#steelyard

[pulpsandcomics2]

Anne Steelyard #3 by Glen Orbik

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[onegirlthinktank]

08302021 Part 1

A desert in the city

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

First time plasma cutting.

I’m not good but wow is that fun and addictive!

If you squint maybe it’s a pirate happy face say sing “arrrrr”

[whothefuckisjanefonda]

Jane Fonda in 'Steelyard Blues' [1973]

[musiconspotify]

Gravenites & Bloomfield - Steelyard Blues (1973) … soundtrack …

[costarringyourlocallibrary]

The exterior of the Main Library branch of the Oakland Public Library (Oakland, CA) in Alan Myerson’s Steelyard Blues (1973).

[jim-webster]

Retiring to somewhere quiet in the country

Retiring to somewhere quiet in the country

There comes a time in life when some people discover that they can no longer continue in the career that has supported them so far. The rooftop burglar finds that his knees have taken too much damage from ridge tiles and tilting fillets. The man-at-arms discovers that he can no longer vault onto the back of his destrier when in full armour and has to be lifted with a crane, like a sack of meal.…

[middleland]

Steelyard Railcars at Golden Hour - Youngstown, OH (2) (3) by Brandon Parsons

[broomsick]

Cairns erected in honor of the semi-legendary hero Egill Skallagrímsson. They trace a path that leads from Reykjavík to Borgarnes, West Iceland, where the sorcerer and poet was born. Skallagrímsson was especially renowed for his ability to get out of sticky situations using his wits. He notably convinced equally legendary King Eiríkr Bloodaxe (Erik I) to spare his life by composing in a single night a poem of praise, Höfuthlausn ("Head Ransom").

"On his golden arm The bright shield swings: To his foes, harm: To his friends, rings; His fame's a feast Of glorious war, His name sounds east, From shore to shore.

And now my lord, You've listened long As word on word I built this song: Your source is war, Your streams are blood, But my springs pour Great Odin's flood."

Egill's Saga, chapter 63

Another one of Skallagrímsson's works is the Sonatorrek, or "The loss of sons", written circa 1220–1240. The emotional nature of the text has made it a prime example of the extraordinary beauty of skaldic poetry, and a classic of the art.

"I can hardly move my tongue or lift up the steelyard of song; now there is little hope of Viðurs theft, nor is it easy to draw it out of the hiding place of the mind.

It is not easy, because of my heavy sobbing, to let flow from the mind's place the joyful find of the kinsmen of Frigg, which in times of yore was carried away from the lands of giants."

Egill's Saga, chapter 81

I personally greatly enjoyed Einar Selvik's rendition in the album Skald, which I will link below. I highly recommend giving it a listen if you've read the text and enjoyed it!

[tacoma-narrows]

Dorney Park! - 5/19/21

Decided to not let this trip report have a two week long gap like my Great America post did, so I'll write it out now!

Made my first trip of the year to Dorney Park this past weekend! I went by myself for about 5 hours or so and got on everything I had wanted to ride. Lines were very minimal, with the longest (not accounting for a short maintenance delay) being maybe 20 mins. Got a bunch of re-rides on the park's major coasters and I'm sure I'll be able to get more later in the summer, since Dorney is my home park lol. But here are some pics I got, and then like for my Great America post, thoughts about my individual rides will be below them!

Here's my breakdown of what I rode!

Iron Menace - Coaster Credit #169! (Rode twice) I am so glad Dorney finally got a brand new coaster after so long! Their last new coaster was Stinger in 2012 (which was a relocation, and closed in 2018), and their last custom built coaster was Hydra way back in 2005 (Possessed, opened in 2008, was also a relocation). I really liked Iron Menace for what it was though! It looks absolutely FANTASTIC for it's plot of land, and it's directly in front of you as you drive into the park. Makes for a fantastic first impression! The ride itself was pretty much what I expected (in a good way), it's definitely the weakest of the three dive coasters I've ridden, since it doesn't have the scale of Valravn and Sheikra, but I thought it had some fun elements and some surprisingly strong positive forces. The main downside is that it's a short ride, at only maybe 40 seconds or so after the drop. But all things considered, I think it's a great fit for Dorney and I LOVE it's theme! The Steelyard area around it looks pretty good as well! Currently, I have Iron Menace at 56th in my rankings between Flight Deck at California's Great America, and Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure, but that could be subject to change once I decide if I like this or Hydra more lol.

Steel Force - (Rode twice) I'd heard during the park's Winter Chill Out event back in March that they we're speeding up the chain lift on Steel Force this year since (I believe) they had gotten a new lift motor or something to that effect, so I was excited to see how it rode this year. I didn't really notice a significant difference in the speed or airtime, but that wasn't a huge deal to me since I really enjoy Steel Force. A lot of people give it and the other Morgan hypers flack for not having any airtime, and I just don't see that. I always get tons of air over this hills, especially on the return trip. Then the double helix turnaround acts as a good change of pace with some good positives. So Steel Force still retains it's place as my favorite at the park.

