What are your jeans doing today?

[dkatz]

Fuckin' A. My mobile modem runs out of credit for a couple days, and I come back to THIS? This thread is unbelievable.

My all-stars of the past days:

Wow. This batch is incredible, -Z- ... some of my favorites I've seen from you. Can me and my old Canon 10d + Canon 50mm 1.8 come visit and learn how to take photos like you?

Also, you really need to open at least an e-gallery, so we can see your shit in higher resolution. And buy it. I'd love a -z- triptych in wherever I wind up living when I'm back Stateside.

Ahhh this makes me miss the bay so much! (seriously)

Hey I wonder if you saw my ex-girlfriend there?

Ooooops... did I just say that on the interwebs?

Holy biker-abs, batman! Ok, you're motivating me to get back on my running game (I've been so overworked and exhausted lately that I barely exercise - I hate it).

And man it's been too long since I've been to a waterpark!

Ahh, Wild Rivers of Irvine, how I miss you!

Unfuckingbelievable! Tough gig you've got there

Couple of lovely ladies you've managed to find yourself, buddy. I hope you

never forget how luck you are!

And for me... no pictures, but on Thursday my jeans sat on a bus and wrote STATA code from 5:30pm 'til 10pm traveling from Kampala to Mbale. Then my jeans woke up bright and early for an 8:30am meeting with partner organization people in Mbale, to launch the implementation portion of this project.

Aaaaand then my jeans hopped back in a matatu at 11am and had a horrifically uncomfortable ride, in which I started to feel delightfully exhausted and ill, arriving in Mukono for the same meeting in Mukono.

Last night my jeans pretty much crawled home and watched the entire first season of Sex and the City for Men (aka: "Entourage"), and then crashed the fuck out while my computer ran loop after loop of potential treatment group assignments.

Edit: Okay, I did do a little something today... wandering around a between spots while my laptop ran STATA loops in my backpack.

Walked through the golf course, and got a little closer than comfort to some Maribou Storks

These are some of the grosses, most jurassic-looking of God's creatures. They tend to hang out anywhere that trash is present, so my flatmate likes to refer to them as Trashodactyls (Ptrashodactyls?).

And check out those neck-scrotums (necksticles!). And yes, they are about a meter tall standing.

Stopped by the Kenya vs. Uganda rugby game for a few - Kenya was up 26 - 18 when I left, but I'm not sure how it ended.

Uganda scores! Go Cranes!

[Obbigood]

Weather is turning really, really hot here in southern France. So switching to a lighter, cheap 501 STF (mynudies 2010 contest pair).

Ran some errands by the beach and brought along a camera.

Breakfast at a local Pizzeria with my lady,cappucino and montagard paninis

Heading home for Arg vs Gen game, fantastic game!

[Graytrain]

Thanks everybody, Its easy to forget how amazing something is and how good you have it until you tell someone about it.

here are some extra photos taken through our telescope that we processed last night. No science here just some fun.

Eagle nebula:

and M8:

[ninetynine]

Please never stop posting, ever ^

[zeen]

i'm just wondering how good it would look under an actual telescope. damn.

[lance]

FANTASTIC Graytrain - please keep posting!

[haploid]

Please never stop posting, ever ^

Seriously! That is so awesome.

[riff]

Graytrain - awesome! Please keep on posting

[kyledunn]

Started off the day doing a little regular maintenance.

After that decided to cruise around since it's such a beautiful day. Love speeding through the curves of country roads.

Stopped along the way to hang out with some horses.

Then headed home to play with my pup and get ready for a bbq tomorrow.

[tg76]

remember a couple of weeks ago when me and my mr freedoms did this

yesterday morning we got to my mans hangar and saw this

i hope the pilot got herself a lotto ticket cause she walked away with two black eyes and seat belt bruises

tvshooter unreal! what's gorse?

Gorse is a prickly scrub that was introduced by the brittish as hedging, but its too hot here and it went crazy, now its a noxious weed

Baeyer-Drewson damn... hard life... very jealous. where do you live tg?

Aotearoa.... New Zealand

pomata beautiful place. where in NZ? do you surf?

im up north in Whangarei,,, i play in the surf, i can catch waves and ride them but im uncoordinated and usually hurt myself so I tend to just play on a body board... and we had lots of sharks last summer so i became a fan of swimming in pools

[tg76]

now im 100% over my fear of flying we (mr freedoms me and my man) set off for our weekly adventure

but first, do note someones great taste in names for their plane

leaving northland tracking south west, Tinopai in the background

just before Auckland some rich man owns this farm with his own sculpture park... giant red horn, bizzare blue skeleton bridge, grand iron wall etc http://www.nzcpr.co.nz/great-day-out/artworks.html

off the west coast of Auckland, to the left of centre is lion rock, on top of which i was sitting when lady di died, the flat peak out to the right is kare kare where the piano was shot,,, interesting

then we arrive at Raglan

where we had some Kai

then he went off to find some plane geeks while i went shopping, i got some handmade leather kungfu shoes and a cow horn with a bottle opener stuck in it, then we met up by the inlet

NZ is so goth even the sand is black... wearing my worldcup brazil nikes and drinking apple and feijoa juice

[tg76]

back in the plane he let me wear his aviators he got when he first started flying so i didnt get a headache from the headset pushing on my silly fashion frames we head off to drop off a bottle of wine back inland

after the wine drop we headed north again to see Rangitoto lying demurely out from aucklands east harbour

then i showed him where i used to live work and play

then over wenderholm, where we are taking our stitch together kayaks for a trip once we make them

then we arrive home

Ko Manaia toku maunga

years ago Almondcrush said tg stood for topgun

i still think it stands for total geek

[aleopold]

and M8:

OH. MY. Would love to be able to comprehend how many stars make that up (if that is a galaxy/grip of stars in the first place).. Is that what those are? Stars, galaxies, or something else? But, like everyone else said; NEVER stop posting.. Please.

