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OoooooooOOOOHHHH!!! YEAH! weapons development is up there with mad science. Death rays? Planet Blower upper guns? Yea thats mad science and total weapon development.

assultmarine wrote:i wish i could be assed to learn to ride, but im not. i'd drive a quad though?

Quad-bike cowboy poet. That is an awesome image. I heartily approve.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Dastardly Dave wrote:Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...

Also, to a lesser extent, I enjoy things which work in a clever manner. It's similar to my first thing, but it can encompass anything which works reliably and cleverly.

I would agree with this - one of the reasons I like "steampunky" things.

http://artoflookingsideways.blogspot.com/2009/07/word-of-day.html

http://fillindetailslater.blogspot.com/2010/07/steampunk.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roblee/475519061/

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8-5iQ42mISs/THnUTgxjpxI/AAAAAAAAAZU/a2EnI9sQm8s/s1600/steampunk-usb.jpg

Yeah, Steampunk for the sake of Steampunk just doesn't appeal to me in the same way - those gears need to have a purpose (however, if those cogs on that pen drive move... well I might have to change my mind...).

I do love Orreries though - they are some of the best looking clockwork devices in existance:

Shiny...

Dastardly Dave wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:

Dastardly Dave wrote:Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...

Also, to a lesser extent, I enjoy things which work in a clever manner. It's similar to my first thing, but it can encompass anything which works reliably and cleverly.

I would agree with this - one of the reasons I like "steampunky" things.

http://artoflookingsideways.blogspot.com/2009/07/word-of-day.html

http://fillindetailslater.blogspot.com/2010/07/steampunk.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roblee/475519061/

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8-5iQ42mISs/THnUTgxjpxI/AAAAAAAAAZU/a2EnI9sQm8s/s1600/steampunk-usb.jpg

Yeah, Steampunk for the sake of Steampunk just doesn't appeal to me in the same way - those gears need to have a purpose (however, if those cogs on that pen drive move... well I might have to change my mind...).

I do love Orreries though - they are some of the best looking clockwork devices in existance:

Pfff more like second best



But I agree if I could afford some Orreries Id totally own a few

corpsesarefun wrote:To add to my list I also have a love of 1950's styled anything, no idea why.

I wonder why...

Those random colourful balls of fluff with googly eyes and sticky feet:

At the end of the day on the train home, scraping my headphones on my 5 o' clock shadow. Makes a great noise...

DON'T LAUGH AT ME!!!!

Sgt.Snail wrote:At the end of the day on the train home, scraping my headphones on my 5 o' clock shadow. Makes a great noise...

DON'T LAUGH AT ME!!!!

Anybody else really wanting to try this now? Just me?

htj wrote:

Sgt.Snail wrote:At the end of the day on the train home, scraping my headphones on my 5 o' clock shadow. Makes a great noise...

DON'T LAUGH AT ME!!!!

Anybody else really wanting to try this now? Just me?

Just have. He's right, you know.

I wonder if it works with 'in-ear' headphones...

Warhammer...

Anyway, i find steam trains soo awsome, dont know why, but ive owned a train set my whole life.

EagleArk wrote:Anyway, i find steam trains soo awsome, dont know why...

Because they are scientifically, medically, and Biblically proven to be awesome. It's a simple fact, no use disputing it.

htj wrote:

EagleArk wrote:Anyway, i find steam trains soo awsome, dont know why...

Because they are scientifically, medically, and Biblically proven to be awesome. It's a simple fact, no use disputing it.

and you cannot possibly be a dastardly villain if you don't put the damsel onto the steam train tracks, and then curl your mustache as you give your evil laugh.

assultmarine wrote:

assultmarine wrote:
personally, i find stetsons brilliant. i bought one in Oregon and wear it fairly regulary. I also love archery. nothing quite like a good bullseye at 8 bays. Poetry, i love writing poetry, its a good release. Gun manuels. im 16 so cant own one but i love learning about how guns have changed, how they work and the different trains of thought from each gun company. The SR-71 blackbird. ill never fly one but it was one of my happiest moments when i got to sit one at the boeing flight musem up in seattle.


Stetsons, poetry, and guns? Sounds like you've got the makings of a cowboy poet. Riding through the West, seducing women with your rough and ready, but surprisingly deep ways, and shooting down blackhats in duels. Replace the horse with a SR-17 and you're set.

i wish i could be assed to learn to ride, but im not. i'd drive a quad though?

