Amature/Amusing photography thread

[Brian]

Shami gets no breakfast today, and this is why:

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[Arakawa]

* Arakawa goes to fetch a traffic cop and some superglue...

... wait, wha?

[alethiophile]

That is lovely.

[Arakawa]

That is lovely.

I've seen a bunch of these odd/mistaken traffic signs around Toronto by now. Admonishing "PEDESRITIANS" to not do whatever, or such.

This is the first one that's merited being immortalized in photo, though.

[alethiophile]

Ah, the perils of attempting Dark-Arts-y political manipulation on a campus full of snarky college students.

Context which may or may not be interesting or required:

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City of Boulder, which currently contracts with Excel (Xcel?) to provide electricity and natural gas, has recently been making noises about buying up the infrastructure and starting their own, publically-run utility. 310 is an Excel-sponsored measure to block the attempt. (Many commentators, including myself, are leery about City of Boulder's actual ability to run a utility, given that they basically seem to want to so that they can use more renewables whether or not this is economic or practicable. No one ever accused City of Boulder of prioritizing final utility over ideological purity.)

Huh.

* alethiophile struggles with syntax, gives up. If there's a way to make it display smaller, I can't find it.

[Dracos]

I feel like a picture is missing? :)

Ah, there we go :3

[Merc]

I was doing a minor home improvement effort in my closet (aka, I just added two shelves) so that I could better stack my games.

Still need to do the other side, that way I can distribute the games even better, but it's already an improvement from when I just had them all over my closet in dangerously leaning stacks. That's essentially all of my board games, if anyone's curious.

...minus any games on pre-order or kickstarted anyway, hence the 'essentially'. <_<;

Grainy photo since it was with iphone, so here's a list of games for anybody curious:

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Race For The Galaxy
-Expansion: Alien Artifacts
Francis Drake
Quarriors
Snowdonia
-Expansion: Brittania Bridge
-Expansion: Jungfraubahn & Mount Washington
Clash of Cultures
Star Fluxx
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Gloria Mundi

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Smash Up
-Expansion: Awesome Level 9000
-Expansion: Science Fiction Double Feature
Legendary: A Marvel Dicebuilding Game
Chaos in the Old World
Acquire
Red Dragon Inn
-Expansion: RDI3
-Expansion: RDI4
-Expansion: Cormac the Mighty
-Expansion: Witchdoctor Natyli

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Belfort
20th Century
Eclipse
-Expansion: Rise of the Ancients
Flash Point
Galaxy Trucker
Trajan
Police Precinct

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The Resistance: Avalon
8th Minute Empire
Fresco
Descent 2nd Edition: Journeys in the Dark
-Expansion: Lair of the Wyrm
Agents of SMERSH
Small World
-Expansion: Be Not Afraid...
-Expansion: Cursed!
-Expansion: Royal Bonus
-Expansion: Grand Dames of Small World
Endeavor
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar

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Gear & Piston
-Expansion: Overheated
-Expansion: Engineering Assistants
-Expansion: The Americans
DC Deckbuilding Game
Castles of Burgundy
Power Grid
Lords of Waterdeep
Tasnia
Mahjongg set (Not a board game, but its stacked there!)
Monopoly

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Innovation
Nile Deluxor
Takenoko
Munchkin
Deadwood
7 Wonders
Tokaido
Poker set (Not a board game, but its stacked!)
Some sudoku board thing?

[Ergoemos]

I am so jealous. Do you get to play them with any regularity? Letmelivemyboardgamefantasiesthroughyou.

[Merc]

Not as much as I used to, though that's my own fault.

There are a fair number of board game meetups that gather on a weekly basis around Houston, but I've only been going recently to one that meets on Sundays on a sporadic basis, and cutting out early to make it to Neph's FFd6 game on time.

To be fair, I'd gotten just a little 'gamed out' so to speak after going to a Saturday one for close to a year, since the saturday one is from 11am until 10pm.