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General => Common Topic Symposium => Topic started by: Particle on April 24, 2003 08:51 pm CDT

Title: Storm Pictures!
Post by: Particle on April 24, 2003 08:51 pm CDT: Do you like pics of storms? I took 15 snaps of a storm today, and even though I missed the shots I wanted by about two minutes, they turned out to be good.

http://www.pcrpg.org/pics/storm (http://www.pcrpg.org/pics/storm)

Tell me what you think.
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Post by: Vorter_X_ on April 24, 2003 09:32 pm CDT: cool
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Post by: BladeFFXI on April 24, 2003 10:34 pm CDT: nice camera... what kind is it? those are some pretty good shots, no glare, not pixelated... very nice.
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Post by: Particle on April 24, 2003 10:42 pm CDT: The originals were 1600x1200, too.

It's an ancient camera--Polaroid PDC3000.
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Post by: Pecker on April 25, 2003 01:46 am CDT: Those were very cool pics.
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Post by: Particle on April 25, 2003 08:24 am CDT: I'm not really criticizing you, but you reminded me of a skit on Family Guy. That made me think about when they were in the police statement congratulating the dog for finding all the drugs (he was an official drug dog). There were three standing behind him and the first said something like "Hey! Good work!", the second "Wow, good job.", and the third added "Another generic compliment!"

That's one of my favorite scenes.
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Post by: Hack-N-Slash on April 25, 2003 08:31 am CDT: If I had a camera on me I would have shot photos of the 6 inches of hail my town got last sunday
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Post by: Pecker on April 25, 2003 01:01 pm CDT: Me a generic compliment?? :)
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Post by: Xanth on April 25, 2003 02:33 pm CDT: PECKER your just MEAN! :lol:
Hmmmm Very flat too!
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Post by: Newbie on April 25, 2003 03:28 pm CDT: I live near a large valley, and about a month ago we where bombarded with rain... I had some awesome pictures of the huge flood we had, there where like whole trees floating downstream.. me and meh friends even threw a portajohn in and watched it float downstream, rofl.. yeah anyways I reformatted recently and forgot to back them up
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 25, 2003 05:01 pm CDT: bleh... ive always wanted a flood.. so i could swim..

i loved the movie.. hard rain.. simply because .. well wouldnt it be cool.. to sit in a car and float down a main street?

just hope the .. electricity isn't on ... anywhere :P i ust to live on this old street.. and the street would kinda flood.. so it was awesome watching cars splash through it... i would have gone and played in the road.. litteraly.. but.. u know how parents are i was about 5 at the time lol
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Post by: Fusor on April 25, 2003 05:15 pm CDT: THe movie Perfect Storm was pretty cool because of all the water and stuff
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 25, 2003 05:27 pm CDT: Quote from: "Fusor"
THe movie Perfect Storm was pretty cool because of all the water and stuff

Methinks Fusor lives inland...
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Post by: Particle on April 25, 2003 05:27 pm CDT: Quote from: "Xanth"
PECKER your just MEAN! :lol:
Hmmmm Very flat too!

Are you talking about this picture for the nuclear silo?
(http://http://www.pcrpg.org/pics/storm/images/Storm%205.jpg)

As for being flat, yeah--that's just eastern Kansas for you.
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 25, 2003 05:29 pm CDT: Whoa... Particle's post was here when I hit "view your message"... Jeez...
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Post by: Fusor on April 25, 2003 06:41 pm CDT: Quote
Methinks Fusor lives inland...

I do
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Post by: Darwin on April 25, 2003 07:17 pm CDT: I thought it was funny when Brian the dog accidentally sniffed the cocaine and got hooked on it.
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Post by: Particle on April 25, 2003 08:11 pm CDT: That's the episode I was talking about.
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Post by: Newbie on April 25, 2003 08:18 pm CDT: lol.. we're having another long rain streak, we canceled "Spring Fling" at school due to the heavy rain...

If it keeps this up you can expect some flood pictures..
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Post by: eViL on April 26, 2003 12:25 am CDT: my dad was at michigan tech university the year that they got 400 inches of snow in 1 week... i wish i had pics of that.. lol.
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Post by: Newbie on April 26, 2003 12:52 am CDT: Quote from: "eViL"
my dad was at michigan tech university the year that they got 400 inches of snow in 1 week... i wish i had pics of that.. lol.

