gdp's Comments

Atomic Toasters : May 28, 1906 - San Francisco in Ruins

Sat, 30 May 2015 18:18:43 +0000

As nifty as that picture is, the photographer who took it turns out to be quite an interesting read, a very inventive turn-of-the-century type with successes in buggy wheels, photography and balooning. That picture was taken with a 49 pound camera attached to a kite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Lawrence <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/The_giant_camera.jpg">

Atomic Toasters : Top Gun Day - Behind the Scenes (Visual Effects)

Fri, 15 May 2015 17:46:49 +0000

I have not, in fact, ever seen Top Gun; but the list of must-see movies I never saw even when movie theaters were cheap is long. I did work for The Mythbusters, though, and one of the nifty aspects of that job was working in Jamie Hyneman's shop. He was a special effects guy before there were Mythbusters, in the age of animatronics and model building, and his shop was a museum of projects from both Mythbusters and Jamie's previous career. One of them was a shot-up Tomcat being pursued up the wall by what I presume to be The Bad Guy's plane (MIG?) from the movie Top Gun. Other things included the proverbial Giant Peach, and some creepy Mugwumps from The Naked Lunch. (Let's see if I still have my image imbed on Intense Debate chops..) <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UEKAhunUXH0/VVYufgwP9uI/AAAAAAAADC4/HTWvt0BbICA/s512/blowup%252520006.jpg" width=500>

Atomic Toasters : May 9th, 1980 - Skyway Bridge Collapse

Sat, 9 May 2015 19:08:17 +0000

"No damned Sunshine, No damned Skyway." -Newton Hoenikker

Atomic Toasters : Unified Theory of Racing Maps

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:13:14 +0000

My infallible mentor Zogg From Betelgeuse informs me that the2-D virtual universe of Auto Racing was actually a torus, not a tube (cylinder). But that doesn't leave room for as good a joke. [youtube _k3_B9Eq7eM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k3_B9Eq7eM youtube]

Atomic Toasters : Home Movies, Now In Theaters

Sat, 4 Apr 2015 18:58:16 +0000

Easter! "Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb", The Pilgrim Travelers, early Lou Rawls band. [youtube _wl50o6m_pE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wl50o6m_pE youtube]

Atomic Toasters : Home Movies, Now In Theaters

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:01:20 +0000

Off Topic: Atomic-Toasters!; Atomic-Toasters... sing it with me! [youtube 1sP01ylAkfo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sP01ylAkfo youtube]

Atomic Toasters : Home Movies, Now In Theaters

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 04:41:16 +0000

It is kind of mind boggling that some of our old electro-mechanical devices worked as well as they did; like you say about the VHS cassette. I only recently learned the old IBM magnetic tape data readers actually vacuumed out a loop of tape (how long I don't know) and could inch it past the heads back and forth more rapidly and accurately than if it was held in tension between the reels. That was a 'buffer'. Also, even growing up in the '70s and '80s we never had a color T.V., never mind a VCR or Cable. Hence, I'm not much of a movie buff (or video gamer). Mom 'n' dad got those things after we all moved out. My two favorite bars always have some hand picked movie playing, and they're heavy on the sci-fi and horror genres. You can count on walking in in the middle of The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak or Maximum Overdrive at least once a month.

Hooniverse : The WTF Files: Excuse Me, Sir... Edition

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:51:20 +0000

Links or it didn't happen.

Hooniverse : Comment Issue - We're looking into it...

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:36:41 +0000

...aaand now it's back. Nothing to see here.

Hooniverse : Comment Issue - We're looking into it...

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:01:45 +0000

No comment.

Hooniverse : Last Call- Orange You Glad Edition

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:11:47 +0000

Classic Captions only has 6 comments! Makes Jim's job easier, I guess! http://hooniverse.com/2015/02/17/classic-captions... Damn, and I had 17 thumbs, too.

Hooniverse : Last Call- Orange You Glad Edition

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:00:44 +0000

Whoah... I'm back to 92 Pee. Do I get to have another One Hundred Pee celebration? Or is it like when the Dow went over 10,000 the second time? Comment count was funky, too. One post said 6 comments, but when you opened the page there were 3 or 4. It's back to being correct now. All my comments before April 2012 are missing. Irishzombieman still has 109 Pee, but has only posted 439 comments in the past 167 weeks.

Atomic Toasters : Shutdown: Ad Birds

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:13:34 +0000

Capital comment, Dr Harrell.

Hooniverse : Last Call- Orange You Glad Edition

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:17:51 +0000

Who said that?!?

Atomic Toasters : Shutdown: Ad Birds

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 06:54:42 +0000

I'm tweeting this.

Hooniverse : Craigslist Crapshoot

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:32:05 +0000

1970s volvo p1800 wagon - $2500 "project wagon complete , been park , no running, some rust , bill of sale only" Does it look like this... <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3181/5842626504_20cf82e5a8_o.jpg" width=400> ...or this? <img src="http://www.surfaceprocessing.co.uk/car_portfolio/volvo_project/starting_repairs.jpg" width=400> Who knows?!?

Hooniverse : Craigslist Crapshoot

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:32:31 +0000

Does Hooniverse Marketplace count? http://hooniverse.com/2014/06/07/hooniverse-marke... <img src="http://hooniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1982-toyota-starlet-700x437.jpg" width=400>

Hooniverse : Hooniverse Asks- What's the Dumbest Specialty Tool Required Maintenance Issue You've Ever Encountere

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:46:07 +0000

It's a normal size for headset bearings on a bicycle, if you haven't found one already. They're super thin and not that strong, though.

Hooniverse : Last Call- Rad Taxi Edition

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:15:10 +0000

The KLR has a load bearing radiator. It's designed to have a big assed dirt bike fall over on it. My DRZ400 also has $300 radiators. For this reason, $100 radiator guards and a wider tank are on the list ahead of dirt bike helmet (I'm still using my Arai Signet-Q, I just look like a noob on the trail) but behind dirt bike boots (my Daytona touring boots are kaput after 15 years.) <img src="http://aviciouscycle.ca/images/ProductImages/DRZ400Eunabiker.jpg" width=200>

Hooniverse : Last Call- Rad Taxi Edition

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:46:25 +0000

Mmm... Uber and Sidecar are two separate service providers, as is Lyft. Here's a handy guide (from San Francisco, California) Sidecar: <img src="http://media.utsandiego.com/img/photos/2013/09/26/RidesharingSidecarPortrait_r620x349.jpg" width=450> Lyft: <img src="http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/04/lyft.jpg" width=450> Uber: <img src="http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/171/2/0/insane_car_crash__gif__by_enderman699-d69xqro.gif">