The OLDER Photographers' thread...

Ricardo222 wrote in post #15431451
So what do you folks do for holidays?

So far this Christmas/New Year's season I have worked, and worked, and worked some more. Spent Christmas day with family. Went shopping at Old Navy on Boxing day - got some great deals on clothes for me. Worked some more, stayed home last night. Am watching TV today. Have tomorrow off, not sure what I'll do yet.

I'm reading a book while it's raining outside. We spent Christmas at the beach with my wife's kids. They're old enough to appreciate time with family more than a bunch of presents.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #15431543
So far this Christmas/New Year's season I have worked, and worked, and worked some more. Spent Christmas day with family. Went shopping at Old Navy on Boxing day - got some great deals on clothes for me. Worked some more, stayed home last night. Am watching TV today. Have tomorrow off, not sure what I'll do yet.

Hope you get a break soon, Melody...you will have earned it! Do you have anything worth watching on TV...I think it's all junk here at the moment!

MikeThompson wrote in post #15431611
I'm reading a book while it's raining outside. We spent Christmas at the beach with my wife's kids. They're old enough to appreciate time with family more than a bunch of presents.

Ah...books and family! My favourite memories of growing up in countryside New Zealand. Have a good one Mike!

Ricardo222 wrote in post #15431684
Hope you get a break soon, Melody...you will have earned it! Do you have anything worth watching on TV...I think it's all junk here at the moment!

I took tomorrow off. They can survive one day without me.

Right now I'm watching Border Security. It's a show that follows the Canadian Border Services agents around as they question suspicious travellers coming into Canada. Kinda like Cops. It's interesting to see what people try to bring in and the lies that they tell.

We just got satellite a couple of weeks ago, right when everything is in the holiday season and running marathons of the different shows. We'll watch different stuff as it comes on, just seeing what's out there and what we would be interested in following. Storage Wars is something I probably won't be watching often. American Pickers is alright if there's nothing else on. Dad is totally in love with MythBusters, which he always watched when he was babysitting my sister's kids.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #15431684
Ah...books and family! My favourite memories of growing up in countryside New Zealand. Have a good one Mike!

I'd love to visit the New Zealand countryside. I went to Wellington in 1979 on the way to Antarctica, but didn't get a chance to venture out. I've always enjoyed the rurals area much more than cities.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #15431708
I took tomorrow off. They can survive one day without me.

Right now I'm watching Border Security. It's a show that follows the Canadian Border Services agents around as they question suspicious travellers coming into Canada. Kinda like Cops. It's interesting to see what people try to bring in and the lies that they tell.

We just got satellite a couple of weeks ago, right when everything is in the holiday season and running marathons of the different shows. We'll watch different stuff as it comes on, just seeing what's out there and what we would be interested in following. Storage Wars is something I probably won't be watching often. American Pickers is alright if there's nothing else on. Dad is totally in love with MythBusters, which he always watched when he was babysitting my sister's kids.

Mel, you tell your Dad there's another Mythbusters fan right here...getting paid to blow things up...my idea of paradise! I earned my Blasting Tickets when I was a young fellow, but in these days of political correctness I'm not even allowed to buy gelignite! Crazy!
(And I could do so much GOOD with it!!)

MikeThompson wrote in post #15431840
I'd love to visit the New Zealand countryside. I went to Wellington in 1979 on the way to Antarctica, but didn't get a chance to venture out. I've always enjoyed the rurals area much more than cities.

Well, if you make it back...call me!

MikeThompson wrote in post #15431840
I'd love to visit the New Zealand countryside. I went to Wellington in 1979 on the way to Antarctica, but didn't get a chance to venture out. I've always enjoyed the rurals area much more than cities.

Wellington, one of the loveliest cities in the world!

Ricardo222 wrote in post #15431845
Mel, you tell your Dad there's another Mythbusters fan right here...getting paid to blow things up...my idea of paradise! I earned my Blasting Tickets when I was a young fellow, but in these days of political correctness I'm not even allowed to buy gelignite! Crazy!
(And I could do so much GOOD with it!!)

Blowing things up is definitely fun! I was a youth leader at a local church for a few years. We would get a hold of dry ice and make dry ice bombs. Pretty easy... drop a few pieces in a plastic bottle, pour in some water, crank on the cap and throw the bottle. It would build pressure until the bottle blew in a cloud of smoke. Lots of entertainment for the high school kids, relatively safe, and completely legal.

If I wanted to really blow something up, I'd go buy a bag of nitrogen fertilizer and a jerry can full of diesel fuel. That makes one amazing bang. Unfortunately, it also attracts the attention of the local authority.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #15431845
Mel, you tell your Dad there's another Mythbusters fan right here...getting paid to blow things up...my idea of paradise!

And, that is exactly why I stopped watching the show a couple years ago. They didn't bust myths any more. They just looked for any reason they could find to blow sh!t up. That got boring really quick.

I reckon the biggest myth is how he eats with that great slug laying on his top lip!

I've noticed that they're really run out of good things to investigate. A recent one I watched they were doing short little things, that was decently interesting.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #15431944
Blowing things up is definitely fun! I was a youth leader at a local church for a few years. We would get a hold of dry ice and make dry ice bombs. Pretty easy... drop a few pieces in a plastic bottle, pour in some water, crank on the cap and throw the bottle. It would build pressure until the bottle blew in a cloud of smoke. Lots of entertainment for the high school kids, relatively safe, and completely legal.

If I wanted to really blow something up, I'd go buy a bag of nitrogen fertilizer and a jerry can full of diesel fuel. That makes one amazing bang. Unfortunately, it also attracts the attention of the local authority.

Yes we tried that stuff on one of the jobs I worked at thinking it would be cheaper than gelignite, but it never caught on...the gelly was too convenient I guess!

As for home made bombs...as kids aged about 9 we once took a couple of large bolts and a nut...screwed the nut on one bolt so that only a couple of threads were engaged, then nearly filled the cavity with black blasting powder, then gently screwed the other bolt in to cover the powder. The trick then was to throw the bolt at something hard then duck behind something strong. Eventually, with the angles and everything else right the powder should explode and the bolts disappear...at high speed.

We'd heard about this but we only tried it once...in my friend's father's milking shed. We hid behind a concrete water trough and when the thing finally exploded one of the bolts went clean through the corrugated iron roof! We were so terrified all we could do was roll around on the concrete laughing hysterically! Highly dangerous of course, but things were different back in the early 1950's!

thomascanty wrote in post #15431945
And, that is exactly why I stopped watching the show a couple years ago. They didn't bust myths any more. They just looked for any reason they could find to blow sh!t up. That got boring really quick.

Shame. It hasn't been on here for a while...last I saw they were still doing useful mythbusting.

I've heard plenty of stories about the fun with nitroglycerin. Either my grandfather or great-grandfather was involved. Place a drop of nitro on an anvil, hit it with a hammer, and see how far the hammer would fly.