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Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
I thought we learned this this morning - isn't this how you'd lose the other kidney?I disabled signatures.
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Wait a minute, this is one of those AI things, isn't it.I disabled signatures.
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He tried many jobs before finding the dream one, melding wood and life
Woody Jones poses for a photograph holding one of his prototypes at his showroom in his home in Decatur, Ga. Over 40 years, Jones has produced more than 3,000 pieces of mechanical amusements.
He spent decades hunting for his calling, cycling through jobs from law enforcement to mental health counseling and owning a bar at Underground Atlanta. As Jones neared 40, his aging dad was still asking when he’d settle on something. Anything.
And then, while hitchhiking in the West, still on the quest, a chance encounter started him on a fresh path, one that isn’t likely to show up on a list of potential careers. He had no real experience in woodworking. But while he was hitchhiking, a group that picked him up included a teenager who told him about carving figures out of wood. Jones decided to give it a try.
Now, going on four decades, Jones spends his days making wooden boxes that, when hand cranked, often depict playful, animated scenes from a person’s life and sometimes the fantastical. One day, a man came to his booth at an art festival and mentioned how nobody made depictions of his particular line of work. He was a gastroenterologist. The chance encounter eventually led Jones down a path of specialization. Now he only makes custom pieces, often delving into the stories of individuals.
He sometimes earns thousands of dollars on the most elaborate pieces, which have been commissioned for corporate titans, politicians, doctors, lawyers, scuba divers, cockroach trap marketers, golfers, bar owners, duck hunters, spouses. Anyone really. One that depicts scenes of Vincent van Gogh painting, with cranks that shift not only the background scene but the painting on the artist’s easel, sold for $10,000, he says. The sweeping one of people inside Grand Central Terminal sold for $24,000. And Jones says he got $40,000 for a package of 75 scenes placed inside three 30-foot-tall towers in a state environmental center in Pennsylvania.
The hand-painted scenes he portrays include duck hunters in the wild. A marriage proposal in front of a lighthouse. A Viking ship undulating on a roiling sea, pursued by a fearsome dragon with jaws that snap open and shut. A dentist drilling into the mouth of a prone patient, whose legs sporadically shoot up into the air.
There are also workers on a Ford factory line, showing different eras and vehicles over the span of a century, with parts circling overhead on a conveyor chain. And an elaborate three-level world, with heaven, hell and people who each have both angels and demons floating above them. Also a scene of 150-plus moving figures inside a miniature Grand Central Terminal in New York. And a mother in a delivery room with a doctor holding the baby and a father unconscious on the floor.
Woody Jones has hand made thousands of miniature wooden scenes about people's work and private lives. The personalized mechanical amusements, with tiny figures of people and animals, often have multiple parts that move when a crank handle is rotated.
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
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Never mind the Blitz, got to have milk for your cuppa.
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Cats and trains
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
Harry / Marietta GA -
"Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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It's a beginning:
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When I first saw this image, I figured it must be a factory second from the Cat Outlet Store...
Then I realized it was just one of those optical confusions.
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Slot ported sub box.
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »It's a beginning:
They've had great success with invisible fencing, not so much with the invisible gate yet.
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~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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Got me, man, but it's fantasy either way, so...?
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I first tried online dating for the first time, 5 years ago after my divorce. I quickly discovered that online dating is a lot like shopping for a truck online.
You look for a make and model that looks good to you. Then check the year and mileage. You look for special features and hope it doesn't get too expensive.
The only difference now is, the truck has to like you too........Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
I disabled signatures.
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I first tried online dating for the first time, 5 years ago after my divorce. I quickly discovered that online dating is a lot like shopping for a truck online.
You look for a make and model that looks good to you. Then check the year and mileage. You look for special features and hope it doesn't get too expensive.
The only difference now is, the truck has to like you too........
Post of the Day!
I mean that in the best possible way and with no ill will! May there be better days ahead, if there haven't been, already!
Brian
One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM -
I first tried online dating for the first time, 5 years ago after my divorce. I quickly discovered that online dating is a lot like shopping for a truck online.
You look for a make and model that looks good to you. Then check the year and mileage. You look for special features and hope it doesn't get too expensive.
The only difference now is, the truck has to like you too........
Post of the Day!
I mean that in the best possible way and with no ill will! May there be better days ahead, if there haven't been, already!
LOL, yeah man, I dig it, no ill will taken! Internet dating is also like sport fishing....catch and release!!
And sure, there's plenty of better days!! I appreciate the good word!!
And besides, you don't think the chicks go for my rugged good looks do you?? H e l l NO, I've got culinary skills baby!!
Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
I disabled signatures.
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I first tried online dating for the first time, 5 years ago after my divorce. I quickly discovered that online dating is a lot like shopping for a truck online.
You look for a make and model that looks good to you. Then check the year and mileage. You look for special features and hope it doesn't get too expensive.
The only difference now is, the truck has to like you too........
I dunno, with used trucks in New England, the biggest problem is rust. I'm not sure how you check the undercarriage for rust on a dating site...
Oh, I guess in either case, one is concerned whether the item's been used for heavy plowing?
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mhardy6647 wrote: »I dunno, with used trucks in New England, the biggest problem is rust. I'm not sure how you check the undercarriage for rust on a dating site...
Oh, I guess in either case, one is concerned whether the item's been used for heavy plowing?
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I first tried online dating for the first time, 5 years ago after my divorce. I quickly discovered that online dating is a lot like shopping for a truck online.
You look for a make and model that looks good to you. Then check the year and mileage. You look for special features and hope it doesn't get too expensive.
The only difference now is, the truck has to like you too........
Post of the Day!
I mean that in the best possible way and with no ill will! May there be better days ahead, if there haven't been, already!
LOL, yeah man, I dig it, no ill will taken! Internet dating is also like sport fishing....catch and release!!
And sure, there's plenty of better days!! I appreciate the good word!!
And besides, you don't think the chicks go for my rugged good looks do you?? H e l l NO, I've got culinary skills baby!!
Being able to lick the alphabet helps…The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
"Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
"Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
"Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
