I just went through ALOT of profiles and I think Piffin gets the award for the best picture.
So lets get a little more serious about what we put in our profiles.
For the newbies- all you have to do it click on the posters name to see their profile.
Lets have a contest and see who gets the Picture award for the month of February.
This of course is only for those of you with nothing better to do with their time.
Replies
Iz dat a Mr. potaoto head? It doesn't even look like you Bob -- you did read Taunton's rules, didn't you <G>.
LOL - Now ART you know that is the spittin image of me.By the way, is that your fingerprint? or what?Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bah humbug. LOL!
Tim Mooney
OK Tim let's not be bashfull- tell everyone where you're from, it's not like we're going to come knockin on your door or anything. :-)Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Hey Pro-Dek
While ya might "Rather be a hammer than a nail", you sure have to admire that nail's persistance. <g>
While my pict only bears a passing semblance to me, it matches my state of mind frequently.
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Barry E
Edited 2/15/2003 6:52:05 PM ET by Barry E
Non-profit! Roar!Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
LOL- Good one Barry, I feel like that all the time on the computer.Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
For profile, I think I give where I come from, everyone should do that.
But I like seeing who is who, and we can play that game if you want.
Do that thread Bob, I'll play it.
I think I can manage to attach a picture.
Let's see, I have seen you, Mike, Pif, Newf, Jen, Boss, Pete, Jeff, Jim, Luka, etc.
You want to go there?
Sure! this is the one from http://www.quittintime.com View Image
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Edited 2/15/2003 7:24:54 PM ET by Pro-Dek
cool
My comp blew up, and this is all I have left, but I am game.
Close enough for gov work...
I don't see any Ringers in that picture. :-)Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
I'll play - I'm in this pict -
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OK David I have no way to zoom in on that picture but I'm guessing you're the one on the first step.Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
well, I'm in this one also - -
The bearded one (in both).__________________________________________
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Nah, that was an early Luka.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
You can't fool me. Here's a pick one from Douds.__________________________________________
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Calvin:
I haven't been able to get into your site in months. It won't let me in. Any ideas?? Pic of me in Scottsddale two weeks ago.
Fen Fisher
Fish,
You should have emailed me a long time ago, then.
Email me now. I'll help you to get into the site.
: )
Quittin' Time
Of course, you might just want to try it on your own first...
Go to the site.
Go to the login screen.
On the bottom half of that screen is an option to ask for a new password. use that option.
You will have to fill in your user name, or your email address.
A new password will be sent to the email address that you used when you first set up your account.
You should then be able to log in with that new password. Once logged in, you can change your password to anything that you want it to be.
Quittin' Time
Ill try again... I dont a want to see my face onna milk carton
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
How about wrapped around a beer can?
We can call it Teddy Bear Beer!.
Excellence is its own reward!
Alas the Ronster reveils himself. You do look like Cheech Marin. Here's one of me pulverizing an innocent little rock a couple of years ago with my Bosch electric jack hammer. It was actualy a posing session after the big job had been done.
Hey, that's not a big enough job for that hammer! You've hardly got a scratch or any dirt on it. Here's a real job!.
Excellence is its own reward!
Hey Gunner! you look like "Bob the Builder" :-)Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
ROAR!!!!!
Gunner with that mug. I expect you wearing stripes while breaking those rocks...:>)
All love from me brother...
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
OK Ron- are you really RonT or Tommy Hilfiger?
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Edited 2/17/2003 9:06:56 AM ET by Pro-Dek
My first time posting a photo...I hope it works.
How can I make this smaller and how do I know the size it will post before I post it?
Edited 2/17/2003 9:57:26 AM ET by WAHD
Hiya Wahd,
What you'll need is a free downloadable off the net program that a lot of posters here on Breaktime use called 'Irfanview'.
Go down to the 'Breaktime' search function and type in 'irfanview'. That'll bring up all the irfanview threads from before that give the who, what, where, when, and hows of the thing and the easy procedure to shrink those pics down.
While you're at it maybe you could add a regional location in your profile.
Some folks are on dial up and smaller computers that will take forever to download a file size like your pic.
Edited 2/17/2003 12:11:21 PM ET by rez
If you click on the header for the photo gallery, you can find the thread titled "Irfanview" I put a link to it and some hints about using it there.
Regardless of the software ytou use to manipulate the photos, whern you are finding it in your PC, you can generally right click on the title of it in the folder where it resides and then select "properties" or "information" from the drop down menu. You will be able to see your file size, amoung othe4r information there. .
Excellence is its own reward!
vacation picture of me and the wife......
