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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119

    Decided to bundle up and have my mini-adventure anyway.  Big whoop..., lunch uptown, bought a 3-way lightbulb, new sheets, and a Snickers candybar.  Drove eastward to the Indian reservation to get some tax free gasoline, then back home.  Adventure over. indecision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ...well looks like the chilly wet is finally behind us (wish this bloody cold were gone with it too).  60s today through the weekend with 70s next week definitely time to break out the Hawai'ian shirts.

    Should have 12 GB of rendering power to put in my work system on Saturday.

    yes the  hobby  is all brand new with hardware upgrades.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Decided to bundle up and have my mini-adventure anyway.  Big whoop..., lunch uptown, bought a 3-way lightbulb, new sheets, and a Snickers candybar.  Drove eastward to the Indian reservation to get some tax free gasoline, then back home.  Adventure over. indecision

    Snickers! 

    a 3-way you say??

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is there real life way of holding up  a ceiling without columns?

    is there a football stadium somewhere with a roof?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298
    Mistara said:

    is there real life way of holding up  a ceiling without columns?

    is there a football stadium somewhere with a roof?

    The roof on some football stadiums are called domes.  

  • zombietaggerungzombietaggerung Posts: 3,853
    Mistara said:

    is there real life way of holding up  a ceiling without columns?

    is there a football stadium somewhere with a roof?

    You would need big steel beams, that would still have to be anchored some way on a column, probably in the 4 corners and stabilized with a big concrete footer.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,928

    ...there is a reason why many large arenas enclosed stadiums have an arched or domed roof as they is handle the stresses better than a flat one.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    a dome roof without columns would be plausible deniability? smiley

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited April 2018

    A dome roof without columns could be geodesic.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,928

    ....exactly.

    These are in my old hometown  host different botanical displays and have become icons. The National Historical Society was brought in to save them from demolition.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ....exactly.

    These are in my old hometown  host different botanical displays and have become icons. The National Historical Society was brought in to save them from demolition.

     

    looks like space stations smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    blinded by the light ...   an example of a song written by someone trippin?  makes little sense

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited April 2018
    kyoto kid said:

    ....exactly.

    These are in my old hometown  host different botanical displays and have become icons. The National Historical Society was brought in to save them from demolition.

     

    We have something similar

    https://botanicgarden.wales/garden-areas/the-great-glasshouse/

    And in Cornwall in England
    http://www.edenproject.com/


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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    Mistara said:

    blinded by the light ...   an example of a song written by someone trippin?  makes little sense

    Bruce Springsteen during his "Bob Dylan" phase.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    that was 'the boss' singing?  never realized lol.  i started listening to him after born in the usa came out.


    deciding if my main character has a voice like Eddie Vedder or David Coverdale.  He can't whisper in my ear til he has a voice.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ....exactly.

    These are in my old hometown  host different botanical displays and have become icons. The National Historical Society was brought in to save them from demolition.

     

    We have something similar

    https://botanicgarden.wales/garden-areas/the-great-glasshouse/

    And in Cornwall in England
    http://www.edenproject.com/


    OMG!  It's the Blob, run for your life! surprise

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119

    Complaint:  My body aches all over.  Back better, but still hurting.  For me this is typical of a some sort of viral invasion.  General blahs.  Weather is gloomy, 

    Non-complaint:  Made a big batch of chiligetti last night, quite yummy but ate too much of it for supper.  Burp.   Freezer now full of chilligetti.  Despite it still snowing I forced myself to go out in the car again today to finish up uptown chores.  Finally found a big enough grocery store that carried de-caffienated tea and short zip-lock snack bags.  Also found several of my favorite indulgences on sale at my local grocery.  Got some Kiwi fruits. Yum! 

    Confused:  I've been watching a British TV show on YouTube called "Traffic Cops"  often showing road police in the Yorkshire area.  The narrator is understandable but I haven't quite figured out which language the cops are speaking.  And I am thankful for the subtitles at the bottom of the screen now and then. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,928
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ....exactly.

