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I just had a thought - putting a tinkerer in a large home hardware store... Isn't that like letting the wolf guard the henhouse?

jwhouk wrote:I just had a thought - putting a tinkerer in a large home hardware store... Isn't that like letting the wolf guard the henhouse?

Did you ever see the Harry Potter movies? Remember the Weasley's house, the 'warren'?

I've spent several months reverse engineering the plans from a variety of WB photos... and I think it can be done... pretty sure of it... now if I can get it past code...

Y'know, I've heard tell Home Depots make excellent post-apocalyptic fortresses...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Paging the Red King!

Just so long as he's not the King in Yellow.

GlytchMeister wrote:I do dream checks. I frequently have dreams that are so realistic, so normal and boring, and so sensible that I remember them like real events. Sometimes I'll have a conversation with someone in a dream, and the next day I'll refer to that conversation and they won't know what I'm talking about at all, because that conversation was dreamt.
So I'm trying to get into the habit of doing dream checks.

You aren't foolin' me.

Good, good. . .this iteration of the Matrix appears to be exceptionally stable. . .

See, you're just dreaming that you're doing dream checks, and because you're in a dream then the dream checks always appear to "work", because the dream makes you think that they do.

Alkarii wrote:Yeah... The whole thing about cheese causing weird dreams? May not be true. Talk about disappointing.

You just need to try some of the government-sponsored MKUltra Cheese.

Sgt. Howard wrote:Hanging up my scrubs...

Wear them around Home Depot, and if anybody asks about them you can reply, "Accidents happen".

Can we please limit the image-bombs? The one thing this forum is missing is a spoiler feature.

GlytchMeister wrote:Y'know, I've heard tell Home Depots make excellent post-apocalyptic fortresses...

Get some gear from Dimitri Zaitsev at Nuclear Snail Studios, build a hidey hole in the back of building supplies, ring it with motion sensor lighting and PVC punji sticks, arm yourself with nail guns (with safety disabled), enough Fritos and Dr Pepper to choke a small horse and nobody will even think of messing with you!

When I worked there, one of the pro loaders and I discussed ways to fortify the store in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Provided you could break up the concrete in the garden center, or the store had a nice sized supply of soil (like during spring and early summer), you could grow a sustainable food source. If you knew what you were doing, you could board up all the glass entrances, and create a kill tunnel in the lumber department, with the roll up doors being the way into the building. You could also make plenty of weapons with little trouble at all.

I hated working there, but that's exactly where I'd go if there's ever a zombie plague.

ShneekeyTheLost wrote:Can we please limit the image-bombs? The one thing this forum is missing is a spoiler feature.

ucp.php?i=prefs&mode=view

I don't know if that link will work for you, so here are directions:

Underneath "Board Index" is "User control panel". Click that, then click the "Board Preferences" tab. On the sidebar, there will be "Edit Display Options". The first setting in that list is "display images within posts." Choose "No." At the bottom, click "Save."

Now, every image will show as a " [img] " link. I use this by default, as I frequently use this forum via phone or phone-tethered-iPad.

You have to be logged in for this setting to work, but it saves me all kinds of data. Especially on this thread.

Castela is making some new friends.

Catawampus wrote:Castela is making some new friends.

Some kids her age get head lice.

She gets aphids.

The Nikon has a "Selective Color" in-camera effect. I love playing with it on occasion:

Why did the wisteria cross the road?









Pink blossoms



Pink tree





Blossoms and trees? Pretty.

Fire ants? Not so much

So there I was, sitting on a ledge on a cliff face, minding my own business brewing up a cup of tea and reading a book, when all at once I hear this horrendous squawking hissing flapping sound from above and a thrashing bundle of black and gray and red feathers lands on me. Apparently a hawk had flown too close to a crow's nesting site, and the crow and hawk had gotten into a bit of a flap over the situation. The two were still locked together in a furious feathered ball of mortal combat when they landed in my lap. The crow almost immediately disengaged and flew off, a bit unsteadily and missing a considerable portion of its tail. The hawk sat on my knee for a moment, gave me a sort of, "Yeah, what?" look, and then took off in a different direction.

My tea had feathers in it.

Catawampus wrote:My tea had feathers in it.

How long did they need to steep?

Dave wrote:

Catawampus wrote:My tea had feathers in it.

How long did they need to steep?

Probably depends on the angle of repose of the rocks making up the cliff.

That hawk probably had one of those "Oh... Shit. Now what?" Moments.

Kind of reminds me of this one opossum I saw on the back porch, eating the bird seed. It was literally right outside the door, and looked up at me.

I sometimes wonder if opossums aren't usually scared of people. I bet, if I talked to it, it'd just sit there and stare at me.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Probably depends on the angle of repose of the rocks making up the cliff.

Pay the Jar, AFF, or the pain will be even more acute.

Dave wrote:How long did they need to steep?

That tends to be a matter of personal 'pinion. Some people are fine with just winging it, though others aren't down with that sort of flighty culinary carelessness.

Alkarii wrote:Kind of reminds me of this one opossum I saw on the back porch, eating the bird seed. It was literally right outside the door, and looked up at me.

I sometimes wonder if opossums aren't usually scared of people. I bet, if I talked to it, it'd just sit there and stare at me.

I was standing under a grape arbour once, and I heard a rustling in the leaves above me. A very young opossum emerged from the greenery and came climbing down a vine in very leisurely manner. It got down to about level with my nose before it apparently became aware of me, and came to a stop inches from my face. For about a half of a minute or so we just sat there looking at each other. Then it slowly turned around and began climbing back up the vine and disappeared into the leaves again.

I get the impression that opossums are not exactly the brightest of critters, nor the most responsive to stimuli.