I've written a haiku to start my PhD dissertation on stratospheric turbulence over complex terrain:
"Orographic wave
Rises to meet the jet streak.
Turbulence ensues."
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
On grade couplers break
Cabin leads terror wild ride
Brakies soil pants brown
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
A five seven five
More than just an oh five oh
With lots more fingers
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
trains it was About
5/7/5
Alex
MisterBeasley wrote:Alas, my HaikuWas not even recognized.Haiku is like that.
Alas, my Haiku
Was not even recognized.
Haiku is like that.
Ah yes, your Haiku
But it was recognized.
Trains it was about
(thanks, I miss counted.....)
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
MisterBeasley wrote: Alas, my HaikuWas not even recognized.Haiku is like that.
Thta's okay, If you hit me with a brick I'll get both of them.
MisterBeasley wrote:SPAM on railroad tracksDiesels skidding into townSquealing like stuck pigs --John Mitchell, jam@altagroup.com
That's actually quite good. Thanks MB.
Whilst googling for SPAM
Haiku on the Internet
This one caught my eye:
SPAM on railroad tracksDiesels skidding into townSquealing like stuck pigs
Semper Vaporo wrote: My eyes are actually wet from laughing! I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!Did you do that digitally or did you ACTUALLY spread SPAM (tm) into a disk drive????I LOVE IT!
My eyes are actually wet from laughing! I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!
Did you do that digitally or did you ACTUALLY spread SPAM (tm) into a disk drive????
I LOVE IT!
Oh, boy... I just lifted that off a Google image search for SPAM, sorry! I can't take any credit for it. Go ahead and use it... ...if it's copyrighted then we'll both be in trouble!
SteamFreak wrote: Semper Vaporo wrote: Dave Vollmer wrote:THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU My eyes are actually wet from laughing! I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!Then you oughta love this.Which pretty much describes what this weekend felt like.
Semper Vaporo wrote: Dave Vollmer wrote:THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU My eyes are actually wet from laughing! I didn't quite make it all the way to the floor, but that is because it is hard to fall out of a lounge chair with my laptop PC on (where else?) my lap!
Dave Vollmer wrote:
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Then you oughta love this.
Which pretty much describes what this weekend felt like.
Yes, I got a pretty good laugh out of that one too. That is how I have felt opening some web sites that flood the user with multiple windows being opened.
But I need to explain why that first one was so funny to me.
I used to be the "Acting Manager" of the Automatic Test Equipment Lab where I worked. ("Acting Manager" means I had ALL the responsibility but not at the Manager pay scale.)
Anyway, I was DEEP into computers; I ate, breathed and slept computers. I would get so involved in programming problems at the systems level that I would loose track of the hour of the day and day of the week. I would need to ask someone a question and when I would open the door to the lab to go to the office area the whole place would be dark because everyone had gone home 10 hours ago.
My subconcious would work on software/hardware problems all the time. I would dream solutions to difficult problems and when I came in to work I could fix them... happened MANY times... Made the phrase "Sleep on it" very meaningful.
There was a period of time where I worked so many hours and was so tired that I was having trouble separating present reality from dreams I had two or three nights(/days) before. I'd dream that I had done something and then get confused when it had not been done already, or vice-versa.
One day we had a problem with a 5.25-inch floppy disk drive and I told a coworker I would fix it tomorrow when I could bring in some Braunschweiger and a butter knife.
Uh... say what!?!?!?
Apparently, a couple of nights before I had dreamed that a fix for a broken disk drive was to smear Braunschweiger into the opening with a butter knife (like putting peanut butter on bread).
It is now a bit of an inside joke with one of my kids. Whenever something isn't working right, (especially a computer problem) one of us will say, "I know how to fix it, smear Braunschweiger in the disk drive."
I know that a lot of my dreamed solutions actually worked, but this one was just a bit too far off into left field to even think about actually doing it. (But, I have often wondered what my mind was trying to do by associating the two in a fix... what is it about Braunschweiger that would be a fix for problems with a floppy disk drive?)
The photo in this thread was so much like the image in the dream that it really hit home. The only difference is that the Spam is coming out, not Braunschweiger going in.
Oh well...
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Chip look what you have DONE!!!
Everybody will have to through TRAINING so that the can be TRAINED to work on TRAINS and not get FLAMED for Bad Pictures of TRAINS.
THAT IS FUNNY, with a capital SPAM!
SEND IT TO HORMEL!!!!!!!!
MAY I PLEASE, PURTY PLEASE, with cream and sugar on top (well, how about Spam and cheese on top), make a copy of your WONDERFUL picture to use as my desktop backgound?
Or even use it as my avitar?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
SEMPER SPAM!
SteamFreak wrote: I'll have a dry Spamtini, please.
I'll have a dry Spamtini, please.
Shaken, not stirred, right?
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
steam freak
I'll meet you at the beer barn...... on me
What the HELL??????
This thread is like a broken pencil...Pointless.
See ya!
Have fun with your trains
loathar wrote:Steamfreak-You need to have that Spamtini on a train!
I do not like them on a train
I do not like them in the rain
I do not like them here or there
I do not like them anywhere!
jesrr wrote: I like spam and I like martinis. this could be the beginning of a beautiful day.
I like spam and I like martinis. this could be the beginning of a beautiful day.
Spamtinis all around on the house!
train
Since this is a model railroad forum, shouldn't we rename "bandwidth" to "trainlength"? In that case shouldn't this thread be renamed "Another pointless waste of trainlength?
Say goodnight, Gracie...
Building advertising on my layout, featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, and our favorite enigmatic meat-in-a-can.
MisterBeasley wrote: ...here in the city of Emphysema. Yes, it's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match... From another old Firesign Theater fan. Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Humphrey, Humphrey, Humphrew, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon....(that's the train reference, for those that don't remember the LP.)
From another old Firesign Theater fan. Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Humphrey, Humphrey, Humphrew, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon....(that's the train reference, for those that don't remember the LP.)
I think we're all bozos on this, um, train......
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
alfadawg01 wrote: And please remember.....Spam spells mapS, backwards.The ES44AC....fully equipped with factory air conditioning from our fully factory equipped, air conditioned factory.trainGolly, Mr. Time, do you think it will work?
And please remember.....Spam spells mapS, backwards.
The ES44AC....fully equipped with factory air conditioning from our fully factory equipped, air conditioned factory.
Golly, Mr. Time, do you think it will work?
...here in the city of Emphysema. Yes, it's a beautiful car friends, with doors to match...
SpaceMouse wrote:We don't want this post to get derailled.
We don't want this post to get derailled.
tell me you meant to include that pun !
i'm not crazy about Spam , used to eat it as a kid but my wife would be disgusted if i brought any home now .
a local DQ had coconut cream pie Blizzards (fantastic BTW) earlier this summer , but only one time , and i haven't seen the flavour elsewhere . maybe it was a market test , and i should have gone back every day ?