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New For 2020
Jan. 1st, 2020 12:30 pmI wanted my LiveJournal to connect with Facebook but LJ won't allow me to reconnect for some reason.
This Is Me Posting About Not Posting
May. 16th, 2019 11:43 pmI guess I need to post a thought or two here.
Suruga-Ya's website appears to be back the way it was so my habit of scrolling and looking over their wares has resumed. So much stupf lust.
Somehow I may have reconnected my Journal with Facebook again. But I don't know for sure.
Squawk Ident
Apr. 2nd, 2017 02:05 pmResearch Addiction Hopscotch
Mar. 28th, 2017 07:16 pmA research thread that started with a fellow on Facebook posting the pictures of an old Doyusha car model he'd just bought last week has led me in a bunch of directions that appealed to my weirdness.
One such place was the particulars of my sister's first car, a Datsun 1200 (a.k.a. Nissan Sunny). At the time it was built it was the cheapest new car available in the States...and I sort of wonder what manufacturer and model has that title now.
After that, it led me to the story of Isuzu cars in America--which ended (among other places) with the Impulse and the Geo Storm. For years I saw Storms parked in the backs of people's yards and was weirdly attracted. Now I know why--they're four-fifths of the way to being LOTUSES. I wonder now how much work it would entail to fit a Storm with the same kind of Lotus suspension that was optional on Impulses--and what modern Lotus powerplant would work in the engine bay.
Because of GUNDAM BUILD FIGHTERS, and Bandai's HG Customize Campaign that came with it, I was spurred into accelerating a program that had been on my mind for years: MS Team RedLegger, a sort of tribute to a friend of mine. I bought a few HGUC kits in the hopes that they'd be compatible with kits and models I already own...and in some ways they are and in some ways they aren't.
Part 1 of this build will be "Gundam RedLegger", based mainly on the 0080-issue Gundam Alex, which I hope to combine with some components from the 08th MS Team Gundam EZ8 and the HGUC GM Custom. When I opined on Facebook that I'd want to get more HGUC parts, I was pointed to genteikits.com and their system for buying sprues ala carte. And then I found dalong.net and the scans of HGUC instruction sheets, where I could see for myself what parts were on what sprues.
The real art is figuring out which kits have the best combinations...and which issues have complete sprues. And then matching what you need with what's likely to be available.
I'm trying hard not to rush myself. I don't know when I'll start cutting plastic on what I have. I just want to be sure I'm doing something nobody else already has.
FP
Randomnity
Jun. 10th, 2014 02:21 pm* The Public Radio station is playing the Lord of the Rings Symphony as I'm writing this.
* Dad just installed the window air conditioner unit, and it works.
* I frosted the cupcakes for Dad's Bible study group tomorrow.
* When I looked up my own name on a search through my data base for a graphic I've already shared here, I found a reference in a Battletech e-book. I'm a Steiner. I don't know how I feel about that.
* We await word from our mechanic on the status of Dad's pickup truck. A stud in one of the wheel mounts failed, and the other studs for that wheel mount were in bad shape, so he's replacing the lot.
* I'm dabbling with Bitstrips on Facebook...but it doesn't seem to be habit-forming, yet.
Another Test Post
Apr. 16th, 2014 09:36 pmFacebook Linkage Test
Mar. 1st, 2014 11:36 pmhttp://www.tumblr.com/blog/flyboysaviationservices
Note to self: Use the above link to Tumblr rather than the one in the Pinned message until further notice.
I remember when OMNI magazine had an article about a fiction-writing artificial intelligence named Racter.
Elsewhere today I on Facebook I linked to an article about a thesis-writing app that has suddenly become a tool for abuse among scientific scholarly “authors”.
Allow me to connect some more dots here. Upstairs, I have a lectern dictionary I snitched from my brother, who acquired it in a neighbor’s garage sale. One of the features of this dictionary is a bibliography of the World’s Great Books, as judged in the 1950s when the dictionary was compiled. Over 2500 books are included, all now public domain.
Better Or Worse Than Average?
Dec. 31st, 2012 01:47 pmI was born in Erie, but according to the map it's too small to count. From there:
Cleveland - Columbus - Cincinatti - Charleston, WV - Niagara Falls - Pittsburgh - Baltimore - Washington, DC - Richmond - Charleston, SC - Savannah - Jacksonville - Tampa - St. Petersburg - Orlando - Gainesville - Macon - Atlanta - Chattanooga - Knoxville - Asheville - Columbia - Lexington - Louisville - Indianapolis - Chicago - Madison - Minneapolis/St. Paul
That's 28. Which I suppose is fairly impressive for somebody who didn't get into sports and who never had a job that involved travel. But as far as I'm concerned, it's nowhere near enough.
FP
I came up with about seventy titles, a mix of film sets and TV show seasons for the most part. A lot of the material shows up on Universal's TV channels, namely TH¡S and Retro.
Depending on how they count, I'd think I'd even have to find more titles to get if I won. Which, I suppose, is better than having to choose between existing favorites.
- award,
- dvd,
- facebook,
- film,
- mass media,
- movies,
- philosophy,
- stuff i want,
- tv,
- video,
- wisdom,
- wishlist
A Parable About The Circle Of Life
Apr. 24th, 2012 03:25 pmI was reminded of the time back when we were children, when Lynn's first cat Fluffy died. Lynn was so upset and hurting that she wrote the news opinion commentator of a local TV station--and he responded by reading some of her letter on air and expressing his condolensces to her for everybody.
On a whim I did a websearch for the name of the cat and the name of the TV station together: THIS is what came up.
The Circle of Life is a very real thing. Sometimes the next world is Heaven or Paradise, and maybe we don't see loved ones again. Or maybe we just come back to this one, in a form that befits us better and fated to find love and happiness. You know love can endure--and you know it will!--one of Mum's favorite songs from Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Stupf Lust Strikes Again
Mar. 16th, 2012 02:29 pm
1/6 scale authentic Lincoln Continental styling model in a museum collection. My buddy Paul Francis will be making molds of this for reproduction models. I'm going to try to get one of the prototypes for my own...and a little project from that.
My Own Private K-Tel
Jan. 30th, 2012 01:27 pmOver the weekend an app on Facebook pointed me to a free download program that specializes in converting the audio portions of Flash Video files (as in, what I download from YouTube) to actual .MP3 format. So far I've converted over 200 videos in two new directories, so I can add them to my music collection and make archive disks.
