Thread: Post Pictures of Your Everyday Life

Originally Posted by Carrot

What's a right mug?

To feel like a fool.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

There were at least half a dozen wandering around that day. You see them a lot for park patrols and crowd control.

Guess they're more versatile than cars, whilst faster and more intimidating than man alone.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

To feel like a fool.





Guess they're more versatile than cars, whilst faster and more intimidating than man alone.

I learnt a new word! Lols.

Horse cops are probably meant to preserve traditions. Hmm maybe they'll be replaced with robot horses in the future.

Originally Posted by Carrot

Horse cops are probably meant to preserve traditions. Hmm maybe they'll be replaced with robot horses in the future.

I really don't think it has much to do with traditions or there's anything "old fashioned" about it. They're used for the practical advantages in certain situations: height/view, all-terrain mobility and psychological impact, especially on crowds. You'll see mounted security at music festivals, too, because they can get around the whole grounds, they can see over all the people, cars, and many of the tents, and people afford them more respect both because of sheer mass and because people just like horses. They can also move into and through a crowd more easily and safely than any vehicle. Another advantage over man-made vehicles is intelligence; a well trained horse actively participates in crowd control and can make up its own mind how to get from point A to point B to some extent.

Our closest equivalent technology would be working from the turret of a small tank, and those can have a little too strong a psych impact and eat a lot more hay.

^ Plus a horse won't step on people - cars and motorcycles show no such compassion.

Originally Posted by Carrot

I learnt a new word! Lols.

careful, it's british slang. An American would never be caught saying something so silly XD

Hmm maybe they'll be replaced with robot horses in the future.

Definitely, no contest.

no, jet packs!


.. or hoverdroids.

Bipedal mechs would probably be the way to go, but all of those things would be a way worse ROI than horses.

Transplanted parade rose and other pots enjoying the rain:

Spoiler for today:

Originally Posted by Erii

wow the background of that image looks amazing O_O

Dat pollution.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

One of the several new Rapid (light rail/subway) stations built with stimulus money.



This one will be part of my everyday life for the foreseeable future, because it's on the way to the job I'm starting tomorrow

Congrats man!
Place seems awesome, what is this "Rapid (light rail/subway) stations" though? Some new economic/small train?

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

I meant after it gets turned into yummy butter cream frosting. Yeah, that's what I meant.

(also I couldn't resist, after Tommo's 'bathwater gaff')

Ahhhh.... well, tbh I would eat that butter too. At least I would have when I was a kid, haven't eaten butter by itself in a while.
But that butter just looks scrumptious.

Originally Posted by acatalephobic

Transplanted parade rose and other pots enjoying the rain:

Is that Skullcap down the bottom there?

Originally Posted by tommo

Place seems awesome, what is this "Rapid (light rail/subway) stations" though? Some new economic/small train?

Light rail are the kind of electric trains you find in most urban transit systems--with some exceptions, they're almost identical around the world. Around here we call the trains the Rapid (rapid transit), in Chicago it's the El (elevated tracks), in NYC it's the subway (mostly underground), in Paris the Metro...

A big part of the US economic stimulus package in 2009 went to "shovel ready" municipal projects. Around here, that mostly meant renovating the Rapid stations and putting up a couple of new ones.

Originally Posted by tommo

Dat pollution.

*morning fog

Originally Posted by tommo

Is that Skullcap down the bottom there?

On the bottom is parsley and sweet basil.

Originally Posted by tommo

Congrats man!
Place seems awesome, what is this "Rapid (light rail/subway) stations" though? Some new economic/small train?

Subway is opposite of light rail, because light rail is a mix of Heavy rail (Ordinary railways, commuter trains, San Franciscos BART, Atlantas MARTA, Washington D.C:s Metro) and their opposite, streetcars (Portlands streetcar, Tacoma streetcar and many museum streetcars) - Light rail is a system capable for street running and fast speed. = Running on own private right-of-way like trains or in tunnels aswell going on ordinary street. LRT vehicles are thus bit shorter than ordinary railway cars.

Chicagos Loop, New Yorks Subway, Paris Metro, London Underground are "lighter rail" - Heavy rail built with light rail standards because high cost of tunnel building and smaller need of space. (Circa 1900)

European style light rail (Cities in France, Germany) are usually dubbed "Rapid Tram", but both names mean the same.

Metro can mean any of the above, it's just a name that was first used by Paris underground railway.
Tram means same as streetcar.

