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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082

    Was today "Fat Tuesday"?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...Yellowstone is home to a massive caldera which is active and is classified as a "supervolcano".  Should it erupt, it would have a serious effect on the planet's climate that would last for decades and possibly be an ELE.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah, couldn't live in any of the other cities there.  Like Madison WI, Austin seems to be something of an "island" if ya know what I mean. Stupid expensive and getting crowded here in Portland just as well.

    Here it gets so wet it's more like soggy biscuits

    Yecch, soggy biscuits!  Just nasty..

    Anywhere there's a tech hub it gets overcrowded and expensive.  Once I hit retirement afe I'm off to a small town somewhere nice, like Conneticutt or Vermont.  Cold, yes, but they're prepared for it and most houses have insulation.

    I'm in Massachusetts.  Heating can get expensive.  Natural gas is better than oil.  But even that gets expensive sometimes.  But it's not just the cold.  Heavy snow, or ice storms, can bring down power and communication lines.  Whenever there's a big storm, I see it on the news...so many thousands of homes without power.  Most of the time it's towns north of us.  Boston is about 40 miles north/northeast of me.  Some locations are out for days, sometimes more than a week.  Especially in the north country (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine).  I'm in a city that has a municipal power company.  I've heard that our rates are the best, and the service is good.  But even we have outages sometimes.  Never gone days without power, though.  Hours, yes, but not days.  Hopefully it stays that way.  Getting around when there's a big snow storm is another issue.  And there are idiots the just don't get it and drive fast even when the roads are all snowy or icy.  I hate going out when the roads aren't cleared yet.  Fortunately, I don't have to often.  Being out of work means you don't have to be somewhere.   blush​  Unfortunately, it also often means you can't go somewhere, link extra vacations, movies, dining out, etc.   frown

    Dana

    When I lived in Otsego, MI it was all fuel oil, which back then was cheap.  The house had I swear six inch thick walls and double-pane windows! Once it got warm it tended to stay warm.  Snow was only an issue until my uncle got his snowmobile out, and stores tended to open because the workers all lived within walking distance.. those were the days.  But yeah, power could be an issue.. Grandpas farm had a generator and a huge gas tank, so when power went down hard we'd snowmobile to the farm and hang out.  The place had a pile of guest rooms so it all worked out.

    Plus, I had discovered my Grandpas collection of Playboy magazines so I was always entertaied!!!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    beep beep

    For some reason we say MEEP MEEP idk why :0

    That's the way it's done in the cartoons as well, meep meep.  Love Warner Bros. toons!

    Dana

    Maybe it was what the Plymouth horn sounded like :)

    A friend had a Road Runner, during the time when I was dating who became my wife.  He'd visit with my mom and sister and let me take it out on Friday nights sometimes.  Yes, it had that sound of a beep.  I thought it sounded like the meep meep.  Nice car, too.  And it was purple, our favorite color.  smiley

    Dana

    loooooooooooool!! I remember those cars!!!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Was today "Fat Tuesday"?

    ...yes it is.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    edited February 2018
    NVIATWAS said:
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

    makin me want to move to santa barbara

    they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

    Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

    Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

    http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

    I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

    Wails are what you hear at a funeral. indecision

    And wale is what your mother does to your bottom when you give her sas. crying

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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...did something I was always afraid about, saved one scene under the name of another.

    My one complaint about betas: they keep popping up the scene/scene subset folder list every time you click on "save" so you have to click on the file name and then the save button in the popup.  This doesn't happen in the full general release as there, once the scene you are working on has initially been saved, it updates the correct file without opening the folder. So I completely trashed hours and hours of work revising my summer in the city scene with IBL Master (had to adjust a lot of the surfaces since the Gamma is set higher and thus it requires reducing specularity, particularly on shiny and reflective items), so I have to start all over again from the base scene.  Discovered what happened as when I opened the bus stop scene to work on it, the changes I made to it were gone even though I knew I had saved them. Opened the Summer in the City scene and it was the saved version of the bus stop scene.

