Roger Mason Wallpaper.
by Hipuks on Aug 21, 2009 3:14 PM CDT
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Since there seems to be a wallpaper craze going on PTR, I decided to contribute my own. My photoshop skills are a bit rusty, so any constructive criticism will be appreciated. The wallpaper itself is a bit busy, but I think it's nice enough for maybe an office setting or to use at home. It came out pretty well, although the contrast is a bit too dull and the tonal range a bit flat, but other than that I'm happy with the final result. Of course, you can download it as you please.
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Wow, Hipuks. You really brought it. Where do I even begin?
Well, Pop’s headset looks like it weighs about 20 lbs. And he’s so serious, it looks as though he’s contemplating the possibility of collateral damage from said missile. Mason’s looks every bit the no-conscience gunner, and although the Spurs logo is slightly out of perspective, I give you full marks for at least incorporating a version which is no longer in use.
I don’t know which typeface you used, but tell me what it’s called and where I can download it, because I’d love to use it on my own wallpaper attempt. If you don’t think that would be too weird. I understand if you do. Never mind. Can we pretend I didn’t ask?
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5 in 10
Beautiful.
"We suck on 'D. Both individually and team-wise, we suck. We're pretty consistent that way. I don't know if I have an answer to that. If I did, we wouldn't suck quite so bad." - Popovich
by Aaron "Hirschof" Preine on Aug 20, 2009 7:47 AM CDT reply actions
Thanks for ridiculing us so beautifully.
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Wow. I like it. It looks like what I imagined Shaq’s, Nash’s, Amare’s, etc. collages looked like. The ones Terry Porter had them do to increase team chemistry.
Maybe as they were daydreaming about being on the Spurs rather than the sucky Suns. (I kind of miss having them around to mock.)
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by olf on Aug 20, 2009 9:35 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
GOL! You’re on a roll, olf. And I too miss the Suns, but I’m looking forward to being able to mock the Nuggets this season.
My people call it "sarcasm." - Lauri
No doubt there will be plenty of targets for creative mocking this upcoming season. But ya gotta have a little pang of sadness for the demise of the Suns as a target.
Oh man, I saw an interview with Amare a couple of days ago. I swear he can’t string together coherent letters – let alone coherent words, phrases or thoughts. It was unwatchable.
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Ball Don’t Lie’s photoshop contests have nothing on Hipuks.
by silverandblack_davis on Aug 20, 2009 1:46 PM CDT up reply actions
holy fsm. that is the funniest bit of internetting i’ve seen this week.
free george hill!
by sleep research facility on Aug 20, 2009 9:38 AM CDT reply actions
Damn this firewall. I want to see what everyone is praising.
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You are in for a treat when you finally see this.
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by LasEspuelas on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM CDT up reply actions
You might want to smooth the edges on that F-16. They look a little jagged.
We specialize in misinformation around here. Facts and stats just get in the way.
by Wayne Vore (ATS) on Aug 20, 2009 1:21 PM CDT reply actions
Fucking brilliant.
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I just realized there’s no fish. Surely you can find a good fish pic to add that will tie into your overall theme.
My people call it "sarcasm." - Lauri
Although I dislike you immensely, and your mere presence irritates me, you’re right on this one. A little fish somewhere along the picture would’ve sent it to another level of professionalism.
My tapeworm tells me what to do.
This needs at least 20 recs
"We suck on 'D. Both individually and team-wise, we suck. We're pretty consistent that way. I don't know if I have an answer to that. If I did, we wouldn't suck quite so bad." - Popovich
by Aaron "Hirschof" Preine on Aug 20, 2009 8:24 PM CDT reply actions
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the airplane with the Jacque Vaughn face has nine wings.One the rarest airplanes in history. Yes, I used to be into airplanes, which is why I chose the F-22 Raptor to represent Roger Mason instead of the F-35 Lighting, since the F-22 is more of a one role fighter jet while the F-35 is more flexible.
My tapeworm tells me what to do.
