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originally posted by: jhn7537
a reply to: AnkhMorpork
Say "Beetlejuice" three times.... Oh crap, that summons Phage... Ummm... brb
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: AnkhMorpork
Slap up a Trump supporter, he'll contact you!
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: ColdWisdom
Well, when I was a kid (maybe 13-14), I read a book that had a character who was using a sensory deprivation tank. I couldn't make a tank but I could make a sensory deprivation mask. Which I did — out of sunglasses, cardboard, duct tape and a pair of headphones (for piping in music).
I've also had an interest in unexplained phenomena since I was a even younger than that. I blame 80's movies. My ideal jobs as a kid were probably:
1. Parapsychologist
2. Tomb raiding maverick archaeologist
3. Vampire slayer
Actually my grandmother was an autodidact with a wide range of interests and an impressive library. She was constantly researching something or another (the pre-Internet lol) and she collected a bunch of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photocopies of pages from books, etc and put it into a scrap book of sorts for me. Everything from cryptozoology to UFOS to the paranormal.
Which is how I was first introduced to Charles Fort. When I first saw the picture, for some reason it made me think of Charles Fort collecting obscure bits of information on index cards. All of this reminding me of my efforts to find and relay interesting things. I figured I had a huge advantage over Fort and my grandmother with the Internet, particularly after I'd written my aggregator.
Also, I like that it's not something you run into as an avatar often but there's just enough pictures to put them in rotation to mix it up a bit.
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
here is a song for trump supporters.
think i'm gonna change my sig now.
hows this
It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than
I think I am
I guess that's why
they call me
The workin' man
It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than
I think I am
I guess that's why
they call me
The workin' man
originally posted by: ColdWisdom
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: ColdWisdom
Well, when I was a kid (maybe 13-14), I read a book that had a character who was using a sensory deprivation tank. I couldn't make a tank but I could make a sensory deprivation mask. Which I did — out of sunglasses, cardboard, duct tape and a pair of headphones (for piping in music).
I've also had an interest in unexplained phenomena since I was a even younger than that. I blame 80's movies. My ideal jobs as a kid were probably:
1. Parapsychologist
2. Tomb raiding maverick archaeologist
3. Vampire slayer
Actually my grandmother was an autodidact with a wide range of interests and an impressive library. She was constantly researching something or another (the pre-Internet lol) and she collected a bunch of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photocopies of pages from books, etc and put it into a scrap book of sorts for me. Everything from cryptozoology to UFOS to the paranormal.
Which is how I was first introduced to Charles Fort. When I first saw the picture, for some reason it made me think of Charles Fort collecting obscure bits of information on index cards. All of this reminding me of my efforts to find and relay interesting things. I figured I had a huge advantage over Fort and my grandmother with the Internet, particularly after I'd written my aggregator.
Also, I like that it's not something you run into as an avatar often but there's just enough pictures to put them in rotation to mix it up a bit.
Pre-internet life was pretty cool. We will never know what that's like ever again .