    This is why I am not into reducing texture size in a 2D programme by hand as I don't want to screw up like this and overwrite the original texture file. Dyslexia doesn't just relate to transposing letters or numbers.

    I am not using the full release of 4.10 as the latest version apparently has some issues with bugs that are cropping up while other than this incident, the beta has been extremely  stable.  I also want to keep 4.9 active for other purposes as the general release would overwrite it.

    Not a good note to turn in for the evening on.

    The Windows file system should have at least caused a message asking you to confirm you want to Replace it.  If DS doesn't allow that, then maybe it's time to say goodbye to it.  That sucks.  And often, when saving something with the same name, it will add a (1)  or (2) to the filename, so you have both.  It's very odd if neither of these things happened.

    Dana

    When a program opens a file for writing under Windows, there's an option flag that forces an over-write. I was told that if I ever used this option I would be fired.  It's a single Win32 API call to determine if a file already exists, if the app doesn't ask you to confirm an over-write the programming staff needs to go back to scrubbing toilets!!! :-O

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...well supposedly the most geologically "safest" places to go are places I wouldn't want to live (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and most certainly, Wisconsin), Guess I'll continue playing the odds out here.

     

    old Faithful in Wyoming hasn't been the same, think it was due to a quake.

     

    Nlech.  I guess it's not Old Facefull any more now. :-(

     

    When was that earthquake?  I finally got to see Yellowstone in 1995 and it was behaving semi-reliably then.  When I was a kid we were taught that the timing was about an hour.  But 40 years later it was about 90 minutes.  I remember I sat and sat and sat on the benches around Ol' Faithful waiting for it to finally blow.  It was an interesting sight.  Just like the photos.  surpriseyes

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah, couldn't live in any of the other cities there.  Like Madison WI, Austin seems to be something of an "island" if ya know what I mean. Stupid expensive and getting crowded here in Portland just as well.

    Here it gets so wet it's more like soggy biscuits

    Yecch, soggy biscuits!  Just nasty..

    Anywhere there's a tech hub it gets overcrowded and expensive.  Once I hit retirement afe I'm off to a small town somewhere nice, like Conneticutt or Vermont.  Cold, yes, but they're prepared for it and most houses have insulation.

    I'm in Massachusetts.  Heating can get expensive.  Natural gas is better than oil.  But even that gets expensive sometimes.  But it's not just the cold.  Heavy snow, or ice storms, can bring down power and communication lines.  Whenever there's a big storm, I see it on the news...so many thousands of homes without power.  Most of the time it's towns north of us.  Boston is about 40 miles north/northeast of me.  Some locations are out for days, sometimes more than a week.  Especially in the north country (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine).  I'm in a city that has a municipal power company.  I've heard that our rates are the best, and the service is good.  But even we have outages sometimes.  Never gone days without power, though.  Hours, yes, but not days.  Hopefully it stays that way.  Getting around when there's a big snow storm is another issue.  And there are idiots the just don't get it and drive fast even when the roads are all snowy or icy.  I hate going out when the roads aren't cleared yet.  Fortunately, I don't have to often.  Being out of work means you don't have to be somewhere.   blush​  Unfortunately, it also often means you can't go somewhere, link extra vacations, movies, dining out, etc.   frown

    Dana

    I've given some consideration to a "safe" place to live and have come to the conclusion that right where I am is actually pretty survivable.  Southern tier of Western NY State.  Chautauqua county.  Nestled up next to Lake Erie but east of the ridge of hills that the locals call the "snow ridge".  Yeah we get cold weather now and then and yes, we do get lots of snow especially before Lake Erie freezes over putting an end to "Lake Effect Snows".  But we know how to handle snow up here.

    For the most part, this area only has tiny earthquakes that are only learned about by reading the newspaper the next day. 

    Summer storms sometimes have lots of lightning but not like Florida. 

