NOLATiger163

quote:

---

I am partial to the Southern Ps-4 (streamlined or not)

---

I usually prefer my machines to look like what they are. Here's the last remaining Southern Railway Ps-4, in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.


Source: Wikipedia

quote:

---

[T]he C&O H8 Allegheny the only locomotive that could drag a UP Big Boy around like a chihuahua on a leash.

---

In this context "drag" very clearly means starting tractive effort--how hard it can pull from a stop, tug-o-war-style--and here's a ranking for that:
Virginian AE class - 176,600 lbs (none remain)
Norfolk & Western Y6 class - 170,000 lbs (one remains, No. 2156, not operational)
Union Pacific Big Boy, second series - 138,240 lbs (some remain, none operational)
Union Pacific Big Boy, first series - 135,375 lbs (Union Pacific 4014 operational)
Norfolk & Western A class - 114,000 lbs (one remains, No. 1218, last operational ca. 1989)
Chesapeake & Ohio H8 class - 110,200 lbs

How if you mean by power, i.e. speed times hard-pulling, then yes, the H8 may be king.

quote:

---

I do hobby photography. My wife only likes it when I take her picture on 35mm film because I take a lot more care to set up the shot. shite's expensive to process, so you gotta make every shot count ....

---

Then get a Mamiya RB67 and really make her happy. I'd say a 4x5 but I bet she doesn't have the patience.

quote:

---

I hope she is acquitted. Too nice of a body to be in jail and she has a kid.

---

She has two kids ( IMDB). But there is a view that she got pregnant with the second one because she know the feds were getting ready to pounce, and she thought it would make her more sympathetic, and/or that the second baby daddy (Alfortish) would have an incentive to protect her instead of potentially roll over on her. If you start rewarding that despicable kind of behavior, then you'll get more of it.

As someone who owns a dedicated film scanner, IMO this is not a task you want to try to do yourself unless you're a hobbyist or pro with a relatively high volume of film to scan. Anything inexpensive is cr@p, and anything other than S-L-O-W is expensive and/or cr@p.

Fortunately there are services that make a business of this. I don't know about BR, but in NOLA and on the northshore there's Lakeside Camera. The really big service, which had a good reputation last I knew, was or is Scan Cafe; IIRC they send your film to India, but this doesn't seem to have been a problem. If it doesn't need to be local but you want it in the U.S., you might try Mpix, Dwayne's in Kansas, or Bay Photo in California.

Why? What do you think it will do for you? What evidence do you have that it will do that? Just because some 'wellness influencer' says so is hardly a reason. Have you asked your regular physician whether this is beneficial?

quote:

---

Bongiovi

---

quote:

---

Not bad. You’re lying if you say you wouldn’t hit it

---

My post wasn't really a comment on her looks (favorable or unfavorable) so much as it was providing more info on somebody those of you on the apps probably should avoid. Of all the dating app things that sound awful, somebody using them to find people to use for their work connections seems like a new one to add to the list. My wife and I have been together for a long time, but those of you out there today trying to find someone for something real and lasting, good luck, it seems like every year there's a new pile of dating dogcrap to avoid stepping it.

As I was checking for more serious news, I came across this one and couldn't help thinking of the Spinal Tap drummers:



Source: The Telegraph

And then those other Brits who kept losing key help--drummers, in their case--indeed Britain's loudest rock-and-roll band, Spinal Tap:

quote:

---

I have a comforter that I acquired probably 50 years ago that has that exact same print that’s on her bikini.

---

So you're saying you've long been prepared to comfort her?

Hmm, he wants a son or two, but at 79 he only requires the woman to be 20 years younger than him?! I know in this day and age of Better Living Through Chemistry, some women that age have carried babies (no doubt with donor eggs and in vitro fertilization), but he really ought to be aiming below the ole 'half your age plus seven' when wanting kids. To be clear, in my opinion nobody near his age should be having kids; it's irresponsible to father a kid you probably won't live to raise to adulthood.

Oh, and he's not an aristocrat, I think. The normal distinctions in the U.K. are, going down in order of precedence:
(1) royal: king / queen then prince / princess;
(2) noble: duke / duchess, marquess / marchioness, earl / countess, viscount / viscountess, then baron / baroness; then
(3) baronet, like this dude, is a hereditary title of dignity and certainly qualifies as part of the gentry, but a clear step below.

Oh, and then this bit:

quote:

---

Sir Benjamin ... says she can't come from countries beginning with 'I' that have green in their flag, which rules out residents of Ireland, India, Italy, Ivory Coast and Iran. He said: 'I don't mind Canadians, Americans, Germans and Northern Europeans - what I like to call similar people. I don't think marrying an Eskimo is for me....

Slade has a daughter, Violet, with entrepreneur and former child author Sahara Sunday Spain, 34 ....

---

About his current baby mama:

quote:

---

Sahara Sunday Spain was born in San Francisco, California, to Elisabeth Sunday, a contemporary artist-photographer and, Johnny Spain, a former Black Panther civil rights activist and convicted murderer.

---

Source: Wikipedia. I wonder what she thinks of his requirements for baby mama number two.