I got my terrain materials back, still in boxes, but UCS has been waiting, so I mentioned it and got this reply from Pan Fryed Wylie — “Pics! Or GTFO!”
Since I didn’t have any pics to share I figured I’d make some. The goal was simple, get a base, and use existing materials to build a diorama, but what? Where? I like to build from an idea, then let it kind of freeform, but what theme? Army men get boring, so I looked around and found some fishermen, hmm sounds intriguing.
Start with a base.
Next add texture.
Then smooth at your water area.
Now you are ready for some paint, you need this for your base to look cool when finished, plus the acrylic seals everything nicely, like so.
Some water effects.
Next we want to add our trails and grass.
Now we are getting somewhere.
On to the shrubbery!
Whenever you do a water scene you need to be real careful as to the steps and order, too soon and you get Grass all over your water, too late, and you don’t have room to work due to trees, etc.so you can’t just slap shit down and expect a good result, forethought is required. I wanted some Reeds and ended up with Cattails, which is waaay better, I love the look.
Then we start adding trees.
And shrubs.
After that, we added the whitewater. Still drying, but the effect is already there,
Yet more shrubs and trees
And, Voila!
The Result. I’m blown away, things really fell into place.
This is a top three on my list of coolness, I was wondering if I still had it. I guess I do.
That last picture should have the woman giving the man a blowjob.
OoooK………..?
…while he is drinking a warm Keystone Light beer and smoking a Winston, while she is gagging on that one pubic hair that stands out because he can’t trim correctly so there are always a few stragglers and yep she got one in her mouth and she is trying to stroke him while getting the too long pube out of her mouth and she accidentally burns his shaft with a lit Benson and Hedges Ultra Light in her right hand.
That’s oddly specific.
“Memories
light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
of the way we were . . . “
Where’s HM’s “that’s my fetish” GIF?
Thanks dick! My wife walked by and asked what I was laughing at.
You’re welcome, dick.
I was thinking this.
STEVE SMITH NO MINATURE
Aw, Yusef, I wish I had the money to pay you to make a diorama for me.
What do you want?
I would have to copy it from a book I wrote, and I don’t have it at the moment. I will, though. I would rather be able to pay you for it, though.
Lemme know, I have lot’s of materials and ideas,
Well, here you go.
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Acres and acres of rolling hills currently covered in brownish lawn and stripped trees that would grow emerald and lush come spring
A large lake with a manicured island and lacy white gazebo in the middle of it connected to the shore by an arched concrete gothic revival bridge
A collection of little gothic revival brick cottages arranged in an artfully scattered pattern and connected by cobblestone walking paths interspersed with random flower beds
A carefully camouflaged playground and swimming pool toward the southwest edge of the property, and
Decorative placement of peach, apple, and cherry trees artfully placed, with more strategically arranged flower beds.
Though she couldn’t see it from the office, across the highway lay the construction site for another collection of gothic revival buildings: shops for the selling of local handcrafted goods and food, hunting and fishing gear, and other high-end goods and services, including a spa.
He’d never seen anything so lush, so . . . perfect. In the middle of it all reigned the most glorious example of a stripped-down gothic revival mansion he’d ever seen. At four stories with three steeply pitched gables—one of which rose far above the roof line—it was enormous. It was antique brick, a light terra cotta, with simple white trim and curved-top shutters that matched the Palladian windows. A deep veranda wrapped all the way around it. It had little extraneous ornamentation along its gables and eaves. The veranda eaves and ceiling dripped baskets of colorful flowers.
The roof was clad in square matte black shingles with a strange geometric pattern. They didn’t look like asphalt, ceramic, or wood, but Eric couldn’t figure out just what they were.
The lawn was immense, with a large, flower-bounded boulder toward the front, modestly carved with “Whittaker House” and its street number on both sides. There were sheep grazing on pickets!
Eric drove up the long cobblestone horseshoe drive, down and around to a precisely landscaped parking lot. Planters filled with flowers between pairs of parking spaces, and different colored cobblestones marking each space.
Strategically planted apple trees had made the whole thing disappear from the highway.
Another car zipped by on another well-hidden drive right in front of him, headed south to what appeared to be a long, low stable off in the distance, but knew it had to be valet parking once he saw a young man jogging back to the mansion.
