or maybe it's the first Sunday in September. On you sofa, we do it 3rd Sunday of June.

...and then she used such
quite incredible timing
as if spilling milk.

(2x3)+2=8x1

Do tell.

In the other place,
and not on purpose, I'm sure,
but like gravity.

That reminds me to look for some gravity waves for the "waves" thread Jet made for me.

here's the big old willow tree next to my garage that broke off a branch last night. Made a big boom!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...reefall016.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...reefall018.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...reefall017.jpg

Was it too windy,
or did the branch just give way
under its own weight?

No wind at all. It was a quiet, peaceful night. Then suddenly, multiple loud crack sounds and a final boom. Maybe a gravity wave passed through the area.

Looks like some damage has been sustained....

No need to worry,
I'm betting on insurance
to cover it all...

I love you all.

ditto, Jet.

Yes, there's insurance. Not sure whose covers what yet. Mine is $1000 deductible, not sure what deductible my neighbor has. The adjusters are coming tomorrow. It was my tree, rooted on the corner of my property, but none of our cars where hit (2 parked too far away and my dearest car is in the shop getting some cosmetic touchups) and no damage to my property at all, other than some electrical wires pulled off my house but the electric company put those back up after they cut just enough of the fallen tree so they could get to their wires and get them back up. I wish I could claim the tree itself :( It appears that the general consensus is that the tree is seriously weakend with some addional rotted out large branches similar to the pic above, and the advice is to have it cut down. Sad for what is probably a 100 year old willow tree :( Maybe when the tree surgeon shows up he'll say something else about saving it.

My neighbor's garage roof took a bit of damage. Plus his car (a Mercedes SL600 so above average $) sustained some superficial damage, a few mars on hood and roof; IMO correctable by PDR ...paintless dent removal, but I suspect he'll probably get the front end and roof repainted.

To clean up the fallen branches and debris, and to remove the rest of the tree if it comes to that, will probably cost well over $2000, maybe even $3k. We talked about it and we'll probably split any out-of-pocket expenses.

Nice to have neighbors
who deal with things equably,
isn't it BadNick?

Yes, it sure is nice to have nice neighbors. Their son just left this weekend to start college ...at an Ivy League school, no less. So they just told us that they are preparing to put their house up for sale and move to a smaller place. I hope whoever buys the house is at least reasonable, since it would be hard to be as nice as this neighbor family has been ever since they moved in.

Good luck with the new neighours, Nick

Thanks, Amaras. But until it happens, who knows? Plans change.

I just got a book I ordered today and based on a quick perusal, I think I'm going to like it. It's "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, and in the last sentence of the Acknowledgments, they are recognizing the help from Mr. Hawking's assistants and write "Moreover, they always knew where to find the best pubs."

Knowledge important
to sustain drinking buddies
& some social ties.

23-29=-6

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...waysmaller.jpg

The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory.

The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen.

An amazing interactive virtual tour is available here: krpano.com - Armazones and Paranal

Scrolling back & forth
across that stellar picture
is vertiginous.

"Oh no! His battery fell out!"

Ditto.

I used to walk home past a battery factory. The people sitting outside
on break were covered with black residue of I know not what.

Uplifting image, Nick.