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Good morning all !! Just finished some bacon and hashbrowns cooked with Vidalia onions that my wife grew in the garden. First cup of coffee down and time to get ready for work. The weekend is almost here. Happy Friday!

In other news, I tried to post this a day or two ago, but was having problems with PhotoBucket. A reboot seemed to clear it up.

This was one of many photos that we found when going through some of my Mom's things. It's me (the small one), my Dad (Walter Hugo), Grandpa (Walter Herbert), and Great-Grandpa (Conrad), and was taken in 1962

 
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GSO1962 said:
Good morning all !! Just finished some bacon and hashbrowns cooked with Vidalia onions that my wife grew in the garden. First cup of coffee down and time to get ready for work. The weekend is almost here. Happy Friday!

In other news, I tried to post this a day or two ago, but was having problems with PhotoBucket. A reboot seemed to clear it up.

This was one of many photos that we found when going through some of my Mom's things. It's me (the small one), my Dad (Walter Hugo), Grandpa (Walter Herbert), and Great-Grandpa (Conrad), and was taken in 1962

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That's America right there! You're lucky to have that, sir.
 
granitestateofmind said:
Oh, and don't be afraid of Linux, Doc; my 13 and 9 year olds use it and neither one of them is a developer. Every iteration gets more user friendly, and it was pretty OK to start with. Also sh!+loads faster than Windows OR Mac OS. Absolutely no bloatware.
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Avoid Unity like the plague it is.
Nobody does well with windows.
Macos is the only decent 'end user' OS out there, but comes with its own caveats, and I will not live the branded drm'd iLife.
 
GSO1962 said:
Good morning all !! Just finished some bacon and hashbrowns cooked with Vidalia onions that my wife grew in the garden. First cup of coffee down and time to get ready for work. The weekend is almost here. Happy Friday!

In other news, I tried to post this a day or two ago, but was having problems with PhotoBucket. A reboot seemed to clear it up.

This was one of many photos that we found when going through some of my Mom's things. It's me (the small one), my Dad (Walter Hugo), Grandpa (Walter Herbert), and Great-Grandpa (Conrad), and was taken in 1962

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That's awesome man.
 
Nice picture!

I get to go with my boy to our 1st wwe show tonight thanks to one of my buddies... I wanted to pick up some tickets for us but they were over 100.00 a seat, my wife said it was too much money so I was bummed out cause Jon cena is his favorite wraslter and its his birthday this sunday.. I get a call the other day from my buddy and asked what I was doing tonight.. he said he's got two extra tickets and that its boys night out, he's taking his son too!! I haven't told my son yet.. crazy how stuff just works out... Funny thing is that I've been calling the Kat country radio station trying to win tickets...
In my best hulk Hogan voice, "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING, BROTHER"
 
710 said:
Nice picture!

I get to go with my boy to our 1st wwe show tonight thanks to one of my buddies... I wanted to pick up some tickets for us but they were over 100.00 a seat, my wife said it was too much money so I was bummed out cause Jon cena is his favorite wraslter and its his birthday this sunday.. I get a call the other day from my buddy and asked what I was doing tonight.. he said he's got two extra tickets and that its boys night out, he's taking his son too!! I haven't told my son yet.. crazy how stuff just works out... Funny thing is that I've been calling the Kat country radio station trying to win tickets...
In my best hulk Hogan voice, "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING, BROTHER"
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It would be awesome if there was a way to attach audio files on here.

Congrats on the tickets. Enjoy the night with your boy!
 
worldwood said:
It'll be ready when you get here :D
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I have your address, smarty-pants. Yer gonna shit a brick when ol' JT pounds on your door screamin, "WHERE'S MY SAMMICH ?!?!?!"

:D

Outstanding pic, GSO. Reminds me so much of my forefathers.

daizee said:
America is a bunch of skinny dudes?
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It used to be, and those cats kicked a lot of behind. The average puffed-up muscle-bound gym-rat today couldn't hold a candle to the hard work those dudes did every single goshdarn day.

I'm the spittin' image of my grampa, except at this age he weighed about 75# less than me and was 75% stronger. :confused: :o
 
james terrio said:
I have your address, smarty-pants. Yer gonna shit a brick when ol' JT pounds on your door screamin, "WHERE'S MY SAMMICH ?!?!?!"

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If you come all that way for a sammich id order ya any one ya wanted..... Just bring some stones with you so you can give me some pointers on free hand sharpening while your here :D

I got one of those fine DMT credit card diamond "stones" and after quite a while of taking my time last night i was able to get the blade i was working with a little sharper....But the edge doesnt look pretty at all, you can see what looks like waves on the edge.. Im guessing from going at different angles.. even though i was trying to keep the same angle the entire time LOL



On a crappy note... I just smashed my thumb up a little bit..... But on a more positive note i got my lights re-hung in my basement so i can take better pics and videos again.
 
