Bill, kc7jty....couch time!

[N7YA]

I was reminded that i didnt pick someone else to do the couch thing....i guess i passed out on the couch.

Ok Bill, you's up! You seem like an interesting enough fella. What the hell is there to do in Idaho? If you could have a ring of invisiblity, where would you go? Blondes, Brunettes or redheads? If you could nominate anyone on earth to try and fix this fubar nation we have, who would it be? (at least who would be the most entertaining to watch them try). Whats your favorite soup? How many fingers am i holding up?

That should be a good start. :)

[kc7jty]

In Idaho, used to ride the trains but can't do that anymore, I spend a lot of time on Hamisland, and playing Texas hold 'em. Bean on disability for some time, I keep trying to point out all my physical limitations to them but they always allow me extensions because (according to them) I'm nutz.

Invisible huh. Probably go to the Casino, buy 100 $1 chips on the Roulette Wheel, then change the lammer to $10. Gynecologist office, micro brew beer bar, & whispering weird chit into the ears of my goofy neighbors.
Blondes, brunettes or redheads? Are you kidding? It's all gray/white nowadays.

Yo El Rey! I'm the only one that can straighten out the mess we're in. If king I'd give that Boehner guy a BONE he'd never forget. I'd get that pimpled @ss McConnell ouf, strip him down to his jockey shorts, grease him all over with butter, then turn him loose in times square at noon on a Saturday with a $10,000 reward on his head given to the first person to deliver him whole to Hoboken.

For soup, Creole Gumbo.
You have only one finger up at the moment.

[suddenseer]

So Bill, how long have you had these violent homo-erotic images about republlican leadership? I think Oxy Rush, and Glen BEEEEECk are now the leaders of that party, but I am not on the couch.

I am not that much into wimenz, but gray is not bad. Have you seen Jamie Lee Curtis in those yogurt commercial? She is a hottie. How about Sigourney Weaver? She is much older than me. Cher is hot, as always. I may be gay, but I HATE her music. I am sorry, you are on the couch.

What kind of social ham radio activities do you do in Idaho? What got you into amateur radio anyway?

[kf0rt]

I've always wondered this. Answer is optional of course. What's your vocation? (Pre-disability, I mean.)

[kc7jty]

So Bill, how long have you had these violent homo-erotic images about republlican leadership? I think Oxy Rush, and Glen BEEEEECk are now the leaders of that party, but I am not on the couch.

I am not that much into wimenz, but gray is not bad. Have you seen Jamie Lee Curtis in those yogurt commercial? She is a hottie. How about Sigourney Weaver? She is much older than me. Cher is hot, as always. I may be gay, but I HATE her music. I am sorry, you are on the couch.

What kind of social ham radio activities do you do in Idaho? What got you into amateur radio anyway?

I wouldn't use my own on Boehner, a fiberglass model, blown up to 4x size to show detail, would do nicely.
I've always thought Jamie Lee Curtis was hot. Her knobs in the movie Trading Places were grade AA.
Cher needs to retire. I've always liked her as well but her time has come to enjoy the green pasture without presenting herself as something worth looking at.
Weaver has mini knockers, not a bad looker in Alien, but that was 30 years ago. She's kinda scary looking now.

2 meter FM is about the only thing happening here at the moment. The gang gets together for lunch about every 6 weeks.
I was a CBer from 1976. When the code req. was dropped for Tech in (92?) I was given a dare to pass the Tech test by some CB friends. Studied for 2 weeks and aced the Novice and Tech written in March 95. Didn't even bother with the Morse part.

[kc7jty]

I've always wondered this. Answer is optional of course. What's your vocation? (Pre-disability, I mean.)

I did 5 years as an engraver in a mold and die shop for zinc and plastic parts in Philadelphia. Worked as a welder/sheet metal fabricator in Idaho, and did seasonal work for the forest service for some years. The operation was removing seedlings from the ground, inspecting them for quality, then packing them for the hoedads to plant in the forests.
I was making wood stoves and custom trailers (boat, utility) out of my garage when I threw in the towel and applied for disability.

I've had spinal problems from age 26. My mother once told me I fell 7 feet onto a concrete floor in the house my dad built (that didn't have stairs in yet to the basement). I was about 4.