Eric got out and stood by his car. He looked across the highway to a collection of gothic revival shops the same brick as the mansion, roofed in the same material, all meticulously landscaped and arranged around a half-moon-shaped courtyard. Fishing gear and custom fly-tying. Needlecrafts. Clothing boutique of a local designer-tailor. Salon and spa. Gourmet grocer, featuring locally made foods. Hunting outfitter. Stationery.
He turned toward the mansion and walked around the grounds a bit. Cottages, smaller versions of the stores across the highway, sat scattered behind the mansion, spread out in an asymmetrical fan shape amongst a park-like lawn with flowers and trees, benches and a playground just north of the garage. Various narrow cobblestone pathways led to the cottages.
Two outbuildings to the northwest sat at the edge of an apple orchard and were much bigger than the rest, but so far away they almost faded into the lawn and trees.
All of the cottages, the valet garage, and the two outbuildings were clad in the same brick as the mansion and shops, and all of them had that strange roof pattern. Each cottage had some unique feature, with no more than two of the little buildings alike. Some were two-story and some one. Each had unique eave detailing, as a proper gothic revival should, and none of the cottage eaves were as barren as the mansion’s eaves. Each cottage had a large railed porch with rocking chairs or a porch swing, and each cottage’s foundation was swathed in flowers.
20K, and it’s yours, plus rent me an apartment/room to stay while i work,
LOL Right?!
This is why I want to be able to draw and paint what I see in my head.
Jesus Christ. Ken Schultz had shorter posts.
Well, since it was Ken who led me over here, that’s fair.
Also, I write because I can’t draw and paint stuff like that.
Spoiler alert- It involves a mormon. And a hooker.
Wrong book. ?
But it WAS a book. Im still right.
The one with the Publisher’s Weekly starred review, yes.
Mormon bishop, ex-prostitute.
Looks great. Lacking one thing though. Who goes fishing without a cooler full of beer? ?
Dammit if your aren’t right! I can fab some up and add them, Thanks!
make sure they’re tiny tall cans. just to be thematically appropriate.
Purty!
Are you adding the shadows or are those from your lights?
Lights, other than the water, and the grass, and the trees,
That’s what I thought. Pretty cool stuff, YDaK.
Ive not been fishing in probably a decade. Now I want to go fishing.
Its not so bad, once you get used to the smell.
/heyoooohhhh
The one is Robert Redford, right ?
You ever watched “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?”
Hasn’t everyone? Although the Sting is the superior Redford/Newman vehicle.
This is an “a” and “b” conversation between myself and Tres Cool, so why don’t you just “c” yourself out!!!
Don’t be a d.
F all ya’all !
Z ing.
Nerds
Airheads
Non pareils
I like some grass on the field IYKWIM
You should get some macro lenses and shoot scenes like that guy from MarWenCal.
I have 2 on deck, and will likely do some lighting/ lens effects, been experimenting with it,
Amazing.
I’m I fisherman and I can’t find fault.
Nice work!
‘A” fisherman.
Fuck you, phone.
iFisherman by iPhone?
It only catches apple-compatable iFish
Thank You Sir!
I’m I fisherman and I can’t find fault.
“The guy in blue is casting left-handed by clearly has the reel mounted for righties. Also, the depicted lures are worthless. -1 Bassmaster”
Bass fishing is the NASCAR of fishing.
“Look at that!!! That bass made another left turn!!!”
How to beat the covid19
tw I’m down with the clown ’till I’m dead in the ground.
That’s how you beat the fuckin’ system.
I wasn’t down with the clown until the second time I did mushrooms. One of the guys we tripped with had a bit of a freak out. The only way we could calm him down was to listen to icp. Not the best music to listen to whilst on mushrooms, but certainly not the worst.
The second-to-last time I did shrooms I listened to this on a loop with some horrible, cute, stinky hippie/hipster ladies
The last time I did shrooms I listened tothis, alone in a hotel room.
“I likes my women like I likes my dirty laundry: in a smelly heap encrusted with my jizz.”
–Chapter 2, A Crusty Autobiography
Spoiler: viruses are deflected by magnets, that’s how the fuck do they work. (not ‘virii’, eh, Spell Check? I’ll be…)
Dammit. I’ve got an unopened bottle of pouring medium in a bin upstairs that’s now pulling me with it’s siren song, competing with a symmetrically seductive yet silent pull (like fishing line) from my tacklebox. Way to dual hobby-entice me.
Put some tiny fried chicken on there with the beer cooler. Or a tiny picanick basket. (Next installment/handle: “Yusef weaves a micro basket.”)
