Lucky bastards.

It's actually snowing here too. Good snow, about inch or two right now. It's good snowball making snow too. So, I think I'm going to go make some.

'ave it, you fackers.

summer can't come too soon.

it's 50 some degrees here, and starting overnight getting a little bit of snow

at this point i am so torn about wanting a blizzard and the business my dad will get from snow plowing, compared to my work which closed after a few inches last week

rare photo of panto's dad:

"shit, i'm cold oh wait. i'm naked."

because nearly all of africa is infected with the AIDS virus as a result of government intervention, the connotation of intervention in this here situation being not necessarily positive depending on your point of view

That gum you like is going to come back in style

you ve won my heart with quoting twin peaks.

Yeah Twin Peaks is fucking awesome! David Lynch just knows how to create memorable visual masterpieces.

I love his visuals. but also the totally off the hook humor really got me. he got it in almost all his works but in twin peaks it plays a major role.
alone lynchs cameo as the near-deaf fbi inspector made me cry. its just so hillarious funny

I thought it was funny how David Duchovny made his T.V show debut as an FBI agent in drag in Twin Peaks 3 years prior to the X-Files. There was no off the hook humor in The Elephant Man as it was based on a serious topic but I liked the Elephant Man aswell.

thats one of the few I ve never seen.
that one and one I always forget the name of it

Snow crystals form when tiny supercooled cloud droplets (approx 1 mm in diameter) freeze. These droplets are able to remain liquid at temperatures colder than 0 °C because, in order to freeze, a few molecules in the liquid droplet need to get together by chance to form an arrangement close to that in an ice lattice; then the droplet freezes around this 'nucleus'. Experiments show that this 'homogeneous' nucleation of cloud droplets only occurs at temperatures colder than -35 °C.[1] In warmer clouds an aerosol particle or 'ice nucleus' must be present in (or in contact with) the droplet to act as a nucleus. Our understanding of what particles make efficient ice nuclei is poor - what we do know is they are very rare compared to that cloud condensation nuclei which liquid droplets form on. Clays, desert dust and biological particles may be effective,[2] although to what extent is unclear. Artificial nuclei include silver iodide and dry ice, and these form the basis of cloud seeding.
Once a droplet has frozen, it grows in the supersaturated environment (air saturated with respect to liquid water is supersaturated with respect to ice when the temperature is below the freezing point) and grows by diffusion of water molecules in the air (vapor) onto the ice crystal surface where they are deposited. Because the droplets are so much more numerous than the ice crystals (because of the relative numbers of ice vs droplet nuclei) the crystals are able to grow to hundreds of micrometres or millimetres in size at the expense of the water droplets (the Wegner-Bergeron-Findeison process). The corresponding depletion of water vapour causes the droplets to evaporate, meaning that the ice crystals effectively grow at the droplets' expense. These large crystals are an efficient source of precipitation, since they fall through the atmosphere due to their mass, and may collide and stick together in clusters (aggregates). These aggregates are snowflakes, and are usually the type of ice particle which falls at the ground.[3] The exact details of the sticking mechanism remains controversial (and probably there are different mechanisms active in different clouds), possibilities include mechanical interlocking, sintering, electrostatic attraction as well as the existence of a 'sticky' liquid-like layer on the crystal surface.
The individual ice crystals often have an hexagonal symmetry. Although the ice is clear, scattering of light by the crystal facets and hollows/imperfections mean that the crystals often appear white in colour due to diffuse reflection of all spectrum of light by the small ice particles.


