On this date in 1796 General Moses Cleaveland founded our city, then got back in his boat and never returned.
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On this date in 1796 General Moses Cleaveland founded our city, then got back in his boat and never returned.
109 today. A/C don't fail me now!!! :eek:
I am
the youngest member of VBF
I am the walrus.
Shaggy said he was going to be dodging fires. Well, if he is hiking in Northern CA he'll get his chance. There's a big one there called the Park Fire, it started @ 3miles from my sisters house. Luckily the wind blew it away from her house.
I saw this during Men's swimming:
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My guess, she's been flipping signs vertically for years. :bigyello:
Eh, it happens to the best of us.
I'm impressed by the guy doing the Lion King bit with his baby in front of her.
I mentioned earlier that my daughter was going to Greece on vacation. She left Sunday. On the flight a passenger had a stroke. My daughter and one of her friends are RN's so they helped, luckily there was also a doctor on the plan. But they had to turn the plane around and make an emergency landing in Iceland.
They finally got to Athens today. Hell of a way to start a vacation.
Dang, I'd say so.
Post Race refresh.
I tried to think of something interesting to say but came up blank. That's sad. :(
At least you didn't come up red. Because red rhymes with dead. And I'd be terrified of a dead man posting on VBForums.
I wasn't hiking in northern California, but there were forty fires burning in southern Oregon. My feet turned into bloody ruins after a few days, and rather than pounding dirt into open wounds for six hours a day, I decided to do something more constructive: Ferry hikers around the fires north of Crater Lake.
I also took a day to climb to the top of Wizard Island. I've always been curious about that island, though it is a long dormant cone. I guess I wouldn't have hiked it had it not been long dormant....
This sort of a recurring theme on your hikes. I'm sure you know the best types of footgear to use. Wonder why this is such a problem. There are professions that require walking 6hrs a day. Though probably not many on rough terrain.Quote:
My feet turned into bloody ruins after a few days
Hope you enjoyed yourself anyway.
Yeah, my last three hikes all had this issue. I'm not sure what's going on. I thought my boots were a size too small last time, but this hike has dispelled that theory. One size larger, and the situation got worse.
When in doubt, I blame it on age.
I've had a lot of experience with people that get skin issues, mainly pressure sores (skin ulcers), and I've noticed that once they occur they easily reoccur. But it could be age, nothing about the body gets better with age.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Maybe it's time to take up swimming. lol
I hate Boolean logic. I almost always get my operands mixed up doing && instead of || or vice-versa.
I just spent 30 minutes wasting time on that exact issue until I realized I had my operands wrong.
That's punishment for working on the weekend.
I have a contract job with a hard deadline of Monday. The requirements gathering is... well there was none. There weren't any wireframes up until last week. And the client keeps changing his mind on things. It has been an absolute nightmare.
Getting a good product definition from the customer is one of the most difficult things. I feel your pain.
Not really, I'm having a beer. lol
That's a nightmare? A nightmare would suggest you were asleep and dreaming. That sounds like normal life, to me. I expect my users to have only a vague idea of what they want.
I should add that I'm not really being all that flippant, there. This may be due to my unusual situation, but I find that pinning the users down on requirements is mostly used as a way to stall progress. They don't know, and forcing them to decide results in a worse outcome that is much delayed.
That may sound a bit odd, and it may also arise from my peculiar situation. I write programs related to fish biology, but I'm also a fish biologist. As such, I'm often at least as knowledgeable about what is needed as the users are. They tell me that they want a program to capture the results from X, and I can say, "oh yeah, I've done X, I'll write what would likely have been useful to me." If I coded in a field other than Biology, I might not have that viewpoint.
Another 106 degree day. This is definitely the hottest year I can remember. Got the largest utility bill I've ever had. That was fun.
They have to pay for the fires.
Actually my electricity comes from local hydroelectric not PGE. The dams are fairly low and don't go through the mountains. Don't think they've caused any fires. I have a pretty low bill compared to most but it fills like a lot to me.
Here are a few Photoshops I did the past few days. The first two was for a theme called "that one time at the county fair": https://www.fark.com/comments/133479...ounty-fair#new
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Photoshops like this never cease to amaze me.
That second didn't need to be a photoshop. It could be a day in the life around here.
For the first one, while it is funny, those are light guns, not pellet guns, so there's not much reason to duck. I remember a place like that from when I was young. It was pretty fun...it was also free, which made it more fun. Lots of interesting things to shoot at that responded in interesting ways. I think it would get dull pretty quick, at my current age.
