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benjoshua
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:39 pm

SoulCatcher78 wrote:It's just not a good week to be famous. Makes you wonder if it comes in 3s or not.

Or more?

Michael Jackson
Farrah Fawcett
Ed McMahon
Billy Mays
Gale Storm is now dead. Born April 5, 1922. Best known as one of televisions earliest, biggest stars on My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show(whatever that is).

There's a web-site that keeps up with dead celebrities. :roll:

http://www.dead-celeb.com/index.php?opt ... &Itemid=26

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:39 am

Wish I was in southern England right now instead of north Texas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8122969.stm

Ninety degrees F? And they are issuing heat warnings? I thought I was going to melt on Sunday....it got up to 104 F where I was at and I just happened to be outside during the hottest part of the afternoon. Wouldnt have been all that bad but the 85% humidity made it more miserable than it already was.

At least there were no zombies.

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:00 am

Where I live in Atlantic Canada it is 16 C (61 F) and raining with 96% humidity.
The highest temperature predicted all week is 24 C (75 F) with rain for the next seven days.

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Badmike
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:52 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:Wish I was in southern England right now instead of north Texas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8122969.stm

Ninety degrees F? And they are issuing heat warnings? I thought I was going to melt on Sunday....it got up to 104 F where I was at and I just happened to be outside during the hottest part of the afternoon. Wouldnt have been all that bad but the 85% humidity made it more miserable than it already was.

At least there were no zombies.

I saw zombies, but shotgun fire scattered them before they reached the houses....

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:07 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:Wish I was in southern England right now instead of north Texas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8122969.stm

Ninety degrees F? And they are issuing heat warnings? I thought I was going to melt on Sunday....it got up to 104 F where I was at and I just happened to be outside during the hottest part of the afternoon. Wouldnt have been all that bad but the 85% humidity made it more miserable than it already was.

At least there were no zombies.

Yes, it is very nice indeedy here, although we are not used to much over 75/80 on a regular basis. Oh, and I am "working from home" today as well, just popped out to water my azaleas. [insert 'smug bastard' emoticon here] :lol:

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ashmire13
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:35 pm

red_bus wrote:
Yes, it is very nice indeedy here, although we are not used to much over 75/80 on a regular basis. Oh, and I am "working from home" today as well, just popped out to water my azaleas. [insert 'smug bastard' emoticon here]

I'm down this neck of the woods too and permanently work from home! I love the summer..!! :lol:

Although without home A/C it does get a little 'sticky', shall we say...

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mbassoc2003
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:19 pm

OT.....

Anyone have any experience having things made out of rubber?
I need to have a small rubber gasket made, about 28mm diameter, 8mm thick with a little depression in it. Black rubber like car tyre rubber, vulcanised I think it's called.

Anyways, I need to gat about 500 of them and I can provide design and 3D modelling in CAD for it, but I have no idea how to get something like this prototyped and then manufactured.

Ideally looking for a small one man band type business, and I figured if some guys here have experience in manufacturing, and maybe some guys know about making molds for miniatures, I might get some pointers or a contact that way.

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:24 pm

These guys are in the UK, Ian.. might be worth contacting

http://www.whitby-chandler.co.uk/page435.asp

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:53 pm

ashmire13 wrote:
I'm down this neck of the woods too and permanently work from home! I love the summer..!!

Lucky you

Tomorrow I have to go into the office, which means a 45 minute journey each way on the northern line (very hot and sticky) :roll:

For those not familiar...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_line

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ashmire13
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:18 pm

red_bus wrote:
Lucky you Tomorrow I have to go into the office, which means a 45 minute journey each way on the northern line (very hot and sticky)

For those not familiar...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_line

Not so lucky you...

And for once 'leaves on the line' won't work there! :lol:

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:31 pm

Hiya,

we have a portable air-conditioning unit for our bedroom. Worth its weight in gold. I set it up today, after putting it away for the winter.

What our American cousins forget is that they have air-con in lots of places as standard - we don't

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:47 pm

red_bus wrote:
Yes, it is very nice indeedy here, although we are not used to much over 75/80 on a regular basis. Oh, and I am "working from home" today as well, just popped out to water my azaleas. [insert 'smug bastard' emoticon here]

its been pretty hot here the last few days...today the weather was lingering on 88-90F and the humidity level was quite high too. so there i was sat there at about 11am thinking perfectamundo....training weather

so on went the gear, all black clothing and my backpack, just over 15lbs in weight and went and did an hour...gee did i sweat and then some. it really was hot.

Al

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:20 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:
At least there were no zombies.

That's the main problem with weather in the Pacific Northwest...

We have mild winters and moderate summers, but all of the military activity makes the zombie problem a real bother.

In King County, they're even allowed to vote!

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:22 am

Speaking of zombies....anyone in the U.K. make it to the Glastonbury Festival? Looks like quite the gathering.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... .html?fark

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:31 am

A show of hands for those of us who plan to lose a finger this weekend? Perhaps some skorched eyebrows? Maybe someone will hear something like this: Bob bring me another beer while I figure out why this M80 did not go off?

Luckily I do not have to buy fireworks myself, as I live in a neighborhood with a lot of houses that are what I refer to as "starter houses for families that have more than 20 members." These folks do not have a lot of money but they somehow find a way to have lots of beer and fireworks. My housing addition will be rocking, drunk, and exploding this weekend. I'm not joking about this either. In my housing addition each street competes with the others for loudness and ferocity of fireworks. My dog will be a psycho case this weekend.

Martin

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:37 am

Ahh... the traditional mud-fest that is Glastonbury, the biggest music festival in the world.

Bit old for that now

Made it to Live 8 to see the Floyd and the Who a coupla years ago, but I think a trip to Glasto now would finish me off

Watched Springsteen on tv live on Saturday nite tho.

Cheers,
Malc

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:41 am

I no longer live in a state that allows fireworks. Stupid wusses. Next year, I am invading Pennsylvania and smuggling them where they will do some good.

Those who can, don't. Those who should not, do.

Kingofpain89
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:46 am

Prufrock wrote:Bob bring me another beer while I figure out why this M80 did not go off?

Ah now that brings back memories. Even though M-80's are illegal in the U.S. my dad got his hands on a box of them about thirty years ago. We went to a fireworks festival at a nearby lake and while everyone else was shooting off bottle rockets and roman candles, he decides to toss an M-80 in the lake (waterproof). After about 10 seconds there was a big "WHOMP" sound from the lake and an explosion of water that shot up about 20 feet in the air. It was hilarious watching hundreds of nearby people jump out of their socks all at the same time. :lol:

Unfortunately most of the fireworks displays around my neck of the woods are controlled. We can buy all the fireworks we want but can't light a single one of them within 30 miles of where we live due to restrictions.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

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