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**KnottedYet** · 10-23-2006, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by chickwhorips

here knot, deb started the perfect thread for you: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=11102

I saw that! I'll have to take some pictures tonight!

**chickwhorips** · 10-23-2006, 05:10 PM

i broke down and went for the run. figured the puppies needed to run. just got back, just in time, the winds just really picked up!

**DebW** · 10-23-2006, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by KnottedYet

I saw that! I'll have to take some pictures tonight!

Please do. Flossie must show her stuff for us. However, be warned and do not open the link to Kirkframeworks posted by indysteel. It should have had a "DO NOT READ AT WORK" warning. Those frames are so sexy that I couldn't tear my eyes away for about 30 minutes. Here's the link, just to test your willpower http://kirkframeworks.com/Photo Gallery.htm

**KnottedYet** · 10-23-2006, 05:22 PM

My computer sez that URL doesn't exist! AAAAAAG!

Of course, I instantly clicked on it. I firmly believe in giving in to temptation when bike porn is in the offing.

Flossie is so lovely, though, that I can even look at Vanilla bikes without envy. (not without bike lust, but free of bike envy)

**snapdragen** · 10-23-2006, 05:24 PM

For some reason, part of Deb's link died.

Try this: Kirk

BTW - bike #71 belongs to a friend of mine......

http://kirkframeworks.com/photogallery8.htm

**snapdragen** · 10-23-2006, 05:28 PM

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!

Email from my manager today. She wants to meet with me and our HR liason to discuss my promotion. I don't thinks she's even done the paperwork yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's it. After the promotion I have to work 1 year so my new salary will be used to calculate my retirement. Retirement at 51 sounds like an excellent idea. I might even my manager know before I walk out the door.

**DebW** · 10-23-2006, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by snapdragen

For some reason, part of Deb's link died.

Try this: Kirk

There is a space between "Photo" and "Gallery in "http://kirkframeworks.com/Photo Gallery.htm". Thanks for the fix, Snap.

**KnottedYet** · 10-23-2006, 05:47 PM

Lovely lentils.

I'm making a crock-pot of miso lentil broccoli soup. I just love handling lentils. Dunno why. They are very sensuous little legumes...

**DebW** · 10-23-2006, 06:00 PM

I'm still ogling Kirkworks frames. Those curvy seatstays are so d@mn sexy. I've never been in lust like this before. *pant* *pant* *pant*

**snapdragen** · 10-23-2006, 07:51 PM

Random snap thoughts.

Reading MP and limewave's marathon reports has made my knees sore

I reheated some Chicken Mole and rice with black beans, rolled it all up in a whole grain tortilla. Mmmmm. Trader Joe's Red Mole Sauce is pretty good. It's was nicely spicy, and I could taste a hint of chocolate. Chocolate! What's not to love?

Discovering RadioParadise.com has made work so much better. I'm able to block out the jibber-jabber around me and listen to a good mix of music. Always brightens my mood!

Kitsune06 · 10-23-2006, 07:54 PM

*deep, luxurious stretch and yawn* 3 hours left in my shift... I'm seriously anxious to be outta here. Ugh.

**salsabike** · 10-23-2006, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by snapdragen

Random snap thoughts.

Reading MP and limewave's marathon reports has made my knees sore

I reheated some Chicken Mole and rice with black beans, rolled it all up in a whole grain tortilla. Mmmmm. Trader Joe's Red Mole Sauce is pretty good. It's was nicely spicy, and I could taste a hint of chocolate. Chocolate! What's not to love?

Discovering RadioParadise.com has made work so much better. I'm able to block out the jibber-jabber around me and listen to a good mix of music. Always brightens my mood!

Meant to thank you for that, last night. I liked RadioParadise a whole lot, Snap.

I also really love Trader Joe's Enchilada Sauce.

Sorry about that promotion thing, but glad they didn't call to just say "never mind about that promotion", either.

**salsabike** · 10-23-2006, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Nanci

Salsa, you should see the research on pigeon visual perception.

From Wikepedia:

In a famous article in 1995, Watanabe, Sakamoto and Wakita described an experiment which showed that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and Monet.

The birds were first trained on a limited set of paintings: when the shown painting was a Picasso, the pigeon was able to obtain food by repeated pecking; when it was a Monet, pecking had no effect. After a while, the pigeons would only peck when shown Picasso paintings. They were then able to generalize, and correctly discriminate between paintings of the two painters not previously shown, and even between cubist and impressionist paintings (cubism and impressionism being the two stylistic schools Picasso and Monet belong to). When the Monet paintings were shown upside down, the pigeons were not able to properly categorize anymore; showing the cubist works upside down did not have such an effect.

In 1995, the authors won the humorous Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for this work.

In a later paper, Watanabe showed that if pigeons and human college students undergo the same training, their performance in distinguishing between Van Gogh and Chagall paintings is comparable.

Similar experiments had shown earlier that pigeons can be trained to distinguish between photos showing human beings and those that do not, and between photos showing trees and those that do not, among many other examples.

In all these cases, discrimination is quite easy for humans, even though the classes are so complex that no simple distinguishing algorithm or rule can be specified. It has therefore been argued that pigeons are able to form "concepts" or "categories" similar to humans, but that interpretation is controversial. Nevertheless, the experiments remain important and often cited examples in cognitive science.

Fabulous! I love it.

**annie** · 10-23-2006, 08:36 PM

A question ------- if you are days behind in TE ---------- which equals many, many pages----------- how do you all remember what's been written and respond to the many and varied posts?? Do you take notes as you're reading through?

Tonight I discovered it's not a good idea to work on your bike AFTER two glasses of wine.

Oldest son is moving to TN. in two days. He's always been a ~challenging~ child. I will miss him immensely yet, in many ways, am happy to see him go. He has lived away before then came back home. He's 28! Time to let go. Am I a "bad" mom for being glad he's moving on?

Weird candle experience! I have tons of candles that people have given as gifts. Don't burn them often enough. I lit a lovely, vanilla/cinnamon scented one tonight, have burned it previously. And noticed, in the melted wax surrounding the wick, a dead fly. Yuck! I did not notice the fly when I last lit the candle. But it was buried in the wax so was obviously interred there when the candle was last lit. Strange.

annie

**Xrayted** · 10-23-2006, 08:38 PM

***tip toes in and whispers...*** Hey, why's everybody so quiet tonight?

('cuz Mondays s**k)

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