Well, the computer's cracking out, so I'm gonna make this brief.



Merry Bender: Well, I can't do it. It so happens tomorrow is a robot holiday.
Fry: Really? Which one?
Bender: Only Robanukah, the two holiest weeks in the robot calendar.
Leela: Last week it was Robamadan, and the week before that, Robanzaa.
Fry: Man, that one was a blast.
Bender: I was not just a blast. It was a celebration of the accomplishments of my past prototypes, which just happened to take the form of a drinking contest.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: U2 "elevation"

Open question for y'all with photography experience-

What's a good way to get the most color-neutral lighting on closeup photographs? I've got a couple of my scale models that I need to take pictures of, but all the ones I've always tried have horribly yellow lighting.

Tags: scale modeling
Current Mood: working
Current Music: Static-X "pieces"

Best. Prank. Ever.



And by best, I mean, if I was the pranker, I'd die laughing, and if I was the prankee, I'd die of a heart attack.

Kinda reminds me of when me and the Flanagan's crew of strangelet, Andy, Keith, and Dan went to Six Flags. I came up with the idea of dressing up like maintenance staff and doing things like sleeping near one of the rides with an empty bottle of Jack Daniels, or just as the 'coaster is taking off, run after the cars holding a huge bolt yelling "WAIT! WAIT! I FORGOT ONE!"

Tags: videos
Current Mood: working
Current Music: Bad Religion "them and us"

How to cure a bad mood in three easy steps:

1.) Climb onto 125HP sportbike.
2.) Start engine.
3.) Rotate right handgrip counterclockwise until disposition improves.

Works every time.

Tags: gixxer
Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: Anthrax "packaged rebellion"

My dad sent this to me with the caption "Texas Flashlight."



This is what Jack Bauer would grab when the power goes out. Why does the power go out? Because it's afraid of Jack Bauer. But so is the dark, so Jack Bauer has no need of flashlights.

Tags: guns, tech report, videos
Current Mood: working
Current Music: Orange 9mm "high speed changer"

YOU THERE- yes, the Englishman in the Beemer- please line up behind the man who wrote a robbery note on the back of his just-filled-out job application and the other who wrote a robbery note on the back of his bank deposit slip to accept your Fail at Being Anonymous Robber award.

ETA: Judges, I need a ruling on our tertiary position- I almost forgot about The Duct Tape Bandit.

Tags: fail
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Rezillos "no"

Cooooool...


Scientists discover the first instance of tool use among a species of octopus.

Pretty cool- everything I'd ever read about octopi said that they were incredibly intelligent and great at problem solving.

Maybe this guy is Admiral Ackbar's great-great-great-great-(and so on) grandfather.

Tags: nature
Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Mastodon "seabeast"

MEME THING-

If I came with a warning label, what would it say?

Tags: meme
Current Mood: I LOVE COFFEE
Current Music: Juno Reactor "high energy protons"

Thereifixedit.com may be one of the greatest things the internet has ever seen.









This one's not that funny unless you knew that the car was a BMW.

Priceless.

ETA: HA! My original guess was right- it is a first gen Passat.

motomuffin, after yesterday, this one's for you-

Tags: funny, ozark engineering, you're doin' it wrong!
Current Mood: BRB- dying of LULZ
Current Music: Tool "46 and 2"

Tip o'the hat to gynocide-



So, maybe it's a good thing after all that I never got hired at Caterpillar. Hell, dada_voodoo's seen what I used to do with the electric forklift.

I'm wondering if they'll have one guy stand on one end of a seesaw while they hit the raised part with a pile driver next?

Tags: hey y'all- watch this
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Turbonegro "all my friends are dead"

Steve has finally taken the initiative to catch and eat moths that have gotten in.

I wonder if his being in the same room with me blasting Slayer for the past hour has upped his prey drive? I'm gonna throw on some Pantera and see if I can get him to go after the spiders.

Tags: steve
Current Location: Dethklok home for wayward kitties
Current Mood: BRUTAL
Current Music: Slayer "tormentor"

1. Elaborate on your default icon.
Someone had a meme going a few years ago to take a picture of yourself and I photograph better with a bag over my head in black and white.

2. What's your current relationship status?
I'm seeing a girl that I met at the hash.

3. Ever have a near-death experience?
Like, flatline, or "holy shit I could've died?" Because falling asleep on a motorcycle drifting towards a concrete abutment could probably count for the second one.

4. Name an obvious quality you have.
I'm motivated.

5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
Social Distortion "reach for the sky"

6. Name a celebrity you would marry.
Zoe Bell, without thinking twice.

7. Who will cut and paste this first?
Probably gynocide

8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
Either Vin Diesel or the bassist from No Doubt

9. Do you wear a watch? What kind?
Casio G-Shock

10. Do you have anything pierced?
Nope.

11. Do you have any tattoos?
Three, #4 is coming up soon.

12. Do you like pain?
I like that slightly sore feeling the next day from a good workout- the kind that says I got something accomplished.

13. Do you like to shop?
Depends for what.

14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Paint for a model helicopter I'm building.

15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
New sunglasses for me and Guinness for el_diavalo as a token of appreciation for fixing my busted-ass computer

16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
Will.