Ice crystals formed in the appropriate conditions can often be thin and flat. These planar crystals may be simple hexagons, or if the supersaturation is high enough, develop branches and dendritic (fern-like) features and have six approximately identical arms, as per the iconic 'snowflake' popularised by Wilson Bentley. The 6-fold symmetry arises from the hexagonal crystal structure of ordinary ice, the branch formation is produced by unstable growth, with deposition occurring preferentially near the tips of branches.[1]
The shape of the snowflake is determined broadly by the temperature, and humidity at which it forms.[3] Rarely, at a temperature of around −2 °C (28 °F), snowflakes can form in threefold symmetry — triangular snowflakes.[4] The most common snow particles are visibly irregular, although near-perfect snowflakes may be more common in pictures because they are more visually appealing.
Planar crystals (thin and flat) grow in air between 0 °C (32 °F) and −3 °C (27 °F). Between −3 °C (27 °F) and −8 °C (18 °F), the crystals will form needles or hollow columns or prisms (long thin pencil-like shapes). From −8 °C (18 °F) to −22 °C (−8 °F) the habit goes back to plate like, often with branched or dendritic features. Note that the maximum difference in vapour pressure between liquid and ice is at approx. −15 °C (5 °F) where crystals grow most rapidly at the expense of the liquid droplets. At temperatures below −22 °C (−8 °F), the crystal habit again becomes column-like again, although many more complex habits also form such as side-planes, bullet-rosettes and also planar types depending on the conditions and ice nuclei.[5]
Interestingly, if a crystal has started forming in a column growth regime, say at around −5 °C (23 °F), and then falls into the warmer plate-like regime, plate or dendritic crystals sprout at the end of the column producing so called 'capped columns'.[3]
There is a widely held belief that no two snowflakes are alike. Strictly speaking, it is extremely unlikely for any two macroscopic objects in the universe to contain an identical molecular structure; but there are, nonetheless, no known scientific laws that prevent it. In a more pragmatic sense, it's more likely—albeit not much more—that two snowflakes are virtually identical if their environments were similar enough, either because they grew very near one another, or simply by chance. The American Meteorological Society has reported that matching snow crystals were discovered in Wisconsin in 1988 by Nancy Knight of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.[6] The crystals were not flakes in the usual sense but rather hollow hexagonal prisms.

I cannot call attention to the fact that the last three numbers in my post count are 666 without changing it. What a dilemma.

EDIT: Well that was easy.

Oh fuck yeah! I just got $92 in book trade and spent $24 on a sealed copy of the 3-disc Maltese Falcon and TMNT II: The Arcade Game for NES. They must have sold the SNES system but they have a Genesis for $20. I might go back and get that tomorrow if I can find some decent games to buy for it.

Sega Genesis is my favourite System.
No Matter what so damn full of classics. part of it faaaar off the mainstream
I am still buying games for it from time to time and never regret that I still got it since I was 10.
also one of the most kickass looking systems ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suXy0PegW2k

this has to be one of the saddest songs ever and i wish i had written it and played that amazing solo at the end

I never had one. I played my aunt's Genesis a little bit growing up...I'll probably go get it tomorrow since it's not costing me actual money.

I love mine to death.
an old freind owed me some money a few years back and he gave me his sega CD instead of it. which opened the way to some really great titles and one of it is snatcher. if you got the chane to cop a copy of it and can afford it, be sure to do so. its one of THE collectors items regarding videogames, and its one hell of a game. even if you dont like it you can make some raw money with it on ebay.
I had the luck to get a completely unscratcehed like new copy with manual and blabla bla for about 25 bucks, which is a bargain

awesome tune!

I post this link in every thread where it fits, so here it goes again. in its own way very sad, but peaceful. something to drown to
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=K59YDoFU03I

I just got pummeled by a solid hour of doom/sludge rock and I feel great!

Whenever you have nothing important to say, post a pic of cute cats!



There ya go motherfuckers!

My latest addition:



they haven't even arrived and I still love them.

Gots to keep those kicks fresh though.

4srs. I'm super crazy about keeping nice shoes clean.

As am I. Which is why I learned about 7 years ago that I'll never own another pair of white shoes, no matter how much of an impulse I have to buy them.

This will be my first pair of white shoes in a LONG TIME for the same reason. I just caved in. I love them too much.

They are nice, but looking at them makes me twitch because I can just imagine scuffing them the moment I step outside.

Thankfully they're made out of some sort of cloth material, so they can at least be bleached if necessary.

This is very true.

Speaking of shoes, I bought some nice leather Doc Martens shoes (not boots) to wear in cold weather/snow and I've yet to wear them and it's been snowing/20 degrees for two days...my feet are obliterated.

I'm super jealous. I heart doc martens.

I actually thought about buying some traditional one but I spent the money on books. These are just leather tennis shoes. I posted about them in the clothing/shoes thread but the search function is giving me trouble now.

God, why is the forum being such a bitch tonight?

I have no idea. Maybe the flu?

Maybe it finally caught the AIDS.