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I did an independant study using Dave Matthews back in college. Results: Yes, it does have an effect. :)

I think it depends, I think you've got a picture to base off of, but here's what I got. See attachment. Edit: I think a wee goat could get through the first arrangement. So I'd go with the second.

Hey, I guess you're the guy to ask, what would it cost me (I'm in canada) to have 2 sections Aluminum channel welded together? It's for a streetluge and would go something like this: ---___ Where the dashed part is a peice opening downwards, and the solid part is opening upwards? It's just gotta support the weight of a dude. No full-length seam welds needed. I've been trying to get an idea. It'd be TIG, and how does it work, is it per inch? I know nothing.

Oh, I thought you meant a model rendered by the brazil rendering system. Huh. Well, that's what my attachment is, a little 'brazilian' model I started on the other day.

Hey man, sorry to see you go. But I can relate as well, at least to this forum. I've been here since mid 2001 myself. Primarily a lurker, I think I've made a total of 250-ish posts. I enjoy the opinions of some people, and often use their user-names as an indication of which threads will be interesting or not. I think I too shall soon be taking HH's advice and clicking elsewhere. There is a sense of community here, but I know what you mean about feeling squeezed out (myself however, few people ever realized was 'in'). But hey, take care dude.

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Cancers rule! If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?

I liked about schmidt, he played it really well, and all but for that oh so wrong shot of one of the films stars, it was great.

Well, Since there will be a few skydiving posts, I'll put in my 2 cents about streetluging. I streetluge, and have been for about 6 or 7 years now. Whenever I mention it to someone, I get the wow, you must be crazy look/comment. I think that just to satify the people's desire for recklessness, 'extreme' sports are portrayed in a light which omits the immense training and technical knowledge the vast majority of it's participants hold. It's discouraging from a conversational stand point, because just like in skydiving, you spend all your time answering the same 20 questions. And another thing; I ski alot, in ways/places that may be considered 'extreme', but when I go out and drop a new line, or throw down a rodeo540, it's not like I just learned how to ski last week. It takes _alot_ of practice to do this stuff well (and safely). nothing is 100% safe, but it's important to limit yourself to the things you can surely do without allowing your safetly level to fall to an eye-brow raising level. I guess the 'reckless' portrayal is what gets me the most, although it's understandable that that angle is used to get viewers. If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?

Hey, Peckerhead! That looks like Mt. Baker in the distance in your pic there. You in the lower mainland?

lol, this may be a little off topic, but we think we're so damned civilized yet most people still figure that in the absence of government or "massive civil unrest" everyone around them will revert to a criminal way of life. You can have your gun and stay where you are, but I'll take my axe, and go for a long walk in the woods for a while.

For me, it's was streetluging. The effect of subtle body movements and using the wind to my advantage got me right in when it came to controlling myself in FF

Nice. I'm a draftsman, and am always working with aerial photos, sat imagery, etc. So the other day I came across some pics of my girlfriends neighborhood. So I zoomed in, zoomed in, zoomed in, and can see her, laying in her hammock on her back deck, at around 11am, april 24th. That's some creepy stuff. Cool though. That kind of resolution is scary, but makes my job alot easier.

mom, drunk, hottub. Nono, not like that. She called me over while she was in there and said "I think it's time we had a talk" She went on to try to fumble around explaining stuff, while I was interjected during every sentence "yeah mom, I figured that out"

I think that's great. I feel that so long as people can get some perspective on this world, and see the forest for the trees as it were, we're all a lot better off. I personally think though, that religion is a lot like entering into a relationship. Some people just came out of a damaging experience, and get right into a new relationship (rebound); Some people enter into the new relationship fresh, open, and willing to grow and devote themselves to it; some people have been single for a long time, getting to know themselves. Some people even choose to stay single once they feel like they're on the right track. Some people are jealous, some are open. Some have envy of other couples, some have petty hatred. All in all, when I talk to a single guy/girl about to get into a relationship, I tell them, above all, be ready. There are so many instances where you're setting yourself up for defeat, and there are so many instances where things can and will, be amazing. (hopefully you guys are still following my analogy) People say that no matter who you are, or who you're going into a relationship with, if you don't already love yourself, you can't give your full self to another. If you go in not knowing yourself, you are eventually going to project certain faults and weaknesses onto your relationship, that could potentially be damaging. Same goes for religion. I personally, hold no particular faith. I do believe that something inside me often directs and advises me, but I'm reluctant to attribute it to an external entity, after all, I feel it's coming from inside me, so either it's my soul, or it's good fortune. Either way, I go with it, with full realization that I'm only here for a little while, so I try to do the best I can here. If the next place is nowhere, so be it, I'll know I did this right, if it's the 4th plane of kashmeraga, great.

Just playing devil's advocate here, but speedracer, from what I just read, you have Faith, in something. And you said that since 1996, when stuff happens, a part of you tells you that it'll pass, things will be OK, etc. And if faced with an emergency, you'd keep your head, that sort of thing. Now, are you attributing these feelings to your faith, or do you feel that even without your faith, you'd still feel this way? I guess what I'm getting at, is: Is a belief/faith in something really nessecary to feel good about a person's role this world? Or should a person be able to be optimistic, hopeful outlook in absence of said belief/faith? (ideally.)

Well, first I thought, I'd like to be cremated. Then, I was thinking.... you know how some people say, you know what, I'll just live my life well, and when I die, so long as I was a good person, I'll be fine? Well, that's all good and stuff, but what IF the bible is right, and we'll need our corpses at the end.... (just thinking of the scene in army of darkness, where he doesn't say the words right in the cemetary, lol) Well, I think now, I'll be going with cremation. And the lifegem thing (the diamond deal) is damn creepy. What if some evil dude had that done, and then it was stolen, sold on the black market, and you mistakenly bought it for your daughter's grad from a shop one night down in chinatown, and it turned out to be haunted.... OoooOOOoo

I agree with Wendy on her comments, and would like to add, that the land that is currently growing these grains can also be used for growing more pleasant ones, and a host of other things. Edit: Just wanted to add that I think that this is a tragic, and irresponsible mis-appropriation of our resources.

Vancouver BC!

Woo! Vegans in da House. Yeah, so about 5 years now for me, and things are great. And RichM, do I think being vegan is a luxury? No. Why? Because while I can't see starving ethiopians refusing any food, I also cannot see starving ethiopians believing that the 12 pounds of grains, 2500 gal. of water required to produce 1 pound of meat is justifiable. Or that 70% of US grain production is fed to livestock, for that matter.

My favs are when we meet Dancing Pete, in the episode where crusty fakes his death, and one where homer's at some festival (beer or chili, can't recall), and he goes on some weird trip, and talks to the fox, who tells him to find his soul mate, then when he wakes up on the golf course and sees that dog and "And that pyramid was just the Pro-shop!" and the dog says "Find your soulmate, home", he stops, turns and says "Wait a second! Dog's can't talk!" "Ruff!" "Damn straight!" Ah.. I love that show.

I came to this late, but after reading it all, I'm glad to see I'm not the only person on here who finds the value we place on our material things disturbing. I'm one of apparently few, but hey.

CT, Jimbo, *Air 5*!