Bazza Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Years ago' date=' I worked at a deep discount bookstore. This story was related to me by my store manager, (Jason Vester, who wrote [i']Broken Kingdoms[/i] for FH). The person that I had replaced had a customer come in looking for a book. Customer: "I'm looking for a book, I don't know the name or the author, but I know that the cover's yellow." Employee: "Well, let me take you to our 'Yellow Book' section." Customer (excited): "You have one?" Employee: "No, not really." So, we would refer to these folks as "Yellow Book People". And yes, it's really common. JoeG You mean like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures http://www.oddee.com/item_96619.aspx http://www.oddee.com/item_96580.aspx http://www.oddee.com/item_96501.aspx http://www.oddee.com/item_89792.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures The 96619 one I did know about, and I'd swear I'd seen all those images in National Geographic before. And either my knowledge is closer to encyclopeic than I thought, or they aren't going very far in their searches; the focus seems to be on neat pictures rather than extreme places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures You mean like this? I really liked that pic when I first saw it, but had to fight the urge to reorganize my books like that. OCD's a b***h. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Main Man Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures A thoroughly daunting look at our place in the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures . . . What's that device from HHGttG called? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures To be fair, it's not clear that VV Cep or VY CMa are really spherical, as opposed to being big disks of material around mass-long stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures There you go, ruining things with facts again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures The 96619 one I did know about' date=' and I'd swear I'd seen all those images in National Geographic before. And either my knowledge is closer to encyclopeic than I thought, or they aren't going very far in their searches; the focus seems to be on neat pictures rather than extreme places.[/quote'] Obviously people know about them, otherwise the list couldn't be compiled. But anyway, the places and pictures are awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures A thoroughly daunting look at our place in the universe. I now have the urge to watch "The Black Hole" again, for some reason. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures To be fair' date=' it's not clear that VV Cep or VY CMa are really spherical, as opposed to being big disks of material around mass-long stars.[/quote'] Ah, VV Cep. I remember doing some observations of that star when I was at Villanova... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures I never did anything with VV Cep, but there was one night in 1982 or '83 where I was called to do spectroscopy of epsilon Aurigae, starting at about 3000A and working my way longward, 120A at a shot, with the 2.7m coude spectrometer at McDonald. Fortunately I just handed those data off; I didn't have to do anything with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures I've been learning how to make jewelry. Here's some of my attempts... Antique bronze key with bronze and glass beads. 17" necklace. The matching earrings are tiny bronze keys with glass beads. Bronze antique key on a double necklace -- one part bronze chain, the other part glass beads, hematite beads, and bronze findings. 17" necklace. Bronze celtic cross on a 17" necklace Earrings -- Copper spirals with glass beads. And, for you Hero gamers: Roll 3d6! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures I've been learning how to make jewelry. Here's some of my attempts... Bronze celtic cross on a 17" necklace I like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamamura Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures I've been learning how to make jewelry. Here's some of my attempts... Bronze antique key on a double necklace -- one part bronze chain, the other part glass beads, hematite beads, and bronze findings. 17" necklace. I would say this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Nice job bunneh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures you'd be amazed at the number of people coming into the library looking for a book and the only thing they can identify it with is the color. "i'm looking for a book; it's red. Do you have it?" of course it's actually funnier when they think they know what it's about. "i'm looking for a book; it's about jews. It's red. Do you have it?" ah yes, the big red book of jews, right this way... i swear i'm not making this stuff up. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures "Invisible" car. No, that's not Photoshopped, that's a really clever paintjob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Susano Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Monastery Built on a Volcanic Plug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures "One fish, two fish, red fish..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures "One fish' date=' two fish, red fish..."[/quote'] gold fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures "Invisible" car. No, that's not Photoshopped, that's a really clever paintjob. Only really noticeable on the left side of the door/winshield line up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures . . . What's that device from HHGttG called? Wasn't it something like the "Total Perspective Vortex"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Re: "Neat" Pictures Nice job bunneh I like this one. I would say this one. Thanks! These are my first few, faltering attempts. With a little practice, I'm pretty sure I'll get better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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