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Ourcrazymodern? 02-05-2011 08:31 AM

2=(4-3)+0+1

/vaguely related to 24295/:

I read my own palm,
find the tale not worth telling,
mourning in silence.

BadNick 02-05-2011 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2869918)
Are you trying to nudge us in the direction of Where in the World?
Does your daughter's name state begin with the letter C, as in control?

Jet, I'm not usually a nudger but I like your concept.

Clues, pick your favorite one: she lives in a state beginning with "W" and she can see Mt. Rainier and the Puget Sound from her house, the town she lives in begins with an "O" and a song referring to "...the gem of the ocean" mentions the name of the town, and there is an old battleship parked in Philadelphia harbour that has notoriety for being Admiral Dewey's flagship when he was flexing his muscles during the Spanish-American War in Manila harbour.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern? (Post 2870006)
I read my own palm,
find the tale not worth telling,
mourning in silence.

Don't feel so bad. A couple minutes ago I was reading my own face and it's not a happy story.

After walking down our driveway to pick up the newspapers this morning, I turned around and suddenly slipped on a couple inches of ice, and ended up hitting the ice, face first no less, plus my left knee! So now I'm reading the bloody bruises over my left eye and upper nose hoping I don't get a blackish eye. My knee is also quite swollen and bruised. What went through my dumb head as I was getting up was that I'm grateful for having a thick skull and a well attached meninges so I can take a heavy hit to the head without flinching much, harkening back to the days of boxing when a hit to my head just got me pissed off enough to fight back harder. I'm going out later to chop up and remove the ice.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-05-2011 10:22 AM

Sorry to hear that,
while remembering that pain
has many uses.

BadNick 02-05-2011 05:27 PM

Thanks. I hope I learned more from this than just "ice is slippery". I'm optimistic since I seem to have learned that fire is hot, and I don't usually put my hand into the flames. Plus, I noticed some sympathy from my wife and kids which was nice. The goddamn ice is gone. Bye ice.

Zooksport2 02-05-2011 10:26 PM

what the heck is wrong with my gun?

BadNick 02-06-2011 07:59 AM

Don't look down the barrel to check!!! ...unless you do it from the breech end.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-06-2011 10:30 AM

Strangely synchronous?
I asking if my thinking
is slipping some cogs:

Believing what was
heartfelt can suckle itself
into nothingness.

Jetée 02-06-2011 10:34 AM

Oklahoma City, Wyoming.

(that's why I don't try so hard anymore; no cares but me. That should be motivating enough for one'self, but it's left one... wanting.)

I'm reading again, tho.

Jetée 02-06-2011 10:37 AM

Separate thoughts.

(let's see if this works.)
Cantore surprised by thunder snow
{back-tracking, about a week, from BadNick's comments about thunder/lightning snow}

Jetée 02-06-2011 10:39 AM

Did the snow slide overreaction divert us all, or do we not care to mention it?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...8ifto1_500.jpg
Tim Houchin walks in the snow to work downtown, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Blizzard conditions struck the Tulsa area stranding motorists and
shutting down much of the city.
--(AP Photo/Tulsa World, Christopher Smith)

Ourcrazymodern? 02-06-2011 10:55 AM

(2-4)+3=1=1

Cantore surprised
while his slicker was flapping?
A novel event.

(2+4)/3=1+1

Jetée 02-06-2011 11:00 AM

You combined the "novel" - ideal.

(It's really difficult for me to just say one thing, a sentence; words, without more.)

Ourcrazymodern? 02-06-2011 11:21 AM

What more can be said,
without referrants besides
how one thinks about.

I mean, fewer words
can speak volumes like pictures
of pasttimes recalled.

Jetée 02-06-2011 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil (Post 2639505)

[Take 2]

BadNick 02-06-2011 12:56 PM

I chopped up and removed all the ice on my walkways and driveway today.

Ocm? and Jet, I'm sure we would have had a great time if you guys were here helping me with that. I'm a bit sore but invigorated.

BadNick 02-06-2011 08:46 PM

the game reminded me of The Longest Yard

Zooksport2 02-06-2011 11:35 PM

I wish we had 10 feet of snow.. these fires all around ne are getting me down....

