Solar and Wind Power

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 19, 2018:

That's my kind of energy!

What do you do for a living?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 19, 2018:

Art Professor.

I like motorcycles.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 19, 2018:

In 1989 I crashed a 490 cc water-cooled dirt bike. I still have the scars. That's the last time I was on a bike!! Ouch...

Who or what do you sleep with at night?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 19, 2018:

Just me in the pitch blackness. I need it quiet.

Do theists understand the historical context of their ancient texts?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 18, 2018:

No

I'm into Permaculture, growing food, living off grid, horses.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 18, 2018:

I'm building a tiny house on my farm. It's in my garden and close to my pottery workshop.

Wondering?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

I bought a brand new dirt devil vacuum cleaner a year ago this coming April. I've been divorced since January 2016. Guess what? I never even opened the box. What does that say about me (I'm using an old one till it dies so I'm not totally gross).

Or not...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

This reminds me of something I read that claimed we're all athiests. That includes Christians as they're atheistic but, with one exception, ha ha!

Or not...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

...and waiting, and waiting some more...

A follow up: What makes you a terrible partner?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

I expect a partner to carry her own water, emotionally and financially. Isn't that called 'parity'?

Couples massage

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

Why is his towel smaller than hers?

Drop spindle.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

Maybe I should have said the work historically thought of as being women's work. This isn't a sexist comment or a sexist book.

Drop spindle.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 16, 2018:

I taught my classes how to make and use drop spindles. We used CDs. There's a book everyone should read. Women's Work: The First 20,000Years. Something like that. Talk s about how the work usually assigned to women developed.

Yep, Jesus in a goats ass, if it were toast it would bring a bunch of money on Ebay! Note the ...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 15, 2018:

That's beautiful!

Dawkins or Hitchens?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 15, 2018:

Hitch in live debates. Dawkins in writing. Dawkins gets flustered, live and Hitch maintains his composure better.

I have a bit of an embarrassing confession to make.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 14, 2018:

If you figure it out, please let all of us decent, single guys know how it's done

Very hard to find.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 13, 2018:

That would be so very nice...sigh...

Careers that involve travel

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 13, 2018:

I'd want to go on the dig with you! That would be a great adventure. But, I wouldn't quit my career if someone expected me to.

I took up painting 7 years ago ....no lessons...love it beyond words...feedback please

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 13, 2018:

The one on the right is very haunting! It has an Edvard Munch feel to it. Did I spell that right?

It's Long Been a Man's World. Can Women Save It? - TheHumanist.com

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 12, 2018:

Maybe the question needs clarification? Can Women save it? Women, alone?? Or women in collaboration with men? If it's women, alone, I think not. They'll follow the same trajectory as men have done. If it's women and men together then we might have a chance. But still, it's being human that's damning us. Think of why communes fail... The same thing is happening with society in general.

A friend asked about my latest body of work.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 12, 2018:

I was able to get this piece and a few similar ones cast in iron on Friday.

It's Long Been a Man's World. Can Women Save It? - TheHumanist.com

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 11, 2018:

No they can't save it. If you look at what women will pursue, you'll find it's the same nonsense that us men have pursued. Gender does not immunize people from the folly of humankind. No demographic association immunizes anyone from the folly of humankind.

What do you like most about yourself?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 11, 2018:

My contempt for small talk. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm a small talk snob:)

I did not know where to post this one, given my dark humor it may me giggle. [nbcnews.com]

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 11, 2018:

Hmm, the blind sueing the blind, ha ha!

Wonder who they stuck him next to.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 11, 2018:

I have badgers on my farm but not honey badgers!

When the sock monster strikes..

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 8, 2018:

There's another matching pair out there, somewhere.

Twelve inches long....soda lime

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

Did you make it? Is it lamp work?

I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust ...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

Yeah, we all need "a little place for our stuff!"

Reality check...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

Preach!

What would you have had your parents change in raising you?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

I would have had them change into responsible adults instead of remaining co-dependant children, themselves.

I live in NC andcurrently there is a big push to make a Billy Graham national holiday along with a ...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, .....

I hear a lot of people on this site saying how lonely they are how they wish they could find ...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

Distance

Population Control

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

Wendell Berry explains what happens when the path to the village becomes a road and with it come all of the so called 'improvements' of life. And it's then when people forget or dismiss the need to consider birth control and their local resources and how to make them last. He also tells us how institutionalized attempts to save the planet, such as Green Peace, National Geographic, and a host of other large organizations, will fail. He says that the only way to save the planet is for each person to live responsibly in one small part of it. All else fails. I recommend a comprehensive reading of his works starting with 'The Unsettling of America'. I don't believe in everything he says ( he's a believer). but I find it hard to argue with his thoughts on the environment, economics, globilization, etc.