Bear, read above. I know I am snowed in, but I ain't opening a one meg picture.
yeah, bear, i'm bored too, but i ain't gonna do it Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
this hp all in one has a high resolution settings, i've tried the dpi, image size, fast printing mode, gonna thru TIFF, and everyother thing but to know avail. it was an attempt at leavity, and rez..... i live on hill with a mile and a 1/10 of country road in front of me there is no bar in my future. but there is a bottle of wine that'll cracked for dinner. who knows what's in store tomorrow........18" and counting...... the bear(hibernating)
Just go to Pif's post in the photo file under 'Irfanview' and he lays it all out on the procedure to shrink a post's size down.
If I tried to open that 889K I might get bearied.
I tried to open it and be a nice guy and downsize it with Paintshop Pro, and a couple of other programs but none would recognize it. Now I'm just curious. BTW, I'm in the boondocks on dial-up and the download took 3 min and 35 sec.
Shall we start a download pool? DSL's are not eligable. Longest download plus resizing and posting gets a free beer....from the Bear!Jules Quaver for President 2004
a 12 pack of there choice, even ballantine.......
I'm unhooking the DSL. No fair starting till I'm ready. Dark stout it is.
name and address- within the week
here, the bars open .. what'll it be ?
that Heart of Darkness is a pretty good stout............. but any of the Magic Hat brews are real smooth.. or the olde faithful BallantineMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
for the sake of my ocean state roots .... ballantine it is...... thanks
hey, bear.. i gotta 6-pack of 'gansett cans in the basement too !Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
grandfather use to own a bar in rhode island and grew up saying "hey neighbor have a gansett" and" loose lips sink ships"... they was some real old salts at that place..... gansett it is .. just came in from my first round of shoveling.....
OK Mike I'll trade you.Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
damn... now i gotta order some Magic Hat Tees Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Bear I think Your HP scanner will downsize the picture for you .
1. Scan
2. go up to tools-resize-pixels-use something like 640x480
3. click OK
4. back up to file- save as - My pictures, or whatever file you want to save it in.
5. now go back to breaktme and post the picture thru Browse-My pictures-find your shot -double click and post.Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Notchman-It took 8 seconds to download on my cable modem but I couldn't open it either.Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
here's the pict I was trying to find yesterday - had the table full of photos for the last two days - putting them in albums, pretty much by year - only the last two years left, and ran out of albums - got these fold out albums with flip up envelopes that hold 400 photos - got 7 of them full from the last 25 years, more or less - - anyway here's my last paying construction job - -
Well no wonder it was your last paying construction job. Who's going to pay to heat a house like that?......hehehehehee
That looks like way too much work to me.
Do you have a picture of the mill that cut all that lumber?
Did you have to take it all apart and ship it somewhere?
Great job, David
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
that cabin job could be my last, if I can't find a more pleasant owner to work for - - ill planned job and ill mannered owner - -
here's the mill - picts from last september - and a bonus pict of Breaktimers inspecting the work last May -
Ok, here's my pic. Was visiting a friend's farm, and she was explaining how she had the darn friendliest cow. Thank GOD it wasn't a bull!If everything seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something.
LOL- Thank God it wasn't full grown! "Nice little cow, now get off of my foot!" The things we do for girl friends. :-)Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
It was close! Full grown, she'd be about 1200 lbs. In the pic, she's already over 1000. I learned two things that day. 1. Cows can walk on just their hind legs (at least a few steps) and 2. Cows can REALLY squeeze their front legs together. The look on my face in the pic is humor and surprise. I knew she was coming, and we thought it was cute, and funny, thus the humor. Surprise because she was really squeezing my ribs hard. Luckily she knocked me off balance, and let go of me as I stumbled, because (I don't think) she wasn't gonna let any ither way. As it is, she squeezed me enough to just bruise the ribs, not break them.
Incidentally, my friends had only started breeding them within the last five years. They had about a dozen, and they named them like pets. (They grow them mainly for themselves, not commercially.) They were told not to name them, as it makes it more emotional to slaughter them. When time came for the first one to go, its name was Charles Roast. "Chuck for short, but not for long."If everything seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something.
Ah, the good life. The good life.
It's not a picture, it's an HTML file..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
You got it to open ?
I gave it an html extension, and tried IE, then netscape 4 and netscape 6.... No go on any of them.
Paint shop pro does not recognize it as any of their recognized types.
Took 5 minutes and 47 seconds to download.
Quittin' Time
rez where do i find irfanview is it softwear or... how about a little light...... thanks.... check below.......
Edited 2/17/2003 10:00:22 PM ET by the bear
hows that??
