Random crap with Uno.

[Buster's Uncle]

...My curmudgeonly qualities do tend to stand out more when all the weathermen are shouting "WOLF!  WOOOLLFF!"...

[Unorthodox]

So, Apoxie Sculpt...



Other than this is "white", I really have nothing but good things to say about it. 

two parts, easily mix.  It really reminds me of a plasticine clay, in that the more you warm it in your hand the softer the clay becomes.  Much easier to work than the DAS clay I've been a fan of for a while. 

While they sell a solvent for smoothing, a very tiny bit of water does a fantastic job of it as well. 

[E_T]

What color would you like it to be??  Could you add some dry pigments to bring it to the color/tone that your wanting while mixing the stuff without it losing the properties that you like?  Or, is the final cured product porous enough to lightly stain or paint?
Other interesting things that could be added to the mix while wet (without messing it up if it can be done): something that is blacklight florescent; something that glows in the dark; combination of the above...

[Unorthodox]

So, one part of the mixture is grey.  So, the 'white' comes out grey.  This is fine for what I'm making is going to be 'made of stone' anyway, in fact I hope to color match it for the next phase so I really don't have to paint the ENTIRE thing.  It just makes me question whether the other available colors really come out true to color. 

As this clay supposedly dries waterproof, freeze/thaw stable, has no shrinkage, etc, I really don't want to mess with that, but planning future projects around using it's pigment as a base coat in and of itself needs to wait till I see if a dried "orange" is really orange or some orange grey hybrid crap. 

[Unorthodox]

Uno and the Church of Satan: 

I hadn't really gotten into this a lot on here since a lot of it was completely inconsequential to me. 

I was made aware of the Halloween in Summer festival in 2015.  It had begun in 2011.  I naturally was drawn to such an event, being me. 

It was a rather small venue when I first learned of it, being put on ostensibly by a tattoo parlor in a tiny town on the outskirts of SLC.  I spoke with the owners that year and offered to get more people involved.   

In 2016, the event blew up as I had notified several local Halloween groups, and all the local haunted houses (several of whom got involved).  The leaders of the thing were extatic, but many of the folks involved made it well known that if the festival were moved away from the late july date, they'd be able to get even more involved.  Thus, they took their concerns to the town council.  This is where things started to fall apart...

Come 2017, even bigger, still in July, but nestled between July 4th, and July 24th.  More haunted houses now involved and groups from out of state getting involved.  More petitions to the city council to move the date...

2018.  Announced this would be the final year.  The owner of the Tattoo parlor happens to be some uppity up in the local church of satan.  The Halloween in Summer Festival, to him, was more about making a statement against the 24th of July, a state holiday which celebrates the Mormon pioneers traveling to Utah.  With mounting pressure to move away from the 24th, and more focus on actual halloween, he was no longer interested, and so they were canceling the event after the city council had forced them to move it into June.  This move allowed a lot of the professionals to still advertise and promote in July events around the state. 

It was at this point he also made an attempt to steal the earth 'o' lantern as a logo for a separate endeavor he was trying to start to again compete against the 24th. 

Come 2019...

The City decided they don't need the damn tattoo parlor.  Yeah, they'd put on the even in the past, but the CITY is going to organize it themselves.  It has become that big of a business for the town. 

His separate endeavor has not gained any traction. 

 

[Buster's Uncle]

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[Buster's Uncle]

Better?

[Unorthodox]

Oh that is nice....but it needs....

Can you replace the gem with the lantern? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmmm.  It wouldn't need much perspective faked, and a size/rotate won't take long...  On it.

[Buster's Uncle]

This is your favorite X-Men villain, Mr. Sinister, BTW - last page, last panel of Uncanny X-Men volume 2, issue 2.

[Unorthodox]

Well, of COURSE it's Mr Sinister.  No one else loves that word as much as he and I do.  I admittedly didn't know from where. 

[Unorthodox]

And we start the 13 hour shift by needing to call legal...

God, why do people do this [poop]...

[Unorthodox]

And we start the 13 hour shift by needing to call legal...

God, why do people do this [poop]...

Phone call on the way in from supervisor.

"Can we do x?  Hot rush supposed to happen today"

"I've never heard anyone trying to do it that way, here's 10 points why it's a bad idea, but it might still technically be theoretically possible if we do XYZ first to cover our ass." 

Phone call when I get here:

"They already did it this other way last night they didn't even ask about." 

"That's not kosher, I need to make some calls." 

Insert above. 

Legal:  We agree with all of Uno's points.  XYZ would have made it legal, but a little bit grey on the ethics.  We need the actions reversed immediately so we can file corrective briefs with the Govt. 

several tiers above me that did wrong email:  I need you to tell them you found the things and there's no need to report.  We need to do this because (list of folks in govt) want it done this way. 

Oh HELL no.  This IS getting investigated, and I'm not going to be lying about a damn thing. 

Tiers:  attempts to recall emails to delete record.  Calls me and tells me to delete my emails of it. 

JAG:  Oh, hi Uno, hows the kids?  I assume you've documented everything like you always do, just hand it over. 

tiers:  You *&^% I told you to delete that %&*^!  I'm going to make sure you're fired. 

JAG:  Oh cool, you said that for the tape, even.


And I still have 4+ hours left today...

[E_T]

ooooohhhhh [poop]

[Geo]

Next up: tiers wind up as the next round of replacements in the White House.

Phone conversations are taped at your office?