Are You Watching the Oscars?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 5, 2018:

No way, no how.

I couldn't agree more.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 3, 2018:

I always called it 'getting skin in the game or carrying your own water'. I can't carry someone else's emotional or financial water. That's why I'm single again

I don't ask for much

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 3, 2018:

Sad that we have to even ask for it.

Yes indeed...so true

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 3, 2018:

I can relate to that.

Some greenery in acryl.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 3, 2018:

Very nice.

Tomato tossers, maple

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 2, 2018:

What is a tomato tosser?

Where do you like to buy most of your food?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 2, 2018:

Texas farmers markets have a rule that the produce has to be grown locally. Nice! But local means within the State. That could be 600 miles away. That is not 'local'.

What is the word for the point of light you see on the edge of something?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 2, 2018:

Refraction

What is the word for the point of light you see on the edge of something?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 2, 2018:

Reflection

Almost Spring Here! What's your favorite time of year?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 2, 2018:

Late Spring and early Summer garden planting season when everything awakes from it's winter nap.

Do you prefer showers or baths?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Nothing worse than sitting in a tub of hot water or swimming in a heated pool.

I hate when that happens

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

I've started seeing the kids of my schoolmates showing up in my college classes. Ugh

What do you want on your tombstone? g:31

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

No stone for me. Scatter me in my pasture or one of my gardens and let me fertilizer the Earth.

Punny! What's that?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Crock a doodle pie. And I'll stop, now.

100% agree

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Sure sounds good to me! If only...

Or both..

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Yup. That's why slot of us are divorced. Don't be needing any more broken trust!

Rock Carpet...

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Is it a mosaic?

Dating after 50

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

No FWB for me. Nothing casual, either.

Mike drop..

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Reminds me of the Today Show, currently.

Punny! What's that?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Maybe it's a rooster? I'll have to bone up on my birds. Is there a prize for who guesses it?

Let's go way back. The 1st and last are probably my two favorite memes of all time.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Where did these come from?

Punny! What's that?

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

Chicken pot pie.

Let's go way back. The 1st and last are probably my two favorite memes of all time.

farmboy2017 comments on Mar 1, 2018:

These are great!

Has anyone else attempted university in their 30's+ (after years out of school)?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

I was 37. Finished my MFA in 3 1/2 years while teaching full time and commuting 40 miles.

I was informed today that I got the promotion that I have been trying to get for SIX MONTHS!!! I ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Yea!!!

So true.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

And tell the truth...no yarns!

So true.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Is that a skeen wolverine! Looks like one.

FX throat.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Did ya get thrown out!

Some illustrations..

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Are you exhibiting!

Life drawing.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Yeah!!

What creative outlets do you enjoy?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 28, 2018:

I'd like to do much more welding.

What creative outlets do you enjoy?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

I make sculpture.

State Representative Steve Alford from Kansas revived a Jim Crow era myth that African Americans are...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

Stupidity and bigotry are the style these days.

Color pencils

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

Super nice! Do you exhibit? You should!!

What's your biggest regret?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

I fell asleep on the 3rd lap of the 1600 meters at the district meet in 1981. I was in 5th place and I pulled it out to get 2nd and a trip to the Regional meet. I should have smoked that guy who won but he earned it and I didn't... (P.S. I came in dead last at Regionals so it didn't matter, anyway ha ha!)

For all the single ladies.. or whom ever this applies to.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

He's running for POTUS, haven't ya heard!

What's your favourite riff/lick/intro ever?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

AC/DC Hells Bells or Black Sabbath War Pigs

Color pencils

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

Self-portrait? Sweet!

This could go for either gender. :) Just a great one liner, had to share

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

Once, a long time ago, I told my Dad that his god wasn't worth the paper He was written on. I should copyright that and put it on a T-shirt!

Bravery or shear stupidity?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 27, 2018:

We have college and professional 'sports' so people can live vicariously and associate themselves with events and actions bigger than themselves. Interesting how we behave...and then I joined this site:)

Why should work always be based on profit.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Sad

Ever had to just pack up and go, leaving everything behind, especially late in life?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

I did it two years ago this past Thanksgiving weekend. Best move I ever made. Moved into an apartment but I'm building a tiny house and returning to my land this summer.

When was the last time you fell in love?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Fall of 1986.