Bushfire In Perth | Roleystone, Kelmscott Brigadoon, Herne Hill

BadNick 02-07-2011 06:32 AM

Nasty situation down there. Good luck, Zooks.

Jetée 02-07-2011 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick (Post 2870532)
Nasty situation down there. Good luck, Zooks.

Funny. I feel exactly the same way about the thread directly below us. :thumbsup:
This member has used up his monthly allotment for smilies.

BadNick 02-07-2011 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2870702)
Funny. I feel exactly the same way about the thread directly below us...

Forgive them and forget them?

How often at night where the heavens are bright
With the light of the glittering stars
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours

Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

Jetée 02-07-2011 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick (Post 2870730)
Home, home on the range

[* -]


(whoa! New page, man. Wasn't expecting it. Righteous. I should live my life that way, and rid myself of the negativity miasma, eh?)

Jetée 02-07-2011 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick (Post 2870331)
I chopped up and removed all the ice on my walkways and driveway today.

Ocm? and Jet, I'm sure we would have had a great time if you guys were here helping me with that. I'm a bit sore but invigorated.

I don't really feel your pain, but I'm sympathetic towards it. Are you feeling chiller - hup bad pun - better?

How'd you like that game last night? Nice, eh?
(I'm still sore that the Cardinals lost to those three stars and night players, but I'm sure no one wants to hear my gripes any ol' way.)

I was pretty sure you might have stated 'game' there; must have imagined it. I'm back, however.

Jetée 02-07-2011 05:55 PM

Existential question for the day: Are we all as hopeless and lost and trapped as they say we are? Can we not escape from our own condition?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...4fjqo1_400.gif

BadNick 02-07-2011 06:01 PM

I never saw The Messenger.

"The film currently holds a 90% 'Certified Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews" so that's a good sign.

Oren Moverman's debut film, "The Messenger," tells a war story in which not a single weapon is fired or bomb exploded.

---------- Post added at 09:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:57 PM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2870732)
I don't really feel your pain, but I'm sympathetic towards it. Are you feeling chiller - hup bad pun - better?

How'd you like that game last night? Nice, eh?
(I'm still sore that the Cardinals lost to those three stars and night players, but I'm sure no one wants to hear my gripes any ol' way.)

I was pretty sure you might have stated 'game' there; must have imagined it. I'm back, however.

I'm all better and the better for it, now more careful walking on ice.

I thought "the game" was quite good, even exciting. I didn't deeply care who won but I was sort of rooting for Green Bay so as the Steelers were coming back strong it was tense and if'y there for a while.

Jetée 02-07-2011 06:04 PM

And you kept me company - just in time.

Of the 50 or so films that I've added to my listing in the past several weeks...
The Listing   click to show 

... I consider The Messenger to be in my "Ten Best", if I had to make one (I'm really averse/adoring to making Lists) listing a specific ten. Actually, Most of the films I watch all the way through, I consider enjoyable. There's only a few that left me wanting / scratchin' the noggin' (Full Grown Men, Inception, Frozen). I probably shouldn't have watched that last one, but I did. Gruesome.

Jetée 02-07-2011 06:10 PM

Holey Cajole! (that's not how you pronounce this word, right?)

I've watched that many films in these past few months (since Oct.-Nov., I think...)?
Counting by twos, it seems it was around ~75 films in total. or 0.72 films per waking day.

Jetée 02-07-2011 06:15 PM

My eyes deceived me there (or did so: my page that never refreshes itself).
I thought you had evaded the automerging doublepost conundrum, in kind, BadNick.

*semi-related: to the above/previous M.C. Escher take on revolving stairs...


BadNick 02-07-2011 06:20 PM

I still haven't figured out the automerge work-around but I decided I don't think I'd use it even if I did. Though it's always nice to know how and why something works. I wonder why as I was half way through this reply, there was a sudden power outage. I looked outside and it was neighborhood-wide, and then it suddenly came back on as it always has ever since they wired this world.

Jetée 02-07-2011 06:30 PM

I don't like when that happens. It always feels like it's my fault.

