I was wondering...
Could the TBCS members hold an actual meeting? This would be a great opportunity for us to get together. Or maybe have a statewide type of thing?
-Kevin :p
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I was wondering...
Could the TBCS members hold an actual meeting? This would be a great opportunity for us to get together. Or maybe have a statewide type of thing?
-Kevin :p
About a third of our members are spread over Europe.
So don't expect a huge turnout.
A lot of our members meet at Million Man Lan, from what i hear.
-Dave
We could prob. try a local/state type of thing. Or, if you're in Europe, country-wide (NC is about as big as germany).Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveW
I think there's only 3 UK folks over here: Justblair, Gaz_the_Chav, and me.
There used to be more, but they come and go. It won't work for us, i suspect.
-Dave
Well, i'm in the california, where i know there's a few people.
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I am in washington... I think... the only person within like 6 hours of me is Rankenphile lol
Where is million man lan located and what time do they start it?
yeah, theres really not alot of people to close to other people. Check out the Frappr map to see whos close to you and maybe try to contact them on an individual basis. Otherwise I don't think its really that possible to have a massive meeting of everyone ;).
http://www.frappr.com/thebestcasescenariomodders
MML is in Louisville, Kentucky. I'm hopefully going this year, I barely missed it last year.
It's around June, I believe.
hey ty....you know where allentown is?
i go to that area every summer...or so...
Yah I've got a giant moat around where I live to keep you lot out its called the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. 8)
A TBCS meet up would be cool but I live on the otherside of the world so :( .
Same here but im a S.A. W00t. All Australians meet up on the border of N.T and S.A lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by simon275
Shot gun not driving lol. Thats a trek so like meet at Uluru its roughly the centre and near where S.A. meets the NT meets W.A.Quote:
Originally Posted by munkey_boy
Good to see another Aussie on the fourm hope you stick around.
theres quite a few people that live within a few miles of me. im in manchester, UK:P
Somebody buy me teh air tickets... :/
lmao theres only one other person in NC. Thank god he's in Fayetteville :>.
Ahem....:? im from the UK too u kno..... NEWCASTLE ALL THE WAY xDQuote:
Originally Posted by DaveW
lol...sorry YoungBlood. Guess there's 4 of us. Is that enough to warrant a Pinata? I think it is. We can fill it with old computer parts.
lol...a Celeron Pinata.
Have i spelt that correctly?
-Dave
Ahaha sounds like fun and you can sit around and drink orange juice and dicuss the finer points of overclocking and multipliers. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by DaveW
"Orange Juice Is ready guys"
"Can I hit the Pinata?"
*Smack
"I got a 386 I'm so l337"
"No your not your a newb I got 256mb of 3200 RAM"
I get carried away sometimes.
Yep! I'm about an hour or so away.Quote:
Originally Posted by b4i7
ahem, so am i :PQuote:
Originally Posted by DaveW
Looks like we got a small British invasion on our hands here.
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Looks like we got a small British invasion on our hands here.
Get him lads!
-Dave
Would it be possible to do a video conference of some kind with webcams?
It seems more possible than a physical get together.
I'm not real familiar with that kind of stuff but can MS netmeeting connect multiple people at once? I'll just dig up a stuffed anuimal and place it in front of my camera :)
cool! *Pulls out miniDV camcorder w/ webcam.
That's a pretty neat idea.
-Dave
Lol to true!Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveW
Dave, have you ever gone to the i-series (in england!!) held by multi-play uk? Tis a big LAN gaming event.
I have never been to one but would love to go. Has anyone else gone to one (held at Newbury Racecourse)??
The next one is 10th of november and is i29.
Check it out at http://www.multiplay.co.uk/
-gaz
I suck at Lan games man. But it might be nice to hang out with some modders.
I'll think about it. I'm pretty busy and poor at the moment, and i don't expect much to have changed by november the 10th.
-Dave
lol me to plus transort is generally a problem (My capree stays tucked away at night - not in a scabby field lol.)
