and the floor in my house hasn't melted from beneath my feet, the trees outside appear to be all in place, so I guess I'll settle back with a bowl of gruel and swill and plan on making another mortage payment... maybe I'll go outside and dust off the T and go for a ride.
Did they say when today it,end of the world, was suppose to happen. I will feel better tonight at midnight.
To me, Friday started at the first stroke past midnight, now it's 5 a.m. here and the sun is starting to come up. Let's see if midnight comes tonight.
Well in New Zealand we are still alive and we are heading into Saturday so just another day for us.
We had some strong winds here in Tennessee and lots of things going bump in the night. I have to say the Mayans crossed my mind.......
I'm pretty sure that somebody were to exam that calendar wheel carefully they'd come across a note saying "Disk one of two".
There just maybe something to the Myan's prediction. With all the crap that has happened this month "THE WORLD" as we have known it will never be the same. In a sense the world has ended and a new one has begun.
Weather wise it sure as heck looks like the end is nigh around here. But actually over the past 2 months I've seen worse.
I think it all is just a good reason to stay home from work and just have some adult beverages.
I know it's all a joke, but the digital 2 looks the same upside down. It would just be 2102.
I think it's a reflected image, like in a pool of water?
If a mirror reverses left and right, why doesn't it reverse top and bottom?
Steve- it does if you look at the world sideways (as some people do) :-)
Steve, try this. Hold a mirror below a object at a angle then look at the mirror and the object from the same direction.
Steve,
I don't know the answer, but I've always wondered the same thing!
Lenses do that also, they invert the image top to bottom when a distance from the object, but don't flip it left to right.
I think the end comes at solstice which is tonight, but then modern weather forecasters with computers and satellites and reporting stations all over the world can not forecast the weather for tomorrow with more than a 50% accuracy. what makes people think an ancient stone age society could predict the end of the world down to the day, thousands of years in advance?
We are having a party tonight, but it is a solstice party, I will not drink too much as I do not want to have a hang over tomorrow
Best
Gus
PS for all those believers out there, welcome to a new world tomorrow, but your debts will still be due
If I stand on my head to look at 2012 I get a headache and change drop out of my pockets.
You have change?
It's the end of the year, we haven't paid the 4th quarter taxes yet and some of us have change. Please don't stand on your head to drink your adult beverage. I hope you guys realize the end will come as the solstice travels through the individual time zones. So if we pay attention and Simon has had his world end I hope he posts whatever happens so we'll know what to expect when it get's here.
Well other than freezing my @-s off when I go out side and get my hat blown off it seems to be a normal friday.
The stone age people had something going for them.
Just try to go out side and pick up a rock bigger than your house with a few logs and some rope and a few extra folk.I doubt it would be easy.
My calendar tells me I'm wasting time reading and writing this.
Mack, it might not be easy but, apparently it's necessary. They did it enough to cause us to question their sanity.
Today, at 11:12 UTC (06:12 Eastern time) it was officially the winter solstice. Winter solstice has already occurred for the US so the rest of the World is well into solstice +1. If they're ok, we should be fine.
It is unusual for me to post something like this, but in this case,.....it fits.
Christians will agree, and non-Christians might at least consider this:
Something very important must happen before the end of the world comes. As all Christians know,......"He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead". Because this has not happened yet, the world cannot come to an end because He will have no "living" to judge because with the advent of the end of the world, there will be no "living" left for Him to judge!
Speaking of mirrors, here is the front and end view of a gear drive taken in one photo.
I only had enough battery power for one photo, and will wait to see if tomorrow comes
before I buy more <@^@>
I wanted to know if a spring would work in place of the worm gear (and it does).
(Only Stan and Harold may know what this drive is for)
This should explain a few things....turn up the volume and view full screen...
http://www.jibjab.com/originals/2012_the_end_is_here?utm_campaign=2012_12_21_JJ_ INFO_Year_in_Review&utm_term=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=StrongMail&utm_co ntent=Fri%2C+21+Dec+2012+12%3A44%3A10+-0800
This should explain a few things....turn up the volume and view full screen...
http://www.jibjab.com/originals/2012_the_end_is_here?utm_campaign=2012_12_21_JJ_ INFO_Year_in_Review&utm_term=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=StrongMail&utm_co ntent=Fri%2C+21+Dec+2012+12%3A44%3A10+-0800
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Nothing to worry about !
Well with just a tad over a hour left of this day,you reckon the ol mayans may have missed the mark? :>)
It is cold out there tonight for sure.Been very windy.Leaves all over the place Again.So much for all that work I did to clean up a couple weeks ago.
For Sale: Mountain top in France. Slightly trashed by last occupants. 1-800-oh-crap.
Gary, wasn't there supposed to be a hill in Wisconsin that all the crazies were supposed to go to in order catch the mothership? Or was it only the one in France.
Art, that whole spring in place of the worm gear is a strange and unique way to go. I'd call that field expediance. And the mirror trick was as unique as the spring.
Art Bell - Very clever Art, and a handy tip to keep in mind if I ever wear out that worm gear on my Unimat SL. Very unlikely tho' as I am still watching for a chance to buy a set of the 14 thread pattern drums and followers. I have a couple of the metric ones but would love to find the complete set of the 14 NC & NF ones. I guess the guy I bought my SL from only bought the few individual metric thread drums/follower sets that he needed; wish he'd bought the whole outfit with complete metric & inch threading guides.
That's a pretty clever set-up with the mirror that you used to photograph your "spring worm gear". In fact, this latest "post" of yours shows that it really does pay to read even the "OT" threads on the forum as you never know what might pop up! Thanks,.......harold