Plus you are geeky enough to do math calculations re: arcane info like post:bit ratios, have super-cool sideburns, are funny, and play BASS! Which makes you pretty close to ideal in my book. And I'm not even drunk! Cheers!
because of garpike's recommendation, i have one of the best cheap but great point and shoot cameras in the market. it comes with a wide angle len. fuji e510.
btw, i do have a bass guitar and a cube amp. use to play it steady but my band moved to turkey.
Gars are found in freshwaters of North and Central Americac and Cuba, sometimes entering brackish water and rarely the sea. There are 7 species with 2 in Canada and 1 in the NCR.
Gars have elongate jaws ("gar" is Old English for spear) filled with needle-like teeth. The ganoid scales are heavy, peg and groove hinged, non-overlapping, rhombic and plate-like, forming an effective armour. The tail is abbreviate heterocercal, externally appearing symmetrical but heterocercal internally. An upper tail lobe disappears with growth. There are 3 branchiostegal rays. The swimbladder has a rich blood supply enabling the fish to breathe air through a connection to the gut. A school of gars will break the water surface to breathe air at the same time and reduce the chances of attack by predators. Vertebrae are peculiar in having an opisthocoelous shape - anterior end convex, posterior end concave, a kind of ball and socket joint - which is almost unique in fishes and more usually associated with amphibians and reptiles. Dorsal and anal fins are near the tail. They lack spines but have fulcra (angled scales) on their anterior edge. The alligator gar of the southern U.S.A. and central America is the largest species at 3 m and over 158 kg.
Cretaceous and Eocene fossil gars are known from North America, Europe, India and West Africa. Fossil gars have been reported from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, well north of their modern distribution. An Upper Cretaceous coprolite (fossil faecal matter) from Alberta contained remains of gar scales and vertebrae. The gar was probably eaten by a crocodile, an indication of the different faunas that Lepisosteus species have lived with in Canada.
Gars favour shallow, weedy areas of lakes and rivers. They are ambush predators, lying still or quietly stalking prey until it can be seized by a sudden rush. Their food is almost entirely fishes. They make excellent subjects for home aquaria when young and for public aquaria when large. Gars are not sought after by anglers since they are hard to hook in their elongate, bony jaws, but a few enthusiasts specialize in their capture. They are not a commercial fishery item. Gar scales and skins are occasionally made into jewelery, picture frames, purses and boxes. The scales can be highly polished.
vado, I wouldn't count on it. But I'll try to refrain. Now if only there was a "delete my comment" button like MySpace. Oh well...
Steven, I work at neither. I'm am curious about your suspicions.
I like the name "garpike" because of the redundancy - "gar pike" = "spear spear". My live-action name means "mighty with a spear". How's that for geeky, lb?
I like the name garpike because it sounds tough. And I remember you explaining once that it was redundant, which I think is very clever. Double-spear, hmmm.
Also tk's fish up there does indeed look like one badass mofo, no?
garpike.....you mean you haven't been sitting in the bar all day, deciding who you want to vote for. Seems like the kind of day where people might by you alot of drinks.
GARPIKE, one badass mofo
Figured you need your own thread...may prevent the drunk posts to Liberty Bell
Here's to you garpike :)
Ha ha. Thanks guys.
I like mine dirty. No vermouth please. Oh and gin.
Did somebody mention gin?
this may help to prevent the archinect version of the drink and dial...
garpike, you are a delightful drunk.
Plus you are geeky enough to do math calculations re: arcane info like post:bit ratios, have super-cool sideburns, are funny, and play BASS! Which makes you pretty close to ideal in my book. And I'm not even drunk! Cheers!
He plays bass too! I forgot about that. Yeah, he's automatically cool.
because of garpike's recommendation, i have one of the best cheap but great point and shoot cameras in the market. it comes with a wide angle len. fuji e510.
btw, i do have a bass guitar and a cube amp. use to play it steady but my band moved to turkey.
1775 was a good year. Paul Revere made his famous ride, Ben Franklin started the post office, and King George started pissing blue.
so here's to our very own prehistoric fishman.
Lepisosteidae - Gars - Lépisostés
Gars are found in freshwaters of North and Central Americac and Cuba, sometimes entering brackish water and rarely the sea. There are 7 species with 2 in Canada and 1 in the NCR.
