Post by: 49er on February 27, 2009, 09:15:38 AM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on February 27, 2009, 04:37:55 PM
Post by: 49er on February 27, 2009, 11:12:27 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on February 27, 2009, 11:21:56 PM
Just out of curiosity though isn't mahogany obsidian an oxymoron? Wooden glass stone hmmm.... i'd love to see it :)
Post by: fancyfont on February 27, 2009, 11:45:25 PM
Post by: 49er on February 28, 2009, 07:05:57 AM
I can see a few concussions in the future :o
Especially as we live on the seventh floor!
Just out of curiosity though isn't mahogany obsidian an oxymoron? Wooden glass stone hmmm.... i'd love to see it :)
Collecting obsidian is a minor hobby of mine. The “normal” color, (colour for you, InmemoryofRomeo,;)) is black. But sometimes, there are impurities in the stone that give it different characteristics. I have Rainbow Obsidian, with different colored/coloured parallel lines running through it, Snow Flake Obsidian which is black with white blotches in it, a beautiful blue Japanese Obsidian and of course, the afore mentioned Mahogany Obsidian. The Mahogany Obsidian has reddish-brown impurities that give it its color/colour. I collected the Mahogany on the East side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the time I lived on the West side of the mountains at the 2,000 foot elevation. So, all I had to do drive for six hours, cross over Tioga Pass at 9,000 feet and down to the high plains at 4,000 feet near by Lone Pine and Mono Lake. I loved that area, never got there enough, though for some it might have appeared too stark. And that area had a lot of volcanism which produced Obsidian. BTW, I also have a piece of dino coprolite, (fossilized dino do-do.) Who knows, maybe it came from Pleo's Great, great, great, great, ....great, great.....great, great, great, great Grandfather! ;D
Birds eat stones. This just wasn't the size the gull should be eating. Don't think his gizzard would go for this. ;D
And if the gull was successful he would need a very tall snorkel in the Bay. :D
Post by: fancyfont on February 28, 2009, 02:32:15 PM
Once up the cliff the girl froze. She couldn't go up or down. I know how that feels. I have the same problem with heights.
Hope they wouldn't go after a pleo. ;D
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on February 28, 2009, 05:08:17 PM
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Collecting obsidian is a minor hobby of mine. The “normal” color, (colour for you, InmemoryofRomeo,;)) is black. But sometimes, there are impurities in the stone that give it different characteristics. I have Rainbow Obsidian, with different colored/coloured parallel lines running through it, Snow Flake Obsidian which is black with white blotches in it, a beautiful blue Japanese Obsidian and of course, the afore mentioned Mahogany Obsidian. The Mahogany Obsidian has reddish-brown impurities that give it its color/colour. I collected the Mahogany on the East side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the time I lived on the West side of the mountains at the 2,000 foot elevation. So, all I had to do drive for six hours, cross over Tioga Pass at 9,000 feet and down to the high plains at 4,000 feet near by Lone Pine and Mono Lake. I loved that area, never got there enough, though for some it might have appeared too stark. And that area had a lot of volcanism which produced Obsidian. BTW, I also have a piece of dino coprolite, (fossilized dino do-do.) Who knows, maybe it came from Pleo's Great, great, great, great, ....great, great.....great, great, great, great Grandfather! Grin
Wow you make a six hour drive sound so casual :o, thanks for explaining about the different colors (yep I use color, too many years of American influenced spell checkers :P) I have heard of the blue and rainbow obsidian but not the others they all sound beautiful :) I have a few fossils lying around too, I have a small Trilobite, some Mososaur teeth and a Megalodon tooth, fossilized dino dung is an interesting one to tell people though (especially if you wait til they pick it up lol)
Post by: 49er on March 02, 2009, 11:52:56 AM
Using fancyfont for my technical support, I was able to post pictures of Mahogany and Snowflake Obsidian. Thank you fancy! ;D
Post by: fancyfont on March 02, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Post by: allosaurus on March 02, 2009, 01:45:03 PM
fossilized dino dung is an interesting one to tell people though (especially if you wait til they pick it up lol)
A friend of mine has an Allosaurus Coprolite. :o :P
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 02, 2009, 04:06:25 PM
Lol Allosaurus dung :) But how can they tell for sure???
