The Longest Thread Ever!

[BadNick]

misty mate might make moisturizing manageable

[Jetée]

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]

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

[Jetée]

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

[Zooksport2]

[BadNick]

[Ourcrazymodern?]

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

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[BadNick]

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



---------- 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

[Jetée]

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)

Alicia Ann Witten

[BadNick]

Taking aim, in preparation for Valentine's Day


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[Jetée]

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]

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


(TinEye told me this woman's name is most likely Elle Liberachi.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

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

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Jetée

...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:

[Ourcrazymodern?]

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

[Jetée]

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:

YouTube - Scale Modeling in Metal 1/16 size P51 Mustang & Corsair

YouTube - Scale Modeling in Metal 1/16 size P51 Mustang & Corsair

[BadNick]

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

[Jetée]

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]

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

[BadNick]

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

[Ourcrazymodern?]

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

(24/3)/8=1

[BadNick]

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

YouTube - Stevie Wonder - Maybe Your Baby

YouTube - Stevie Wonder - Maybe Your Baby

[Jetée]

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



and enjoy...

[BadNick]

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?]

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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]

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

[Zooksport2]

[Jetée]

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

[Jetée]

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]

[BadNick]

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]

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]

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

[Ourcrazymodern?]

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

(2x4)-3=9-4

(-122)

[Jetée]

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

+ BONUS


Scott Ackerman
A Sad Cowboy
on wood
20" x 37"

[Zooksport2]

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

[jewels]

Originally Posted by BadNick

maybe

YouTube - Stevie Wonder - Maybe Your Baby

Totally underplayed oldie. Let's dance.

YouTube - Dirty Dancing Stick Couple Take Two

YouTube - Dirty Dancing Stick Couple Take Two

[Ourcrazymodern?]

24x(3/9)=8

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

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by jewels

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?]

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