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Hey, D. I would like to say "thank you" for all the work you've done over the years putting together all the sharpening and stropping info and consolidating it into some informative, easy to understand threads and posts here in the BK&T sub-forum. I've had the opportunity to look at a lot of the info here since I've been laid up, and I actually managed to make a two-sided strop today based on the info from your threads. Well, it's glued and clamped, but that took it outta me, so it's almost made. Maybe tonight or tomorrow I can shape a handle and clean it up. I'll post pics in the appropriate thread, but I did want to thank you here on the snark thread in front of everybody, so to speak

Thanks!
 
Ockham's Razor must terrify you.
You say Ockham, I say Occam.....and no, I'm not afraid of the principle of Occam's Razor. I heard it can really cut through the crap though. Perhaps I should have said something like "you're afraid of the delineating horizontal boundary between two states of gravitational potentials", but I didn't want to go ll scientific on your arse.
 
Funny Cbear. I had to look that up yesterday.

Really into Blacklist & Almost Human, surprisingly. Also, looking forward to Black Sail.
 
London Calling is an incredible album - one of my faves.

Right you are! With that in mind, you may also enjoy this docu:

[video=youtube;ZszfPsOGhI4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZszfPsOGhI4[/video]

So you're not afraid of heights, you're just afraid of edges. Me, too.

For me it's more the depths that get to me. I have no problem at all being on a mountain or in a tall building. Kind of like, "the fall won't hurt you... but the sudden stop at the end is bad news." :D
 
This notion that kids must be inundated with digital gizmos as soon as their eyes peel open, or they won't be able to function in society when they grow up is utter hogwash. Trust me, any moron can learn to use a computer - it doesn't take years and years of study and experience. You barely even have to know how to read. Been to the DMV or pretty much any business office in the country lately? Heck, take a stroll through General. They all use computers all the livelong day. :rolleyes:

Just like any idiot can turn on a grinder and drag a piece of steel across it.. but it takes a person with real proficiency to make something like you or Thaddeus or Crimson (et al) do. You are right, any idiot can learn to do anything bad, but someone that has years of experience using computers will have a proficiency that will pay off later in life. It is like learning to type as a kid compared to 2 finger hunt and peck or learning a language as a kid compared to the way I order Mexican food :)
Computer proficiency is a necessary skill these days and will only get more important. Also getting kids started at an earlier age gets them acclimated to learning new technology easily in an ever changing world. or maybe it is just necessary to me because I deal with computers and changing technology in my work every day...
 
For me it's more the depths that get to me. I have no problem at all being on a mountain or in a tall building. Kind of like, "the fall won't hurt you... but the sudden stop at the end is bad news." :D
JT, ever hear of a guy named Colin James? Kickass blues guitarist - had an album called "Sudden Stop" in 1990 and the eponymous track is a blues masterpiece, IMO (well, maybe not a masterpiece, but it's still pretty good)
[video=youtube;Q15U6gBzp1g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15U6gBzp1g[/video]
 
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Now, hold on there buddy. To the contrary, I have never, ever been confrontational to anything you have said. In fact, I.......... Oh wait, never mind. :D :D :D

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I know ya got nothin but love for me :p

Speak for yourself. :p

precisely

Is anyone else watching The Blacklist? Very impressed so far.

Definitely one of my favorites playing right now, Almost human is another im really liking right now too

I got a tablet for Christmas when I was five, too. Since I was a good boy all year, I also got crayons to go with it.

:rolleyes:

Shhhh, I was trying to lull him into a false sense of security!

Thats the kind of tablet i got too, a coloring book tablet! My father also felt we were responsible enough to have knives, pellet guns, and slingshots at 7 and we kept them in our room and used them when we were ready even if he was at work, there was NO rules saying he had to be watching but there was an unspoken rule saying if you F'ed up with that stuff after he beat you A$$ with the back end of that pellet gun it would all be thrown in the fire, we may of did some stupid stuff with some of it, but never where we endangered each other or other people , i would NOT give my 7 year old that type of stuff and walk away for a even a minute.


And No false sense of security here!!

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You say Ockham, I say Occam.....and no, I'm not afraid of the principle of Occam's Razor. I heard it can really cut through the crap though. Perhaps I should have said something like "you're afraid of the delineating horizontal boundary between two states of gravitational potentials", but I didn't want to go ll scientific on your arse.
I would have probably spit my chocolate milk all over my keyboard if you HAD said that... It would have been hilarious!

Funny Cbear. I had to look that up yesterday.

Really into Blacklist & Almost Human, surprisingly. Also, looking forward to Black Sail.
I will say, not having tv signal is rather great! I have no clue what you all are talking about!
 
Just like any idiot can turn on a grinder and drag a piece of steel across it..

As soon as I clicked "post" I knew someone would misunderstand my point. I assure you, I don't confuse programming and stuff like that with just basically getting along in society. I worked in the printing industry over a period of nearly 20 years... and if you put me in front of a new press today I'd need to be retrained. But I can balance my acc'ts, run a website/subforum and check emails FFS. ;)
 
Well, I had two options for the IPRL contest. I submitted one over there. Here is my runner-up version.
Herding inanimate anythings is hard work. And getting them in a row was a bear as well. :D

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Wow!! That last episode of blacklist was EXCELLENT!!

Now unfortunately we have to wait several days just to find out more.

Time for Almost human. followed by agents of SHIELD and then hostages, which is so-so

But lots of good shows on these days.
 
Zz - are those hippos?

Yep. The closest thing to pigs I could find down here in central Texas.

One of the local school system's mascot is a hippo... The Hutto Hippos. The Chamber of Commerce buys the concrete buggers (6 or 8 sizes) in truckload lots and sells them to local business owners and private persons to paint up and put in their yards or business properties. There's probably 2-3 thousand of them running around town.

The Hutto Lowe's stores them for the CoC and when someone buys one at the CoC office, the buyer goes and picks up their hippo at Lowe's. I know the manager there VERY well (probably spent $30-40K there over the last 5 years remodeling several properties for my parents). He let me move them around and one of the employees took the pictures.

My entry in the IPRL thread is of the CoC's hippo in their front yard. It's 4 foot tall and weighs in excess of 5000 lbs. When it was delivered several years ago, they had to block the road, use a crane, etc.
 
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