400 inches?!? Holy Crap.
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Post by: Sabby on April 26, 2003 01:12 am CDT: I like your car.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 26, 2003 03:03 am CDT: Quote from: "Xanth"
PECKER your just MEAN! :lol:
Hmmmm Very flat too!

That is one of those roof thingies that keeps the attic cool.

Those clouds remind me of when we get bad weather here in Texas.
Oh, and it is tornado season, so I hope to get you guys some pics of a good 'ol Texas tornado .

Oh, and another generic compliment on your car too.. hehe
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Post by: Particle on April 26, 2003 09:49 am CDT: Jason's right, it spins when the air's hot or blowing and helps ventilate the attic. That's the roof of the garage, mind you.

You can't deny the Kansas Tornado either. In fact, we had an F4 do some damage in downtown Parsons in 1999.
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Post by: UnderGod on April 26, 2003 12:09 pm CDT: Tornado... The only thing Ozzy are scared of... Because Ozzy doesn't blow like the tornado does.

I had a friend who used to live in Michigan (I think it was michigan). They had a f4 come through.. Needless to say he will be terrified of them for the rest of his life.

I am very facinated with Tornados, Lightning.. all those deadly things. Not because they are deadly, it is just facinating how they work.

I guess I am the type of person who would secure myself on the ground and let a tornado roll over me. Just to see what it is like on the inside.
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Post by: Particle on April 26, 2003 12:38 pm CDT: I was sitting outside in a fold-out lawn chair watching it.
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Post by: eViL on April 26, 2003 01:22 pm CDT: um.... crazy people....
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Post by: Pecker on April 26, 2003 01:49 pm CDT: Quote from: "eViL"
um.... crazy people.... :)
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Post by: Vorter_X_ on April 26, 2003 02:06 pm CDT: thats nothing on my way home from living in illinois the second time 2 tornadoes were "following" us... i know it seems strange but they were goin down the same street as us and they stopped at same gas station as us and knocked our U-Haul over then just dissipated
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Post by: Particle on April 26, 2003 02:13 pm CDT: Quote from: "eViL"
um.... crazy people....

Well, that was before the tornado touched down.
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Post by: eViL on April 26, 2003 02:40 pm CDT: ah, ok, i thought you ment you were like sitting in the lawn chair while it was goin on.. lol
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Post by: UnderGod on April 26, 2003 02:44 pm CDT: Just as fun... Just as long as you walk around in full plate armor with 10 layers of leather armor underneath.
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Post by: Particle on April 26, 2003 02:57 pm CDT: Screw the leather, wear 300 plies of kevlar.
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Post by: eViL on April 26, 2003 03:29 pm CDT: lol, heavy biatch. =D
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Post by: Particle on April 26, 2003 04:12 pm CDT: so's wearing 10 cows
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 26, 2003 06:19 pm CDT: lol

hmmmm i wonder... if full plate could withstand a stop sign traveling.. at over 100 miles.. im not sure of the wind speeds in a tornado...

i should have taken physics
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Post by: Particle on April 26, 2003 06:31 pm CDT: No.

It'd punch through like a nail and plastic wrap.
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 26, 2003 06:38 pm CDT: yeah i figured :twisted:
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Post by: Darwin on April 26, 2003 08:39 pm CDT: Well, if it was coming at it at its blunt side, i dont think it would do that much harm. If it came at you on its edged side, owie. I beleive a hard punch travels at that speed.

One of my father's friends was going to smash a brick against a mailbox when he was a teen. He stuck his hand out the car window ready to let the brick sail right into the mailbox, but he let go too late, and the hand smashed right into the mailbox -- with the brick in the hand -- while going around 70 mph.
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Post by: LastWish on April 26, 2003 10:25 pm CDT: =pain
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Post by: Xanth on April 28, 2003 10:33 am CDT: I also like storms of all kinds.
Did you see Toto in that last storm Particle?
I used to get up on my garage and sit in lawn chairs (the ones with 40' of aluminum in them) and watch lightning storms.
Brilliant eh?
Amazing how much courage a few beers will give you isnt it?
(http://http://www.sillylaughs.com/images/396.jpg)
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 01:35 pm CDT: Quote from: "Xanth"
Amazing how much courage a few beers will give you isnt it?

