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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    is that how Duck Dodger got his name? enlightened

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Be careful Ted. 
    Stezza,  the mortality rate for invisibles has always been hard to determine. 

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Diomede said:

     As a sports fan, I have been to about 70% of the major league baseball stadiums, and intend to eventually go to them all.  

    Have you been to the Astrodome?  Where my alltime fave player Micky Mantle hit the first homerun. Decades ago, my wife & I saw the Astros beat the Dodgers there in an important game.  The crowd sound hit awesome decibels. (Yes, I know it's closed and rundown, but some local kids recently snuck in for some videos. Hats off to them)

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,388

    I saw a football game at the old Astrodome.  It was the Oilers last season there.  It was a game against the Kansas City Chiefs, which started as the Dallas team in the original AFL.  Given it was the Oiler's last season in town and the owner had pissed off a lot of the city, it felt like the game was in Kansas City, not Houston.

    I also went to a baseball game there around the same time, but the football game was more memorable because of the reverse crowd.

    Will have to track down the trespasser kid videos.

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Diomede said:

    I saw a football game at the old Astrodome.  It was the Oilers last season there.  It was a game against the Kansas City Chiefs, which started as the Dallas team in the original AFL.  Given it was the Oiler's last season in town and the owner had pissed off a lot of the city, it felt like the game was in Kansas City, not Houston.

    I also went to a baseball game there around the same time, but the football game was more memorable because of the reverse crowd.

    Will have to track down the trespasser kid videos.

    Yeah, people hated that Oilers owner for a long time.. There has been debate about what to do with the still standing Astrodome ever since it shut down permanently in 2009.  People hate the idea of tearing it down due to its iconic reputation, but nobody can find the money to do anything, so it sits and decays.  The kid videos was only mentioned in a one paragraph article in the Houston Chronicle, not sure if its available.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    it's all football to me

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    forum is basically unusable today.... errors galore from the cloud and as fast as a sleeping snail!

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Stezza said:

    forum is basically unusable today.... errors galore from the cloud and as fast as a sleeping snail!

    So better than normal? 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Here's a random image , just bought a new tablet

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,004

    well that is pretty random yes

    is there some Dynamic AutoPainter postwork involved?

    I bought DAP8 the other day

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 9,226

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    well that is pretty random yes

    is there some Dynamic AutoPainter postwork involved?

    I bought DAP8 the other day

    Groovy !!!

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    very random... I'm waiting on a delivery of cat6 cable today... cool

  • 3Deedlin3Deedlin Posts: 161

    That's nice. I like the pattern and texture.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,004

    Stezza said:

    very random... I'm waiting on a delivery of cat6 cable today... cool

    does that take 6 cats to chew through it? 

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    or two big possums!  smiley

     

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 9,226

    Got the rats to worry about at my place. They chewed through the battery cover on my car, luckily they left the wiring alone .....

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    well that is pretty random yes

    is there some Dynamic AutoPainter postwork involved?

    I bought DAP8 the other day

    I think fotosketcher from memory

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Stezza said:

    very random... I'm waiting on a delivery of cat6 cable today... 

     

    Is that solid core?

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385
    edited June 19

    Bunyip02 said:

    Got the rats to worry about at my place. They chewed through the battery cover on my car, luckily they left the wiring alone .....

     

     

     

     

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Headwax said:

    it's all football to me

    smiley  Although I did see a cricket match in the Astrodome long ago.  It was some kind of weird format involving big name stars from the major cricket countries, and local amateur players as "opponents".  Sort of like a Globetrotters' game.  All I recall is watching the pros hit balls WAY over the fences.  And those guys were big, muscular looking players. Believe it or not, Houston has a lot of cricket players and fans, one complex has six cricket grounds.  

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Steve K said:

    Headwax said:

    it's all football to me

    smiley  Although I did see a cricket match in the Astrodome long ago.  It was some kind of weird format involving big name stars from the major cricket countries, and local amateur players as "opponents".  Sort of like a Globetrotters' game.  All I recall is watching the pros hit balls WAY over the fences.  And those guys were big, muscular looking players. Believe it or not, Houston has a lot of cricket players and fans, one complex has six cricket grounds.  

    That's amazing! Here paint dries more quickly;) 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    there's another offtopic thing , have no idea what it is about 

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Headwax said:

    That's amazing! Here paint dries more quickly;) 

    When I heard that a cricket test match can last five days, I laughed.  Then I realized our pro baseball playoffs are generally best of five games on different days with rest/travel days in between.  The World Series (final championship) is best of seven games, also with rest/travel days in between.  The longest playoff game in Houston Astros history was Game 3 of the 2022 AL Division Series against the Seattle Mariners, which lasted 18 innings (a normal game is 9 innings). The game, won by the Astros 1-0, was also the longest scoreless game in MLB (Major League Baseball) postseason history. It lasted 6 hours and 22 minutes. Six plus hours, one run scored.  These are professionals, don't try this at home. cheeky

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    The longest cricket Test match in history was the "timeless" Test between England and South Africa in 1939, which lasted for 12 days.

    It was abandoned after ten days due to the ship taking the England team home. surprise

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    ha ha that's funny, we watched a show about ireland last night, the guy spent a lot of time fishing.... dusring the show I walked around the house looking at the walls  ... but all the paint had already dried

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    I'll keep you up to date... lol

    Stokes won the toss and sent them in on a sunny dry big beautifull day

    Great day for painting I reckon laugh

    friggin freezing here though.... only 15c now.. was 8c earlier this morning.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    my wetsuit is almost dry from yesterday :) still have ice on nasal hairs thou

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    did Daz can it's A I image thingy? 

    I can't find the link to the page. frown

    It has been a long time since I used it... 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,004

    Stezza said:

    did Daz can it's A I image thingy? 

    I can't find the link to the page. frown

    It has been a long time since I used it... 

    they are phasing it out, only people who were subscribed can now use it until their subscriptions end 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385
    edited June 22

    Oh dear, people will have to make their own art... .. ;)

    but seriously, love Wendy's work,  she be the exception, not that she uses daz Ai ?

    I got 1984d the other day. Wrote it in diary 

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