I need to take myself off the (electrical) grid.
I've seen these advertisements for solar-powered placemat hubs, (in hiking magazines, maybe?) but I haven't had the initiative to 1) figure out how they work 2) if they are feasible to utilize within my lifestyle {where they might sell them, how much?} 3) see if they are not just a figment of my imagination.

BadNick 02-08-2011 06:51 AM

This lake has been sealed below Antarctic ice for the longest time! ...15 million years

Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake

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

By Alissa de Carbonnel
MOSCOW | Tue Feb 8, 2011 8:26am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.

"There's only a bit left to go," Alexei Turkeyev, chief of the Russian polar Vostok Station, told Reuters by satellite phone. His team has drilled for weeks in a race to reach the lake, 3,750 meters (12,000 ft) beneath the polar ice cap, before the end of the brief Antarctic summer.

It was here that the coldest temperature ever found on Earth -- minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit) -- was recorded.

With the rapid onset of winter, scientists will be forced to leave on the last flight out for this season, on Feb 6.

"It's minus 40 (Celsius) outside," Turkeyev said. "But whatever, we're working. We're feeling good. There's only 5 meters left until we get to the lake so it'll all be very soon."

Scientists suspect the lake's depths will reveal new life forms, show how the planet was before the ice age and how life evolved. It could offer a glimpse at what conditions for life exist in the similar extremes of Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa.

"It's like exploring an alien planet where no one has been before. We don't know what we'll find," said Valery Lukin of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg, which oversees the expedition.

EXPLORATORY RUSH

A centenary since the first expeditions to the South Pole, the discovery of Antarctica's hidden network of subglacial lakes via satellite imagery in the late 1990s has sparked a new exploratory fervor among scientists the world over.

U.S. and British explorers are on the trail of Russia's scientists with missions to probe other buried lakes, some of the last unexplored reaches of the planet.

"It's an extreme environment but it is one that may be habitable. If it is, curiosity drives us to understand what's in it. How is it living? Is it flourishing?," said Martin Siegert, head of the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences, who is leading a British expedition to a smaller polar lake.

Experts say the ice sheet acts like a duvet, trapping in the Earth's geothermal heat and preventing the lakes from freezing.

Sediment from the lake could take scientists back millions of years to tropical prehistoric times, the AARI's Lukin said.

OASIS UNDER THE ICE

Lake Vostok, about the size of Lake Baikal in Siberia, is the largest, deepest and most isolated of Antarctica's 150 subglacial lakes. It is supersaturated with oxygen, resembling no other known environment on Earth.

"The Russians are leading the way with a torch," said John Priscu of Montana State University, a chief scientist with the U.S. program to explore another Antarctic lake.

Beneath the endless white landscape, Priscu suspects creatures may lurk, far from the sunlight, around thermal vents in the depths of Lake Vostok.

"I think Lake Vostok is an oasis under the ice sheet for life. It would be really wild to thoroughly sample... But until we learn how to get into the system cleanly that's an issue," he told Reuters.

The low-lying, snow-drift buildings and radio towers of Vostok Station sit above the eponymous lake. The borehole, pumped full of Kerosene and Freon to keep it from freezing shut, hangs poised over the pristine lake.

The explorers now face the question: How do we go where no one has gone before without spoiling it or bringing back some foreign virus?

"I feel very excited but once we do it there is no going back," Alexei Ekaikin, a scientist with the expedition said from Vostok Station. "Once you touch it, it will be touched forever."

(Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Ourcrazymodern? 02-08-2011 10:43 AM

Kerosene/Freon?
Never meaning to spoil it,
no longer pristine.

+ + +

Pretending a need
where desire by itself is
exaggerates both.

BadNick 02-08-2011 11:02 AM

rightly focusing your astute observations on a possible chilling outcome

I do recall that kerosene does not taste good.

Jetée 02-08-2011 03:03 PM

It's a damn, dirty shame we pass for four hours, untouched.


Touche me, by The... (insert band name here).

ring 02-08-2011 03:57 PM


Ourcrazymodern? 02-08-2011 05:24 PM

((2+4)/3)+3=5

"Be just & fear not"
said the sign outside the church.
Little did she know...