[suddenseer]

I wish I could have worked you earlier this summer in the 10M eS MADNESS. I tried, the propogatio godz were not with us, there is always 75M ssb.

Laters

[kc7jty]

I currently have 10 through 17 through an MFJ tuner into an A99 antenna & 2 into a Diamond F22a.

[KG4CGC]

I can just see you in your forest service duds. Ranger Bill.

Mold and die engraving, interesting stuff. Intricate and detail oriented.

[kc7jty]

Intricate and detail oriented.
That's me, meticulous, ocd.
That's why I'm in awe of Vermeer. The man must have been what is considered today as insane to do the works he did.

[KG4CGC]

That's me, meticulous, ocd.
That's why I'm in awe of Vermeer. The man must have been what is considered today as insane to do the works he did.
I think you would love PhotoShop!

[NQ6U]

I think you would love PhotoShop!

No chit. Perfect gift for the OCD in your life--especially if you'd prefer that that person would disappear into his/her computer for an entire week.

[kc7jty]

I think you would love PhotoShop!

Something else I'd have to learn. Everything I know is obsolete, it's not fair I tell ya.

[KG4CGC]

There are a million free tutorials online.

[kc7jty]

There are a million free tutorials online.

I'm a lazy chit.
That's when my life went to hell, when the nuns in Catholic grade school got the results of my IQ test and saw I wasn't the dum dum they thought. From then on it was straight down with everybody picking on me. I prefer natural anyway, isn't photoshop like cheating?

[KG4CGC]

isn't photoshop like cheating?
Huh? It's the darkroom on your computer. Besides, you have a digital camera. You can make corrections for pictures that you like that for whatever reason came out less that optimal. You can also make pictures that are 100% generated from scratch. >>... and of course you can do something in between those.
http://www.adobephotoshoptutorials.com/

Walk through one of these as a start. They should be free, I think they are. You can do the things one step at a time. I have flipped back and forth between pages on PS and online and some of the neatest effects are the simplest. Camera corrections are very easy because the basic tools for those are intuitive where as the more advanced stuff may take a couple of tries.

[kc7jty]

tnx

[kf0rt]

Tell us about the trains. What got you into riding the rails? Longest ride? Strangest?

[N2CHX]

I did 5 years as an engraver in a mold and die shop for zinc and plastic parts in Philadelphia. Worked as a welder/sheet metal fabricator in Idaho, and did seasonal work for the forest service for some years. The operation was removing seedlings from the ground, inspecting them for quality, then packing them for the hoedads to plant in the forests.
I was making wood stoves and custom trailers (boat, utility) out of my garage when I threw in the towel and applied for disability.


OMG! My father was a steel fabricator and he used to build wood stoves and trailers. Weird! My father had all kinds of talents.



I've had spinal problems from age 26. My mother once told me I fell 7 feet onto a concrete floor in the house my dad built (that didn't have stairs in yet to the basement). I was about 4.

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your health issues.

[N2CHX]

tnx

You can always try GIMP as well. http://www.gimp.org

[NQ6U]

You can always try GIMP as well. http://www.gimp.org

Hey, don't make fun of his disability, Kelli! ;)

[KG4CGC]

Don't forget the Windows Runtime Environment if you are going to use GIMP on a Windoz machine. If you already have PS then I'd hold off on the GIMP until you get a good feel for PS. I've been using PS7 for years even though they already have CS5 out.

[W1GUH]

"I am not that much into wimenz, but gray is not bad." Hmmmmm....I guess...but when I see Willie Nelson's likeness between two thighs......shaving's a GOOD thing. Read a short story ny Charles Bukowski (I'm pretty sure in Ham on Rye) about that!

Re: PS.... Would Adobe puhleeze come out with a version that doesn't have all the publishing BS that you don't need for photo-finishing and that's priced for mere mortals? Pleeeeze???

[kf0rt]

Re: PS.... Would Adobe puhleeze come out with a version that doesn't have all the publishing BS that you don't need for photo-finishing and that's priced for mere mortals? Pleeeeze???

