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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2022 11:57:00 GMT -5
Video games are fun but if there's one table-top game I'll never get tired of it's this....even if I get clobbered by a 12 yr old prodigy....I don't know what she puts in her cereal but I need some...these are pieces from my actual set, the King is almost 4 inches tall.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 7, 2022 16:59:53 GMT -5
They have a good bread store... Yeah, if you like paying $12 for a $2.25 sandwich. Overpriced, undersized, a total rip-off. Screw Pantera.
Cei-U! Will never, ever eat there again!
I kind of want to try their flat bread pizza. Otherwise I agree with you.
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Post by impulse on May 9, 2022 8:48:13 GMT -5
Ah Pantera. The band that should only make music and cut out the “singing”. Assuming we are only talking about their mainstream label era, there is a huge difference between the vocals on the first two albums compared to the latter 3. Cowboys From Hell and Vulgar Display of Power have a lot of really good classic-style singing mixed with some grittier but still quite accessible thrash-style barking (think radio Metallica-esque), with the ratio tilting more toward the harsh stuff on Vulgar. The third one, Far Beyond Driven, all but abandons the actual singing in favor of the harsh vocals, but they just barely walk the line of not outright screaming style. The latter two are basically nothing but screaming and are borderline unlistenable if you can't stomach that style of "singing." It took me a LONG TIME to get a tolerance for growling vocals, so I can easily understand someone never warming up to them. And it's just that... a tolerance so I can enjoy the rest of the bands and not immediately want to smash my headphones on the floor and stomp them into pieces when the vocalists start. It's opened up a lot of bands I would have otherwise enjoyed but could never get into. But those first two shouldn't stick out much from the other harder rock and commercial metal of the era. Too bad the singer revealed himself to be a hateful scumbag who did nazi salutes and chanted "white power" at shows long after Pantera broke up. I believe he has claimed it was the drugs and has apologized since, but that's not an easy thing to shrug off. But today I'm listening to Lizzo! And I agree that Panera, while delicious, is ludicrously overpriced for what it is.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2022 9:16:23 GMT -5
Pantera was all about Dime's playing for me. Early 90's weren't the kindest period for metal fans with the times changing and rise of grunge, and Pantera kind of defied all that and kept the spirit of metal going. Cowboys and Vulgar Display are a couple of my favorite albums ever, and I love jamming Pantera on guitar, so many great riffs.
Everybody who knew Dime loved him too and it was a horrible tragedy of what happened. Eddie Van Halen famously gave one of his most famous ORIGINAL guitars (not a copy), the black and yellow "bumblebee" from Van Halen II, to be buried with him since he knew it was Dime's favorite. As Eddie said, "Dime was an original and deserved an original".
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 9, 2022 9:58:01 GMT -5
The Amateur Daniel Boone Report :
Yesterday I developed a whole new respect for our frontier forebears. I'm building a firewood shed using dead trees from the backyard, and we have an assortment of species: spruce, hemlock, maple, ironwood and a few more that I honestly can't identify. No pine.
Now I'm not all that clumsy with tools, but up to now I mostly built bookshelves...usually out of pine, spruce or plywood. I'm used to soft wood.
Holy %$# didn't I expect ironwood to be so tough!!! I bust a drill bit, broke several screw that just wouldn't go any deeper into the wood, reduced several of my fingers to a bloody pulp and cursed enough to warrant a good fifty extra years in purgatory!
Granted, our ancestors wouldn't use today's underpowered power tools; they'd use axes and adzes and saws (which, I admit, work quite well). For my next project, if I'm not ready to cough up the big bucks to get adamantium-piercing drills and screwdrivers, I may rethink the whole use of screws and nails and go for a Lincoln Logs approach. That always worked when I was a kid!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 9, 2022 15:50:45 GMT -5
Vulgar Display is the CD my wife owned. I've tried to listen to that style of music with only a few exceptions. Couple of Tool songs, a few actual Rob Zombie songs, if you'd believe it. Including you introducing me to his cover of Brick House. But this style of music with the only band when I was in my 20's that was Helmet's Betty album. For the most part that type of music is more my wife's taste. But then I am listening to Paul Anka while I type this post so ..... :-)
Oh and Metallica's One. Really like that. Great song.
