Cryptofishist!

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:36 pm

Even a less-than-bleeding-edge Powerbook is plenty good. So long as it runs OSX, you're golden. Remember that Leopard is coming out in a couple months.

mars · Post by **mars** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:41 pm

I love the idea of a fish riding on the back of a leopard! Fun!!

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:55 pm

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:10 pm

yeah, the more i consider things the better i personally feel a powerbook would be for her. other than the tech bits.. easier for her to use, better chance at working out warranties, has pretty good media support, and its tres' hip - the latest craze for the elite college crowd where she can hang in some cafe with wifi and look the sheeeeit.

mars · Post by **mars** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:15 pm

Ah, yes, a leapord fish, Do'T, very nice!

Post by **Eric** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:16 pm

diane o'thirst wrote:

I like this one. It's much cuter.

karine · Post by **karine** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:33 pm

I'm with L' .. I am soo excited!

Let the sunshine....let the sunshine in...the sunshine..IN

Everybody sing!!

LET THE SUNSHINE..LET THE SUNSHINE IN..THE SUN....SHINE IN!

Petal of the Playa · Post by **Petal of the Playa** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:06 am

OMG - I am shocked at this news - Fishy, stay positive... my thoughts and prayers are with you - come home soon!

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:16 am

Saddened to hear about Fishy's accident (TheCO has kept me informed). DELIGHTED to hear she's awake, aware, and bored (not that boredom is a good thing, but it's FAR better than the alternatives of despair and depression)!

Please, PMs from the folks who know where donations go! To myself or TheCO. We want to help with whatever is needed, laptop, home modifications, whatever.
Fishy always has been a joy on here. I'm chomping at the bit to do whatever I can to get her back online.

Our hearts go out to you Fishy. We will keep you in our prayers that the Gods will grant you an swift and relatively painless recovery. Stay positive and, when the world gets you down, remember how well loved you truly are.

mars · Post by **mars** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:49 am

Her sister agreed to get a pay pal account set up when she has the energy and time to do it.

karine · Post by **karine** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:25 pm

Okay -for the DVD player for Crypto's hospital room in Austria, Axel (of the German Team) is leading the way! He has model and a company picked out... now it's time for us to come up with the funds. I set up a paypal for that, see:
http://www.karinewilson.com/ChukkaContribute.html

and I guarantee no matter what you give, all of it goes to Chuka & her family.
THEN we will have a call for donated DVD's.. but we want to clarify (i think) which address we can send those to...

Awesome!

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:32 pm

The latest posting on the support site ( http://www.chukkasupport.blogspot.com/ )indicates that CD's, DVD's and similar SMALL items can be mailed to the hospital.

karine · Post by **karine** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:59 pm

Well there we Go!

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sat May 12, 2007 11:16 pm

spectabillis wrote:

I haven't identified this Tank yet but if anyone has the skills with plastic models It would be cool if Fishy could have one waiting for her when she got home. Say 1/32 scale or larger. Or in 1/87 scale and parked at the Scale:burner camp. Or both.

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:18 am

Google "london tank" or "london pink tank"

It's a russian T-34 painted under the direction of Alexendra Mir

TALK OF THE TOWN: PINK TANK
By Jonathan Gibbs

The Independent on Sunday, London, November 2, 2003.

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I first saw my London tank on Millennium Eve. I was casing a route to take a party of revellers on foot from Peckham to the river that evening. It went up the path of the old canal from Peckham Library through Burgess Park, over the Old Kent Road and on through Bermondsey Street. Cutting across the Old Kent, I turned into Mandela Way, and there it was, stood defiantly on a triangle of land where the Way met Pages Walk, nominally fenced off but clearly functioning as common ground.

A huge, toylike T-34, with the soft edge of its rounded turret, and its cannon rising dramatically westwards. I clambered onto it and posed, for nobody. Every boy's war game come to life, and tamed. Fenced in, and threatened only by nettles and buddleia. Like a great many toys in this world, it had been bought as a present, ostensibly at least, by a father for his son. Protest, though, was not far away. Russell Gray, who lives just around the corner, named his tank Stompie, after Stompie Muketsi Sepei, the teenager murdered by Winnie Mandela's thugs in 1989. The point being that even simple political gesturesâ€”like a local council naming a street for an anti-apartheid modern legendâ€”can have muddied resonances.