I’ll cover that in the next episode, I promise,
Remember when you were home, depressed, not sleeping, and you are watching late night television and your crush and you end up having the same habits and likes/dislikes?!?!?!??!
Cool as always, Yusef. Now I’m looking forward to my fishing trip in May.
Too bad the entire world will be dead again from both net neutrality and the Wuhan Virus.
These are amazing. They remind me of my dad’s old train garden. He could never get water to look that good. He did grass and mountains pretty good, though. And gravel. Lots of gravel.
Gravel, like shrubs, cover a multitude of mistakes,
Ha. That explains it. One time he was working on it and fudged up. He got so upset he snapped a 2×4 over his knee like Cerrano striking out on a curve ball.
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
http://archive.li/FHMcv
For you Yusef: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/LR67VkYvQtO3HqiUAmos2A.HDQNFkuAZNsAmlR1YS8chS
I did one. Once. In high school. I know I have more pics close up, but I can’t find them right now…
Not nearly as good or detailed, but I was young and completing for a grade, not pride.
I’ll look for them later.
75 cents in materials and an hour’s work, I could double the value of that nice little tract home, coolness!
I know being Libertarianish, I should support voting rights for all However, after watching a video highlighting people making a run on toilet paper and even fighting over it, I am warming up to the idea of not allowing certain people to vote.
I’m pondering slinging an AR pistol on my back until further notice. According to the media, I haven’t been panicking enough. That should fix it.
I went down to basement and cleaned the guns tonight. Watching all this irrational panic made me think, it’s probably a good idea to have them ready.
Should clarify for the FBI agent assigned to watch this site. Have them ready for an instance of legal self defense.
I always kind of liked the idea of skin in the game. Either an income tax payer or property owner / tax payer.
Enh… renters have skin in the game, too. They pay the property taxes and for any upgrades.
Make the vote commensurate with the amount of tax you pay. You pay 2 K you get 2 votes, etc. No one that gets any gov check is allowed to vote ’cause conflict of interest.
Clearly this would be racist and the equivalent of resurrecting the Third Reich.
popular suffrage is idiotic
pure anarchy makes more sense
Universal suffrage democratic majoritarianism is a death spiral.
But the natural tendency of a liberal republic is to expand the franchise.
When the stupid racist bigots finally let undocumented citizens vote, we’ll be fair and free.
I don’t consider the franchise to be a fundamental right.
Toilet paper: positive or negative right?
DISCUSS
My left hand seems to work ok.
While fishing for those pics for Yusef, I found this: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/MX9KAKK6TKqxMF-MeUbc0Q.apq0gqryPuW77X_rSPhs-G
Apparently, I was doing selfies before it was cool (87).
all y’all so old. watch out for corona.
Both Clark Griswold and Madonna took selfies in ’85.
Saw my first real life golf disks today. Was at the gun shop buying ammo, turned around and saw a whole rack of different disks. There is a course across the street.
Looks like the hoarding hasn’t made it to the ammo yet.
I am way impressed, Pardner. How long, from start to where you are now? Looks to me like that would be a time consuming project. Sure does look nice. A deer drinking nearby?
That was about 40 hours of actual work, spread over a few weeks, it’s just a lot of fun, research, color selection, materials, and a lot more,
Wow, good job. I’m recommending you for a pay raise.
Thunderstorms are going off, so I unplugged my PC system, commenting on the phone sucks,
Indeed it does! But your pics are A-1!
So are yours!
*waggles eyebrows*
Down, boy.
You can’t get down from a boy, you get down from a duck.
Where is Swiss and his narrowed gaze when you need him?!
I mean c’mon
Bjork can suck a “d”
OT, but the story on COVID-19 features a picture of sterile suited folks and a Subaru and it just seemed to me like it was from the mind of SF.
SF dons appropriate inspirational apparel.
https://imgur.com/a/5cwMkW9
No, that’s me.
Beautifully done, Yusef!
Next make the disc golf course of your dreams.
I would but the baskets, jeesh…
Fair point. Maybe just your dream hole?
Yeah, I know what I just did…
That is some exceptional work, Yusef. I don’t know anything about it, but the effort and attention to detail is obvious.
The world is ending – and you should all just run away and hide – but some things just bring joy.
I’m a mild to medium germaphobe and I’m having a very hard time working up a lather (or hysteria) on the coronavirus. Am I defective? Fwiw, I’m in a very low risk group.
It’s not good.
A panic is really not good.
If you’re healthy you are fine.