I realized that I was an atheist when I first started learning about mythology, did anyone else have...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Christianity 'is' an ancient mythology. We just refuse to call it that since it's still alive.

Ancient Aliens

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

The only thing I can believe in on this show is the guy's hair!

Oopsie!

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

We used to laugh and it would make my Mom furious and she would swing wild and there was no telling where that belt buckle would strike! She's hit us in the stones and we would still laugh. Boy, we were stupid kids, but it sure was funny.

Need help defending my lack of faith in Christianity

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

It's funny how the Bible never claims, for itself, to be the word of God. But believers claim it's the word of God.

Billy Graham’s Body Shouldn’t “Lie in Honor” in the Capitol Rotunda – Friendly Atheist

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Agreed.

Meeting people

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

If anyone figures it out, let me know.

How far is close enough to travel to be with someone?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Only an hour and a half sounds pretty sweet to me! If only...:)

Yup.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

I Googled it and now I get it!

Have you ever kissed a girl? I haven't.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Once or twice

Raw Milk sales may legalize in my state!

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

Nothing wrong with properly processed raw milk.

Atheist group accuses Beaumont of promoting religion with decals [beaumontenterprise.com]

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 26, 2018:

They're doing this all over Texas, even in my town.

It is the start of the weekend, what is everyone favorite drink?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Coors. Yellow Bellies.

Is it wise to get back with an ex?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Hades, No!

Ellsworth Kelly, an Atheist, Has Built a Transcendent Church for Art in Texas The late artist's ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Beautiful!!!

Interesting read on GMO corn and health. [t.co]

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

I've been telling people for years that all corn is GMO. Thank you! I'm a farmer and a farmers market grower.

My Wenonah Solo Canoe

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

I have a Sea Eagle 220(?) Inflatable kayak. It's tough as nails but most suitable for paddling in a river. In open water it has too much freeboard and catches ALOT of wind. Plus the bow flexes against the incoming waves and diminishes the power of each stroke. The wind will even get up under the bow and slightly bend it backwards (abaft), robbing you of headway. Then there's the diameter of the floatation tubes that cause you to have to 'reach' out for each stroke. My advice: get a hardshell if you're interested in paddling. Get an inflatable if you just want to go with the 'flow'.

This is why teaching children about hell is a form of abuse

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Religion is far and away above any child's cognitive development. They should never be exposed to the topic until much later in their lives. It's like expecting a child to be responsible with a cell phone. To a child it's a toy. Would you give your 8 year old child a brand new car?? Then why would you give him a Bible or a cell phone at that age? Makes no sense whatsoever...

Do you regularly drink either beer or wine?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Beer is OK. Wine is just plain 'ole nasty to me. 2 in the evening is all I'll do, if that.

For those without a degree... Do you ever wish that you had one or had finished one?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Hmmm, remove the word 'degree' and replace with the word 'marriage'. Or did I just highjack a thread?? Sorry. But, based on the responses below, I'd say most would not go to school. I'm terminally degreed and I come from a blue collar background and what I teach is exceptionally related to that background in a lot of ways. Would I do it again...NO. I'd go get an associates in Welding and make 6 figures with little to no debt. But, I'd kill to go earn another degree in sculpture. I'm an odd duck of a farm boy!!

To shave or not to shave?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Keep it as long as you can! Nature has a way of taking it all away without any intervention from us. I think it migrates to our ears from my own experience!!

If a guy or girl straight up asked you to have sex with them, how would you respond to it?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

I'd have to quote Title IX and file a report.

I'm a college professor and for the past 10 years, I've noticed and my colleagues have as well, that...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

When people ask me what I teach ( meaning subject matter or discipline) I respond "Thirteenth Grade". They usually laugh and then realize what it is that I'm really saying...

For those without a degree... Do you ever wish that you had one or had finished one?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

It's gotten to a point where a bachelor's degree isn't worth the time or $ invested. A teaching degree, yes. A college degree does help to create a well rounded person but only if it's a true liberal arts degree and not a specialists degree. Unfortunately we're letting the govt and business determine the curriculum and the programs are becoming more and more geared toward industry rather than teaching people how to think. They create Sheeples. Is that how it's spelled? Anyway, I'm in the teaching business and I cringe when my school claims to be a liberal arts school. The Core Curriculum has only 39 hours within a 124 hour minimum requirement. That is not a liberal art approach!!!

Tool forms all sprued and vented to be cast in a single piece sand cope mold in 10 days.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Google 'lost wax casting process' or look at YouTube for videos on the process and the actual pour at Mesalands in past years.