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Start here => Games => Topic started by: Adam on October 18, 2010, 04:36:09 PM
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my kitten with a very small soviet hat on her head
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A piece of Superior agate
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The Princess Royal at a school dance in May
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Some yard sculptures I will post once I get them off my phone
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N00dz :zoinks:
Just kidding! :green:
I think it was a still from a game not sure though.
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my kitten with a very small soviet hat on her head
Please tell me you've posted it, or are planning to. :heart:
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I attempted to photograph my injured finger, but the pictures came out a little blurry. I have trouble holding the finger still enough.
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Torres Strait Islands flag with my DSi.
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I attempted to photograph my injured finger, but the pictures came out a little blurry. I have trouble holding the finger still enough.
Tie it up :idea:
If that doesn't work, hit it with a hammer till it stops moving. :sledgehammer:
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A whiteboard full of notes.
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my rocks&gems :thumbup:
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My lightsabers! :headbang2:
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My Fire Agates and Whale bone amulet.
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I took some photos of my cat abd my dog last night. they were sleeping next to each other :o
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I took some photos of my cat abd my dog last night. they were sleeping next to each other :o
That photo you posted was waaaaaaaaaaay too cute. Jess looked like a little doll! :heart:
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I think it was my breakfast yesterday. I was impressed by my effort to put together a kick ass BLT. Must be documented. :P
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hole in the wall ;D
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my, 27 ct. fire agate.
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hole in the wall ;D
The actual hole? Or rather what or who you could see through the hole?
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hole in the wall ;D
The actual hole? Or rather what or who you could see through the hole?
the actual hole. in a wall. in classroom :D
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This Smith & Wesson Lady Smith Model 60 38 Special snubby. I bought it in August lightly used and got the Tyler T Grip (the piece behind the trigger guard on the grip) yesterday to get a more hand filling grip. I recall one insecure twat on a gun forum saying he would never own something with Lady Smith written on it and then getting hounded by the other members. :laugh:
(http://i55.tinypic.com/264qkbc.jpg)
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i prefer the lady shooter, mostley because i like to feel my hand after i go shooting. i like the chrome? on that gun
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That is stainless not hard chrome. I do have a Glock 36 that I have the upper hard chromed on.
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I think it was my breakfast yesterday. I was impressed by my effort to put together a kick ass BLT. Must be documented. :P
:plus: Please post it! :drool:
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
:rofl: Poor little crackers. :plus:
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
Well, I was a bit quick and decided not to elaborate. Let's just say it got me thinking all day and how disturbing it is that we shape our food like other creatures and even humans. Ginger bread men! Santa! To name a couple!
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
Well, I was a bit quick and decided not to elaborate. Let's just say it got me thinking all day and how disturbing it is that we shape our food like other creatures and even humans. Ginger bread men! Santa! To name a couple!
Chocolate Easter bunnies... :bunny:
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
Well, I was a bit quick and decided not to elaborate. Let's just say it got me thinking all day and how disturbing it is that we shape our food like other creatures and even humans. Ginger bread men! Santa! To name a couple!
Chocolate Easter bunnies... :bunny:
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bunnies are fair game! Have you seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
Well, I was a bit quick and decided not to elaborate. Let's just say it got me thinking all day and how disturbing it is that we shape our food like other creatures and even humans. Ginger bread men! Santa! To name a couple!
Chocolate Easter bunnies... :bunny:
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bunnies are fair game! Have you seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Yes, and I LOVE that bunny! "...so foul and cruel..." :rofl:
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
Like to nibble the little tails off first.
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I took a picture of some Whale crackers and posted it on fb as disturbing. Who wants to eat little whales? :thumbdn:
What about little goldfish? They have feelings too. :'(
:rofl: Poor little crackers. :plus:
:LMAO:
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my big fucking peter. :-*
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Only one of them?
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Last week when I took a picture of myself naked and posted it, albeit temporarily, in the hottest dude thread.
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Photos of the addition I worked on yesterday it was a specialty job and I needed photos to show future clients
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Some ducks on the median strip where I walk home from the bus. It was with my phone so they didn't turn out very well.
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Last week when I took a picture of myself naked and posted it, albeit temporarily, in the hottest dude thread.
You did?! How did I miss that? :orly:
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Last week when I took a picture of myself naked and posted it, albeit temporarily, in the hottest dude thread.
You did?! How did I miss that? :orly:
I only left it up for a few hours! :2thumbsup:
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I snapped the Princess Royal with my camera phone. I realized that if she wandered off out of town, I have no pictures of her.
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I snapped the Princess Royal with my camera phone. I realized that if she wandered off out of town, I have no pictures of her.
That sounds wise, though I hope you never need those pictures. :hug:
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I snapped the Princess Royal with my camera phone. I realized that if she wandered off out of town, I have no pictures of her.
That sounds wise, though I hope you never need those pictures. :hug:
Me neither, but when you're 400 miles from home and you get separated even for a bit, it's nice to have a picture to show at the where ever it is.
