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Off Topic / bones4 life

« on: November 05, 2016, 08:59:25 PM »

I had an impulse to update you guys on my life for the past couple of years. I'll sprinkle some photos in for funsies.

I guess we'll pick up where I left off. In the Air Force.



Long story short, my job (flightline avionics) used a lot of heavy equipment and we were terribly undermanned. This contributed to a pretty sweet forgeted up back. My deployment made it worse. Eventually, I got a medical discharge and am now "60% disabled."



Backing up about 8 months, I'm home on leave and I call up an old friend from college. I'd known her since early 2009 and we had always liked each other, but were always dating other people. Those feelings were stirred back up and we started talking. This continued long distance until the next time I was hope on leave about 6 months after that. While home this time, I got a call from base saying I'd been found officially unfit for duty and was being discharged. I made it official with her that night.



A few more months, and I was back home in Alabama. I got a call from my aunt (manager and Boeing) asking if I was interested in a job. 7 months later, I start work at Boeing as an integration specialist tech. I was working, discussing long term plans with my girlfriend, starting to look at houses, and loving life.

Fast forward a bit further. I decided I want to spend the rest of my life with her and take her to Biltmore Estate to propose.








Currently I am rotating work out of New Orleans working for NASA at the Michoud Assembly Facility (where the Saturn V was built) on the SLS (Space Launch System. The rocket NASA is going to send people to Mars with). I'm bummed to be away from her for a month at a time here and there, but I'm thankful to be working on something like this. I'm working around and inside the engine section and liquid hydrogen tank of the SLS at the moment.





So...  that's why I haven't been working on Titanic.

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Off Topic / open letter to facechild

« on: September 26, 2015, 12:25:16 AM »

I'm going to mail you a penny in an envelope. Then the next day I'll mail 2 pennies. I'll keep adding a penny every day until it gets to be a handicapped amount of pennies. Like the envelope can barely hold them. Eventually you're gonna have all these goddamn pennies you won't know what to do with. You'll start with a cup of pennies and then graduate to a milk jug. After a while you'll give up on child's play and move on to something like one of those bigass plastic storage containers. But even that won't be enough. I'm not sending the pennies in envelopes anymore. I'm sending them in packages. This takes a stuffton of money to ship because it's loving heavy. You'll keep getting packages of pennies day after day. You will eventually have an entire room set aside just to put pennies in. One day you'll get fed up and take them to coin star or something. But by then it will be too late. It doesn't matter anyway. I'll still be sending more pennies than you can get rid of.
you'll try to throw them away. You won't give a stuff. The garbage won't take them though because they're too loving heavy. Your life will become pennies. You will dream about pennies. You'll dread going home. But it won't stop there. I'll start leaving them in your car too. They'll pile up endlessly and there's nothing you can do about it.
At some point you'll give up on your house and try to move in with a friend so you can finally be free from the copper hell. But oh no! stuff's forget up in there too! Pennies are already there. He doesn't know why, but it doesn't matter. You do. This will inevitably lead to you being homeless because you will have literally exhausted any means of escaping this shiny nightmare. You'll be asleep on the streets one night. You'll be awoken suddenly by a jingling sound. "Oh no!" you think. You know what it is. You open your eyes and see me. I'm standing in front of you. I just dropped a large sack of pennies.

I have just spent my entire life savings making your life miserable, you piece of stuff.

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Off Topic / 2 hours without caffeine, 12 hours without carbonation or alcohol

« on: August 14, 2015, 12:12:47 PM »

who am i

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Off Topic / Original movie ideas

« on: July 05, 2015, 11:23:25 PM »

by me and facechild and I (jotted down by hellboy)

Tactical Space Monster

    This main character Ripples, she is much go into space but, uh oh!  She not only thing is space.  What kind and type of bad thing must be and somehow be lurk in shadow?  Much alert sound come from planet.  They go down planet with space plane.  They find life time supply of egg marbles. An egg isn’t so “over easy” on one of the people dudes, said egg gives his face a big ol’ smooch.  They Mario Kart his body back to spaceship, he is still wear egg on face.  Suddenly egg curl up and die for no raisin.  He is much hunger; in the middle of his fruity pebbles he gets a stommy ache.  He poops Allan from belly part and consequently die.  Allan gets big real fast, Ripples now has to hide in dark place or Allan will get him or her.  Ripples finds small space boat, snatches up cat, and leaves the mother ship, but not before getting forgeted around by man who is secretly robot.  But oh no!  Allan was hide on boat!  What will he or she do?!  She puts on anti-space costume, and opens the front door.  Allan accidentally goes outside.  Final, being free of Allan, Ripples takes a very long nap with a cat in preparation for the sequel.


