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Corla Plankun posted:toyota mr2 is my dream midlife crisis car too but regular car reviews made me fear them a little bit because of that snap oversteer friend of mine got a 1993 MR2 turbo a while ago take a look: ![]() gotta say it looks like he is living his best life be and we’d all be fools to not have one.
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Chris Knight posted:if I'm getting an mr2 it's gotta be first gen the square ones are good but finding one worth owning is v hard these days
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Jonny 290 posted:the sushi chef can't decide to take me out with himself to get away from alimony payments yeah what if my sushi chef already set fire to his ex wifes house that morning and he plans to crash us into the IRS building
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:Yeah that sounds like someone with Problems ”Wikipedia” posted:Witnesses reported that he preferred ketchup and sticky buns this is a person who, if i met them in the woods, i would definitely run away from as fast as i could
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hairiest situation i ever got into was the trail out to goat canyon trestle bridge in Southern California (way southern in the desert). it’s the largest wood trestle bridge in the world, completed in 1933, but the railroad has been routed elsewhere since 2008 so there’s just nothing out there now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Canyon_Trestle it’s only a 3 mile hike in and 3 miles back out, but the terrain makes it take like 3-4 hours each way because there is a 2500 foot altitude change and you are spending a good bit of the time effectively bouldering or rock climbing. like, crawling up steep surfaces with your hands and feet, you can’t just stand up and walk for a lot of the “trail”. we didn’t get lost, amazingly. started at 7 am and were having lunch at the bridge around noon, so we had plenty of time to get back before dark. ![]() then I managed to lose my footing and slide down a slope on some loose rocks and twist my ankle pretty bad right after the turnaround at the bridge so it was 4 hrs in and 8 or 9 hours limping out and hopping down steep slopes with 1 foot, some of that after sunset. we had flashlights and plenty of water but we didn’t plan to be there overnight. i had nice hiking boots with good ankle support and that probably kept me from straight up breaking my ankle in the rock slide. here is my busted foot back at the hotel in san diego. ![]()
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also I gotta say flashlights are amazing these days. i have some that are technically for diving that I just take everywhere and they have saved my rear end several times when I was out later than I had initially planned. this one: https://bigbluedivelights.com/products/al1200xwp-with-protective-case/ one 18650 battery and you have a 120 watt incandescent bulb equivalent that lasts for 2 hours, or on the lower setting (that’s still frankly overkill for hiking a trail at night) and it lasts for 20 hrs. on the goat canyon trail specifically you need a good light to stay the trail, there are parts that are just a sea of boulders with infrequent cairns marking the way. if you can’t spot a foot-tall pile of rocks at 30-50 meters away in the dark, you just can’t find the trail.
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dog hike today at enchanted rock state park near Fredericksburg, Texas. ![]() ![]()
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Jonny 290 posted:get a haircut hippie i just got one last week ![]()
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:a p&s isn't really going to be any better than a modern smartphone i went a little crazy and got an X-T4 a while back and it’s pretty nice. really good video too.
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went out to some spring bluebonnets with the doggo![]()
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if anyone can talk someone out of doing #vanlife, it is j290.
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granny treadmillin, not double ‘lypticalin like you should
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this is a trail just outside of denver (mt falcon park) that we hiked last week. ![]() and down in colorado springs, the summit of pikes peak is closed but you can still make it up most of the way (to devil’s playground): ![]()
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:went for a walk this is extremely good, obviously. it’s probably been asked and answered, but where is this?? are you somewhere super north? canada? the moon???
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that’s a good dog! we hiked the dog out to the creek in the greenbelt to swim today: https://twitter.com/kwinkles/status/1414302960197251072?s=21
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Jonny 290 posted:that dog looks like it'd poo poo in the kitchen right in the middle of a dinner party c/d our dog buttercup? she’s from the fort worth animal shelter, and she’s great. she’s about 5, we cleared up the heartworms and now she’s getting most of her hair back. she takes solid poops now and has zero bladder infections and zero yeasty ears, which is a first for her as far as we know. here she is the first day out of the pound. ![]() and 10 lbs heavier and a lot healthier: ![]() she’s still pretty scared of water in general so she wouldn’t go across that waterfall without getting a hot dog chunk or three. also super housebroken, which is the best part about adopting an older dog imo. she’s done one pee in the house but it was basically diagnostic of a bladder infection. she’s got a move where she’ll sidle up to the big metal toolbox and start banging her tail on it like a gong to wake you up for walkies. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Sagebrush posted:hmm. my post still stands there are inedible potatoes? like potatoes i couldn’t make fries from and eat??? i doubt it. sounds fake.
