Just a Couple Tent Shots

[Amarok]

Been vaping the latest Cindy, one of the seed run moms, and I'm pretty damn happy.

She's fresh from the dry cab, no cure, so taste and smell are still developing.

The effect is pure Cindy, as I know and love her.
Multiple times today I found myself giggling like a goof at TV shows I've seen before. Murray on Flight of the Conchords and Tracey on 30 Rock both cracked me up hard. I even got some shit done around the place.
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4 of 6 Negafook have popped and are now in coco. I cracked the other two, as well as the old Northern Skunks, so hopefully at least one will make it.
As soon as those beans have sunk or swum, I'll be popping some of the new Cindy seeds, likely tomorrow.


Of the 7 Skunkberry Squared seedlings, 6 are still going. One just died and fell over a few days in. They are showing various degrees of Blueberry weirdness, with a couple looking quite promising.

Got a Smackerz from @thenotsoesoteric coming down on Tuesday. It will be 70 days since the flip. She's a frosty beauty. I haven't been able to get a good photo, but I'll try again at harvest time.

 

[Psychobilly]

Glad you got to enjoy a favorite bro

 

[Jewels]

a lot of different Cindy seeds

Me niether !

Male 6 pack
101 foreground. 103 background


Uniform in ,leaf, size, vigor and structure.
Excellent germ, no runts


Girls look like girls. Boys look like boys.

102 ( not pictured) looks like the girl to hit
103 ×2 males selected for pollen

 

[Amarok]

Aw man, you have no idea how happy I am that they've started well for you.

Given what a pro Mike J was/is, I'm not surprised about the uniformity, but still thrilled to see it.

If they perform like my keeper girl, they'll look skinny until the last couple weeks and then pork right up.?

 

[Hugh Jass]

Aw man, you have no idea how happy I am that they've started well for you.

Given what a pro Mike J was/is, I'm not surprised about the uniformity, but still thrilled to see it.

If they perform like my keeper girl, they'll look skinny until the last couple weeks and then pork right up.?

Chomping at the bit to run a few of these Cindys later in the year.
Thanks again so much, @Amarok, for hooking up a rube like me.
@Jewels - gonna be glued to your show - what a start!

 

[Amarok]

Thanks again so much, @Amarok, for hooking up a rube like me.

Happy to share.

Hey, why not? Hillbillies are almost as good as people.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Happy to share.

Hey, why not? Hillbillies are almost as good as people.

There'll come a day when y'all gonna need us... you'll all see.

 

[Amarok]

Hugh, you seem to be a fan of that movie(or maybe it's just fun meme fodder). Did you ever read Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, the novel Soylent Green is based on? Or any other Harry Harrison stuff?

Bil the Galactic Hero, the Eden series, the Stainless Steel Rat, are all favorites of mine and he's published some fantastic short story collections as well.

(edit, that isn't a typo, Bill with 2 L's is only for officers, ya bowb-brain)

 

[Psychobilly]

Happy to share.

Hey, why not? Hillbillies are almost as good as people.

Hey now! I may have spent most of my life thinking inbred no forks in the family trees people were stupid, but then I had proper Moonshine! Lol.

You ever seen the movie Pumpkin Head? I used to think the people who show up in the truck all dirty were just hicks, and having doubled my age, I now see they really were independent and self relant hard workers who tried to help Ed when his son is killed, and it's hard not to respect that family, who seemed to live out in the woods in a huge family unit. I LOVE the scene where they show Ed driving up to their property, and you see super back roads vibes with a shotgun guard lol.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Hugh, you seem to be a fan of that movie(or maybe it's just fun meme fodder). Did you ever read Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, the novel Soylent Green is based on? Or any other Harry Harrison stuff?

Bil the Galactic Hero, the Eden series, the Stainless Steel Rat, are all favorites of mine and he's published some fantastic short story collections as well.

(edit, that isn't a typo, Bill with 2 L's is only for officers, ya bowb-brain)

I have not. I lost the thread on sci-fi pretty early on, but am becoming interested again,
because as I got older I began to see that these were actually the authors who were thinking about
the future and all the problems we might (and now actually do) have. I'm now watching some sci-fi
stuff for that reason, but haven't made the leap to print just yet. I'll file your recommends in a safe place, though.

The Heston shit was/is just meme fuckery.

