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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    background said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Headline: Catalympic hopeful slams box shifter for not shifting a box. "My dreams are in tatters" he said "much like that bag will be when I get my claws into it!" He added "Don't they realise how important boxes are to us? That's why the winner always stands on the biggest box at the end of the competition."

    I'm guessing you had an 'angry cat' pose and couldn't resist. He's so mad he's hopping from foot to foot, or should that be paw to paw.

    Excellent interview with the Catalympic hopeful. I don't know what a box shifter is. Is that a box shipper? The pose was labeled as a walking pose, but the expression certainly looked angry to me. You really nailed it with the winners box comment! 

    In the UK at least, a 'box shifter' is a name often given to a company that doesn't manufacture products, but instead buys products from other manufacturers and then sells them on to customers. Sometimes they will have their own box design which might give the impression that they manufactured the item. So they receive boxes, store them in huge warehouses, and send out boxes basically. They can be useful if a customer prefers to deal with one supplier rather than multiple suppliers. Sometimes they sell products cheaper because they get a discount from buying in bulk, also they can give a manufacturer access to many more potential customers, than the manufacturers own small website.

    Box-shifters also usually implies they just take the boxes in and send them out from a warehouse, no retail stores or additional services.

    It's strange with cats that even if you only put a sheet of paper on the floor, the cat will sit on it, as if it elevates them, even slightly, above the rest of the floor.

     

     

     

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,767

    That almost sounds like Amazon to me.

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940

    I'm sure any similarity is purely coincidental.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

    That brings up another good question. Which types of "cats" are allowed to participate in the Catalympics? Are there separate competitions for different cat types? If not, I think the cheetahs are always going to win any distance running speed competition, without even "cheetahing". Richard would be at an unfair disadvantage.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

    That brings up another good question. Which types of "cats" are allowed to participate in the Catalympics? Are there separate competitions for different cat types? If not, I think the cheetahs are always going to win any distance running speed competition, without even "cheetahing". Richard would be at an unfair disadvantage.

    Maybe they have different classes, as with sailing boats (hmm, I might have an advantage in water sports).

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

    That brings up another good question. Which types of "cats" are allowed to participate in the Catalympics? Are there separate competitions for different cat types? If not, I think the cheetahs are always going to win any distance running speed competition, without even "cheetahing". Richard would be at an unfair disadvantage.

    Maybe they have different classes, as with sailing boats (hmm, I might have an advantage in water sports).

    Yes, you are an Excellent Swimmer now. Wouldn't it be surprising to see a water sports competition at the Catalympics? Anything could happen I guess. You haven't received the official Catalympics Guide to Competitions yet. I'm anticipating the Curtain Climb, the Surface Sweep, and the Carpet Clawing, as I have seen mentioned in the Catalympics Training Guide, that I got a sneak peak at (as in that I authored).
    And to think that ALL of this started from a simple comment you made about moonlighting as a French onion seller because of your stripes. How did we get here? That's the fun of having not planning ahead and going with the flow.
     

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 1

    We don't want any competitors eating other competitors, at least during an event. It creates an awful mess, and a huge pile of paperwork, although it might make some of them run faster.

    How about the 'Not being seen' challenge, and the 'Ball of wool tangle'.

    The ball of wool tangle is fairly obvious, the 'not being seen challenge' involves contestants hiding under, inside, or behind succesively smaller objects.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    There is alkso Cat Chess, as invented by Terry Pratchett and enhanced by Diane Duane.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576
    edited June 1
    My friend's cat squeezes behind the TV in the entertainment center where nobody can reach her when they try to put her in a carrier to take her to the vet.
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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,912

    Did anyone else notice this in the Steampunk Alley promos? Fits in well with all these deliveries. Wonder if he gets preferential rates?

     

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    NorthOf45 said:

    Did anyone else notice this in the Steampunk Alley promos? Fits in well with all these deliveries. Wonder if he gets preferential rates?