It's amazing how much stupidity it can give..
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 28, 2003 02:29 pm CDT: only if u can't handle.. your beer
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 02:41 pm CDT: Quote from: "xkenshinx"
only if u can't handle.. your beer

I was talking about Xanth, and his fun hobby of sitting in metal chairs during lightning storms.. I can handle my beers just fine, thank you.
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 28, 2003 02:47 pm CDT: yeah... im sure u can handle American beer... :roll:
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 02:55 pm CDT: Quote from: "xkenshinx"
yeah... im sure u can handle American beer... :roll:

..What do you consider American beer?
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Post by: Xanth on April 28, 2003 03:07 pm CDT: That was a long time ago. And Stupidity is right, i was to even be drinking 8)
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 28, 2003 03:09 pm CDT: hmmmm anything thats.. made in america.. and tastes like water
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Post by: BladeFFXI on April 28, 2003 03:26 pm CDT: ah, normal forum chatter. it seems i didnt miss out on much, seeing as how i pretty much picked up where i left off. however, the server was at a good size yesterday night, and this morning. lots of low levels, and one god (level 993) to help out. all we need now is some questers and we're good!
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 03:51 pm CDT: Quote from: "xkenshinx"
hmmmm anything thats.. made in america.. and tastes like water

Budweiser, Miller, Heineken, and Coors started off being brewed in Gemany.. but the Germans put beer manufacturing plants over here after WW2.

But I guess you're right, they are being made in America as of right now... so they are American.
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 28, 2003 04:40 pm CDT: His point is that American beer is weak...
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 28, 2003 05:10 pm CDT: How about we boycott Canadian beer? That way, their economy will hit the bottom and their country will be nothing so that Kenshin won't be able to put down anything American anymore.

I recieved a forwarded e-mail about this sort of thing. I'll forward it to anyone that wants to hear it.
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 28, 2003 05:12 pm CDT: Quote from: "Jason_Xero"
How about we boycott Canadian beer? That way, their economy will hit the bottom and their country will be nothing so that Kenshin won't be able to put down anything American anymore.

I recieved a forwarded e-mail about this sort of thing. I'll forward it to anyone that wants to hear it.

What, the whole of the Canadian economy rests solely on the beer-drinking population of PCRPG?

Oh, and he wasn't really "putting you down". Canadian beer is stronger. It's a fact. Period.
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 28, 2003 05:44 pm CDT: Aye.

lol

guess i hurt his... american pride... hit him where it hurts... his weak beer

:cry:

sowwie
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 07:30 pm CDT: If I wanted Candian beer that badly, I would get it..

Well, actually I'm underage and drink any beer I can get my hands onto (Except for Miller and a few others)

But anyways, what else do you Canadians take pride in besides beer..?

You always cut down Americans, but I rarely hear you boast about anything else (Except for Beer just now).
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 28, 2003 07:47 pm CDT: i cut down.. americans.. because it bugs ... well... americans...

and as far as Canada.. goes im not very patriotic...

but i would still rather live anywhere in Canada... except maybe Toronto... over living in america

why? do u realy need me to list... ide just be .... cuting down america some more :roll:
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 07:50 pm CDT: Yah missed meh point... I want to hear you or Silv say somthing good about your country without having to put down America..

I'm just curious why Canadians are so arrogant when it comes to talking about their country.
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 28, 2003 08:12 pm CDT: Quote from: "Newbie"
I'm just curious why Canadians are so arrogant when it comes to talking about their country.

Whoa, whoa... You think Canadians are arrogant about their country? Heh heh heh... Amusing... and ironic.
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Post by: Newbie on April 28, 2003 08:18 pm CDT: Ok.. I'm curious why some Canadians are arrogant when it comes to talking about their country..

And no, I'm not arrogant.. but I am patriotic.
(Though alot of the uneducated Americans have this mentality that Amercia is #1, and that we're far superior to other countries)
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 28, 2003 08:21 pm CDT: I'll give a short of summary of the average citizen's thought of his respective country.