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I have numerous pics of my injured finger in various stages of healing. I should post a thread! :idea:
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Last week when I took a picture of myself naked and posted it, albeit temporarily, in the hottest dude thread.
You did?! How did I miss that? :orly:
I only left it up for a few hours! :2thumbsup:
I saw it :zoinks:
The last pic I took was a wheelchair accessible elevator in a subway station. I was on a scavenger hunt in Toronto that took us all over the city. We had 20 things we had to get pictures of and then race back to the church. My team came in third. We had a blast though.
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Last week when I took a picture of myself naked and posted it, albeit temporarily, in the hottest dude thread.
You did?! How did I miss that? :orly:
I only left it up for a few hours! :2thumbsup:
i've seen it! :zoinks:
today i took a picture of me in a dress :-[
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Pity I managed to save it for trolling purposes. :laugh:
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A nice red ferarri! :M
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A nice red ferarri! :M
Don't you mean a red rocket?? :zoinks:
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for a friend with a foot fetish
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My tree:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/5221732785_58f5d8f08c_z.jpg)
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shleed I made a christmas tree topic, but nice tree. :plus:
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My very rounded forehead. It's round because of my metopic ridge. :2thumbsup:
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/supreme01_zpsjlk4k5xo.jpg)
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Are you going fishing soon? :fish2: Do you wear a fishing hat?
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Are you going fishing soon? :fish2: Do you wear a fishing hat?
Soon. :fish2:
I really prefer fly fishing though.
Weeding out some of the excess around here. ;)
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My daughter and her boyfriend.
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Thing. Yes, I know. :laugh:
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Thing. Yes, I know. :laugh:
They have a thing going on.
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Thing. Yes, I know. :laugh:
They have a thing going on.
They do, yes. It's still going.
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Thing. Yes, I know. :laugh:
They have a thing going on.
They do, yes. It's still going.
The thing called love! :heart: :angel: :heart: Long may it last!
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The car (close-up of the paint colour)
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a pic of the mouse sander i returned to home depot. clearly used, but sold as new. the clerk couldn't believe it. there was dried paint on the power cord.
before that it was a pic of my high score on civilization (nds).
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a pic of the mouse sander i returned to home depot. clearly used, but sold as new. the clerk couldn't believe it. there was dried paint on the power cord.
before that it was a pic of my high score on civilization (nds).
Good for you for not letting the store take advantage of you! :pirate:
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Thing. Yes, I know. :laugh:
They have a thing going on.
They do, yes. It's still going.
The thing called love! :heart: :angel: :heart: Long may it last!
As my late father said when I was getting engaged, "son, many engagements end happily but most in marriages". :P
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(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/IMG_8193_zpsa9o7i559.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/IMG_8193_zpsa9o7i559.jpg.html)
Wholemeal caraway bread and sweet white cinnamon cardamom bread.
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My son fixing the roof at his wife's uncle's house this morning.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/DSCN4987_zpsb3pdltov.jpg) (http://s135.photobucket.com/user/parts67/media/DSCN4987_zpsb3pdltov.jpg.html)
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(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/IMG_8193_zpsa9o7i559.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/IMG_8193_zpsa9o7i559.jpg.html)
Wholemeal caraway bread and sweet white cinnamon cardamom bread.
Did you bake those yourself? Do you have any left? Can I have some? :puppy:
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My daughter playing at McDonalds play land. She was actually just sitting on the platform, she didn't actually play on the playland except sit on the platform to get on the toy and also looking up the slide.
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(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/IMG_8193_zpsa9o7i559.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/IMG_8193_zpsa9o7i559.jpg.html)
Wholemeal caraway bread and sweet white cinnamon cardamom bread.
Did you bake those yourself? Do you have any left? Can I have some? :puppy:
Kid and I baked them. There's still some left. Come over, and I'll cut some thick slices for you of both.
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My daughter playing at McDonalds play land. She was actually just sitting on the platform, she didn't actually play on the playland except sit on the platform to get on the toy and also looking up the slide.
Wow, a daughter too? How old is she? You've done a lot while you were away.
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My daughter playing at McDonalds play land. She was actually just sitting on the platform, she didn't actually play on the playland except sit on the platform to get on the toy and also looking up the slide.
Wow, a daughter too? How old is she? You've done a lot while you were away.
22 months.
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My daughter playing at McDonalds play land. She was actually just sitting on the platform, she didn't actually play on the playland except sit on the platform to get on the toy and also looking up the slide.
Wow, a daughter too? How old is she? You've done a lot while you were away.
22 months.
Awesome age. You've been away for a really long time.
Any more surprises?
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My daughter playing at McDonalds play land. She was actually just sitting on the platform, she didn't actually play on the playland except sit on the platform to get on the toy and also looking up the slide.
Wow, a daughter too? How old is she? You've done a lot while you were away.
22 months.
