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[Ameablable]

Give me horses anyday. Keep the sheep and cows.

Sheep and cows are tasty. Horses not so much.

what makes you think you havent had horse before in that stuff called "Ground Beef"??
</conspiracy theory>

[forsaken1111]

Give me horses anyday. Keep the sheep and cows.

Sheep and cows are tasty. Horses not so much.

what makes you think you havent had horse before in that stuff called "Ground Beef"??
</conspiracy theory>

What are you talking about? I've tasted horse before, and its not very good. Too tough. Squirrel is too gamey. Rabbit is delicious though.

[Ameablable]

Oooh. Here horses arent eaten.

[wierd]

Never eaten horse, as it isn't raised in my country as a food animal.  I have eaten sheep, goat, and beef however.

Sheep tends to be overly greasy and overpowering when taken from adult animals (mutton), and is only palatable from yearlings or younger (lamb). Goat tastes a lot like deer or antelope, and is only gamey if taken from billygoats. (Blech. That's what emasculators are for.) Beef of course, tastes like beef.

Horse is however routinely raised as a food animal in some european countries, such as France.

That is immaterial. Raising horses for resale as expensive pets (really, that's what a riding or carriage horse is these days. Don't sugar coat it.) Instead of food doesn't change the natural behavior of the animals in question in regard to fencing, housing, and working with them.

I have a preference for horses and goats, over cattle and sheep, in terms of working with them.  Goats, especially pigmy goats, tend to be demonstrably more intelligent than sheep. (There are exceptions, however. Bauer goats tend to be quite dumb, and jersey cattle tend toward being crafty.) This is a mixed blessing, as smarter animals are less likely to get themselves ensnared in te single dead bush in their pasture on a daily basis, but are more apt to actively sabotage fencing, or bumrush you to escape when you open the gate. (Or play harry houdini with the gate latches when you aren't looking.)

Personally, I prefer having to be more cautious opening gates, and installing/maintaning fences than having to nanny over the stupidity of the animals in question. Sheep literally are too stupid to survive without constant assistance.

I have no qualms eating animals too dumb to live, but I hate trying to care for them.

[forsaken1111]

Horse isn't generally a food animal here either.

[mcclay]

At work today they a had dress up day for the kids. The theme was Jungle safari and my dad pulled out his old Halloween costume. Look how fucking spiffy I am!

Spoiler: Spiffy (click to show/hide)

*WARNING*
Major nerdiness and HUEG image incoming!

[ggamer]

Give me horses anyday. Keep the sheep and cows.

Sheep and cows are tasty. Horses not so much.

what makes you think you havent had horse before in that stuff called "Ground Beef"??
</conspiracy theory>

What are you talking about? I've tasted horse before, and its not very good. Too tough. Squirrel is too gamey. Rabbit is delicious though.

no shit? I could've sworn last time I ate squirrel it was more greasy than gamey.

then again I might be thinking of quail...

[Rose]

Anyway, the reason this one isn't in a pen is because she's still a baby, so we're letting her roam free within our yard. The adults all stay in their pens.

[Dutchling]

That's quite the spiffy image you got there mcclay

[Guardian G.I.]

Japa, I've heard that several regions of India were struck by powerful floods recently. Do you live far away from those areas?

[Rose]

I live about 2000km downstream.

[mcclay]

That's quite the spiffy image you got there mcclay

Quite 

[Pnx]

So I figured I'd share some images I snapped last thursday. As you may or may not know, I've been taking this art class and they're from there. Some of them are a bit blurry unfortunately, but meh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the drawing I've been currently working on, our current thing is doing a hallway, and I think it's being going ok for me so far... It's honestly not all that great compared to a lot of other people's work, and I also suspect I'm going to screw it up big time once I do the charcoal ontop of a trace of this drawing. The perspective I've been drawing is actually kind of weird...

This is the actual hallway itself for reference I'm doing a sort of zoomed in drawing of the second half of the hallway, and it makes for sort of a weird drawing that was probably a bad idea.


One of the teacher's other students was working on this piece during our class and he took us out to show it to us. It's pretty damn impressive, looks much better in person.


This is a finished and framed work by someone else in the class, eventually my thing is supposed to look something like this, but I really doubt it's ever going to look that good.

And now for something completely different!


This is my dog Inu cunningly camouflaging himself into his natural environment, I thought he looked adorable so I snapped a picture.


This is him looking up at me in a confused way a few seconds later.


And here's my other dog twizzle, doing her best drunken David Hasselhoff impression... Well actually she was just sort of lazily rolling over for a belly rub.

EDIT: I should probably mention there's cute doggy pictures in there too.

[wierd]

After fighting heat related issues with my i7 for a week, I decided to take matters into my own hands last Sunday.

Apparently, my old full server chasis from the early 90s just wasn't designed to get enough airflow through it to cool that toaster oven heating element now living inside it. (Might have something to do with the fact that the hottest chips out at the time were early pentiums, pre MMX.....) it's served me well over the years, and can accept a very wide variety of board form factors. It just wasn't made to blow hot air like a politician, like it apparently needs to do to handle the GeForce GTX 460 and i7 950 living inside it now.

After previously populating the 2 exhaust fan provisions in the top of the chasis with 5 inch exhaust fans earlier in the week and still having ambient case temperatures in excess of 100F, in a house with the AC put on full blast, I got fed up, and pulled out the power tools. Watching the cpu core temp peak at 90c, after doing everything the case was designed for to keep it cool, was just too much.

A few hours with cutting discs, some less than artistic tracing with a sharpie marker, and some drill holes later, the case now has some sexy 12 inch intake fan provisions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can literally FEEL the airfow being pulled inside!

Now it rarely gets over 80F inside, even after several hours of hard gaming. Mission accomplished!  Maybe now that chasis can serve another decade!

[Siquo]

Thrifty. I usually buy a new box with every mobo-upgrade.