April 16, 201213 yr Stop doing so much cardio with all that bike riding and hit weights instead. What are you, 120 pounds?!
April 16, 201213 yr Stable at 135 lb. During the summer, I'll be around 130 lb., and in the winter, around 140 lb.
April 16, 201213 yr What in God's hell is THIS??!??! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 16, 201213 yr I don't see what the big deal is. I give myself breast exams in the mirror using the charts in the female bathrooms of creepy old abandoned hospitals all the time.
April 18, 201213 yr Oh sure, I came to UO for the project discussions. I stay for all of you lunatics.
April 23, 201213 yr LOL!!! Even in Canada do I deserve respect! ;) "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 23, 201213 yr I think the sign above his other shoulder is more indicative of what ColDayMan truly deserves.... OH SNAP! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 10, 201213 yr 1966 at Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida After finishing my obligation to Uncle Sam's Air Force I was on a road trip with a buddy who got out the same day I did. This photo is testimony to how respectable people presented themselves then, to illustrate how badly standards have slipped. Nowadays, people go on vacations looking like shipwreck survivors who've just been living on some forsaken island for months.
June 10, 201213 yr Great photo Rob! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 13, 201213 yr I am all for dressing presentable, but was it cold out that day? Except for the jacket, I dressed much like that today.
June 13, 201213 yr Rob, are you scanning photos or slides? Do you have to restore a lot of the color via photoshop? My father has hundreds, if not thousands of slides of pics he took over his years of photography, and I'm wondering how much effort it would take to scan them digitally. A lot of photos he has are of family members that aren't with us anymore (they moved to Florida! <rim shot>) and I'd like to have them to show the kids when they get older. Because kids love looking at old pictures of people they don't know.
June 13, 201213 yr Aww...I know that area very well....went to Flagler College in St A The walls were constructed of sea shells to make them impervious to canon fire!
June 13, 201213 yr I am all for dressing presentable, but was it cold out that day? Except for the jacket, I dressed much like that today. That was in mid-January, cool for a tourist from where it snows, probably really cold for the locals. Rob, are you scanning photos or slides? Do you have to restore a lot of the color via photoshop? My father has hundreds, if not thousands of slides of pics he took over his years of photography, and I'm wondering how much effort it would take to scan them digitally. A lot of photos he has are of family members that aren't with us anymore (they moved to Florida! <rim shot>) and I'd like to have them to show the kids when they get older. Because kids love looking at old pictures of people they don't know. That was a35mm Ektachrome slide; the Kodachromes are sharper. I scan film and slides with a Nikon LS-9000 scanner. I use Hamrick Software's Vue Scan because Nikon's scanner software won't run under 64-bit Windows 7. The software has the same automatic color correction and dust/scratch removal features as the Nikon software and is more intuitive to use, anyway. For the most part, the only correction I've employed is what the scanner software can do automatically, and Photoshop's Auto Tone and Auto Color. Kodachrome slides 40-50 years old usually still have fairly good color unless they've been stored hot and/or damp. Vue Scan works with almost every scanner out there, and it's better and more intuitive to use than most proprietary scanner driver/software packages
June 19, 201212 yr Today was my first day back to work from vacation since June 8. I REALLY did not want to go to work this morning. I think i will take the next two days off
June 19, 201212 yr Today was my first day back to work from vacation since June 8. I REALLY did not want to go to work this morning. I think i will take the next two days off OK Tim Burton, Jr.
June 19, 201212 yr Damn, dude. The last thing I want pointed at me in the morning following a vacation is a friggin' camera! And great photo, Rob! I too miss how well people used to dress. People today are slobs -- says the guy in sweatpants typing away at his computer in his overly air-conditioned condo! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 21, 201212 yr 1966 at Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida After finishing my obligation to Uncle Sam's Air Force I was on a road trip with a buddy who got out the same day I did. This photo is testimony to how respectable people presented themselves then, to illustrate how badly standards have slipped. Nowadays, people go on vacations looking like shipwreck survivors who've just been living on some forsaken island for months. What's interesting about this is people today always try to look like they're on their way to the beach (3 seasons a year, anyway). Thing is, you were at the beach. If you took someone from 1995 even and plopped them down on the street today that's the first question they'd ask -- "Is it Memorial Day weekend?"
June 21, 201212 yr Funerals are among the few occasions when our whole extended family is together, so we take group photos after the service. After Mom's funeral last year, I got everyone gathered under the portico of the funeral home for the traditional shot of thirty or so people. Everyone was dressed respectably except for my niece's four boys, ages 18 down through about 12. The oldest wore slacks and a polo shirt, good enough, I guess, but the other three wore tired-looking logo tees, frayed cutoff shorts, and sandals. Her three girls all were dressed nicely, and my niece and her husband were dressed nicely enough considering the hot weather. Of all Mom's children and grandchildren, that family is the most well-off, very religious and just a bit on the condescendingly nice side.
June 27, 201212 yr Late to the party, but here nonetheless. :wave: At the Christmas Story House. I had had 2 surgeries a couple weeks earlier so not only was I feeling it, I was so hopped up on pain killers people around me were tasating the opiatic buzz... but this place was still a blast. It was the first time we'd gone. I loved it. I'm a terrible "poser" as I'd prefer to be taking the photos, not really starring in them. In the real recent past I've lost all the piercings. Ah yes, time to be a grown-up!
