Uncle DT's Random Image Thread

[Blaze]

Well, Suzie did pummel Calvin when he told her to look for someone else to take to the prom. And Rosalyn would have been around 43. Certainly not unplausible...

[Kruger]

Suzie always had an imagination as wide as Calvin's.  How many times did she have tea parties and pretend that they were all in a big soap opera.  And Rosalyn having to deal with Calvin as a young boy just caused her brain to snap and the only job that she can successfully maintain now is continuing work as Calvin and Suzie's nanny...

[Blaze]

I think we all figured Rosalyn snapped...

[Kruger]

Oh yeah, she did.  But I'm surprised Calvin's parents didn't snap.  Though I am pretty certain that they encourage their grandkids as payback for that they went through...

[Blaze]

I've been away for a bit and even longer from watching any news or consuming any recent current affairs and the first thing I see is that the government is now saying there are aliens...?

[Kruger]

I knew it!  The government has known about extraterrestrials for years.  I mean come on, there was a movie that came out in 1982 about one.  And there were a few tv shows about some blue book.  Oh, I'll bet it's a conspiracy that some pr0n files were really aliens too...

[Blaze]

I guess the government has reclassified UFO's as UAP's. Maybe it's because most of those flying objects are really just swamp gas. But the part I read that I find funny is how they found "non-human biological samples". Wow, non-human. That could be an amoeba or a red-tailed fox. Or maybe it was Sasquatch flying Elvis around in a hot-air balloon. Pictures or it never happened...

[Kruger]

Ooooh tardigrades!!!  I had thought about searching for the little guys.  It turns out it's pretty easy to find them, they are pretty much everywhere...

[Blaze]

I had no idea they were that abundant and just about everywhere. One thing I don't have is a microscope. I could really boost my "what is it" pictures and go from macro to micro...

[Kruger]

When Caroline was cleaning out her grandparents house, there was a microscope that she gave to me.  While I haven't used it yet, I have planned to do some tardigrade hunting...

[Blaze]

That'll be pretty neat when you find some. I had no idea you could pick up an old EM for that much. Although I don't have room to put that anywhere. Maybe I'll try my hand at breeding...

[Kruger]

I was honestly surprised at how many EMs were on ebay and the starting bid (and occasional buy it now) prices.  I was thinking they would at least be in the tens of thousands, and while some are I never imagined they would be relatively accessible to pretty much anyone that really wanted one.

[Blaze]

That was my exact thoughts as well - it's somewhat affordable if that's what you're really into. As for your strain of yeast, when they get all big and grown up they can move out and live here...

[Kruger]

When I was brewing multiple times a month, I did have a rack of about ten yeast strains that were my preferred go to, including a couple that I cultured from some Belgian beers.  One of those Belgians is pretty rare and when I brewed a "clone" that was more of an "inspired by" and used their yeast, that recipe earned me a few ribbons.  All of those slants are long gone now, I don't brew enough to justify the work to keep active strains in my fridge...

[Blaze]

Maybe you can rekindle that hobby in retirement. For a moment there, that picture looked like something out of a maple sugar shack. I think maybe I should start looking at making maple syrup - where I can make most of it as grade D or as the new rating system calls it; grade A Very Dark...