Scroll through some photos of opiliones. We had the plain "daddy long legs" ones all around my house in California, which I used to catch often and try my hardest not to have the legs come off but they still would anyway. Of course, many of these are a lot fancier! http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/A ... iones.html
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Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:58 am
by Beyond
GADZOOKS All those unpronounceable names that I'll never remember. But there was one with red legs with black joints, that has a yellow body that reminds me of a smilie.
And three below that one, there's a big red one that makes me think of Jabba the Hut.
What happens when you throw a dice? Well, you can get a six, or a five, or a four, or a three, or a two, or a one. Or the dice, or at least the cube, or at least the Cubli, can stand on its edge, or on its corner, or walk away from you. Look at this!
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Ann
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Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:35 pm
by Beyond
Why, that's sort of better than a slinky
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:13 pm
by geckzilla
Picture of me in front of a life-size model of my favorite telescope at the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
I thought it was funny that the baffle at the top was shut. They never shut the real one!
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:41 pm
by neufer
geckzilla wrote:
Picture of me in front of a life-size model of my favorite telescope at the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
I thought it was funny that the baffle at the top was shut. They never shut the real one!
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Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Complete Poems. 1924.
Part Four: Time and Eternity
So I must baffle at the hint
And cipher at the sign,
And make much blunder, if at last
I take the clew divine.
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From The Secrets of the Tarot , by Barbara Walker;
12. The Hanged Man: Hanging from a gallows by one foot
was a medieval custom known as "baffling." . . . .
<<The female World figure on the last trump showed the same pose right
side up as the Hanged Man upside down: one foot bent behind the other
knee, so the legs form a triangle.... suggestive [of] the Egyptian
hieroglyph of a stick figure with legs arranged in this same design.
As a verb, this hieroglyph meant "to dance." As a noun, it meant the
AB or "heart soul," the most important of an Egyptian's seven souls:
the one given by the mother's blood, the one that would be
weighted in the balances in the underworld of Maat.....
Normally a disgraceful punishment (like crucifixion), baffling seems
to have been used by secret sects as a step toward mystic initiation.
A person hanging upside down for any extended time becomes
acutely conscious of his own heartbeat, for it throbs its ceaseless
"I am, I am, I am" through the pulse beating in his head.>>
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:46 pm
by Beyond
neufer wrote:A person hanging upside down for any extended time becomes
acutely conscious of his own heartbeat, for it throbs its ceaseless
"I am, I am, I am" through the pulse beating in his head.
Excedrin headache #1
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:45 am
by geckzilla
Maybe hanging yourself upside down could stretch out your legs. Alternatively, you can just sloppily use Photoshop and end up with a super distorted photo of yourself.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:53 am
by Beyond
The only difference that i can see, is that 'normal' you looks closer than 'abnormal' you. But then, I'm not used to processing pictures like you are, so there's probably lots of things that i wouldn't give a first thought to, never mind a second thought.
Oh, wait... the door on the right is more vertical. There... i noticed something, which is amazing considering it's midnight.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:14 am
by geckzilla
Photoshop's photomerger automatically stitched together the panorama in the first one and stretched me out all silly-like, making me look reeeally tall and out of proportion. The truth is that I'm pretty short.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:34 am
by Beyond
I can't tell if you're short or not, as i only have the door on the right to go by, but it's too far behind you to have any meaning as to your height.
Maybe it would have helped if whomever took the picture stood where you stood, for a comparison.
All those unpronounceable names that I'll never remember. But there was one with red legs with black joints, that has a yellow body that reminds me of a smilie. 