   

Down Force (Space Trash)

   
    Mission Specialist, Sweet Cheeks, is a space lady.  But this is her first time in space.  She is outside of major craft completely inside air keeping suit.  She is fix thing while’st Jeff Clungy is do much spin around her.  Oooooh stuff, wait til you see this next part.  Suddenly bits of space trash are like wooshing all over the place and stuff.  Just as quick as she was still connected she not no longer connected.  Oh no!  She is fly into space, even more space, deeper space.  But don’t worry Gerge Kleby is here to help!  He uses official space company woosh pack to fish her back in.  They make hasty back to main space truck, but oops!  The window is broke and everyone accidentally went out the front door.  So now they have to look for different space house because they are running out of breathy particles.  They use said woosh pack to push to not moon station.  Sweet Ass is breathing way too much and Gerb Krumbly is all like,”hey stop breathing. I need you to hold your lungs.”  When they arrive at float station, they are, woah!  Much too fast.  She has to let Grahm Shebley accidentally let him go off into space.  But Gorb Jabronie is all like,”don’t worry about it, im a pretty cool dude and ill be in your mind or something.”  He say also,”she breathe all of mouth air and will much be of kill if not close mouth hole and go inside space house, and she do.”  But oh no!  stuffs forgeted up in there too!  Looks like the space trash was already there!  Sweet Buns scoots herself into one of them foreigner space carts  and tries her darndest to poot herself back to the Earf.  But oh stuff!  There is a parachuting chute caught in space house.  She must accidentally go out the front door into space, and un-forget the parachute in the midst of space trash.  Foreign space cart is extremely bad and does not work.  So she decide to kill herself.  But suddenly, the ghost of Jerb Scooter tells her that that’s stupid and keep try.  So she do thing and make thing go.  Since parachuting parachute is no there, must find other space cart.  She much find Ching Chung Craft.  But oh no again!  General Tso’s Craft was too low in atmosphere soup.  So Sugar Tits pressed all the buttons in no particular order and, BUT SPOILER ALERT, she make all way back down to Earf and down splash.  But oh no, still!  She is almost drowned!  Hot Lips make swim to land and splash in mud.  


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Off Topic / The Book of Florb (Resurrected for your bad doings. Praise be to Flodos.)

« on: July 04, 2015, 12:39:26 AM »

The Book
Of
Florb

Praise to be Flodos

-Florbulious as draweth by El Bonero Quatro and some clouds (and maybe a moon (and maybe some other stuff)) by El Facer

This mighty book (or something that isn't a book) was

Written by Bones Fourlegs (now featuring a word or more than one word by Los Faceitos (and some heavy breathe (possibly some words) by killhamskiralissimo))

Transcribed By Hellboy

And El Facechillio Escobar was also there
“And he was okay”
-BonesIV

Artists’ rendition of mighty Flodos.
Illustrate by Face Chili

“In Begining”

1; In begining FLORB was² with and yes.  All the times very with and never much not with. Around³ and inside FLORB but also in other places, FLORB is everywhere a lot.  And Florbulious was without Fleeborgs⁴ and the Gorgulons were upon all of FLORB and not FLORB.  And FLORB said⁵, “Let there be Flarben.”

And on⁶ the fifth hedges, FLORB sent out and really sent out⁷ most of the FLORB cubes.  And it was good.  And then FLORB⁸ said, “let the Fleeborgs spin on the Flarben.”  And it was pretty good.  And then FLORB made⁹ Florboulions in his own picture. And then Florboulions sold fruit.  And then FLORB saw¹⁰ everything that he did.  And it was very not bad.
2; So then Florbulious was a thing and so was² FLORB still.  And on a different day than the other ones, there was a day was of sleeping³ and of not being awake,  for if you are awake, sleep isn’t.  And⁴ then FLORB made a little of himself, and it was a Florbulion.  He⁵ was Flodam.  And he launched Flodam into the big salad of oden.⁶  And in the salad was the big broccoli of being alive.  And Flodam ate some of the salad.  And it was pretty good.  And then⁷ there were other things that weren’t Flodam and they got named.

And then the great FLORB in⁸ the sky took one of Flodam and mined his body for parts.  He’eth found a part.  FLORB did⁹ take a Fleebord from Flodam and totally turned that into a really smoking hot Florbulion¹⁰ named Fleeve.  And Fleeve had less part than Flodam.  Therefore there¹¹ should be Fleeves and Flodams making smaller Fleeves and Flodams.  And they were¹² both naked, the Flodam and his Fleeve, and were not ashamed.

3; And then came² the toothed worm who ate many mice and many mammals who are about the size of mice and many other mamm³al type things.  The toothed worm say to Flodam “Hey man, try this crouton.”  But then FLORB was say, “Do not eat of the crouton for it is cubular and in shape of me.”  So Flodam was totally like, “okay you boss man.”  How ever’eth,  Fleeve, in her less part type ways, completely and definatly and really wanted the crouton.  But she did not bite’th of into it.  Then toothy worm, was say,”sup Fleeve, crutons taste like magic nd’ cupcakes⁴ nd’ stuff.”  And Fleeve was like, “I would like that.” Then Fleeve pluck’ethd thy crouton from the broccoli beside the great Ranch River, in the Hidden Valley.  And so Flodam looked’eth upon Fleeve eating thoust crouton.  And said, “Bitch, make me dinner.”

And so Flodam mouth want crouton.  And then⁵ great and mighty FLORB who sees almost all of the things and most of the croutons, but not all of the croutons, but defiantly more than half of the croutons.  Said to Flodam and Fleeve, “Why shove Florbiddon crouton in mouth hole!?  I am disappoint.”⁶  And now Fleeve realize’eth how much naked she is.  And Flodam also realize that he was like, totally hanging out there.  And atleast one quarter chub was popped.

And now the great FLORB in the sky (born through giant space C-Section in all his cubular glory), put his think thoughts of loveual babby time into the head movies of Fleeve and Flodam.  And so Fleeve and Flodam was have to kill two wild Parscrouts for⁷ clothing reasons and raisins (to cover babby tools).  Great FLORB was become anger.  And he say’eth to Fleeve and Flodam, “Why dos thou eateth’eth the mystical crouton from the "not allowed to have" broccoli next to the Ranch River in the Hidden Vally, RAISON BEING that Florbulions not to have such thinky⁸ thoughts…  Get out.  And super smart FLORB in all his smartyness was kick Flodam and Fleeve out of big salad forever (At least a year).