So last weekend, the Trolls who come in here from time to time and disrupt things, had a large convention.
Thanks to satellite imagery and some quick photo assessments, these jerks were exposed!Jules Quaver for President 2004
Pretty cool.
It'll open automaticaly in people's browsers, if you put the .jpg extension on the filename, before you post it.
: )
Quittin' Time
thanks luke - i gotta mac, i'm somewhat computer deficient. but i think i 've given that up already...
bear,
Graphic Converter, available free from here http://www.lemkesoft.com/us_index.html , does at least all the same stuff, and if the link comes from me, ya just KNOW it's gotta be Mac!
When you Save As, and choose jpg, you get to see the picture quality and size reflected live as you move the slider. Tre cool. Yell if you have questions.
Jim
Man, that's the story of my life except I never let my empties roll around on the floor.
irfanview... great stuff.. been using it for about three years
http://www.irfanview.com/Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
surfed around there didnt see any down loads for mac's thanks anyway..... bear
Ha, nevermind...
Edited 2/17/2003 10:22:58 PM ET by Qtrmeg
I dont remember exactly what thread but I know you said at one point you dont edit your messages or delete them, you softening up on us? :)View ImageGo Jayhawks
Ha, no I'm not going to soften up, that was just a redundant link to Irfanview.
bear, forswear the "leavity" and explore the mysteries of Irfanview.... repost your pic in .jpg...
meanwhile it's starting to look like the "icepalace " scene from Dr. Zhivago outsideMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
bear- think you been taken to much liberty at the bar.
Maybe he's just a really BIG bear.Jules Quaver for President 2004
8 minuets of down load and it wouldn't give it up
sorry dude my fox paw....
nice blue shirt... did you drink any of the local wine in heidelberg ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
nice blue shirt...
ya - I was in full tourist mode that day - -
did you drink any of the local wine in heidelberg ?
beer & pretzels around the fountain - - a very civilized place - a day trip from where we stayed in Munich -
Didn't know you had been over there. I was in Heidelberg and Munich when I was stationed there in the Army. Really liked Munich. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always
"Ringers"? Here's a couple of ringers...
Hey! where'd ya get that picture you spy. Settin up them pinhole cameras at the Lukafest I'll bet. Don't know about him but she's sure a cutie.Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Oh, the only ones you will see around here are at the other end from me, unless someone falls in a bucket of lucky. There was one guy that could whoop me good, he threw the end over end thing, and I would have to get him loaded so I could win once in awhile.
I think everyone's plan is to wear me out by chasing the things, I just stand to the side with my head down, and keep a metal detector handy.
here's one of me and a republican friend.... the oldest veteran in town... we're both in the local Lions Club... 30 years for me....
this is last Memorial Day.. at Veteran's Sq.... one of those flags in the back belongs to my Dad.... Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Here's one of me and my favorite republican from summer of 2000.
Think I'm on the list of suspicious middle-eastern looking individuals?
Steve
Wow, Mike cleaned up and with a republican.
I rather liked the one of you after you blew some insulation, you almost had me fooled that you worked once in awhile, instead of standing around all day taking pictures.
You got your lunch stuffed in that hat ?
; )
Quittin' Time
Just got back and find you guys talkin bout me.
I was just down at that builders show and when I met Andy Engle, he said, "You look just like I thought you would from your picture on the profile!"
LOL
Here's one of me keeping my younger brothers in line.
.
Excellence is its own reward!
ROTFLMAO! - Luka - I was thinking the same thing, that is one "High Crown" baseball hat. hehehehehehee
Sorry Mike, but you could pull that one down over yer ears. :-)Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
I'm the shy and retiring type and am reluctant to play this kind of game...seems I always end up making an #### of myself.
Jules Quaver for President 2004
Hey Notchman- I was Navy Nam in 64-66. Welcome home!Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
And a hearty welcome home to you, too! ("Welcome Homes" were in short supply in those days).Jules Quaver for President 2004
Is that the best rear action shot you can muster up for the thong of the day? LOL
Ron- are you wearing those new steel toed sandles?
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!! Is my occupation excluded as a profile option as a matter of personal protection? Surely there are other _________'s here! :-)> Love the pic's in the thread so far!
Kevin Halliburton
"Bore: A man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself." -Melville D. Landon-
Don't worry, Prospero doesn't have all of the occupations listed. I checked, mine was "occupation fool", it wasn't on the list so I left that line blank.