Post by: mweed on March 02, 2009, 09:50:51 PM
Using fancyfont for my technical support,
I'm really glad she could help, but there was a time when that statement would have been a non sequitur. ;)
Back when I made jewelry, I used to use snowflake obsidian a lot. Makes a great bead., and a pretty necklace. I think a snowflake obsidian pleo necklace might make a nice prize in our contest . . . ;)
Post by: fancyfont on March 02, 2009, 11:18:06 PM
Thank you Mweed and everyone who's helped me on the computer. I had no idea that the computer could be so much fun. Before I bought Peeky and got on to Pleoworld's forum, I was about to give up the computer for good. I'm hooked now.
So everyone who reads this, let's make this forum thrive and keep pleo alive. (I love rhymes) ;D
Post by: allosaurus on March 03, 2009, 04:26:29 PM
Lol Allosaurus dung :) But how can they tell for sure???
Something to do with the trace fossil footprints, and they could tell that it had remains of bones in it. 0_0
I'm pretty sure that's it. And some people in my school call me Allo\Allosaurus, so we all laughed when he showed us that. XD
edit: Pretty hard to understand. In other words, they followed the fossilized footprints around where they found it and came to a bonebed with an Allosaurus. What's more, it was carnivorous dinosaur dung.
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 03, 2009, 04:57:30 PM
Post by: allosaurus on March 03, 2009, 05:05:49 PM
Neat :) I love how they can tell so much from what appears to be so little :) I wonder what, after our civilization is destroyed, a future species will be able to tell about us :)
Looks like you're not alone! I have wondered that for a long, long, time!
Post by: 49er on March 03, 2009, 07:23:09 PM
I wonder what, after our civilization is destroyed, a future species will be able to tell about us :)One group that I know of that's trying to leave information for future civilisations is called The Long Now Foundation. They are working on making a clock that will run unattended for 10,000 years. I've seen some of the models that they have here in San Francisco. They are also working on a library that will last for the same time frame. And they are looking for a deep underground vault, (at this point probably in Nevada.) Long Now has monthly lectures that they call Seminars About Long Term Thinking and can be listened to from their website. If you are interested in any of this, here is a link. http://www.longnow.org/ BTW the present year by their reckoning is the year 02009.
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 03, 2009, 08:01:25 PM
Post by: mweed on March 03, 2009, 08:28:45 PM
. . . What's more, it was carnivorous dinosaur dung.
Dinosaur dung that eats meat? Don't that beat all.
Post by: 49er on March 03, 2009, 08:53:14 PM
One day my better 3/4 and I were walking around Fort Mason and I saw some interesting machinery in the window and went in to investigate. It was Long Now. I signed up for its newsletter and I get a monthly email talking about coming events. They also post summaries of lectures by email. I would love to be a paid member, but unfortunately, the 96 bucks always finds a need somewhere else. Members get priority to attend the SALT talks and if there is room after the membership arrives, they let the nonmembers in. (Just had a fire alarm go off. Building evacuated. Went down 7 flight and walked back up 7 flights when declared a false alarm.) If you would like to receive the email let me know and I will get the link if its still available and post it here.
I guess I'll have to tie down that dino do-do just to be sure ;). . . What's more, it was carnivorous dinosaur dung.
Dinosaur dung that eats meat? Don't that beat all.
Post by: fancyfont on March 03, 2009, 10:20:35 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 03, 2009, 10:54:13 PM
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If you would like to receive the email let me know and I will get the link if its still available and post it here.
That would be wonderful thank you :D
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I would think there's lots of fossilized dinosaur dung everywhere there were dinosaurs. Just think of what one Camarasaurus left behind.
You'd need a pretty big pooper scooper lol ::)
Post by: fancyfont on March 03, 2009, 11:01:31 PM
Post by: 49er on March 03, 2009, 11:08:27 PM
QuoteI would think there's lots of fossilized dinosaur dung everywhere there were dinosaurs. Just think of what one Camarasaurus left behind.