    Floods come in the spring when the snow melts but are confined to the streams through the valleys where most people are smart enough to build high enough up the bank.  We do get the flat lands flooding but that's been going on for thousands of years and makes the fields fertile and the houses are mostly designed to handle it.  (i.e. flooded basements are to be expected if you live in a flood plain.  Duh!) 

    There hasn't been a big fire around here in my considerably long memory, nor have I read of one in our history.  We get a lot of rain and the foliage (and there's lots of foliage around here) is green.  So, even if a fire gets started it doesn't spread. 

    We're not immune to droughts which usually only last a few weeks and only affect the prices of crops and not the forests.  Nor reservoirs of which we really don't have many because wells are the thing around here, with people getting their water from the deep aquifer that's been the same level since this area was settled 200+ years ago.

    The population of this area hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, except around our lake (Lake Chautauqua), where the golfers have cut down much of the forest to make sloping golf courses and hundreds of houses with grand views of the lake.

    By the time any remnant of a hurricane reaches us it's just a big thunderstorm.

    Tornados?  We do get one once in a while.  They take out trees and do some superficial damage to houses but as far as tornados go, they are probably not much bigger than an F1 or F2 and they are quite rare and short lived.  Perhaps a damaging one once every 10 years.

    Tidal waves?  Well, unless lake Erie somehow comes up with an 800 foot wave to get over the "ridge" we're pretty safe.

    Landslides?  I don't think we have a hill big enough for the land to slide from, they all did that 30,000 years ago.

    Sinkholes?  I never even heard the concept of a sinkhole until I moved to Florida to go to college.  The only thing that could be called a sinkhole around here is the top of your septic tank caving in.  Although that might more properly be called a stinkhole.

    Dam breaches?  No dams worth mentioning around here.  Although Kinzua Dam is about 40 miles southeast of us in Pennsylvania and if it goes would pretty much wipe out the city of Warren, PA and several of the little towns further downstream.

    The biggest threat to safety in this area is man himself:  Fracking has turned serveral areas into places where you can get your heating gas right from your kitchen faucet.

    The fertilizer runoff from the farms, golf courses and gated community uber lawns around our local vacation lake (Chautauqua) have turned it into a 20 mile long petri dish of green glop that suffocates the fish.

    Complaint:  My biggest environmental complaint around here, directly affecting me, is the manure factory just east of town where the thousands of cows dutifuly deposit their duty into a giant obscene pool of goop that is carefully tended by the property owners and liquified and ripened.  Then big tanker trucks back into a loading dock down the hill and the sludge is drained into the trucks to be sent god knows where to somebody who pays for the stuff.  and the trucks are never filled cleanly.  Imagine one of those bright shiny stainless steel milk tanker trucks covered in rust and black sludge spillage down the sides, on the wheels and mudflaps, dripping still liquid excess along the road.   And as you actually pass the loading dock area, the excess dripping from the trucks has pooled, and baked onto the hot summer pavement and gets thrown up onto the bottom of your car.  So, when I have to drive past this "manure factory" I make sure I close the window and close the car vents long before I get there because you don't always know which way the wind is blowing and the smell could meet you a mile before you see the facility.  Ah, just another one of the fragrences of life in the country. frown

     

     

    Sounds safe exept for the manure pond.  If radiation gets to it, you'll get a giant poop monster shooting poop misles and hundred foot long poop rays ravaging the countryside!  Like a poop Godzilla..

    The horror... the horror.. :-|

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...as I mentioned going back to Wisconsin would be relatively safe (geologically and natural disaster wise) but winters there are just too harsh for me these days particularly due to my circulation issues (even 70°F seems a bit chilly to me and I don't feel comfortable until it gets near 80°).  Then there's the "change every five minutes" weather there which is the hallmark of the upper Midwest that plays havoc with my arthritic bones and joints (rapid changes in air pressure and/or humidity). Here in the Pacific Northwet, the weather changes are more gradual and yet I still feel it. 

