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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,503
    edited February 2013

    Misty Whisky said:
    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

    Maybe, but if you're in a hurry, drink a few of those and it won't matter quite so much. 8-o

    Edited to add the "won't" above. I must have had a few too many last night. 8-s

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

    Maybe, but if you're in a hurry, drink a few of those and it matter quite so much. 8-o


    beer mug is in the freezer working up a frost for later :)

    or i could put it outside to frost, is like 20F out there.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited December 1969

    carrie58 said:
    So has anybody heard from Lordvicore since his "experiment" ,I wonder if gravity has returned to normal for him .......course I wonder how much sympathy he got from the spouse ........."little teapot'?????
    Yes... I recently have heard from me, but I'm really annoying so I tend to ignor me... actually I haven't talked to myself since friday because I got into an argument with me over the porkchop sauce in the keyboard... long story...
    Well, anyway the results of the first rounds of testing were inconclusive and resulted in a family of possums adopting me for a day... they found me laying in the snow and due to lack of clothing and fuzzy earmuffs, they mistook me for their long lost son larry,who was rather large and furless and had lost his tail in a logging accident... anyway after some apologies and a short scuffle over some breakfast waffles,we parted ways... oddly my wife was quite sympathetic and actually has been encouraging me to go visit the Possumans (a very common last name among possums and not at all related to James Possuman- the ambassador to Finland)... yeah, anyway... My wife really likes them I guess and thinks I need to spend more time with them... something about "getting some peace and quiet"... I don't get that though... it was quite noisy at the possum house... oh well...
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Valandar said:
    As for the Subway thing:

    1 ) Only about 1 in 3 were less than a foot long, and usually were 11.5 "

    2 ) They were measured AFTER having been put lengthwise in a bag and carried to the table - meaning the weight of the sandwich was entirely on one end, squishing it.


    3) If you are measuring your sub, you seriously need to get a life.
  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,982
    edited December 1969

    lordvicore said:
    carrie58 said:
    So has anybody heard from Lordvicore since his "experiment" ,I wonder if gravity has returned to normal for him .......course I wonder how much sympathy he got from the spouse ........."little teapot'?????
    Yes... I recently have heard from me, but I'm really annoying so I tend to ignor me... actually I haven't talked to myself since friday because I got into an argument with me over the porkchop sauce in the keyboard... long story...
    Well, anyway the results of the first rounds of testing were inconclusive and resulted in a family of possums adopting me for a day... they found me laying in the snow and due to lack of clothing and fuzzy earmuffs, they mistook me for their long lost son larry,who was rather large and furless and had lost his tail in a logging accident... anyway after some apologies and a short scuffle over some breakfast waffles,we parted ways... oddly my wife was quite sympathetic and actually has been encouraging me to go visit the Possumans (a very common last name among possums and not at all related to James Possuman- the ambassador to Finland)... yeah, anyway... My wife really likes them I guess and thinks I need to spend more time with them... something about "getting some peace and quiet"... I don't get that though... it was quite noisy at the possum house... oh well...


    ROTFLMAO and enjoying it tremendously !!!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036
    edited December 1969

    ...letsee,...

    --the "3#" tin of coffee is now 39 oz.
    --the "3#" box of laundry soap is now 42 oz.
    --the "2#" bag of frozen french fries is now between 24 - 28 oz.
    --the "footlong" hot doggie is actually something like 10".
    --the "midsized" sedan in the States today is as small or even smaller than the "economy" car of the 1960s
    --the "pint" of beer served at the local pub is something more like 12 - 14 oz (depending on the thickness of the bottom of the glass)
    --the 59¢ chocky bar is smaller then the old "nickel" one
    --the once 15¢ cup of "bottomless" coffee is now 2$ and allows only one refill.
    --bus fares have gone up from a quarter to two dollars fifty, while service and schedule frequency have been reduced.
    --the "dime" (local unlimited) pay phone call is now between 1.50$ - 2.00$ and good for only short amount of time before you have to chuck in more coins to keep talking.
    --the 50¢ "double bill (with cartoon) Saturday matinee" at the local cinema has given way to a single feature with ten to fifteen minutes of previews beforehand for 10 - 12$ (and no cartoon).


    ...yet they still cannot seem to find a way to "downsize" the work week for the same amount of pay.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...letsee,...