I understand that all occupations can't be listed but I'm in a line of work that gets a lot of exposure in the magazine- here on Breaktime too. Architects and Building Designers are an integral part of Fine Home Building. We certainly inspire a great deal of "discussion" on this forum... :-)>
I just thought it was odd that occupations such as Medical/Health Services and Business Supplies/Services were included as options and Architect/Building Designer were not.
My conclusion... It's got to be a personal protection thing.
I can just see the discussion as the Breaktime staff was putting this site together:
"Should we include Architect or Building Designer as an option under profession?"
"Are you kidding me? Surely no one would be foolish enough to admit they were an Architect or Building Designer on this forum!"
"Well, I don't know... you remember that set of plans we were looking at last week- that's the mentality we're talking about here."
"Good point, maybe we should just exclude it as an option for their own personal protection."
I however, undeterred by such protective measures, stand to face the disdainful flaming threads, and proudly hold my hot dog aloft! Smores anyone?
Kevin Halliburton
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
>It's got to be a personal protection thing.
Likely a Prospero thing, as with astrological sign.
Ok, that's the second time it's come up in this thread forcing me to expose my ignorance... Prospero?
Kevin Halliburton
Scroll this frame down to the very bottom and look at the copyright notice. With apologies to BASF, "Prospero: We don't make your forums suck; we make the software that makes your forums suck." <G>
Ahhh... most enlightening! Glad that snake didn't bite me. <G>
There you go, I think you've got it now, and the occupation thing is just one of Prospero's many features.
As Piffin would say, "You've just been 'spero'd".
just spent the better part of snowed in day 2 , downloading and preliminary screwin' around with the graphic converter seems like another thing that'll take some time downloaded the manual also thanks cloud for the point in that direction.... cheers... bear
Here's the pic that my profile pic came from.....
had to crop/resize/squish to make it fit to profile thing.....
Here's a hint.....I'm the white guy!
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
Glen "the carver man" is to my right....and Tony is the one that looks/is stoned.
You can just get a glimpse of "Blondie" the local American hooker behind Tony.
Great bar/hotel.....Negril, Jamaica......the Negril Yacht Club.
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
: )
Quittin' Time
Now that was funny!
Have to save it....should I title it....
Jamaica Pic "retouched" ?
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
That look like half surprise, half curiousness was too good to pass up.
You might title it, "This is a WHAT bar ???"
That was my second choice. Along with, "And here I thought Glen was trying to scratch his OWN a$$ and was just so drunk he missed."
: )
Quittin' Time
>Tony is the one that looks/is stoned.
I thought you said YOU were the white guy?!J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
"DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"
Dang, I had no problem, mon, opening any of your attachments. You can ask anybody here about my photo impairment, eh, Luka;-) ...of course I'm cruising now, with this new mushroomed iMac and DSL hookup. Bring it on, bigger is better!...here's my evil twin's profile pic. I am much more the much more jovial one on the left. EliphIno!
whoa... get outta my face , bucksnortMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
gol durned moderators<G> but I want a beer the size that my evil twin has! EliphIno!
Hey, who smacked you up the side of the head there, bud ?
Quittin' Time
Doctors were a lot meaner when I was born;-) EliphIno!
You don't look like it's weighing heavy on you, 'snort!
OK, now who is this guy??????????Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Should be a woman, what with two mouths and all.
Ooooooooooo - Jim was Kathy home when you said that?Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
George Carpenter wandered down outta stateamaine today and stopped by to give us some pointers..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
So which is which?Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
eh ? can't tell a mainer when you see 1 ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Never been any farther east than Ohio.Penny for your thoughts. Twenty to act them out.
you mean the "northwest territory " ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mr Mike;
I have relatives in W Warrick and many other else where's. (all are accounted for and safe) Born in Cranston. Grew up in Providence. Left in '58. Haven't been back since the the Providence River pave over was almost completed. Bet a bunch of stuff has changed.
MORE TOYS NOW....
The guy on the right looked like most Mainah's I know but then the guy on the left looks like most of 'um I haven seen.
(I think I've already seen your pic so I'm going with the one on the other hand).
Excellence is its own reward!
Now THERE'S a pair to draw to.
I notice there's no one else in sight. Must have run to higher ground, or else to get their waders.
I don't see either of those strange beings pointing...and Wiley, you're Georgie B's other brother, aren't you? EliphIno!
Mike....you company uses pretty fancy workbenches!
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
y'all some happy, handsome son of a gun, kalik hhhmmm never had that flavor........bearly dug out
You wouldn't happen to be talking about Billy "Bob" Gates?
Hey, I'm Mac all the way--cut me and I bleed 6-color blood. Don't know nothin' about no Gates. :)
We don't need no steenkin' Windows...