Awesome age. You've been away for a really long time.
Any more surprises?
Depends on what you mean by them.
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My daughter playing at McDonalds play land. She was actually just sitting on the platform, she didn't actually play on the playland except sit on the platform to get on the toy and also looking up the slide.
Wow, a daughter too? How old is she? You've done a lot while you were away.
22 months.
Awesome age. You've been away for a really long time.
Any more surprises?
Depends on what you mean by them.
Anything, I guess.
Last time you were around, your boy was a toddler. Now he is in school, and has a little sister. You sound way more relaxed in your posts. Just a few posts does not tell a lot, of course. But there is a difference.
So, how is life for you?
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Better. Husband is now disabled but he doesn't have that pain excuse anymore now that he isn't working. My parents live with us, they have their own lives, my mom will retire next year. My dad is still working. My husband and I brought our kids out to Wisconsin last summer and we flew and we got to show off our kids to my mom's side of the family and we used our tax return money. We had a yard sale, got rid of a bunch of stuff and anything left over we put on craigslist for free stuff and it was all nearly gone the next morning. Our kids got their own rooms. My uncle died, my grandmother died, my brother and his girlfriend are now separated and they have two children now, my brother is going to law school and my parents are paying for his rent and utilities while he is studying and doing law school, my husband and I are back sleeping in the same room again because our son needed his own personal space (his own room), my son loves video games like I do and he loves Zelda and Mario and watches youtube, he also likes Legos and Hotwheels and Play Doh. He even has his own Nintendo 3DS I had given him that was mine and he has his own video games he owns, my son loves his cousin very much and always wants him around because he likes playing with him, my son loves sweets as much as I do and he loves school but he has the concept that homework is only for in school, not at home so he won't do it here. He is also speaking in good sentences and talking very well and using words than screaming and whining but he still has his moments. My son outgrew the play area at the mall so he was a little upset when my husband told him he couldn't play in there anymore because he is too tall now. He has been a very good brother to his little sister and always looked out for her but they still fight like siblings do and he gets annoyed with her but he likes playing with her and at times he doesn't want to play. He still doesn't like to be alone so he will wake up at night and want to sleep with someone.
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What hasn't changed is your writing without using paragraphs. :LOL:
I notice I have a habit of reading paragraphs in one breath. Yours made me nearly gasp for air.
:hahaha:
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What hasn't changed is your writing without using paragraphs. :LOL:
I notice I have a habit of reading paragraphs in one breath. Yours made me nearly gasp for air.
:hahaha:
But yet I seem to use them elsewhere. :shrugs:
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What hasn't changed is your writing without using paragraphs. :LOL:
I notice I have a habit of reading paragraphs in one breath. Yours made me nearly gasp for air.
:hahaha:
But yet I seem to use them elsewhere. :shrugs:
I was laughing at myself, for gasping for air. Not at you.
Will be helpful, that you can use paragraphs elsewhere. And I will live if you don't use them here.
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I use my camera instead of my binoculars a lot, today while out with the dog at the state park down the street I took this. The building is somewhere near Port Jeff on long Island around 17 miles away. I have been trying to figure out just where but have been unsuccessful so far next time I will have to remember to to get a compass bearing
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/DSCN4993_zpszfphmxfs.jpg) (http://s135.photobucket.com/user/parts67/media/DSCN4993_zpszfphmxfs.jpg.html)
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a bicycle
i am collecting pics of mangled and non mangled bikes on the streets of Montreal. It's easy to get your bike mangled if you misread the weather. More than a few were fooled by the warm weather and got their bike mangled by the sidewalk plows. Some got vandalized and then abandoned. I won't be leaving mine on the street; the bike thieves have bolt cutters and sophisticated tools but they don't seem to go onto private property.
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My own arse.
The answer is no.
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My own arse.
The answer is no.
Okay, you won't post a picture it. May I send the Royal Portrait Painter around to paint a miniature for the Royal Collection?
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Okay, you won't post a picture it. May I send the Royal Portrait Painter around to paint a miniature for the Royal Collection?
I don't think a miniature would do it justice.
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My pencilcase. It is for a GIMP thing I have to do for college.
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Our cat Liam. He was laying on his back on my bed washing his undercarriage. I said his name and he looked up and so I took a picture of him.
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My work schedules for this week and the week after, so I won't be late. :thumbup:
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A weird statue on my way to work yesterday morning.
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Our cat Liam. He was laying on his back on my bed washing his undercarriage. I said his name and he looked up and so I took a picture of him.
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Can't quite remember. It was either of some lab glassware being set up, or the actual post-setup reaction taking place.
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Our cat Liam. He was laying on his back on my bed washing his undercarriage. I said his name and he looked up and so I took a picture of him.
:needpics:
Just have to upload it and then get on my computer later to post it.
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Ah, he closed his eyes for the pic. Anyway:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/ac6dc839-1f31-4186-af77-442897c67631_zpsqwgp6xor.jpg)
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Wouldn't a photocopier have been easier grey area? surely rather difficult to aim the camera...