Are you positive? Because those flaps at the bottom panel of the rear wing appear to indicate otherwise. In fact, the overall curvature of the underbelly would lead one to the concl…
I have no idea what I’m talking about. If you say it’s rare, then it’s rare. If you think that plane fits Mace best, then that’s final. I, for one, didn’t notice it (sorry). But it’s perfect no less.
by theonlyromeo on Aug 21, 2009 12:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Reason #13 I wish I had a time machine
Because I could have been there to see this:
The aircraft attained an altitude of only 18 m (60 ft) and crashed shortly thereafter, breaking up on impact.
BTW, I did notice the extra wings, but didn’t know the history of the craft.
And the F-22 vs F-35 image was lost on me, but makes perfect sense now that you’ve explained it.
From under the radar to hanging in the rafters - Big50
5 in 10
There’s footage of that plane crashing. It’s pretty famous. YouTube it.
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Or maybe it was another one just like it.
By the way, this line is intriguing:
The wrecked airplane was recovered, but burned in a mysterious fire.
Mysterious fire? Ooh.
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It’s really hard to find information on that airplane, but I read somewhere that it was burned because some people were afraid that if it were to work, it would put ferries out of business, remember that the thing was designed to carry 100 and no plane could carry that many people at the time.
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Hey, I did some consulting work for Lockheed for a couple of years when they were headquartered in Burbank and worked on the YF-22 which were the two demonstration planes they built for the fly-off to see if the Lockheed team or the Northrup team would get the contract. We kicked the shit out of them I’m told.
I thought I recognized the thrust-vectoring exhausts and tailfins. I think the F-22 was the 1st fighter able to cruise super-sonic without afterburners which saves a shitload of
fuel. It was fun to see it go into service and kinda sad to see it discontinued but I hear the F-35/JSF is pretty cool too. (And I don’t know anything classified or top secret so stop trying to torture me dammit ‘cause I ain’t gonna talk!)
That was so last century but it was a fun place to work. Like when the Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbird spy planes they did a fly-over of all the Lockheed facilities and 1000s of people lined up all along streets and on the roofs near the Burbank airport as they did some touch & go landings & takeoffs.
In fact one of the SR-71 Blackbirds is on permanent display at the California Science Center which just happens to be a couple of miles south of the Staples Center (Shares a parking lot with where they held the Lakers championship celebration in fact.)
I was going to mention that to LatinD as a safe place to kill a couple of hours near Staples. (Ironically there is also one on display at Lackland AFB – where else but San Antonio, TX. but I am sure that one is the “SR-71 of the decade”.)
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5 in 10
Damn, remind me of visiting that, olf.
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No worries, I’ll give you a little list. It ain’t in any way glamorous. The running/screaming kids & the mom’s hitting you in the shins with the baby strollers hurt like hell. And it is far from the top 10 things to do in L A.
But if you have a little extra time to kill there’s that museum & a few others. It is a safe area to walk round. It is just 2-3 miles south of Staples and while parking is $8-10, admission is free, and you can avoid the maze of freeways/streets/tall buildings north of Staples.
Your best bet though is the new entertainment area right next to staples. It is called L A Live. It just opened last year and I haven’t checked it out yet but it has a an “ESPN Zone” sports bar where you can get a beer, snack and watch some sports before the game.
Here’s a YouTube about it I was going to send you. (Sorry, it looks like a sales presentation to city hall or something.) Not sure the Hotel mentioned is open yet but I wouldn’t suggest you stay there anyway. And the Grammy Awards museum they mention sounds interesting if you like music stuff.
So that L A Live & Stapes Center area are cool to walk around but a few blocks away, late at night, in a Spurs jersey, the area can get a little rough.
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Damn it! Why didn’t you tell me this before? I thought you were just an a-hole Lakers fan. I know the Burbank plant you were talking about. My uncle lived close to there, and back when I was into airplanes he told me they had built the F-117 in there, I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know they also built SR-71 Blackbirds in there. Those were some of the most secret planes ever built.
It’s really a shame the way the aerospace industry crumbled here in CA. Still, if you’re a fan of airplanes this is a great place to live. Like two blocks from here, there’s the Van Nuys Airport, it’s the busiest general aviation airport in the world. They used to have an air show every year and I got to see the F-117 up close, well, as close as the soldiers with the rifles would let you. I also got to see the B-2 bomber flying, but I never saw the SR-71 in person. I had no idea they had one in that museum. That plane is a thing of beauty.