[coupon]

i see boobs

[haploid]

Correct me if I am wrong Mr astronomer man but that appears to be a gas cloud or nebula or some sort (place where stars are born)

[Graytrain]

Correct me if I am wrong Mr astronomer man but that appears to be a gas cloud or nebula or some sort (place where stars are born)

Yeah, those are both nebulae in our own galaxy. They are gas clouds left behind from much larger, pre pre historic stars that have long exploded. As they collapse under gravity they heat up and start forming stars. From all this is where the color comes from. Colors correspond to certain elements. green is from oxygen, corresponding to a very old nebula and red corresponds to hydrogen, meaning a young cloud with very dense star formation.

as a general rule of thumb. gas clouds and also stars are very rarely found outside of galaxies. gravitational collapse takes care of all that.

wow. that was a bit of a rant but i hope that sheds some light on your questions.

Oh, and thanks everyone for the rep-splosion

[lowrider]

only captured the first half of my day... farmers market.

second half of my day was marinating meat for tomorrow and hanging out at a sports pub watching ufc 116.

a little breakfast:

coffee?

haircut?

randomness:

[aleopold]

wow. that was a bit of a rant but i hope that sheds some light on your questions.

Oh, and thanks everyone for the rep-splosion

Thank you for the rant; it's pretty cool to learn about all that stuff. Tough line of work, having to understand all that Thanks for knowing it!

Rep well deserved.

[thedoad]

The last few pages are killing it. Now excuse me while I throw around rep to whatever posts get in my path.

[dkatz]

^seriously, this thread is getting ridiculous.

tg... wish wish wish I could rep!

[ethandesu]

My jeans were sitting around at a friends place, listening to old jazz records and drinking rare australian whisky.

Samurai

Real McCoys

C&J for Polo

JayCee in Clarks and RRL

Whisky from Hobart

desu

[cheapmuthafukr]

yesterday, my jeans went to daytona for the brumos 250.

view from our seats

ms cheep relaxing in the brumos skybox suite

cars

after 3 crown and ginger

[simon626]

Happy Independence Day my fellow Americans!

[thedoad]

Happy Independence Day my fellow Americans!

Man. All my usual Fireworks hookups were dry this year. Where did you get them? Not that It matters at this point. We have some on the way from friends and the BBQ is warming up.

Cheers everyone!

[setterman]

After loafing around the house most of the day, I went to a friend's cousin's "cottage" along Lake Erie to watch their homemade fireworks display. Filmed some of the fireworks, but didn't take any photos. It was decent, but I don't know if it was worth the $500 they spent.

[simon626]

that fucking shit load looks like it was worth the 5 billz.....

provided all of them made some sort of loud sound and shot up into the air hahaha

I didn't buy my fireworks from any stand or anything....not stuff you can legally buy in California anyway :/ I know some people who know some people I paid 100 dollars for about 50 mortars (the kind that shoot up into the air like disneyland fireworks) and also got about 20 fireworks that just sparkled and fountained. Send me a PM a next July 4th if you want more details (:

[roy6]

This weekend, since it was July 4th, my jeans and I made every effort to be as American as possible.

We sat in traffic (California style):

We ate American food:

We ate it American-style, standing up and eating it off of the bird-shit and bug encrusted hood of my Ford truck:

And drank from a cup enscribed with a biblical reference:

We went to the South Yuba River Park in northern California, north of Sacramento, east of Tahoe. This bridge is at the entrance to the park:

We didn't know it at the time, but a young man had drowned the day before we arrived and his body was wedged between slabs of granite under the bridge. Because it's been such a rainy winter, the water is unusually high and rough, so the state parks guys weren't able to retrieve his body until Sunday afternoon. Since we were all Americans, we went ahead and frolicked in the water anyway.

We walked along a high, dangerous trail for about a mile until we reached this sign:

and then we went ahead and obeyed the rules that we wanted to.

[aleopold]

^ is that a 3x3 at In-N-Out? had numerous 3x2s when i was in cali last week.

[roy6]

Me and my LVCs gave ourselves a river-bath:

Then we hiked for a couple of hours and then parted ways for a while:

One of my fellow Americans decided to not obey the rule about not rock-climbing in flip-flops (since I'm American I speak English, only, but I looked up "flip-flops" on Google translations, nearest is "Sandalen", in German, for my German friends, whom I like, since we won) and she got a nice helicopter ride into Sacramento with a fractured leg:

Not to appear heartless (since we don't like to appear so) but it was very exciting when the helicopter flew slowly up the river, about 100 feet above the water. Like an action movie!

Later we visited a picturesque toxic-waste site, the old Malakoff diggin's:

The site, originally a gold mine, had so much reckless excavation that silt and debris were flushed all the way to San Francisco Bay, and a lot of mercury was let seep into the ground, which makes the water an interesting greenish color even to this day.

We then went to a small norcal town (Nevada City) to see a fourth of July parade. We were a bit late, but you can see how we celebrate by decorating our cars (mostly made for us by our Japanese friends) with bits of patriotically-dyed plastic and paper made for us by our friends in China, and then drive back and forth burning gasoline made for us by our friends in the Middle East. It is great fun:

We also like to decorate ourselves with patriotically-themed Old Navy shirts (also made for us by our friendly neighbors in the Far East) and then walk from the car to the Coldstone Creamery to buy delicious icecream:

I'd like to suggest that any foreigners who would like to visit us come next year at this time, so as to see us at our very best.

[roy6]

^ is that a 3x3 at In-N-Out? had numerous 3x2s when i was in cali last week.

A double-double, but close enough. Good, wasn't it?