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A weird statue on my way to work yesterday morning.
Don't judge the art. :M :venus:
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A weird statue on my way to work yesterday morning.
Don't judge the art. :M :venus:
I love it, actually. I need to upload a picture.
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^Looking forward to seeing it.
I took a photo of my writing. it is in the Cursive Writing thread.
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Finally.
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^ It's like a Terminator made of blocks! Where is that? :orly:
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It's in London, in Farringdon. It's on my way to the office there. I love it.
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It's in London, in Farringdon. It's on my way to the office there. I love it.
Do you know who made it? :orly:
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It's in London, in Farringdon. It's on my way to the office there. I love it.
Do you know who made it? :orly:
Sit Antony Gormley.
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Photos of my messy house. If there's any negative comments I have proof of where I started from and how much/little I've accomplished.
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Photos of my messy house. If there's any negative comments I have proof of where I started from and how much/little I've accomplished.
That's a good idea to cover the Royal Ass. :queenie: I sometimes photograph or even film some of my mess
to have something for comparison. I also find I "see" the mess more clearly in a photograph than if it's
around me. I think I have what some hoarding experts call "clutter blindness." I look right through it.
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
I see that now. I thought it was made from wooden blocks. :dunce:
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
Haven't touched it? Really like public art because it can be touched. His art is very intriguing; definitely would want to touch it. Then again, he largely works in male form so the fascination level might be different. Thanks for sharing him; his work is excellent.
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
Haven't touched it? Really like public art because it can be touched. His art is very intriguing; definitely would want to touch it. Then again, he largely works in male form so the fascination level might be different. Thanks for sharing him; his work is excellent.
I guess I'll have to touch it the next time. :-\
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Took a couple of shots of what I thought were some nice large sized solid pieces of iodine. Just snapped them because I thought such large pieces, rather than the common flake form showed off the almost metalloid to metalloid nature of elemental iodine very well. Can't hold such pieces for too longg as it could burn if grasped for a long time, but iodine is tame enough a halogen to sit in the hand for long enough to snap a picture and all it'll do is give you iodine stained fingers. Its volatile and a pain to store since it has a tendency to seep through container seals, and plastics. I tend to buy what I need when I need it, and surplus I'll convert into useful reagents that are not so volatile.
(https://s17.postimg.org/ig0gakwnz/image.jpg)
(https://s17.postimg.org/cdzfwg6tr/I2_single.jpg)
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
Haven't touched it? Really like public art because it can be touched. His art is very intriguing; definitely would want to touch it. Then again, he largely works in male form so the fascination level might be different. Thanks for sharing him; his work is excellent.
*sees we are in a public forum* *touches Jack* :stick: :trollface:
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A rare, universal occurrence that has maybe only occurred before once in this house.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/catssmall_zpspb2zxocf.jpg)
Sleeping always occurs....but NEVER like this. The only time these two are this close to each other is when one (normally the one on the left) is trying to bitch slap the other or take his food.
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
Haven't touched it? Really like public art because it can be touched. His art is very intriguing; definitely would want to touch it. Then again, he largely works in male form so the fascination level might be different. Thanks for sharing him; his work is excellent.
I guess I'll have to touch it the next time. :-\
Don't have to touch it. :laugh: Though sure, why not? Touch it; might like it.
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*sees we are in a public forum* *touches Jack* :stick: :trollface:
:laugh: Sort of set myself up for that one.
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A rare, universal occurrence that has maybe only occurred before once in this house.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/catssmall_zpspb2zxocf.jpg)
Sleeping always occurs....but NEVER like this. The only time these two are this close to each other is when one (normally the one on the left) is trying to bitch slap the other or take his food.
So precious. :heart: A friend of mine has two cats with a similar, squabbling relationship. :laugh:
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*sees we are in a public forum* *touches Jack* :stick: :trollface:
:laugh: Sort of set myself up for that one.
It cheered me up to seize the opportunity. :2thumbsup:
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Finally.
That's awesome. Is it metal?
Yeah, I think so.
Haven't touched it? Really like public art because it can be touched. His art is very intriguing; definitely would want to touch it. Then again, he largely works in male form so the fascination level might be different. Thanks for sharing him; his work is excellent.
I guess I'll have to touch it the next time. :-\
Don't have to touch it. :laugh: Though sure, why not? Touch it; might like it.
You know, it never occurred to me. I pass it every morning when in London, on my way to the office, but at the most I'll simply take a picture and be on my way again. :laugh:
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Refreshing this to make sure it keeps staying uploaded:
http://www82.zippyshare.com/v/LZFuccXl/file.html
My iodine monochloride synthesis. So...what you guys think of this?
(one note-meant to say the argon feed pushes the chlorine gas through, not that the medical air compressor does, the latter drives air through the condenser's cooling jacket not through the central bore.