Maybe…
But also buy some tp and water and such just in case.
And also lol people are disgusting so its a losing effort.
Most importantly: pay me a lot of money to…ummmmm…clean…your place of business. Thank you.
I’m a germ freak and my people are asking why I’m not freaking out..
I’m not in a very low risk group, but I’m more worried about all of you youngsters.
Who will drop the gloves and spread the love if I’m gone?!?
Looks to me like the kiddies are immune, almost like…it was designed that way…
*dnh* *dnh* *dnnnnnn-dldldldlddldldldldldldldl*
I’m your huckleberry
The last time I dropped my glove yet still spreaded some love I had to go the free clinic.
People are actually saying this shit with sincerity:
we can’t have supply chains for essential items located thousands of miles away in countries that hate us
She can’t hold these reprehensible views like some debauched nativist. She’s ethnic!
This shit is the same hair-shirt wearing, mortification of the flesh shit that the Greenies do, but it’s ok because this time it’s BASED.
I have no problem moving manufacturing operations out of China. Just, you know, invest in it with your own money.
Oh, see, you’re just the kind that wouldn’t invest in her artisanal product; you’d just buy the cheapChinkchit. That’s why govt must stop you from being so selfish and short-sighted.
Panics make all the lunatics come out of the woodwork.
“Pandemic! Better shout my buy local schtick from the highest mountain!”
Spending 150 dollars on a pair of khakis is how you MAGA, shitlib.
Do those khakis have a crotch gusset?
No, just a wear hole
Winston’s mom?
no, ‘wearhole’ is where you get into the pants.
Is this whole coronavirus thing just an experiment to determine to what extent the deep state(s) can control people. I mean, yes, coronavirus is something that one should be aware of and take reasonable precautions, but sweet feathery Jesus people are losing their minds over it. I looked at Google News at lunchtime (I know, I know, should have been here), and every. single. story. on the front page was about COVID-14. The wife went to the grocery store after work, and people were lined up to the back of the store with carts overflowing with supplies. I mean, FFS. People are sheep.
Dry run for socialism?
Huh. WordPress removed my “tinfoilhat” tags. Also a conspiracy?
It ate a plus sign in one of my posts, and my links have been hit or miss recently. The Squirrels must be out of hibernation.
11 pediatric deaths from the flu in the last week. That’s a common number this time of year l, but there haven’t been any grocery runs in the past…
Huh. I just sent mine to the store for Bit o Honeys. He said the store was packed and the TP shelves were bare.
Who the hell cares?
Did you get the Bit ‘O Honey??
YES!
Also, fruit Tootsie Rolls.
See, that’s all that matters.
Best candy ever.
In the overwhelming majority of apocalypse scenarios, Bit’O Honey will be the only thing left untouched on store shelves.
Bearpocalypse and Beepocalypse beeing (bzz) the most notable exceptions.
Gay
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/sober-curious-trend-inspires-more-bars-in-columbus-to-add-more-non-proof-options
The bar manager looked exactly like I thought he would.
Brothels should cater more to the abstinent lifestyle. Maybe board games?
Justin Trudeau and wife were in self-isolation after she had the sniffles. Tests were supposed to come back at 6:00pm EDT. Crickets from the media. Imma guess the tests were false, and this whole deal was a “look at me!”. There’s an expression for that. Attention something. What is it? It’s on the tip of my tongue.
Attention prostitute?
Puh-LEEEZE. She’s Quebecoise — it’d be putain d’attention.
French Canadians use the same word for prostitute as cheese and gravy-covered french fries?
Hmm, that sounds like it may be my latest kink.
Attention lady of questionable morals?
But what about Harry and whatshertits, the pretend-black lady? Are they okay!?
Queen E personally developed Coronavirus to kill the two of them off, but released it in China because it’s a more believable point of origin.
“pretend-black lady”?
What’s this “pretend,” Kimosabe? Half is not pretend. That’s what Britain’s shitting all over itself for.
Hold on now, we have to define our measurement system first. There’s a big difference between one-drop rule and spansih fractions.
*spanish
That’s more than a drop, if we’re measuring. But it is enough to put Britain out a bit.
But under Spanish Fractions, Mulatto is a separate category from black.
We’re talking about the British monarchy here, the one that assassinated Princess Diana for banging an Egyptian. I don’t think they care about how the Spanish measured anything.
No, we’re talking about a glib discussion of the monarchy.