You'd need a pretty big pooper scooper lol ::)
Maybe that's what killed off all of the dinosaurs. Too much dung and methane gas on and around this planet. ;)Don't just think of the number of flies, but the size of Jurassic flies! :o
Post by: mweed on March 04, 2009, 08:24:37 AM
Don't just think of the number of flies, but the size of Jurassic flies! :o
Which means you gootta think about the size and reach of those Jurassic frogs! ;)
Post by: allosaurus on March 04, 2009, 09:06:18 AM
. . . What's more, it was carnivorous dinosaur dung.
Dinosaur dung that eats meat? Don't that beat all.
*slaps forehead*
Post by: 49er on March 04, 2009, 01:51:38 PM
I contacted the Community Development Director for Long Now and she will e-mail me with the info to get their SALT summery and to be able to connect to their RSS feed later today. :) Here is the information.
"Thanks for your interest in The Long Now Foundation!
Here are some ways you can keep in touch with our organization and many projects.
You can sign up for our low-traffic email list written by Stewart Brand here:
http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/salt
You can also learn a great deal about us through our blog (there is a link to subscribe to an RSS feed of the blog posts in the upper right of the page):
http://blog.longnow.org/
You can also get tickets to our monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking, and listen to audio podcasts of them here:
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/"
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 04, 2009, 09:04:02 PM
I think you are also forgetting about the enormous dung beetles that evolved at that time too :o Wouldn't want to step on one of those lol it'd walk off with you :P
Post by: 49er on March 04, 2009, 11:06:08 PM
I think you are also forgetting about the enormous dung beetles that evolved at that time too :o Wouldn't want to step on one of those lol it'd walk off with you :PDung beetles push around little round balls of dung. Considering the possable size of a Jurassic bug, and my general round shape, My worry would be that it would roll off with me! ;)
Post by: allosaurus on March 05, 2009, 05:36:47 AM
I think you are also forgetting about the enormous dung beetles that evolved at that time too :o Wouldn't want to step on one of those lol it'd walk off with you :PDung beetles push around little round balls of dung. Considering the possable size of a Jurassic bug, and my general round shape, My worry would be that it would roll off with me! ;)
I believe the dung beetles were about one foot long? Dunno. Just seem to recall that from somewhere.
Post by: 49er on March 05, 2009, 08:37:49 AM
"Anyone knows an ant, cant
Move a rubber tree plant
But hes got high hopes, hes got high hopes
Hes got high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your gettin low
stead of lettin go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant." ;)
Post by: fancyfont on March 05, 2009, 10:32:31 AM
Gosh! The high boots we would have needed back in the dinosaur age. Up to our heads. ;D
Post by: pleowhisperer on March 05, 2009, 12:30:51 PM
Ooops! There goes a dung beetle with 49er . . . ;)
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 05, 2009, 12:42:37 PM
Post by: allosaurus on March 05, 2009, 01:20:31 PM
Can somebody say role play Pleo?
Gee, that's easy!
role play Pleo
Post by: pleowhisperer on March 05, 2009, 02:44:24 PM
Post by: 49er on March 05, 2009, 03:28:19 PM
Shouldn't that last line be:XD! Loved it. 8)
Ooops! There goes a dung beetle with 49er . . . ;)
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 05, 2009, 03:45:08 PM
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 06, 2009, 10:33:11 AM
Post by: fancyfont on March 06, 2009, 10:38:08 AM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 06, 2009, 04:36:50 PM
Who could forget this moment from JP3???
Post by: fancyfont on March 06, 2009, 06:13:56 PM
Post by: allosaurus on March 06, 2009, 06:14:30 PM
(http://images.google.com.au/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/img/daily/606/jp_l.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFNopbaSaN9k_d34JP8bgGn0UfWXQ)
Who could forget this moment from JP3???
Ah, haha, one of my fave parts in the movie! But it should've been digested. A robust dinosaur that eats fish and other dinosaurs should have *very strong* digestive juices.
LOL, I bet I just grossed some people out. :D
Post by: 49er on March 06, 2009, 07:20:42 PM
Maybe the phone was made by Energizer. Keeps on ringing, and ringing, and ringing, and ringing, and ringing, and ringing, and ringing, etc. :)(http://images.google.com.au/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/img/daily/606/jp_l.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFNopbaSaN9k_d34JP8bgGn0UfWXQ)
Who could forget this moment from JP3???
