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DaFool · #76 Post by **DaFool** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:59 am

Thanks for the bump...

It's good to know there are humans on the net.

MalkMad · #77 Post by **MalkMad** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:50 pm

hmm

ok, here's me!
Unusually in white! ^^

lordcloudx · #78 Post by **lordcloudx** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:56 am

I posted this one in the art dumpage thread sometime ago. Might as well put it in here.

this was taken about a year ago.

Watercolorheart · #79 Post by **Watercolorheart** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:45 am

MalkMad wrote:ok, here's me!

Ahh! You are really cute!

What a handsome androgynous beauty ^_^; I also have a weakness for people in glasses ...

(sigh ... )

mikey · #80 Post by **mikey** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:48 pm

Here's me and Kathryn. But my hair is a bit shorter now. I look like this smiley here >>

Unfortunately in a week or so, it will reach 3 millimeters again...

And then 5, and then 7... but then I'm getting rid of it again

#81 Post by **Blue Lemma** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:25 pm

mikey: I would say you make a nice couple, but are you two in different pictures? ^_^;

MalkMad · #82 Post by **MalkMad** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:35 pm

"BCS" Ahh! You are really cute!

What a handsome androgynous beauty ^_^; I also have a weakness for people in glasses ...

(sigh ... )

Thank u, BCS!
Happy to know that androgynia is a good thing! ^_^

mugenjohncel · #83 Post by **mugenjohncel** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:33 am

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mikey · #84 Post by **mikey** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:27 am

Blue Lemma wrote:mikey: I would say you make a nice couple, but are you two in different pictures? ^_^;

They were taken in the same day at the same museum though - usually the ones that we make together turn out badly (you know, the self-portrait with the stretched-out hand). We should make use of that timed release switch sometimes. (Well of course we make a nice couple, excuse me... )

#85 Post by **PyTom** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:45 am

mikey wrote:They were taken in the same day at the same museum though - usually the ones that we make together turn out badly (you know, the self-portrait with the stretched-out hand).

This is why when I see a couple trying to take a picture like that, I will offer to take the picture for them. It only takes a second, gives them a good picture, and makes you feel good about yourself.

(And what goes around comes around... I once was in a group picture that a Canadian MP* offered to take of us.)

* Member of Parliament, not Military Police

mikey · #86 Post by **mikey** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:11 am

Exactly, I (and Kathryn even less) hate to actively bug people for this, and there are very few people who offer to take the picture themselves.

Hmmm, was that by any chance in Ottawa?... Actually I loved that city, it has that European style, reminded us a lot of Bratislava, roughly the same size, although a lot of the roads were still right-angled, but a really nice mix of cultural influences there. Well, it was all nice and romantic until I was asked for some pot by local teenagers in the park.

#87 Post by **PyTom** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:44 am

Hmmm, was that by any chance in Ottawa?... Actually I loved that city, it has that European style, reminded us a lot of Bratislava, roughly the same size, although a lot of the roads were still right-angled, but a really nice mix of cultural influences there. Well, it was all nice and romantic until I was asked for some pot by local teenagers in the park.

Indeed it was, right outside of Parliament itself. It struck me how laid back Ottawa was, compared to Washington, DC. When we wanted to go on a tour of Parliament, we got there at 5 at night, and got tickets for a 5:30 tour. (And I think that was just because we wanted to sit down for a bit first... IIRC, 5:15 tickets were available.) We saw many of the best rooms, and even got to go onto the floor of the Canadian Senate.

Compare this to the US Capitol tour I took the next week. They started handing out tickets at 9 am, and you had to be there an hour early to be sure you'll get one. The tour doesn't take you into any of the important rooms, either, just the Rotunda and Statuary Hall.

OTOH, Canada doesn't have statues of Jack Swigert, Philo T. Farnsworth, and Ike. So there's that.

(Bonus points to anyone who can identify who all three of those people are, without looking it up.)

Kelari · #88 Post by **Kelari** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:58 pm

I don't know who the other two are, but isn't Ike President Isenhower? (Forgive me if I spelled that wrong, Canadian here

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NetGenSuperstar · #89 Post by **NetGenSuperstar** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:43 pm

Canada doesn't have statues of Jack Swigert, Philo T. Farnsworth, and Ike....(Bonus points to anyone who can identify who all three of those people are, without looking it up.)

The only thing I can think of for Ike would be Kyle's adopted Canadian brother on South Park. Just throwing it out there.

#90 Post by **PyTom** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:15 pm

Ike is, of course, President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in the European theater of WWII. He is one of the few people to be offered the (US) Medal of Honor... and to refuse it, because he thought it should be reserved for valor, and not just leadership.

Jack Swigert was the command module pilot on the Apollo 13 mission.

Philo T. Farnsworth was the inventor of television. (And inspiration for Prof. Farnsworth in Futurama)

All have statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection, which contains two statues from each state in the USA. (Selected by the state governments, IIRC.)

Hooray for knowledge.

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