I use Photoshop Elements. (Still on version 5). Under a hunnert bucks, and seems to do everything I need.

[kc7jty]

Tell us about the trains. What got you into riding the rails? Longest ride? Strangest?

Some friends and I would regularly ride a local (PRR) switch engine's cars that serviced the sidings on a commuter line in suburban Philadelphia in 1963/64 (I was 13/14). The longest ride was about a mile. I also would jump on long road freights on the B&O (sorry Albie) as they came in and pulled out of a passing siding near my Aunt's place.

After the move to Idaho a friend asked me if I would take a long distance ride on one of the trains that came through the town we lived in with him. I said no, but couldn't stop thinking about it.
Some months later I was sitting in my car at a crossing that had a stopped freight blocking the road. There was an empty boxcar with the door open, right in front of me.
After a couple minutes a nose appeared from around the corner, then 2...3...4, after another minute about 12 teen aged kids (about half girls) appeared in the doorway with big smiles, all waving at me. I said to myself, "THAT'S IT, I'M RIDING"

Started hanging around the rail yard in Spokane (the place was loaded with tramps as they liked to be called back then). Discovered a lot of them were the smartest/coolest people I ever met.
Took my first ride July 5, 1984 Spokane to Whitefish. It was a cakewalk. Met a local guy who was a postman who also mentored me, we did many thousand miles together from 1986 to about 1992.

There were about 3 years from when I applied for disability and actually got it. During this time I was semi homeless. Spending my winters in Yuma with some other tramps, summers with my Aunt in Idaho, and other times with a friend in PA, all the while being careful not to wear out my welcome by staying too long. I traveled between the 3 places on the freights.
Longest ride (trip, several trains) was Santa Ana, CA to Philadelphia via Jacksonville, FL. Longest single train was the Sea Land stack train from LaCrosse, WI to Binghamton, NY. I lived on that train 2 and 1/2 days. It came through Buffalo.

Strangest... I almost bought the farm in Laurel, MT when I looked out the door of an open box just as it hit a line of stopped cars in the yard (it had been kicked) It split the skin open on the back of my head about 3 inches, and I went flying through the air about 8 feet. Another 1/2 second later it would have broke my neck or ripped my face off.

[suddenseer]

That's me, meticulous, ocd.
That's why I'm in awe of Vermeer. The man must have been what is considered today as insane to do the works he did.My Dad has OCD. At first my mom liked it because he kept the house ultra clean. Then he started getting up at 3:00 am and folded the dirty laundry. He retired 9 years ago, and now details Harleys. He will spend 20 minutes cleaning, shining up one spoke. He makes every inch of the motorcycle look like it's right out of the crate.

[suddenseer]

I use Photoshop Elements. (Still on version 5). Under a hunnert bucks, and seems to do everything I need.I still use version 3. It meets all of my needs.

[W3MIV]

I also would jump on long road freights on the B&O (sorry Albie) as they came in and pulled out of a passing siding near my Aunt's place.

Not a problem, bindlestiff. My grandfather, the "Ernie Borgnine" analogue rail cop for B&O, was long dead by then.

[W3MIV]

On the PhotoShop question, I recommend trying The Gimp. It will do most of the photo adjustment and retouching work you can do in PS, but the work order is different and the learning curve steep -- the more so if you are accustomed to working in PS.

I also agree with Rob that PhotoShop Elements is a lot of quality for very little money. If you are a photographer, most of what you need can be accomplished with PS Elements; full PS is more than most photogs need, since it is focused on graphic production.

[kc7jty]

Then he started getting up at 3:00 am and folded the dirty laundry.
Really!? That's weird, I don't do anything that nutz/useless. Actually I'm pretty normal most the time until I get stressed, then I'm wiping every drop of water off the mirror in the bathroom so it won't leave a mineral deposit mark, etc.

[kc7jty]

Jamie Lee Curtis knobs in Trading Places

Warning contains brief nudity
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/7/Trading-Places-Jamie-Lee-Curtis-534673.html

[kc7jty]

IZZit time to pick on sumbuddy else now?

[NQ6U]

IZZit time to pick on sumbuddy else now?

I believe the ball is in your court on that one. You choose the next vict...uh, I mean, patient.