Ah, haha, one of my fave parts in the movie! But it should've been digested. A robust dinosaur that eats fish and other dinosaurs should have *very strong* digestive juices.
LOL, I bet I just grossed some people out. :D
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 06, 2009, 07:38:12 PM
You should definitely see it Fancy, it is much better than the JP2 (Actually I like it more than JP1 as well)
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 06, 2009, 09:37:17 PM
Post by: fancyfont on March 06, 2009, 09:50:40 PM
Post by: fancyfont on March 13, 2009, 08:29:28 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 13, 2009, 09:20:31 PM
Post by: allosaurus on March 14, 2009, 07:42:59 AM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 14, 2009, 04:11:33 PM
Post by: fancyfont on March 14, 2009, 04:32:35 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 14, 2009, 04:45:59 PM
Post by: mweed on March 14, 2009, 05:43:14 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 14, 2009, 07:53:29 PM
This big fella's in it...
(http://images.google.com.au/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.achetudoeregiao.com.br/ANIMAIS/gif_animal/SPINOSAURUS.jpg&usg=AFQjCNEYPxFJLQnoykqkLLiRkUkP9nh1iA)
Post by: fancyfont on March 14, 2009, 08:10:51 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 15, 2009, 02:44:37 AM
Post by: fancyfont on March 15, 2009, 02:11:16 PM
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 15, 2009, 02:31:34 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 15, 2009, 05:36:06 PM
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 15, 2009, 06:46:07 PM
Post by: fancyfont on March 15, 2009, 07:25:37 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 15, 2009, 07:32:45 PM
With the newer phones though you get what you pay for I think, my dad always buys the cheap phones and they never last long, my phone cost $300. Although to tell the truth I only bought it because it has an MP3/4 player, plays vids, has fast internet, video calling and a good camera lol I never ring anyone on it but portable multimedia is handy. It saves me from having to carry an MP3, MP4 and MP5 player and my camera all the time :P
Post by: 49er on March 15, 2009, 09:29:33 PM
I don't know, I've had my phone for two years now (its a motorazr maxx V6) its still going strong. My sister had one of those old phones though lol she had it for six years :) Then she flushed it in the toilet :-\ (Accidentally) Lol.Is it still ringing? :D
Post by: fancyfont on March 15, 2009, 09:35:25 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 16, 2009, 01:04:28 AM
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 04:18:26 AM
Post by: grumpy on March 16, 2009, 08:37:35 AM
If so, the fish need to be careful. The bubbles might give them away and they might be eaten buy a Gull! :D
Wow!!! We might just get back on topic! ;) Alas, gucci_boi's plumbing leads to the Atlantic. So it wouldn't be eaten by a "western" gull. Unless the gull was on vacation, visiting Orlando's Sea World . . . ;)
Which makes me wonder where Siren has been these lase few months . . .
Ooop! Getting off -topic again! :P
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 09:00:11 AM
Of course the bubbles in the above example would have been off of Australia, and I wouldn't hazzard a guess where gucci_boi's plumbing goes, but I wouldn't put it past our "Western Gulls" to go to Sea World if they could figure out how to catch a ride on a truck or some RV to Florida just so they could sample some of the fine "buffet tables" they might encounter at that amusement park. :DIf so, the fish need to be careful. The bubbles might give them away and they might be eaten buy a Gull! :D
Wow!!! We might just get back on topic! ;) Alas, gucci_boi's plumbing leads to the Atlantic. So it wouldn't be eaten by a "western" gull. Unless the gull was on vacation, visiting Orlando's Sea World . . . ;)
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 16, 2009, 10:09:32 AM
And BTW, anytime you go out to an amusement park, it's guaranteed you'll end up with either a stinkin SEAgull or a stinkin squirrel walkin right up to you and having you hand feed it your lunch!
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 11:16:55 AM
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 16, 2009, 11:36:31 AM
http://dunedindailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/dunedin-florida-seagulls-dont-need-jet.html
(Ironiacally The city of Dunedin was just north of where I was living about a year ago...)
