KC Meetup reminder

[proud2BlibKansan]

Wednesday, Jan 18

7:00 pm

Westport Flea Market

Who's coming?

[MuseRider]

1. Have fun!

Wish I could join you. :cry:

[ComerPerro]

2. So its not on Thursday, like the other thread says

I wondered about those dates.

"Thurs, January 18"

If it were Thursday, I could go. But I can't make Wednesday meetups any more.

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Yeah I goofed - sorry

We are going to have to look at a calendar and change our dates. I can't do Thursdays. What nights are good for you? I am wondering if we should change to a weekend.

[ComerPerro]

58. Really, the only good days for me are Thursday, Fri, or Sat

[evlbstrd]

3. I am.

Is this going to be another small one?

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. It's never small

How dare you!!

[evlbstrd]

11. Whoops.

That's right, we have the largest, most frequent meetups of all DUers.

[Mabus]

10. I'll be there

Don't worry, I'll do my best to make it big. :evilgrin:

btw, are you bringing your lithography materials or do I just get a lecture?

[evlbstrd]

12. I have a reference book.

And some lithographs of my own. But litho stones are notoriously difficult ro maneuver around in bars. And they tend to break the tables.

[Mabus]

18. know anything about ica stones?

[evlbstrd]

20. They sound like something you pass.

No.

[Mabus]

27. Saw them a month or so ago on some channel

It could have been one of the History, Discovery or travel channels. It's amazing what I'll watch when I can't find the remote. http://members.cox.net/icastones/home.htm

[evlbstrd]

30. OK, I get the gist now.

Lithography means printing from stone.
Nothing is ever carved into a litho stone. You draw on it with a waxy crayon, and "etch" it with gum arabic, water and acid. The etch doesn't eat at the surface of the stone, but changes its chemical attractive properties. Where you drew, the stone will attract ink. Where you didn't, it will attract water, and thus repel ink. This is the process M.C. Escher used.

[Mabus]

31. I get it now

Cool. I want to know more. Seriously.

[evlbstrd]

33. Damn!

The texture of the stone gives the print its sublety of tone. Offfset lithography is a mechanical adaptation of the process used for all of the stuff you see printed on paper, from your newspaper to your junk mail. It involves four colors of semi transparent ink, arranged in a certain pattern at opposing angles printed in varying sized dots. Look at a magazine photo under magnification to see what I mean.

[Mabus]

35. Wow

Looking at a magazine picture with a magnifying glass revealed a small mole on the model's leg. Pretty cool.

[evlbstrd]

37. You just spotted a substandard Photoshop artist.

There should be no visible flaws.

[Mabus]

40. Oops

My mistake, it was a crumb. A tiny tiny crumb. Must remember to use something else to roll my, um, er, cigarettes.

[evlbstrd]

42. Waste not, want not.

Twigs and seeds.

[Mabus]

44. Okay. I remember this magazine now.

I turned the page and hit gold, so to speak. I might have to go now.

[evlbstrd]

46. Enjoy.

[Mabus]

48. Damn

Now what year did Michael Jackson marry Lisa Presley? I've got this strange feeling that this magazine is really old.

[evlbstrd]

53. That bit of trivia never registered with me.

But it was a long time ago. 80's?

[Mabus]

54. 1994

May 18th to be exact. Why do I suddenly feel the need to shower?

[evlbstrd]

55. See, there are some benefits to aging.

Dying brain cells weed that shit out.

[Mabus]

56. LOL

I'll have to change my sig line to at least two reported cases of incontinence if you say something like that again.

[evlbstrd]

57. You just reminded me of another thing to forward to.

Adult diapers.

[scratchtasia]

4. Me

I should be there, but probably a bit late.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I will be late too

Maybe not till 8:00. I am teaching a class and I have a guest speaker. So I can't dismiss class early as I usually do on meetup nights.

My kids are coming. I told them to look for evl and find a good table.

[Mabus]

5. I'm bringing Rex

Don't know if the husband will be there.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Good deal - I like Rex.

It will be good to see him again.

I sent a notice to DFA. Hopefully they will post it and some of them will come.

[Mabus]

28. Well from the way he talks

he likes you a lot. He was over the other day and he asked what was up, I mentioned DU and he asked about you.

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. COOL - I think I will print out this petition and bring it for Rex to sign

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x170298

[Mabus]

49. You'll just confuse him

Was this petition started by Bill O'Reilly?