Prospero... maybe, but I'm still not convinced it's not a personal protection thing too. <G> As to the astrological sign- it's kind of always bothered me that mine is a disease. I mean, all of those cool sounding names like "scorpio" and "Taurus" and I get stuck with "Cancer!"
Kevin Halliburton
Ya, but the medical field stole it from the ancients.
In reality all it does is accuse you of having crabs.
Wiley, my long lost brother. I was wondering where you went.
Well heres one of me. This is why I havent been here for a while. Its the most recent photo.
Be free
Namaste
Andy
"Attachment is the strongest block to realization"
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
hey pal how was canada, tipi looks great. how you'd end up in the can : ) been there myself a few times, me and otis from mayberry.
Bear,
A visit to Alcatraz last summer......lol...
The tipi does look pretty awesome doesnt it? Did you drive by recently? Been buying artifacts off Ebay to adorn it in the spring after I reset it up to get the skin tighter.
skiing was incredable. The weather went from 28 deg F "below zero"the first morning to 32 deg above the last day and 45 deg for the nine hour drive home.
Stop by when your in the hood.....doing my bathroom now.....looks better than the jail cell bath I think.....lol......by the way, that jail cell I was posing in was next to the Bird mans jail cell.
Be free
NAmaste
Andy
"Attachment is the strongest block to realization"http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Edited 2/24/2003 1:20:48 AM ET by Andy Clifford(Andybuildz)
Har Har.
And we all thought you was skiing!
I didnt know you were a Raider fan :>)
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
Sheesh Andy, couldn't you have cleaned things up before the photographer came along!?!? What a pig sty! I don't know how you could stand it.
LOL.
Excellence is its own reward!
Andy, what happened, you get caught building a teepee without a permit?
Is that a 322 year old toilet?Jules Quaver for President 2004
ROAR!
Hand over your mouth to keep from gaggin from the stench coming out of that toilet?View ImageGo Jayhawks
Ok Andy, care to fill us in or was that just a goodhumor pose shot for our benefit?
rez
what you doing up so late?
a"Attachment is the strongest block to realization"http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Was cutting lumber for my dome shed.
Nocturnal life. Don't really get cruisin' till after 7pm then usually good for 5 or 6 strong hours.
What's with the photo. Funniest thing I've seen in a while.
rez
Maybe I should have posted a more meditative pics of me like this one of Ram Dass and me during a meditation retreat at Omega in Rhinebeck NY..
Be......
Namaste
andy"Attachment is the strongest block to realization"http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Guess Who????
Hey which star wars is that pic from :>)
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
the bar scene i'm the one on the left.
Ed Asner?
LOL oooooohhhhhh - a fatal blow -was married some time ago, actually a lifetime ago. and there we're to things my ex said to me to me and i quote " your a heathen, an occasional decent heathen but a heathen none the less. i cant see getting old with an occasional decent heathen thats will look like ed asner." end quote ....... i fear that day has come..... bear
sad but true.
ROAR!
'Course you could try the orange mohawk.
Edited 2/26/2003 12:18:10 AM ET by rez
Teddy?"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Who's missing here Andy?
I heard a certain glasses wearing librarian was going to scan a body part, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
No Newf?
No Cag?
No Phill?
No Gabe?
Oh, how about a Splintie? ;-)
Not that I would try to pressure anyone...
yet!
Which body part??????????Peace
Newf
One sure way to end war.......................you have to eat what you kill.
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Bite me!Peace
Newf
One sure way to end war.......................you have to eat what you kill.
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NEWF!!!You really are a real person! Good Lord man!
Even got snow on the ground!
I've got to go and think about this.
...Didn't want people to think I was bald!!!!!!!!!!!...
ROAR!Peace
Newf
One sure way to end war.......................you have to eat what you kill.
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Dude I thought you were taller ..:>)
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
N >>> "Bite me"
Hey! I'm gonna tell Brian on you. ;-)
I aint scanning no body parts for you guys :)
View ImageGo Jayhawks
I thot profiling was wrong nowadays?
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
What is this thing, a chicken? >>> View Image
I think it's a cag.
Please read above :)View ImageGo Jayhawks
So what in the name of Phog Allen does a picture of a chicken have to do with college basketball?
He is just trying to get out of posting his picture here. I think we need to drag the kid to a fest. That'll straighten him out.
Aw heck, he is just probably as funny looking as the rest of us, and if he looks like that chicken, I don't blame him for not posting a pic.
Its the only team I really support here, our football team is "under construction" at this time :) View ImageGo Jayhawks
Under Construction? Thought they were still in the demolition stage.