    There are also a couple other reasons why I'm not keen on going back there either.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210389/ ; :-|

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. We seem to be having a dust storm here, is very dark and big stuff seems to be sailing through the air as well as choking grit :0

    Argh, stay inside and cover your camel up!!! :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Complaint: it took me an entire cup of tea to respond to all the posts that happened since I went offline!  And I'm running out of clever responses... :-(

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    I went to start DS to play with some stuff, but somehow it got uninstalled since I last played with it.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

    haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

    veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

    i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    I cannot remember anything from 1983, but I can remember last night.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

    haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

    veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

    i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

    I remember my honeymoon at Epcot, we took Amtrak and got a sleeper car.  It came with meals, which were pretty damn good.  This was in 1986!!!!

    And yet I can't remember half the contracts I worked, so much for memorable jobs... :-/

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    I do not remember anything in 1986, either.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    edited February 2018

    I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left. indecision

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    could that be cause you weren't born yet?smileysmiley

     

    psych theme song, is catchy

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    I was born in 1983 but Does that explain my issue of not remembering the 80’s?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

    haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

    veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

    i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

    I remember my honeymoon at Epcot, we took Amtrak and got a sleeper car.  It came with meals, which were pretty damn good.  This was in 1986!!!!

    And yet I can't remember half the contracts I worked, so much for memorable jobs... :-/

           I've always wanted to take a luxury train trip across country (or to Florida at least) but trains are soooo expensive.  I do remember riding the train alone about 80 miles when I was about 8 or 9 back in the mid '50s.  I'd been visiting my aunt for a week or so.  She worked for Erie Railroad and she shipped me back to my parents on the train so they wouldn't have to drive out to pick me up.   I"ve also ridden train from Union Station in Washington, DC to Pennsylvania Station in NYC and back a couple of times.  I've ridden the Metro in Washington, DC, and the MUNI in San Francisco, the Underground in London, the subway in Hamburg, Germany, The subway in Montreal to the 1967 World's Fair, the Monorail in both DisneyWorld, Orlando & DisneyLand, Anaheim.  And I've even ridden the Hogwart's Express at Universal Studios, Orlando.  But that's about it for train travel.  I'd always hoped that the US would develop good high speed intercity rail travel but I'll never live to see it happen.  If I want a real train experience I'll have to go to Europe or Asia.  Which, at this point in my life, ain't gonna' happen either. 

    Ooh, ooh, hmmm..., I wonder if I could afford the AutoTrain from Washington, DC to WinterPark, Florida.  I can drive  to Washington in 8 hours, I wouldn't have to spend two nights in hotels...,  hmmm... have to check that out. enlightened

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left. indecision

    I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    edited February 2018
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

    haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

    veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

    i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

    I remember my honeymoon at Epcot, we took Amtrak and got a sleeper car.  It came with meals, which were pretty damn good.  This was in 1986!!!!

    And yet I can't remember half the contracts I worked, so much for memorable jobs... :-/

           I've always wanted to take a luxury train trip across country (or to Florida at least) but trains are soooo expensive.  I do remember riding the train alone about 80 miles when I was about 8 or 9 back in the mid '50s.  I'd been visiting my aunt for a week or so.  She worked for Erie Railroad and she shipped me back to my parents on the train so they wouldn't have to drive out to pick me up.   I"ve also ridden train from Union Station in Washington, DC to Pennsylvania Station in NYC and back a couple of times.  I've ridden the Metro in Washington, DC, and the MUNI in San Francisco, the Underground in London, the subway in Hamburg, Germany, The subway in Montreal to the 1967 World's Fair, the Monorail in both DisneyWorld, Orlando & DisneyLand, Anaheim.  And I've even ridden the Hogwart's Express at Universal Studios, Orlando.  But that's about it for train travel.  I'd always hoped that the US would develop good high speed intercity rail travel but I'll never live to see it happen.  If I want a real train experience I'll have to go to Europe or Asia.  Which, at this point in my life, ain't gonna' happen either. 

