Sleep is God. Go worship.

[Mark Gardner]

I was gonna let this die, but Dan requested new ones. Four rather odd random photos from my photo stream tonight. (Updated 14OCT2018)

[Post-Doctorate D]

Good night, John-Boy.

Forum announcements of bedtimes seem weird but I don't know anymore.

[Captain Cranky]

Is that your 3D printer? Mind if I ask what you were making?

[Mark Gardner]

Is that your 3D printer? Mind if I ask what you were making?

that one I was printing a drive tray for my Mac Pro.

[Captain Cranky]

Oh cool  I don't have one (printer that is...or a mac actually  ) but my brother has a few, both bought and made. The first thing he did when he got one was print components for another printer lol. It's fascinating stuff, he printed up bits and pieces for the inside of my mum's car (knobs and stuff) which I thought was great. I can't wait to see where the technology goes 

[Mark Gardner]

Oh cool  I don't have one (printer that is...or a mac actually  ) but my brother has a few, both bought and made. The first thing he did when he got one was print components for another printer lol. It's fascinating stuff, he printed up bits and pieces for the inside of my mum's car (knobs and stuff) which I thought was great. I can't wait to see where the technology goes 

LOL, my boy immediately used the filament that came with the 3D printer to print upgrades for the printer. He's also printed an air conditioning knob for his friend; clips to join my magic trapped to my magic keyboard; a small form factor computer case and accoutrements; a replacement grip for my Browning 1911; several figurines; a craft box (for separating screws), and, well, anything that strikes his fancy.

[Jeff Tanyard]

a replacement grip for my Browning 1911

You just gave me some ideas for the duck and run thread.   :icon_wink:

[idontknowyet]

Is it sad that im staing at his picture of ingredients trying to figure out what hes making and the only thing I can come up with is mayo or salad dressing. I'm voting for homemade mayo. Though EVOO is better than veggie oil in mayo.

[Post-Doctorate D]

Hollandaise sauce?

[Captain Cranky]

Oh cool  I don't have one (printer that is...or a mac actually  ) but my brother has a few, both bought and made. The first thing he did when he got one was print components for another printer lol. It's fascinating stuff, he printed up bits and pieces for the inside of my mum's car (knobs and stuff) which I thought was great. I can't wait to see where the technology goes 

LOL, my boy immediately used the filament that came with the 3D printer to print upgrades for the printer. He's also printed an air conditioning knob for his friend; clips to join my magic trapped to my magic keyboard; a small form factor computer case and accoutrements; a replacement grip for my Browning 1911; several figurines; a craft box (for separating screws), and, well, anything that strikes his fancy.

Ooh fancy! I see your air conditioning knob, clips, computer case, replacement grip, figurines and box, and raise you a purple octopus and a mariokart coaster  :tongue:

Seriously though, it's cool stuff and I'm hoping they'll come up with printable fibres to print my own clothes or something 

[Post-Doctorate D]

Seriously though, it's cool stuff and I'm hoping they'll come up with printable fibres to print my own clothes or something 

There's a digital knitting machine being released later this year or next.  I don't remember.  But you design sweaters, slippers, whatever on the computer and the machine will knit them for you, with whatever designs or patterns you come up with.

[Mark Gardner]

Is it sad that im staing at his picture of ingredients trying to figure out what hes making and the only thing I can come up with is mayo or salad dressing. I'm voting for homemade mayo. Though EVOO is better than veggie oil in mayo.

homemade mayo all the way. Oh, and I don't use an immersion blender- hand whisked.

[Mark Gardner]

a replacement grip for my Browning 1911

You just gave me some ideas for the duck and run thread.   :icon_wink:

yeah, you better run. Pfft...

[Jeff Tanyard]

a replacement grip for my Browning 1911

You just gave me some ideas for the duck and run thread.   :icon_wink:

yeah, you better run. Pfft...

lol

[Rinelle]

Ok, I must be missing something. Not seeing a 3D printer anywhere on those photos?

[Mark Gardner]

Ok, I must be missing something. Not seeing a 3D printer anywhere on those photos?

Every night before I go to bed, I replace the four random images with four new ones, and change the title. The 3D printer was one of yesterday's photos. Today's thread title is a quote from Shakespeare.

[Mark Gardner]

Is it sad that im staing at his picture of ingredients trying to figure out what hes making and the only thing I can come up with is mayo or salad dressing. I'm voting for homemade mayo. Though EVOO is better than veggie oil in mayo.

Yeah, Extra Virgin Olive Oil is way better than vegetable oil, but it's so much more expensive. I've also found that hand-whisking VO over EVOO results in a faster blend of the ingredients at room temperature. I think it has something to do with an extra or fewer polypeptide chain or something.

[idontknowyet]

Is it sad that im staing at his picture of ingredients trying to figure out what hes making and the only thing I can come up with is mayo or salad dressing. I'm voting for homemade mayo. Though EVOO is better than veggie oil in mayo.

