Cracked Carrie
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~OR~ I will gladly upload any thumbnails if one of you would like to volunteer to make them?!!
If not... quit yer whinin' ye' scurvy sea-scabs an' let 'em download in the background or I'll keelhaul th' lot o' yez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Nah, seriously I do appreciate the constructive criticism, I just don't have the time to make thumbnails)
I could probably do the resizing for ye, if that'd help. Just wouldn't go into effect until about a week or so from now. I've not yet reloaded my graphics programs onto my computer after the crash--saving as much HD space as possible for a DVD I'm crunching.
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I'm afraid I just don't have the time to do that for each photo. Sadly I haven't made enough dubloons plundering to quit my day job just yet!
But I just uploaded about 5 more photos from the Crew of the Dirty Rotten Oar...
*runs to look*
And yeah, I hear you. It took forever to do that for my portfolio page. I'm very happy with the result...but it took forever.
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Hmmmmm.... you can right click and open the photo in a separate window, but in order to enable you to move photo to photo in a linear manner, I'd have to create a separate web page for each photo or...
*sudden brainstorm*
Hey! I could set them up in a revolving javascript program like the portrait on the front page, that might be kinda cool... What do you pirates think? You'd have a harder time making your own copies, but would that be preferable to the current system? I'd have to use much smaller photos also so that they loaded faster. Let me know what you think.
I'd prefer to keep it as it is. Because I, too, right-click a lot.
The other thing you could do is to put each picture onto a webpage with a forward and a back button, so you could link each picture to the next in the sequence. That's what I did on my science illustration site. Granted, it's a PITA to set up...not hard, just a lot of repetitive coding.
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I just got word that I'm to be the recipient of our college's old medical skeletons in time for the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 13th!! The college's new skeletons have arrived and are just awaiting assembly, then I can plunder the collection of old bones!! Woooohoooo!!
Oh man, that's too cool.
I wonder if the "donor" ever would have guessed he (or she) would be participating in a pirate festival in such circumstances?
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More photos just in!!! These come courtesy of Don and Yolanda. There were several nice shots of Aldebaran, which I've emailed over to her captain.
CLICK HERE, then click "photos" then click "Blasting Valentines to Smithereens"
Great shots of the Aldebaran. And...I just love some of the ones going under the Golden Gate, and the peaceful one with the bowsprit all alone. For some reason that one really appeals to me.
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Aye,
*sigh* Wot Meself, n' a few others' could teach ye about gunnery.....
I'd love ta train ya rabble inta a fine gun crew! I's sure Master Hawkyns would as well.... Aye, I need ta brush up on me sailor skills, seein' as I am, 'In the market for a ship, as it were...'
LOL Carrie,
All them inuendos..... On a gun crew, which 'position' do ya care for?
Rammer? Swabber? Do ye wish ta handle th' prick? Deliver th' charge?Work th' front or rear o' the gun?
AN' th' list goes on and on....The mind boggles! *grin* No matter what position I picked, though, I'm sure I'd get a bang out of it.
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This is a post on this thread UTTERLY unrelated to anything serious about the Golden Hind.
To wit:
I just purchased a new (for me--it's a 2002) Ford Focus. When asked by my boss at work what it looked like, as it hadn't arrived yet, I responded dubiously,
"Well...it's gold. And...well...it's got kind of a big butt."
After a bit more pondering, I added, "You know, since I've been doing all this piratical stuff, I could name it the Golden Hind. Big hind end. Gold color. Sure, that'd work."
And then the miscalculation:
"I could name it Hiney for short!"
Sure enough, the next morning, I drive the car to work, and what am I greeted with?
"Hey there, how's your Hiney this morning?"
"Wow...nice Hiney. Good lines."
"What a smooth and shiny Hiney you have."
Argh.
The car is now officially Hiney. I'm just hoping that she doesn't spontaneously break down on the highway, just to show her opinion of the name!
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Well...for my part, I so far have NO practical knowledge on how to help sail or man the guns for the Royaliste. I've been trying to watch to at least begin to get some clue...but I can't vouch for having one!
However...I am more than willing to learn. So, if that counts for participating, I'm good to go! Just show me a knot or two, tell me when and where to pull (oh dear, this is starting to sound bad), and I can at least guarantee I'll learn!
And once I recover from all the inadvertant double entendres, I'll be just fine, thank ye.
Yeesh.
Um. Right. Well.
Yeah.
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**Pictures four or five fingers nicely stitched to new red flag**
Well, that WOULD be piratical, I suppose!
No quarter given, indeed!
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Well, I hope everyone wif' somethin' blasted outta the guns has as good a return as me...My comp check came now that I blew 'em to 'ell!!!.
That's Feb's slip rent!Huzzah!
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Great pictures all.... makes me wish I could'a been there. D'ye have a higher resolution picture o' the wench flyin' out o' the cannon?
