The Mission photo thread

Post by **_Always Thinking** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:14 am

I wish I were comfortable posting pictures of myself, but I'm not! But, I've posted some mission pictures on my blog, and if you are my friend, you can see them.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:46 am

This pic of gramps I cropped down....and yet I wish I'd never seen it. :P

Post by **_Gazelam** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:16 am

Seth,
thansk for the work on the pictures. I use HP image and I did clean some of them up a tad before posting them. Im very novice at it, so I actually had no idea what I ws doing.

Jersey,
Just like girls who put their hair in a ponytail, sometimes guys will don a bandana. My hair is unmanageable most days. heres a better view of a bandana i made from an old curtain. that's Eilean Donnan Castle in the background.

As for the bottle, if memory serves it was used as a piggy bank. The average stay for a missionary in an area is 4 months, and you'd tend to find all sorts of strange things lying about. Heres a beloved cereal box wall that was in one of my flats. I don't know how long it had been there, but I was adding the chocolate flavored Wheetos boxs to it. I had a companion come in who was a little odd (He washed everything down and wore face cream at night. He also liked to brag about how he had taught ballroom dancing at BYU) He threw the wall into the trash while I was in the shower, I came out and was stunned. I told the other missionaries in the area what happened, they shared my pain because they had a much more respectable sized one going in their kitchen.

Heres the outside of Edinburgh cathedral

_Ray A · Post by **_Ray A** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:28 am

Gazelam wrote:

Hey Gaz, that pic reminded me so much of this. I have to post it:

Do you know the story behind Tommy Smith and John Carlos?

Post by **_Gazelam** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:31 am

Mish,
I graduated in 1989. My patchman Avatar probably threw you.

I found another picture of the Scotland sign. We were all supposed to get black rock T-shirts to wear, but the other three chickened out, and they didn't want to spend the money. After I got home, a cousin of mine stole that shirt, along with a U2 shirt I had.

One of my companions said he thought the Cults song "Sun King" song was doctrinal, lol. Heres "Fire Woman" which was the most popular song off that album. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcpasj__WY

Post by **_Gazelam** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:40 am

Ray,
I had to look it up. Interesting story. I had no reason for the fist raise. Maybe its because we had been watching Bill and Teds excellent adventure on our P-day and the guy from the assembly who raised his fist and said "San Dimas high school football rules" was on my mind.

whenever I see that picture it reminds me of Bender at the end of "The Breakfast Club"

Post by **_sunstoned** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:48 am

Sethbag wrote:But I really do gotta put my nose back to the grind stone and get this project done, or I'm toast in this online class. I'm trying to finish up my CS masters.

Wow, I can relate to how you are feeling. I'm working on my masters also, and this finals week.
This whole masters thing seemed like a good idea when I started, but now its kicking my butt.

_Ray A · Post by **_Ray A** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:51 am

Gazelam wrote:Ray,
I had to look it up. Interesting story. I had no reason for the fist raise.

That pose struck me immediately. Not to take away from the thread, but the white man on the left is Peter Norman, the Aussie sprinter who "split the Americans" Smith and Carlos. They were hoping for an all-American sweep of the 200 metres final at the Mexico Olympics in 1968, but Norman came second, ahead of Carlos. Both Smith and Carlos asked Norman how he felt about the "black power" protest, and he fully supported it. Norman went to the victory dais knowing that there was going to be a protest, for which he was later reprimanded by the Australian Olympic committee. He was against racism. When he died several years ago, both Smith and Carlos attended his funeral.

Sorry for the thread diversion. But it brought back memories to me.

Carry on.

Post by **_Sethbag** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:21 am

Gazelam wrote:Seth,
thanks for the work on the pictures. I use HP image and I did clean some of them up a tad before posting them. I'm very novice at it, so I actually had no idea what I ws doing.

I mentioned that my techniques are primitive compared to what really good Photoshoppers can do. That being said, I'm not sure HP Image can do it.

edit: cut out a bunch of techie Photoshop talk that nobody gives a rat's butt about - enjoy the shorter post hehe

Post by **_CaliforniaKid** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:26 am

Sethbag wrote:CaliforniaKid, are you a CS player? I played hundreds of hours of CS in former years. It's been over a year since I touched it, but I still have a Steam account and can play CS Source and whatever other versions there are. Just say the word and I can join in a game with MDBites.

I've only played CS a few times. It's not even on my computer at the moment. I'm more the Age of Empires 2/Battle for Middle Earth 2 kinda guy, really, though even those I don't get to play as much as I would if it weren't for that nagging dread of wasting my life.