BadNick 02-08-2011 08:38 PM

Court bans man with low IQ from having sex - Telegraph :shakehead:

Jetée 02-08-2011 09:04 PM

http://24.media.tumblr.com/RltaTuZG4...14uPo1_500.jpg
Moon Madness by Andrew Wyeth

Zooksport2 02-08-2011 11:38 PM

I hate summer....

I want some snow! Dammit!

http://www.organicsforall.org/blog/m...snow-bunny.jpg

BadNick 02-09-2011 06:38 AM

I hate snow....

I want some summer! Dammit!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ed-snowman.jpg

Ourcrazymodern? 02-09-2011 08:24 AM

All down the drain, huh?
& in spite of the fact that
he picked a good nose.

24340...

BadNick 02-09-2011 01:23 PM

In spite of evolution, it seems in this world even having the best parts doesn't guarantee survival. But snowmen are a winter perennials so I bet he'll be back next year.

Zooksport2 02-09-2011 02:03 PM

that pic made me chuckle, Nick

Jetée 02-09-2011 04:11 PM

Correlation: this used to be my avatar, one time long ago, at a blog-hub I still would like to be a member of: for it has a purpose (or 43).

http://i51.tinypic.com/28bxkp1.jpg

Jetée 02-09-2011 04:13 PM

Sorry I've been so delayed. At least I got my one-time favoritest childhood number pairings: seven-&-eleven

(we played steal the bacon in the gymnasium with orange cones, chalkboard erasers, a row of kids on two sides, and dead sprints, as well as some extraordinary chases at times. I was usually #7 or #11 on most days - the correlation.)

Jetée 02-09-2011 04:16 PM

Back-tracking: that blog bit, I shut down my account there after I realized I don't think normally, nor can I jot down what happens to me on a daily basis. I'm very goal-oriented, but that's only when I can actually name a goal to be strived for...

this was one of my only posts:
Quote:

To Every Thing(or 43) There is a Time — 11(+ some seasons, too) months ago

I see time as something to be cherished, not coveted. The moment you lose hope is the moment you admit that tomorrow means nothing. If you can somehow find a way to hang on to the edge of tomorrow, only then can you realize there someone else is on the other side waiting to embrace you. So in this sense, time is no longer the enemy, but merely the guiding force in what we call LIFE.
... after I gave myself the query to write down the first thing you can think of, and spend exactly five minutes composing it. I probably went over.

BadNick 02-09-2011 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zooksport2 (Post 2871239)
that pic made me chuckle, Nick

I'm glad it did, plus you got the emordnilap!

Jetée 02-09-2011 08:44 PM

I've been waiting to say good-bye for the longest time.

I wonder what's the winding etymologist's history of the catch-all-be-all phrase: good-bye?

BadNick 02-09-2011 08:56 PM

Hi Jet. What's so good about good-bye? I've wondered that for the longest time. So while you're waiting and I'm wondering, who's watching the baby?

Jetée 02-09-2011 09:01 PM

Baby new year, I presume? (correlations)


Here's a cursory glance (and paste) of our combined ponderance to the where, how & why: in which we bid good-byes.

Zooksport2 02-09-2011 10:46 PM


BadNick 02-10-2011 07:26 AM

I'm heading into a staff meeting in a few minutes, which tend to be longest, long-winded, and leaving me longing for The Longest Thread Ever. So long.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-10-2011 10:29 AM

Staff meeting's okay
as long as it's productive,
but often it's not.

re: "so long farewell" - such a well-behaved brood kinda gives me the creeps.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-10-2011 03:58 PM

(24/3)-5=3

(Maybe enough hours
have passed so this won't double;
if not, what the hell?)

Hey, ZookSport2! Is Australia's Dingo Fence the longest one ever?

BadNick 02-10-2011 05:43 PM

I never knew about the Dingo Fence but it sure seems to be the longest fence in the world!

I don't know what's worse, being overrun by rabbits, or dingos, kangaroos, or camels?