    I didn't see that! The promos were so dark and hazy, I didn't spend much time looking at them. Good catch. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    barbult said:

    NorthOf45 said:

    Did anyone else notice this in the Steampunk Alley promos? Fits in well with all these deliveries. Wonder if he gets preferential rates?

    I didn't see that! The promos were so dark and hazy, I didn't spend much time looking at them. Good catch. 

    I thought the ship had already sailed for this thread?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,634
    edited June 5

    barbult said:

    richardandtracy said:

    Just a small note, I tend to hold a Stanley Knife (Box Cutter in the US?) with the blade edge downwards (the edge parallel to the handle as opposed to the one at 60 degrees to parallel - as shown in the image). However, there are many ways to skin that cat do the job [oops, poor choice of words].

    I love the way helpful cat is helping, very true to life.

    Regards,

    Richard

    Maybe I have it upside down. I don't know how to use one. Can youi show it to me in a hand, reaedy to cut? 

    to be perfectly honest me either

    I cut myself more than the box

    at work we had safe box currers we couldn't stab each other with

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  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940

    This fixation with Lola is a bit worrying. Like the work colleague of mine that lusted after one of the .Angel Interceptor. pilots ( from Captain Scarlet a Gerry Anderson Show ) it's doomed. In my colleague's case the object of his desire was made of wood and I doubt there would have been much future in it.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    background said:

    This fixation with Lola is a bit worrying. Like the work colleague of mine that lusted after one of the .Angel Interceptor. pilots ( from Captain Scarlet a Gerry Anderson Show ) it's doomed. In my colleague's case the object of his desire was made of wood and I doubt there would have been much future in it.

    Harmony, Melody or (eerr - destiny? Doesn't fiit wiith the other names)? I liked the Angels, though I was too young for it to be romantic.

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 7

    Richard Haseltine said:

    background said:

    This fixation with Lola is a bit worrying. Like the work colleague of mine that lusted after one of the .Angel Interceptor. pilots ( from Captain Scarlet a Gerry Anderson Show ) it's doomed. In my colleague's case the object of his desire was made of wood and I doubt there would have been much future in it.

    Harmony, Melody or (eerr - destiny? Doesn't fiit wiith the other names)? I liked the Angels, though I was too young for it to be romantic.

    I don't remember which one it was, though I'm sure he told me many times, this was years after the series was originally screened. I think there was a redhead one, and one with a French accent. At the time it was first screened I was more interested in Derek Meddings model work on the vehicles and sets than the puppets. For romantic interest at the time, it would have to have been Zoe Heriot in Dr Who, I thought she was the epitome of cute.( I would have been a young teen at the time and in the series  Zoe was supposed to be a young teen also).

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    3DIO said:

    Oh, don't you worry, Barbult, I'm well aware of the difference between fantasy and reality.  In fact with society the way it is these days, it often feels as if I'm the only one left who is  :-D

    I'm just playing along, but doing so from my own individual perspective.  To be honest, I thought you were testing reader assertiveness with the box opening scene (with Stanley upside down and Richard looking the way he was).

    Regards the lack of air holes, of course I totally understand;  it's just pretend  ;-)

    The cutter upside down was not intentional. It was just an error, because I'm not very familiar with those tools. Thank goodness Other-Richard spoke up to clue me in. I appreciate that. I'm always willing ot learn something.
    I'm working on the next installment, but I don't have a lot of time, so it is going slowly. :(

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    @background what are you doing with that new avatar????

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 7

    barbult said:

    @background what are you doing with that new avatar????

    What new avatar, he asked innocently? laugh 

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    background said:

    barbult said:

    @background what are you doing with that new avatar????

    What new avatar, he asked innocently? laugh Well

    Whew, that's a relief. 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576
    edited June 9

    background said:

    It's great that you have the freedom to change things whenever the mood takes you barbult. I'm curious how the whole story started, I guess Richard's avatar is the basis for him being a cat, but going from that into a whole 'Richard's world' is quite a leap. Was it just a few individual renders to start with, and the story aspect came later? I think I'm digging a hole for myself in my thread, trying to realise a vision in my head of what my characters world is like, possibly beyond my ability to turn it into pictures.  

