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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    Petercat said:
     

    That's what microwaves are for. 1 minute to liftoff. Don't want a kcup brewer. Too inefficient.

    ...good thing, those K cups are becoming a major source of non biodegradable refuse.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:

    ...yep. what I'm feeling right now as out of cash until Friday so no coffee until then.

    (ugh hate it when FF shifts the screen up or down without any input...ended up quoting the post below TJ's by accident).

     

    BEER?

    ...been too broke for that as well.

    Getting difficult to keep up the fight for SSDI (actually playing the waiting game, been over 18 months and two "nays" so far).  Part of me want's to just give in and go for early retirement but all I'll get i about 725$ a month at best in a city where rents for even a cramped studio starts at around 900$ - 1,000$ and you need a decent credit score (it's become a landlord's market these days).

    Save for a GC I received haven't bought any content since February.  Had to let my PC+ membership lapse. Missed MM, missed the summer sales, missing the PA Sale.

    Even the Megabucks has let me down  (I usually match four numbers several times a year which nets 35$ -50$ on a regular play and 130$ - 200$ on a power play, won maybe a handful of 1$ replay tickets so far this year).

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132

    ...ugh end of the month and all the various candidates hitting my inbox screaming for money I don't have again.  

    Most of it will only go to flinging poo at their opponents.

    I really do need a couple beers.

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    Grunt. Been awake since before five, so thought I might as well get up. So this is the first day of autumn. Can I get a refund on summer?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132

    ...suddenly it's fall here as well. Just last week at this time it was in the 90s, today we barely broke 70° and had the first water from the sky in weeks that just dampened the pavement a bit.  In contast to last week, we are looking at mid 60s to around 70 with some wet for the next several days. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    edited September 2016

    ...been doing a little more work on the main characters from my story

    Leela and her best friend Tracey.  Based on Julie 7 with lots of homespun morphs, and Zev0's Growing Up morphs.  Forgot I had Beautiful Skins for G3F. which I used here as well as Slosh's UHT2 hair shaders (finally able to give Tracey truly white hair and give Leela that "awkward" tweener physique).

     

     

    Leela - Tracey cute.jpg
    900 x 900 - 343K
    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    kyoto kid said:

    ...been doing a little more work on the main characters from my story

    Leela and her best friend Tracey.  Based on Julie 7 with lots of homespun morphs, and Zev0's Growing Up morphs.  Forgot I had Beautiful Skins for G3F. which I used here as well as Slosh's UHT2 hair shaders (finally able to give Tracey truly white hair and give Leela that "awkward" tweener physique).

     

     

    yessmiley

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    edited September 2016

    Dog woke me but it was later than I thought so...

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Goood Mornin

    cawffee and the bisskoot, round here it's stella doro biscotti

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    trying to decide what a dragonista is,  dragon who brews latté?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097
    Jan19 said:
    McGyver said:

    Animation is thems funny picture that talks an moves... Like that mouse what hits the cat with the big hammer... Thems things... I knows cuz I saws dem on the big picture screen.

     

    I know the definition of animation.

      

     

    I know you knew that I know you knew that, but knowing that I knew that you already knew all this is probably nothing new to you.... You know?

    That was tiringsome... Being stupid 24/7 is a hard job, but someone has to do it and I so well... 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097
    Petercat said:
    McGyver said:
    Chohole said:

    All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees.  I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee.  So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago. 

    When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove)  You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker.  The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid..  Took a while to brew properly.  That was coffee.

    I want one of those but really big... I make three gallons of coffee at a time, bottle it and refrigerate it... It lasts about two weeks and is less annoying then making it as I need it... I've been doing this for twenty years (friends think it's a little weird) and just last week I went into a grocery store and found several different brands of "premade" coffee in "convenient" 42 ounce bottle for four times the price of actual convenience... Maybe I'll make a giant percolator... That ought to be fun...

    I do the same . But cheaper. Three scoops of the cheapest generic coffee to make a pot, add cream and sugar, place in fridge. Add two more scoops of coffee, make another pot, do the same. 1/3 cup creamer and sugar per pot.

