I've performed about a dozen weddings over the years as a minister in the ULC. I've sung them in blues, I've played it straight. I've written each ceremony i've done, so this will be a long post (my longest mefi post!)
In general, I find the... [
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2 weeks ago
That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you'd reduce the... [
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3 weeks ago
Here you go. Get two of the half-spheres and go to town.
http://www.mirrors-r-us.com/surveillance.htm
Use some lightweight Sintra, 3/4" thick for the base-of-the-antennae details, and some inexpensive fishing rods for the actual antennae.... [
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2 months ago
Okay,
I just got back from Simonstown South Africa, and I went out with the Great Whites. Spent 7 days out there. I saw them breach. It's pretty fucking incredible. Astonishing. In fact, Africa itself is an incredible place. But False Bay,... [
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3 months ago
Tough one. You have to imagine that things like the Alison question are waaaay overdone for him. Detailed inquiries into specific lyrics also may also, on their own, be a bit much. Hard to say.
I'm a person who does tend to get asked similar... [
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4 months ago
By the way, that's the EXACT make, model and year of my first car. I love that thing and you got a screaming deal. [
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4 months ago
For the record, the HHO generator thing is complete hogwash. Yes you CAN make hydrogen with an electrical current and water, but not REMOTELY enough to improve your fuel efficiency by any reasonable metric.
Can't be done.... [
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4 months ago
This happened to me to. Constant fights about it. We had twins, and it got worse.
Finally, I realized that my duty was to my marriage, and to fullfill that duty, I had to love the job of being a husband. I don't mean to say it's a... [
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4 months ago
I love Araldite, but neither that or epoxy would be my choice. They're hard. Even Araldite can let go of surfaces where it doesn't have a proper bite.
I'd go with a high temperature silicone. Available at auto parts stores, it should be able to... [
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5 months ago
By the way, I really mean I'd be curious. That's not a rhetorical challenge. Randi in person is a passionate and gentle debunker. All who know him have an affection for him that's difficult to describe.... [
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6 months ago
Don't forget the similarities in the DNA. The phrase "we've looked so hard for a link and haven't found one, really." simply isn't true.
Creationists love to move the evidentiary bar, and especially love to demand evidence that either a:... [
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6 months ago
I just read
"Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" and loved the everloving spit out of it. Just wonderful, completely engrossing, and long. Everything a vacation book should be.... [
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6 months ago
Answers to a couple questions:
Normally there's about a 2-3 month lag between shooting and airing, depending on the season. Sometimes it's longer, sometimes, like with Mentos and Soda, it's 6 weeks.
We've already done a "what is... [
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I own several plastic skeletons. Some high quality, some very low. Honestly, the difference isn't that great. A while back there were some factory second skeletons on ebay for $80, and I bought two. (that's must me). Let me go see what's there... [
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6 months ago
I have two. Twins even. Boys.
And I still don't like kids. But my kids: I cant get enough of them. Really: everything everyone says who're parents-- that's it's transformative, amazing, incredible-- is 100% true. And in that sense you either... [
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9 months ago
MFOAS here,
I first caught these over a year ago. Makes me feel good that it took dozens of takes. They're genius. Just amazing.
No cg at all.
No aggrevation, I looove building rube goldberg machines, I just usually want more than 4... [
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9 months ago
So you don't want traditional, though I would be remiss not to metion that Tommys Joynt makes a mean turkey dinner.
Dusit Thai on mission street. Ask for Fried Eggplant with Crispy Basil (not on the menu), it's amazing.... [
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9 months ago
My scramble makes the world turn a little slower, it's so good, and I got if from Julia Child.
Put 75% of the eggs you're going to scramble in a pan, and scramble like you've been doing all along. BUT.
Just as they're the hardness that you... [
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9 months ago
"Are those Space Pants you're wearing? 'Cause your ass is out of this world" [
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9 months ago
Wow.
I can't believe what I'm reading.
You have to tell her. It is, quite simply, the manly thing to do.
I know, most people have cheated, etc... men and their libidos etc... but fuck that, a man of honor would tell her, speak his heart,... [
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11 months ago
Couples therapy can't happen soon enough. I'm a proponent of it even when things are going well. Really, get thee there as soon as possible. And good luck!... [
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Turtles, thank you so much for the sentiment.
For the record, I didn't feel that vibe from mrzarquon, nor from anyone here on any branch of the blue, green and grey. This is really the only online community apart from the Replica Props Forum. I... [
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MrGuilt, I've thought about several of your ideas, in fact they've been on my mental list for a while, though you're right about how likely it is we'll get to tackle any of them. I've also thought about things like line mechanics. To whit: do lines... [
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DATE AROUND! Please. Get hurt. Put yourself on the line. Try everything. Life is messy, and no amount of planning will keep your hands from getting dirty. Might as well get your junk dirty too...
Really. If you like the plotting and... [
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Wow, 3 posts when I start typing, 14 when I finish. You people are fast. This is an intelligently designed site. [
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It's not that hard, and the nice new strong polymer chains in the monofilament that hold the bottom of the lens should cooperate nicely.
I'm hard on my glasses and have repaired a few of these over the years.
Hold the lens up to the frame in... [
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Here I is.
I just reviewed this wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering
and note, like stated above, that victims were as often painted with the tar as doused with it.
Latex is problematic, because of body hair. I've been... [
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mrzarquon, it DOES feel like a kind of critical mass. That video's been online for at least a month, and the first Reddit post about it was about me being a pirate. As I show some videos to the crowd, they glimpsed my file menu for movies, saw the... [
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John Schwartz from the NYT called it "three monkey security". I like that. [
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sdodd, me too. I've rarely been more surprised at success than with that segment. For the record, we were doing our beta testing with a usb fingerprint security thingy plugged into a laptop, and that thing was MUCH harder to beat than the door... [
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Here I am. Wetblanketfilter.
Am I the only one that sees 2 guys guiding this thing? I know I'm not but here's the thing: The bugbear with this type of vehicle isn't getting airborne, it's stability. He says that it can go to 8k feet for 1/2... [
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It's milliseconds. 80 Milliseconds. I wish the barrels had autoreload. As it is it takes 1 guy 3 hours to load the thing. [
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David Straithairn
My wife spotted it. She's good. [
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Tons of useful stuff up there, but cmoj, in regards to the first half of your statement #1, to whit "Do you want to make art that fits in with what is contemporarily successful or do you want to advance art?" This presupposes ( and I know... [
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You could say: " Give me your number and I'll give you a call in 3 hours and I'll have a withering response THEN". In my opinion, a sharp comeback is funniest when I'm honest, even if my honesty is deprecating. Actually, it's usually... [
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