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Post by impulse on May 9, 2022 15:55:19 GMT -5
Pantera was all about Dime's playing for me. Early 90's weren't the kindest period for metal fans with the times changing and rise of grunge, and Pantera kind of defied all that and kept the spirit of metal going. Cowboys and Vulgar Display are a couple of my favorite albums ever, and I love jamming Pantera on guitar, so many great riffs. Everybody who knew Dime loved him too and it was a horrible tragedy of what happened. Eddie Van Halen famously gave one of his most famous ORIGINAL guitars (not a copy), the black and yellow "bumblebee" from Van Halen II, to be buried with him since he knew it was Dime's favorite. As Eddie said, "Dime was an original and deserved an original". Yeah, I don't recall hearing anyone have a bad word to say about Dime except maybe Phil, who again, is/was a scumbag, possibly/probably exacerbated by his addiction. Not the most trustworthy source. Everything else I've read suggested everyone loved the guy. Vulgar Display is the CD my wife owned. I've tried to listen to that style of music with only a few exceptions. Couple of Tool songs, a few actual Rob Zombie songs, if you'd believe it. Including you introducing me to his cover of Brick House. But this style of music with the only band when I was in my 20's that was Helmet's Betty album. For the most part that type of music is more my wife's taste. But then I am listening to Paul Anka while I type this post so ..... :-) Oh and Metallica's One. Really like that. Great song. Heeeeey, that's right! Glad you enjoyed that one. Well Cowboys and Vulgar are in the same vein as Zombie/Tool/Metallica all that mess, so if you were ever in the mood for any reason you might not hate those. Moving on before a mod reminds us we have multiple music threads...
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Post by impulse on May 9, 2022 15:56:45 GMT -5
For those working the 9-5 ish hours, I have found the cliches on Mondays to be largely accurate, and making it to 5pm feels like a huge achievement.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 9, 2022 15:58:33 GMT -5
Yes, and the last hour is always the longest. Ugh
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Post by impulse on May 9, 2022 16:07:17 GMT -5
I don't usually actually stop at 5, especially since Covid. I've been remote for over 2 years at this, so I'm able to be a bit more fluid with start and end times as needed. That said, I am waiting on one team to finish one thing so I can knock out my last key task for today and sign off.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2022 20:11:52 GMT -5
The Amateur Daniel Boone Report : Yesterday I developed a whole new respect for our frontier forebears. I'm building a firewood shed using dead trees from the backyard, and we have an assortment of species: spruce, hemlock, maple, ironwood and a few more that I honestly can't identify. No pine. Now I'm not all that clumsy with tools, but up to now I mostly built bookshelves...usually out of pine, spruce or plywood. I'm used to soft wood. Holy %$# didn't I expect ironwood to be so tough!!! I bust a drill bit, broke several screw that just wouldn't go any deeper into the wood, reduced several of my fingers to a bloody pulp and cursed enough to warrant a good fifty extra years in purgatory! Granted, our ancestors wouldn't use today's underpowered power tools; they'd use axes and adzes and saws (which, I admit, work quite well). For my next project, if I'm not ready to cough up the big bucks to get adamantium-piercing drills and screwdrivers, I may rethink the whole use of screws and nails and go for a Lincoln Logs approach. That always worked when I was a kid! Hey, all Number 6 needed was a stone axe and chisel to carve a boat, which doubled as abstract art...
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Post by The Captain on May 10, 2022 15:57:17 GMT -5
Went to the office today for the first time in 16 months, as my company inches forward toward a return to the “before times”.
It’s still very much a “come in if and when you want to” vibe, as I only went in to conduct some training for one of our newer employees. Probably only about 10% capacity in the office block, which made it a little eerie at times, but I got to see a friend of mine who works in our engineering department, which was nice.
Probably going to be in one-two days per week going forward, but I don’t envision ever going back full-time. It’s too easy and convenient to work remotely, which I believe most people in my department feel as well (except the older folks, who have always been office creatures and feel out of sorts with the remote work, not being able to see anyone or talk with them at the water cooler).
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Post by impulse on May 10, 2022 16:28:58 GMT -5
I haven't been into my office since March of 2020, and I won't until my youngest is either old enough to get vaccinated or they approve it for his age-range before then. Even then, it will probably be one day every other week a few hours when the big weekly all-hands meeting happens so I can see everyone (or whoever it is that goes). Remote work is far too convenient, and frankly, it is far more productive without the wasted time and energy getting dressed, grooming, commuting 90 minutes round trip, and distracting yourself from how much you don't want to be in an office by getting up and talking to people.
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Post by The Captain on May 10, 2022 17:38:02 GMT -5
So, our older daughter finally settled on a name for her “new” car, which is a silver Kia Spectra.
She named it “Marc”. . . . . . . Yes, my 16-year old’s car’s name is Marc Spectra.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2022 18:18:43 GMT -5
So, our older daughter finally settled on a name for her “new” car, which is a silver Kia Spectra. She named it “Marc”. . . . . . . Yes, my 16-year old’s car’s name is Marc Spectra.
Does it have a Moon Roof?
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