-Here picture above being a wild Parscrout

4;  OKAY!  And so² Fleeve with her body-cavern hath create another (not the original) Florbulion. She hath use body, uh, things to create most of Fleebob with the assistance of above FLORB and Flonos too (also from body cave).

Fleebob was haver of Parscrouts, Flonos was³ hedging (and clipping) of Florbulios dirt granules.  For some reason Fleebob was angry’eth and FLORB told him to “totally chill out.”  But Fleebob was much anger and would not listen to reasons (or raisins).  This being the bad thing that Fleebob was about to do.  Fleebob was take wild Parscrout catching tool and smack Flonos until very much not alive.  Flonos was die.  This was be first recorded incident of “Anger Shanking.”⁴  And then FLORB said, “Don’t hit Fleebob.”  And then Fleebob ran away into the land of Agree forever and ever (atleast two years).

Fleebob was give birthings to Flordan who in turn make loveual babby⁵ time and popped out Flederick and Flobert who had taken wives and give birth to Flovius and Flowsion and Floobles they also took multiple Florbulion wives and maked babby and those babbies were Flort and Fleggory and Florton as well as Floton and Flort and Florg, who gave birth with wives to Flert, Floyan,⁶ Flortimer, Flortholomew and Floyt.

6; Florbulion ha’th² do bad thing.  FLORB much upset.  FLORB feel a lot and much of trouble.  And decide to chose and single and only one Florbulion but no more than three, but still less than two.  This chose one be name Floah.  And FLORB tell words at Floah, “You are like pretty chill, soooo I got plans for you nd’ stuff.  Keep your ear open.  Dog.”

Floah and the Floode

Here story is of Floah.  And family of said Floah that³ we’re talking about.  Floah, uh, Floah was look good to FLORB.  Uhhhhh, he was not of be blame and had three small Florbulions beneath him.  Their name be, Flem, Flam, Flapheth.  Now Florbulios was bad stuff in FLORB’s vision time, it was full of hurty times.  FLORB was look at badness that Florbulios land hath’th be.  For all Florbulions on Florbulios had badness did their selves.  So FLORB said to Floah, “I am⁴ be smack all Florbulion for Florbulios am fill with hurty times because reasons and raisins.  It will be surely brake they and Florbulios because they are.”  So poot together a floaty wood of duct tape and old pizza boxes (not Dominos, for Dominos hath promote the Noid(#bringbackthenoid)).  When make⁵ the large floaty travel item, it need rooms for to hold things and other things (hedgers and clippers (and Parscrouts)).

Fleeblewart - A small rodent like elephant sized herbavoir that only eats only meat.

Floaty thing is to be 0.2000 florbits long, fifty⁶ and one sixty-fifth quadzillion florbits wide and thirty (+/-.000000003) quadzillion florbits up down. Make an up part for it consist of no name brand Kleenex boxes.  Make put “walkthrough wall on hinge” from snot away Kleenex box (but not the real snot2).  And make down platform down but not as less down platform not as much⁷ down platform sort of down platform sort of middle grounded down platform and up platform asswell but inbetween up platform and no so much down platform put another platform and then add more platforms.  And these platform be mix of cardboard old pizzabox asswell ass duct⁸ tape and snot away (not the real snot2) and cover everything in molasses.

      FLORB am going bring liquid water⁹s on the Florbulios and destroy all everything an-and other things too.  Every Florbulion that hast thou eateth, of air every will died.  Okay uhh…  Floah, with other Florbulions (not too many but a few) will passage onto¹⁰ floaty object. FLORB say (with words), “You ares’t thou to bring thy’eth small numbers of things (but no more than two at the same time and definatly more than one): twice of Parscrout, less than three but more than one kind of named things that am also eat air, every not dead and still alive thing that crawl’eth on Florbulion granules¹¹ will poot their way towards you and be kept in situation of no die.  Thou art need’eth all and definatly most (but all though) food thing that has be eaten and go ahead and toss it aboard the big float boat.”

Float situation features platforms (cardboard pizza (12.3% snot-away pieces))

Floah was do all of the things but not¹² some of the things but all of the most of the things but not only a few of the most of the things but certainly more than half the some of the things and most defiantly not more than 100% of the things and defiantly higher than 99% of most of the things and Floah was do al¹³l of the everything including previous statement as FLORB was tell him do things and do.  This will things forever (at least 40 days)
7; And FLORB word make to Floah, “Come into cardboard boa²t you and all of you and all of your things and all of your entire house, because me [FLORB] think you are pretty all right among maybe twenty or thirty Florbulion.  You be bring with you seventeen quadzillion of every STD free animal, ³the dude bits and the lady bits.  And then thirteen quadzillion STD ridden animal, an all part and an almost all part but with less part.  And also four and three quarters of every fly thing in air skys.  Dude and not dude so that all of these aminals can make loveual babby time and make other aminals on Florbulios face.  And also the swimmy dudes who can’t breathe air because raisins. ⁴ For in a certain number of cube spins of Florbulion so for in a certain number of cube spins on Florbulion world I wall cause wet features to go down from up on Florbulion dirt granules for a big number of light times and also a big number of dark times.  And I will make die of all the not yet d⁵ie things that pooted from my brain.”  And yes Floah did it all that stuff that FLORB hath made’eth him’eth do’eth.