Generic Canadian: Canada is good.
Generic American: America is better.
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Post by: Particle on April 28, 2003 10:04 pm CDT: No Canada vs. America fight, alright? Both rock, end of story.

Anyway, I have some more storm pictures from today--about 25 of them. I'm having a hard time getting them to turn out like they're supposed to look. The red hues in the clouds aren't showing up right.

I'll have them for us later.
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Post by: Darwin on April 29, 2003 12:26 am CDT: What about the part where canada is our attic?

Quote from: "xkenshinx"
guess i hurt his... american pride... hit him where it hurts... his weak beer

I hope your strong as hell beer kicks you in the gut. That'll teach you a lesson on why you dont need strong beer to have fun.

ITS TIME TO PARTY LETS PARTY PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 29, 2003 10:39 am CDT: errrr chunky... didn't u see particles post?
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Post by: Particle on April 29, 2003 05:22 pm CDT: Weak beer is a good thing in my opinion. You can party a lot longer w/o getting wasted, think of it that way.
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 05:43 pm CDT: Quote from: "Particle"
Weak beer is a good thing in my opinion. You can party a lot longer w/o getting wasted, think of it that way.

Yeah, but then you have to buy/waste too many beers to get you to that "fun" drunkeness level, lol.
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 05:44 pm CDT: Woohoo, a storm's a' brewin outside... I should have some pics to rival Particle's soon
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Post by: Darwin on April 29, 2003 05:57 pm CDT: Bah I was only kidding Kenshin. Gimme a hug. Wait, wash your hands first...

Oh, and a beer that has been drunk is not a wasted beer.
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Post by: xkenshinx on April 29, 2003 06:25 pm CDT: not that kind of guy... sorry :wink:
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 07:08 pm CDT: lol, you're so mean Ken... :oops:
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Post by: Darwin on April 29, 2003 07:32 pm CDT: You call those storm pics? Why, on the day before easter we had quite turbulent wind, and even hail. Size of golfballs. My neighbors have 4 jeeps they keep outside all the time, and the windsheilds are all cracked up.

When it storms here, the sky turns entirely black, and sometimes outside it looks dark as midnight even in the middle of the afternoon. Cool stuff to watch.
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 07:52 pm CDT: I was just surfing the forums, messing with my digital camera, and I heard some rain.. so I thought I'd take some pictures

Pshh, that's ^ probablly the most mild storm we've had the whole year.
I mean the sun's out while it's raining....

Oh how I wish I had my flood pictures, there was large scale flooding and it completely covered the large tractors near a construction area..

It was pretty neat, you could see the large tractors claw poking up out of the water.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 29, 2003 07:56 pm CDT: Here's one I took from my backyard.
(http://http://pages.sbcglobal.net/pellinghelli/Images/Picture%2021.jpg)
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 07:59 pm CDT: It looks peaceful down there ^
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 29, 2003 08:01 pm CDT: Heh, believe me, before spring is out, I'll have some goodens'
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Post by: Silvanoshei on April 29, 2003 08:02 pm CDT: *puffs out chest*

Oh yeah!? Well, the storms I have blow the roofs off of houses! And beachball sized hail! And 400 meters of snow and rain! Each! Hah!!

(Get the hint? Quit competing your storms. )
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Post by: Darwin on April 29, 2003 08:05 pm CDT: We get some of the craziest weather in memphis. The missisippi river really makes it tough sometimes. Also we barely get any snow, like maybe a couple inches, while other places N,S,E,&W of us get like 4-12 inches.

UGH, and when it rains during the summer, a day later the humidity is wayyy to high to try and do anything.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 29, 2003 08:06 pm CDT: Silv, I'm getting sick of all of your recent posts, they're mostly made out to be flame posts. If you don't have anything else better to talk about then you can go play your "Seiken Densetsu 3" and stop bothering us on the forums.
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Post by: Particle on April 29, 2003 08:08 pm CDT: I just like pictures of storms.
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 08:11 pm CDT: Woohoo, my user-friendly 386! A spectacle of graphics and sound =0
<img src = "http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL13/1067108/2002084/24376194.jpg">

You know you like that yellow turbo button
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 29, 2003 08:12 pm CDT: You're missin a keyboard.
Didn't know they were that "user friendly"
lol
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 08:15 pm CDT: Quote from: "Darwin"
We get some of the craziest weather in memphis. The missisippi river really makes it tough sometimes. Also we barely get any snow, like maybe a couple inches, while other places N,S,E,&W of us get like 4-12 inches.