    --the "3#" tin of coffee is now 39 oz.
    --the "3#" box of laundry soap is now 42 oz.
    --the "2#" bag of frozen french fries is now between 24 - 28 oz.
    --the "footlong" hot doggie is actually something like 10".
    --the "midsized" sedan in the States today is as small or even smaller than the "economy" car of the 1960s
    --the "pint" of beer served at the local pub is something more like 12 - 14 oz (depending on the thickness of the bottom of the glass)
    --the 59¢ chocky bar is smaller then the old "nickel" one
    --the once 15¢ cup of "bottomless" coffee is now 2$ and allows only one refill.
    --bus fares have gone up from a quarter to two dollars fifty, while service and schedule frequency have been reduced.
    --the "dime" (local unlimited) pay phone call is now between 1.50$ - 2.00$ and good for only short amount of time before you have to chuck in more coins to keep talking.
    --the 50¢ "double bill (with cartoon) Saturday matinee" at the local cinema has given way to a single feature with ten to fifteen minutes of previews beforehand for 10 - 12$ (and no cartoon).


    ...yet they still cannot seem to find a way to "downsize" the work week for the same amount of pay.


    Reminded me of Firesign Theatre's devaluation of the dollar: "What was 5 is 2, what was 2 is 1, what was one is nothing..." Followed by: "...and it's free! Only a dollar."
  • BWSmanBWSman Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...letsee,...

    --the "3#" tin of coffee is now 39 oz.
    --the "3#" box of laundry soap is now 42 oz.
    --the "2#" bag of frozen french fries is now between 24 - 28 oz.
    --the "footlong" hot doggie is actually something like 10".
    --the "midsized" sedan in the States today is as small or even smaller than the "economy" car of the 1960s
    --the "pint" of beer served at the local pub is something more like 12 - 14 oz (depending on the thickness of the bottom of the glass)
    --the 59¢ chocky bar is smaller then the old "nickel" one
    --the once 15¢ cup of "bottomless" coffee is now 2$ and allows only one refill.
    --bus fares have gone up from a quarter to two dollars fifty, while service and schedule frequency have been reduced.
    --the "dime" (local unlimited) pay phone call is now between 1.50$ - 2.00$ and good for only short amount of time before you have to chuck in more coins to keep talking.
    --the 50¢ "double bill (with cartoon) Saturday matinee" at the local cinema has given way to a single feature with ten to fifteen minutes of previews beforehand for 10 - 12$ (and no cartoon).


    ...yet they still cannot seem to find a way to "downsize" the work week for the same amount of pay.


    You haven't been to a movie recently. Try 5 minutes of previews and 15-20 minutes of commercials.
    Yes; I pay $10-$12 to watch commercials on the big screen!!!
  • BWSmanBWSman Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

    Bryce has a material for foamy beer. :-)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036
    edited December 1969

    BWSman said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...letsee,...

    --the 50¢ "double bill (with cartoon) Saturday matinee" at the local cinema has given way to a single feature with ten to fifteen minutes of previews beforehand for 10 - 12$ (and no cartoon).


    ...yet they still cannot seem to find a way to "downsize" the work week for the same amount of pay.


    You haven't been to a movie recently. Try 5 minutes of previews and 15-20 minutes of commercials.
    Yes; I pay $10-$12 to watch commercials on the big screen!!!
    ...adverts? At the Cinema where you pay to get in? That's totally buggered.

    Haven't been to a mainstream cinema in quite some time. I usually wait for the "second run" wave to hit the local neighbourhood independent houses where admission is 3 - 4$ and I can get a pint of handcrafted ale and slice of pizza for about 6$ total instead of a large fructose laden soft drink (mostly full of ice) and tub of popcorn covered in some greasy substance which is supposed to pass for butter for 10$ or more.

    ...and all they show before the feature starts are maybe three to four previews.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited February 2013

    When I was a kid you had to walk uphill for 400 miles in the snow... barefoot and naked with wolves mauling you the whole way, just to pay 5¢ for a movie and a carton of Marlboros... sometimes they gave you cigars, but they wouldn't play the movie until you finished your smokes... popcorn was free and they gave you a whole stick of butter to eat with it... for those 5¢ you got a movie that was 12 hours long and about gladiators or cowboys and when it was over you felt like you accomplished something... back then they didn't charge you to leave the theater like they do now and you actually enjoyed the walk home, except the part where you had to fight the Kaiser's minions... it was especially hard because it was uphill and dark and you'd be naked and frostbitten... if you were rich, you could afford the 7¢ to walk home downhill and only have to run from the werewolves, but nobody had that kind of cash back then... and if you survived the trip home your parents would beat you with a rusty shovel because you forgot to milk the Manatee and now there would be no manatee milk for the cereal, which back then was made out of gravel and bamboo splinters... we didn't do any of this fancy cow milk and artisan pancake crap like the kids today... and you didn't read your emails while you had your coffee which was made out of soil and horse patties back then... you had to read because there was no internet back then either, so you had to read real books, but you had to wait till your brother was done using the eyeballs, because back then nobody could afford more then one set of eyes per household...
    I don't know maybe none of that really happened... I sort of feel like it did, but I don't actually remember it... I suppose I might just be trying understand where I developed my taste for Manatee milk... I don't know... life is weird, one minute you are drinking cases of beer and the next moment time shoots forward several days and you are hugging some strange manatee...
    What were we discussing?

