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Here's the photo of a real T rex skull. Also at that display.

At 2/21/11 09:04 AM, morefngdbs wrote: I went and visited this old girl here yesterday...she's up here visiting.... or at least a copy of her is here & the real head of another one along with a bunch of bones & teeth were here.
Very cool to see, sure helps put their size in prespective when your standing under it looking at that mouth !

In best Steve Irwin impression

Crikey! She looks like a beauty! Now, she could eat me whole with her big teeth of hers! Let's get closer!

AW! MY ARM! But look at those beautiful teeth!

Too soon?

At 2/21/11 05:56 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

Too soon?

Never.

I'd like to thank our local weather forecasters for accurately predicting the 2" of snow and 1" of ice...

Wait, no... we got 8" of snow...

damn...

Fuck weathermen... and fuck February. God, I hate this month.

At 2/21/11 11:10 PM, Ravariel wrote: I'd like to thank our local weather forecasters for accurately predicting the 2" of snow and 1" of ice...

Wait, no... we got 8" of snow...

damn...

Fuck weathermen... and fuck February. God, I hate this month.

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I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE being able to do that with my job.
We hand all the lifting points for a big show
We hit the go button on our motor control & all the motors trip out & nothing moves because the weight is more than our equipment can lift !

Can you imagine picking up an entire lighting grid for a major concert, not knowing what your doing ...& as it goes up, all of a sudden the roof supports collapse !
Or having flown the rig...we go to lift the speaker arrays & it just tears the I beams right out of the ceiling.

BUT THE VERY BEST PART , would be that nothing happens, we don't get fired, & we get to go into work the next day and try lifting something even bigger ~;)

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TO RYDIALOCKHEART.... I guess its official now 'eh .
Much happiness wishes to you & your hub unit to be.

At 2/24/11 07:53 PM, SevenSeize wrote: That's beautiful.

Not as beautiful as you. :-p

*cough* sucking up *cough*

Why is it Hulu has a 30 delay on some shows anyways? Are they trying to lose viewers?

At 2/24/11 07:53 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 2/21/11 09:07 AM, morefngdbs wrote: Here's the photo of a real T rex skull. Also at that display.

That's beautiful.

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I think so as well Seven.
We have a place about an hour & a half away from my home called Joggins, it is up on the Bay of Fundy (where the highest tides in the world rise & fall twice a day)
I've gone there many times & have picked up a few fossils. Its now a 'Heritage site' so they say you can no longer take any fossils you find. But if you find them & take them to the museum that is on top of the cliffs in one area, they almost always tell you , we have 1000's of those & you can then take them ~:)

I believe I posted some photo's here of my last visit in 2009. There are spots where almost complete prehistoric tree trunks are visible, leaves, footprints...the worlds smallest prints were once found here...I am unsure if they still hold the record, but a neat place to visit if you're ever up this way.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old, my folks took me on a trip to the Cumberland Science Museum (now the Adventure Science Center) in Nashville, and they had fossils from a T-Rex skeleton set up on display. I can remember standing next to the skull -- the fossils were just on display, they didn't have it constructed -- and remembering how massive it was... truly a sight to behold.

Back 100 years or so ago there weren't garbage dumps so people just threw their refuse into their back yards.

I found cow bones and old broken glass when my dad dug up the back yard to put an addition on the house.

At 2/25/11 09:47 PM, Malachy wrote: I found cow bones and old broken glass when my dad dug up the back yard to put an addition on the house.

The house I grew up in was originally a sharecropper's house that had been added onto one room at a time until it was a 1200 square foot home, but it had no actual foundation; it was just rough-cut oak lumber sitting in the mud. When we had the house jacked up off the ground to put a proper foundation underneath it, we found all sorts of trash underneath it like that; glass bottles and animal bones, mainly.

Somewhere my folks still have a couple of the old glass bottles we found. One was was a little glass bottle for makeup, if I remember right.

I still get a chuckle over that old house, though... my dad went insane trying to renovate the bathroom, because none of the walls were square. XD

I found the complete yet withered skull of an elk in my grandmas back yard when I was a wee tyke. I was actually looking for blueberries, but I found that bugger instead. I tried carrying it, but it was so withered it'd just crumble in my fingers.

