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Author Topic: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)  (Read 16191738 times)

Acanthus117

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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21720 on: September 26, 2010, 05:48:04 pm »

Fuckballs, that's cool.
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21721 on: September 26, 2010, 05:49:45 pm »

Woah.

Although it's weird... I sortof mentally assumed they were modern since I automatically associate anything in colour with being at most 70 or so years old.
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21722 on: September 26, 2010, 05:49:58 pm »

My friend introduced me to a set of photographs taken of the Russian countryside. They're fantastic photos, but that's not all that's cool about them.


These were taken roughly 100 years ago, by a special camera using 3 colored filters and separate film negatives. They are some of the oldest color photographs in existence, but they've never been able to be viewed this way until recently, using digital technology. Freaking amazing stuff.
So, there were power lines in Russia 100 years ago? 2nd pic, top.
Sorry, but calling bullshit. All of these could've been done today.
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21723 on: September 26, 2010, 05:51:57 pm »

... Where do you see power lines?

EDIT: Never mind, found 'em.   Huh.
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21724 on: September 26, 2010, 05:53:31 pm »

There were power lines in New York 120 years ago...
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« Reply #21725 on: September 26, 2010, 05:53:58 pm »

There are wires stretched above the village there. However, you can do some research here if you don't believe it: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ (That or take it up with the Library of Congress, who cited the dates. :P)

They had electricity in 1910... it's been around since the late 1800's. In this case, they had generators like these.

EDIT: They may also be Telegraph lines. For historical reference, these were taken just prior to World War I, and the destruction of a great many of the monuments and villages photographed here.
« Last Edit: September 26, 2010, 06:00:34 pm by Solifuge »
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« Reply #21726 on: September 26, 2010, 05:57:36 pm »

I wonder if there's any Scribblenauts/Death Note crossover fic? It'd make sense...
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21727 on: September 26, 2010, 06:03:54 pm »

That would be awesome.
Oh, and your avatar still has some white, between the legs and on the far left.

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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21728 on: September 26, 2010, 06:04:36 pm »

I don't know. 8 parallel telegraph lines over some random backwater village? Perhaps that picture got there by mistake.
Anyway, no matter.
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21729 on: September 26, 2010, 06:09:22 pm »

I have to agree that lines like that are pretty out of place, especially considering where it is, but who knows.  Maybe it's just an artifact.
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« Reply #21730 on: September 26, 2010, 06:10:51 pm »

My Jazz Band teacher really likes a band called Passion Pit, and he is apparently turning This into a song for us to play.

Or something.


I love Passion Pit! :D
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« Reply #21731 on: September 26, 2010, 06:11:02 pm »

I wonder if there's any Scribblenauts/Death Note crossover fic? It'd make sense...
Light and Dark: The Adventures of Dark Yagami isn't one, but it's got an Everything Note in, which is basically the same thing.

Why do I keep reading this kindof stuff
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21732 on: September 26, 2010, 06:27:53 pm »

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« Reply #21733 on: September 26, 2010, 06:48:40 pm »

I don't know. 8 parallel telegraph lines over some random backwater village? Perhaps that picture got there by mistake.
Anyway, no matter.

Quote from: Library of Congress, July 23, 2010
In the settlement of Viazovaia, along the Trans-Siberian mainline in the Ural Mountain region, wooden storage facilities for hay and food crops are photographed against the background of a dense pine forest.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
A Method for Storing Hay, 1910.

Apparently the photograph in question was taken in a settlement along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the main line of transit across Russia, thus that is actually the most likely place to find telegraph or power lines. You'll find that most long-distance wiring follows railways, since the ground has to be deforested, trimmed back, and made semi-level. It's also usually the most direct overland route between large settlements.

Also, don't forget that this was immediately prior to WWI, and to the Russian Revolution that ended Tsarist rule.
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Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread.
« Reply #21734 on: September 26, 2010, 08:30:26 pm »

I'm currently mauling my fantasy football league this week (of course, run by my brother), despite having a 0-2-0 W/L/T. Could've done even better had I played the Jets instead of the Patriots for my defense however. Easily quadruple my defense score. No matter, I should breach the triple digits anyhow even without an optimal lineup (though opt would've been close to 150 pts. with my league's rules. Oh well, I finally win a week so far.

Furthermore, I may be addicted to Minecraft. I just made my starting mine a mini-home with a functional garden and everything, decorated with a temple, and a farm up top. And I nearly cleared out a whole mountainside to improve security, mine for stone/ore, and make pinning any mobs easier to pick off from a safer spot with an escape route. So far, everything's working out well enough, I crafted a few boxes of TNT. Seeing as I feel safer at Starter, and am gathering some surplus materials, I should be able to handle Greater no problem, with a side-project of a lighthouse (initially torches, but should soon be replaced with magma).

EDIT:
Considering I already increased my score by half of what was predicted, and pretty much won for the week, I think I'm going to be given the "biggest surprise" award for the week. I didn't expect to win as well as I did this week.

Oh, and here's some pics of my Minecraft game:
Spoiler: Waking up (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Main Hall (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Front Door (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Farm/garden (click to show/hide)

UPDATE:
Fantasy team breached 100 pts. YAY! C'mon Jets, net me some more points. (Actually, seeing as I don't have the team assigned :facepalm:, I'm rooting for Ricky Williams to get me more than the 1 point that made me breach 100.)
UPDATE:
9 MORE POINTS!!!

Just bragging from now on. NFL Fantasy Football score for the week so far:
Me: 110pts. ;D (Optimum: 130pts.)
My opponent: 74pts. (Optimum: 86pts.)

I win with a 34 point lead ahead the 2nd highest rank. Could've been 54 points had I assigned the right guys.

Oh, and I take back what I said about the Jets defense. Looks like the score dropped to -1 what I assigned scored.
(and I take THAT back. Now they're +2 from my assigned DEF. >:()
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