Floah was like really really REALLY old now w⁶hen liquid sploosh covered Florbulios.  Floah was go in giant cardboard pizza box boat with his full grown babbys and his smokin’ slam. And his full grown babbys’s smokin’ hot slams because reason liquid sploosh happen.  More than one but less than three of STD free aminals of STD ridden aminals of flappys and⁷ of all thing that writhe on dirt granules.  Man part and lady part came into pizza box boat to Floah just as FLORB was has tell do him.  And after much cube spin, ⁸the liquid sploosh was cover entire of Florbulios.

⁹After a few quadzillion cube spins of Floahs being alive time, in second galaxian cycle and on the seventeeth cube spin of the galaxian cycle.  On that cube spin all of the liquid shooter/catchers that are down low low somewhere open’eth an liquid features of the FLORB time where let go.  And then certain (but not that ¹⁰certain) slightly wet features fell from up to down on Florbulion dirt granules for quite a few cube spins (for brighter dark times).
On that precise cube spin, Floah entered the cardboard pizza box¹¹ boat that he was already on.  In the company of his full grown babby sons Flem Flam and Flapheth and their smokin’ hot slams.  They again the thing that they were already on along with every not dead (but sometimes dead but not really because they were on a boat). And then Flapheth said’eth to Floah,”dude we are already here.”  And then from then he put every non dead aminal (alive things(named things)) ¹²that was already here.  Every writhing festering flab of a parscrout, every dirt granule coated fleeblewart and every flying dude bird thing with the wings that fly and all those other dudes that totally breathe air with their chest vacuums, those that entered the place that they ¹³were already in had parts and less parts just as FLROB said that one time.

This being of swimming dudes that can't breath airs. so only some of them was be bring onto float boat.

Then the FLORB totally shut the door on him and¹⁴ locked up the bitch.  The flood (uh, what was it, uhhh, OH! Uuh, liquid coatings) was like really REALLY deep on Florbulios for like a whole ton of cube spins.  As walters raise, they in turn make float boat the cardboard pizza box boat and make float it above the dirt granules.  The liquid features like totally ¹⁵and almost all of the everys maximum overfeel Florbulios and the float boat was do just that.  On top of liquid features,  the liquid ¹⁶features totally and completely and really cover Florbulios so that even all tippy top rocks under entire airs was cover asswell.

Wet things go high more than a lot of high above giant¹⁷ (extremely big) mounds and heaps of Florbulion granules.  And all live things that were not of yet to be die that moved on Florbulios was die much including living aircraft, aminals of which that roamed and graized and definitely roamed all the Florbulious creatures and things that did their things on Florbuilous ¹⁸and all Florbulions too were of be die (also).  Everything that was a thing on dry dirt granules that have use of Florbulion gas¹⁹ properties in its nose squares for of breathing.  So yes the FLORB art thou destroy’eth every alive thing still again that were also still of being alive yet again.  Anything that do exist on dirt granules much to include Florbulions, named things, not die²⁰ things (yet) that scoot along the dirt granules and living airplanes.  They were much kill.  Floah, his main squeeze, and his not so small babbys were around him “but none inside” him and were in the top ²¹of water station.  The liquid uhh, features remodeled Florbulion for a few quadzillion cube spins (at least 4 years).

“And Slunt”

5; And thus bring’eth to story being Slunt. Slunt was very believ¹e in FLORB so much that when FLORB tell Slunt do something, Slunt do something.  When Slunt was live in his or her live building, he then had grow many biscuits on his ²biscuit farm.  Times were better than bad and definitely not less than good for Slunt.  Using not same gender Florbulioun; Slunt creat’eth small Slunt type thing that be name, “D’bisquit.”  Uhm…  Slunt very did enjoy and much like of D’bisquit as D’busquit was much smaller type thing version of Slunt.  One d³ark time of cube spin, FLORB was mouth sound to Slunt, “Taketh D’bisquit pet, crouton crab, and hold under liquid features down by the water road until can’t breathe an⁴d yeah…”  Slunt was then reply to FLORB, “Why un-life the small crouton crab crustyhatian of small Slunt, D’bisquit?”  To which FLORB answer back, “Because the bad guy totally said you wouldn’t.”  Slunt then say,“okay but only because you make me happy with your mouth.”  That very next cube spin, Slunt was then grab crouton crab with tail and carry all the way down by water road.  Slunt then force crouton crab under “wator” for entire cube spin.  When next cube spin finally arrive, crouton crab was still be live.  Slunt was v⁵ery not pleased with situation on hand.”  Slunt then mouth sound to FLORB,”this not work!”  FLORB t⁶hen word make back to Slunt,”*BLUAGH!* Sorry I was burping.  FLORB damnit!  I was much make of mistake.  You must and very much need to, uhh…  Make stop breathe of D’Bisquit.”  Slunt was all like,”D’Bisquit is small me and stuff and very why would I be as do this?”  FLORB told’eth Slunt,”Just do it™.”  Okay so…  Slunt was grab D’Bisquit by the snout and much drag to said wet street.  He was take claw and hold D’Busquit, top part, under swooshy liquid.  BUTT!  Almost all the way b⁷efore D’Bisquit was much be die, FLORB was stop them. And be of said,”What the forget.  You, heh, uhh…  You were really going to make him not live’eth.  Remove thoust tentacle from D’Bisquit rear side!  I thinky thought bad guy gets the gist.  You may now un-drown⁸ D’Busquit.”  Later that cube spin, FLORB, Slunt, D’Bisquit and crouton crab enjoyed large meal consisting mainly of pieces of corn and tartar sauce.  The moral of this telling is that just⁹ because FLORB tell you to do doesn’t mean that you do do…

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Off Topic / I may be having serious back surgery

« on: June 26, 2015, 05:01:04 PM »

Long story short, I have retrolisthesis, degenerative disk disease, and a bulging disk at L5-S1. It's been this way for 16 months. The Air Force is in the process of deciding to give me the boot or not. Anyway, I'll type more of the story later.