KSU '95 Const Mgmt
Yea I know its Basketball season, why do you think I'm here typijng away.
Really they should just be condemed but hopefully in a few years they can at least play a .500 seasonView ImageGo Jayhawks
Well, I've pondered for awhile some way to cast aspersions on the Jayhawks, but then, being an Oregon State Beaver and growing up not too far from the (ugh) Oregon Ducks, I figured I'd just keep my head down. And being from Neuheisel land, you might want to do the same! :-)
Go dawgs I love them huskies....
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
Edited 2/28/2003 12:08:15 AM ET by RonT
Man don't you watch college basketball????
It's a Jayhawk, I don't know where the "bird" design came from but it stems back to the days of anti-slavery/slavery feuds. Battles between Kansas and Missouri, Anti slavery people in Kansas were called jayhawkers it stuck so that's my schools mascot.View ImageGo Jayhawks
Mr. Little's big brother?
GOTTA HEAD OUT AND GET THE REST OF THE TOYS....
Mr. Little's big brother?
is that the same as Chris Elliots little brother?
Ok make that Mr. Little's little brother.
"No Newf, no CAG, no Phil, no Gabe?"
"No Pi, no rez, no Luka,????"
Jen
Newf is here.
My pic has appeared many times on this forum.
Including the latest of me modeling my tinfoil hat. It's in my profile.
Quittin' Time
Cool, bro. Look Like Little John from the Sherwood Forest.
Excellence is its own reward!
ok ok, Lest I be accused of not playing fair and hiding behind the cloak of a cyberpersonality I will throw my hat into the ring and become a true Breaktimer.
This was a few years back. My cousin in the pic is now a Freshman in college.
Man Rez, that is older than those albums of yours.
You live in Austrailia ???
Quittin' Time
Well after this winter I sure wouldn't mind it!
I hear it gets just as cold down there, in places... As it gets here, in places.
Seems to me that you just need to stay here and find the right place.
I'm almost ready to move to New Mexico.
Quittin' Time
Pi says 'Arizona is the place you ought to be so load up the truck and move to...'
Hey, that's cheeting...I had to look at it upside down, but your face is still all squished...."
ok ok again. Sheesh!
'Whatta revoltin' development this is!'
Accusin' me a cheetin' now!
Dems fightin' words!
'IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME'
and go ahead and send in the entry.
Man, what a chicken.
A cheatin' chicken.
Quittin' Time
Cluck cluckcluckcluck Cluck cluckcluck
Buck buck bucaaaawwwwwk !
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I remember years back visiting some folks out in the country of Arkansas and spending the night in a little camper.
They had this rooster. They had an all night flood light. I heard crowing every 15 minutes. By morning I wanted a dead rooster.
ROFLOL
Where Pops used to live, the neighbor raised cocks. (You don't call's 'em roosters. They wuz bred to fight.)
I stayed there overnight one time, sleeping in the back of the truck, in a canopy. I wanted several dead birds that next morning.
If anyone around here got themselves a crower, they wouldn't have it for long. Way too many people would eagerly take action.
I believe that his neighbor finaly found a way to silence the dang things. Course that didn't happen until I innocently made a few suggestions about how illegal it was to be breeding the birds for the purpose he was. The place suddenly sprouted a bunch of fences as well. Rickety, but you couldn't see through them.
Quittin' Time
My dad keeps Fred, a Rhode Island Red rooster, at his place as a pet. Amazing to see a roosters personality change.
Use to be a pecker and would chase people around if they ran from him. He's the only bird on the turf. Guy next door raises chickens so Fred gets to go over there and get his yaya's out then comes back to his place.
After a cold lonely winter in the greenhouse he is one mellow bird now. Follows you around. Let's you pick him up. Comes to the basement window to peek through. We'll see what happens once summer hits and the people start coming around.
"Incinolet toilets" only a couple of threads over...fascinatin'!
Middle of my "lunch" break and you want me to read about toilets?????I'm all here....... 'cause I'm not all there!
bit late for lunch, aren't you? Where's your picture?
Jen
I work the midnight shift here at "the" airline of canada. So for me it's lunch time.
As for my picture I need to get home and pull one off my puter and post. Will do in the morning for tomorrow night. PROMIS.I'm all here....... 'cause I'm not all there!
As promised Jencar.
The halloween one is me with the pumpkin on my head and DRHRosie is handing out the candy.
The other one is me with a nice bin 555 shiraz in front of me.I'm all here....... 'cause I'm not all there!
Yup.
I live way out inna woods.
On a ridge. A foothill to Mt Index. I am sick and tired of the blackwater tank. The work, and the mess involved.
