Topic: Re: Photos are pretty cool - B (Read 287506 times)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #3450 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 06:00 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 13 Jan 2011, 23:21

I have the same t-shirt.

We all have the same t-shirt.

I want that t-shirt

redglasscurls · « **Reply #3451 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 06:10 »

Oh right, the one wearing tweed, got it.

Patrick · « **Reply #3452 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 06:34 »

Manda, that's kinda like when I was meeting my bud for the first time in two years and him saying "I'll be wearing a black trenchcoat and slacks" and we met in the middle of goddamn Rosslyn Metro on a weeknight at 7pm. Needless to say, he found me first (Crip blue skinny jeans, black Converse with orange laces, and my SF Giants hat really stand out a lot more, and they constitute a typical outfit for me anyway).

Aaaaaaaand I just realized I dress like a jackass.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3453 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 06:43 »

To be fair, I don't normally wear tweed, just for special occaisions, and the Tweed Run is an oh so special occaision, with free gin.

The ladies who own the two Ordinarys in shot won the Knutsford great race this year and I'm hoping to snare one of them onto the pedalcar racing team I'm on.

mberan42 · « **Reply #3454 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 14:26 »

Quote from: sean on 12 Jan 2011, 22:33

matt dude you should have waited till november what gives dogg?

My license expired on my 30th birthday (4 December 2010). I legally couldn't wait until 11/11/11, so I did the next best thing.

doombilly · « **Reply #3455 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 15:19 »

oh where o where is my olde "Mental Health Technician" badge from 1988?

allison · « **Reply #3456 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 17:48 »

DogTown and rad people!

Trivial Pursuit!

LOKO!

Best friends!

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3457 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 18:00 »

Goin' to a tropical themed party. In the absence of any 'tropical' themed clothing I am wearing this. And shorts!

HEAPS TROPICAL

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #3458 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 20:01 »

alright so i don't understand is 4loko illegal now or not?

Tom · « **Reply #3459 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 20:03 »

Ally, your costume is completely topical. Beer/boreish T-shirts + shorts are the Australian uniform of choice when touring the tropics.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #3460 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 20:06 »

also, guys, it's 2011

(those 2011 glasses were surprisingly hard to make with drunken hands!)

not my pic so excuse the instagram!

Drill King · « **Reply #3461 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 21:25 »

Jumping on this ID bandwagon,

My passport one is pretty good, but really I am sad that I lost two of them because I have had some amazing transitions. I have been either drunk or hung over for all of my ID's except the first one, oops.

Papersatan · « **Reply #3462 on:** 14 Jan 2011, 21:50 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 14 Jan 2011, 20:01

alright so i don't understand is 4loko illegal now or not?

4loko with caffeine is illegal, I just bought some before it was.

IrrationalPie · « **Reply #3463 on:** 15 Jan 2011, 07:33 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 14 Jan 2011, 18:00

Goin' to a tropical themed party. In the absence of any 'tropical' themed clothing I am wearing this. And shorts!

HEAPS TROPICAL

You could have just worn a lei. In fact, you could have gone in snow pants and still looked tropical.

pwhodges · « **Reply #3464 on:** 15 Jan 2011, 11:13 »

Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 13 Jan 2011, 01:49

Always better to go for hardened lag.

When we entered Nepal from India a couple of years ago, we had to fill in visa forms on the way in. They had a space for a passport photo, but as you don't happen to carry them everyone was ignoring that, and being let in without. When my wife had gone through, they stopped me, and insisted I provide a photo, pointing at a booth nearby (apparently run by a grandchild or some similar relative!) which would do me one on the spot. While I was having this done, my wife remonstrated with them, and they said they needed a photo because I "looked suspicious" - as if a photo of it would help! The result was well calculated to reinforce that impression, though:

It looks better enlarged and cleaned up then the original does!

