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"The Seven Trashcans of California" : My Photography
Ace-Garageguy replied to 1972coronet's topic in The Off-Topic Lounge
Wow. I believe I'm seeing a disturbing trend here. Soon the landscape will be covered in terminally obsolete and dangerous toilets, wisely discarded as the new mo-better "flush from a phone app" units displace the old-school devices that require the user to (gasp!!!") actually REACH AROUND AND OPERATE A PHYSICAL HANDLE!!! OMG!!! How could humanity have even existed previously, having been required to WORK HANDLES!!! Surely the discarded toilets will contribute to climate-change in some murky, poorly-defined and statistically manipulated way too. It's the end of the world as we know it!!!!! And thank you for so ably documenting this emerging existential crisis. PEOPLE MUST KNOW!!!! -
Chunky Cheese is Chuck E.'s overweight little brother.
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Think twice before you spit in someone's porridge.
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Here you go. Pretty "high tech" for 1936:
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To be or not to be, doo be doo be doo be.
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Maiden aunts might be young babes, or they might look like Aunt Bee, but I wouldn't want to tangle with a flying panther.
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That thing hovering outside my front window might be a UFO, or the cats might have built themselves a drone.
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Not really, but they do solve the "clamping and alignment" problem. A more exact term might be "temporary alignment and fixturing solution employing wire as staples".
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Wow. That's quite an impressive diagnosis. Even after 50-plus years in the biz, I'm not attuned enough to "smell" when the brake fluid is low.
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Looks really good. Another option might be these welding clamps for holding sheetmetal flush...or getting crazy and making up some small ones for model work:
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Thoughts and ideas that hold forever true..........
Ace-Garageguy replied to JollySipper's topic in The Off-Topic Lounge
Similar to one above, but something I've told people who were struggling with something obvious and simple: "Pretend you're smarter than whatever you're working on." -
Box-of-rocks has a level of intellectual development superior to some of the folks with whom I have to interact.
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"Post No Bills" is still common signage on walls and fences, and I always wondered why I was being told not to mail myself.
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Boo boos can be avoided by refreshing the page just prior to posting, unless somebody is quicker on the trigger as you post.
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Autoquiz #624 - Finshed
Ace-Garageguy replied to carsntrucks4you's topic in Real or Model? / Auto ID Quiz
Nice looking little car (if kinda bland), very Italianesque, which made ID as something from South America more challenging. Fissore is not among the most well known European design houses in the States, but they did some notable cars, among them the DeTomaso Vallelunga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrozzeria_Fissore -
DISREGARD
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LATE POST...NEVER MIND
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Us chickens has gone ta bed.
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A Streaming AI Musical Christmas Card From the Future
Ace-Garageguy replied to Ace-Garageguy's topic in The Off-Topic Lounge
I would guess the AI doesn't recognize them as words specifically, but "thinks" they're just designs it's seen something similar to, and doesn't put them in context as images that should be interpreted as text, so as to make the reasoning leap that proper spelling is part of the equation. The reason I think this is because there are other words that look like words at first glance, but if you look closer, or stop the frame, they're just squiggles, or partial words with some squiggles. Some people have difficulty with interpreting stylized typefaces as words occasionally, so it's not surprising a machine might also. EDIT: There some that don't fit that supposition well though, like the "guaramted midmight delivery" or something similar on a Santa frame. Poor spelling ability on the part of the human(s) behind the production? Not a first-language-English speaker? Sloppy editing? Somebody just being oh-so-cutesy? Who knows? Still, from what I'm seeing, these consumer- and art-grade AI products are not really good yet at understanding context and nuance, or making logical assumptions that human minds do effortlessly (some human minds...). These abilities can, however, be defined as more sophisticated pattern-recognition, and will continue to develop over time. This one seems to me to be just a tick better than the last one. The last one had all kinds of flaws, like vehicles moving kinda sideways, and licking ice cream or eating being rendered very oddly. Maybe it's learning. EDIT: It's a failure of AI to grasp context and make logical assumptions that (some) humans generally excel at subconsciously that seem to be responsible for the mistakes self-driving systems make as well. -
"Ago" always makes me want to try to go with something about go-go girls, but I've just about used all those references up, jawohl.
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Painted with a dirty pinecone: obvious Dipped in syrup: excessively thick 2K clear that fills seams and obliterates surface detail Painted with a roller: again, obvious "Bass boat" can also refer to excessively large, way out of scale reflective particles in metallic paint, also common on fiberglass dune buggies and helmets with a metalflake finish buried under clear gelcoat. ------------------------------------------------------------ Shelf of doom: refers to projects stalled for a long time but not put away
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And Remember the Maine on Feb. 15.
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Squirrel haunches can probably be dressed up and sold as frog legs, but it still takes a lot of 'em to make a pot pie.