June 27, 201212 yr :lol: For the uninitiated, what is the Christmas House? Never mind, got it, it's from that movie. (Which I've never seen!)
June 27, 201212 yr :lol: For the uninitiated, what is the Christmas House? Never mind, got it, it's from that movie. (Which I've never seen!) For the love of christ................... www.achristmasstoryhouse.com
June 27, 201212 yr 1966 at Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida After finishing my obligation to Uncle Sam's Air Force I was on a road trip with a buddy who got out the same day I did. This photo is testimony to how respectable people presented themselves then, to illustrate how badly standards have slipped. Nowadays, people go on vacations looking like shipwreck survivors who've just been living on some forsaken island for months. My father, a hipster: http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2012/05/24/my-father-the-hipster-a-contest/
June 28, 201212 yr Sometimes I wonder if manufacturers even MADE sloppy clothing before 1950. It's strange to think that ready-made clothing was hardly available at all before the American Civil War. Back then, women made clothes at home, and few women had jobs outside the home. Wikipedia says that the T-shirt in America became popular during or after the Spanish-American War, when they were issued by the U.S. Navy. While manufacturers try to produce what the market will buy, at the same time, users will only buy what's available.
June 28, 201212 yr Sometimes I wonder if manufacturers even MADE sloppy clothing before 1950. It's strange to think that ready-made clothing was hardly available at all before the American Civil War. Back then, women made clothes at home, and few women had jobs outside the home. Wikipedia says that the T-shirt in America became popular during or after the Spanish-American War, when they were issued by the U.S. Navy. While manufacturers try to produce what the market will buy, at the same time, users will only buy what's available. By my recollection, the deliberately-dissheveled look arose as part of the anti-war, anti-establishment, draft-resistance movement that gained momentum in the mid- to late-1960s. At first, most of the clothing (ripped jeans, etc.) was created by peole mutilating clothes they already owned or could find in a thrift store, and it didn't take very long for the marketing folks to wise up to the opportunity. By the early seventies, much of the establishment public had come to associate style elements like facial hair with anti-patriotism and America-hating. I remember a lunchtime conversation at work (General Electric), in which a department manager asked if he could fire an employee because he had a beard. He acknowledged that the employee was diligent and proficient in his job performance, but he interpreted the employee's beard as a sign of disloyalty to God, Country, and The Flag. I grew a moustache and got incredible amounts of flak from upper-level managers because of it. I didn't shave it, and I wasn't threatened with dismissal nor did it appear on my performance appraisals, but at every meeting I was the target of snide, insulting remarks. The Beatles' hair received as much denunciation from older folks as had Evis's "obscene hip-gyrating" peformances ten years earlier.
July 24, 201212 yr Sometimes I wonder if manufacturers even MADE sloppy clothing before 1950. It's strange to think that ready-made clothing was hardly available at all before the American Civil War. Back then, women made clothes at home, and few women had jobs outside the home. Wikipedia says that the T-shirt in America became popular during or after the Spanish-American War, when they were issued by the U.S. Navy. While manufacturers try to produce what the market will buy, at the same time, users will only buy what's available. By my recollection, the deliberately-dissheveled look arose as part of the anti-war, anti-establishment, draft-resistance movement that gained momentum in the mid- to late-1960s. At first, most of the clothing (ripped jeans, etc.) was created by peole mutilating clothes they already owned or could find in a thrift store, and it didn't take very long for the marketing folks to wise up to the opportunity. By the early seventies, much of the establishment public had come to associate style elements like facial hair with anti-patriotism and America-hating. I remember a lunchtime conversation at work (General Electric), in which a department manager asked if he could fire an employee because he had a beard. He acknowledged that the employee was diligent and proficient in his job performance, but he interpreted the employee's beard as a sign of disloyalty to God, Country, and The Flag. I grew a moustache and got incredible amounts of flak from upper-level managers because of it. I didn't shave it, and I wasn't threatened with dismissal nor did it appear on my performance appraisals, but at every meeting I was the target of snide, insulting remarks. The Beatles' hair received as much denunciation from older folks as had Evis's "obscene hip-gyrating" peformances ten years earlier. Amazing how people today can just show up at work looking like whatever. Even if the company has some sort of work casual dress code and you come in below that, HR or the higher ups usually just don't say anything about it to avoid friction. We have a simple rule at our office....no clothing with Text. It's too distracting. But people occasionally violated by wearing jerseys or college themed shirts before the weekend which normally got a passcard.
