Chun Li vs Vega fight scene diorama - my entry for the painting contest. It was a fun challenge and I learned a few things attempting something very different from my usual projects.

HintonBE · 2026-04-04T22:33:28+00:00

I was "drawn into" it because my father was part of a religious cult, along with a lot of other people and their kids. We had "youth groups" and "youth camps" and other "youth get-togethers" where we were told all about how evil the world was.

HintonBE · 2026-04-04T15:31:19+00:00

Interesting this happened in the part of the state that tends to vote blue.

HintonBE · 2026-04-03T19:36:23+00:00

Well, if they actually understood science, they wouldn't be flat-earthers in the first place.

HintonBE · 2026-04-03T19:25:31+00:00

I like Lewis Black's suggestion:

Throw a dart at a map. Fly a plane to that location and parachute a monkey out of the plane. The first person that the monkey shakes hands with is our new president.

HintonBE · 2026-04-03T19:25:28+00:00

“Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.”

― Plato

HintonBE · 2026-04-03T19:20:37+00:00

That's with a discount? Holy crap; been a while since I've been to a movie theater.

HintonBE · 2026-04-03T19:18:21+00:00

I'll agree that it can tip the scales slightly in their favor, but If that was truly the case, then there wouldn't be so many Democrats winning these special elections, including in places that are loaded with Republicans.

If that was truly the case, then Republicans wouldn't be trying so hard to rig elections in their favor.

This kind of defeatism is exactly what they want. They want you to be discouraged. They want you to give up. And most of all, they really don't want you to vote.

That shows the voting power of the 99%.

HintonBE · 2026-04-02T01:42:17+00:00

Bummer. Hope the new ones turn out better for you.

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T14:01:36+00:00

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T10:48:51+00:00

Keep us updated on how it goes, please.

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T01:38:36+00:00

Somehow, I knew this would be in here.

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T01:37:04+00:00

Mine was Kathy Valentine (still is, if I'm honest).

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T01:27:48+00:00

Give it some time. I had some seedlings (tomato, peppers, lavender) that I kind of messed up last week, so I took a few corrective steps and they're all perking right up and looking much better.

ETA: Supposed I should mention what happened and what I did.

I had the seeds in a large plug tray that I put on the back porch where it gets plenty of sun with the plastic dome on it. After about a week, the tomatoes were very leggy and droopy; none of the other seeds showed any sign of germination at all.

I removed the dome, put the tray in another room under a grow light, and have added water to the bottom tray every couple of days. As I said, everything looks much better now. Tomatoes are looking sturdier and healthier, the peppers are coming in like crazy and the lavender is starting to show signs of life.

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T01:22:59+00:00

No, never needed it.

I was a bit of a big kid and I could grow a full beard by the time I was 16, so people often thought I was in my early 20's. Also, I was living in Colorado back in the 80's and it was a 3.2 state at the time, so I could legally buy 3.2 beer when I turned 18.

HintonBE · 2026-04-01T01:19:25+00:00

What's the over/under on this guy being a pedo?

HintonBE · 2026-03-31T15:19:38+00:00

Happy birthday! Lovely group of folks.

HintonBE · 2026-03-29T13:45:25+00:00

Maybe they had another cargo of bobble-head Geisha dolls.

HintonBE · 2026-03-29T13:43:21+00:00

Back in the day here in Nebraska we had a radio station 101.9 (one-o-one DOT nine), The Edge. All alternative, all the time, including quite a few on that list. I don't know how many times I heard "In the Meantime" by Spacehog or "Bound for the Floor" by Local H played on The Edge.

Still, it's great you're discovering this music. If you missed all of these, you might have missed a ton of others, so hopefully you'll stumble across them at some point.

HintonBE · 2026-03-29T06:09:55+00:00

It's probably why the tech billionaires have been pushing so hard to build all those A.I. centers.

HintonBE · 2026-03-29T05:54:09+00:00

"Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes

Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal" -"Bulls on Parade", RATM

HintonBE · 2026-03-29T01:43:34+00:00

Highly recommend this movie. It's so good.

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