    Ooh, ooh, hmmm..., I wonder if I could afford the AutoTrain from Washington, DC to WinterPark, Florida.  I can drive  to Washington in 8 hours, I wouldn't have to spend two nights in hotels...,  hmmm... have to check that out. enlightened

    I've done sleepers round trip to EPCOT, rail from DC to Boston, rail from DC to New York, rail from DC to Chicago, and rail from Los Angeles to Austin.  Sleepers are stupid expensive, but damn are they nice!! So glad I did it when I could, but the ex-wife is a railfan so she kind of insisted.. worked out though.

    I too wish we had nice rail like Japan or Europe, but we won't see it until we get out of the transportation Stone Age, which certainly won't happen in my lifetime unless gas reaches $50 a gallon and people stop being in such a damned hurry.  Maybe the next apex species will be smarter.

    I've seen tthe sunrise over a huge lake from the train, the mountains in Arizona,New Mexico, and the desert between New Mexico and El Paso. I've seen the dawn on one end of an observation car and the full Moon at the other end on a train in the Midwest. If I live so long, I want to load a backpack, buy some kind of rail pass, and just take my time traveling the U.S. - better would be Eurail, and the T.E.E. (Trans Europe Express).

    Maybe next incarnation... :-/

    Post edited by NVIATWAS on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...as I mentioned going back to Wisconsin would be relatively safe (geologically and natural disaster wise) but winters there are just too harsh for me these days particularly due to my circulation issues (even 70°F seems a bit chilly to me and I don't feel comfortable until it gets near 80°).  Then there's the "change every five minutes" weather there which is the hallmark of the upper Midwest that plays havoc with my arthritic bones and joints (rapid changes in air pressure and/or humidity). Here in the Pacific Northwet, the weather changes are more gradual and yet I still feel it. 

    There are also a couple other reasons why I'm not keen on going back there either.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210389/   ; :-|

    ...yeah, Wisconsin has a few skeletons in the closet so to say.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

    haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

    veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

    i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

    I remember my honeymoon at Epcot, we took Amtrak and got a sleeper car.  It came with meals, which were pretty damn good.  This was in 1986!!!!

    And yet I can't remember half the contracts I worked, so much for memorable jobs... :-/

           I've always wanted to take a luxury train trip across country (or to Florida at least) but trains are soooo expensive.  I do remember riding the train alone about 80 miles when I was about 8 or 9 back in the mid '50s.  I'd been visiting my aunt for a week or so.  She worked for Erie Railroad and she shipped me back to my parents on the train so they wouldn't have to drive out to pick me up.   I"ve also ridden train from Union Station in Washington, DC to Pennsylvania Station in NYC and back a couple of times.  I've ridden the Metro in Washington, DC, and the MUNI in San Francisco, the Underground in London, the subway in Hamburg, Germany, The subway in Montreal to the 1967 World's Fair, the Monorail in both DisneyWorld, Orlando & DisneyLand, Anaheim.  And I've even ridden the Hogwart's Express at Universal Studios, Orlando.  But that's about it for train travel.  I'd always hoped that the US would develop good high speed intercity rail travel but I'll never live to see it happen.  If I want a real train experience I'll have to go to Europe or Asia.  Which, at this point in my life, ain't gonna' happen either. 

    Ooh, ooh, hmmm..., I wonder if I could afford the AutoTrain from Washington, DC to WinterPark, Florida.  I can drive  to Washington in 8 hours, I wouldn't have to spend two nights in hotels...,  hmmm... have to check that out. enlightened

    ...used to ride the Coast Starlight between Portland and the Bay Area frequently with sleeper.  Lovely way to travel. When I moved from Wisconsin back in 1980 I took the Empire Builder from Tomah WI to Seattle. as I always wanted to take a long distance trip (the longest I was on before that was Milwaukee through Chicago to/from New York City).  Used to also ride the old Milwaukee Road Hiawathas between Milwaukee and Lacrosse/St Paul (pre Amtrak days). 