No, but the affected racial grievances. Yeah, sister, you’re oppressed for sure.
“pretend-black lady”?
he meant “pretend black-lady”, chill out.
Just reported that she has it.
I wish I were there, in that scene, Yusef. It’s peaceful.
Be Still My Soul.
well, I was out of food, so I went to the store.
Panic buying has hit the idiots of the capital district. They were out of french toast and toilet paper. I mean it, the whole TP aisle was wiped out, even the shitty one-ply imitation scotts stuff no one buys unless broke and desperate. Funnily, the shelves were brown. I did not know this before, because they were always well-stocked.
I got a 12 pack, 6 month supply…………..
They were out of french toast . . .
Wait, what? They were out of unsliced bread and eggs?
panic buying is irrational.
Out of French toast? Where do you get French toast in a grocery store?
they were out of bread and eggs.
Oh. Huh. Did you notice if they were out of flour?
didn’t go down that aisle.
Because bread can be made.
I wasn’t shopping for bread, I was noting the behaviour of the other shoppers.
Besides they had pizza dough, with which I’m going to make tomorrow’s lunch.
*freedom toast
*patriot pain
the shelves were brown
White paper on brown shelves, how gauche.
Trillions? But I wanted Quadrillions! /Stomps feet, sells more stock.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/fed-repo-trillions-added-to-fight-coronavirus-economic-risk-recession-2020-3-1028991278
Looks like full blown socialism with a whole bunch of inflation. Every thing is on the table. Money for not working? You got it. Pay your house payment/rent if you are ‘suffering’? You got it. Medicare, without any payer? You got it. AOC wanted everything but forgot gun confiscation, that’ll come later. Banks, Airlines,Energy, Hotels, Cruise ships, every thing that is impacted other than your bowel will be in line for money, bring a wheel barrow.
Fed already in for a T. The fiscally responsible Republicans (Rand Paul and maybe another) but other than that everyone will be on the band wagon to avoid not looking like a spoilsport.
We’re going to see a whole lot of socialism, without Bernie, before the dust settles. Hire some experienced Zimbabwe advisors so we get this right. I fear for the result
DOA: The Most Libertarian President of All Time™ would never sign such a thing into law
That’s the hope of Biden and the boys. They’ll tie to some CV wish list and Donnie will have a tough time to not caving.
During today’s board meeting, it amused me to no end when the company president told the VP Eng that he (the Veep) would have to be on 2 week self quarantine if his flight doesn’t get back to the US by Friday midnight.
maybe that’s the preferred outcome?
The logic is weak with this one.
NHL suspends season in response to COVID-19 pandemic
Looks like 53 years and counting for the Leafs.
Alternate: At least the Leafs won’t lost in the first round this year.
suspended. not ended. i could really use me some summer hockey when this thing blows over.
It sucks. The Wild were finally starting to play well.
The Rangers can use the time off to screw their heads back on right.
And half that for the entire nation.
I blame that scoundrel Joe Rogan for the increase in panic. He had that guy on.
Joe Rogan controls the world.
If I want to hear a bald guy pretend to be smart I’ll put some Tool on.
If I want to hear a bald guy pretend to be smart I’ll put some Kojack on.
If I want to hear bald guys pretend to be smart I’d hang out here.
Well, I’m not bald, and I’m not pretending – I am as dumb as I sound.
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Kojak
Kojak who?
Kojak off in a hat.
At least we still have Don Rickles.
This coronavirus stuff is bullshit.
+1
Disagree. We should shutdown every single school in the country right now because 1400 out of 330.000.000 are ill The economically struggling in this country can totes do without being able to work or have their children in school for months in end.
I’m working from home for the next 2+ weeks. Not complaining.
The Honda Ridgeline is a decent midsize truck. Fight me.
Not really a truck, but it’s really cool.
So, if you want to fight, I’m in on principle, but my heart won’t be in it.
You’re of the “truck = body on frame” school?
I’m more of a functional design guy. It’s not built like other trucks, but it does what other trucks in the same class do. Some things better, some things not as well.
It’s the only midsize truck that can fit a quad between the wheel wells. I don’t think that’s on accident.
Towing, for one thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I know most of my truck is silly, but there are times I have to haul/tow a shit-ton. Once my world changes, I would buy a midsize in a heartbeat.
I wish more companies would build them. Pickups are fucking awesome.
Fair enough. If you need a full sized, you need a full sized. But I think that most people, me included, don’t. The most I’m going to tow is a fishing boat or a trailer with some junk in it, probably.