    Cuts my coffee cost by 16.666%, and my filter costs by 50%.

    Half gallon fruit juice bottles will hold a pot of coffee.

    I save the grounds to make dirt on model railroads. Used teas make nice vegetation, depending on type.

    That's cool and weirdly coincidental... (Not sure when I wrote my post... I don't pat attention to me, but...) yesterday I dumped a bunch of coffee (enough to make at least two gallons) into a two liter orange juice bottle and stuck it in the fridge with the intent of leaving it there for a couple of days until it just cold brewed itself out... I'll filter it out using first a steel mesh strainer and then one of those old fashioned cloth "socks"... But, it's good to know that works... Secondary coincidence... I too have used coffee grinds and tea leaves for scale dirt, fallen foliage and other special effects details. I've done a bunch of HO scale modules for people years ago... I moved from HO indoor to G scale (actually mostly 1/24 scale) outdoor modules with full landscaping... Some could weigh tons due to the dirt and concrete rockscaping... I actually still have what's left of a 30 ft x 30ft demo set in the far back of my yard... Sadly, it's been quite destroyed by a neighbor's contractor knocking down an large oak tree onto it, two hurricanes of damage and several million squirrel attacks... It was pretty cool, had a complex working irrigation and drainage system where the streets drained via actual sewers, full street and interior lighting, working streams and waterfalls, paved streets (real scale asphalt), dwarf trees, miniature plants and mosses, structures with full interior details with the actual buildings cast in a special thin set concrete, the some interiors had figures inside that were cast in elastomeric resins with separately made clothing (cut from a specally prepared polymer material that had scale draping and stretch characteristics)... The figures were each a project onto themselves as they were posable due to an internal flexible skeleton added to the mold before the resin was injected... People who were into this stuff would get blown away when I'd pick up a figure and reposition it from sitting to standing, because the figures didn't have weird action figure joints, but natural looking limbs... There wasn't much track (more or less point to point), and I myself only had one RC train to run on it as a demo, but I started to build an R34 style NYC subway car (and partially finish one station)... In addition to the trains I made 1/24 scale RC automobiles... Those were a pain because I had to fit all the guts under the hood and in the trunk, as I hate blacked out windows and partial interiors... I didn't make many of those... four or five maybe... The rechargeable batteries were crap back then and would barely last five minutes, less if I turned on the lights... It was pretty cool and lasted about ten years outside with basic maintenance, but when the idiot knocked the tree over on it, it created so many places where water could get into the interior structure that despite fixing everything, eventually water rotted out the electric system and substructure and several sections collapsed... I gave up on repairing it and when the economy tanked nobody wanted these kind of things anymore so I lost interest in constantly fixing it... Besides all that, what I charged as "hobbyist fees" was significantly different from my prototyping fees, so it really was barely worth it once the fun was gone... 

    I suppose the set could do a stand-in as a model of one of the nuked towns from Fallout 4 now... Megh, I get really annoyed when I talk about this... I should go check that coffee and see if it's anywhere near done... 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:
    Petercat said:
    McGyver said:
    Chohole said:

    All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees.  I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee.  So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago. 

    When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove)  You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker.  The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid..  Took a while to brew properly.  That was coffee.

    I want one of those but really big... I make three gallons of coffee at a time, bottle it and refrigerate it... It lasts about two weeks and is less annoying then making it as I need it... I've been doing this for twenty years (friends think it's a little weird) and just last week I went into a grocery store and found several different brands of "premade" coffee in "convenient" 42 ounce bottle for four times the price of actual convenience... Maybe I'll make a giant percolator... That ought to be fun...

    I do the same . But cheaper. Three scoops of the cheapest generic coffee to make a pot, add cream and sugar, place in fridge. Add two more scoops of coffee, make another pot, do the same. 1/3 cup creamer and sugar per pot.

    Cuts my coffee cost by 16.666%, and my filter costs by 50%.

    Half gallon fruit juice bottles will hold a pot of coffee.

    I save the grounds to make dirt on model railroads. Used teas make nice vegetation, depending on type.

