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andrewjoy wrote: ↑

Today, 17:02

That Hitler car is blocking the view of the beautiful beach !

Yeah, Hitler cars will do that.

Here's a picture of a Hitler car blocking a view of Hitler.

For the seagull picture, I would blur and darken the background more as it is busy and bright. The seagull should be brightened to bring out the feather details with a vignette blur to bring focus to it. Yes, I agree about brightening the seagull. As I said, it needs shadow highlights. And it's int...

What about this little guy?
...or this guy here?

Before anybody questions the bright colours - yes, it's autumn in Canada and those bright reds, oranges and yellows are real - and the early morning sun is highlighting it.

I thought I'd start a thread about photography. It would be nice to be able to post a photo and ask real photographers (or people who pretend to be real photographers) their opinion about if the posted photo absolutely sucks or not. I won't (and I hope others don't) take it personally if the photos ...

Soylent green is people!

When I eat people, I prefer the unprocessed free range kind. It's better for you and much tastier.

For your question "What factor was the biggest driver to you getting your first mechanical keyboard?", you should have something like "It came with the computer". There was a time when nearly every computer came with a mechanical keyboard. I never even saw a non-mechanical keyboard until the 90's. (...

I take it they never try to infest your foodstuffs? Just a general nuisance? They don't go anywhere near my food, just to the windows or the brightest light source. At least that's one good thing. If these were the kind of flies that land on food, I'd go berserk, grab a machine gun and trash the pl...

These aren't the regular green blowflies that live off rotting meat or piles of shit. No, these bastards don't eat anything. They just look for a warm spot to spend the winter. They can squeeze into little tiny gaps and work their way to the attic, then come down through any little microscopic openi...

I came here to read about house mites, but the posts are missing. What happened? I'm not sure about house mites, but I've got a severe problem with motherfucking cluster flies. I'd never even heard of the bastards before I moved to this place. They invade my house in fall and come out all winter lon...

My cheap Ikea knife is as sharp as those expensive knives. The only difference is how often you need to sharpen. Unless you are a chef and do lots of cutting, you don't need an expensive one. Oh yes, I do. I need an expensive one. I want to be able to look down at my knife and say, "Holy shit! This...

I have never in my life owned a keyboard with a Windows key on it.

I got this one just today. Had to take some photographs as I guess it is not stainless and will change its looks soon. A colleague of mine got it from Tokyo for me. I explicitly ordered a traditional model and, as he told me, the shopkeeper pretended asking: why this one? Waiting for it for six wee...

Have you seen the Youtube series on Glen&Friends Cooking about cracking the recipe? Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. The description was interesting because it confirms my timeline for when Kentucky Fried Chicken started to suck. It was still good in Canada up until the early 80's. What I di...

Vienna woods autumn Dal in the pot: water, salt, 1/2 buillon cube red lentil potatoes pascal celery Pattypan (Schwoughksie) Squash in the pan: olive oil onions garlic rocotillo chili Curry Tree Herb Cumin seed Cinnamon Onion Seeds Garam Masala Curry Madras powder Turmeric powder Nutmeg Neapolitan s...

I bet most people wouldn't be able to identify the food in this picture:

I bought a set of the TexElec pads for my Victor 9000 - mostly because I am very lazy and didn't want to go through the tedium of making pads myself. So I was very happy that somebody did all that work for me and at a very reasonable cost. The replacement pads worked perfectly 100% on the very first...

Brine, eh? What spices? (...are they secret?) :mrgreen: I used to marinate chicken, usually in white wine (...and secret spices), wasting time and money. I found out it makes no difference because chicken at the grocery store is now soaked in water to increase the weight (and cost) of the chicken. M...

I made "Kentucky fried chicken", using the secret (not so secret now) 11 spices recipe of the original. fried chicken.JPG Here's the recipe: 2/3 tablespoon salt 1/2 tablespoon thyme 1/2 tablespoon basil 1/3 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dried must...

That is one hell of a strange looking apple pie. I would have thought that was an extra large batch of green play dough.

JP! wrote: ↑

09 Oct 2019, 15:48

Haha. Well I'd pay at least $355 for your APL beam spring + shipping

OK deal! But shipping will be $2000. (...plus shipping)

Nice knife! I've got a Wüsthof Classic knife. qhdWcKTUZrk It was super-sharp when I got it, quite capable of killing those pesky ninja zombies or flying cows, but now it's so dull I couldn't even kill a bowl of jello. I've tried sharpening with files (not computer files, the metal kind), but it does...

Holy crap! $355 US! That's more than I paid for my APL beam spring! At least the shipping would have been super cheap - even for Canada (which is very unusual). It was only $17.25 to Canada, instead of the current shipping price of $80-100. Well I'm glad somebody here got it, so we can see some nice...

This is usually how I get my swords: Yeah, it's a hassle galloping across the countryside and opening crypts, but it's the bone crunching that makes it all worthwhile.

@ vometia:
I like your style. I need a bookcase like that. I've just got a cheap piece of junk that I got free.
I like to use Blade Runner style lighting.

Gah! I wanted to try for that TI keyboard! Oh well, I guess I'm doomed.

The font looks like Maxi-Switch / SMK vintage linear.

Even with all services turned off, your exact location can be determined at all times. That's one of the things that freaks me out.