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Drinky drinky in Humor JoeUser Forums

So, I'm blasted on about seven or eight shots of J & B rare (it doesn't take much, i'm a teetotaler, also, how often do you get to use an ampersand?), and I'm blogging. Good idea, right? And in other news, my new furnace works so-so. Orange hot very quickly (bout 15,1600 degrees, but not yellow dammit. Bout 1900, see article from aug 31, 05 or 06), poured some lead, failed to melt copper, and forged a kick-ass chisel out of grounding rod with a sweet copper sheath, and similarly m

Reply to You Just Can't Count On Some People in Blogging Stardock Forums

The part will be there and the check's in the mail. No prob.How's the knitting going?

Reply to So you want to make an exploding furnace... in Humor JoeUser Forums

Mostly I use it for casting rather than forging. Mostly played with aluminum, zinc, lead, and a few of the other easy metals, my new one should handle brass and bronze with no problems. I've also experimented with a little smithing, but I'm really waiting until I get the chance to set up a proper forge. This setup wastes a lot of fuel if it's used as a forge. Can't resist the occasional bit though. Made a nice chisel with a copper sheathing tonight (used

Reply to So you want to make an exploding furnace... in Humor Stardock Forums

Forgot about the exploding part in the title. Blew out a little of the refractory on the inside surface when it cooled after the first heat. Nothing but some mild cosmetic damage, but little red hot cement chips went flying ten feet.

So you want to make an exploding furnace... in Humor JoeUser Forums

Why is this in humor? I don't know. Which humor is it? Don't know that either, maybe bile? Did not accomplish much today. Joy and I have been having trouble, so today was kind of a take it easy day. The fourth went well, set off beaucioup amounts of pretty pretty type fireworks. (would you believe bang bang types are illegal in Washington?) Other coolness is going on, got some yarn, although haven't started to knit anything yet, and a distortion pedal for my electric guit

BIRD!!! in Humor JoeUser Forums

Finally starting back up on the running today. Saw a lot of cool stuff (you always do, and it's the frickin' 4th). Hundred year old houses, cat on the peak of a third story roof, etc. And then? About two hundred yards up the street this little wren or some such is being chased by a crow. w00t. While the drama unfolds, I'm running along, when a dozen other wrens come swooping down and drive off the crow. Cool beans, getting all nature channel up in here, a

Reply to I'm back........ in Humor Stardock Forums

Although, I admit I'm a little lost with the new format. Looks good though. :)

I'm back........ in Humor JoeUser Forums

Did ya miss me???

Reply to Oooooh shiny! in Humor JoeUser Forums

You tell me you got a new guitar then don't show me the goods? C'mon, bring on the porn! :~D It's a vintage Vantage (1980), and I'm leaving for Iraq in the wee hours of the morning, so I'm busy re-enacting real porn with my wife. Later dude. <img src="../images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddl

Gone gone gone....... in Humor JoeUser Forums

Back to Iraq, see ya'll next year.

Reply to Tunnel Terror Threat to Ft. Huachuca? Not So Much. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Ha. I went running on Resevoir Hill when I was there last year, up past the picnic area. While I was going up the peak I ran into a family of what appeared to be illegal Pakistanis coming down from the hills, going the other way. I looked at them like they were crazy, they looked at me like I was crazy (I don't know why they would look at a guy wearing running clothes, going up the side of a small mountain in the summer in Arizona like he was

It's time for another round of name your favorite Empire in Humor JoeUser Forums

That's right boys and girls, today's episode of name your favorite empire focuses exclusively on the country of Iraq! Me, I favor ancient Ctesiphon.......mmmm Ctesiphon, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are left alone if they run faster than the goats. What's your favorite? There's so many to pick from. What now makes up

Reply to Is Your Network Engineer's Hair Important? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

We have a couple dress code rules- you have to be dressed, and you have to have something on your feet. We also prefer that people bathe since stinky people are bad. Can I work for you people? I know nothing about computers, outside of survival level army powerpoint, but I can sew, knit, and cast m

Reply to A photographer's dilemma on Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

So tell me, when the hand is a hook, do you include it? When the speaker's left side of his face is gone, rebuilt in a close approximation by military doctors, do you emphasize it? Well, the guys I've known to got hit pretty much dealt with it in pictures as if it were nothing special. Some of them were self-conscious, especially if it were new, but of a lot of the time they treated it like they had a normal limb instead of a hook, or one of those leaf s

Reply to Proud to be a United Statesian in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Proud to be a United Statesian. Erm.....Proud I don't live in Jersey! Or Pittsburgh.

