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At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.

Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
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Re: Official SGT ADD thread

Post by shilohmm » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:20 pm

Darksin wrote: Looks like Epcot has fallen by the wayside again. No expansion. No Upgrades. Nothing.

.....I think I need a hug. :(
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So does this mean the end of Avatarland?
CBeilby wrote: This will be a 8' by 4' table layout, although with room to expand into an additional modular table and possibly shelf extensions.
Wow. I'll just sit here and be jealous, thanks.

The art museum up in St. Joe had a train layout for Christmas years ago -- totally cool, but they've never done it again. :( I do think that sort of thing is art, myself. :)



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Post by Zazu » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:00 pm

CBeilby wrote:So, after a day of work in XTrack CAD, I came up with this:

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If you'd like a professional design consultation from someone who was the first President of the Layout Design Special Interest Group and the founding director of the Kalmbach Memorial Library of the NMRA, please contact me off-list.

It's not just the WDW RR I've worked on. :D:


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Post by Zazu » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:06 pm

shilohmm wrote:The art museum up in St. Joe had a train layout for Christmas years ago -- totally cool, but they've never done it again. :( I do think that sort of thing is art, myself. :)
Not all model railroads are art, but then neither are all paintings.

The great thing about model railroads is that they range from a circle of tinplate around the Xmas tree to large operations that meticulously copy in miniature the locomotives, cars, buildings, scenery, and even the operating rules of a seleted prototype. When done well, photographs can fool even a trained eye.

Personally, I think that a model railroad is a storytelling device. It can evoke a time, place, and mood as well as any other form of art, plus it's a moving device that shows how things change in real time. It's a popular hobby for Imagineers, I've met several over the years in the hobby, with John Olson probably being the most prominent.

And I think we all agree that when the Imagineers cut loose, the result can be exquisitely artistic. Think of your model railroad as a miniature theme park, and you're on your way!

Plus, anyone who thinks the Santa Fe was a class operation....


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Re: Official SGT ADD thread

Post by shilohmm » Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:58 pm

Zazu wrote:Not all model railroads are art, but then neither are all paintings.
I tend to compare model train layouts more to domestic art, myself, since they can both totally fail as art and still have a useful function -- a artless quilt still keeps you warm; a model train in an artless layout still goes round and round or back and forth. :D:

Zazu wrote: Personally, I think that a model railroad is a storytelling device.
Anyone else seen the train layout in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry? It essentially tells the story of a train trip from Chicago to Seattle, but it's also got many little vignettes. You can spend an hour there and not see everything. :cool:



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Post by Darksin » Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:00 am

While having a deep and meaningful conversation with Mrs. Skyy Vodka, let me tell you the conversation me and the silly fool who married me just had.


Him: Make the morons get eat'n by gators!
Me: Naw.. to easy. They must cross a 50" ditch with gator!
Him: Then Lions!
Me: We don't have those.. how about a Florida Panther?! Same thing cute sleeker!
Him: Oh! I like this.. and then.. BOMBS!
Me: No dumbass, that's boring.. after the gators and the panthers... we have.. BRAZILIAN STENCH!
Him:.... they're all dead.. aren't they?
Me: Isn't that the point?! ;)


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Post by BRWombat » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:02 am

Zazu wrote:Not all model railroads are art, but then neither are all paintings. ...
The main question is, do they have a brothel, like Crabbe Town?

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Post by hobie16 » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:01 pm

DisneyMom has a lot in common with super computers.

Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.


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Post by DisneyMom » Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:30 pm

hobie16 wrote:DisneyMom has a lot in common with super computers.

Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.
I must have a Superior Brain!!!!! :D: Did the computer look up Bigfoot Videos too? :p:


:flybongo: NO BULL!!!!!:D:

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Re: Official SGT ADD thread

Post by hobie16 » Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:40 pm

DisneyMom wrote:Did the computer look up Bigfoot Videos too? :p:
It's not that advanced. Yet. ;)


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Re: Official SGT ADD thread

Post by hobie16 » Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:18 am

If it's not kitties it's dogs and crabs.


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