    That's cool and weirdly coincidental... (Not sure when I wrote my post... I don't pat attention to me, but...) yesterday I dumped a bunch of coffee (enough to make at least two gallons) into a two liter orange juice bottle and stuck it in the fridge with the intent of leaving it there for a couple of days until it just cold brewed itself out... I'll filter it out using first a steel mesh strainer and then one of those old fashioned cloth "socks"... But, it's good to know that works... Secondary coincidence... I too have used coffee grinds and tea leaves for scale dirt, fallen foliage and other special effects details. I've done a bunch of HO scale modules for people years ago... I moved from HO indoor to G scale (actually mostly 1/24 scale) outdoor modules with full landscaping... Some could weigh tons due to the dirt and concrete rockscaping... I actually still have what's left of a 30 ft x 30ft demo set in the far back of my yard... Sadly, it's been quite destroyed by a neighbor's contractor knocking down an large oak tree onto it, two hurricanes of damage and several million squirrel attacks... It was pretty cool, had a complex working irrigation and drainage system where the streets drained via actual sewers, full street and interior lighting, working streams and waterfalls, paved streets (real scale asphalt), dwarf trees, miniature plants and mosses, structures with full interior details with the actual buildings cast in a special thin set concrete, the some interiors had figures inside that were cast in elastomeric resins with separately made clothing (cut from a specally prepared polymer material that had scale draping and stretch characteristics)... The figures were each a project onto themselves as they were posable due to an internal flexible skeleton added to the mold before the resin was injected... People who were into this stuff would get blown away when I'd pick up a figure and reposition it from sitting to standing, because the figures didn't have weird action figure joints, but natural looking limbs... There wasn't much track (more or less point to point), and I myself only had one RC train to run on it as a demo, but I started to build an R34 style NYC subway car (and partially finish one station)... In addition to the trains I made 1/24 scale RC automobiles... Those were a pain because I had to fit all the guts under the hood and in the trunk, as I hate blacked out windows and partial interiors... I didn't make many of those... four or five maybe... The rechargeable batteries were crap back then and would barely last five minutes, less if I turned on the lights... It was pretty cool and lasted about ten years outside with basic maintenance, but when the idiot knocked the tree over on it, it created so many places where water could get into the interior structure that despite fixing everything, eventually water rotted out the electric system and substructure and several sections collapsed... I gave up on repairing it and when the economy tanked nobody wanted these kind of things anymore so I lost interest in constantly fixing it... Besides all that, what I charged as "hobbyist fees" was significantly different from my prototyping fees, so it really was barely worth it once the fun was gone... 

    I suppose the set could do a stand-in as a model of one of the nuked towns from Fallout 4 now... Megh, I get really annoyed when I talk about this... I should go check that coffee and see if it's anywhere near done... 

    do squirrels have opposable thumbs?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    it's a conspiracy of the spellcheckers,  Inflatable doesn't look right to me, inflateable or inflateble looks righter
    checked in 2 browser and 3 ms apps. inflatious.   inflapable ... inflappable ... flappable more robust than flapable

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    tee hee  raccoons has aposeable thumbs?  roos?

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Tom is like a bubblegum dispenser? and a salad colandar?

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899

    How do you post an animated gif?  I try but it always comes up static.  Makes me sad...  sad

     

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    McGyver said:
    Jan19 said:
    McGyver said:

    Animation is thems funny picture that talks an moves... Like that mouse what hits the cat with the big hammer... Thems things... I knows cuz I saws dem on the big picture screen.

     

    I know the definition of animation.

      

     

    I know you knew that I know you knew that, but knowing that I knew that you already knew all this is probably nothing new to you.... You know?

    That was tiringsome... Being stupid 24/7 is a hard job, but someone has to do it and I so well... 

    Mac, being stupid has nothing to do with it.  Lord knows, I can write the book on stupidity, myself.

    Me and you...well, we need to have a meeting of the minds.  I'm sending you a message. 

    Yes, I have been drinking black coffee all day.  A hurricane's supposed to be on the way.  So it might take me a few minutes. 