July 24, 201212 yr Sometimes I wonder if manufacturers even MADE sloppy clothing before 1950. It's strange to think that ready-made clothing was hardly available at all before the American Civil War. Back then, women made clothes at home, and few women had jobs outside the home. Wikipedia says that the T-shirt in America became popular during or after the Spanish-American War, when they were issued by the U.S. Navy. While manufacturers try to produce what the market will buy, at the same time, users will only buy what's available. By my recollection, the deliberately-dissheveled look arose as part of the anti-war, anti-establishment, draft-resistance movement that gained momentum in the mid- to late-1960s. At first, most of the clothing (ripped jeans, etc.) was created by peole mutilating clothes they already owned or could find in a thrift store, and it didn't take very long for the marketing folks to wise up to the opportunity. By the early seventies, much of the establishment public had come to associate style elements like facial hair with anti-patriotism and America-hating. I remember a lunchtime conversation at work (General Electric), in which a department manager asked if he could fire an employee because he had a beard. He acknowledged that the employee was diligent and proficient in his job performance, but he interpreted the employee's beard as a sign of disloyalty to God, Country, and The Flag. I grew a moustache and got incredible amounts of flak from upper-level managers because of it. I didn't shave it, and I wasn't threatened with dismissal nor did it appear on my performance appraisals, but at every meeting I was the target of snide, insulting remarks. The Beatles' hair received as much denunciation from older folks as had Evis's "obscene hip-gyrating" peformances ten years earlier. Amazing how people today can just show up at work looking like whatever. Even if the company has some sort of work casual dress code and you come in below that, HR or the higher ups usually just don't say anything about it to avoid friction. We have a simple rule at our office....no clothing with Text. It's too distracting. But people occasionally violated by wearing jerseys or college themed shirts before the weekend which normally got a passcard. Not in my office!
July 24, 201212 yr Amazing how people today can just show up at work looking like whatever. Even if the company has some sort of work casual dress code and you come in below that, HR or the higher ups usually just don't say anything about it to avoid friction. We have a simple rule at our office....no clothing with Text. It's too distracting. But people occasionally violated by wearing jerseys or college themed shirts before the weekend which normally got a passcard. From my experience, dress codes are always violated a little bit. If a workplace has a strict dress code, people will follow it most of the time but push their luck a little bit till they get called on it. If a workplace has a really relaxed dress code, people will relax and generally follow it, but eventually push their luck a bit.
July 25, 201212 yr Amazing how people today can just show up at work looking like whatever. Even if the company has some sort of work casual dress code and you come in below that, HR or the higher ups usually just don't say anything about it to avoid friction. We have a simple rule at our office....no clothing with Text. It's too distracting. But people occasionally violated by wearing jerseys or college themed shirts before the weekend which normally got a passcard. From my experience, dress codes are always violated a little bit. If a workplace has a strict dress code, people will follow it most of the time but push their luck a little bit till they get called on it. If a workplace has a really relaxed dress code, people will relax and generally follow it, but eventually push their luck a bit. Not in my office!
July 28, 201212 yr Amazing how people today can just show up at work looking like whatever. Even if the company has some sort of work casual dress code and you come in below that, HR or the higher ups usually just don't say anything about it to avoid friction. We have a simple rule at our office....no clothing with Text. It's too distracting. But people occasionally violated by wearing jerseys or college themed shirts before the weekend which normally got a passcard. From my experience, dress codes are always violated a little bit. If a workplace has a strict dress code, people will follow it most of the time but push their luck a little bit till they get called on it. If a workplace has a really relaxed dress code, people will relax and generally follow it, but eventually push their luck a bit. Not in my office! I had a fail thursday, but patched it up quickly. I was supposed to do laundry thurs night. Fell asleep at 8:00 pm for a 20 min nap and woke up at 8:00 am. Just enough time to shower, dress fast, and get to work. Clothes were all piled up and I refuse to wear unwashed clothes to work. I put on a Run DMC shirt and put a fedora hat to be deliberate. HR had plenty of opportunities but said nothing. I think even they've forgotten the rules, or they just said screw them after the fitness room was mistakingly placed too close to the executive conference rooms. The other piece of good news was most of the day I was just out doing construction inspections at various projects. I took a few of these as well:
August 8, 201212 yr ^Chicago is such an ugly place! LOL J/K. What kind of company do you work for? Construction Management?
August 25, 201212 yr ^Chicago is such an ugly place! LOL J/K. What kind of company do you work for? Construction Management? the kids grow up so fast.
August 30, 201212 yr ^Chicago is such an ugly place! LOL J/K. What kind of company do you work for? Construction Management? Architecture. Legally I cant say "architect". At least not yet
September 17, 201212 yr Looking good Rob. And your zinnias are always amazing! (do you grow them from seed?(I believe the giants you typically have to))
September 17, 201212 yr Yep, zinnias are direct-planted, usually after mid-May. In four or five days the first shoots appear, and they they grow like gangbusters. This year a storm at the end of June dropped a tree across my back porch and patio and damaged or destroyed a lot of stuff; I didn't get the results I hoped for on my patio, but I guess i'm fortunate to have gotten what I got. This year I bought my zinnia seeds from Park Seed ( www.parkseed.com ). In past years I've gotten higher germination rates and more robust growth with seeds from Olds and Ferry-Morse. Look for California Giant Zinnias. Watch out for powdery mildew; zinnias are extremely susceptible, and you'll see a white powdery dust-like formation on the leaves. Spectracide Immunox stops it, but it's best to prevent it by spraying as soon as there are a few adult leaves, and continuing about once a month throughout the summer.
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