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Oh btw, my pet scorpion actually birthed 20 young ones the day I got her, apparently the salesmen didn't know she was pregnant x3 So I got my scorpion for free (By selling the youngsters and actually made like 60 bucks)
Here a pic of her with some of the last little ones to go, happily nomming on some crickets.
I find that only slightly less disturbing. I alos find irony in this. In my Fine Arts Class, we have to make paper mache sculptures. Guess who got a scorpion as their project?
I guess I'm just freaked out by an animal that has that many ways to kill something.
It doesn't have that many... Stab it, crush it, or rip it apart is pretty much it. Mine deals a lot in decapitation, and then not eating it..... It's a woman alright...
Kanluwen wrote:Trying to find rolls of "Parafilm" for sale after lengthy discussion with Kow Yokoyama(of Machinen Krieger fame) and some other hardcore modelers. Want to try it with airbrushing.
Problem with finding it?
Classified as "scientific/medical" usage so the vendor doesn't . While Amazon stocks the stuff, the pictures are all the same and I can't figure out which ones are the plain rolls by themselves and which are the precut small sheets.
May I inquire what Parafilm is mainly used for in airbrushing?
As for what is on my mind, a need to perform is. I'm fretting about what line of work I should go into one day. I was considering physics as a field to move into, might be a bit over ambitious though.
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."-Groucho Marx
Kanluwen wrote:Trying to find rolls of "Parafilm" for sale after lengthy discussion with Kow Yokoyama(of Machinen Krieger fame) and some other hardcore modelers. Want to try it with airbrushing.
Problem with finding it?
Classified as "scientific/medical" usage so the vendor doesn't . While Amazon stocks the stuff, the pictures are all the same and I can't figure out which ones are the plain rolls by themselves and which are the precut small sheets.
May I inquire what Parafilm is mainly used for in airbrushing?
As for what is on my mind, a need to perform is. I'm fretting about what line of work I should go into one day. I was considering physics as a field to move into, might be a bit over ambitious though.
Parafilm is a wrap(much like Saran wrap for sandwiches, just less sticky) that can be used to mask off large areas in complicated patterns.
It's particularly effective since it wraps very snugly to contoured surfaces that are oddly shaped.
Like Armored Sentinel cockpits, for example...
Well, I think the band is officially fethed. We had great progress last time when we added the drummer, put Wil on Bass and I started making heavy use of Delay (DELAY!!!!). It sounded very cool.
The problem is that Wil is not right in the head. He's always been anti-social, but I used to get the impression that he knew that he was being a moron and choosing to ignore it as long as he didn't hurt anyone.
But now he's being really harmful to me and others, he has taken up smoking (hes 16), and near as I can tell he is doing more drugs. I mean why would anybody WANT to do Riddalin?
I think I'm partially to blame because I always let him have free reign of my house. I should have put me foot down at some point, but now he is past the point of abusing it. He knows that I rarely spend the money on alchohol, but when I get coolers in the house (which I specificly asked him not to drink because they are so damn expensive) he will just grab one wihtout asking or anything.
I know I shouldn't have let him have such unrestricted access to my house, but he is the only friend that I have within a 45 minute drive, and anyway we keep all the gear here so he has to come here to practise on his own.
I also know that his home is screwed up in some weird subtle ways, and I can sort of understand why he doesn't want to stay there (though from what I understand he just stays in his room anyway). But I don't think I can deal with this any more. He showed up 5 minutes before I got back from work, came with me to the city, then came back over as soon as he had finished dinner. He played for like 45 minutes (which was really getting on my nerves, because he is obsessed with sounding like the absurd parts of the sonic youth), then I finally came down and started playing with him. We jammed for about 20 minutes, but I was exhausted as it was and I couldn't take it any more.
He wasn't following me and I couldn't follow him because he had little in the way of discernable rhythm or notes. So I put the guitar away and went back upstairs (with pie, which isn't important but whatever).
He came up two minutes later, sat on my couch with one of my coolers which I decided to wrestle out of his hands (and which I am now drinking against my will). And then I couldn't really do anything because I was probably going to do something boring and time wastey like playing video games. So after sitting there in front of my computer for about 30 seconds he asked me why I didn't want to play music. I said that I was tired (keep in mind that I got about 4 horus of sleep last night), and told him that It was really hard to follow him when so much of what he was doing was just noise. Minor argument and he says I'm being a jerk and leaves (I sure hope he didn't bring one of my coolers with him, it seems like something he would do).
So know I don't know what to do. I want to talk to his older sister about him, because I don't think any of his family know what he is going through right now. The problem is that I need to do it when he doesn't know that I am, because I know he would hate me for it. I mean, he IS the only friend I have around here, so if possible I would like to maintain that.
Sorry for that wall of text but, well, this is whats on my mind right now.
(BTW, I've made it sound like Wil is an ass, and at the moment he is, but at his core he is still a decent guy and I can sort of see some of the reasons he is so messed up right now)
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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
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Well I got a black leather jacket with studs on it and a Burzum shirt.
I was a pretty badass guy today too.
But whats on my mind is. Well this car my mom has in her yard might be mine, problem is it needs new windows the papers for it and a few parts put in as it was originally scraped for parts. But the engine, transmissions are just fine the lights might need a little work. I think with a little love this could become my new car.
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I've sold so many armies. :(
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nintendoeats wrote:Well, I think the band is officially fethed. We had great progress last time when we added the drummer, put Wil on Bass and I started making heavy use of Delay (DELAY!!!!). It sounded very cool.
