Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 73

pshrynk · 10-29-2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

sometimes i wish i had a trebuchet, because of my neighbors.

An onager would work better in the closer confines of an apartment complex.

zelda_pinwheel · 10-29-2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

An onager would work better in the closer confines of an apartment complex.

i'll keep that in mind. thanks for the tip.

DMcCunney · 10-29-2008, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

It'd be fun to have a trebuchet (or an onager

) in our back garden, but the neighbours might not take too kindly to it...

Having a trebuchet, onager, or scorpion in your backyard means not having to care what the neighbors think.

______
Dennis

LazyScot · 10-29-2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Oh, and I just go permission from a farmer friend to use her husband's corn fields as the test facility for my trebuchet when I build it!

For some reason I now have a variant of a song from the Jungle Book stuck in my head....
Now he's the king of the flingers
Oh, the LaCrosse VIP
He's reached the crop and had to stop
and he's now throwin' scree

GeoffC · 10-29-2008, 02:01 PM

Does having a trebuchet in your backyard contravene any planning laws....never mind Health & Safety .....

(you're not presidentee yet)

badgoodDeb · 10-29-2008, 02:07 PM

*Having* a trebuchet might not be illegal, but there might be laws about *operating* one!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 10-29-2008, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Having a trebuchet, onager, or scorpion in your backyard means not having to care what the neighbors think.

______
Dennis

When you put it like that...

GeoffC · 10-29-2008, 02:18 PM

oh how I wish I could drive a Scorpion around some of our roads......get the boy racers off for a start.....

RickyMaveety · 10-29-2008, 03:14 PM

Having repaired my computer, I now am finishing up the repairs to my TIVO box (which is spread out in pieces all over my desk).

It had a DVD from Netflix in it .... but would not open up to let me take the damned thing out. So, I had to take the DVD burner out of the TIVO and take that apart to get it out.

However, while I was doing that, I ran across a site that sells refurbished TIVO boxes and hard drive upgrade kits (with the TIVO software pre-installed).

So, I called those folks up, and they told me some nifty tricks about how to get DVDs out of the machine when it won't boot (because of bad media in the tray ... it's sort of a Catch-22 ... you can't get the tray to open until it boots, but you can't get it to boot until you open the tray and remove the problem media).

So, I'm going to upgrade the drives in my existing TIVOS. The nice thing is that, when I'm done, I'll have 3600 hours of recording capability on my system. Which is just wonderful ... and believe me, I will use all of it. Right now I'm limited to 300 hours and I run out of space before I get a chance to view half of it.

Not that I really "view" it in any detail ... about the only show I really have to watch somewhat carefully, is Heroes, and that's because my two favorite characters are always lapsing into Japanese of which I understand precisely 2 words. And, they NEVER use those 2 words.

And ... that's what I'm doing right now.

montsnmags · 10-29-2008, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I just noticed Slite's changed his as well

...but it's only a slite [sic] change.

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Well, when you are having a bad day and tell your pshrynk that you feel that everyone around you is a bunch of howler monkeys
...

What's wrong with howler monkeys (well, aside from the howling)?

Cheers,
Marc (So far behind the conversation he's reading postscripts as greetings)

zelda_pinwheel · 10-29-2008, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

...but it's only a slite [sic] change.

:groooooaaaaan !!!:

Slite · 10-30-2008, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

...but it's only a slite [sic] change.

What's wrong with howler monkeys (well, aside from the howling)?

Cheers,
Marc (So far behind the conversation he's reading postscripts as greetings)

:doubble-groan:

Greg Anos · 10-30-2008, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

...but it's only a slite [sic] change.

What's wrong with howler monkeys (well, aside from the howling)?

Cheers,
Marc (So far behind the conversation he's reading postscripts as greetings)

Here's one for you, Marc. Enjoy the summer spine-bashing while I shiver.....RSE

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montsnmags · 10-30-2008, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Here's one for you, Marc. Enjoy the summer spine-bashing while I shiver.....RSE
...

That's amazing! You've captured...well, like a Picasso, not an exact likeness, but certainly the exact spirit (pun intended).

Cheers,
Marc

pshrynk · 10-30-2008, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Here's one for you, Marc. Enjoy the summer spine-bashing while I shiver.....RSE

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that dog's gonna have a hangover when he wakes up.

10-29-2008, 02:01 PM	#1085
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Does having a trebuchet in your backyard contravene any planning laws....never mind Health & Safety ..... (you're not presidentee yet)

10-29-2008, 02:07 PM	#1086
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,551 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Having a trebuchet might not be illegal, but there might be laws about operating one!

10-29-2008, 02:18 PM	#1088
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	oh how I wish I could drive a Scorpion around some of our roads......get the boy racers off for a start.....

10-29-2008, 03:14 PM	#1089
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Having repaired my computer, I now am finishing up the repairs to my TIVO box (which is spread out in pieces all over my desk). It had a DVD from Netflix in it .... but would not open up to let me take the damned thing out. So, I had to take the DVD burner out of the TIVO and take that apart to get it out. However, while I was doing that, I ran across a site that sells refurbished TIVO boxes and hard drive upgrade kits (with the TIVO software pre-installed). So, I called those folks up, and they told me some nifty tricks about how to get DVDs out of the machine when it won't boot (because of bad media in the tray ... it's sort of a Catch-22 ... you can't get the tray to open until it boots, but you can't get it to boot until you open the tray and remove the problem media). So, I'm going to upgrade the drives in my existing TIVOS. The nice thing is that, when I'm done, I'll have 3600 hours of recording capability on my system. Which is just wonderful ... and believe me, I will use all of it. Right now I'm limited to 300 hours and I run out of space before I get a chance to view half of it. Not that I really "view" it in any detail ... about the only show I really have to watch somewhat carefully, is Heroes, and that's because my two favorite characters are always lapsing into Japanese of which I understand precisely 2 words. And, they NEVER use those 2 words. And ... that's what I'm doing right now.