UGH, and when it rains during the summer, a day later the humidity is wayyy to high to try and do anything.

That sounds almost exactly like Charlotte.

Quote from: "Jason_Xero"
You're missin a keyboard.
Didn't know they were that "user friendly"
lol

Heh, I don't use that computer.. it's just a novelty when friends come over. They're like "OMG, I wanna press the turbo button". I ganked the floppy drive outta there and put it in this one, it never had a CD drive, lol.
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Post by: Particle on April 29, 2003 08:15 pm CDT: I smell Strongbad!
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Post by: Newbie on April 29, 2003 08:18 pm CDT: Strongbad r0x0rs!
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Post by: Darwin on April 29, 2003 08:28 pm CDT: Once the scroll button come scrollin back scroll button come to ya like a heart attack!

I dont understand why manufacturers even decided to include a turbo button. I remember on my old 486, it had an led thing on the front, press the turbo and the number would go from like 22-44. Doom ran faster, I think. Hard to tell since I was already used to the bleep noises the comp made (had no sound card).
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Post by: Jason_Xero on April 29, 2003 08:34 pm CDT: Actually the "Turbo" made it run slower. I can't remember what exactly it does, but it makes the CPU slower.

I remember my 386 was so slow that when I played Wolf3d, I would know when there would be nazis in the next room because my hard drive light would load up. lol... the good ol' days.
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Post by: Particle on April 29, 2003 10:03 pm CDT: A lot of games were based on clock cycles and didn't run right with faster computers. Load up Descent 1 if you want to know what I'm talking about. Turbo made it run slower so the games would work correctly.
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Post by: Darwin on April 29, 2003 10:14 pm CDT: So that LED display was the actual clock speed at the time. Hmm, so Im guessing that MMX technology helped to keep it where the game would run at the right clock speed, right?
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Post by: Particle on April 29, 2003 10:53 pm CDT: No.
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Post by: Crash on May 2, 2003 08:55 pm CDT: Back to the original reason for this thread....

(http://http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL198/1087812/2045552/24559518.jpg)

w00t!!
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 2, 2003 08:57 pm CDT: You should have seen my place Wednesday, a big giant light-purple blob over the DFW area... soft-ball size hail, sheer winds, etc...
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Post by: Crash on May 2, 2003 08:59 pm CDT: That was last week here. WE had baseball sized hail, and I watched a tornado cross a busy highway.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 2, 2003 09:00 pm CDT: Ooowie, did you see any cars flying, etc?
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Post by: Crash on May 2, 2003 09:02 pm CDT: No, they decided to change camera shots.... D:
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Post by: BladeFFXI on May 2, 2003 09:23 pm CDT: whats worse.. living in california where nothing but earthquakes happen.. or living in florida where tornados rape the land and destroy lives.

*just noticed im a cocaine addict*
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Post by: eViL on May 2, 2003 09:24 pm CDT: neither, go live with particle in tornado ally. =)
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Post by: Vorter_X_ on May 2, 2003 09:50 pm CDT: just noticed im a Heroin Hero
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 2, 2003 10:32 pm CDT: Well Florida is part of the "tornado alley", although I don't see how... it's so far out there.
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Post by: UnderGod on May 2, 2003 11:22 pm CDT: Because of the high amount of tornados..