I dont generally play like counter stirke etc. i am more into my racing games - NFSU etc.
See I love Counter Strike and all lan games except the only that holds me back from going to as many LAN's as I can is time. Studying for my final exams is killing me.
A video conference would be sweet.
**** man, you drive a capri? Stick a pic in the Cars thread!Quote:
lol me to plus transort is generally a problem (My capree stays tucked away at night - not in a scabby field lol.)
There's a guy at my dad's flat who's killed one in an attempt to restore it. You can see he's just painted over the rust with red metal paint, probably the stuff for fences. It's a real shame.
-Dave
instead of a meeting, just get some bigass game of counterstrike goin.
Not everyone here plays or owns counterstrike.
A videoconference would be sweet, but would require some real organization and bandwidth.
Here's a little piece of trivia for all of you. Why are barns painted with the red rust-based paint?
Many times, farmers used to add rust to their paint when painting their barns. This is becuase, for one, rust is easily found on farms usually, and two, rust helps make the paint resistant to mold, fungus, moss, plants, etc.
Then again, it's also just a tradition.
And, I have heard, that in the old days, wealthy farmers would mix blood in with their paint from fresh slaughters. They used to make paint out of everything, like milk, flaxseed (very common, still used today), plants, etc. Really anything they could scrounge up.
sounds like they were modders ... kind of...Quote:
Originally Posted by tybrenis
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Originally Posted by DaveW
lol I will get one on saturday or sunday. It looks pretty bad but I rinsed a BMW M3 in it - 3.6 rear wheel drive. I also spin out at alot of roundabouts lol.
-gaz :bunny:
I am up for that which one counterstrike 1.6 or Source I have both.Quote:
Originally Posted by chedabob
I'm from wisconsin, if there's one thing we have, its barns.Quote:
Here's a little piece of trivia for all of you. Why are barns painted with the red rust-based paint?
My Grandfather had a world champion holstein breeder's farm.
His barn was white, it help it stay a little cooler in the summer.
The University of Wisconsin Extension - Wisconsin Barn Preservation Program
Link to FAQ: Why are Wsconsin barns red?
"Red was the most inexpensive paint that farmers could buy early on."
In actuallity it became a positive feedback loop.
- Barns use a lot of paint.
- sellers get a discount from manufacturers for quantity.
- prices drop so more people buy the cheaper paint.
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Please site your sources.Quote:
wealthy farmers would mix blood in with their paint from fresh slaughters. They used to make paint out of everything, like milk
I find this hard to believe.
If you are going back in history far enough to sight this, then you are probably far enough back in time that people wouldn't waste it on a building, they would consume it themselves.
Blood pudding (its whats for breakfast, mmmm). Also one does not slap raw blood or raw milk on a building unless one wants to attract flies! Casein paint is derived from milk but its not straight milk. I imagine the blood version (if there is one) of this kind of paint is the same way. Its probably more effort to make and costs more than a mineral based dye.
No again.Quote:
rust helps make the paint resistant to mold, fungus, moss, plants, etc.
Zinc and Copper especially are used for affecting plants. And if that was a real reason for the paint color, then all barns would be shade of green. They (Cu & Zn) bind with the magnesium (Mg) at the core of the Chlorophyll molecule and prevent it from functioning. Its kind of like the plant equivelant of cyanide (CN). Iron won't do that.
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I won't de-rail this thread again but I really dislike bad science passed off as fact.
wouldnt blood just coagulate and leave a nasty finish?
No no, I completely agree with you. I hate bad science passed of as fact as well. I was talking to my social studies teacher about it one day, so I looked it up and found something. Here is where I found it:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question635.htm
Cevinzol got it. Ferric oxide was one of the cheapest and most available paints. That's why barns are painted red.
tybrenis is also partially correct. Flax-based paint does discourage mold production.
As for blood, not likely. In American paint history they went from whitewash to flax based to mineral spirit based and none of those involve blood or any raw animal part. Even the earliest forms of paint used mostly plants for their dyes because plant dyes don't stink or rot as quickly or badly.