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winkler1

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Channel: Standup Comedy
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"If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable." http://www.videosift.com/video/Robert-Rodriguez-10-Minute-Film-School Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear! http://www.videosift.com/video/John-Lennon-Instant-Karma-live-in-New-York-City

Member Since: 2006-04-13
Email: winkler1 L0CATED_AT gmailD0Tcom
Favorite Sift: Old guy's laugh totally upstages comedian (@1:15)
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Congratulations on improving your rank. You are now ranked #21. You have left user choggie in your dust. Keep up the good work!

written by siftbot

| 6 hours 42 minutes 35 seconds ago | CH

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Congratulations on reaching new heights on VideoSift. You have earned yourself 463 stars, earning you status of Bronze Diamond member. You have been awarded 1 Power Point for achieving this level. Thanks for all your contributions.

written by siftbot

| 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH

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What a beautiful kitten. I love that shade of ashen gray. Do you have a video you'd like me to promote?

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My little pumpkin eater-

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written by dystopianfuturetoday

| 2 weeks 4 days ago | CH

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Your rank has dropped by 1. You are now ranked #22. User winkler1 is now ahead of you. You can do better than winkler1, can't you? You're only 0 votes away from getting back in front of winkler1.

written by siftbot

| 2 weeks 5 days ago | CH

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Thanks! I noticed you went through your vids to add some to the channel, but you can't use the invocation on your own vids - you have to use the 'modify video details' page to do it. I went back and added a few myself. Some (not all) of the others, though, I'm not so sure about. Basically, any video in the channel should provide some knowledge about how the brain or mind works to produce some particular behavior, as opposed to just demonstrating that behavior. I'm also avoiding social psychology for that reason as well. It's a bit of a tightrope walk - I want the channel to be well focused, but I don't want it to be too narrow.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
Brain channel, cool!

written by jonny

| 3 weeks ago | CH

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I don't have any real figures, winkler, and I'm not sure if you mean construction-wise or operation-wise...
I will tell you that if you read my summary you'll know the kind of climate we're in (some nights in winter get down below zero) and we still only have the heat on for an hour at night. Hardly lose any heat at all. We spend about $1,000 per year on propane (but we cook and heat water with it as well as heat the house) and our electric bills never go over $250/month.
My only even remote complaint about Rastra is that you cannot easily hang/mount anything to the walls. It's mostly styrofoam! Pictures, shelves, etc are all hung on the interior walls of the house, which are wood framed/drywall.
If you mean construction-wise, of course there are a lot of factors which would have to be factored in to properly compare, but this is a 2,100 square foot two story house with four bedrooms and two & a half baths. Built on five acres, sitting on solid rock which had to be leveled with heavy equipment so that one side of the house is actually five feet underground. It cost around $90,000. We think it averages out in cost to be pretty much equal to wood framed houses. Considering that the labor costs are so much less, etc. plus detail work such as rounded corners around all windows & doors are very easy instead of being specialty work. (The rastra is practically carvable) Anyway, hope that helped answer your question!
Have a great weekend!

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
Thanks for posting this..very interesting. Being in New England, insulation matters. The IR pics were fascinating.
Do you know how cost compares to a traditionally framed house?

written by laura

| 3 weeks 6 days ago | CH

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Hell, avoid anyone with parents so egotistical they named another human being in their own honor.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
Rule of thumb: Avoid candidates named "Jr." or "III".

written by EnemyCombatant

| 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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Edited my comment and upvoted.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
umm...I'm an idiot.

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written by curiousity

| 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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Well, that figures...if you liked Ween, then you'd probably have been exposed to BAD at some point. "Duck, you suckers!"

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
yup! loved how they sampled the spaghetti westerns.

In reply to this comment by shuac:
Now yer talkin! Finally, some cinematic taste!

Any Big Audio Dynamite fans out there? If so, you'll understand why I ask.

written by shuac

| 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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Thanks for the promote

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*promote

written by eric3579

| 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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A follow-up to the World's fastest bicyclist post. He's done it again 'eh!

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-fastest-human-on-the-face-of-the-earth-is-Canadian-Eh

written by therealblankman

| 2 months ago | CH

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I used to have a fox statuette just like that icon looks! Very cool.

written by NicoleBee

| 2 months ago | CH

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Thanks for sharing. Makes sense. Simple, but neat idea.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
Cute anti-spam technique:

Easy way to kill most spam on the spot:

- rename the name/link/etc. fields to something weird
- put this in your form:

(Leave these fields blank!)

- put this in the site stylesheet:
div.trap { display: none; visibility: hidden }

Then when processing the form, if there’s anything in the ‘name’ or ‘link’ fields, drop the post. This method alone has cut my spam by about 90-95%. I have no captcha, and no wonky heuristics that are eventually bound to flag legitimate data as spam at some point or another. Just a couple of innocent-looking fields that spambots fill in because they look important.

http://blog.dixo.net/2007/08/21/pastebin-fights-the-spam/

written by lucky760

| 2 months ago | CH

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