Though.. We don't worry much about tornados down here.. Hurricanes do much worse in this state, because Hurricanes spawn tornados.. Along with flash floods.
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Post by: eViL on May 2, 2003 11:49 pm CDT: i have never been within 25 miles of a tornado... have been in earthquakes.. but never a tornado or hurricane.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 2, 2003 11:55 pm CDT: The closest I've been to a tornado, or rather the tornado to my neighborhood, was about 5 miles.
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Post by: Vorter_X_ on May 3, 2003 03:57 pm CDT: 100th post hehe in this subject
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Post by: Particle on May 3, 2003 04:09 pm CDT: A tornado is NOT fun to be in or even around. Down evil Twister movie! Propaganda...
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 3, 2003 06:02 pm CDT: I know, it makes me feel so insecure because the house I live in is really old... and small. Same with lightning. I bet if lightning struck anywhere around my house, somehow, I would get hit by it because my house is so small. What reminds me of that is when it was about 4 days ago and we had some midnight thunderstorms just pop up on radar. All the sudden I start hearing thunder, then the lightning comes about 10 minutes later. I'm all fine and everything, when I notice I felt a little tingly feeling on the hairs on my leg. Then it wasn't more than a second later, KABAAM!! Lightning struck right outside and scared the bejesus out of me. And believe me, you know when lightning strikes beside you because it makes a weird kinda "fry" electrical sound. If you ever played Tribes 2 and listened to that sound, it sounds exactly like it, except 10x more creepy in real life.
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Post by: Newbie on May 3, 2003 06:58 pm CDT: Yeah, I know whatcha mean.. I had a tree right next to my house struck whith a big bolt, it fried the tree and launched the bark into my basement window and cracked it.
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Post by: Darwin on May 3, 2003 08:18 pm CDT: I live near Arkansas. Everytime a tornado rips through a trailer park, I feel like I want to slap myself on the forehead and mutter "stupid people"... Then I have to see some redneck chick with an underbite and a little hair on her face explain what went down.

I got a "nader" story. I was in Nashville visiting my relatives for the week. My uncle works in music and stuff, so he lives life to the fullest. One day a big storm came, and a tornado ripped through Downtown Nashville (thats something you dont hear everyday, a tornado moving through downtown), but it happened. He and I go outside to watch it. It looked like it was within a mile of us, and I was so freakin scared, but he started to film it, laughing. Then a table umbrella did a Mary Poppins on us and flew forward and hit him in the stomach. *sigh*, he wasnt laughing then.
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Post by: xkenshinx on May 3, 2003 08:28 pm CDT: well i am... thats jokes... reminds me of homer.. for some reason
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 3, 2003 08:41 pm CDT: We had a tornado go through downtown Fort Worth last year, the same storm that produced another tornado that was 5 miles from my house.
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Post by: Newbie on May 4, 2003 01:52 am CDT: Quote from: "Darwin"
Then a table umbrella did a Mary Poppins on us and flew forward and hit him in the stomach. *sigh*, he wasnt laughing then.

ROFL!! :lol:
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Post by: Darwin on May 5, 2003 08:04 pm CDT: Several storms just ravaged through the midwest and through my area. Hope particle is ok.

The tornadoes in my area struck Jackson, TN and Nashville, TN. I have family in both cities, but they are ok. One of them was like a mile away from a tornado, and had to spend an hour in a drainage ditch as the tornado passed.
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Post by: Particle on May 5, 2003 08:29 pm CDT: For once the storms missed us. They hit our neighbors to the east though (meaning Missouri) pretty hard. There's a lot of injuries and some unconfirmed fatalities.
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Post by: Darwin on May 5, 2003 09:16 pm CDT: I am looking outside at one of the most beutiful things I have ever seen. The sky to the west is COMPLETELY yellow. Think about it. Ever seen a yellow sky before? I need a digital camera NOW! Oh wait, since I started posting this, the entire sky is turning orange...

Dude. this is freakin awesome! Im gonna get up on my roof and watch this!
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Post by: Newbie on May 5, 2003 09:17 pm CDT: Quote from: "Darwin"
Dude. this is freakin awesome! Im gonna get up on my roof and watch this!

Don't get struck by lightning!

Here at NC, the sky has turned yellow a couple of times before severe weather.
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Post by: Darwin on May 5, 2003 11:17 pm CDT: This is right after severe weather. My 110 pound lab was shaking for a few hours after a lightening bolt landed in the middle of our backyard. It really freaked him out, but I dont think he got struck.