     

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    MistyMist said:

    Tom is like a bubblegum dispenser? and a salad colandar?

    https://www.etsy.com/listing/126750984/mst3k-tom-servo-robot-replica-prop-kit

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    edited September 2016
    Stryder87 said:

    How do you post an animated gif?  I try but it always comes up static.  Makes me sad...  sad

     

    1 open gif in new tab

    2 right click on image, select copy image address

    3. paste address into image box tool on comment box  and click OK

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    Tjohn said:
    Stryder87 said:

    How do you post an animated gif?  I try but it always comes up static.  Makes me sad...  sad

     

    1 open gif in new tab

    2 right click on image, select copy image address

    3. paste address into image box tool on comment box  and click OK

    Hmmmm... trying that with an image on my hard drive just comes up with a broken link.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,430

    I thought of a question that seems stupid but may not be.

    Where does fish waste come from?  

    The fish of course but how does the fish turn fish food into waste?

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I thought of a question that seems stupid but may not be.

    Where does fish waste come from?  

    The fish of course but how does the fish turn fish food into waste?

    Simple answer:  the same way you do (not fish food of course, but maybe fish itself if you like it).

    Long answer:  I'll leave that to Tjohn or McGyver  laugh

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    edited September 2016
    Stryder87 said:
    Tjohn said:
    Stryder87 said:

    How do you post an animated gif?  I try but it always comes up static.  Makes me sad...  sad

     

    1 open gif in new tab

    2 right click on image, select copy image address

    3. paste address into image box tool on comment box  and click OK

    Hmmmm... trying that with an image on my hard drive just comes up with a broken link.

    You have to get it online - you can post it if you have a space to put it online. Then follow the directions.

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I thought of a question that seems stupid but may not be.

    Where does fish waste come from?  

    The fish of course but how does the fish turn fish food into waste?

    The same way people food turns into waste. I know, ick. That's why they call it Ichthyology. laugh

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Tjohn said:
    Stryder87 said:
    Tjohn said:
    Stryder87 said:

    How do you post an animated gif?  I try but it always comes up static.  Makes me sad...  sad

     

    1 open gif in new tab

    2 right click on image, select copy image address

    3. paste address into image box tool on comment box  and click OK

    Hmmmm... trying that with an image on my hard drive just comes up with a broken link.

    You have to get it online - you can post it if you have a space to put it online. Then follow the directions.

     

    if it's a gif from my hdd, i put in my DA stash and link from there.

    linking to a gif attachment on this forum doan workie

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    Tjohn said:

    Dog woke me but it was later than I thought so...

    ...now that's a rude awakening.

    Thanks for the (yes) on the pic of my girls

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,233
    Stryder87 said:
    Tjohn said:
    Stryder87 said:

    How do you post an animated gif?  I try but it always comes up static.  Makes me sad...  sad

     

    1 open gif in new tab

    2 right click on image, select copy image address

    3. paste address into image box tool on comment box  and click OK

    Hmmmm... trying that with an image on my hard drive just comes up with a broken link.

     

    Kulay Wolf said:

    I thought of a question that seems stupid but may not be.

    Where does fish waste come from?  

    The fish of course but how does the fish turn fish food into waste?

    It comes out of black holes.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    MistyMist said:

    trying to decide what a dragonista is,  dragon who brews latté?

    ...shouldn't have any difficulty steaming the creme.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    McGyver said:
    Petercat said:
    McGyver said:
    Chohole said:

    All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees.  I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee.  So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago. 

    When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove)  You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker.  The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid..  Took a while to brew properly.  That was coffee.

    I want one of those but really big... I make three gallons of coffee at a time, bottle it and refrigerate it... It lasts about two weeks and is less annoying then making it as I need it... I've been doing this for twenty years (friends think it's a little weird) and just last week I went into a grocery store and found several different brands of "premade" coffee in "convenient" 42 ounce bottle for four times the price of actual convenience... Maybe I'll make a giant percolator... That ought to be fun...