17. What is on your desktop background?
Black '04 Triumph Speed Triple

18. What is the background on your cell phone?
Red and black abstract pattern

19. Do you like redheads?
I got ginger fever, baby!

20. Do you know any twins?
Not any more.

21. Do you have any weird relatives?
I take pride in being the black sheep of the family.

22. What was the last movie you watched?
Dawn of the Dead remake

23. What was the last book you read?
Plague of the Dead (The Morningstar Strain).

Tags: meme, zombies
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Social Distortion "reach for the sky"

So recently, I was offered a job for modeling.

Not THAT kind- trust me, nobody wants to see that, but for scale recreation. At the Work Boat show, one of the guys I talked to specializes in scale marine recreation (translation: you know how when you go to a museum, you'll see the different boats/airplanes/whatever in diorama? That stuff) that gets stuff flown in from all over. I've been building scale models for over 20 years, and along the lines, I got pretty good at it. Guy I talked to says they need someone who can do aircraft, since a lot of the larger naval ships usually have something along the lines of a SH-60 on the deck, or for aircraft carriers, a half-dozen Super Hornets, UH-1W's, etc. 1/144 helos are a pain in the nuts because of the canopy detail, but I can do 'em. I need to clean out my airbrush and see if I'm still any good with it.

So this might be a neat side job. Right now, I'm working on a 1/72 Huey Cobra and a 1/24 '68 Firebird for practice. I've got a few armor kits that I keep in a plexiglas case that are pretty close to display-worthy. As soon as I can find my digital camera, I'll send them some pics of what I've got.

Tags: don't tell anyone but i'm a dork, scale modeling
Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Social Distortion "angels' wings"

OMFG SAINTS!!ONE!!!

I don't think they get much closer than that. Drew Brees is gonna have a street named after him at this rate. I don't think my heart can take another game like that. The neighbors are setting off fireworks.

I need a drink now.

Tags: football
Current Location: the edge of my seat
Current Mood: 12-0
Current Music: fireworks and dogs barking

Note to cat,

Despite being undersize for your heritage, I am quite impressed with your VO₂ output. It must be impressive, if you can maintain that volume level for such extended periods of time. I have no idea why last night, of all times, you would be yelling your little head off about wanting to go outside since it's 35F, rainy, and with a chance of sleet. Then I remembered that you are half Maine Coon. Like, native to *Maine,* and that being cold and wet is not a deterrent for you, and I'm sure your Norwegian half is excited by the cold snap as well.

Love,
Dad

Tags: note to cat, steve
Current Location: Dethklok home for wayward kitties
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Jethro Tull "locomotive breath"

For bridgegirl-

flemco attempts to sell his Saturn SC2.

The original CL posting was flagged for removal, so here's the reprint.

yulecat, how you have had four Saturns that have not decided to spontaneously return to their base elements is beyond me- with every one else I know who had one, the car developed an automotive condition somewhere between leprosy and AIDS.

Tags: cars, gearheads
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Damned "noise noise noise"

The smarmy answer would be that I support euthanasia. My real answer is that do whatever the hell you want with your own body.

I've quit for 21 months now, and I don't regret it at all- I've saved hundreds of dollars, I'm healthier, I don't have the tobacco monkey on my back all the time, and if I go out for a couple of drinks, I feel worlds better the next morning. Don't get me wrong, I think about it at LEAST once a day, but any time I'm around people smoking, I remember why I quit. Although I've quit to spite people before- mostly when hanging out around people who would always bum cigs from me.

As far as the increased taxes on cigarettes, hey, if you want health care reform, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. At this point, you know smoking causes cancer, emphysema, etc, so if you still wanna keep doing it, that's on you.

The funny thing is, since I've quit, I've had far less of a tolerance for it- I don't like the smell the next day, and I've had to add "frequent smoker" to the list of dealbreakers for dating criteria.

The only real beef I have with it is people who smoke around little kids or in restaurants- have some decency for other people, yanno?

Tags: never trust a junkie, smoking, writer's block
Current Mood: working
Current Music: Rammstein "asche zu asche"

It's not often I give a rat's ass about football, but...

11-0

Points of mention:
-DREW MUTHAFUCKIN' BREES. Five touchdown passes in one game? Lockheed Martin wishes they could make a guidance system that accurate.
-I'll admit, I was getting nervous in the third quarter. There were more than a few dumb mistakes that made me think it was going to be a vintage Saints game of falling apart like a house of cards on a trampoline with a fat kid in the second half. I'm happy to be disappointed, as the case may be.
-Nostramayhem's prediction: Saints/Colts Superbowl.
-If I wasn't waiting for this check to clear, I'd be in the Quarter tonight, joining in what is going to undoubtedly be an epic night of drinking.

Tags: football, new orleans
Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: WHO DAT?

For the gearheads and otherwise motor-minded on this thing-

Would any of y'all either personally have or know someone who does have an older model engine that's still running a carburetor that they'd like to see replaced with a fuel injection system? Right now, we're looking at a prototype that's putting out 650 CFM that uses the standard carburetor flange, but is electronically controlled and tunable.

normalcyispasse, if you could ask around at your normal Wednesday night, I'd really appreciate it.

Tags: chaos, gearheads
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Motorhead "all the aces"

On another note, as much fun as I had at the wedding this past weekend, I am sad that I missed the po-boy festival.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/dining/11unit.html

http://www.nola.com/festivals/index.ssf/2009/11/new_orleans_po-boy_festival_re.html

If you can watch this video without salivating, you have no soul.

Tags: food, sammich
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Siouxsie "fall from grace"