I was told today that I have the option of spinal fusion of L5 and S1. Does anyone know anyone with similar problems or surgery?

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Off Topic / I've gone 2 days without carbonation and 2 hours without caffeine

« on: June 13, 2015, 06:50:39 PM »

It's time for this thread again

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Creativity / I grouped a lot of my random photographs together on Flickr

« on: May 06, 2015, 08:24:33 PM »

I would love some individual feedback on any of these if you have time. I'm trying to get active again and maybe find some inspiration. https://www.flickr.com/photos/26934603@N02/with/17394642442/

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Off Topic / Bones needs a new graphics card(s)

« on: February 24, 2015, 06:22:14 PM »

I just sold my SLI 670's because the 2GB VRAM wasn't cutting it. I play in 2560x1440. Should I get gtx 970 sli (there are problems with VRAM over 3.5GB usage) or a single gtx 980 (no VRAM issue) for now?

I've researched, but find conflicting opinions. I'll play anything from light indie games to BF4, Farcry 4, GTA V, etc...

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Off Topic / Upgrade from i5 2500k?

« on: February 18, 2015, 09:44:20 PM »

I've been running an i5 2500k since April, 2011. (currently with Nvidia 670 FTW SLI, 16GB 1,600MHz RAM, 250GB SSD, and in 2560x1440).

I'm running games fine, but I was wondering if upgrading to a newer generation of processor would benefit me a lot with heavy image processing and editing. Also, I have no experience with hyperthreading (although I know it's i7 specific). Would it make a significant difference in programs such as Photoshop and Lightroom?

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Off Topic / The Book of Florb (Praise be to Flodos)

« on: January 25, 2015, 07:48:24 PM »

The Book
Of
Florb

Praise to be Flodos

-Florbulious as draweth by El Bonero Quatro and some clouds (and maybe a moon (and maybe some other stuff)) by El Facer

This mighty book (or something that isn't a book) was

Written by Bones Fourlegs (now featuring a word or more than one word by Los Faceitos (and some heavy breathe (possibly some words) by killhamskiralissimo))

Transcribed By Hellboy

And El Facechillio Escobar was also there
“And he was okay”
-BonesIV

Artists’ rendition of mighty Flodos.
Illustrate by Face Chili

“In Begining”

1; In begining FLORB was² with and yes.  All the times very with and never much not with. Around³ and inside FLORB but also in other places, FLORB is everywhere a lot.  And Florbulious was without Fleeborgs⁴ and the Gorgulons were upon all of FLORB and not FLORB.  And FLORB said⁵, “Let there be Flarben.”

And on⁶ the fifth hedges, FLORB sent out and really sent out⁷ most of the FLORB cubes.  And it was good.  And then FLORB⁸ said, “let the Fleeborgs spin on the Flarben.”  And it was pretty good.  And then FLORB made⁹ Florboulions in his own picture. And then Florboulions sold fruit.  And then FLORB saw¹⁰ everything that he did.  And it was very not bad.
2; So then Florbulious was a thing and so was² FLORB still.  And on a different day than the other ones, there was a day was of sleeping³ and of not being awake,  for if you are awake, sleep isn’t.  And⁴ then FLORB made a little of himself, and it was a Florbulion.  He⁵ was Flodam.  And he launched Flodam into the big salad of oden.⁶  And in the salad was the big broccoli of being alive.  And Flodam ate some of the salad.  And it was pretty good.  And then⁷ there were other things that weren’t Flodam and they got named.

And then the great FLORB in⁸ the sky took one of Flodam and mined his body for parts.  He’eth found a part.  FLORB did⁹ take a Fleebord from Flodam and totally turned that into a really smoking hot Florbulion¹⁰ named Fleeve.  And Fleeve had less part than Flodam.  Therefore there¹¹ should be Fleeves and Flodams making smaller Fleeves and Flodams.  And they were¹² both naked, the Flodam and his Fleeve, and were not ashamed.

3; And then came² the toothed worm who ate many mice and many mammals who are about the size of mice and many other mamm³al type things.  The toothed worm say to Flodam “Hey man, try this crouton.”  But then FLORB was say, “Do not eat of the crouton for it is cubular and in shape of me.”  So Flodam was totally like, “okay you boss man.”  How ever’eth,  Fleeve, in her less part type ways, completely and definatly and really wanted the crouton.  But she did not bite’th of into it.  Then toothy worm, was say,”sup Fleeve, crutons taste like magic nd’ cupcakes⁴ nd’ stuff.”  And Fleeve was like, “I would like that.” Then Fleeve pluck’ethd thy crouton from the broccoli beside the great Ranch River, in the Hidden Valley.  And so Flodam looked’eth upon Fleeve eating thoust crouton.  And said, “Bitch, make me dinner.”