LRT systems in northern america:

Spoiler for Light rail in USA and Canada:

USA:

Sacramento
San Jose
San Francisco (Muni metro J K L M N T)
Los Angeles (Blue, Gold and Expo line)
San Diego
Portland (MAX)
Seattle
Denver
Phoenix
Dallas
Houston
Charlotte
Norfolk
Detroit
Minneapolis - St. Paul
Salt Lake City
Newark (in New Jersey)
Hudson-Bergen light rail (in New Jersey)
Buffalo
Pittsburgh

Canada:

Calgary
Edmonton
Toronto (actually a streetcar)

I won't put a list of european systems here, would be too long, but reminder, Helsinki has only ordinary trams/streetcars and heavy rail (Metro).

Originally Posted by Toozul

[LEFT]Subway is opposite of light rail, because light rail is a mix of Heavy rail (Ordinary railways, commuter trains, San Franciscos BART, Atlantas MARTA, Washington D.C:s Metro) and their opposite, streetcars (Portlands streetcar, Tacoma streetcar and many museum streetcars) - Light rail is a system capable for street running and fast speed. = Running on own private right-of-way like trains or in tunnels aswell going on ordinary street. LRT vehicles are thus bit shorter than ordinary railway cars.

I stand corrected. I was just using it as a catchall term for "any transit system involving rails." Our trains are basically identical to subway trains I've been on in NYC or seen in vids of Japan, but they stay above ground most of the time, and even the "subway" stations are not so much underground as they are in the basements of large buildings (a skyscraper complex downtown and the airport).

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I really don't think it has much to do with traditions or there's anything "old fashioned" about it. They're used for the practical advantages in certain situations: height/view, all-terrain mobility and psychological impact, especially on crowds. You'll see mounted security at music festivals, too, because they can get around the whole grounds, they can see over all the people, cars, and many of the tents, and people afford them more respect both because of sheer mass and because people just like horses. They can also move into and through a crowd more easily and safely than any vehicle. Another advantage over man-made vehicles is intelligence; a well trained horse actively participates in crowd control and can make up its own mind how to get from point A to point B to some extent.

Our closest equivalent technology would be working from the turret of a small tank, and those can have a little too strong a psych impact and eat a lot more hay.

Thanks! I didn't know. I had tradition in mind because I don't recall seeing horse cops in my country.

Originally Posted by Toozul

Subway is opposite of light rail, because light rail is a mix of Heavy rail (Ordinary railways, commuter trains, San Franciscos BART, Atlantas MARTA, Washington D.C:s Metro) and their opposite, streetcars (Portlands streetcar, Tacoma streetcar and many museum streetcars) - Light rail is a system capable for street running and fast speed. = Running on own private right-of-way like trains or in tunnels aswell going on ordinary street. LRT vehicles are thus bit shorter than ordinary railway cars.

I think I might have something like that in my country. We have the subway trains and another smaller version of it. It goes slower than the subway train but still reasonably fast and the distance it travels is shorter. However the advantage of that is it gets to avoid the terrible road traffic during peak hours and because it travels slower, it doesn't create sound pollution so the tracks can be built right beside high rise buildings, the place where residents reside in.

Another D'Brickashaw update! D'Brickashaw the duck is almost grown up. Almost all its feathers have come in, and the tip of its tail is starting to curl up. We suspect that it is a male.

Spoiler for Pekin Duck:

Here is D'Brickashaw crying for my mother. It's forehead fluff poofs up and it sticks it's tongue out. It looks very special.


Dancing D'Brickashaw, for your entertainment.

As always, more duck photos to be found at my mother's blog.

I know this comment is stupid but animals grow so fast, then I look at myself. 20 years to become an adult for me and D'Brickashaw completes that in a month!

It's not a stupid comment Carrot, I thought the same thing when I saw D'Brickashaw growing and becoming independent so quickly! It's a fascinating process.

I was about to eat breakfast this morning when I opened a bag of raisins, and found this:




Wood in my raisins!

Originally Posted by Artelis

careful, it's british slang. An American would never be caught saying something so silly XD

Yeah, I forgot to add that.

that is NOT a raisin. Wood, you are not raisin. Go back to wood.

Awww, Brickers is growing up so fast

Chris and Daisy passed out on the couch:

Hit da beach.



ETA: I snapped my rear axle in half and shredded one of the ball bearing assemblies and who knows what else on the return trip Luckily I have a spare rear wheel to swap in.

I said i'll post a picture of my bag... It's definitely part of my everyday life, since i bring it with me anywhere i go
I have it since 5 or so years now.



I also had a smiley pin on it, but i lost that somewhere


Firefox is missing his eyes... but that doesn't stop him in being fluffy, lol.

I have something similar to the thing you called firefox but mine is white in colour and its tail dropped off.