I was hoping they would pass for pellet guns, but after I submitted it to Fark, I noticed part of the gun's cable was petruding from the handle base on the counter. :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Original photo:
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Not much of the cable is visible. I was actually thinking that it was just a really fine, black, cord. I didn't realize that you had removed the cable. Well done.
I could've done a better job with this image. There should've been kicked up dirt and dust from the charging Grizzly. The hardest part was the work I've done to this guy's face.
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I don't have a problem with the lack of dust. The ground looks more like lawn bordering pavement, so I wouldn't be expecting any dust.
You're right. The lawn is bordering the pavement, so there shouldn't be any dust. But with the Grizzlie's claws scrapping up the lawn, he should've kicked-up a little dirtQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
This is the second time I used Kirk vs Gorn in a shop. I had to use an AI to upscale Kirk's face. It was a late entry for this:
https://www.fark.com/comments/133283...gged-peaks#new
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Finally got a break in from the heat. Only suppose to hit 93 today. Time to break out the thermals. lol
I expect to get frost tonight, unless it is sufficiently overcast to keep the temperatures up a bit.
In August? You serious?
Yes. I'm camping in a place that has some strange localized weather properties. It's a valley at around 7,000 feet with peaks on all sides. Cold air sinks down into the valley, turning it into a little icebox. Frost can happen on any clear night throughout the year...except in the winter, when frost happens...all day every day. The coldest I've seen up here was -30. My moustache froze to my beard, and I couldn't get my mouth open until I had melted it with my tongue.
Holy smokes, that's insane.
The things we do in our quest for happiness. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That's one good thing about being old, don't have the energy for self abuse. It's crazy the things I did when I was young. I'm very much into comfort nowadays.
The temperature didn't drop quite so low. It was in the 30s, but with a few clouds, it didn't reach the level of frost. Pretty nice weather, overall, though there was a fair amount of smoke Wednesday evening. The smoke had cleared out for the most part on Thursday, thanks largely to a change in the wind.
Glad you didn't get frostbite. lol
Maybe you should think about being a firefighter. That way you could be walking in the wood and making money at the same time.
And breathing a whole lot of smoke.
This photo was originally a rally car jumping, but I replaced it with a land Megalodon chasing after some surfers. I could've done better, but I wanted to get this entry in at Fark.
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What a nice change. Went from weeks of 100+ weather to multiple days in the 80's. Hardly ever have 80's in August around here. Usually high 90's.
Should be a big difference in the utility bill. Maybe I can afford that new Ferrari now.
Omg, the guy faceplanting and the other guy smirking. That does it for me.
The expressions were pretty on point. Did the original have those expressions, or did you adjust them?
@homer - did you know Scott Bloomquist? If I recall correctly, you did quite a bit of dirt biking.
The running surfer was happily jogging until I changed it with another face. The guy who faceplant wasn't a surfer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I had Dall-E 3 create the Meg. I wanted it to look like it's swimming through the Earth, not gliding over it.
Good job. The faceplant guy totally looks like a surfer, and the running guy has a very appropriate expression.
Thanks! I could've done a better job, but I didn't have time to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Yesterday, a 7 year old boy in Montegut got off the bus. The bus driver, who was a substitute, didn't see him cross the road and hit and killed him. Apparently the mother was hysterical and the other kids on the bus were yelling at the driver that he had just hit the boy, but driver drove off. When the police finally stopped him, he said that he was having issues with his heart and that was why he took off like he did.
Montegut isn't far away from us. Makes me realize that I took my child's safety on the bus for granted.
Well, yeah, but I've never heard of anything like that happening. Very rare events still happen with a large enough sample size. You can't protect against every risk.
Definitely no guarantees for anyone, young or old. The odds are really good you'll make through the day but no guarantee. Your kids are probably safer on the bus than when riding with you. People die in car wrecks daily and they weren't doing anything wrong. Wrong place, wrong time.
Sad story though. Always seems to have more impact when it's close to home.
Crazy weather here. Only going to be 76 today. I don't remember the last time it was in the 70's in August. Of course at my age that doesn't mean much. lol
"Wes, it was 70 degrees last week. Don't you remember?"
We're going to have highs in the low 70s for the next couple days. That seems remarkable, but when I look back over the last few years, it turns out that something similar has happened around mid-August each year. This might be the most extreme version, depending on the noontime temperature, but it's not as unusual as it feels like.
I'll have to keep that in mind. If I want to take five months to bike across the country, I need to get started fairly early if I want to still get across the cascades before it gets too cold. The deadline would be November 15th, or thereabouts, but I probably need to target about a month earlier than that.
That doesn't sound fun at all. Give me five month of a beautiful beach, reclining chair in the shade with a light tropical breeze. Add in some some good food and drinks, I'd be a happy camper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker