The Bar 2015 Edition

[Elliot]

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Our neighborhood is doing a sort of open house thing tonight. A bunch of the shops and businesses are staying open later and participating in this evening hours event, designed to help people explore and check out the community after the workday. I think it's a great idea, our neighborhood has seen a ton of upheaval in the last couple years. There are lots of new businesses that have either started up or relocated, and it's a good way for long-time residents to see what's new or for the new folks to learn more about the place they live now.

When I inherit millions from an aunt I never knew I had, I will buy a small home in the city so I can participate in this sort of thing. Way to go!

[Aurelia]

Rhino , thank you for that fine link. !

xoA.

[Ratty]

Whew! What a day. Rhino the ukes were a joy and a pleasure. And yes, they played both of those themes. 2 hours of solid entertainment.
Trillo, I read your post as 'giganto reindeer'. It made no sense then or now. Way over my head.

The good news is that the County Solid Waste Authority board members renewed our contract for another year. I volunteer for a non-profit whose mission statement is all about diverting goods away from the landfill. We beat the garbage company. No easy feat with all their money and slick talking lawyers. Ha. Good wins again. I surprised myself and was struck with stagefright. It was fun, funny and effective. The political consultants and hired heads were slick as snot. I stammered honestly on and they listened.

Nitey nite. I'm beat.

[MyDearFriend]

Good morning!!!

Congratulations, Ratty, that's the way to do it!

[Elorrum]

Good morning Bar!

[Patsh]

Happy Friday to all!!


Here, it has been raining gently all night, and is expected to continue. So welcome, this precious water!
It's actually warm out, and it's not even light out there yet! (winter??!)

meanwhile, more

[lucky420]

Good Morning Bar.


Dry dry dry

Oh yeah and fuck you stubhub

[ygmir]

*wanders in, starts ECM*
HI Gang!!

big YAY, for Ratty!!! way to show honest opinion and good intent, can at times outshine polished bullshit!!!

Hi Elorrum!!!

Patsh: dang I'm jealous!! we're at 24% of normal precip. and see nothing on the horizon.

and, TDIF indeed!!!

*strokes Juke, heads for IBBOD*

[media]

[magicmarty]

Morning, YG, Patsh, Lucky, MDF and Ratty. So foggy here this morning, can't see across the street. Driest January on record. Dang Some of that east coast snow would be welcome out here.

Good going, Ratty. Nice to see a win for us for a change!

[Ratty]

Good morning and Thanks All. Can't stay for coffee. Yesterday I did zero work. Gotta catch up. He, he. Not like in Pulp fiction. Slams out the swinging doors to her horsie.

[trilobyte]

No worries, Ratty. In geek speak, render is when your design or animation software takes all the stuff you've been putting into your project and makes it into a picture or animation. I called it a "giganto" render because it was really really high resolution... gigantic. By comparison, a normal HDTV image is around 2 million pixels (or 2 megapixels), a really fancy 4K TV image is around 8 megapixels, and a really good digital camera is around 16 megapixels.... and the image I was working on was 155 megapixels. It's for some art that my girlfriend and I are making for this year's burn, once we get some things done I'll probably post pictures somewhere, and we'll have the super fancy finished pieces out on the playa.

I woke up a little wobbly today, I may have over-indulged myself on fancy microbrews. The meetup spot we'd picked with friends was a neighborhood brewery joint, and naturally as we waited for a friend who was running late we had another round... or maybe two. They were also serving up fancy tamales from the Mexican/Salvadoran restaurant around the corner, so we had to give those a try. Then we stumbled on down the street and checked out the fromagerie. Alas, the line was incredibly long and the people behind the counter were in no hurry, so we moved along to the shop next door.... fancy chocolates! It was actually Pandorra's favorite chocolatier, she's been enjoying their nibbles for years and discovered we lived only a few blocks away when she did the neighborhood crawl last year. The next stop was an amazing gallery that had these massive 8'x8' and 10'x10' installations on the walls made from hard drives and motherboards and all kinds of other bits of technology. Really dazzling stuff! We made a few more stops, then found ourselves at a little place that specialized in fancy wines, ciders, and vermouths. Afterwards, we headed to one of our favorite little brewpub spots eat and drink a little more... only to realize it was the designated afterparty spot, and was absolutely mobbed. Our group split a bit at that point, with one group determined to brave the extremely long queue for their top shelf BBQ, another group skipping food altogether and aiming for the separate and shorter queues at the bar. We were someplace in between - I'd spied that they were offering pre-made pastrami sandwiches at a to-go stand by their side entrance, so I grabbed a couple of those and a couple drinks at the bar and it was just what we needed. More great conversation ensued, and eventually people started to peel off for home. The weather was nice and Pandorra's ankle was doing alright (she's still healing up after breaking it in December), so we strolled home. Along the way she pulled me into a music gear shop on a side street to show me all kinds of fancy tech and we chatted with the guys working the little shop and geeked out a little bit on music gear. All in all, really great night.

[burner von braun]

*pours vodka*

While I enjoy a more rural existence, with the ability to step out the back door into a wooded area and build a bonfire or look at the night sky, you sure do describe an exciting lifestyle there in the city Trilo. Thanks for sharing, and giving others a sampling of what it is like in your world.

Speaking of renders, it is interesting to me that you refer to your images in megapixels rather than image resolution. Is that a printing convenience? At the present time I nearly always render out at 1920x1080 HD, which I'm sure you do a lot of as well. And congrats on what surely amounts to one heck of a renderfarm. You can certainly dial in all kinds of cool bells and whistles with that kind of horsepower to support the effort!

Woohoo! It is nearing that time when I need to transfer some money out of the ol' BSA (burner savings account) into the account associated with my ticket buying credit card. And maybe a little extra to support a project or two as well. I'm starting to feel just a little bit giddy thinking about getting dusty again!

[MyDearFriend]

*pours drink*

*sits quietly, just listening*

[burner von braun]

Hi MDF! Always good to see ya!

Has Bin made it home yet?

[MyDearFriend]

Yes, BVB Bin is home, eating good food, feeling no pain per his last report.

[Elorrum]

Yay, BVB! Hiya MDf, let me top off that drink for you. Put your feet up.

[trilobyte]

Heya BvB! For video projects I generally use resolution too (720p, 1080p, etc), but with renders for print those numbers get to be kind of meaningless... both because the numbers can get really high really quickly and because the size and aspect ratio can get a little weird. The giganto-render was 10,800 x 14,400 pixels, which will work out to 3 feet wide by 4 feet tall at 300 dots per inch. It's for one of 8 art posters we're making for our camp's Carnival Of Space & Time theme, and we decided early on that we want them to be high quality prints. And as you've seen, we like to play with technology when making art

Hooray for Friday, and bigger hoorays for the jackhammer guy at the job site across the street knocking off for the weekend. Pandorra's just arrived home from work, so time for dinner and drinks and arty nonsense. Cheers!

[burner von braun]

now THAT is great news MDF!!

Woohoo Bin!!

*climbs up on bar and does happy dance with all four feet*

..hey.. it's Elorrum, well this is turning into a fine Friday evening for sure. I hope you're settling into your new locale comfortably. It seems to me that area is really becoming Burner Central 2.

Cheers Trilo! I'm looking forward to discovering new hi-rez ancient artifacts and climbing the ziggurat again!

[tattoogoddess]

I shall take a beer please.

We did our taxes and it was half of what we were thinking we would get back. Shit. So that means no burning man this year. Damn had really high hopes and even started sewing and buying a few things. But yeah. With my sugery in April and a few other things super high on the list of need to pay, we can't afford it. So pissed sigh, so I guess I will have to wait till 2016 to see ya guys again. Grrrr.


*drinks beer and hits head on bar top*

[ygmir]

*raises periscope from heater register, seeing who's here*

[tattoogoddess]

I'm here. How's it going

[ygmir]

HI TTG.
sorry about you not making it this year. dang it.
well, there's lots of time 'tween now and then..........many things are possible..........

[tattoogoddess]

True that!!! I know I won't make it but between now and 2016 many many things will be drastically changing. Can't say anything but you will all see the. Muahahaha!!

[lucky420]

Morning bar!

Lots to do today

See ya...

[tatonka]

[Elorrum]

4 wheels move the chuckwagon, and it's set up out back.

[ygmir]

*wanders in, makes CCCW*
Hi gang! nice breakfast,thanks Elorrum.

*strokes TV, heads for IBBOD*

[media]

[tattoogoddess]

Can I drink of I'm on the clock right now here? Lol

Slow day at work. News says we have about 11 inche's of snow rolling in soon. Sledding!!!

[Thecatman]

Afternoon All!!

Lots to do today

Well at least you had a nice day to do it.
And it was a nice day today. I think Lauren Bacall called "false spring" in The Shootist which was filmed in Carson City.
Noticed a few daffodils broke ground. About 3/4 of an inch. They're hearty plants and can take the cold. Waiting for the hyacinths and tulips now
Gonna go to Js Bistro in old town Dayton for dinner in about an hour.
Hope all have a nice evening.

[lucky420]

It was a beautiful day. Ellorum and I went down to the Morris and volunteered some hours painting the outside..

Now it's time to grill steaks and chicken

And get high...

Reverse the order