Seriously, FFS people, there's no "trick" to it. Whhhhy does everyone make sharpening so complicated? Whhhhy are there millions of posts debating this stuff? It's not rocket surgery. ;) For Pete's sake, stop thinking so much. Just take your time.

A knife edge is nothing more or less than a wedge. All you need to do is bring that edge to a thin crisp point, so it moves through whatever you're cutting with less resistance. Thinner cuts better. More acute cuts better. Finer abrasives provide finer edges. Wear-resistant steels require more wear-resistant abrasives, or it will take longer. Try to keep the whole edge consistent or it will look awful and not cut very well.
 
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granitestateofmind said:
Oh, and don't be afraid of Linux, Doc; my 13 and 9 year olds use it and neither one of them is a developer. Every iteration gets more user friendly, and it was pretty OK to start with. Also sh!+loads faster than Windows OR Mac OS. Absolutely no bloatware.
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GSO, I'm not afraid of Linux at all.. I have used it, and I had it installed on a dual boot system some years ago. I don't care for it. I started with UNIX systems years ago when I was the Tech Support Manager for a software developer around here. Linux, a derivative of UNIX, was junk for a multimedia system back then. It has gotten better as the different versions developed and improved their GUI. The problem is that its all a kludge. It was never developed as a multimedia OS, and everything is a catch up now. Not that Windows isn't either. It sat on DOS for years and always had the 640k for a TPA limit until a few versions ago. UNIX and Linux were at least flat memory OS'es. Apple has it all over all of them in terms of the GUI. The best multi-user UNIX style OS I have used was called BeOS. It was developed just for multimedia applications, but got bought out and squashed. It reminded me of how they took the Amiga OS years ago, and buried it. That OS was a true preemptive multitasking OS that ran on a floppy disk.

Sorry about the rambling. I just don't care for Linux or Unix for that matter. Maybe I should revisit Linux, though. As you pointed out, they are getting their UI more user friendly and is a "safer" system. We won't debate the bloat however, although Linux is less bloated than the UNIX environment.

Doc
 
DunkEm said:
It would be awesome if there was a way to attach audio files on here.

Congrats on the tickets. Enjoy the night with your boy!
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thanks guys... and yes I will be representing us Beckerheads with my BECKERHEAD SHIRT, BROTHER! WHOOO YAAAAHHH!!
 
Doc_Savage said:
The best multi-user UNIX style OS I have used was called BeOS.
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BeOS. :-(
*shedding a tear*
That was a glorious OS, and such a disappointment when it flopped. I was a registered Be developer, but never had a machine of my own.

We won't debate the bloat however, although Linux is less bloated than the UNIX environment.
Doc
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Several of the GUI teams that have written desktop environments for Linux seem to think that Windows is something to emulate. Bloat, and other terrible decisions. I've settled on XFCE4 for this decade.

Apple/Jobs made a couple brilliant decisions when merging NeXT: take the underpinnings and put a GOOD skin on it, for all configs. Then they designed an inward-facing application deployment architecture to mimic old OS9-, which means installing/de-installing is a breeze that leaves minimal debris in the rest of the filesystem. Of course that means greater departures from traditional *nix linkers/loaders etc., but for an end-user OS it was a GREAT move.

-Daizee
 
710 said:
Nice picture!

I get to go with my boy to our 1st wwe show tonight thanks to one of my buddies... I wanted to pick up some tickets for us but they were over 100.00 a seat, my wife said it was too much money so I was bummed out cause Jon cena is his favorite wraslter and its his birthday this sunday.. I get a call the other day from my buddy and asked what I was doing tonight.. he said he's got two extra tickets and that its boys night out, he's taking his son too!! I haven't told my son yet.. crazy how stuff just works out... Funny thing is that I've been calling the Kat country radio station trying to win tickets...
In my best hulk Hogan voice, "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING, BROTHER"
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I'm not a fan of professional "wrastlin'" but that should make some good memories for you and your son!

james terrio said:
Outstanding pic, GSO. Reminds me so much of my forefathers.

daizee said:
America is a bunch of skinny dudes?
(Great picture)
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It used to be, and those cats kicked a lot of behind. The average puffed-up muscle-bound gym-rat today couldn't hold a candle to the hard work those dudes did every single goshdarn day.

I'm the spittin' image of my grampa, except at this age he weighed about 75# less than me and was 75% stronger. :confused: :o
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Yep. Farmers, blacksmiths, cabinet makers...way better workout than any gym.

james terrio said:
Grind away the parts that don't cut.

You're welcome :)
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If only I'd known it was this simple! :thumbup:
 
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