And so Flodam mouth want crouton.  And then⁵ great and mighty FLORB who sees almost all of the things and most of the croutons, but not all of the croutons, but defiantly more than half of the croutons.  Said to Flodam and Fleeve, “Why shove Florbiddon crouton in mouth hole!?  I am disappoint.”⁶  And now Fleeve realize’eth how much naked she is.  And Flodam also realize that he was like, totally hanging out there.  And atleast one quarter chub was popped.

And now the great FLORB in the sky (born through giant space C-Section in all his cubular glory), put his think thoughts of loveual babby time into the head movies of Fleeve and Flodam.  And so Fleeve and Flodam was have to kill two wild Parscrouts for⁷ clothing reasons and raisins (to cover babby tools).  Great FLORB was become anger.  And he say’eth to Fleeve and Flodam, “Why dos thou eateth’eth the mystical crouton from the "not allowed to have" broccoli next to the Ranch River in the Hidden Vally, RAISON BEING that Florbulions not to have such thinky⁸ thoughts…  Get out.  And super smart FLORB in all his smartyness was kick Flodam and Fleeve out of big salad forever (At least a year).

-Here picture above being a wild Parscrout

4;  OKAY!  And so² Fleeve with her body-cavern hath create another (not the original) Florbulion. She hath use body, uh, things to create most of Fleebob with the assistance of above FLORB and Flonos too (also from body cave).

Fleebob was haver of Parscrouts, Flonos was³ hedging (and clipping) of Florbulios dirt granules.  For some reason Fleebob was angry’eth and FLORB told him to “totally chill out.”  But Fleebob was much anger and would not listen to reasons (or raisins).  This being the bad thing that Fleebob was about to do.  Fleebob was take wild Parscrout catching tool and smack Flonos until very much not alive.  Flonos was die.  This was be first recorded incident of “Anger Shanking.”⁴  And then FLORB said, “Don’t hit Fleebob.”  And then Fleebob ran away into the land of Agree forever and ever (atleast two years).

Fleebob was give birthings to Flordan who in turn make loveual babby⁵ time and popped out Flederick and Flobert who had taken wives and give birth to Flovius and Flowsion and Floobles they also took multiple Florbulion wives and maked babby and those babbies were Flort and Fleggory and Florton as well as Floton and Flort and Florg, who gave birth with wives to Flert, Floyan,⁶ Flortimer, Flortholomew and Floyt.

6; Florbulion ha’th² do bad thing.  FLORB much upset.  FLORB feel a lot and much of trouble.  And decide to chose and single and only one Florbulion but no more than three, but still less than two.  This chose one be name Floah.  And FLORB tell words at Floah, “You are like pretty chill, soooo I got plans for you nd’ stuff.  Keep your ear open.  Dog.”

Floah and the Floode

Here story is of Floah.  And family of said Floah that³ we’re talking about.  Floah, uh, Floah was look good to FLORB.  Uhhhhh, he was not of be blame and had three small Florbulions beneath him.  Their name be, Flem, Flam, Flapheth.  Now Florbulios was bad stuff in FLORB’s vision time, it was full of hurty times.  FLORB was look at badness that Florbulios land hath’th be.  For all Florbulions on Florbulios had badness did their selves.  So FLORB said to Floah, “I am⁴ be smack all Florbulion for Florbulios am fill with hurty times because reasons and raisins.  It will be surely brake they and Florbulios because they are.”  So poot together a floaty wood of duct tape and old pizza boxes (not Dominos, for Dominos hath promote the Noid(#bringbackthenoid)).  When make⁵ the large floaty travel item, it need rooms for to hold things and other things (hedgers and clippers (and Parscrouts)).

Fleeblewart - A small rodent like elephant sized herbavoir that only eats only meat.

Floaty thing is to be 0.2000 florbits long, fifty⁶ and one sixty-fifth quadzillion florbits wide and thirty (+/-.000000003) quadzillion florbits up down. Make an up part for it consist of no name brand Kleenex boxes.  Make put “walkthrough wall on hinge” from snot away Kleenex box (but not the real snot2).  And make down platform down but not as less down platform not as much⁷ down platform sort of down platform sort of middle grounded down platform and up platform asswell but inbetween up platform and no so much down platform put another platform and then add more platforms.  And these platform be mix of cardboard old pizzabox asswell ass duct⁸ tape and snot away (not the real snot2) and cover everything in molasses.

      FLORB am going bring liquid water⁹s on the Florbulios and destroy all everything an-and other things too.  Every Florbulion that hast thou eateth, of air every will died.  Okay uhh…  Floah, with other Florbulions (not too many but a few) will passage onto¹⁰ floaty object. FLORB say (with words), “You ares’t thou to bring thy’eth small numbers of things (but no more than two at the same time and definatly more than one): twice of Parscrout, less than three but more than one kind of named things that am also eat air, every not dead and still alive thing that crawl’eth on Florbulion granules¹¹ will poot their way towards you and be kept in situation of no die.  Thou art need’eth all and definatly most (but all though) food thing that has be eaten and go ahead and toss it aboard the big float boat.”