I would like an incinolet.
I can't afford to just buy one from the company. I am hoping to find a used one that I can buy on payments.
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But is it energy efficient? By the time we pay for water and sewer service and taxes that go towards water reclamation, probly about evens out.
I don't have water or sewer.
I don't just live in some town with a lot of trees around. I live in the boonies. The real thing.
I own a lot of mud and some trees on a steep ridge.
The only amenities here are those which I have made or hauled in myself. I live in a travel trailer.
As I understand it, it costs about the same as an electric baseboard heater. And it doesn't run all the time.
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I don't know what to say...how do you go on line? Our satellite co. recently has begun to offer high speed DSL...pretty amazing technology.
Do you have a well? A generator? I can't begin to imagine...too spoiled.
I know that you can lose sight of yourself in the city, and it takes a trip to the woods to get back...haven't seen a real forest for 3 years...could go nuts any day now...;}
I do have electricity and phone.
For my first year here, I had a phone and no electricty. I sat a truck camper down next to the road, called the phone company, and asked them to come out and hook up a phone. They hung the box on the side of the camper.
I moved the camper up the hill, and extended the phone line myself.
After about a year, I bought a huge telephone pole. I cut it down to the right size, then set it on my property according to the electric company's guidelines. On that pole, I installed a 200 amp "RV" electric service box, with masthead, and meterbox.
All my work passed inspections. The electric company came out and hooked me up. Total cost, including inspections and hookup fee was... something over 1300 dollars.
Last winter, (not the one we are just finishing), Jim Lovatt gave me a travel trailer. I have lived in this ever since. I have the same electric service and phone line anyone else has. I have just had to make up my own resources for water, and have had to deal with the septic holding tank problems.
That first winter I lived in a pickup truck camper. Tiny, cold, wet, moldy and miserable to the max.
I live on VERY little income. My experience is not so different from most of our forbear's experiences. Just as they did, I make do with what I have. I build with what is at hand. I problem solve and find solutions that may not be anything like conventional, but they work for me.
In my own opinion, I am a thousand times better off right now than I was three years ago. Every little thing that gets done, if done right, does not have to be done again. Those little things are adding up. The more that add up, the better off, and more comfortable I am.
Last summer I put in a 300 gallon holding tank for water. I installed all the plumbing and a pump. So that I could go to town with barrels. Fill them with water. Come home, back up to the pump. And pump the water uphill to the tank. From the tank, the plumbing runs downhill to the trailer. The tank is well above the trailer on the hillside.
This summer I will improve the whole system, as well as winterizing it. I have been lucky enough to have a mild winter this year.
I will also build another structure small enough not to have to have permits or inspections. In that structure I will put a tub/shower, a water heater, a clothes washer. And hopefully an incinolet.
Any self-respecting city slicker would cringe at the sight of what I have. But as I said, it is a thousand times better than when I started 4 years ago, and it is getting better.
I have done all this on 300 dollars a month, and a LOT of help from friends. Mostly friends right here at Breaktime.
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Me thinks Jencar is a city slicker:O)
In body, but not in spirit....
Don' own an SUV (what city slickers drive) or have a cell phone permanently attached to one side of my head!
I thought some more about your post, and came back to say that, yer right.
If you compare it to the cost of water and sewer and reclamation taxes, it probably about evens out. Possibly cheaper.
If I lived where there was water and sewer, I would have to pay for them anyway, like it or not. In that case, it would be a waste of money to have the incinolet. For me, those arent even an option.
It would cost many thousands of dollars to get a septic where I live. I mean, over 13 grand. No way I can afford that.
This county does not "allow" composting toilets. They said they consider them "experimental", and so do not allow them.
I do not want to take the legal risk of putting in a bootleg septic system.
I am sick and tired of the unhealthy mess of the holding tank, and the job of emptying it, etc.
I have looked at all the incinerating toilets, and this one is the only one that I have not gotten any negative feedback on.
In my case, it looks like the only real solution is the incinolet.
: )
Quittin' Time
Something us city slickers take for granted. (the throne)
If one of em costs @ $1600 (plus $75 shipping) and each poster at BT kicks in $50.00...silly idea...(I mean well)...
Jen :}
Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson? Where's the grapefruit and the burly Samoan lawyer?
Guy, who taught you to cut and paste? Is that supposed to be for real?
Har Har! And the years fly by.
Those look like freezer bags on that scale.
And didn't you know smoking was bad for you? What is with that cigar?