 

[Amarok]

I lost the thread on sci-fi pretty early on, but am becoming interested again,
because as I got older I began to see that these were actually the authors who were thinking about
the future and all the problems we might (and now actually do) have.

If I may, I recommend this short story, first published in 1962. If you enjoy it, you will enjoy Harrison.
This one is very serious, though a lot of his writing is very humorous stuff. It's been years, but I found his work insightful as well as thought-provoking.

Warning to all: story has religious content, only click the link if you are okay with controversial material

The Streets of Ashkelon - Lightspeed Magazine

Somewhere above, hidden by the eternal clouds of Wesker’s World, a thunder rumbled and grew. Trader Garth stopped suddenly when he heard it, his boots sinking slowly into the muck, and cupped his good ear to catch the sound. It swelled and waned in the thick atmosphere, growing louder.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

 

[Hugh Jass]

If I may, I recommend this short story, first published in 1962. If you enjoy it, you will enjoy Harrison.
This one is very serious, though a lot of his writing is very humorous stuff. It's been years, but I found his work insightful as well as thought-provoking.

Warning to all: story has religious content, only click the link if you are okay with controversial material

I enjoyed the story, @Amarok - Guess the Weskers were "Show me the money!" kind of folks.
Thought the story help up pretty well, considering it's 60+ years old.
The writing had a good deal of the manners of the time, but it was not disconcerting at all.
All in all, it had a good beat, and I could dance to it.

 

[Idlewilder]

If I may, I recommend this short story, first published in 1962. If you enjoy it, you will enjoy Harrison.
This one is very serious, though a lot of his writing is very humorous stuff. It's been years, but I found his work insightful as well as thought-provoking.

Warning to all: story has religious content, only click the link if you are okay with controversial material

The Streets of Ashkelon - Lightspeed Magazine

Somewhere above, hidden by the eternal clouds of Wesker’s World, a thunder rumbled and grew. Trader Garth stopped suddenly when he heard it, his boots sinking slowly into the muck, and cupped his good ear to catch the sound. It swelled and waned in the thick atmosphere, growing louder.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

Was a good read. Thanks for posting it

 

[Amarok]

Thought the story help up pretty well, considering it's 60+ years old.
The writing had a good deal of the manners of the time, but it was not disconcerting at all.

IIRC, he had to cross the Pond to England to get that one published. American editors were terrified to touch the subject.

Harrison was also an editor, so a true wordsmith, incredibly talented with the English language. The brief essays he included in his short story collections about each story's background were very interesting both from a narrative perspective but also from a writing perspective.

Among other lessons, he explained that due to the standard format for submitting short stories to the various magazines of the day, only the first few lines of the story appeared on page one. Given that huge numbers of stories were submitted, those lines needed to grab the attention of the jaded editors.

Harrison used to practice crafting those first sentences, learning to be precise and efficient with his language. One day he wrote one that was so good, it even hooked him and he had to finish writing the story to find out what happened, and the Stainless Steel Rat series was created.

He spoke of arguments with authors who were resistant to changes, who couldn't see that those 15 pages, no matter how well written, do nothing to advance the narrative and therefore must be removed.

I'll often look at a post I've written and remove half of it when I realize it started rambling, that it may all be true, but it isn't addressing the purpose of the post.

Thanks to Harrison, I type way less yet communicate a lot more than I did previously.
(Never really thought this much about his influence before. I'm surprised to realize how large he looms over my thoughts about language.)

 

[Hugh Jass]

IIRC, he had to cross the Pond to England to get that one published. American editors were terrified to touch the subject.

Harrison was also an editor, so a true wordsmith, incredibly talented with the English language. The brief essays he included in his short story collections about each story's background were very interesting both from a narrative perspective but also from a writing perspective.

Among other lessons, he explained that due to the standard format for submitting short stories to the various magazines of the day, only the first few lines of the story appeared on page one. Given that huge numbers of stories were submitted, those lines needed to grab the attention of the jaded editors.

Harrison used to practice crafting those first sentences, learning to be precise and efficient with his language. One day he wrote one that was so good, it even hooked him and he had to finish writing the story to find out what happened, and the Stainless Steel Rat series was created.

He spoke of arguments with authors who were resistant to changes, who couldn't see that those 15 pages, no matter how well written, do nothing to advance the narrative and therefore must be removed.