Float situation features platforms (cardboard pizza (12.3% snot-away pieces))

Floah was do all of the things but not¹² some of the things but all of the most of the things but not only a few of the most of the things but certainly more than half the some of the things and most defiantly not more than 100% of the things and defiantly higher than 99% of most of the things and Floah was do al¹³l of the everything including previous statement as FLORB was tell him do things and do.  This will things forever (at least 40 days)
7; And FLORB word make to Floah, “Come into cardboard boa²t you and all of you and all of your things and all of your entire house, because me [FLORB] think you are pretty all right among maybe twenty or thirty Florbulion.  You be bring with you seventeen quadzillion of every STD free animal, ³the dude bits and the lady bits.  And then thirteen quadzillion STD ridden animal, an all part and an almost all part but with less part.  And also four and three quarters of every fly thing in air skys.  Dude and not dude so that all of these aminals can make loveual babby time and make other aminals on Florbulios face.  And also the swimmy dudes who can’t breathe air because raisins. ⁴ For in a certain number of cube spins of Florbulion so for in a certain number of cube spins on Florbulion world I wall cause wet features to go down from up on Florbulion dirt granules for a big number of light times and also a big number of dark times.  And I will make die of all the not yet d⁵ie things that pooted from my brain.”  And yes Floah did it all that stuff that FLORB hath made’eth him’eth do’eth.

Floah was like really really REALLY old now w⁶hen liquid sploosh covered Florbulios.  Floah was go in giant cardboard pizza box boat with his full grown babbys and his smokin’ slam. And his full grown babbys’s smokin’ hot slams because reason liquid sploosh happen.  More than one but less than three of STD free aminals of STD ridden aminals of flappys and⁷ of all thing that writhe on dirt granules.  Man part and lady part came into pizza box boat to Floah just as FLORB was has tell do him.  And after much cube spin, ⁸the liquid sploosh was cover entire of Florbulios.

⁹After a few quadzillion cube spins of Floahs being alive time, in second galaxian cycle and on the seventeeth cube spin of the galaxian cycle.  On that cube spin all of the liquid shooter/catchers that are down low low somewhere open’eth an liquid features of the FLORB time where let go.  And then certain (but not that ¹⁰certain) slightly wet features fell from up to down on Florbulion dirt granules for quite a few cube spins (for brighter dark times).
On that precise cube spin, Floah entered the cardboard pizza box¹¹ boat that he was already on.  In the company of his full grown babby sons Flem Flam and Flapheth and their smokin’ hot slams.  They again the thing that they were already on along with every not dead (but sometimes dead but not really because they were on a boat). And then Flapheth said’eth to Floah,”dude we are already here.”  And then from then he put every non dead aminal (alive things(named things)) ¹²that was already here.  Every writhing festering flab of a parscrout, every dirt granule coated fleeblewart and every flying dude bird thing with the wings that fly and all those other dudes that totally breathe air with their chest vacuums, those that entered the place that they ¹³were already in had parts and less parts just as FLROB said that one time.

This being of swimming dudes that can't breath airs. so only some of them was be bring onto float boat.

Then the FLORB totally shut the door on him and¹⁴ locked up the bitch.  The flood (uh, what was it, uhhh, OH! Uuh, liquid coatings) was like really REALLY deep on Florbulios for like a whole ton of cube spins.  As walters raise, they in turn make float boat the cardboard pizza box boat and make float it above the dirt granules.  The liquid features like totally ¹⁵and almost all of the everys maximum overfeel Florbulios and the float boat was do just that.  On top of liquid features,  the liquid ¹⁶features totally and completely and really cover Florbulios so that even all tippy top rocks under entire airs was cover asswell.

Wet things go high more than a lot of high above giant¹⁷ (extremely big) mounds and heaps of Florbulion granules.  And all live things that were not of yet to be die that moved on Florbulios was die much including living aircraft, aminals of which that roamed and graized and definitely roamed all the Florbulious creatures and things that did their things on Florbuilous ¹⁸and all Florbulions too were of be die (also).  Everything that was a thing on dry dirt granules that have use of Florbulion gas¹⁹ properties in its nose squares for of breathing.  So yes the FLORB art thou destroy’eth every alive thing still again that were also still of being alive yet again.  Anything that do exist on dirt granules much to include Florbulions, named things, not die²⁰ things (yet) that scoot along the dirt granules and living airplanes.  They were much kill.  Floah, his main squeeze, and his not so small babbys were around him “but none inside” him and were in the top ²¹of water station.  The liquid uhh, features remodeled Florbulion for a few quadzillion cube spins (at least 4 years).

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Off Topic / Florb study group

« on: January 17, 2015, 11:50:18 PM »

here place is to post your favorite or not so favorite or very favorite passages and verses and passage.

I always loved flobos chapter 2 verse 4: and so he'eth drank from man. it was good

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Off Topic / Bones' astrophotography endeavors (latest photos pg. 7 - 2015/01/31)

« on: November 28, 2014, 03:08:44 PM »

Newest photo


I thought about posting this in creativity, but this post will be a broader area than that. This is a lot to read, but still very condensed. Anyway...

My love for space started in 1995. I was 5 years old and had just watched Apollo 13 when it was first released on VHS. It blew my mind. Before then, I had no idea there was really anything outside of our planet and the moon was just a sky decoration for me. That night, I took my child size recliner, tipped it over backwards, and built a cardboard roosterpit. In the years following, I would check out every book about space (within my level) from the school library and learn as much as I could.

My interests branched out to the Mercury program, Gemini program, and the space shuttle program. This kept my busy until my dad bought an Orion Short tube 80 refractor telescope. I didn't know anything about light pollution at the time and had trouble finding anything but the moon, but it still kept me amazed. This is around the same time that I began playing with my parent's camera. I would hold it to the eyepiece and take photos of the moon. They were terrible photos, but I took them. That's what mattered.