    I do the same . But cheaper. Three scoops of the cheapest generic coffee to make a pot, add cream and sugar, place in fridge. Add two more scoops of coffee, make another pot, do the same. 1/3 cup creamer and sugar per pot.

    Cuts my coffee cost by 16.666%, and my filter costs by 50%.

    Half gallon fruit juice bottles will hold a pot of coffee.

    I save the grounds to make dirt on model railroads. Used teas make nice vegetation, depending on type.

    That's cool and weirdly coincidental... (Not sure when I wrote my post... I don't pat attention to me, but...) yesterday I dumped a bunch of coffee (enough to make at least two gallons) into a two liter orange juice bottle and stuck it in the fridge with the intent of leaving it there for a couple of days until it just cold brewed itself out... I'll filter it out using first a steel mesh strainer and then one of those old fashioned cloth "socks"... But, it's good to know that works... Secondary coincidence... I too have used coffee grinds and tea leaves for scale dirt, fallen foliage and other special effects details. I've done a bunch of HO scale modules for people years ago... I moved from HO indoor to G scale (actually mostly 1/24 scale) outdoor modules with full landscaping... Some could weigh tons due to the dirt and concrete rockscaping... I actually still have what's left of a 30 ft x 30ft demo set in the far back of my yard... Sadly, it's been quite destroyed by a neighbor's contractor knocking down an large oak tree onto it, two hurricanes of damage and several million squirrel attacks... It was pretty cool, had a complex working irrigation and drainage system where the streets drained via actual sewers, full street and interior lighting, working streams and waterfalls, paved streets (real scale asphalt), dwarf trees, miniature plants and mosses, structures with full interior details with the actual buildings cast in a special thin set concrete, the some interiors had figures inside that were cast in elastomeric resins with separately made clothing (cut from a specally prepared polymer material that had scale draping and stretch characteristics)... The figures were each a project onto themselves as they were posable due to an internal flexible skeleton added to the mold before the resin was injected... People who were into this stuff would get blown away when I'd pick up a figure and reposition it from sitting to standing, because the figures didn't have weird action figure joints, but natural looking limbs... There wasn't much track (more or less point to point), and I myself only had one RC train to run on it as a demo, but I started to build an R34 style NYC subway car (and partially finish one station)... In addition to the trains I made 1/24 scale RC automobiles... Those were a pain because I had to fit all the guts under the hood and in the trunk, as I hate blacked out windows and partial interiors... I didn't make many of those... four or five maybe... The rechargeable batteries were crap back then and would barely last five minutes, less if I turned on the lights... It was pretty cool and lasted about ten years outside with basic maintenance, but when the idiot knocked the tree over on it, it created so many places where water could get into the interior structure that despite fixing everything, eventually water rotted out the electric system and substructure and several sections collapsed... I gave up on repairing it and when the economy tanked nobody wanted these kind of things anymore so I lost interest in constantly fixing it... Besides all that, what I charged as "hobbyist fees" was significantly different from my prototyping fees, so it really was barely worth it once the fun was gone... 

    I suppose the set could do a stand-in as a model of one of the nuked towns from Fallout 4 now... Megh, I get really annoyed when I talk about this... I should go check that coffee and see if it's anywhere near done... 

    ...you don't by chance have a scale model of Devil's Tower in your dining room....do you? wink

    Kidding aside,  I used to mess around with model railroading (indoors N-Scale due to space limits).  Had a pretty nice cetup back when I was still in HS. which included a lot of Euorpean locomotive and carriage sets which I bought when I was over in Germany (the dollar was very strong back then and the duty free limit reasonably high). Actually had the full set of the TEE (Trans Europ Express) as well as various freight and loal passenger carriages and locomotives.  Yeah made for an "internationally eclectic" setup seeing DB trains running next to Union Pacific, Burlington, Penn Central, and Santa Fe.

    Unfortunately when I went off to college, younger members of the family relation got into it and pretty much most of it was either gone or broken.  Now I have plenty of time, but no space and no money as it has become quite an expensive hobby these days (especially considering the motors for N-gauge locomotives are almost akin to Swiss watch movements).

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