What is this? - Page 91

footfootfoot · 03-26-2011, 10:33 AM

looking closer at the tape I can see where the tape isn't in contact with the glass or plastic, so we are looking through onto the paper, or what ever it is, Still no idea of the function.

Flint · 03-26-2011, 10:51 AM

So could you describe to me exactly what configuration of the materials you think you're looking at?

Flint · 03-26-2011, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I know it's double sided, am I looking through something clear at the paper below? Is this some sort of erasable plotting device that uses a china marker to write on glass or plastic?

Sorry, missed this post. This is what it is, although I use dry-erase markers. Any ideas why I would need a 1" grid?

Flint · 03-26-2011, 10:56 AM

I use this for a very specific activity that I'm waiting for somebody to think of.

HungLikeJesus · 03-26-2011, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

I use this for a very specific activity that I'm waiting for somebody to think of.

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Flint is working on the design of his doomsday bunker.

Gravdigr · 03-27-2011, 11:12 AM

Are you re-caning a chair?

Are you preparing to custom wrap dice?

Are you preparing a display for your remarkable bullion cube collection?

Gravdigr · 03-27-2011, 11:12 AM

An origami doohickey?

footfootfoot · 03-27-2011, 08:05 PM

does it involve scoring a game or keeping track of changing data?
Is it used for plotting points?
Is the circular shape critical to its function?

Spexxvet · 03-28-2011, 08:22 AM

making a pocketbook.

playing battleship

making a stencil for checkerboard pants

guide for ass hairplugs

Undertoad · 03-28-2011, 08:24 AM

ƒucking metal bar holder

infinite monkey · 03-28-2011, 08:45 AM

I've ceased to care.

What is it, already?

Flint · 03-28-2011, 10:10 AM

It's a sheet of Ghostlines poster board, with 1" grid marked off, double-sided taped to the bottom of a 20" diameter piece of table glass. The glass is round because that is what I had on hand. I would have prefered a larger, rectangular piece of table glass.

I draw on the glass surface with dry erase markers; the grid serves as a guide/measure for the dimensions of the drawing.

What is it?
It is used in a game. The game is played on a 1" grid. Any ideas? It's not Battleship.

glatt · 03-28-2011, 10:11 AM

Dungeons and Dragons?

infinite monkey · 03-28-2011, 10:12 AM

Chinese checkers?

Flint · 03-28-2011, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Dungeons and Dragons?

Yes, it is a homemade "battlemat" for staging Dungeons & Drangons encounters. Glatt wins again.

I've been going on Saturday nights to a D&D group at an old, dear friend of mine's house. We bring the kids (he and his wife have similar-aged kids) and they have a movie watching slumber party while the adults relive our nerdy youths around the dining room table. Our awesome, nerdy wives play with D&D with us. We play the new 4e (4th Edition) D&D, which incidentally is not produced TSR anymore, but Wizards of the Coast, who is now owned by Hasbro.

I suppose this is akin to some earlier generation's playing of Bridge or some such activity.

03-26-2011, 10:33 AM	#1351
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	looking closer at the tape I can see where the tape isn't in contact with the glass or plastic, so we are looking through onto the paper, or what ever it is, Still no idea of the function. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-26-2011, 10:51 AM	#1352
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	So could you describe to me exactly what configuration of the materials you think you're looking at? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

03-26-2011, 10:56 AM	#1354
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I use this for a very specific activity that I'm waiting for somebody to think of. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

03-27-2011, 11:12 AM	#1356
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03-27-2011, 11:12 AM	#1357
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03-27-2011, 08:05 PM	#1358
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	does it involve scoring a game or keeping track of changing data? Is it used for plotting points? Is the circular shape critical to its function? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-28-2011, 08:22 AM	#1359
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	making a pocketbook. playing battleship making a stencil for checkerboard pants guide for ass hairplugs __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-28-2011, 08:24 AM	#1360
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	ƒucking metal bar holder

03-28-2011, 08:45 AM	#1361
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I've ceased to care. What is it, already?

03-28-2011, 10:10 AM	#1362
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	It's a sheet of Ghostlines poster board, with 1" grid marked off, double-sided taped to the bottom of a 20" diameter piece of table glass. The glass is round because that is what I had on hand. I would have prefered a larger, rectangular piece of table glass. I draw on the glass surface with dry erase markers; the grid serves as a guide/measure for the dimensions of the drawing. What is it? It is used in a game. The game is played on a 1" grid. Any ideas? It's not Battleship. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

03-28-2011, 10:11 AM	#1363
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Dungeons and Dragons?

03-28-2011, 10:12 AM	#1364
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Chinese checkers?

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