    These are in my old hometown  host different botanical displays and have become icons. The National Historical Society was brought in to save them from demolition.

     

    We have something similar

    https://botanicgarden.wales/garden-areas/the-great-glasshouse/

    And in Cornwall in England
    http://www.edenproject.com/


    ...nice.

    I frequently went to the ones in Milwaukee when I lived there, particularly enjoyed visiting the tropical and desert domes during winter.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,928

    ...weather here continuing it's springlike rebound.  63° yesterday 67° for today and tomorrow and starting on Monday, several 70° days.  However with a long stretch of nice weather everything will be blooming at once, which means "its allergy time".  Fortunately I am not hit as hard as other people I know.but still an annoyance.  For me a small price to pay to have my bones and joints finally begin thawing out.

    Checked weather cams in Wisconsin yesterday and both Stevens Point as well as Milwaukee still have several inches of snow cover though finally warming up (54° in Point right now, 10°colder in Milwaukee because of the lake).  Trees there are still bare while here leaves have been bursting out on the trees in some cases, almost looking like it was late May.

    Meanwhile Summer apparently arrived early in SW UK, 77° in Swindon (115 KM west of London) today 74° tomorrow and 71° on Saturday before returning to the more normal 50s and rain.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is cold 40f and rainy here.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,342

    On the other side of the U.S., right here, right now, it's only 41f.  And since it's 4:00 pm, I doubt it will get any warmer.  At least it isn't snowing.  frown​  Although, snow was expected in the western and central part of the state.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    dont feel like cooking tnite

    trying to use noise as a bump map in carrara.  i'm not doing it correctly coolworks as a diffuse, but no bumps

    modeled a rivvet , uveed it too smiley

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119

    Feeling moody, but not quite sure which mood?

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,928
    ...lovely piece of music.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited April 2018
    kyoto kid said:
    ...lovely piece of music.

    That was one of three very similar pieces, his three Gymnopedies.  Once, long ago, I could play them all.  Easy to sight read but they were impossible for me to memorize.  Each drifts aimlessly about with plodding regularity, never seeming to exactly retrace its steps.

    Along similar lines but with a different feeling is another six of Satie's pieces, his Gnossiennes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    Mistara said:

    that was 'the boss' singing?  never realized lol.  i started listening to him after born in the usa came out.


    deciding if my main character has a voice like Eddie Vedder or David Coverdale.  He can't whisper in my ear til he has a voice.

    The Boss wrote it. You were probably listening to Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover version which which was a radio hit.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Manfred, will always jog my memory to the mantrid drones on Lexx smiley

     

    id more work to my skooma bottle.  havent figured out how to pour it.  surface emitter?

     

    tee hee the mantrid sourpus

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    Norithan Arts dot com will be live soon.  Not right now but soon.  I just got a year of hosting for 12 dollars. Yeah 12 dollars and it came with free domain.  Well 18 cents for the domain.

    complaint; I cannot remember my Wordpress password.  I am not on my computer but maybe it is saved there.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited April 2018

    Feeling in a circus mood?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx0dwf97c6c  particularly for a minute or so starting at 0:54.   Is probably familiar to many.  Dimitri Kabalevsky's "The Comedians" suite.  Lots of little moods.  smiley

    Along a similar vein is his 3rd piano concerto.  The 1st movement is just fun to listen to, to see what happens next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9sEiFVcWA smiley 2nd movement starts at 7:00;  3rd movement starts at 13:15

    For additional similar fun try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBdVg0BTf6M  Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto.  The 1st movement's 7 minutes was popularized by its appearance in Disney's "Fantasia 2000" as the music for the story of the little tin soldier.   The 2nd movement (at 7:04) in stark contrast to the fury of the 1st movement is lazy & dreamy.  The frantic excitement returns in the 3rd movement at 12:09

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Friday!!  Couple hours to my carrara spanner room weekend.

    did the rivvet, need some roof support beams.

    radio playing 'the final countdown' song, melody gives me a  lil energy.  like 'eye of the tiger'

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