Also, picture from my passport when I was 25:

Slick · « **Reply #3465 on:** 15 Jan 2011, 12:53 »

Oh man Paul you look a lot like my friend Rob who is 23 right there.

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #3466 on:** 16 Jan 2011, 09:54 »

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #3467 on:** 16 Jan 2011, 14:15 »

Fish do not live in this stream

redglasscurls · « **Reply #3468 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 07:33 »

Yum, acid mine drainage? That is some seriously oxidized stream bed soil

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #3469 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 08:16 »

That stream is only about 40 yards from my house

My fiance's father remembers the names of the coal companies that strip mined the area and ruined all the streams, but I can't recall what they were. They didn't do any cleanup, what a suprise.

It hurts my soul that there is flowing water with nothing living in it. It helps that we have a spring house with clean water, and a big cobalt blue crayfish lives there.

Demonic Angel · « **Reply #3470 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 08:17 »

Picture from a party this weekend, turned out better than expected.

redglasscurls · « **Reply #3471 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 08:24 »

Quote from: SonofZ3 on 17 Jan 2011, 08:16

That stream is only about 40 yards from my house My fiance's father remembers the names of the coal companies that strip mined the area and ruined all the streams, but I can't recall what they were. They didn't do any cleanup, what a suprise.

It hurts my soul that there is flowing water with nothing living in it. It helps that we have a spring house with clean water, and a big cobalt blue crayfish lives there.

You may be able to do some remediation with powdered lime, if it's not still actively leaching too badly. Do some test strips first though, to see how much base it needs

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #3472 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 08:27 »

I'll do that. I know thats its been in bad shape since the 70's, but I don't think there was any attempts made to improve things.

Verergoca · « **Reply #3473 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 10:24 »

Given the looks of the waterbottom, remediation might neutralize things a bit, but the heavy metals will still be there. IMO a better solution would be full excavation/redoing the stream. (Ofcourse, the soil will have to go to a depot, cause its just nasty). Have you asked your local council/enviroclub about this?

redglasscurls · « **Reply #3474 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 10:30 »

Verg,this is getting out of my expertise range but it's probably iron from the clay in the streambed rather than any mine leachate metals, if that makes a difference?

Verergoca · « **Reply #3475 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 10:43 »

Iron would make the water have a colour closer to red. You can see some of that colour along the banks of the stream. Yellow is probably indicating the presence of sulphur.

Son, is this a spring that pops up out of nowhere, or is it just part of the stream? (If it pops up, the first few meters should be relatively clear due to a lack of oxygen in the springwater. After a few meters it turns murky and reddish due to the iron oxidizing.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3476 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 12:22 »

Flatfoot 56 earlier this summer. My friend Pete is on the very left, and I'm next to him, in the flat cap and the glasses, enjoying myself.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #3477 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 14:40 »

Qc forums: fixing your streams since 2011.

Toba · « **Reply #3478 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 17:22 »

I love that we went from utterly self-absorbed narcissistic portraits to environmental remediation advice in 2 posts.

On the environmental remediation note: you may be able to use one of those 'free test-your-home-water safety' kits to find out exactly what your heavy metal situation is without paying anything.

Or, you could get the organo-metal complex color tests yourself from various suppliers online.

http://www.sciencestuff.com/prod/Chem-Rgnts/C1686

This will help you test for nickel in ionic state, for instance. With a bit of basic reagents (Phenolphthalein, lye, muriatic acid) you can stabilize the pH of the water and test with ionic indicators such as dimethylglyoxime to determine if various ions are present. I don't think you're going to run into anything dissolved in the water (after filtration) that acts as a pH buffer so this should be pretty simple to do.

Call it nuts but it wouldn't be too expensive to get all the gear and make a hobby out of fixing the environment all by yourself!

JD · « **Reply #3479 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 18:41 »

Aw yeah motherfucking onesies.

imagist42 · « **Reply #3480 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 20:41 »

BAKLAVA!

With hummus and other assorted middle eastern foods!