The authorities, for their part, were interested in Stompie. For a while a 'remove for disposal' sticker adorned its green-grey sides. The spectre of planning permission was raised. Finally, the MoD wondered if it had been properly decommissioned, and suggested it might be a security risk. To date, Gray is yet to trundle it across Westminster Bridge towards Parliament, with insurrection on his mind. The closest it's come to toppling the state is bursting through the castle walls in the magnificent opening of the Ian McKellen film of 'Richard III', as part of its tank travels between Czechoslovakia and Bermondsey.

Today, though, the Mandela Way tank is pink. This was the work (sanctioned by Mr Gray) of cubitt artists, under the leadership of American artist Aleksandra Mir. Its transformation took place in July 2002, as an example of what Mir calls 'Summer Art'. 'It took 5 girls to paint it in the scorching sun.' she says, and you can find pictures of the posing tank girls online. Although Mir is coy about its inspiration (citing 'everything else that's pink in the world'), the reference to Prague's famous pink tank seems unavoidable.

This symbol of aesthetic-political subversion dates back to 1968, when Soviet tanks rolled into the Czech capital to crush the Prague Spring. They mounted one of their T-34s on a pedestal in the city's central squareâ€”supposedly as a memorial to the Russian soldiers who had liberated the population from the Nazis back in 1945, but in practice to remind the locals that Moscow didn't take kindly to anyone 'reforming' Communism. Local artists were less impressed, however, and painted it pink.

Most people know the monument from its second incarnation, created by artist David Cerny to celebrate the Velvet Revolution. He tried the trick again in 2001, with a new tank. Wary now of souring relations with Russia in the brave new post-Soviet Europe, the authorities resisted. The pink tank lives on in Prague only as a souvenir t-shirt. Here, we have Stompie.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:16 am

Ahhh Lovely, we now have stompies back ground story!
Thank you E'dude!

karine · Post by **karine** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:22 am

Funds receive for the DVD player....(((Thanks to an anonymous e-playa donor!)))
Now we wait, because the family is talking to the Head Nurse about it being okay to HAVE the DVD player first.

I am collecting up your guys' great digital art on the art site for Crypto for her, too. It seems the art & the funny stuff are what we can do best, right now..... And besides, you guys always make ME smile...

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:15 am

I'll see what I can do about the model tank...

karine · Post by **karine** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:24 pm

that ~would be~ funny!

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun May 13, 2007 2:15 pm

Anonymous is my favorite poet too.

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sun May 13, 2007 5:22 pm

Thanks Edude - I knew it was a Russian tank but could not remember which one.

Thanks CO. You rock!

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:08 pm

looks like Tamiya models 1/48 Military Miniature Series No.15 (ITEM 32515)

138mm long about 5 1/2" about $25

edit to add:
http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/ ... /index.htm

Barb Wire · Post by **Barb Wire** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:05 am

Box Burner wrote:
spectabillis wrote:
I haven't identified this Tank yet but if anyone has the skills with plastic models It would be cool if Fishy could have one waiting for her when she got home. Say 1/32 scale or larger. Or in 1/87 scale and parked at the Scale:burner camp. Or both.

If someone would like to build this tank in 1/87 scale, it would be an honor to have it parked at the Scale:Burners camp!

Killbuck · Post by **Killbuck** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:30 am

Soviet, WW2, a T-34

Widely available in 1:87

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:57 am

awesome CO!!! that would be ever so perfect for her place with the Herrings!

EL Wire · Post by **EL Wire** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:38 am

I don't know if any of you remember, but she asked if she could join the Scale Burners earlier as this screen shot shows.
Click it for full size to be able to read.

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:54 am

Part of the care package I sent to fishy on the 4th was her dog tags, one for the 1:87 scale burners camp, the other for the BoobyBar

Unfortunately both dog tags were "full size"

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:42 am

Well, I already collect green plastic army men and assorted small military models, so getting one is not difficult. Just got to paint it when it shows up...

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:35 pm

Hey, y'all - looks like most of Fishy's candles blew out over the weekend. Go light a couple, wouldja?

(link in my .sig)

Bambi of Finland · Post by **Bambi of Finland** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:59 pm

Thanks Koosh , done.
Come on people, I know y'all need some serenity.

Cryptofishist!

"STOMPIE"

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