While the dingo fence was built to protect sheep, "...It has also been suggested that the larger kangaroo populations inside the fence have been caused by the lack of dingo predation, and competition for food leads to lower sheep stocking rates than would be possible without the fence...Today, the rate at which feral camel are smashing down sections of the fence are fast increasing in Southern Australia. Plans for restructuring the Dog fence to be taller and electric are under process..."

Strange, interesting place you got there, Zooks. I would like to check it out soon.

Jetée 02-10-2011 05:48 PM

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/...b6dc4e36_m.jpg
(Feral) Camel X-ing

BadNick 02-10-2011 06:01 PM

I suggest trying to eat them all. Perhaps if one were to interest Ronald McDonald in serving camel burgers, soon they would be seriously depleted.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../camel2my3.jpg
Chef Christian Falco of Perpignan, France, roasting a 1200 lbs. camel in Rabat, Morocco.
Chef Falco alludes to the ancient practice of the Moroccan kings throwing a feast of spit-roasted camel for their subjects.

Jetée 02-10-2011 06:59 PM

I bide my time too often.

(thinking you may have thought I had forgotten)

Legend has it that one day the gods ordered (or maybe the 1st Chinese Emperor; also: Amitabha!) that animals be designated as the signs of each year with the twelve who arrived first selected. At that time, the cat and mouse were good friends and neighbors. When they heard of this news, the cat said to mouse: 'We should arrive early to sign up, but I usually get up late.' The mouse then promised to awaken his friend and to go together. However, on the morning when he got up, he was too excited to recall his promise, and went directly to the gathering place. On the way, the mouse encountered the tiger, ox, horse, and other animals that ran much faster. In order not to fall behind them, he thought up a good idea. He made the straightforward ox carry him on condition that he sang for the ox. The ox and mouse arrived first. The ox was happy thinking that he would be the first sign of the years, but the mouse had already slid in front, and became the first lucky animal of the Chinese zodiac. Meanwhile his neighbor the cat was too late; when it finally arrived, the selections were over. That's why other animals appear behind the little mouse and why the cat hates mice so much that every time they meet, the cat will chase and kill the mouse.

Zooksport2 02-11-2011 12:25 AM

You want hot, come over Nov - March
Cooler: May to August

East coast, cooler than the West coast, on average
West coast, where all the cooler peeps live... like me f'rinstance...

I can probably lend ya my spare car: you have to fill the tank, but.http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...ium/384627.jpg

right now: hot... damn hot.

BadNick 02-11-2011 08:51 AM

That's very hospitable of you, Zooks.

We actually have some developing excellent potential business in Australia which could justify (or demand) my adventure there. I'll put out some feelers for a ~June'ish visit. Our two reps are in QLD but it seems some of the customers (mining, minerals) are over on the Perth side closer to you.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-12-2011 08:50 AM

The cooler peeps live
where they must withstand the heat:
So cold climates mean?

2 into 4x3=6+0

BadNick 02-12-2011 09:38 AM

misty mate might make moisturizing manageable

Jetée 02-12-2011 12:02 PM

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb...9b8ro1_500.jpg
Charles B. Tripp the armless man and Eli Bowen the legless man. Both
men traveled with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circuses.

(c) 1890-ish


-- (to note: I was ruminating on an idea about featuring the Twin Cities. Doesn't make sense initally, does it?)

BadNick 02-12-2011 07:00 PM

I wasn't sure where to post this so here it is:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2..._76597_std.jpg

Jetée 02-12-2011 10:48 PM

A life-sized cybernetic-Predator action figure alongside a fairly well-known Korean fashion model? How could you possibly know?!

Zooksport2 02-13-2011 03:33 AM

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/pr...dknocker_L.jpg

BadNick 02-13-2011 08:07 AM

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...-on-dikdik.jpg

Ourcrazymodern? 02-13-2011 02:10 PM

At one oh seven
something tasty went running.
It's what's for dinner.