The problem is that Wil is not right in the head. He's always been anti-social, but I used to get the impression that he knew that he was being a moron and choosing to ignore it as long as he didn't hurt anyone.
But now he's being really harmful to me and others, he has taken up smoking (hes 16), and near as I can tell he is doing more drugs. I mean why would anybody WANT to do Riddalin?
I think I'm partially to blame because I always let him have free reign of my house. I should have put me foot down at some point, but now he is past the point of abusing it. He knows that I rarely spend the money on alchohol, but when I get coolers in the house (which I specificly asked him not to drink because they are so damn expensive) he will just grab one wihtout asking or anything.
I know I shouldn't have let him have such unrestricted access to my house, but he is the only friend that I have within a 45 minute drive, and anyway we keep all the gear here so he has to come here to practise on his own.
I also know that his home is screwed up in some weird subtle ways, and I can sort of understand why he doesn't want to stay there (though from what I understand he just stays in his room anyway). But I don't think I can deal with this any more. He showed up 5 minutes before I got back from work, came with me to the city, then came back over as soon as he had finished dinner. He played for like 45 minutes (which was really getting on my nerves, because he is obsessed with sounding like the absurd parts of the sonic youth), then I finally came down and started playing with him. We jammed for about 20 minutes, but I was exhausted as it was and I couldn't take it any more.
He wasn't following me and I couldn't follow him because he had little in the way of discernable rhythm or notes. So I put the guitar away and went back upstairs (with pie, which isn't important but whatever).
He came up two minutes later, sat on my couch with one of my coolers which I decided to wrestle out of his hands (and which I am now drinking against my will). And then I couldn't really do anything because I was probably going to do something boring and time wastey like playing video games. So after sitting there in front of my computer for about 30 seconds he asked me why I didn't want to play music. I said that I was tired (keep in mind that I got about 4 horus of sleep last night), and told him that It was really hard to follow him when so much of what he was doing was just noise. Minor argument and he says I'm being a jerk and leaves (I sure hope he didn't bring one of my coolers with him, it seems like something he would do).
So know I don't know what to do. I want to talk to his older sister about him, because I don't think any of his family know what he is going through right now. The problem is that I need to do it when he doesn't know that I am, because I know he would hate me for it. I mean, he IS the only friend I have around here, so if possible I would like to maintain that.
Sorry for that wall of text but, well, this is whats on my mind right now.
(BTW, I've made it sound like Wil is an ass, and at the moment he is, but at his core he is still a decent guy and I can sort of see some of the reasons he is so messed up right now)
Dude, you're going to have to sic Randy and Mr.Lahey on Wil's ass.
Well given that he is now hanging out with the white trash around town, who only a few months ago we were endlessly making jokes about, that is a more apt suggestion than you may first have thought.
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
Next thing you know he'll be chipping up my driveway and smokeing it.
(I really hope that worked like I remember it)
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
(BTW, I'm living in Nova Scotia, so I appreciate the love for our one decent creative export)
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
That being Nova Scotia's one decent destructive export.
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
@Nintendoeats, hope you can somehow help your friend out and get your band running at full steam again.
@kanluwen, those armoured sentinels are pesky little buggers. Thanks for the tip on the parafilm, I might just have to pick some up when I seriously start airbrushing.
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"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."-Groucho Marx
As for what is on my mind, I might just have to hand in the ole' man-card. Spent the entire afternoon watching old 'Ugly Betty' episodes with my mother and sister. I even vaguely remember crying at one point.
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."-Groucho Marx
Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Red vs. Blue is indeed awesome.
As for what is on my mind, I might just have to hand in the ole' man-card. Spent the entire afternoon watching old 'Ugly Betty' episodes with my mother and sister. I even vaguely remember crying at one point.
Man card. Now. You have disgraced yourself, and your family for ever showing emotion.
ALso, yes, I know RvB is awesome. Why do you think I have my favorite Sarge-isms in my sig now?
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Just watched Vexille, not the best movie ever or anything, but it had some pretty interesting stuff going on. A kind of crappy future I hadn't seen yet.
Couldn't find an English trailer..
It's about Japan becoming a technological super power, and when they invent Androids/Cyborgs, the UN decrees these to be inhuman and thus illegal, as a response, Japan Isolates itself from the world through a Electro-magnetic field that blocks any signal and satellite images, and sensor fields to prevent any intruders. The movie takes place 10 years after this isolation.
So what's on my mind... This movie could'v been so much more awesome.
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Yea, it's not perfect in anyway, but a good watch none the less, and really got me thinking about how technology is developing, the big flaw in this movie is how they centered the actual story around someone I didn't really care about as the world they were actually in.
I just got paid by my place of employ to play with lego. I'm just hoping that nobody steals it, because its MY lego.
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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
Nirvana's Nevermind has to be one of my top 5 favorite albums. I remember riding the bus to school (when I was 11-12 years old) listening to the tape in my Walkman. My how the times have changed. I also was listening to a lot of Weird Al at the time so maybe I should consider that...
"Just pull it out and play with it" -Big Nasty B @ Life After the Cover Save
40k: Orks Fantasy: Empire, Beastmen, Warriors of Chaos, and Ogre Kingdoms
nintendoeats wrote:I just got paid by my place of employ to play with lego. I'm just hoping that nobody steals it, because its MY lego.
a single lego just doesn't sound that much fun, so you shouldn't have to worry about someone stealing it
The plural of Lego is Lego.
And I really wish that people would get that right.
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
Social Experiment: if you're pissed like me, copy and paste this into your sig, and add a number after it.
PISSED 8374982374983749873948234
Check out my band Man In A Shed