Few “need” a full size.
Even fewer need something comparable to an f250.
But they are awesome, and that is what matters.
What’s this ‘need’ thing?
Exactly.
Hey, I’m not advocating for the government to take away your full size. I’m just saying that I ain’t shelling out the extra cash to buy one and to pay for gas and to have a hard time driving and parking in town because I won’t realize the benefit from it.
So, does that mean we’re just gonna hug and skate around for a bit, then jaw at each other from our respective penalty boxes?
Pretty much. We should throw a couple punches for the crowd.
Do you bleed easily?
I’ll bite my lip after to see if I can get the extra 2 minutes.
That’s only for high-sticking.
Work with me, pedant!
OK Joe.
Yeah, its cute
So you like the Honda El Camino ? Good for you….
LOL. I had not made the connection to the El Camino.
Poor forgotten Ranchero…
Because I’m tired of the negativity and stress:
Pink Moon.
Great song. Guy that produced it went on to produce cool for cats and argybargy from squeeze.
John Wood?
My son is in Aberdeen for school. Think I should send him over there?
Couldn’t hurt.
Great song and artist, too bad about his tragic life.
Wow! That is fucking great Yusef! I think that’s your best one yet.
Top 3 anyway, Thanks Pud!
Flatten the curve.
No, you’re supposed to straighten the curve, and flatten the hills.
I’m with Santelli on this one – no need to prolong the agony and impact. Gottlieb and others agree that flattening won’t save any lives.
https://news.yahoo.com/cnbcs-rick-santelli-getting-ripped-163343231.html
Someday the mountain might get em, but the law never will.
The president we need.
https://twitter.com/LegendaryEnergy/status/1238238482201325573
Turn on.
I really really really want to have a little pull-behind camper-trailer for an office. Not a pop-up. It needs to be warm in the winter and have plenty of windows for summer. It needs to have electricity. Propane for sure. Water…maybe if I ever have to sell it. I don’t need a bathroom, but again, maybe I would if I had to sell it.
ANYWAY. I have the tools. I can get materials. I need a camper, but cheap. Has to have a good floor and preferably the roof doesn’t leak. I’ve seen some “steals” online but…no clear title. Oops, no wonder it’s cheap.
My problem is: I COULD DIY this. But do I want to? And also, RV wiring confuses the hell out of me. Can I or can I not park it somewhere and work and have electricity without being plugged in? And if so, do I HAVE to have solar panels to keep a battery charged?
What are you anyhow? Some BoHo artiste ?
Well…yeah. Did you think otherwise?
Yes, you can, Time=Money though, spend both wisely,
I can help with the LV/Solar conversion
Here’s the thing about solar: I’m VERY attracted to it. But can it give me the kind of power I’m looking for consistently, 8-12 hours a day, and sometimes way out in the boonies when I feel like working in nature?
* lights
* laptop
* tiny fridge
* device chargers
* TV/DVR (possibly)
* A/C (would really love that, but will sacrifice)
You’d need a huge battery backup to run that amount of voltage and you need to live in a sunny place to boot.
Break it down for me.
The solar wouldn’t do it for me or I can’t get that kind of power at all with any battery or charging port?
A generator would do that for you – think food trucks. Loud are super-cheap and used are easy to come-by.
*gasp* You’re right! I was looking at those the other day, but it was very late and I was very tired and then I got sticker shock.
I would MUCH prefer a generator, preferably propane.
Everything but the the fridge/AC can be done with solar/batteries, otherwise you need at least a 115 Vac outlet
There are refrigerator/freezers that don’t run on electricity – they run on natural gas or propane. You still have to haul the fuel out but it’s more efficient than hauling fuel for a generator to make electricity.
I don’t know much, only what I have talked with solar installers and owners. We did rent a house once for ten days in one of the sunniest spots in the world, and they still had significant battery backup and even in the day you couldn’t run a lot of electrical stuff if the AC was on (AC uses a good amount of volts). Here is a pretty good calculator.
https://www.wholesalesolar.com/solar-information/battery-bank-sizing
Has this made the rounds here yet?
Duly noted.
Will vaccinate this weekend.
I’m vaccinating right now.
Great job Yusef, I like the fishing theme, but then again I love fishing.
Damn this fucking bullshit ass Wuhan virus panic. They just cancelled my little league baseball for the next three weeks. We lost our first game to a rainout, so now half our season is shot. The CCP needs to pay a major ducking price for this duck up.