Oooooh shiny! in Humor JoeUser Forums

I. Got. My. First. ELECTRIC GUITAR!!!!!! YAYA!!! That's it. It's frickin' late. Except, I'm thinking of starting a fund to send Col Gene hobby stuff, maybe buy him a guitar. I don't usually write articles to flame bloggers specifically, but damn, this johnny one-note stuff is just killing me and I'm grumpy the last week or so. I dunno, maybe a Save the Gene f

Reply to Broken bottlenecks, bad blues, in Humor JoeUser Forums

I knew wild herds of infernal, syphilitic, Michael Moore loving squirrels would get a giggle out of someone.

Reply to WHY Did We Need to Attack Iraq in March 2003? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Why do you feel compelled to defend that I diot? Why do you center your life around attacking him and nothing else? Hitler doesn't deserve the attention you lavish on G.W. I don't know that I've ever seen you say a single new thing, just variations on the same old theme for the past several years. Sure plenty of people disagree with you, but what are you going to do, argue them into submission? When you turn up the crazy, (and no matter how logical or i

Reply to Jesus, Son of G-d or Satan's greatest trick? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Reply By: lulapilgrim Ah, you missed my ususal DELICATE note of sarcasm. Also, spend some more time in comparitive religious studies (know thine enemy as thyself and in a thousand battles you will never lose. 2nd Armarments 3:16.....or Sun Tzu, whichever). I'm a christian, albeit not necessarily a gre

Reply to Jesus, Son of G-d or Satan's greatest trick? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Jeez, what are you guys talkin' about here. Clearly Jesus was neither Jewish nor Christian, but was a noble prophet of Allah the Mighty, as is taught to us by Mohammed. After being spirited away by the Imam Ali, (unlike the false teaching of his crucifixion, clearly God substituted someone in his place)he remains in paradise, until the day when he returns at the head of the Mahdi Army alongside of the twelveth Imam, to cleanse the earth of foul unbelievers. And as to whether he

Reply to Bush is Bad in Politics JoeUser Forums

It's those facts I thought didn't get a lot of discussion. Unfortunately, this thread has diverted onto everything from SH was a bad man to racist rants about who knows what. My ADD kicks in and I stop reading. It just kicked in now! Yah. S'what always happens. Hence the joke. Not always thrilled about

Reply to WHY Did We Need to Attack Iraq in March 2003? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well, I participated mostly because I was bored, and tired of being stationed in Korea. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Reply to Nothing To Do in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well, you could rent a cheap car and go see the touristy sturff in the area. Parks, museums, world's largest non-stick skillet, theme parks, whatever floats your boat.

Reply to Bush is Bad in Politics JoeUser Forums

166 comments? Really? Wow. I'm surprised/impressed ya'll are still following the argument. Amazing really. Wait. Must write something angry. Mild mannered David Bannister, I just slashed your tires!!! No wait, political and angry. Mild mannered David Bannister, Dick Cheney slashed your tires! I voted for NADER! Kerry torches kittens! Robert Gates sleeps with soldier's wives while they're deployed in Iraq, that's why all our deployments were extended an

Reply to Knitting = Hugs in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Nifty. So what kind of stuff are you doing these days? I've been working on a sampler afghan on and off, but I'm thinking about getting off the cables and lace kinda crap and trying fair isle. I thought it might be fun to do stuff copied from old rock t-shirts. I mean, wouldn't you wear a greatful dead sweater? Or an led zepplin toboggan? Maybe AC DC socks. Or tattoos. Sweet. Like a sweater with a big Homeward Bound with the clipper ship acros