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I'm familiar with sodium chloride - used it when I worked at the mushroom farm. The rest baffle me a bit.
The camera you have isn't very good at close ups. Maybe get a distance shot of the whole thing, too, before you go close up.
You have an adorable accent.
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I'm familiar with sodium chloride - used it when I worked at the mushroom farm. The rest baffle me a bit.
The camera you have isn't very good at close ups. Maybe get a distance shot of the whole thing, too, before you go close up.
You have an adorable accent.
This is true. "The little choonks." I'd expected a much more aggressive sound. :laugh:
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There's that metal structure outside Liverpool Street station that gets pissed in.
I dunno why anyone would want to touch art. Sounds innocent and childlike in a way.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/31/giant-slides-london-south-bank-carsten-holler-hayward
Though I saw slides by the southbank, I never saw those giant ones.
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I'm familiar with sodium chloride - used it when I worked at the mushroom farm. The rest baffle me a bit.
The camera you have isn't very good at close ups. Maybe get a distance shot of the whole thing, too, before you go close up.
You have an adorable accent.
This is true. "The little choonks." I'd expected a much more aggressive sound. :laugh:
For being ruler of the land, I'm not that great at recognizing accents. Your's sounds like a posh Scottishish accent to me. But what do I know? Love the softness of your voice.
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Its the best and indeed only camera I have.
And thanks ren. Coming from you that really means something :)
Something good, of course. *squeezes*
Have grown mushrooms myself before, both for eating and for other purposes.
And lol I'm sort of a mongrel when it comes to accents, I spent a lot of time down south, when I was younger so presumably that had some effect and changed it from the typical accent of my city.
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I dunno why anyone would want to touch art.
Why does anyone want to touch anything? Because everything is made of energy, and art has a special sort of energy. Wouldn't be compelled to touch this?
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/be/47/7f/be477ffd0ee18dca76574fd48fed95fe.jpg)
Gormley creates indestructible pieces of art and places them among people. Would assume he wants them to be interactive. Even he touches them.
(https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/08/13/Radar_Antony_Gormley_6.jpg)
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His work is awesome.
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I dunno why anyone would want to touch art.
Why does anyone want to touch anything? Because everything is made of energy, and art has a special sort of energy. Wouldn't be compelled to touch this?
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/be/47/7f/be477ffd0ee18dca76574fd48fed95fe.jpg)
I mean...
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Plus, I was always told as a kid not to touch objects.
Having said that, when I go clothes shopping, I want to touch everything.
Modern art isn't interesting enough for me to touch. Besides, I thought you weren't supposed to touch it.
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Isn't it that guy, Gormless or whatevers his face who we need to thank in the kneecaps for that gigantic rusting festering great heap of shite taking up taxpayer's money instead of it being used for, for example, treating paediatric patients in hospital, cancer wards, or fund organ transplants for those in need. Or food banks for those in desperate poverty.
As for me, last few things I took pics of:
Precipitation of pure, extremely fine-grained silica by means of addition of concentrated sulfuric acid to potassium silicate solution (again, very concentrated, to the point of being thick and viscous)
(https://s23.postimg.org/ev6x3xp4b/Precipitation_and_washing_of_silica_using_H2_SO4.jpg)
Separation out of the finest grade particulate size, so fine that it feels slimy rather than grainy if squeezed wet between the fingers, colloidal silica, I think, for use to be mixed with a binder such as plaster of paris, and spread over microscope slides, for DIYing up some TLC plates for thin-layer chromatography qualitative separation of analytes, the coarser stuff is being oven dried, then ground finer, and will be used for preparation instead, of silicon metal (well, semimetal/metalloid) to make some bigger pieces than the first few that I got back from the searing heat of a metallothermic reduction of very finely powdered SiO2 (sand essentially, but of a very much higher grade both in terms of purity and of smaller particle size (the smaller the better for preparing the silicon too, since such thermite-type reductions are easier to initiate the finer the particle size of both metal to reduce with (been testing with magnesium and with 30-micron aluminium)
The stuff at the top of the cleaned out, acid-washed coffee jar is the stuff that will be dried out first over chemical dessicants in a dessicator then final drying in a vacuum chamber for chromatography rather than buying the silica, treated as needs be, will experiment until I get good plates, since TLC plates are expensive if bought. Don't want to damage it thermally so will dry over a container full of NaOH/CaCl2 mixture in my dessicator then when I can get no more H2O content out, its going in the vacuum chamber and being left for a few hours
(https://s4.postimg.org/rer0vqsod/Silica_slush.jpg)
The coarser grained stuff at the bottom, although still damn fine, is being used for refining the silica to silicon, in its elemental state. Here it is drying in the oven, ready to be mixed with a reactive metal like magnesium or aluminium powder, choosing aluminium as I can then test to determine whether shiny, metallic-looking solid lumps are indeed silicon or if they are fused Al powder melted to lumps by the heat of the metallothermic reduction process, which is intense, a carbon crucible is used for the final reduction because metal ones would be unlikely to survive the blazing heat, which is greater than I can actually measure with any of my thermometers, analog or digital.