Fast forward a few years and I'm in my mid to late teens. I end up playing around with my parent's (now updated) camera again. It's a Canon point-n-shoot. I don't remember much about it, but it kept me busy for a few solid weeks. I would take pictures of whatever I saw as I would walk around my street. This started to form the base for my future photography.



From my late teens to my early 20's, I didn't do anything with photography, but did a lot of random studying about gravity and orbital mechanics. I got wrapped up in Orbiter and learned a bit more about the space shuttle. This is around when I started skydiving because it was the closest I could get to feeling weightless...  a feeling I craved. The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn.



Then I joined the Air Force at 22. I didn't do much in the way of studying space/physics and had no camera. After a year of service, I got stationed in North Dakota, where I am currently.  After 6 months of being here, winter rolled around. I was on my way back from town with two friends of mine and we began talking about hearing that the aurora borealis were supposed to be visible. We drove a few miles off the highway and there they were. I'd never lived far enough north to see them so this was incredible to me. I tried taking a picture with my phone (not easy when it's -40 Fahrenheit) but there was no way to capture it. They all came out black. Luckily my friend keeps a point-n-shoot in the car, but even with that all you could see was a faint, green smudge. Better than nothing. That's when I decided I wanted to buy a real camera and learn to use it.



After a few months of researching, learning, and shopping, I bought a used Nikon D7000 with a kit lens. I loved it. I used it constantly and learned a lot for about 8 months. I got pretty good with it and got a few paying gigs for couple's shoots. Then I got the itch to upgrade to a full frame camera. I sold my D7000 and bought a used D600. Again, I loved it. The ability to shoot in low light with a high ISO (camera sensor light sensitivity) and low noise (grain) was and is amazing. I continued to improve my work and ended up with a few more paid shoots.



That brings me to the partial solar eclipse on Oct. 23, 2014. I had my D600 and a 70-300mm lens, but I'd never tried to shoot anything that bright. I had my camera with me (like I always do) while in town with friends. On the drive home we noticed (with sunglasses) the eclipse happening. I slapped on the 70-300 at 300mm, raised my shutter speed to 1/4000 of a second, lowered my ISO down to 50, and closed my aperture (opening for light in a lens) all the way to f/40. I snapped a shot. Horribly over exposed. I asked my two friend if I could use their sunglasses. I held both pair stacked in front of the lens, and boom. Eclipse and visible sunspots. It felt amazing and I went out the next day to take another. I didn't it know at the time, but I captured the largest sunspot in the last 24 years.




I started researching how to take pictures of other extra-terrestrial things and found out that most celestial bodies are actually pretty large in the sky, but too dim to be seen. You can capture them by having a long camera exposure, but this becomes a problem due to the earth spinning. You can only expose for so long before the stars (or whatever you're looking at) begin to trail or "smear" across your image. With a 300mm lens, I can only expose for 1.6 seconds before I get star trails. You can shoot with a higher ISO (brightening your image), but that increases noise in the image. That's when I learned about image stacking. Software can take multiple images of the same subject, align them, and stack them together. Long story short, this ends up eliminating a lot of the noise. You then export and edit in post processing.

I went out my first night (following light pollution maps) and found a dark spot about 20 miles off base. It was cold, so I didn't stay long. I tried to find the Andromeda galaxy, but couldn't. I ended up taking a wide angle shot of the milky way. On the drive back to base I saw the Orion constellation coming over the horizon. I pulled off the road and tried taking a photo of Orion's belt. I looked at the image and noticed a small purple smudge to the bottom right of the belt. I zoomed in and realized it was the Orion Nebula. Like the moon before, it was a stuffty photo, but it felt amazing to take it. I took a few more, went home, and stacked them.



I went out for a second try a few weeks later after taking into account some of my mistakes from the first time. I took nearly 500 exposures (along with 40 dark frames, 20 bias frames, and 10 flat frames. Google these if you care what they are). The result was much better, but I still crave more. The magnification is enough, but I need to make it brighter...  expose longer. I need a motorized German equatorial tracking mount.





These mounts are like standard equatorial telescope mounts, but are motorized and have an onboard computer. When aligned, they can automatically find celestial objects and track them as they move across the sky (cancelling out Earth's rotation). This will allow me to expose for minutes at a time instead of seconds. I ordered mine yesterday and it should be here next week. I'll be using the Orion ST80 soon until I can buy a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. I'll then add an autoguiding system and use the ST80 as my guidecope.

I'm obviously VERY early along in astrophotography, so this will be updated as I progress. Also, some of my general photography can be seen here.. It's a bit outdated. I'll update it soon.

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Creativity / Bones' astrophotography adventures

« on: November 20, 2014, 02:48:49 AM »

I'm very new to this, but you gotta start somewhere. Also, all images have had quality stuff on with upload for some reason.

Show in order of shooting. I'll update this thread tomorrow with information on how they were shot.



Sun with largest sunspot in the last 24 years


First try at the Orion nebula


stuffty milky way shot


Last try of Orion nebula

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Off Topic / portable jelly beans

« on: October 22, 2014, 08:21:28 PM »

you would be able to take them places, unlike your ordinary jelly beans. Jelly beans for people on the go. Tired of being weighed down by normal belly jeans, get the new portable ones

much better