24367

BadNick 02-13-2011 05:58 PM

Did any of you ever try to play a squeezebox accordion with your butt stuck in a washing machine?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...x9Iso1_500.jpg

---------- Post added at 08:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:30 PM ----------

Julie B. seems to be a willing learner. I don't know about Mr. Breakfast :no:


http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...7/boileggs.jpg

Jetée 02-13-2011 06:44 PM

The above/previous is going to right into my "instrument gals" gallery.
Thanks. (tho it is a bit weird, even with/-out a context.)

e.g. (I know it's not Wed. or Fri. bear with me on the exemplaries)
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...2eywo1_500.jpg
Alicia Ann Witten

BadNick 02-13-2011 08:58 PM

Taking aim, in preparation for Valentine's Day

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ndol-cupid.jpg
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Jayme Syfu, Philippines Chief Creative Officer
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Jetée 02-13-2011 09:22 PM

Hey. You have reminded me how much I suck.

Don't feel bad though. I only 2 hands and 24 hours to go on. (there's still a glitch in my revised calendar proceedings.)

The thing to which I am referring to is my "Art on Copy" aim (or... the 'creative advertising' thread). It's been on a holding pattern since I think, October. Nobody likes my collections much, it seems (or they're to busying making PA to bother). Not focusing on the negative, though, I'm just not very good at starting threads. Mine always need that obligatory preface [OP] to lay the scene & foundation. Hm. Maybe for the sake of my sanity I'll get a spare 30 minutes to think one up in before the next 3 days.

Wish me luck. (and what would you prefer to see first: a commercial, a print-ad, or if I'm extremely lucky, the Expositionary PBS-Doc from which the titling stems?)

Jetée 02-14-2011 12:37 AM

Another recent find (3 min. ago) for my "girls and guitars" topic:

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf...2eywo1_500.jpg
(TinEye told me this woman's name is most likely Elle Liberachi.)

Ourcrazymodern? 02-14-2011 08:30 AM

Good luck to us all
as the universe has it
if we can take it.

BadNick 02-14-2011 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2872638)
...this woman's name is most likely Elle Liberachi.)

Even though I love those colorful maracas, I noticed she has legs.


On another note, I bet Young C. Park worked the longest time on this model of a Corsair airplane: Model Makers—Young C. Park Here are a few selected photos of his extraordinary work:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkShop.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkAC32.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkAC25.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkAC24.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkAC18.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkAC16.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/ParkAC15.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/Corsair4.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/corsair3.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arkClamps2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...kP51fLSide.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...f/Corsair5.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...uff/YPark2.jpg

Ourcrazymodern? 02-14-2011 12:06 PM

That's a long post, Nick.
Such attention to detail's
a wonderful thing.

Jetée 02-14-2011 01:03 PM

Fully-functional as well? I'm not even sure if you can classify the pet project as just an endeavor--it's an all-encompassing drive to create & thrive--in my own (verbal) estimation. Many thanks for sharing.

Models are miniatures, too, no? (hint, hint)

P.S.
Took some 30 seconds, and came back to post an accompaniment:

BadNick 02-14-2011 01:27 PM

This site has Dr. Park's work shown, as well as many other cool small projects: Model Makers

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Wingrove19.jpg

Jetée 02-14-2011 01:34 PM

I always wanted to take up the hobby of building model cars, but the only ones that were avialable to me at the time were the ones that came all plastered together as one piece of the whole, and then you would need to "punch out" all the individual parts to get started.

Should have sought out a specialty store (reality: not many eight-year-olds might know what that is; I: no exception.)

Zooksport2 02-14-2011 11:51 PM

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...kP51fLSide.jpg


Might struggle to take off with all those air gaps.....

BadNick 02-15-2011 08:50 AM

...probably not air gaps. I bet they're covered with a virtually invisible polymer film but only Bad people can see it.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-15-2011 11:35 AM

Maybe it's force fields
& the shimmering edges
play tricks with your eyes.

(24/3)/8=1

BadNick 02-15-2011 12:50 PM

maybe

Which reminded me of this tune I used to crank up real loud, that was BWK (before wife & kids) ..now my hearing loss somewhat mutes their complaints


Jetée 02-15-2011 05:28 PM

Just checking in... nothing really to say... have a ticket from my note-queue...

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq...5aw7o1_500.jpg

and enjoy...

BadNick 02-16-2011 06:23 AM

I'm not sure if this will be my longest post so far, or not. Seems like this gives us a new peek at peak oil concepts.