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 02:28:06 PM
Hehe IDK!! We have TONS of seagulls here, but that's all I've ever heard them as....I checked my books to see what gull was in the picture. At first I thought it was a Bonaparte's Gull, but it didn't look quite right. I finally decided that it was a Laughing Gull. I should have known immediately that it wasn't Bonaparte's. The Bonaparte's Gull always tucks its right wing into its chest feathers. ;)
http://dunedindailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/dunedin-florida-seagulls-dont-need-jet.html
(Ironically The city of Dunedin was just north of where I was living about a year ago...)
Post by: mweed on March 16, 2009, 03:08:39 PM
"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! . . . "
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 16, 2009, 05:46:59 PM
(My fav TV host is in it, Rove Mc Manus, he's a poo eating crab at the end of it lol.)
Those are our gulls lol, here they are just called common gulls (for obvious reasons) in fact they are so common that our Cricketers each year manage to knock an estimated 86 of them out of the skies :o
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 05:51:27 PM
Wester, Laughing, Bonaparte's . . . I don't know the difference. But all I can think of is that line from Nemo . . ......and that is an universal translation of Gull! ;D
"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! . . . "
Those are our gulls lol, here they are just called common gulls (for obvious reasons) in fact they are so common that our Cricketers each year manage to knock an estimated 86 of them out of the skies :oYour Cricketers must have good strong arms and keen eyes. BTW, how many players and spectators do they manage to hit? ;)
Post by: fancyfont on March 16, 2009, 07:44:00 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 16, 2009, 08:52:48 PM
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Your Cricketers must have good strong arms and keen eyes. BTW, how many players and spectators do they manage to hit?
The spectators are well away from the fast balls lol and the players are trained to duck. But the Seagulls wander everywhere picking up scraps and whatnot so they get clobbered on a regular basis :P
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I wasn't sure what the game of cricket was.
You don't have cricket ??? :o
Post by: fancyfont on March 16, 2009, 10:17:11 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 16, 2009, 11:10:52 PM
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 11:21:25 PM
Another example of how uncivilized we Americans are. But a lot of us have heard of the saying, "That's just not Cricket!" Even if we don't know what cricket is. :D
You don't have cricket ??? :o
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 16, 2009, 11:31:52 PM
Post by: 49er on March 16, 2009, 11:43:23 PM
Post by: fancyfont on March 17, 2009, 12:01:52 AM
Come to this forum and learn. ;)
Post by: 49er on March 17, 2009, 12:28:13 AM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 17, 2009, 02:44:04 AM
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In trying to keep to the topic, (hehehe Cheesy) around the time that gold was found in California, California Gulls flew to Utah and ate all the crickets there. Maybe that's why we don't play Cricket in the US.Wink
If that's on topic lol I'd hate to see off-topic :P Would it matter if the gulls ate all the crickets? I'm not sure about there but here they don't play any significant environmental function, just food for other animals.
Edit: Oh there is a Kansas in Sydney :)
Post by: 49er on March 17, 2009, 04:07:36 AM
I'm not sure about Kansas, but there is a Texas in Queensland :)I was just curious, we have a state named Kansas. But it's famous for flat, wheat, tornadoes and the wizard of Oz, not cricket. ???
Edit: Oh there is a Kansas in Sydney :)
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 17, 2009, 02:28:11 PM
As far as this cricket game, it's rather peculiar. I don't quite get it, though. Silly me, I'm just an American. No vegemite, no cricket!! :P :P :P
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 17, 2009, 04:35:00 PM
The bowler tries his hardest to bowl a ball the batter can't hit.
Fielders try to retrieve the ball as fast as possible to stop the batter getting too many runs. If they catch the ball on the full it is an instant out for the batter.
Then the teams swap over and it all starts again...
Then of course you have the trickier things like ducks, no balls, wides, sixes, fours, run outs, umpires, ashes, tests, one dayers...
Post by: allosaurus on March 17, 2009, 04:37:54 PM
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Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 17, 2009, 05:51:20 PM
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 17, 2009, 06:13:00 PM
I'm not that keen on sports either, but I do like the horse racing, not that I bet, I just love admiring those gorgeous horses :)
Post by: fancyfont on March 18, 2009, 12:02:17 AM
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Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 20, 2009, 03:48:45 PM