🎂The cupcake thread of celebrations.
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Signed the settlement papers on our old house that we'd been renting out for the last 7 years.
Does that mean you've bought the place? Or are you moving out?
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Can all TDWTF members that were banned from meta.d get some cupcakes to celebrate?
Filed Under: That'd be nice
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@boomzilla said:
Signed the settlement papers on our old house that we'd been renting out for the last 7 years.
Does this settlement consist of "selling" or "let the bulldozing commence"?
Selling.
Does that mean you've bought the place? Or are you moving out?
No. Moved out a long time ago. Was renting it out. Now it's Not My Problem.
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No. Moved out a long time ago. Was renting it out. Now it's Not My Problem.
Congrats man! Are you going to do something fun with the extra readies?
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Can all TDWTF members that were banned from meta.d get some cupcakes to celebrate?
I second that.
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That's a really big house. I'm sure @flabdablet will be pleased.
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That's an interesting photograph (look at the trees).
Yes, I already noticed that; it is possible the angle of the house is exaggerated. The most obvious tree trunk in the picture does indeed lean in the same direction as the house, as do that small, rectangular something in the foreground and a railing in the background near the right edge of the picture, suggesting that the camera may not have been level when the picture was taken (or it was cropped at an angle to intentionally exaggerate the tilt).
However, the leftmost tree in the picture leans in the opposite direction, suggesting that one cannot reliably use the tree trunks to judge the tilt of the picture, as they are clearly not precisely upright. Further the rectangular whatever-it-is and the fence railings are inclined at angles between 1° and 4° from vertical, so the rotation of the picture is rather slight. In contrast, the building is very obviously tilted, by about 21.5°. Even if one were to correct the rotation of the photo by the amount of the most skewed "vertical" object in the picture (the obvious tree trunk, which is leaning by about 9° — this is not a reliable measurement, as the trunk itself curves — worst-case), that would still leave the house leaning at an angle of 12° – 13°. (For comparison, the famous campanile of the cathedral of Pisa currently leans at an angle of 3.99°; prior to restoration it was about 5.5°.)
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@DoctorJones said:
banned
GIS doesn't fail so much as produce unsatisfactory results…Band cupcakes:
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That's a really big house.
The balconies on the second storey suggest to me that it might be a small apartment house. (I'm not sure what the picture is actually of. I got it from a site about problems at some US housing development, but the picture is obviously not of the relatively minor complaints the residents are making. I didn't really bother trying to find the original source of the image.)
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My very first
Naturally, it was for a post ripping Jeff. I would have preferred one for something a little more positive.
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I also have my first Passable Poster now.
Same topic
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My first of those badges was awarded for making fun of CDCK's name in the bad ideas thread ...
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P.S.: I never got my cupcake for Passable Poster.
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I never got my cupcake for Passable Poster.
Pro tip: use care with that image search. Even with safe search set to default on Bing, I got nothing but
tranny"ladyboy" escort pics.
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use care with that image search.
Hilariously, I realized I forgot to put "cupcake" in the search. WIth that term, well, all I got was this:
Bing, what are you smoking? (Aside: there were only three rows of images; the snip is representative).
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Cupcakeblitzen!
Ook!
house
banned
positive
first
http://cdn2-www.momtastic.com/assets/uploads/2014/01/first_birthday_cupcake_topper_final_1.jpg
Attendance
Can the various people who filled in provide one more cupcake to celebrate my making it back from the vacation I forgot to tell anyone I was going on? :D
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Can the various people who filled in provide one more cupcake to celebrate my making it back from the vacation I forgot to tell anyone I was going on?
(Made it back in) one piece cupcakes:
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Ok, I'm not going to post what I was going to post (something about an epic fail in trying to get cup cakes to perform the role of "proper cakes", and all the fall out from that etc). Because I considered that to be insensitive and unnecessary. In an attempt to find a solution, I have this question:
How small a font can you get on a cupcake, using icing and not edible labels - 'cos that's a cheat all of its own, before it just becomes a "blob" (albeit of deliciousness)?
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Arbitrarily small, to the point where a microscope would be needed to read it. How much tooling are you willing to invest in?
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Mea culpa! I did not say "how small and still be readable with a naked
chefeye"But now I have been "forced" to reply I will say that my immediate response was to reply with:
"It's not so much how much tooling as how many tools need to be involved"
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I think with a tub of frozen icing, an exacto knife, and tweezers, you could get down to a nice flyspeck.
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My script worked!
Tag created and email sent via automated script running on the CI server.
(500 error...)
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Judging by the image, it is more like you're heading for a 410
Sorry best I could do at short notice. There are probably others, but let's allow the pleasure to be shared
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How small a font can you get on a cupcake, using icing
A serious answer, if you were actually looking for one: Using ordinary icing and ordinary cake decorating tools and techniques, you'd probably find it rather difficult to make letters smaller than, say 1/4 inch – 1/2 cm. You could probably buy or make finer decorating tips than normally used, but typical icing is quite viscous, so you'd probably also have to buy/make a high-pressure syringe of some sort to force the icing through the fine tip. Or you could use thinner icing, but then you'd have the problem of the icing running/smearing after it's applied. Even then, I think you'd have trouble getting smaller than a couple of mm with icing. Smaller than that, you probably have to go with food dye, rather than icing, to paint or print the lettering. (These are estimates based on my experience decorating cakes for my family. A professional cake decorator might have better techniques that I don't know about, but a professional is also going to care more about how long it takes — time is money, you know — so is probably going to go with the printed edible labels rather than laborious hand lettering. ETA: In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that my level of cake decorating skill is limited to letters maybe double the minimum I estimated.)
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Thanks. It was a serious question.
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Those look like fondant things that could be used to decorate cupcakes, but the actual cupcakes — E_CUPCAKE_NOT_FOUND.
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Those look like fondant things that could be used to decorate cupcakes, but the actual cupcakes — E_CUPCAKE_NOT_FOUND.
Jeez...why you gotta be such a dick?
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Back as a 5%er. Hurrah.
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I'm celebrating that I got world completion on my Sylvari ranger.
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world completion
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I'm also celebrating that I upgraded my Asura Necromancer's Jatoro's Coat to a Morbach's Doublet, which costs about two orders of magnitude more and has about 6% better stats. But two is a smaller number than 6, so I think I made a good financial decision.
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But two is a smaller number than 6, so I think I made a good financial decision.
2 was orders of magnitude, or 100.
6 was percentage increase or 1.06.That looks very different from what you are expressing.
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Necromancer
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If you express them both in percentages, it's 10000% and 6%.
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it's 10000% and 6%.
and you said the 6 was bigger. This is just a way to show you were wrong even more so.
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Methinks I hear the sound of rushing air.
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Surely that's almost a unique badge in itself, whooshing over Ben making a joke?
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Falling leaves for your fall from grace:
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