Roasty roasty: (https://s17.postimg.org/tb1rb334v/In_the_oven.jpg)
End product, dried and ready for use, it simply crumbles away to dust when squeezed between the fingertips:
(https://s29.postimg.org/u9yig9bvr/Final_product_dried_purified_silica.jpg)
Image taken at night of the reaction once started, between <~30 micron (500 mesh) aluminium dust and the finely powdered silica, photographed through an arc welding mask, with the lid on. The view shield is so dark that its very difficult to see even during the day, to see a damn thing through that mask. The temperatures reached during this reaction must have been hellish indeed.
(https://s8.postimg.org/bwj15c6jp/Si_Al_reduction.jpg)
And, finally, after the first small-scale test run, the removal of the slag manually under water after the carbon crucible cooled down and stopped (during which time it was placed outside) giving off the noxious rotting egg stench of the highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas from the small depression made in the test-firing charge to which powdered sulfur was added to make a thermate, in order to have that ignite the thermIte, since sulfur addition to thermites lowers ignition temperature and produces what is known as thermate. Acid added outside to remove sulfides as H2S (caution, toxic, similar toxicity to hydrogen cyanide gas) and finally, product is washed, then the slag and crucible contents gouged and dumped out on a surface to pick through, likely textured and size, followed by exclusion of the possibility of being aluminium by soaking in concentrated NaOH which dissolves aluminium, replacing caustic solution one time when hydrogen evolution ceases (quite vigorous from unreacted fine Al)
This digestion process produced the end product: Raw, elemental silicon.
(https://s2.postimg.org/o76hrd5l5/Si_metal.jpg)
Spent most of the night doing this, going all the way from a silicate and some acid right through to using it as ore and smelting it down to silicon itself.
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Isn't it that guy, Gormless or whatevers his face who we need to thank in the kneecaps for that gigantic rusting festering great heap of shite taking up taxpayer's money instead of it being used for, for example, treating paediatric patients in hospital, cancer wards, or fund organ transplants for those in need. Or food banks for those in desperate poverty.
Or, they might considering spending less on the really stupid things.
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Isn't it that guy, Gormless or whatevers his face who we need to thank in the kneecaps for that gigantic rusting festering great heap of shite taking up taxpayer's money instead of it being used for, for example, treating paediatric patients in hospital, cancer wards, or fund organ transplants for those in need. Or food banks for those in desperate poverty.
You blame the artist because someone spent tax payer dollars to buy his work?
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Pounds, its in the UK, unfortunately. And no, I blame the fuckers who squandered the money. Its useless, its ugly, and that money could have gone to good causes. SHOULD have gone to good causes. Another such instance, is at a local hospital there is a big stainless steel metal pyramidal spike. Modern 'art' in the hospital grounds, that probably cost a bomb. At a time when the NHS is chronically underfunded, and its the people on the sharp end of the wedge who are getting squeezed, not the executive pricks who decide to blow the cash that could have been used to pay for things like nurses and doctor's salaries, advances in patient care...every time I walk past that thing I cannot help but feel disgusted and angry at the waste, when it is directly taking away from patient care. For a big metal spike.
Thats going to do nobody anything, unless it ever gets used to impale a few middlemen.
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And no, I blame the fuckers who squandered the money.
Then to answer your question, no, not Gormley's kneecaps.
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From where do you get your income, Lestat?
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From where do you get your income, Lestat?
I'm sure he works very hard :M
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I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.
And you may pretend you got an answer.
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I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.
And you may pretend you got an answer.
Why?
It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?
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I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.
And you may pretend you got an answer.
Why?
It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?
I have TRIED to get work, for a long long time, I have now, I confess, given up looking, although there is a job locally that is close by and doesn't need transport
Other than that, I had, from my DLA which is a lifetime grant ... bit less or bit more than £20 a week, paid monthly
They gave me a large lump sum too, in what back pay I was owed, amounting to nearly half a grand. That enabled me to rebuild the lab ... And to buy a new computer
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I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.
And you may pretend you got an answer.
Why?
It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?
Cos he has the ability to blow people up!
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Because the answer could put me at risk, is why, not because of any personal misgivings about people's opinions. And this is posted where anybody could read it.
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Because the answer could put me at risk, is why, not because of any personal misgivings about people's opinions. And this is posted where anybody could read it.
Everything you post is posted somewhere that anybody could read. Don't confuse the Elders Forum for some secure location.
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I had no such misapprehensions.
