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by java
Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:56 pm
Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
Topic: Purdy knives...let’s see ‘em
Replies: 50
Views: 7245

Re: Purdy knives...let’s see ‘em

All I kin afford is some purdy lil' knives. Not them big'uns..... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kjZ8nuXBsobDgKw3YYLtHTCZroACS85O4JUEU1myjmhIz9dvylBC4354FnISIP6mF6EpZCY5cWNpdw5vt2bYczc6H1XtXBVDi08OCwsuiN8a9AGL4yoG0qezXQObTv4A9H4i8hOSz2DJnFSPZqg8h1nNz6quu9KntTlPFaiQ-y630z5uQp9ghz-z-kB9VVL_XUQ6y7yP...
by java
Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Spyderco Picture Gallery
Topic: Show your Delica's
Replies: 959
Views: 471680

Re: Show your Delica's

I think there's a Delica or two in here somewhere.... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/51TFwsv6PeiN-ASpzPaE0Uz42zKPU1lEM8dSH-9_cJbv3EZkLKKSslKSD-5vmLqBDnnS3eVX9MBLkYSHVw2dS3ZUrIqH4V6Z6DxPCxDdNzFSAv1RrN115eqXgb7EZkqhSqH8I00MyG_BPnsboHafojtORzmgW0ka4grjcDdKLqmxtgemmcB_dVhHzfVt-NaTLu0-_kY_0240RTWzJh7B...
by java
Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:34 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 3438
Views: 811389

Re: What are you listening to?

Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Alan Parsons Project this morning. A little Japanese koto music and some Luna Lee this evening.....

https://youtu.be/wSx1b7Bxtws
by java
Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:05 am
Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
Topic: Is there anyone here who remembers me?
Replies: 36
Views: 8514

The Rancilio is hot wired and ready anytime, Ian!

**** I even have a spare Gaggia Baby Class on the back burner here at the Armstrong lab ready to launch on a moment's notice.
by java
Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:28 am
Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
Topic: Is there anyone here who remembers me?
Replies: 36
Views: 8514

SpyderNut: Java never was OK - but he be hiding out on the Left Coast roasting home brew and chasing electrons around the flight research center. Good to see you and silverback still hanging in there. Just "imported" some Robusta from DaLat in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Lookin' to s...
by java
Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:32 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Warnings <:/
Replies: 13
Views: 3792

My Pit/Lab Bernie isn't too sharp. I just tell him a new Milk Bone or coffee shipment arrived and he dispatches any boxes (and occasionally contents) quite swiftly.

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by java
Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:14 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Where are all the old forum members?
Replies: 121
Views: 28198

'sup, Tortuga?? Java checks in from time to time. NASA keeps me busy testing and researchin' electro-chargy aero-spacey stuff. Fortunately Javascript works in the same branch I do and we can plot and talk Spydies when we need to. Might see how a Manix stands up to some 3-axis acceleration one of the...
by java
Thu May 17, 2012 6:53 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Check out my new table :)
Replies: 13
Views: 2058

Cool table, Tony but I fear there may be Cenobites over for dinner every night. :eek:

"You solved the table, we came. Now you must come with us, taste our pleasures."


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by java
Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:26 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Happy Birthday VAMPYREWOLF
Replies: 14
Views: 2006

Demoror natalis vota, young Lupus exsanguinosa!!


(and many more to come)


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by java
Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:18 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What is wrong with lyrics today....
Replies: 33
Views: 5977

Naw . . . The world isn't getting dumber. It reached its destination awhile ago. So why do we continue to dig once we reach rock bottom? Beck even does it in TWO - count em....that's two with a capitol M - different languages..... Yo soy un perdidor I'm a loser baby So why don't you kill me We are ...
by java
Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:00 pm
Forum: Spyderco Picture Gallery
Topic: Favorite "little" spyder!
Replies: 49
Views: 16198

WHUT?????? ;) I gots ta chose just ONE favorite 'lil Spyder???? :confused: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/tankajava/Knives/Spyderkeys-1.jpg Spyderkeys and the original "neckers" are at the top of the list..... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/tankajava/Knives/Crickets2538.jpg...
by java
Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:39 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 3438
Views: 811389

Today:

Toad the Wet Sprocket: PS
Alan Parsons: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Dada: Puzzle
Enigma: Cross of Changes
Holst: The Planets


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by java
Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:10 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Where did you get your last Spydie from?
Replies: 40
Views: 5351

USN Catcherman for me, I know, I'm slackin. Slackin??? You're just remote. I didn't know Cal City had ANY mail delivery! :D (Better than North Eddys or Boron though - ever since the 20-Mule Team replaced the Pony Express delivery service has been spotty.) Lets see....USN Catchers of Men from SFO. P...
by java
Fri May 06, 2011 4:01 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Who has a Bowie knife here
Replies: 42
Views: 18980

Vox won a Hammer-In with his VoxBowie

Image

It ended up unexpectedly in my mailbox a few months later....


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by java
Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:22 am
Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
Topic: Spyderco One-liner/Tag-line Contest
Replies: 235
Views: 49298

Thanks, Joyce

"Be prepared where you may go: place your trust in Spyderco."



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by java
Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:51 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Pelican Cases?
Replies: 10
Views: 5594

My M4 lives in a 1700 Long Case. I have several Pelican dive cases that I have taken to 150' with no sign of leakage. (Also have full set of Pelican Nemo dive lights). NASA.....well at least Dryden Flight Test Center where I work, swears by them and I specify them for my test equipment whenever poss...
by java
Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:28 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: can opener....
Replies: 28
Views: 8886

I just did about 20 minutes of reading about can openers, people seem to have good luck with an OXO brand can opener. Swear by my OXOs and swear AT everything else. ;) Have had 2 for 5 years. The sine qua non for cans!! :cool: Cleaved the crowns from countless clusters of hermetically sealed Stannu...
by java
Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:02 am
Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
Topic: Which Spydercos feature buttery-smooth opening?
Replies: 57
Views: 12690

Gunting. Opens smooth and locks solid with a small rotation of the wrist. (Also nothing comparable when the kinetic ramp is employed.) Original Tim Zowada opened Parkay smooth and you can't tell that apart from the buttery standard...... ;)


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by java
Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:45 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Anyone here have a Nakiri style knife
Replies: 8
Views: 4194

Never used a Nakiri, but aside from the tip (or lack of one) the ones I looked at via your link seemed very similar in size and shape to Spyderco's Santoku which is one of the most used knives in my kitchen. Think thinner. Santokus have thicker blades and can cut through small bones easily. They ha...
by java
Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:43 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: We had an Earthquake Here on Long Island This Morning
Replies: 11
Views: 3528

Aren't you on the wrong side of the country for something like that? :) Jack Charleston, SC Earthquake, Aug-Sept 1886 New Madrid earthquake of 1811 No one is safe!! At 8.1 - 8.2, the New Madrid Quake is often called the most powerful earthquake to hit the US mainland. The San Francisco quake of 190...