Lets have a pics thread :)

From the Skelator show on wednesday:

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Here's me before the drunkedness with 2 of my best friends Claire and Naomi:

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Here's me after the drunkedness with Claire:

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And on another occasion, here's me and another of my best friends Laura:

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I don't really understand the rights of the one over the rights of the many. Our culture has fallen too far into the abyss of entitlement and ME ME ME.
I DO understand the rights of one. If we sign away all our rights to "the common good" then the 'everyman' will have a great deal of liberty, but since that is merely a social ideal and not reality, the individuals who make up the 'everyman' would be second rate citizens to the idealized versions of themselves. That is just nonsense. If we are to have a culture, we must protect our rights. Culture is both collective and individualistic. I understand where you are going with that statement though, as people often mistake desires for 'rights' in this consumerist society. Yet, I still hesitate to relinquish my freedoms in the name of a government supposedly protecting them.

Zach: epic.
Charis: yeah, you are hot.
 
That's the best picture ever. I've been looking for that shirt forever!
Yeah, i found this and a Keeper 1 tour shirt (both reprints, not originals) at a local cd store so i bought them. Those shirts own.
What's the Armor Class on those shoulderpads?
the shoulderpads are +3 pads of awesome, thoguh the chains are unfortunately +10 for hair entanglement... :erk:
trust you to go for the redhead haha..
...What? I like redheads... they're hot :lol:
 
The board, stones, bowls, and packing together weighed 23.8lbs according to FedEx. I only have a bathroom scale, which doesn't believe in weights under 25 lbs (for good reason, I suppose). So I had to weigh myself, then weigh myself holding the following and subtract the former:

Stones, white & black yunzi in their straw baskets: 2.5lbs, estimating 1 to 1.2 lbs for white and 1.3 to 1.5lbs for black.

Bamboo board, 2 & 1/4" thickness, 19x19 and 13x13 reverse: 5lb roughly, according to the bathroom scale that rounds to .5lbs. I did several samples of each measurement and this was the most consistent.

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Detail of the lines and board tone.
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Top view of 13x13 side. Bamboo's grain is visible at the joints. I find this pattern pleasant, others might want something more uniform. The strips themselves are fairly similarly toned and the surface is smoothly finished.
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Stones/baskets on the board. I really like these baskets.
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Stones on the board, detail of translucent yunzi black stone.

Yunzi stones are made out of agate and amber, and several other materials that are not disclosed by the company that makes them. They are only made by the single company at Yuunan mountain, and they are made by crushing, melting, and pouring the stone much like glass. The lines on the board are drawn by hand using the dull blade of a sword as a straightedge dipped in ink.