So I just gave up and crushed the thing with my heel to the best of my ability instead. God forbid someone with a less fortified stomach lining than me would spot that kind of shit when looking for blueberries.

At 2/25/11 10:21 PM, Proteas wrote: I still get a chuckle over that old house, though... my dad went insane trying to renovate the bathroom, because none of the walls were square. XD

Heh. My dad is a carpenter and a bit of a perfectionist (not quite OCD, but close) so I have seen him do something very similar, lol.

At 2/25/11 10:21 PM, Proteas wrote: The house I grew up in was originally a sharecropper's house that had been added onto one room at a time until it was a 1200 square foot home, but it had no actual foundation; it was just rough-cut oak lumber sitting in the mud. When we had the house jacked up off the ground to put a proper foundation underneath it, we found all sorts of trash underneath it like that; glass bottles and animal bones, mainly.

yeah, it was mostly animal bones. The house I grew up in was built at the turn of the century and was originally built about 1/4 mile away from where it sits now. It was eventually rolled on logs to where it sits now (after a major Great Camp era hotel went away. I'm pretty sure my house and the old gas station/now fitness place were in the old footprint of the hotel). At some point an addition was put on it with a big front porch and palor with a bedroom above it. It never had a real basement/foundation, just a root cellar with big rocks probably from the nearby river as the foundation.

But when I was 10 or so dad built an addition where an old back porch used to sit so he had to lay a large cement slab to below the frost line and all, so we dug a big a hole right behind the back door. The house is also zoned as residential/commercial so it might have at one point been a butcher shop or had animals because of all the bones we found. It was really neat building an addition at that age, because I was old enough to remember it but not too old where I would have had to actually do real help with it and remember being pissed about it. He built big mud room with a full bathroom and above it he built me a bedroom (I had been sharing a room with my older brother until then) so I got some "say" in the design of my own room.

One of my most vivid memories was how the project took a long time (for a kid at least) so there was a winter where the mudroom had some plywood walls and the upstairs of it only had the frame and a roof made out of tarps. I remember shoveling snow off of the second floor and then jumping into the big pile of snow from the unfinished second story. (dad was not so happy about that lol)

I still get a chuckle over that old house, though... my dad went insane trying to renovate the bathroom, because none of the walls were square. XD

Over Christmas break my dad and brother put some tiles down in the mudroom bathroom on his addition (did I mention the project is still ongoing?) and even put some floor heating elements under them. It wasn't all that smooth because they didn't put self leveling quickset first in the bathroom so the tiles where the heating wires are under are just a bit higher than the others so you feel unlevel when walking and in the mudroom where they did put self leveling quickset, they didn't have quite enough so the wires made some tiles just barely higher than others. And then my dad cut the wires of the floor heating thing without remember which wire was for what.

I hit a pothole last night so hard that it tripped my fuel shutoff... y'know, that thing that keeps your car from going all hollywood kablooey when you get in a crash? Yeah...

Have I ever mentioned how much I love winter?

At 2/27/11 12:19 PM, Ravariel wrote: I hit a pothole last night so hard that it tripped my fuel shutoff... y'know, that thing that keeps your car from going all hollywood kablooey when you get in a crash? Yeah...

Have I ever mentioned how much I love winter?

I though we've had this conversation already: Why haven't you moved to California yet? Or, as our ex governor pronounced it, Candy-cornia.

Can't afford it without a job to move into, unfortunately. And though I have been looking, there's nothing to be had.

At 2/27/11 09:36 PM, Ravariel wrote: Can't afford it without a job to move into, unfortunately. And though I have been looking, there's nothing to be had.

its California, just put on some raggedy clothes, smoke a little pot, then apply for welfare. easy money... in theory.

And now we're having a thunderstorm.

At night.

In February.

...I give up.

Doctors are being a pain in the ass lately, prior to 3 years ago, I used to have to go have to Rochester, MN to get checked on for an endoscopy, then they decided to get it done closer to home here in Mankato, now the doctor who use to do it seems to of left and the new one for some reason is too scared to do an endoscopy on me, so they want to send me back to Rochester, a good 2 hour drive, and on top of all that they won't refill one of my pills, what the hell is going on.