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

    haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

    veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

    i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

    I remember my honeymoon at Epcot, we took Amtrak and got a sleeper car.  It came with meals, which were pretty damn good.  This was in 1986!!!!

    And yet I can't remember half the contracts I worked, so much for memorable jobs... :-/

           I've always wanted to take a luxury train trip across country (or to Florida at least) but trains are soooo expensive.  I do remember riding the train alone about 80 miles when I was about 8 or 9 back in the mid '50s.  I'd been visiting my aunt for a week or so.  She worked for Erie Railroad and she shipped me back to my parents on the train so they wouldn't have to drive out to pick me up.   I"ve also ridden train from Union Station in Washington, DC to Pennsylvania Station in NYC and back a couple of times.  I've ridden the Metro in Washington, DC, and the MUNI in San Francisco, the Underground in London, the subway in Hamburg, Germany, The subway in Montreal to the 1967 World's Fair, the Monorail in both DisneyWorld, Orlando & DisneyLand, Anaheim.  And I've even ridden the Hogwart's Express at Universal Studios, Orlando.  But that's about it for train travel.  I'd always hoped that the US would develop good high speed intercity rail travel but I'll never live to see it happen.  If I want a real train experience I'll have to go to Europe or Asia.  Which, at this point in my life, ain't gonna' happen either. 

    Ooh, ooh, hmmm..., I wonder if I could afford the AutoTrain from Washington, DC to WinterPark, Florida.  I can drive  to Washington in 8 hours, I wouldn't have to spend two nights in hotels...,  hmmm... have to check that out. enlightened

    I've done sleepers round trip to EPCOT, rail from DC to Boston, rail from DC to New York, rail from DC to Chicago, and rail from Los Angeles to Austin.  Sleepers are stupid expensive, but damn are they nice!! So glad I did it when I could, but the ex-wife is a railfan so she kind of insisted.. worked out though.

    I too wish we had nice rail like Japan or Europe, but we won't see it until we get out of the transportation Stone Age, which certainly won't happen in my lifetime unless gas reaches $50 a gallon and people stop being in such a damned hurry.  Maybe the next apex species will be smarter.

    I've seen tthe sunrise over a huge lake from the train, the mountains in Arizona,New Mexico, and the desert between New Mexico and El Paso. I've seen the dawn on one end of an observation car and the full Moon at the other end on a train in the Midwest. If I live so long, I want to load a backpack, buy some kind of rail pass, and just take my time traveling the U.S. - better would be Eurail, and the T.E.E. (Trans Europe Express).

    Maybe next incarnation... :-/

    ...one of the greatest moments was on a trip back form the Bay area when I woke up in my compartment, opened the shade and there was Mt Shasta with the sun rising just over the south flank. Now that is a "good morning".

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited February 2018

    ...Non Complaint.

    Lookee what I just got.

    https://www.daz3d.com/hd-grand-piano-and-poses-for-genesis-3-and-8

    Leela very happy now!!!!!!

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    NVIATWAS said:
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Big bright blue sky promising some heat later in the day but right now is as pleasant as it can be after a couple of days relief from this summer’s big hot. Only down side is our garden still smells like seaweed from all the kelp sludge we pumped into it a couple of weeks ago ;)

    Seaweed! Make dashi or roll up some dead fish in it!!!

    Smells a bit like sea shore after a big storm or a king tide :)

    No wonder I think of the beach every time you post...!

    The ocean, the bays here and water in general takes up a sometimes substantial amount of my brain space :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

    makin me want to move to santa barbara

    they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

    Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

    Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

    http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

    The big landscapes really pretty but the Druids look like escapees from a horror franchise :)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    NVIATWAS said:
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

    makin me want to move to santa barbara

    they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

    Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

    Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

    http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

    I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

    Dunno about Druids, but bards? Ever heard of whalesong?smiley

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