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Manatee milk!? You were lucky! We had to get up at 2 am to milk the skunk, and then our Dad would beat us with a lead pipe until we went back to sleep. But if you try to tell today's kids that, they wouldn't believe you!

  • riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,405
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...letsee,...

    --the "footlong" hot doggie is actually something like 10".

    A few nights back on David Letterman they sent cameras into a shop that was advertising foot-long hot dogs. They got the owner to measure the dogs on camera, and they turned out to be only 8" long. The shop owner was shocked. He went outside and changed the sign to show the right size. The sign still implied the 8" wiener was still really huge, though.

  • riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,405
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

    Those are really nice pics. And I don't even like beer! :sick:

    I am, however, starting a batch of mead this evening. I'm trying out sage honey this time. It has a pleasant, mellow taste; I think it'll ferment well. I'll find out in a few months, when I get to taste it. Pennsic (http://pennsicwp.org/) will be fun this year, for sure. I will be starting some more batches during the next few weeks, but this is enough for one night.

  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,462
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...letsee,...

    --the "3#" tin of coffee is now 39 oz.
    --the "3#" box of laundry soap is now 42 oz.
    --the "2#" bag of frozen french fries is now between 24 - 28 oz.
    --the "footlong" hot doggie is actually something like 10".
    --the "midsized" sedan in the States today is as small or even smaller than the "economy" car of the 1960s
    --the "pint" of beer served at the local pub is something more like 12 - 14 oz (depending on the thickness of the bottom of the glass)
    --the 59¢ chocky bar is smaller then the old "nickel" one
    --the once 15¢ cup of "bottomless" coffee is now 2$ and allows only one refill.
    --bus fares have gone up from a quarter to two dollars fifty, while service and schedule frequency have been reduced.
    --the "dime" (local unlimited) pay phone call is now between 1.50$ - 2.00$ and good for only short amount of time before you have to chuck in more coins to keep talking.
    --the 50¢ "double bill (with cartoon) Saturday matinee" at the local cinema has given way to a single feature with ten to fifteen minutes of previews beforehand for 10 - 12$ (and no cartoon).


    ...yet they still cannot seem to find a way to "downsize" the work week for the same amount of pay.

    downsize the work week?? when for the past few years the slogan was "Do More with Less" in other words we will have our peons do twice the work with half the staff and no raises or bonuses because even though we showed a profit of 7 digits we just can't afford to pay folks and will have more layoffs next quarter..

    of course this year the Govt contracters in the area pushing for a 32 hour work week and unpaid time off for the workers.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    riftwitch said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

    Those are really nice pics. And I don't even like beer! :sick:

    I am, however, starting a batch of mead this evening. I'm trying out sage honey this time. It has a pleasant, mellow taste; I think it'll ferment well. I'll find out in a few months, when I get to taste it. Pennsic (http://pennsicwp.org/) will be fun this year, for sure. I will be starting some more batches during the next few weeks, but this is enough for one night.


    sounds heavenly. i bet it will taste better than the mead at the renn-faire. :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Rareth said:
    snippy
    of course this year the Govt contracters in the area pushing for a 32 hour work week and unpaid time off for the workers.


    that's been my life for the last 10 years, no medical bennies either. but it's a low stress job.

  • riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,405
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    riftwitch said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    are there shaders out there for this :wow: ?

    Those are really nice pics. And I don't even like beer! :sick:

    I am, however, starting a batch of mead this evening. I'm trying out sage honey this time. It has a pleasant, mellow taste; I think it'll ferment well. I'll find out in a few months, when I get to taste it. Pennsic (http://pennsicwp.org/) will be fun this year, for sure. I will be starting some more batches during the next few weeks, but this is enough for one night.


    sounds heavenly. i bet it will taste better than the mead at the renn-faire. :)

    I've had some decent mead from Mount Hope (the winery there sponsors a big Ren Faire east of Pittsburgh), but commercial meads typically can't hold a candle to the homemade stuff.

    I'm waiting for my must to cool so I can pitch the yeast, but the honey has some faint anise notes that are interesting. It should turn out well. Next up is going to be alfalfa, I think.

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