I can send a larger one to ye...but before I do, let me try to tweak it a bit in Photoshop so it's not as pixelated. It's not going to be crystal clear, though, owing to it being a frame capture.
Alternately, Quill could make an attempt and see what result she gets. :)
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Here are photos courtesy of the crew of the Aldebaran, whom we battled on the bay Sunday... now ye' know how it looks when the Royaliste is out ta getcha!!!
Those are AWESOME!!!!! Please send along thanks to the Aldebaran!!!
*happily right-clicks and saves the photos*
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From what I had heard ... Davy Jones was a ruthlessly nasal British captain on the American merchant ship The Monkees
"Ruthlessly nasal"!!!!!
*Dies and is dead*
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What's really amusing is that my departure to Reno ran a touch late, and I was considering making the girls take me to the Pier to look for you guys.
The only problems were that we were already running behind and..well, I didn't have Claire's cell number in my phone!!
Stupid Penny.
It would'a been great to have a pirate "shill" in the Pier 30 audience!
All sing together now:
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRs across the waaaaater...!!"
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Carrie m'luv, please always feel free to post 'em as soon as you have 'em! After all, you did the work for us, pulling them out of the video.
Contained in the first fireball you see below are Meg the "Pyracy is Pathetic" wench, a photo of the Lady Washington, some letters from the "land sharks" Gary has been battling of late and some rather pathetic work-related momentos of mine.
And in this grand fireball is Michael Eisner, flying solo. Perhaps he'd like a copy for his desk, eh Iron Bess?!!
Ok! Next time I'll just post.
"Eisner flying solo..."
Don't SAY things like that! I nearly shot tea out my nose! Arrr, that stings!
And there was something cathartic in blasting the letter out from the "Pyracy is Pathetic" wench...and I don't even know her!
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Aside from the obvious glow, I really like the video 'cuz it even rattles 'Quill, shakin' the lens accordingly!
With the trucks(wheels) off the carriage, the deck transmits the concussion very well!!!!......
*raises hand* I'll vouch for that! Made my teeth click together, it did!
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Aye! T'was a great sail with a good bunch o' mates! CT Ben made an arse-kickin' prototype flag!!
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that flag!!!!Also, thanks to Royaliste's first mate, who (ahem) let me play with his flintlock. It were me first time!
And also me first time getting out of the Bay!
Huzzah!
(I'm just a baby pirate, after all!)
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Had a GREAT time, yesterday! I sent some screen caps of the "Michael Eisner" blast, among others, to Royaliste and TalesoftheSevenSeas. I'm assuming one of 'em will post them. If not, I'll be happy to! I just didn't want to steal their thunder!
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It be a good thing ye' don't carry a 'lock to work! I can imagine how that would be...
"Is it done yet?!!"
KA-BOOM!!
Addendum to the Violence:
"Is it done yet...?"
Ka-BOOM!
"No. But you are."
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Aye, he should be grateful!
"Ow! Me arm! That blasted pirate wench bit me arm!"
*stops...considers...*
"I'll never wash it again!"
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an' there's a manager somewhere that still bears me bite scars!
Ah, but did the manager DESERVE the bite scars?
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What I don't understand is why they chose her over the Grand Turk, or the like, because she is tinier than the Surprise was supposed to be -
You know, that IS an interesting question. Why the Rose? Which is not impugning her at all. But how does any particular tall ship get chosen? I'm sure some of it is how much her owners are promoting her, what the insurance/liability issues are, where she's located vis a vis the filming and how likely is it that she could be moved, the friendliness of her set-up as far as filming is concerned.
It must be an artform, deciding how to proceed...
(Very interesting posts, Salem Bob...I've been enjoying them.)
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just keeping up with the voluminous e-mails to Cap'n Slappy at the site...still, I am missing one very special correspondent...hmmmm...I wonder whom she might be...
Ohhh!
Through t'heart!
It's time to go back on me Muse hunt:
"Here, muse! C'mere, ye wee git! Stop quiverin' there in the scuppers...ye know yer caught. We've got a letter to write!"
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Y'say there be coffee other than Starbucks?!
Yeah. There's Peet's
:) Whoo! Peets!
But really, pirates SHOULD go fer Starbucks. I mean, they've commandeered nearly every corner of every big city block in the Nation!
("Not just the Nation, love. The entire hemisphere. The entire WORLD!")
West Coast Pirates?
in Captain Twill
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Ah, ye beat me to it, Royaliste. I was going to mention that book meself. Picked it up at Logos books in Santa Cruz a while back. It's good some good information on Drake.
Although, once you start going northward along the Pacific coast, the action petered out pretty fast. Most of it (understandably) clustered around the gold route up from Peru and thereabouts and ending around Panama (again understandably).