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #3481 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 21:06 »

Is baklava very hard to make? It's one of my favorite desserts, but I've always been hesitant to make it because

(1) phyllo dough is a pain in the ass enough on its own, and covered in sticky honey I can only imagine how difficult it would be to deal with, and
(2) I am afraid that with the power to have huge quantities of baklava any time I want I will gain, like, a berjillion pounds overnight.

But what did you think about the process? Where'd you get your recipe? What did you think of the result?

imagist42 · « **Reply #3482 on:** 17 Jan 2011, 21:14 »

We just snagged a recipe from allrecipes.com, made sure to buy phyllo dough from the supermarket (surprisingly Wal-mart failed us here, but both of the smaller, more regional chains we called had it in stock) and went at it. It really wasn't that difficult. Phyllo can still be a pain to work with, and when we first started out it was still a little frozen and stuck together, but by the time we finished it was like cake (you know... figuratively). I still don't think it's something I could be bothered to make every day, if only because I wouldn't keep a regular stock of phyllo, but it was fun and pleasantly more intuitive than I expected.

Note: the recipe we used doesn't call for honey until the end, and the melted butter doesn't make things too messy. Unless you mean it would be difficult to deal with while eating. In which case it is, kind of.

ALSO: The result? I say scrumptious.

ibrahimdelil · « **Reply #3483 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 00:38 »

Quote from: Elizzybeth on 17 Jan 2011, 21:06

baklava, phyllo, honey

wat

but really, idk what you guys are eating but nobody makes baklava from phyllo or adds honey here in turkey lol

pwhodges · « **Reply #3484 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 00:51 »

It took me a while to work out that what you guys are calling phyllo dough is what I know as filo pastry.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3485 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 09:25 »

Guys, less food, more punk rock.

Dollface · « **Reply #3486 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 09:33 »

punk rock you say, not on my watch you punk.

Orbert · « **Reply #3487 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 10:06 »

Quote from: Toba on 17 Jan 2011, 17:22

I love that we went from utterly self-absorbed narcissistic portraits to environmental remediation advice in 2 posts.

I think it's awesome that we have users among us with the knowledge to even make that happen.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3488 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 10:36 »

I am a person who pretty much hates facial hair

But I can't help but love Dollface's amazing mustache

allison · « **Reply #3489 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 12:22 »

Jussi, you prince.

<3

Patrick · « **Reply #3490 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 12:42 »

Jussi, you're good at selecting pipes. That one looks really damn nice.

scarred · « **Reply #3491 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 13:06 »

Jussi's so thug it hurts.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #3492 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 19:13 »

Quote from: allison on 18 Jan 2011, 12:22

Jussi, you prince.

<3

goodnight sweet prince.

like I don't even know why I'm saying it I just felt like saying it. Jussi. I hope you're not actaully saying goodnight. But still, sweet prince,

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #3493 on:** 18 Jan 2011, 23:55 »

My father just uploaded 3 pictures that my grandmother had on her wallet when she died.

Sometime after those pictures were taken, everything went wrong.

Patrick · « **Reply #3494 on:** 19 Jan 2011, 00:55 »

ADORABLE CHILD

COMPLETELY ADORABLE

Ballard · « **Reply #3495 on:** 19 Jan 2011, 06:43 »

Denim shirt, sleeves rolled up. Like a boss.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3496 on:** 19 Jan 2011, 09:23 »

Wait, is that a denim shirt AND overalls?

E, you're wearing a 3 piece Canadian Tuxedo?

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #3497 on:** 19 Jan 2011, 10:13 »

Here is a picture of me drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette treading water in the Mediterranean Sea.

That is all.

Patrick · « **Reply #3498 on:** 19 Jan 2011, 12:06 »

God almighty, man. That's beautiful.

Eris · « **Reply #3499 on:** 19 Jan 2011, 14:23 »

can i show off my new hair first?

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