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Also, I suspect (from watching my mother make quiche) that "sweat off" is "sautee until soft".
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Yep, that's bang on, Nano.
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Ah, yeah. Let me check what size of tub that would actually be of the light cream.
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raet, the typical thanksgiving dinner in the states is a roast turkey or ham or both, stuffing, rolls with butter, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas or green beans, corn, sweet potatoes or yams, cranberries, pumpkin pie and eggnog, or bits of the above. not everyone can afford that much food, and some people won't eat ham or they don't like cranberries or yams or whatever. the vegetarians would make fake meat out of tofu instead. no clue what they do for eggnog.
the idea is to take the time to be thankful for the blessings we have in life, even if they seem few. somebody always has less. typically churches here will feed the poor on thanksgiving and christmas as an act of charity. thanksgiving was first celebrated by the pilgrims who were very grateful to have survived getting here.
ok, that was thanksgiving 101 readers digest version.
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There's a restaurant here that does free Thanksgiving dinners for anyone who come in. It's their way of thanking the community for their business.
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On a non-holiday note, I was browsing through the Site that Must Not be Named for random freebies and found something....
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Oh dear! They should not have made fun of you that way. :P
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning!
It's a short work week for me, since my Friday client has given me the day off. Good: time off! Bad: no pay!
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I finally got a job- so now I'm working nine hours a day........and don't know if I have Friday off. I really should ask. lolGood morning, and it's time to get ready. XD"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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GRIM said:
I finally got a job- so now I'm working nine hours a day........and don't know if I have Friday off. I really should ask. lol
Good morning, and it's time to get ready. XD
Yay! Full-time job! :D
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Great news!
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Thank you! It's a temp job until the 7th, but there's another one lined up for the 8th that can last a year---soo YAY it is! XD Gotta love workin'."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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Paychecks and salaries, such useful things!
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Paychecks are a wonderful thing!
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Happy Thanksgiving! :)
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And to you, too!
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Happy Day After Thanksgiving Feast! We survived!
And I made a weird little circular not-very-regular repeating pattern, in my search to replicate the method for one I saw done by DesignsByEve...
I shall declare it "modern art" and entitle it, "After the Feast".
DistortedCircles-JustSkies-pearl-morning.jpg450 x 450 - 200K* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
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LOL
That's a lot more artistic than the canvas I saw in 6th grade that was just solid green. Very disappointing to go on a field trip to an art museum and all you end up seeing is stuff that a 4 year old could have painted.
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That's pretty cool, Nan! It kinda reminds me of rims...*head tip* It's very hypnotic."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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and happy Day After Day After Thanksgiving Day!"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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Happy Day After Day After Thanksgiving! :)
I actually like the "modern art" thing I did. I could get into it, symbolically, looking at the colors and repeating/non-repeating elements.
PS - yes, the concentric circles are intentional. Wheels!
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GRIM said:
That's pretty cool, Nan! It kinda reminds me of rims...*head tip* It's very hypnotic.
A stack of rims is what it keeps reminding me of too. :)
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning! How are things this morning?
Here, the weather forecast predicts some snowy mess for tomorrow, and my foot-barometer agrees. Meantime, the cats are staring over the kickplate of the screen door, chattering at birds.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere...
Clicky for LOTS larger.
Surprisingly, the original poster was virtually unknown in WW2, as it was entirely internal to Westinghouse factories, seen only by workers there for about a week, and was never broadly distributed. But, then, it was rediscovered in the 80's and thereafter co-opted for pretty much everything from feminist posters to soda-pop ads, and today is considered a cultural icon here in the US. -
Wayii, that looks like it is more than worth the tired!
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning, and I can Never let my s/o see that photo, Wayii. He'll want one. lolGreat work on the poster, Jim!"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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The results are gorgeous! And so very, very different from the original Builder White kitchen! I want to see the paint, too. Been hearing about this for a while. Is it done yet?
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I must say...lovely stove! The new ones are so pretty. :)
One of my clients has a double-oven stove: a big convection/conventional section and a smaller conventional/warming section on top. I have really liked using that, so I bullied Kay into getting one like that for us when our old stove died this year. Thanksgiving proved me correct--yay, two ovens! Pies in one, turkey in the other. W00t.
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Yes, it's done more or less. Couple of bits of paint that need a little touching up but aside from that, all finished.
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Got the Reality for Poser thing at Rendo sale. Been fiddling with it this afternoon. I'll say this: after bushwacking through the Substance Designer & Painter tutorials, this is pretty easy.
Dar/Grim has been using this a while, so he can laugh at me now. :)
OK. So, some of the important bits to using this renderer:- IBL is for outdoors ONLY
- NO infinite lights or spots (mostly)
- Metal reflections slow this puppy down bigtime
- Learn how to use the linear exposure tweaks; there's a video that shows it's stupid easy to use
- Setting background to transparent gets rid of the Poser beige background. If you saved a Poser render in Photoshop or PNG, you'd achieve the same thing.
- Yes, there are procedurals. It's just that it's not a node-based interface. The videos cover that, too. See "making a wood texture" in Preta3d's youtube video list.
- Also, what looked nice in the renderer may look funky on the web--LOL See below... I think it needed to cook longer.
sunedge01.png592 x 554 - 385K* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
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Hihi!
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/wave
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*flops on forum floor*
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning! :)
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LOL afternoon. :)
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*yawn* Saturday!
Having cappuccino with the new coffee engine. I can't call that thing a coffee-maker...it's like a barrista in a box. Coffee robot?
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And I was getting mugged by purr-bandits...but they seem to have raced off elsewhere just now. Hmm. It's too quiet...
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These are the purr-bandits caught in a quiet moment...
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They're so cute!
I want to snurfle them.
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I think I dove in and snurfled immediately after that.
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lol- cute kiddies there.I wouldn't laugh, c'mon now. I love Reality, but beware of one major thing (though I don't know if it was fixed in the new version or not), when you test run a scene and then add, say, M4 to it you can lose props. Or parts of props (like legs), and textures.If something renders great, and you add another prop and the re-render has something missing or white- check your Reality screen. If you click on the prop (say, floor) and it shows it isn't showing on the main info box below (you have to click the prop, not the opened up slot below it for that screen) then delete it and put it back in. If your textures are missing, select the parts in Reality that are white and go below to edit-- when you open the diffuse option (the maps show on the right hand of the screen) and you see that it's in grayscale rather than color, you'll have to open the slot where you input the map and re-select the diffuse map. Make sure that the grayscale is changed to color as well. I can't tell you how many times it's happened to me.*Edit to add an example belowI can't get the upgrade yet- since I won Poser's version, I do not have a valid serial number for an upgrade. I'd have to outright buy it.*SIGH*
damian asylum2.jpg1000 x 1415 - 371K"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain. -
Ouch. Any idea why that can happen?
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