[proud2BlibKansan]

50. Read that thread

One of the smarter DUers found that same list of names on two other useless petitions. LOL The names are in the same order!

[Mabus]

51. I got as far as the Jethro and "gozinto" math

and posted this http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=170298&mesg_id=171049 in support of you.

[Mabus]

52. I wonder if they were all done by Danielle Ansley

She's industrious enough to spend all of her free time copying names for "freedom" (what ever she conceives that to be).

By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, December 29, 2005, 05:48 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

on 10-26, i did an illustration depicting the word “why” using the names of the 2,000 troops who had, at that time, died in iraq. here on this blog, the feedback from readers, both pro and con was enormous. in response, a young woman, an 11th grader, has created the response above. what do you all think? remember, this is an issue that has divided the country and this young person is in high school, so please keep the discourse respectful.

mike

Her letter to the editor (below) and drawing will appear in Saturday’s print edition.

The first time I saw Mike Luckovich’s drawing of the word “WHY?”, made up of the names of 2,000 troops killed in Iraq, was when my mother was putting it up on our refrigerator. It bothered me that no one did a response showing how others feel. On Nov. 8, I got an updated list of the names of the war dead and started writing them, spelling out “FREEDOM.” Six days later, it was done. I only worked on it in my free time at school. It took me about 12 hours to get it done, so needless to say I devoted many of my classes to this, and stayed late after school to work on it. I didn’t take it home and show it to my mother until I had prints made. She and I have different views of things. She said that, as a mother, she didn’t like it that so many people have been killed. She was not happy when I placed my work next to Luckovich’s “WHY?” on the fridge, but it hasn’t been taken down. I may seem as if I am too young to have an opinion on matters like these. I am not saying that my opinion is right, for an opinion is just that — someone’s views on something. But, like a child’s voice, an opinion is often not heard. DANIELLE ANSLEY Danielle, 17, of Fairburn, is an 11th-grader at Arlington Christian School.

[evlbstrd]

13. Is Rex a pet?

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. LOL He might like that description.

You'll like Rex. He is a teacher who is friends with Mabus. My kid loves him. Rex painted his hands red when we invaded Iraq and went to school that way. My kid says he wishes he had some high school teachers like Rex.

[evlbstrd]

15. Cool. What does he teach?

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Science

I had an interesting conversation with him about creationism.

[evlbstrd]

19. Can you imagine

if our favorite columnist and favorite attorney show up? That would be fun!

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Oh I hope so

Save me a seat.

Please.

I'll be late.

My kids are coming. They should be there early.

[evlbstrd]

23. Seat saved.

Did you let the attorney know?

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Yes I emailed him and the DFA guy and the reporter

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

[evlbstrd]

25. What else can ya do?

Crossed fingers will make it kinda hard to do my work.

[Mabus]

17. He would claim he is

but he is human. He's a retired teacher, a Camp Casey veteran and all-around good guy.

Here he is at Camp Casey with my friend Lauren.


VOLUNTEERS Robin Handelsman of Atlanta, Ga., Rex Powell and Lauren Sullivan (Volunteer Coordinator), both of Lawrence, Kan., manned the artists' check-in tent at Camp Casey II.
— Iconoclast Photo By Gene Ellis

link: http://www.lonestaricon.com/2005/News/2005/31-40/34news11.htm

[evlbstrd]

21. I'm looking forward to meeting him.

[Mabus]

26. I wish I could say the same.

Gotcha.

[evlbstrd]

29. Mabus is being mean to me!

Mom!

[Mabus]

32. And you expected different?

Looking forward to actually meeting you. I'm sure Rex will like you too. Although, if you were a woman he'd be more likely to remember your name.

:pals:

[evlbstrd]

34. I'll repeat my name loudly and repeatedly.

From the Department of Redundancy Department.

[Mabus]

36. I'm sure that by the end of the evening

he'll be muttering your name under his breath.

[evlbstrd]

38. Then I will have had a good evening.

I could probably get him to buy me a beer while he mutters.

[Mabus]

39. Several

He's a softie.

[evlbstrd]

41. I'll try to go easy on him.

I'll buy my own Guinness. He can buy Pale Ale.

[Mabus]

43. Good

I'll try to broker the deal for you tomorrow. Don't tell Rex.

[evlbstrd]

45. Deal.