The Youngest Glib!!!!
Sorry about the game, kid.
I may be 8, but I’m old enough to glib.
Ha! I got suckered into coaching again, this time for the middle kid.
So, while alcohol-infused and wholly pissed that out POS governor has issued an edict banning any assemblage of more than 100 ppl (form on their webpage) due to the virus-crisis, I was filling out the form on the webpage, got the the part where I called him a ‘petty tyrant that never held a proper job”, accused him of being a Pierre Trudeau wannabe” and then said his daughter (who is running for election) looked like a horse. If your ugly daughter walked into a bar… the bartender would say “why the long face?”
I havent yet hit submit…
Do it.
Because we can do more.
That’s supposed to get her votes?
She got married, somehow. Im guessing not too many beejer’s with those teeth.
Less colorful, but I just sent an email to the President of my son’s college calling their overall virus response pathetic and called for the firing of the Dean/Comm Director in-charge. They are literally stiffing students who have paid for an upcoming study abroad (now cancelled) – too bad for you!
You are my muse!
*hits SEND*
That doesn’t sound legal. Hope they sue them.
I’m guessing that’s a viable lawsuit.
Arteta tested positive. Cancel the season so Liverpool wins nothing!
I was wondering when England would fall into line.
PS. Liverpool win by default. Suck it.
The two week bender.
At this point, what every governor should do is declare, starting Fridau, that were on a bender. Booze tac is refunded, we stay home, drink, and in two weeks the spread is over.
Booze. The solution.
God made Booze? or did Booze make God? hmmmm
And Happy Fridau!
Yeah, looks like gbob started early.
That will get most of the incubation, but then would still need to get past contagiousness. Make it a double?
Second solution to our problems.
In WW2 we United. Millions of men made a sacrifice to go to war. So did the women. Rosie’s the Riviter.
We face a crisis. My woman has been freaking out about the virus. Before coming to bed she took her temp. Half a degree over. I have to sleep in the guest room.
That’s when it struck me. A draft. Healthy young women, between 18-25, are drafted to fight. They fight for the sanity of guys who have women who freak about disease. Guys like me can show up, and have our moral.boosted.
Rosie’s the Riviter? Meet Bosie the Blowjobber.
The poster is the same. Replace the wrench with a penis.
For America.
Wait a sec… isn’t that The Handmaiden’s Tale?
Sort of. My plan drafts Christina Hendricks before Elizabeth Olsen.
I live at the end of the supply chain, in the middle of the Desert, we have water, TP, fresh meat and produce, no lines or panic, is it just a City thing? why the freakout?
You live in a warm climate.
not right now, and it’s fucking Cold 6 months out of the year, warm my ass!
I’m more worried about my questionable dinner choice of a Papa John’s papadia at the moment…my stomach is doing things, man.
Move to a place with real pizza! We have no pizza hut or domino’s that delivers. Why? So many great places that make real pizza.
That was mainly a choice due to laziness and apathy.
And I’ll keep my plethora of bbq options over better pizza, for what it’s worth. 😉
oh that’s pretty cool Yusef!
Let’s see in Chez Athena news: the teenager has some sort of respiratory illness/mild pneumonia, so I may have Glibs Patient Zero in my house. Sorry, guys, it’s too late, the internet will spread the virus. If you don’t have three months of TP, it’s too late. But it doesn’t matter for his school, because they’ve shut down anyway starting tomorrow.
I’m in the process of canceling our Maui trip next week for spring break so yay for seeing how much we can get refunded/rescheduled. If he weren’t sick, we’d still go – most of this is way overblown, but abundance of caution and all that. Sad, I was looking forward to getting away, but nope.
Thanks, but Please take care, it hits everyone I suppose,
/No Cpt.Trips!
Nice thing is that travel deals, next week, are going to be crazy cheap. Plan a November cruise. Right now the plans are less than 150. Next week? Booking two 5 week cruises, with a two day luxury hotel in between. Cost will be less than a grand. Good deals starting next week!
There’s a new BattchTech audiobook out… but it’s about filthy clanners.
Wrry?!
I was hoping it was the one where they explain why a missile does only one point of damage and has a range of less than 2 miles.
Stop using g reason we want mwchs, not a series of drones in space.
The hypothesis was thus – multiple small warheads in swarms were used to get past the abundant anti-missile systems before the collapse, and despite the disappearance of AMSes for a while, it was just the way things were done.