When I first read your post, I had to check your flag. 16 and sans gun? Oh, not in the USA, where 8 year olds can go hunting with dad. And the SR-71 was a great plane. My town had an A-12 (precursor, and pretty much the same thing) that you could even sit in, and had seen actual combat/used in the military. Then the CIA stole it from us, despite the fact that we refurbished it from a pile of rusting junk into a fully operational (if we put the engines in) state. Oh, they turned it into a nice little ornament for their parking lot. Jerks.

Sorry for the rant, I really like planes.

And if you like fast planes, get yourself into a MiG 25 foxbat. They're much more common than the blackbird.

I'd also put down physics, but for me it's the little scenarios in quantum mechanics that can let you completely mess with someone's head, like John Wheeler's astronomical two slit experiment, and the fact that I could hypothetically affect an action made billions of years ago.

Also fezzes.

Fezzes are cool.

So are bow ties...

Who doesn't like the physics of flight, rockets, jets, missiles, and UAVs?

Goliath wrote:I'd also put down physics, but for me it's the little scenarios in quantum mechanics that can let you completely mess with someone's head, like John Wheeler's astronomical two slit experiment, and the fact that I could hypothetically affect an action made billions of years ago.

Also fezzes.

Fezzes are cool.

Fezzes

purplefood wrote:So are bow ties...

Jokes aside, you two just hit the odd button. Bowties and fesses are pretty odd. You just dont see them very often. Nice addition to my thread

I find Windows 98 quite cool. I'm running it on an emulator right now. It runs immensely fast on something with hundreds of times more ram than it needs

Fractals in nature (the shapes of leaves, blood vessel netrworks etc). Love thinking about the relationship between maths, data structures and living things.

Mongoose! Mongoose are awesome. They are the Trollslayers of the animal world.

My folding shovel. I bought it because it is cool. Whenever I go camping, I bring it with me because it is cool. I have seriously used it (not just like, demonstrating my awesome folding shovel)...twice.

Underground places. I love tunnels, caverns, especially flooded ones. The cliffs where I live had old army fortifications on them, and we used to break into them all the time when we were kids. They were always half flooded, infested with rats, dripping with moisture and festooned with fungus, slugs and other nasties. Still couldn't get over the fascination.

Lighthouses. Lighthouses are freaking cool.

Polling figures! I am a poll junkie. I follow them constantly and try to predict elections.

KingCracker wrote:Clocks freak you out?! No my friend, THAT is weird. Sides, Im hoping that being surrounded by clocks, that someday we have a solar flare and it changes me into some type of badass super hero that can bend/control time. Ill call myself Timepiece. Eh?! Like that?

It would probably turn you into Sylar.

Lord Scythican wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Clocks freak you out?! No my friend, THAT is weird. Sides, Im hoping that being surrounded by clocks, that someday we have a solar flare and it changes me into some type of badass super hero that can bend/control time. Ill call myself Timepiece. Eh?! Like that?

It would probably turn you into Sylar.

I already dibs'd that.

Steampunk Daft Punk

rubiksnoob wrote:Steampunk Daft Punk

Odd, The image is fixed in preview but broken in the normal view.

Lord Scythican wrote:I really like Handmade wooden boxes. I don't know why, but I find them pretty cool. I usually pick up on at the flea market (bunch of rednecks selling their junk out of their cars at a parking garage.).


The thing is they all usually smell like pot for some reason, even the ones I buy off of 90 year old ladies. I put dice, cards, and other stuff in them, but it always seems like the previous owner of all of them was a pothead.

Well theres only a few things a box like this is good for.
Me I'm in to miniature service ware like mini pizza cutters and the like IDK its just cool. Also I have a strange obsesion with buying broken stuff on craigslist and trying to fix it. ( I have not manage to fix even half the stuff I've picked up.) Also I collect random bobles things that make no sense to get but i still do like I own a radioactive symbol for a honda accord but no honda to put it on. Or the random pins, viles, glass sculptures and ceramic eygptians.

Reading comments posted on free adult video sites....

Avatar 720 wrote:Those random colourful balls of fluff with googly eyes and sticky feet:

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Yes.

Red Pandas too.

Reinforced concrete. Maybe not to strange given I want to be a civil engineer but when I tell people that reinforced concrete boarders on sexually arousing people back away from me. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating but the first day I learned that putting rebar in concrete lets the steel take the tensile loads while the concrete takes the compressive loads I tried to share it with everyone, and learned to my dismay that no one care.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:


Red Pandas too.

I didn't know of such a thing. That panda looks wicked!

Seconding the Red Panda thing. Red Pandas are awesome.