Gars have elongate jaws ("gar" is Old English for spear) filled with needle-like teeth. The ganoid scales are heavy, peg and groove hinged, non-overlapping, rhombic and plate-like, forming an effective armour. The tail is abbreviate heterocercal, externally appearing symmetrical but heterocercal internally. An upper tail lobe disappears with growth. There are 3 branchiostegal rays. The swimbladder has a rich blood supply enabling the fish to breathe air through a connection to the gut. A school of gars will break the water surface to breathe air at the same time and reduce the chances of attack by predators. Vertebrae are peculiar in having an opisthocoelous shape - anterior end convex, posterior end concave, a kind of ball and socket joint - which is almost unique in fishes and more usually associated with amphibians and reptiles. Dorsal and anal fins are near the tail. They lack spines but have fulcra (angled scales) on their anterior edge. The alligator gar of the southern U.S.A. and central America is the largest species at 3 m and over 158 kg.
Cretaceous and Eocene fossil gars are known from North America, Europe, India and West Africa. Fossil gars have been reported from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, well north of their modern distribution. An Upper Cretaceous coprolite (fossil faecal matter) from Alberta contained remains of gar scales and vertebrae. The gar was probably eaten by a crocodile, an indication of the different faunas that Lepisosteus species have lived with in Canada.
Gars favour shallow, weedy areas of lakes and rivers. They are ambush predators, lying still or quietly stalking prey until it can be seized by a sudden rush. Their food is almost entirely fishes. They make excellent subjects for home aquaria when young and for public aquaria when large. Gars are not sought after by anglers since they are hard to hook in their elongate, bony jaws, but a few enthusiasts specialize in their capture. They are not a commercial fishery item. Gar scales and skins are occasionally made into jewelery, picture frames, purses and boxes. The scales can be highly polished.
more scientific jargon here
wait, i'm confused. does garpike work for either morphosis or field operations?
You guys rock! I appreciate all of it.
vado, I wouldn't count on it. But I'll try to refrain. Now if only there was a "delete my comment" button like MySpace. Oh well...
Steven, I work at neither. I'm am curious about your suspicions.
I like the name "garpike" because of the redundancy - "gar pike" = "spear spear". My live-action name means "mighty with a spear". How's that for geeky, lb?
it's a la confield thread insider thing...
garpike you are special and after thisguy you are the ace of bass...
Philip Lynott!
I see the mo-fo in Cornfields. No relation.
fuck yea! Thin Lizzy! \m/
lets not forget about his good taste in bicycles!
my image of garpike is lemmy...yeah! ace of bass indeed.
I like the name garpike because it sounds tough. And I remember you explaining once that it was redundant, which I think is very clever. Double-spear, hmmm.
Also tk's fish up there does indeed look like one badass mofo, no?
wait, let me get this straight...you get drunk, hit on married women, and you get you're ovn thread?
guess I need restock my liquor cabinet.
I love Ace of Base
garpike is special...
\m/
Wait...garpike is hitting on someone?! Who?!? Where?!?!?
I thought the same thing - what's going on here?|? What?|?
this is the thread where garpike gets hit on...\m/
exactly..where is he anyway? Probably having a dirty gin martini :)
you guys are playing out my \m/ too mch...
it might get old
There was a time when every po-mo was a mo-fo ...
ah the good ol days
\m/ word
I am here. Worked too late last night to get on. I am at work now. Shhh...
I haven't hit on anyone. But you can hit me if you want.
THIS POST WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BIG JOKE
garpike.....you mean you haven't been sitting in the bar all day, deciding who you want to vote for. Seems like the kind of day where people might by you alot of drinks.
I already called you "yummy", garpike. Not sure I can say more w/o getting in trouble.
Ha ha ha. Ok, lb.
snooker, sitting in the office. Voted already - not much deciding to be done. No alcohol for me. Maybe later.
Sorry, mdler...
garpike you are soooooooooooooo YUMMY!!!
LB- the only receipe I have for pike is to make this:
can someone please pass the horseradish?
hit hit hit'n (on garpike)... \m/ word mmmm treekiller, pike looks good.
vado, I like that song too.
treekiller is such a nice poster. I witnessed the most thoughtful act of advising on posting images and resizing. That made my day.
Katze I said "hit me" but I'll accept "hit on". Meow. (No, I'm not a masochist)
blackjack :) we all know your not a masochist! :) meow. Carry on..
my evil twin made that post ;-)
he's in line for rummy's job...
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