At 2/28/11 01:12 PM, LordJaric wrote: Doctors are being a pain in the ass lately, prior to 3 years ago, I used to have to go have to Rochester, MN to get checked on for an endoscopy, then they decided to get it done closer to home here in Mankato, now the doctor who use to do it seems to of left and the new one for some reason is too scared to do an endoscopy on me, so they want to send me back to Rochester, a good 2 hour drive, and on top of all that they won't refill one of my pills, what the hell is going on.

Ew, that don't sound good. I hope everything works out for the best, because that's a bitch problem to have.

At 3/1/11 01:03 AM, BrianEtrius wrote: Ew, that don't sound good. I hope everything works out for the best, because that's a bitch problem to have.

Tell me about it, my preop will be later this month, which it will probably include a lot of test, then i will have to go back for the endoscopy in June. Even though the clinic here in Mankato is like a five or more minute drive away, the doctor is too scared to do it and wants me to go to the clinic in Rochester, seriously, what are they afraid of.

I found out today I'm bleeding into my stomach once again !
I had to go to the doctor's, then to a hospital, where because of some new bullshit savings plan where they don't 'double up' on testing.
I got blood work done at one hospital & had to go to another one for nuclear medicine.
But on the plus side...it didn't cost me anything .

At 3/2/11 05:13 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: What's "nuclear medicine?" That gives me weird mental images.

It's when doctors give you a radioactive isotope, and then take images of the organs the isotope effects. It helps to increase image clarity, I believe.

So... does that mean the people at the liquor store will have to lay somebody off, more? ;-D

At 3/2/11 05:33 PM, Proteas wrote: So... does that mean the people at the liquor store will have to lay somebody off, more? ;-D

I think it deals more with your stomach than your liver.

Liver let die!

Someone should invent some kind of synthetic tissue bandaid intended specifically to combat stomach ulcers/ digestive tract bleedings.

Not only would it be a cool way to show off the wonders of modern medicine, it'd be way cool to show off the wonders of modern medicine.

You'd have to take into account the naturally acidic environment of course, but that shouldn't be a problem if you could get the tissue to mimic natural stomach lining, i.e. to cover itself with mucus once in place... Of course, it'd probably be a good idea to keep the patient from eating anything and...

*shitthethingsiwoulddoifihadtheaccesstoa labandsomestemcellsmmmmmmmmmmmmm*

At 3/2/11 08:13 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: I think it deals more with your stomach than your liver.

Liver let die!

Yeah, but... didn't this happen before a while back? He had a stomach issue and couldn't drink for a few months, like about a year ago?

At 3/3/11 11:07 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 3/2/11 08:13 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: I think it deals more with your stomach than your liver.

Liver let die!

Yeah, but... didn't this happen before a while back? He had a stomach issue and couldn't drink for a few months, like about a year ago?

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Yes , it is my stomach again.
I loved yesterday's nurse who came in with gloves on, ,she opened a little box, used tweezers to remove a capsule, placed it in a little cup & told me "not to worry about the 'radioactive ingredient' & to swallow it !

My brain was going...if there's nothing to worry about...why won't you even touch it with gloves on ????
Like a good little drone , I swallowed the damn thing.

But yeah ,I've had this more than I care to remember. I believe this is my 4th or 5th time & once agian they believe it is caused by H pylori infection in my stomach . I'm anemic & still bleeding...the pain is quite sharp...almost like being stabbed, but unlike being stabbed, you can't get a few stitches & go have a beer !
I'm going to drink nothing but room temperature water for 3 months. No spicy food,no chocolate, no bacon , no tomato of any type(sauce or juice), no juices....he doesn't even want me drinking watered down apple juice this time . No dairy, coarse grains, no coffee or green tea... no beer ~:'(
I can't type anymore...the no beer has got me all broken up !

So what exactly can you have.

At 3/3/11 06:10 PM, LordJaric wrote: So what exactly can you have.

I was just wondering the same thing. It seems by that list that the room temperature water is the only thing that's left.