Last thing I took a photo of:
Vacuum-assisted ultra-microfiltration (the round wheel-looking thing is a super-fine pad of filter membranes, which are fine enough to filter out even many viruses. Nothing alive being filtered in this case, just some extremely fine colloidal suspension that would be impossible to filter with conventional filter media, twice pre-filtered, first using a large capacity syringe (20ml or so at a time) and cigarette filters for making rollups, then through a filter membrane with pores a couple of microns wide, before finally going through first a surgical mask (the pore size is much finer than conventional filter paper) to stop it clogging up the ultrafilter, then the thing to be filtered sucked through that under reduced pressure at the vacuum pump (the blue hose leads down to the actual pump, not shown)
(https://s15.postimg.org/x2me68kx7/vacuum_assisted_ultrafiltration.jpg)
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I have a longing to clean up your workspaces. I'm a minimalist.
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I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.
And you may pretend you got an answer.
Why?
It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?
Cos he has the ability to blow people up!
I have to say, I'd prefer art if it was my tax money.
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I have a longing to clean up your workspaces. I'm a minimalist.
You should see my apartment. I try to keep up with the clutter, but I fail. :autism:
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Actually ren, I have been decluttering, getting rid of anything no longer useful.
And who said I was blowing anything up? that kind of thing is (for the most part) fairly simple chemistry. Doesn't take a genius to knock up something that goes 'boom' and makes a mess. If it did, then there wouldn't be quite such a large jihadi problem now would there? They aren't exactly known for their intellect.
It takes a lot more to create something than to tear something that already exists to pieces.
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Actually ren, I have been decluttering, getting rid of anything no longer useful.
And who said I was blowing anything up? that kind of thing is (for the most part) fairly simple chemistry. Doesn't take a genius to knock up something that goes 'boom' and makes a mess. If it did, then there wouldn't be quite such a large jihadi problem now would there? They aren't exactly known for their intellect.
It takes a lot more to create something than to tear something that already exists to pieces.
:lol1:
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New soxhlet extractor (allihn condenser attached)
(http://oi68.tinypic.com/2ewo7qp.jpg)
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New soxhlet extractor (allihn condenser attached)
I like the way you're holding it between your legs like a big phallic symbol. :orly: That's hawt. :zoinks:
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Wasn't quite what was intended. It had to go somewhere, and that was the only way I could keep it in one place keep it at a position where it couldn't fall, had to keep the camera at a distance sufficient to keep the entire thing in focus, although I couldn't actually see it and take the photo at the same time, had to hold the camera behind my shoulder, together, condenser and soxhlet are a bit short of 3 feet long. And not like I could have used my dick as a mount, the condenser joint isn't wide enough.
Anyway, of people here, ren and the PR are more my type:P
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Wasn't quite what was intended.
Phallic symbolism is often subconscious. :zoinks:
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New soxhlet extractor (allihn condenser attached)
I like the way you're holding it between your legs like a big phallic symbol. :orly: That's hawt. :zoinks:
:lol1:
But seriously, that's a nice piece of glassware.
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Why TY.
Very handy piece too, can save a ton on solvent use, using enough to saturate whatevers being extracted and enough to repeatedly cycle through. They work kind of like a coffee percolator, only one capable of reflux. Soxhlets are really efficient. Haven't used it yet though, since I haven't yet needed it. But they do improve efficiency an awful lot.
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This fucking apartment.
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Wasn't quite what was intended. It had to go somewhere, and that was the only way I could keep it in one place keep it at a position where it couldn't fall, had to keep the camera at a distance sufficient to keep the entire thing in focus, although I couldn't actually see it and take the photo at the same time, had to hold the camera behind my shoulder, together, condenser and soxhlet are a bit short of 3 feet long. And not like I could have used my dick as a mount, the condenser joint isn't wide enough.
Anyway, of people here, ren and the PR are more my type:P
The gopher isn't even people. He's redneck casserole material. :gopher: :litigious:
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Went for a walk yesterday in the cemetery downtown and took this one on the side by the train tracks. They are from the late 1700s and surrounded by poison ivy which is kinda sad but they keep most of them clear with the limited money they have.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/KIMG1197_zps3cjggwe0.jpg) (http://s135.photobucket.com/user/parts67/media/KIMG1197_zps3cjggwe0.jpg.html)
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If you ever got chance to get hold of some (obviously with tweezers and a pair of small cutters) I'd be really interested in some poison ivy/oak/sumac seed y'know.
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Last thing I took a photo of, was actually a video, of how to set up a vacuum distillation. Had problems with the actual distillation since the pump was giving me trouble in the intense heat of the weather at the time whilst my current hotplate's replacements (2 hotplate/magnetic stirrers and a brand new heating mantle, with stirring too:D) haven't arrived at my doorstep yet, I did get the distillation done, deciding to accept some loss of material and cautiously employ, after consulting with others experienced with the compound to be distilled, a direct flame, using a gas torch and holding the flame a fair way away from my flask to avoid damage to it, which got the goods distilling over at a good startup speed.