Yeah, Extra Virgin Olive Oil is way better than vegetable oil, but it's so much more expensive. I've also found that hand-whisking VO over EVOO results in a faster blend of the ingredients at room temperature. I think it has something to do with an extra or fewer polypeptide chain or something.

Do you dip your egg in boiling water for 20seconds to avoid salmonella?

Have you tried adding just a pinch of mustard powder? My aunt does that and I have to say it add just a little something without saying is there mustard in this.

[idontknowyet]

Is it sad that im staing at his picture of ingredients trying to figure out what hes making and the only thing I can come up with is mayo or salad dressing. I'm voting for homemade mayo. Though EVOO is better than veggie oil in mayo.

homemade mayo all the way. Oh, and I don't use an immersion blender- hand whisked.

Show off! I think my arm would fall off about 1 minute into whisking.
That's why we have guys around to carry heavy things and whisk things when the blender breaks.

[idontknowyet]

Hollandaise sauce?

Hollandaise uses butter instead of oil. If your going for something lovely like that don't skimp on the flavor.

[Mark Gardner]

Do you dip your egg in boiling water for 20seconds to avoid salmonella?

Have you tried adding just a pinch of mustard powder? My aunt does that and I have to say it add just a little something without saying is there mustard in this.

I don't dip the egg. I'm not too concerned with salmonella since the mayo gets used within a week. Sometimes I'll add a dab of spicy mustard, sometimes I'll grind up mustard seeds with a pestle and mortar. I'm usually making mustard anyway.

[Captain Cranky]

Seriously though, it's cool stuff and I'm hoping they'll come up with printable fibres to print my own clothes or something 

There's a digital knitting machine being released later this year or next.  I don't remember.  But you design sweaters, slippers, whatever on the computer and the machine will knit them for you, with whatever designs or patterns you come up with.

Okay, that's just awesome 

[Post-Doctorate D]

Hollandaise sauce?

Hollandaise uses butter instead of oil. If your going for something lovely like that don't skimp on the flavor.

I had to go with Hollandaise.  The butter could have been behind the vinegar and oil.  ;)

I figured mayo was too pedestrian an answer and the sauce I wanted to name I couldn't remember.  As I recall, it's made with the same ingredients as mayo but there's something's different about it that makes it a sauce rather than a spread.

[idontknowyet]

Hollandaise sauce?

Hollandaise uses butter instead of oil. If your going for something lovely like that don't skimp on the flavor.

I had to go with Hollandaise.  The butter could have been behind the vinegar and oil.  ;)

I figured mayo was too pedestrian an answer and the sauce I wanted to name I couldn't remember.  As I recall, it's made with the same ingredients as mayo but there's something's different about it that makes it a sauce rather than a spread.

Béarnaise aioli or something else?  thought béarnaise has butter in it too but im sure you could use vo 

[Post-Doctorate D]

Béarnaise aioli or something else?  thought béarnaise has butter in it too but im sure you could use vo

Maybe.  I don't remember.  I saw it on a cooking show earlier this year and didn't think of it again until Mark's photo.

[Mark Gardner]

I figured mayo was too pedestrian an answer and the sauce I wanted to name I couldn't remember.

I'm a simple man with simple tastes...

[Post-Doctorate D]

I figured mayo was too pedestrian an answer and the sauce I wanted to name I couldn't remember.

I'm a simple man with simple tastes...

Except when it comes to audio equipment, I'm guessing.

[Mark Gardner]

I figured mayo was too pedestrian an answer and the sauce I wanted to name I couldn't remember.

I'm a simple man with simple tastes...

Except when it comes to audio equipment, I'm guessing.

LOL. Ya got me there. Don't tell anyone, but I'm something of an expert...

[Post-Doctorate D]

I figured mayo was too pedestrian an answer and the sauce I wanted to name I couldn't remember.

I'm a simple man with simple tastes...

Except when it comes to audio equipment, I'm guessing.

LOL. Ya got me there. Don't tell anyone, but I'm something of an expert...

I can't make out the brand.  I almost had a top-notch audio mixer or processor years ago.  It was on eBay.  Towards the end of the auction, I feared I had bid too high and hoped and hoped for a sniper.  Got down to the wire but someone finally outbid me.  It had a neat history too.  It had been used by some big name company.  I want to say Disney but I don't remember with certainty.

[Mark Gardner]

I'm a simple man with simple tastes...

Except when it comes to audio equipment, I'm guessing.

LOL. Ya got me there. Don't tell anyone, but I'm something of an expert...

I can't make out the brand.  I almost had a top-notch audio mixer or processor years ago.  It was on eBay.  Towards the end of the auction, I feared I had bid too high and hoped and hoped for a sniper.  Got down to the wire but someone finally outbid me.  It had a neat history too.  It had been used by some big name company.  I want to say Disney but I don't remember with certainty.