I think it was back in the 'why not' days. Unfortunately, little brains. One day back then, not too long after that pic, a buddy and I were partying atop an old metal bridge that spanned the creek way out in the country at a long ravine where everyone went to get wild. They had found dead bodies and such, big parties, alot of room to roam, you know the kind of place.
I was drunk and tripping , howling at the moon or some such thing, when buddy claimed I was making too much noise and recommended we get down and build a campfire. I went to swing down and put my feet on the lattice work on a vertical beam to climb down like a ladder. These quarter sized solid rods diagonally spanned the bridge sections at intervals. It was on one of those rods I put my support on when I went to swing down. It was rusted and broke.
Luckily I was on the inside when it broke and I came to on the bridge deck instead of sure death in the shallow water far beneath the bridge. That was one of those real wild nights.
I had a picture to climax this story and the puter still won't take a pic. Oh well, Just a story anyhow.
My little brain caused a lot more trouble then that.
Glad ya made it, Think I'll pack it in for tonight...
Be good.
Wow, and the guy is still smiling. Or did you break your mouth too?
What was the damage?
Let's see...Left wrist one of the two bones broke complete. I remember seeing it push the skin out but didn't break the skin. Left index finger dislocated looking like a claw and chipped right elbow I think. Plus one horrendous ride in the ambulance which is a story in itself.
Whadja do? Get attacked by a Bobcat?
TOPLESS!!!!!! OMG wait'll Andy E and Brian sees this.sure to off the web by tomorrow.
By the way whats up with the kinky stuff?
Be well
Namaste
andy"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
When is your photographic time machine going to make it to 2003 ?
Quittin' Time
I'm stuck in the 70s. Tried to land a zillion times in the now, but the plane just keeps circling, circling, unlimited fuel. Something like an old Twilight Zone b&w episode.
LOL
Why is that ? In some ways, I am stuck in the mid-70's as well.
Quittin' Time
It's the damm plane! It just don't wanna land!
Hey, I love that leopard skin cover.......Is that real or plastic?
...What about the lawn seed?...Peace
Newf
If we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war and destruction. In our day of space vehicles and guided ballistic missiles, the choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
Martin Luther King
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Ok, fill me in......what lawn seed? Now that we're having this public discussion about my faults, what is about me that you like?......<G>
Who said you had faults?
Tell we where they live....
I hava stick...
.................Somewhere.............
...<g>...Peace
Newf
If we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war and destruction. In our day of space vehicles and guided ballistic missiles, the choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
Martin Luther King
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You'd have to speak softly but carry a big one.......
That's not lawn seed in those bags?
Oregano?Peace
Newf
If we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war and destruction. In our day of space vehicles and guided ballistic missiles, the choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
Martin Luther King
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Roar! You know, I still got that thing. Some kind of fake fur stuff from back then. But I think that leopard was my brudders. Mine was tiger stripes. Woo Woo!
...no Jen
Nah, Jen posted a pic somewhere of her and her hubby.
Maybe we should have everyone repost here in this thread instead of having them scattered to the four winds. Or that funny 4 compass point thingy with the crooked North.
Your wish is my "I'll think about it"...mayhaps Roucroumom could be persuaded to transfer the picture of her lovely self and her dashing DH...
(add 10 years of "character")
Jen
Pi here......No digital or scanner.....If I showed you my picture, you might not listen to my pearls of wisdom......<g>
I'm going to send some to Newf, but he will have to choose........I hope he chooses the right one.......
And in my lifetime, too!
...<g>...
I hope!Peace
Newf
If we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war and destruction. In our day of space vehicles and guided ballistic missiles, the choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
Martin Luther King
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Hey, you know my number one fault is procrastination........Just you wait, friend........One of these days, you will be realllllllly surprised......
Look at the head on that one...:>)
Darkworks: We fight for Peace
Here's one of my favorite shots of the two that make my world go round- See why I go on so...?Kevin Halliburton
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard-
Yeah, now if I could just get my girlfriend to say the same thing about.......
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Corn fed and in bred.
(ex)Notcher - "Oregon State"? Any school that fields a team called the "Beavers" is okay in my book. Well worth following.
Yeah, just feel sorry for the florida gamecocks :)View ImageGo Jayhawks
South Carolina...
Most of their fans have hats and stuff that neglect the "Game"--guess it was too many letters or something.
Thats it, sorry was thinking florida for some reason
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THen what college is it that trimmed their nickname down to "Booger"?
I give up...
LOL It wasn't a trivia contest. There is one out there and I've been told but I can't for the life of me remember.
That's one I'd be afraid to google.
Did that with sh*t once. Wasn't pretty.