I'll post a video once I've spliced the two sections together and ripped away the metadata, showing how a vacuum distillation is set up (in this case I didn't, due to the relatively small quantity of material that was being distilled, there can be considerable bumping, I.e rapid, roiling boiling thats overvigorous and can send bits of whatever the liquid in the flask is, including fractions of higher boiling material you didn't want in the distillate up into the still head and into your collection flask, boiling chips don't work since in a vacuum air can't nucleate on the rough bits it normally does, since its removed by the vacuum anyway, although a spinning magnetic stirbar can be used in the absence of magnetic material, and as can the approach of introducing a long glass capillary tube, such as can be either bought, pulled from a pasteur pipette under heating to soften the glass or else hacking the other end off a thermometer if one has been broken close to one end, or gutted for caniballizing things like mercury metal or galinstan (a low melting liquid alloy of gallium, indium and tin [the latin for tin, is 'stannum' which is where the last bit of the name is derived from] and gallium, in combination with indium can be used, in the form of galinstan as a potential replacement for mercury-based amalgam reductions involving aluminium as it too shares in the disruptive effect of mercury and its salts on the passivating oxide surface layer of aluminium) the fine internal bore of a thermometer works well if both ends are open. This is passed through a thermometer adapter or holed stopper, preferably wrapped with a few turns of teflon tape, and it permits a tiny stream of air to be sucked through by the vacuum, not much, just enough to allow bubbles to nucleate and agitate the liquid being distilled so it doesn't superheat, flash-boil and 'kick' suddenly. For highly air-sensitive substances and pyrophoric compounds you'd use a better seal than a thermometer adapter of course, and connect the other end of the capillary to a nitrogen tank or argon tank or else a tank of helium and allow a slow bleed of gas to be sucked in to prevent bumping whilst disallowing reaction with air and destruction of one's compounds, catalysts or just plain setting shit on fire. Which is often fun in a lot of circumstances, but would be a total pig if it happened in a flask containing a liter of ether or THF containing a pyrophoric hydride reducing agent, or organometallic compound being reacted with the valuable, difficult to make and excruciating to purify project you might have spent weeks or months on preparing, or something that made use of something literally irreplaceable you bought as a 1-time available thing. I have something of that nature, just 5g of it, earmarked for two unique new compounds afaik that have never been in man before. Or if they have, then surely never more than a handful of them. And the precursor compound cost me nearly £90 for just 5g. And such an accident would be unforgiveable, as it looks like it would be extremely difficult to synthesize, needing the addition of a strongly electron-withdrawing substituent to a benzene ring already bearing two extremely EWGs (fluorinated at that, too) and whilst I managed to get some of what I need to make what I wish to make with it, it is not a commercial item produced in large scale but a specialist acquisition I managed to make by pure luck being in the right place at the right time.
Anybody wish to see the vacuum distillation video? if so I can do the video editing/splicing segments together and pop it up on my lab thread for y'all:)
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If you ever got chance to get hold of some (obviously with tweezers and a pair of small cutters) I'd be really interested in some poison ivy/oak/sumac seed y'know.
It's vile stuff I'm somewhat immune but my wife ends up at the doctor when she gets it. I think sending seeds like this is frowned upon by the authorities.
Last photo I took was of the info on the back of a solar panel I got for free. Squirrels had damaged the wires but not the panel which still works fine now I have to figure out what to use it for.
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Pretty sure there is no law against it. Its just not something I've been able to find in garden centers.
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Figs from 'me' own garden. They're a bit 'fatter' than previous years but that's because the last couple of weeks there was a lot of rain here.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rTCLoWDfhExgXTfk6PzOCVT128xOoWlkGb-xe0XuH7IH-rj-MNWl4HenuIRmgcf70EYctp2yfwFZbjlnYz-wDjYodbW_TrdkacA81cE36fXWCe6p9qBmRd0TY86S3qZ7Rhdvn0tMK-W7Urrjk6FdyqW5Pi19VNSVbL-AhnPf5owJd2ERJZQMA94lPJ0AkRQ-FzkaaH7HvAm5-u9uo-en3RFJsXsZp28MyXFlLmzcm1G_W0nHa56eYSQ_4bNHRaLYnj1CgWRnUwei5uvI8QBNRREVXh3q_Yf6MFaTyaFvq4avELBxFjotsVbKcWZVyHA-ro7LpTsstuYlHjcjpO_RI4LTRXPa7d-RCCob1Wwugjax6rweqvuZr0nBNTe0tcmrHwsDhzgc22vRKu9eHtK_ZZMzmYCi2P3SoUIEDXH1E68ba4ClTIA7a3tPIzP22FodUC8G8yoIhQ1Q2434hKpDlZ5dFuBW-NTz82rKkVR11w78HJAki1mBviZWoWSJVqc4JBJjIT9O09JdEMoaHt7rSih5s7MwHSs1T4N5aoGKnXlkzk3SFAvQMFjYv4p3mr1cZi70v1Cr7ZsyvO4dIVQrTEg9YbCAIP8qH3F-HJl_kpXn6sdfeMGw26A=w816-h612-no)