I'll often look at a post I've written and remove half of it when I realize it started rambling, that it may all be true, but it isn't addressing the purpose of the post.

Thanks to Harrison, I type way less yet communicate a lot more than I did previously.
(Never really thought this much about his influence before. I'm surprised to realize how large he looms over my thoughts about language.)

As I understand it (from skimming a wiki page...), he wrote the story for an anthology that would contain stories which all violated societal taboos in some way. So the story was meant to be controversial. When the anthology fell through, he had to scramble to find a publisher, and no US house would touch it.

In addition to being a writer and an editor, he also started out as an illustrator, apparently - so a true communicator, both written and visual.

I definitely recognize a certain "economy of style" in your written language, which I foolishly attributed to your being Canadian, and to your being condemned to talking to no one but snowmen and crows for 7 or 8 months of the year. I also edit the shit out of my posts, though it may be hard to tell, because a lot of shit stays in my posts, as well. Sometimes, I just let a post sit on deck all day until I figure out how to say something more effectively.

Here's hoping that a spark may catch in my old brain, and I might delve into the sci-fi world a bit more.
Harrison's sensibility and general, simmering mistrust of authority do line up with my own in a lot of ways.

 

[Amarok]

Here's hoping that a spark may catch in my old brain, and I might delve into the sci-fi world a bit more.
Harrison's sensibility and general, simmering mistrust of authority do line up with my own in a lot of ways.

You touched on it in an earlier post, that good sci-fi is more about observing society and trying to understand where we are and how we got here, and where we are going. The space ships and ray guns and monsters are just set-dressing for the philosophical and moral discussions therein.


Especially given your military background, I would love to sit down and discuss Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein with you. Heinlein was a weirdo, but he forces readers to examine issues in a new way.
The movie went in a completely different direction, going into satire of war in general, but the book is a discussion of our duty to our society and its duty to us. What does it mean to be a citizen? Who should determine our leaders? I don't agree with some of his views, but he forced me to think about things I hadn't thought about before. I've re-read that one a few times.

I wasn't a massive sci-fi guy. I read everything, westerns, fantasy, horror, biographies, suspense, mystery, etc. Still, science fiction probably shaped me more than any other genre.

To be clear, I'm not trying to encourage this because I think you should read this stuff. I'm doing so because I think you would enjoy this stuff.
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[Ramjet159]

I can't find the White Widow autos I thought I had, so I guess no outdoor experiment this year. I guess I could make a quick order, but after spending the last 20 minutes digging through the Vault and looking at all the fire already there I can't bring myself to buy more seeds.

So.
I'm sitting here deciding which Peak stuff to pop. I've got some Northern Skunk from MikeJ and a couple of my crosses from his work on the desk all telling me why they should go first.
The crosses are Polar Beary(C99xBB) and what I have listed as Blueberry x Northern Lights. Not sure if that last one should be the other way around (NLxBB) re parentage. I made these in 2019 so my memory isn't 100%.

I've really been wanting to revisit Peak's Blueberry but don't feel like messing with the finicky IBL so F1s it is.

I have a pile of BB seeds I made, but like I mentioned, they are a challenge to grow and I'm on easy mode right now.

I got some White Widow Auto freebies from Phoenix seeds a couple years back . I can’t Claim to know alot about the breeder or company etc but the plants and flowers were very impressive . Was a nice little surprise as I banged them in with little expectation and they delivered a solid return .

 

[Hugh Jass]

Especially given your military background, I would love to sit down and discuss Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein with you.

My "military background" is somewhat dubious. ?️?️
If I can lay hands on it cheap, I'll read it.

To be clear, I'm not trying to encourage this because I think you should read this stuff. I'm doing so because I think you would enjoy this stuff.
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Never crossed my mind - I try to be open to new information when I can.
If I thought that's what was happening, this conversation wouldn't be. ?

 

[Hugh Jass]

Couldn't find it, but got this one instead.
Pretty similar, yes?

 

[Amarok]

Couldn't find it, but got this one instead.
Pretty similar, yes?


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I know up here, pretty much every used book store has a pile of good ol' sci-fi, too.

Funny enough, I never did read any Tom Swift, but didja know there was also a series about his son? I did read those when I was a sprout.

Crazy to think scientists used to be considered heroes, isn't it, considering the disrespect they get these days?