New drilling method opens vast oil fields in US(AP) – 6 days ago

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.

Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil executives and analysts say, the new fields could yield as much as 2 million barrels of oil a day — more than the entire Gulf of Mexico produces now.

This new drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 percent over the next five years. And within 10 years, it could help reduce oil imports by more than half, advancing a goal that has long eluded policymakers.

"That's a significant contribution to energy security," says Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Credit Suisse.

Oil engineers are applying what critics say is an environmentally questionable method developed in recent years to tap natural gas trapped in underground shale. They drill down and horizontally into the rock, then pump water, sand and chemicals into the hole to crack the shale and allow gas to flow up.

Because oil molecules are sticky and larger than gas molecules, engineers thought the process wouldn't work to squeeze oil out fast enough to make it economical. But drillers learned how to increase the number of cracks in the rock and use different chemicals to free up oil at low cost. "We've completely transformed the natural gas industry, and I wouldn't be surprised if we transform the oil business in the next few years too," says Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, which is using the technique.

Petroleum engineers first used the method in 2007 to unlock oil from a 25,000-square-mile formation under North Dakota and Montana known as the Bakken. Production there rose 50 percent in just the past year, to 458,000 barrels a day, according to Bentek Energy, an energy analysis firm.

It was first thought that the Bakken was unique. Then drillers tapped oil in a shale formation under South Texas called the Eagle Ford. Drilling permits in the region grew 11-fold last year.

Now newer fields are showing promise, including the Niobrara, which stretches under Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas; the Leonard, in New Mexico and Texas; and the Monterey, in California.

"It's only been fleshed out over the last 12 months just how consequential this can be," says Mark Papa, chief executive of EOG Resources, the company that first used horizontal drilling to tap shale oil. "And there will be several additional plays that will come about in the next 12 to 18 months. We're not done yet."

Environmentalists fear that fluids or wastewater from the process, called hydraulic fracturing, could pollute drinking water supplies. The Environmental Protection Agency is now studying its safety in shale drilling. The agency studied use of the process in shallower drilling operations in 2004 and found that it was safe.

In the Bakken formation, production is rising so fast there is no space in pipelines to bring the oil to market. Instead, it is being transported to refineries by rail and truck. Drilling companies have had to erect camps to house workers.

Unemployment in North Dakota has fallen to the lowest level in the nation, 3.8 percent — less than half the national rate of 9 percent. The influx of mostly male workers to the region has left local men lamenting a lack of women. Convenience stores are struggling to keep shelves stocked with food.

The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are each expected to ultimately produce 4 billion barrels of oil. That would make them the fifth- and sixth-biggest oil fields ever discovered in the United States. The top four are Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, Spraberry Trend in West Texas, the East Texas Oilfield and the Kuparuk Field in Alaska.

The fields are attracting billions of dollars of investment from foreign oil giants like Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Norway's Statoil, and also from the smaller U.S. drillers who developed the new techniques like Chesapeake, EOG Resources and Occidental Petroleum.

Last month China's state-owned oil company CNOOC agreed to pay Chesapeake $570 million for a one-third stake in a drilling project in the Niobrara. This followed a $1 billion deal in October between the two companies on a project in the Eagle Ford.

With oil prices high and natural-gas prices low, profit margins from producing oil from shale are much higher than for gas. Also, drilling for shale oil is not dependent on high oil prices. Papa says this oil is cheaper to tap than the oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico or in Canada's oil sands.

The country's shale oil resources aren't nearly as big as the country's shale gas resources. Drillers have unlocked decades' worth of natural gas, an abundance of supply that may keep prices low for years. U.S. shale oil on the other hand will only supply one to two percent of world consumption by 2015, not nearly enough to affect prices.

Still, a surge in production last year from the Bakken helped U.S. oil production grow for the second year in a row, after 23 years of decline. This during a year when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the nation's biggest oil-producing region, was halted after the BP oil spill.

U.S. oil production climbed steadily through most of the last century and reached a peak of 9.6 million barrels per day in 1970. The decline since was slowed by new production in Alaska in the 1980s and in the Gulf of Mexico more recently. But by 2008, production had fallen to 5 million barrels per day.