*edit*
That wasnt from today, but from about a month ago.
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Post by: Crash on May 5, 2003 11:20 pm CDT: Darwin, use a normal camera. Then, develop the pictures, get them on CD, and post.
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Post by: Darwin on May 5, 2003 11:25 pm CDT: Too late. That scene was a moment for photos. Too bad I left my netcam at home. I can get a megapixel on it.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 6, 2003 09:34 am CDT: The sky was yellow because it was full of piss...
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Post by: Darwin on May 6, 2003 07:13 pm CDT: That was the word I wanted to use to describe it. Piss-yellow.
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Post by: Vorter_X_ on May 6, 2003 11:52 pm CDT: piss yellow gross

Washington sux ass only once in a great while do we have thunder and lightning and once in 10 years do we get a twister and it dies after 30 min
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Post by: Particle on May 7, 2003 12:27 am CDT: Washington gets more rain every year than most.
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Post by: Vorter_X_ on May 7, 2003 01:18 am CDT: i said thunder and lightning
hell it rains 300 days out of the year here at least
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Post by: xkenshinx on May 7, 2003 01:35 am CDT: thats mad $hity... when it rains.. it usualy storms... which is cool
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Post by: Particle on May 7, 2003 06:37 pm CDT: That's what I was driving at. You have to understand that in Kansas, Storm equates to Rain and Rain equates to Storm. One's rarely without the other around here; sorry for the misconception.
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Post by: Newbie on May 12, 2003 08:02 pm CDT: I was going through my backup files, and I found these pictures of this past Winter's ice storm. It was purely ice, it downed 6 trees in my yard, and my power was out for almost a week.. also my family lives on a large hill, so we couldn't go anywhere for the first couple of days.
It was 100% pure ice, there was no snow at all.

<img src = "http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL13/1067108/2002084/25220313.jpg">

<img src = "http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL13/1067108/2002084/25220736.jpg">
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Post by: Darwin on May 12, 2003 08:12 pm CDT: Thats not as bad as the one we had in 1994. Think of a tree wrapped in saran wrap. That was how our ice storm was. The only utilities we had for two weeks were gas and water. No electricity since trees kept falling on the lines. Heh, and there was like an inch of ice covering the roads.
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Post by: Newbie on May 12, 2003 08:18 pm CDT: That picture was over four days after.. the ice was thick on the roads and on the trees, I just didn't get around to taking pictures til later.
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Post by: Darwin on May 12, 2003 08:28 pm CDT: Oh ok.
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Post by: Particle on May 12, 2003 11:22 pm CDT: Had an ice storm around here too, about 1-2 years ago. There was up to an inch of ice on stuff in places (typical was probably about 1/2" to 5/8").
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Post by: Darwin on May 17, 2003 12:57 am CDT: I am in a pretty big storm right now. I was watching the Matrix: Reloaded at a new theater when the sirens went off, and we all just thought it was part of the movie, for the first 15 minutes. My friends phone (on silent) was buzzing like crazy, and when he picked up, he was pretty quick to tell us we had to go.

Lots of funnels were over memphis.

In the car, we were hitting 80 on 40-50mph roads. When he made a turn in the jeep, we did really cool powerslides. In fact, we almost hit his mailbox while coming in.

Well, the sirens just quit going off. Darwin is left unscathed.

*MEANWHILE IN CANADA*

xKenshinx: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Post by: Hiiro Yui on May 17, 2003 06:27 am CDT: Man, you all got it bad. Here are weather never gets that bad. Actually if they see ice on the roads they close school down which is plus for me. That's what happen this winter and we were out for about a week 1/2. This is exactly why I'm moving somewhere where the snow does last that long and it's hot mostly year around. Like maybe Florida. California is just too expensive to live in.
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Post by: xkenshinx on May 17, 2003 06:45 am CDT: lmao

im realy pissing darwin off... this is hilarous

hes including me in almost every post of his...

and im in his sig!! im so honored
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Post by: Hiiro Yui on May 17, 2003 06:47 am CDT: Are you two related. You fight and argue like me and my brother. Taking blows at each other and seeing who can flame each other worst. I bet you two are.
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Post by: xkenshinx on May 17, 2003 06:51 am CDT: im his daddy

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Post by: Hiiro Yui on May 17, 2003 07:00 am CDT: Son and father lock in a battle of wits and war seeing who is the strongest. You know what that reminds me of? Starwars, Luke and DarthVader.
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Post by: Darwin on May 17, 2003 02:05 pm CDT: No, its all about the framerates and ping, Hirro.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on May 17, 2003 06:57 pm CDT: Lag = The Force
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Post by: Newbie on May 17, 2003 11:59 pm CDT: Lag = The Darkside