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  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    That is a leash so the lit'l beastie isn't pulling the scooter or are you sad for him because he is not up in the hills confusing the heck out of the sheep?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    kinda relieved no ketchup sale today.  finally ordered myself a new UPS. APC1500

    for some reason craving strawberry cupcakes this morning.  
    i should use up my chocolate baking supplies so i can restock fresh. plausible deniability.

     

    is there a subtle difference tween  shan't and won't?
    why is it won't and not willn't?
    won't, shan't wouldn't?

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    there are creatures inside the daleks?

    Yes.

     

    ick!  chuluthu?

    No, Dalek.  The animated washing machines with toilet plunger rayguns are just the personal transport vehicles in which the Daleks live. indecision  They're much more advanced versions of the PTVs (Personal Transport Vehicles) that ancient decrepit people like me rent at amusement parks like Universal Studios or Disney World. surprise  Actually I quite like our primitive versions.  They have beeping horns and sun shades and are easily parked in the conveniently placed parking areas near each attraction.  I make sure I bring my cane so I can hobble through the attraction lines.  And if I've paid extra for my ticket or play the sympathy card properly I can get a shortcut through the line.  Very nice!  Of course the cane also comes in handy for waving around menacingly in crowded areas and for intimidating little children attempting to run into me or step on my feet or just because I'm feeling grumpy. devil  For me, a couple of days at a good amusement park is much more enjoyable than co-mingling with thousands of fellow people of the ancient persuasion at sea on a floating hotel the size of Rhode Island, just waiting to get some disease from the contaminated airvents while bound for some remote foreign climate no better than Orlando.  (Too many other cane wielders.  Too much competition for sympathy! no)

     

    Poor pony! crying

     

     

    dawwww cute ponyshoes, buster browns?  tee hee

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    thinkin may use my next income tax refund to get lightwave

    Don't forget to crossgrade, should be a new version out *sooooon* they seem to do a crossgrade offer before a release ! 

     

    yes

    my tax refund usually comes february.  i have my w4 set to send extra tenner a week to my taxes, so hopefully is enough for crossgrade.
     

    Feb a big month for me, turn 53, 14 year anni at dayjob, 21 years in my current apt.  
    7 years to retirement.
    few extra database projies at work

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,222

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,660
    edited November 2016
    jestmart said:

    That is a leash so the lit'l beastie isn't pulling the scooter or are you sad for him because he is not up in the hills confusing the heck out of the sheep?

    Totally missed the leash.  (*blush*) blush And I guess I misidentified the equine too.   But apparently before the guy purchased the personal transport vehicle he was using that horse and its legs telescoped down a couple of feet, so still sorry for the horse. sad  But the sheep theory is pretty good too. yes

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,262
    Tjohn said:

    laugh  laugh  laugh  

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    fall foliage puttin on quite a show

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint - dress i bought turned out to be poser dynamic  http://www.daz3d.com/aurora-dress-for-v4-antonia-miki-3-and-cookie
    something that should mentioned in product dercription, would think.
    Compatible Software: DAZ Studio 4.9, Poser ??   really?

    grump - working tomorrow. on a Monday

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,222
    edited November 2016
    MistyMist said:

    is a lot of organ

    ...I've heard this instrument many many years ago back when it was maybe at about 60 -70% functional.  Still was quite a sound.

    It began life as the organ built for the 1904 Worlds Fair in St Louis by the Los Angeles Art Organ Company. At the time it had a "mere" 10,000 pipes but still was one of the largest and most expensive instruments in the world, in fact it's cost, 105,000$, bankrupted the builder.  It was bought by John Wanamaker in 1909, moved to his new emporium in Philadelphia and in 1911, made it's debut. In spite of it's immense size it had difficulty filing the huge atrium properly with music and thus underwent two expansions bringing its tonal resources to the present 28,500 pipes.  Today the instrument has over 725 stop tabs on 11 different divisions comprising 431 ranks with the lowest sounding stop in the pedal division being the 64' Gravissima (you would actually "feel" more than hear this). The lowest octave of notes however, are not actually produced by a pipe 64' in length but involves a technique called a "resultant" where a second set of pipes tuned one fifth above the primary note also sounds giving the acoustic illusion of being an octave lower). It is now on the historic register and valued in excess of 57$ million.  The entire instrument weighs in at 287 tonnes, about as much as 15 city transit buses (the console alone weighs 2.5 tonnes).

    However, there is one even larger not far away in the Atlantic City auditorium which is a most impressive instrument with 7 keyboards (a couple of which have a wider key compass than the standard 61 notes most organs have) 1,235 stop tabs (852 speaking stops), 449 ranks, and just over 33,000 pipes which is currently undergoing a restoration (see Figs 1., 1a., and 1b. below).  The original design was for over 43,000 pipes but cost and space restraints dictated  a more "modest" sized instrument. This organ is one of only two in the world with a true (full) 64' stop (64' Diaphone). Another remarkable stop is a pure trumpet toned pipe called an Opheclide which is on 100" of wind pressure producing 130 db at 1 meter distance, (if you stood in the same pipe chamber with it was said to have the earsplitting volume of six ofthe msot powerful locomotive whistles). Sadly the organ still in a sorry state of disrepair being only about 25 - 30% playable. Most of the damage was caused by a hurricane that hit Atlantic City in 1944, but years of plain old neglect and carelessness also took their toll (the 64' Diaphone and 16' Opheclide however are now playable). As I mentioned there is an active restoration movement underway to bring this monstrous muscial marvel to full life again.