Thunderhawk - (Rode once) Thunderhawk is a ride that's had my opinions on it change a lot over the years. When I first rode it the first time I went to Dorney in 2012, I did not like it. I remember it being really rough and uncomfortable. Over the last few years though, the park has been doing a really good job taking care of it and it's running really well now. My ride this time had surprisingly strong airtime, which I was not expecting. The main problem I had this time, and why I only rode it once, was because I got stapled BAD and the surprisingly strong airtime made for a rather uncomfortable experience lol. But for a ride that's celebrating it's 100th birthday this year, it's still really solid I'd say.

Hydra the Revenge - (Rode twice) Hydra is such a weird little ride but I love it. Lots of funky inversions, especially for a floorless coaster, and you gotta love the hangtime on the jojo roll out of the station. It's running a little shaky this year but not too bad as long as you keep your head forward, as is the case with a lot of B&M loopers. That's nothing new for Hydra as well, since in my experience it's always had a bit of a rattle. I love how dynamic its forces are though between hangtime, airtime, positives and a little bit of whip coming down the first drop in the back row. At the moment, I'm not sure if I'd take it over Iron Menace as my third fav in the park, so that's something I'll have to think about next time I'm back there lol

Talon - (Rode once) I really enjoy Talon as well, which finds itself as my second fav in the park after Steel Force. Very snappy and forceful inversions and it still runs pretty smooth. I especially love the super intense high banked turn right up against the ground towards the end of the ride. The one thing that's a little disappointing is that the park took out the signs underneath you as you go up the lift hill. They were spaced out and said thing like "Going up" "No turning back!" "Getting closer..." as you went up the lift hill, with the last one at the crest saying "Goodbye!" as you go over the drop. They didn't affect the actual ride at all, but I thought they were a funny little thing the park decided to put in. They may have removed them prior to this year, since I didn't go to Dorney a lot between 2020 and now, but this is the first time I noticed it at least. Anways, gotta love Talon, real solid invert all around. I would've rode it more than once, but it got a bit of a longer line towards the end of my visit that I didn't feel like waiting in lol

Possessed - (Rode once) I've never been a huge fan of Intamin's Impulse coasters, and I've always thought Possessed was just kind of okay. It's got a fun launch, and since I was sitting towards the back row, the feeling of height looking straight down on the vertical back spike was pretty cool, but other than that, the ride doesn't do a whole lot for me. I wished the holding break on the vertical spike still worked like it used to, that would make the ride a bit more unique at least, but it's still fine enough without it.

Other than the coasters, I rode two other rides, both of them being drop towers lol. One was Dominator, the park's 200 foot S&S drop tower. I rode the shot side that blasts you up to free fall down and I thought it was way more tame than I remembered, which was unfortunate. Then the other drop tower I rode was Demon Drop, which is one of the very few rides out there that still kinda wigs me out lmao. Something about the moving forward from the lift shaft to the drop track and the fact that the ride looks, sounds, and feels like it's made of sheet metal still kinda gets to me lol. I love it though, and for as rare of a ride that it is, being the last of it's kind in the country, if it's running, you gotta give it a ride.

So overall, I had a fun time at Dorney! It's not the biggest or best park in the world by any means, but it serves its purpose as a regional theme park well and offers things that are fairly unique from other area parks like Hersheypark, Knoebels and Great Adventure. Once the waterpark opens for the season (they were having their season passholder preview day when I was there), then it becomes more of a full day park, since their waterpark is really solid. So I'm sure I'll get back later this summer and you'll get another post full of my ramblings lmao.

[pulpsandcomics2]

Anne Steelyard #1 by Glen Orbik

[onegirlthinktank]

08302021 Part Deux

I want to report wherever adventure tells me to go

[nightbringer24]

Playing through The Pitt, in the Steelyard specifically hunting for the ingots, is giving me ideas for 40k industrial terrain.

[recentadultburnout]

My Dear Gangster Oppa

Thiu ทิว

A long row or line of things connected together.

Array, row, line

Guy กาย

Body, physical form

Possibly a non-Thai word nickname

Wal วาฬ

Whale (common use)

Snake,  beast of prey (not common at all)

Tul ตุล

Libra

balance, pair of scales, steelyard, ancient measure or weight

Phaibul ไพบูลย์

Fullness, completeness

Not a Thai word

Nami นามิ

Boss บอส

Muffin มัฟฟ��น

Kenji เคนจิ

Index

[funjoke]

Jane Fonda joue au billard dans Steelyard Blues, 1972.