Stocking up, here’s my list,
Soup
Beer
Butane, for my my mini stove
Water
Tea
Coffee
Charcoal
Spam
Vienna sausage
Canned Fruit
Cash
Did I miss anything?
I’m purposely not stocking up. Mostly out of spite. A brief list of rations:
Weed
Two packs of smokes
A sleeve of Ritz crackers
Two and a half roles of toilet paper
Barbeque sauce
Frozen lasagna
Frozen chicken fingers
Sugar
Coffee
Creamer
If I die soon, it will be as I lived: With mostly empty cupboards and a quater tank of gas in the car.
I’m stealing that to use in a book.
Be sure to edit the spelling error.
Ha!
*hits bowl*
Oh, and sorry if that seemed flippant. I’d be honored to have you use my nonsensical remarks in a book.
I eat everything on my list so it won’t go to waste, and I forgot the the 2 cartons of smokes to augment my Gallons of vape juice….
and a shit ton of Batteries,
The only thing I’m kinda worried about is everybody else’s panic causing me to not be able to wipe my ass. If that’s the case, I forsee a lot of quick showers after a deuce in the near future.
Same worry but with food.
Ah, this is where Ozy’s article last week comes into play. Living in the bread basket and knowing a few local farmers makes my worst case scenario more manageable yours, I suppose. Make it western Missouri and we’ll at least be able to set you up with bread and a barn to sleep in.
You don’t need the smokes with vape juice 😛
USA is asshole
China needs to be fucked to death. Bat eating commies.
Jesus Christ, dude.
Well… China IS asshole.
This is what Omar warned us about!
The Chinese government really are the thinnest skinned little bitches on the planet, aren’t they? Any criticism or mockery of them is met with censorship, temper tantrums, and the rhetorical argumentation of a five year old.
Pooh Bear agrees with this.
This is a good opportunity to remind people to get off the China carousel.
Something going around Twitter the last couple days is speculation as to whether and for how much the baizuo outfits parroting Chinese propaganda are beholden to the CCP. At this point I don’t think TDS fully explains it. I think a lot of these motherfuckers are in as deep as Disney.
Zhao, an avid and often combative Twitter user
I take his copy pasta threats literally.
The CCP was going on about how it’s racist to call it the Wuhan virus and shortly thereafter it got taken up by the media and the twitterati. It’s scary how much influence the Chinese government has on US media.
U.S. soccer President steps down.
The mob wins. The women are acting like entitled twits.
This is getting ridiculous.
I called it earlier – they’re going to destroy both men’s and women’s soccer in the US.
If this means I won’t ever hear about the women’s Olympic team then I’m all for it.
Look, man. You can’t go around making factual statements out in a public setting when there are feelings to consider.
Dummies.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-warren-staffers-face-blowback-for-tattoos-resembling-holocaust-markings
Even without the Holocaust connection it’s stupid. Nothing says ” I’m an idiot” like a color code used on the website if a losing campaign. How much Kool aid did those morons drunk?
I agree. If they also got the wrong hex code then my day is complete.
Geez. At least when Bloombergs commercials came on i knew it was his money that was being wasted. All these Census commercials are just as annoying, and i know that it’s paid for by Taxpayers.
Remember when they pissed away millions on advertising the new twenty dollar bill? Why advertise that? Who’s the competition, you asshats?
If things go right, bitcoin.
I’ll stick with cash right now thanks,
If things go right is a helluva qualifier.
I’m not too optimistic to be honest, but what do I know.
Wish they would get around to hiring, i could use the work, it’s turning into a joke, we were supposed to start March 1st
I just got an invitation to respond to the Census online, and helpfully provided with a unique ID. They assure me my answers will be kept confidential.
The same folks who brought you the OPM breach.
That could never happen with Census data, I’m sure.
Is your unique identifier 666?
Yup, I got the same notice today. I’m suspicious, but then that isn’t an unusual feeling.
*looks out the window furtively*
It’s about time.
Time after time
As time goes by
Got the time
It’s on her side!
Got The Time.
https://youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ
http://archive.li/ihcYB/d8246b5f3849f6daee7c09e1caf0c6e8c89c066c.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/e9dWw/50874cc857fa87de30c711d3bd1bb8c4bbef0da4.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/WOwB1/210d1c145f00cb808e4082950cf429a185bfc162.jpg
NSFW.
Quite the hat trick tonight Q.
Note to self: put a mug under the Kuerig before hitting start and walking away. ?