     

    Fig. 1 and 1a Atlantic City Console

     

    Fig 1c. The 32' diapasons of the pedal division.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    only took an hour to iray render

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,604
    MistyMist said:

    complaint - dress i bought turned out to be poser dynamic  http://www.daz3d.com/aurora-dress-for-v4-antonia-miki-3-and-cookie
    something that should mentioned in product dercription, would think.
    Compatible Software: DAZ Studio 4.9, Poser ??   really?

    grump - working tomorrow. on a Monday

    Could you report it, please?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    MistyMist said:

    complaint - dress i bought turned out to be poser dynamic  http://www.daz3d.com/aurora-dress-for-v4-antonia-miki-3-and-cookie
    something that should mentioned in product dercription, would think.
    Compatible Software: DAZ Studio 4.9, Poser ??   really?

    grump - working tomorrow. on a Monday

    Could you report it, please?

     

    ja.  asked for a refund too.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    caffeeeeeine 

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. There is a stiff breeze off the bay stirring treetops and waving flags and blowing some feeble looking stormclouds around a bright blue sky, guess it might be cold without a sweater on today :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    watching andromeda episodes. there a purple lady with a tail

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,222
    edited November 2016

    ...that's Trance Gemini. She goes through a bit of a change as the series progresses.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,222

    ...just under 32 hours from now my morning inbox should finally drop to something much more manageable.  Can't wait.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,222

    ...ugh don't like it getting dark earlier now. 16:12 and sun has almost set for the day.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,222

    ...anyone hear anything from Serpent as of late?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ...that's Trance Gemini. She goes through a bit of a change as the series progresses.

     

    i hope she keeps her cuteness.  

    "hee hah,  hee hah"

    "i'm glad one of us is enjoying ..."

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. There is a stiff breeze off the bay stirring treetops and waving flags and blowing some feeble looking stormclouds around a bright blue sky, guess it might be cold without a sweater on today :)

     

    stiff? breeze should relax  

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,660
    edited November 2016
    MistyMist said:

    I remember in the mid-'50s when coffee was a dime (10 cents) per cup in a restaurant.  Hershey chocolate bars were a nickel (5 cents) as was a 6 ounce bottle of Coca-cola and you got a penny back when you returned the empty bottle.  A decent automobile could be bought new for under $2000.  A house for under $10,000 surprise

    However, considering inflation has increased by 8 to 10 times since the mid '50s that would make a car about $19,000 and a house about $90,000, coffee about a dollar, a Hershey bar about 50 cents, and a coke the same. enlightened

    I also remember at a wild in the fields early major '70s pop festival (The 2nd Atlanta Pop Festival) that a couple of semi truck loads of Coca-cola was unloaded in the field and piled up into a big pyramid.  Distribution of the six-packs of cans was handled by the entrepenurial method of charging $1.00 for a six-pack and letting the naked tripped out concert goers sell the six cans individually on their travels through the crowd at a quarter (25 cents) per can making 50 cents for each six pack they sold.  The more you could carry, the more you could make.  Since the temperatures were over 100F all three days, the Coca-cola pyramid didn't last long and the ambitious entrepeneurs made enough money to buy more drugs, mostly pot, LSD and speed.  A quarter for a can of warm coke is just about the right price when you're hot and high. cool

    At the time (1970), an ounce of half decent pot averaged about $15 to $20 and the pills were only a couple dollars apiece.  And I've just recounted about all I remember from the early '70s. devilblush

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  • Truth!

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,536
    Stryder87 said:

    Truth!

    You look like a squirrel with a tail like that.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...anyone hear anything from Serpent as of late?

    The new Ambient Online album hasn't got a track by him so I guess he isn't being active right now :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    thinkin may use my next income tax refund to get lightwave

    Don't forget to crossgrade, should be a new version out *sooooon* they seem to do a crossgrade offer before a release ! 

     

    yes

    my tax refund usually comes february.  i have my w4 set to send extra tenner a week to my taxes, so hopefully is enough for crossgrade.
     

    Feb a big month for me, turn 53, 14 year anni at dayjob, 21 years in my current apt.  
    7 years to retirement.
    few extra database projies at work

     

    That all sounds great to me, sometimes I have fourteen jobs in a year  ;)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    crispy leaves on the ground, i can hear the squirrels sneaking around before i see their bushy tails

    they haz an important job in the ecosystem, burying tree nuts, cleaning up the sidewalks, those nutz are there trip us

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