I know they recently canceled more orders for F-22’s but you know…It’s one of those planes, it beautiful and technologically awesome…But unless we get into a war with a country that has an actual air force, it’s not of much use. But the Air Force loves its toys. Of course if we get in a war with Russian their Sukhois also have thrust vectoring, but they probably wouldn’t be able to afford the fuel to fly them.
Do you still work with any aerospace company? And if so, can I get one their little model planes for a desk? Those things are very expensive. I would have to wash it after you touched it with your Lakers hands, but it would be worth it.
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Ok, who wants to give me the best link to learn about thrust-vectoring and why there’s so much water vapor visible when it’s going on?
From under the radar to hanging in the rafters - Big50
5 in 10
This one is pretty good:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/f-22-raptor5.htm
Thrust vectoring is really simple in practice. You seen how jet exhaust always come out of the back of an airplane straight, what thrust vectoring is, is nozzles at the back of the airplane which can move the exhaust around. With that you can make much tighter turns or climb up or dive down much more rapidly.
Of course in practice it’s insanely complicated to make those things.
My tapeworm tells me what to do.
By the way, the water vapor is due to the weather that day and the speed of the air traveling over the wing surfaces. (OK, I am going way past the depth of my knowledge here.)
That thrust vectoring youtube says the fog had just burned off that day. And so there was still lots of water vapor in the air. When the air is moving very fast it can cause the vapor to condense quickly out of the air – like those cans of compressed air that you can use to clean your keyboard. The air gets cool, cool air can hold less vapor, hence the condensation.
(That could be full of shit but I think it’s right.)
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Sorry but that was long ago and far away. The best I could do is probably a small model of a United 737 I picked up in some airport gift shop for $9.99.
Unfortunately, it is not really an Air & Space Museum and the SR-71 in L A is outside and mounted on a couple of tall poles near one or two more planes and a plaque. So there’s no way to get real near it or touch it. Don’t think there’s any more plane stuff inside either. But if after February it has a little Spurs logo graffiti on it we’ll know who’s responsible for that, right LD?
Lastly, in this pic of the L A Coliseum (Laker Parade sorry) you can see the Cal. Science Center in the far upper left (pinkish square building.) The silver square of concrete is the parking lot. And that little tiny black
smudge is the SR-71 Blackbird up on stilts.
PS. That Lockheed division in Burbank also designed & built the U2’s. One of which was shot down over the then Soviet Union, took the pics of the missiles in Cuba that lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis, etc. etc. etc.
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I was told by an NGC guy that they beat out Lockheed on that? Either way its cool you got to work with them.
Nope. Northrup lost that one. But they were already building the B2.
Two contractor teams, Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics and Northrop/McDonnell Douglas were selected to undertake a 50-month demonstration / validation phase, culminating in the flight test of two prototypes, the YF-22 and the YF-23, respectively. . .
On 23 April 1991 the USAF ended the design and test flight competition by announcing Lockheed’s YF-22 as the winner.-(wikipedia F-22 Raptor or U S Air Force Museum)
According to wikipedia the YF-23 was faster & stealthier but the YF-22 was more agile (due to thrust vectoring no doubt). They also said YF-22 was more adaptable to possible future uses.
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Sorry I can’t help myself, but here is a cool picture of the F22 crossing the sound barrier.
GULF OF ALASKA (June 22, 2009) An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a transonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).
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OY-VEH
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by LasEspuelas on Aug 21, 2009 11:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Shhh… don’t tell that to the author of this FanPost!
by silverandblack_davis on Aug 21, 2009 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Without even looking, I think I know what #2 is.
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CapHill’s traffic analogy post from last week got 9. Am I right?
From under the radar to hanging in the rafters - Big50
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No. My DeJuan Blair post and ATS’s Mapping PTR udate post each have 12. They need to normalize recs by page views per week so we can compare these new high rec posts to classic ones from a year or two ago when traffic was lower.
The Traffic analogy post was a Story and there is no way to sort them by recs as far as I know.
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