Within five years, analysts and executives predict, the newly unlocked fields are expected to produce 1 million to 2 million barrels of oil per day, enough to boost U.S. production 20 percent to 40 percent. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates production will grow a more modest 500,000 barrels per day.

By 2020, oil imports could be slashed by as much as 60 percent, according to Credit Suisse's Morse, who is counting on Gulf oil production to rise and on U.S. gasoline demand to fall.

At today's oil prices of roughly $90 per barrel, slashing imports that much would save the U.S. $175 billion a year. Last year, when oil averaged $78 per barrel, the U.S. sent $260 billion overseas for crude, accounting for nearly half the country's $500 billion trade deficit.

"We have redefined how to look for oil and gas," says Rehan Rashid, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. "The implications are major for the nation."

Associated Press writer James MacPherson contributed reporting from Stanley, N.D. Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Ourcrazymodern? 02-16-2011 08:50 AM

24385

Resources that need burning
to unleash their...um...resourcefulness
are very like new thoughtforms.

...weren't we supposed to be out of oil by now? It's unsettling to reflect on how much misinformation we all carry around as part of our mindsets. If only false factoids could be deleted as easily as entered.

Jetée 02-16-2011 01:06 PM

I am burning through my sanity like I can't even fathom.

Zooksport2 02-16-2011 01:36 PM

http://www.aftercheese.com/wp-conten...05/fathom1.jpg

Jetée 02-16-2011 01:48 PM

Never heard of the film... is the model likeness there based on Raquel Welch?

Jetée 02-16-2011 01:51 PM

Ah-ha-na-fo-ce-tu...

Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is an American skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team
when she's approached by Douglas Campbell (Ronald Fraser), a Scottish agent, who wants Fathom
to help find a triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons has gone missing in the Mediterranean.
It soon becomes clear, however, that there is more to the situation than meets the eye.



-- (to note: needs more plotpoints)

Jetée 02-16-2011 01:58 PM

then again...
 
http://i53.tinypic.com/24e6wlz.jpg

BadNick 02-16-2011 06:06 PM

Thanks, Jet.

See, when I look at her in that picture, I can tell that I'm totally violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics. I can feel it!

Jetée 02-16-2011 08:19 PM

Well, my somewhat remark-ed day's plans to update every segmentation of my "blog" has gone down in blazing (allegorical) flames.
I even wondered if I would've had time to update each of them, thrice-over. I really need to schedule my time allotted.

I barely got through four today. I'm not a very successful celebrator. I'm off.

BadNick 02-17-2011 07:28 AM

Talk about blazing flames ....LOOK OUT! HERE COMES A CORONAL MASS EJECTION!!!!

Sun releases X-flare: Powerful explosion may damage electrical grids on Earth | Mail Online

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...11_964x835.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...19_964x963.jpg

Ourcrazymodern? 02-17-2011 10:29 AM

Some mass ejections,
like accorded to Raquel,
are worth the effort.

(2x4)-3=9-4

(-122)

Jetée 02-17-2011 07:05 PM

The cowboy that got fired from his ranch job wasn't crazy, he was just deranged.

+ BONUS

http://i52.tinypic.com/a47hqu.jpg
Scott Ackerman
A Sad Cowboy
on wood
20" x 37"

Zooksport2 02-18-2011 12:19 AM

West australia is shown on that first pic, Nick, see us, under this f#cking sun spot?!

jewels 02-18-2011 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick (Post 2873167)

Totally underplayed oldie. Let's dance.


Ourcrazymodern? 02-18-2011 08:26 AM

24x(3/9)=8

Happy to see you!
You can see that we need help?
AND we give it back.

BadNick 02-18-2011 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jewels (Post 2874109)
Totally underplayed oldie. Let's dance...

Some would consider me overplayed. But I'm not worn out yet. Anybody wanna see me breakdancing, or my specialty, avant-garde freelance jazz ballet?

Ourcrazymodern? 02-18-2011 01:57 PM

Can you go en pointe?
The quality of your posts
suggests that you can.


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