It's a Harris. It's getting a little long in the tooth.

[Post-Doctorate D]

It's a Harris. It's getting a little long in the tooth.

Most of my gear is state-of-the-art . . . for 1993.

[WasAnn]

This is an extremely cool thread, and I love the idea of random photos. I, on the other hand, couldn't do it. I would come out mostly with my dog if I truly left it random. I take a lot of pictures of my dog. And food. And weird things in the yard, many gross and weird things in the yard. (Great horned owl leaves pellets and the bald eagle drops partially eaten fish).

[Post-Doctorate D]

This is an extremely cool thread, and I love the idea of random photos. I, on the other hand, couldn't do it. I would come out mostly with my dog if I truly left it random. I take a lot of pictures of my dog. And food. And weird things in the yard, many gross and weird things in the yard. (Great horned owl leaves pellets and the bald eagle drops partially eaten fish).

It would be worse if I did it.

Here are some examples:

http://www.dcrblogs.com/2008/09/16/i-take-pictures-of-bottles-so-you-dont-have-to/
http://www.dcrblogs.com/2008/12/18/i-take-pictures-of-manila-envelopes-so-you-dont-have-to/
http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/06/07/i-take-pictures-of-a-banana-so-you-dont-have-to/ (The current theme messes up the layout on that one)
http://www.dcrblogs.com/2013/11/13/i-take-incredibly-lame-pictures-so-you-dont-have-to/

See?  No one wants that.

[idontknowyet]

You're making me want to go in my pool, but that sounds like too much effort so ill just keep posting here.

[Kate Elizabeth]

I used to drag an old Remington up from my basement to type my stories on as a kid.  My parents probably got rid of it at a garage sale, but I sure did love that thing.

[Mark Gardner]

I used to drag an old Remington up from my basement to type my stories on as a kid.  My parents probably got rid of it at a garage sale, but I sure did love that thing.

I still do:

[Post-Doctorate D]

I did my first newsletter on a typewriter.  Still have it.  Needs fixin'.  Dang mice got into it and did their stuff inside.  Argh!


Also, my audio mixer is a Mackie.  Couldn't remember that name the other day.

[Mark Gardner]

Looks like these four random photos without context are portrait mode.

[HSh]

I loved writing on older typewriters (especially manual) before they were cool!  Or after!  Or actually, at the point in between when they were practical and when they were retro-cool.  Alas, no longer; too hard on the hands/wrists.

And weird things in the yard, many gross and weird things in the yard. (Great horned owl leaves pellets and the bald eagle drops partially eaten fish).

The birds of WISDOM and PATRIOTISM have GIFTED you with their GOO.  Have gratitude!  :evil:

But it is easy for me to talk since I just receive PELLETS of POO from the fertility-representative with long ears. 

[Jeff Tanyard]

And weird things in the yard, many gross and weird things in the yard. (Great horned owl leaves pellets and the bald eagle drops partially eaten fish).

The birds of WISDOM and PATRIOTISM have GIFTED you with their GOO.

 


Okay, true story time: Back in the olden days, by which I mean way back in the early 1990's, I had to type school papers on a typewriter.  Once, I was getting set to get started, and I thought I had everything ready.  Paper, notes, comfy chair, etc.  I even had a nice tall glass of orange juice with me so I could sip while I worked and keep my energy up.

Unfortunately, I forgot about that whole "carriage return" thing.  As soon as I got to the end of the first line, the carriage shot off to one side and smacked my orange juice like Babe Ruth on a hanging slider.  Juice went everywhere.  My work was, alas, delayed.   :cry:

[idontknowyet]

(Great horned owl leaves pellets and the bald eagle drops partially eaten fish).

I have a weird owl pellet story, but I think its too weird for the internet. I think ill shut up now.  :embarrassed:

[idontknowyet]

Are you aware that cut out is upside down? Cause seriously its upside down. Don't you think you should fix that. Um ill wait while you fix it.




Mountain Dew  :Tup3a:

[Jeff Tanyard]

too weird for the internet.

Unpossible.  Share!   

[Kate Elizabeth]

I love Mountain Dew.

[Mark Gardner]

Wow, please ignore the mess in the last photo. My writing workshop was a major mess.

[Post-Doctorate D]

Wow, please ignore the mess in the last photo. My writing workshop was a major mess.

If that's a mess, my office would make your head explode.

[Mark Gardner]

Wow, please ignore the mess in the last photo. My writing workshop was a major mess.

If that's a mess, my office would make your head explode.

I think that my daughter and I were "camping" in my writing workshop. Drinking hot cocoa until like 11PM!

[idontknowyet]

Testing potions for an upcoming book? 

[WasAnn]

What in the world is in that purple thing?

[Post-Doctorate D]

What in the world is in that purple thing?

Our clues are a wooden spoon for stirring, an empty gallon of milk and a box of ice cream salt.

I think he killed the bunchie and turned him into ice cream!!!