    We all have the freedom. Let yourself go. You are the only one holding yourself to constraints in your renders or story. That is OK, if it is important to YOU to do that. But it you feel hampered by those constraints, just let them go. That's my advice. Just have fun. It your story is not what you turning out the way you wanted it to be, just start a new one or let it evolve into a new one. 

    I'm trying to remember how I became obsessed with rendering Richard Haseltine in strange circumstances. I think it actually started by just adding him (as a cat) to a different set of renders I was doing in support of a Daz employee, Jen, who was struggling at the time with some medical issues. Jack Tomalin was also in those renders, and another person Daz_Steve. Those images are earlier in the thread here. At one point, I was doing renders for weekly Daz+ contests, where each week users had to use a Daz+ product released that week. I started trying to make a continuing story out of those renders, instead of just making each one separate and unrelated. Somewhere along there, the stories became focused on Jack and Richard, but I honestly don't remember why. I suppose maybe I put them on one render and the story kept them in future episodes. Richard's clever and witty replies to my renders kept me enthused about rendering him. Now it is my greatest Daz fun to get him (virtually) into crazy situations and get him back out, only to get him into another one. 

    Replies here from you and the rest of readers often sent the stories off in crazy directions that would never have occurred to me. Like the French Onion Seller, and the Leopard typo. That did not come from my imagination, but from the lot of you, including Richard, and I thank you all for those unexpected swerves in the story line.
     

     

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,634

    if Lola anything like me, a nice comfortable station wagon would do just fine

    extra roomy luggage compartment at the back for lots of cats (and or dogs)

    with heated  leather seats maybe, a Mercedes if posh, centre console with places for drinks and snacks

    a tight speeding skateboard definitely not my style, though just just my opinion angel

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940
    edited June 9

    barbult, you deserve a rest, like you told me, you're not obliged to churn out renders to public demand.

    I am finding it hard trying to render images for my thread, already I'm cutting back on quality ( in my opinion ) to try and fit it in around other things I have in my life. I had hoped to have someone give me a quote for a Portmeirion environment, but the guy says the architecture is too complicated for him . I have started sketching out what it might look like in 3D, but I have limited time and skills. I started out from a map showing the paths and buildings, but sadly there is no scale on it. I was trying here to work out the elevations of the buildings and paths, because I haven't been able to find an elevation map.

     

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    background said:

    barbult, you deserve a rest, like you told me, you're not obliged to churn out renders to public demand.

    I am finding it hard trying to render images for my thread, already I'm cutting back on quality ( in my opinion ) to try and fit it in around other things I have in my life. I had hoped to have someone give me a quote for a Portmeirion environment, but the guy says the architecture is too complicated for him . I have started sketching out what it might look like in 3D, but I have limited time and skills. I started out from a map showing the paths and buildings, but sadly there is no scale on it. I was trying here to work out the elevations of the buildings and paths, because I haven't been able to find an elevation map.

    Wikipedia has some images. 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

    I'm pretty sure a marathon has no place anywhere. Why do some people want to voluntarily torture themselves? It would be like trying to test things in DS6.frown

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,647

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    barbult is worn out from her render-a-thon to finish up the latest story. Gosh, we never even made it to the Catalympics tryouts. That's how many swerves we took, ending up elsewhere entirely.

    I'm pretty sure the marathon has no place in the Catalympics.

    I'm pretty sure a marathon has no place anywhere. Why do some people want to voluntarily torture themselves? It would be like trying to test things in DS6.frown

    Well, they did have a valid reason for the original.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,576

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    if Lola anything like me, a nice comfortable station wagon would do just fine

    extra roomy luggage compartment at the back for lots of cats (and or dogs)

    with heated  leather seats maybe, a Mercedes if posh, centre console with places for drinks and snacks

    a tight speeding skateboard definitely not my style, though just just my opinion angel

    I wouldn't want to do without Tesla FSD.

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