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Truman Peyote posted:a seal poked his head up and was messily devouring a big fish a minute after i took that photo. he was quickly set upon by a mob of seagulls. nature is beautiful i went on a cruise to Antarctica, and after crossing the drake passage the first sign of life nearing the Antarctic peninsula was a penguin hopping in and out of the wake near the back ship. it was majestic, that penguin. flitting in and out of the wake and looking so carefree everyone piled out of the cabins they had hunkered down in for hardest days at sea (the ship had about 150 people total with crew) and we watched that penguin until we all gradually realized he was not carefree at all, he was swimming for his life and got eaten by a seal right in front of us and there was blood everywhere
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![]() throwback flower from my visit to the botanical gardens in cape town
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PokeJoe posted:i did research with a 1W infrared laser for a while in school and my professional laser opinion is that if you like your vision you should never own one that isn't a baby red laser pointer I did the polarized light in a fiber Berry phase experiment in a physics lab in college and we had a 7W argon laser for that. it would burn thru a playing card pretty darn fast. they have very tight sealing goggles with a bunch of safety certification marks on them, and a door that automatically turns on a warning sign outside of the laser room when locked, and the laser can’t be powered up unless the door is closed *and locked* do not gently caress around with lasers that can blind you before you can blink.
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:wind farms are super cool yeah, friend of mine used to design them and he still keeps me informed of turbine advances. for example it has only been relatively recently that they can throttle a clutch and take advantage of higher wind speed instead of just disconnecting the generator and letting blades spin freely if it is too windy.
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went to big thicket national forest saw this cool moth bro ![]() ![]() saw this snake (diamondback water snake, I think?) ![]() anyway he appeared right after we took off our shoes and waded thru that lmao. at least not poisonous.
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Corla Plankun posted:cw: parasites i was down in hopkins belize spearfishing lionfish a while ago and the sharks have learned to wait for the people to kill them (i was recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn4QNtzZJcc edited to fix location, near the town of hopkins belize EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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you guys like sharks? i got a good shark feeding video in the bahamas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3hGHb-raA
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did you get to do any of the caves in belize? there are some good ones. i did hopkins and my deepest dive ever (130 feet) at the blue hole. there is small hotel on long caye, in the building that used to be the old field hospital for divers that gets to the blue hole first every morning because boats from the mainland are another hour away. since it used to be the place to bring divers who hosed up, they have the old decompression chamber, which is the breakfast bar now:![]() and from the other end, they’d put you in here: ![]()
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being stuck inside a diving decompression chamber because i have the bends is like top 5 fears for me so nope i just never want to be in there.
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gonna be in the santa cruz area next month. really looking forward to getting out of the heat.
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it was a good hike, was only in denver for a day or two to see my brother, but I will be back again soon so denver area recommendations are appreciated. Idaho Springs is a cute town, we got lunch on there on the way back down to denver.
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i have done the botanic gardens years ago, it was good. will he back in denver sometime this winter probably, will hit you up you up next time. where are your fall leaf picks people.
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went on a hike in the british virgin islands 2day![]()
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Jonny 290 posted:wow, the hbag islands are beautiful i get it i get joke
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cibola national forest: ![]()
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and slightly north, this was nearer salida CO:![]()
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that is (princess) buttercup
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![]() i walked the trail behind the office.
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do you count kids from the episcopal school next door smoking weed in the woods?
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lord funk posted:by this time tomorrow i'll be on a train back to zhangjiajie to walk around the mountains alone for a week how will you take pictures for me to look at itt with no screen time? p rude imo, prioritizing your own mental health like that.
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