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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Milwauki an island?

     

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    edited July 2016

    ...no.  It is on the shore of Lake Michigan though it has a couple rivers that go through the centre of the city as well.

    Looks like a shot from Futurama.

    There is a  section called Jones Island however it is more of a peninsula than an actual island.  For years it served as a major fuel terminal as well as home for the city's main sewage plant. Just to the north across the inlet to the Milwaukee river is old Maitland Field, once a downtown airport that in the 1950s became a Nike missile site.  The missiles were there until 1969.  The old airfield is now a park  that hosts the annual MIlwaukee Summerfest.

    The Nike Missile site

    As the current Maier Festival Park

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    MistyMist said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    are London and Paris on islands?

    theres the Seine and the Thames.  h is silent i think

    lookin up Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, iirc, lotsa waterways in those cities.

    London is on an Island,  the Island is called Great Britain.

    The Thames is a river.   It flows through London.

     

    thanks!!

    power station, seeing a ferris wheel symbol

     

    That's cos London is powered directly from the river - huuuuge water turbines.

     

    Kidding.

     

    It's a ferris wheel, called the London Eye. Its where all the new years fireworks are.

    smiley

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    edited July 2016
    TangoAlpha said:
    MistyMist said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    are London and Paris on islands?

    theres the Seine and the Thames.  h is silent i think

    lookin up Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, iirc, lotsa waterways in those cities.

    London is on an Island,  the Island is called Great Britain.

    The Thames is a river.   It flows through London.

     

    thanks!!

    power station, seeing a ferris wheel symbol

     

    That's cos London is powered directly from the river - huuuuge water turbines.

     

    Kidding.

     

    It's a ferris wheel, called the London Eye. Its where all the new years fireworks are.

    smiley

    I know I'm being pedantic but the "London Eye" is not exactly a "Ferris wheel" as designed by CWG Ferris (supported on both sides).  It's a "cantilever" wheel (supported on one side only).

    CWG Ferris designed & built the original "Ferris" wheel in 1893 for the Chicago Exposition.  

    I think the cantilever wheels are much more impressive technically. cheeky 

    CWG Ferris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_wheel

    But everybody knows what you're talking about when you say "Ferris wheel".  Or when you say "Kleenix" or "Ketchup"

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    MistyMist said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    are London and Paris on islands?

    theres the Seine and the Thames.  h is silent i think

    lookin up Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, iirc, lotsa waterways in those cities.

    London is on an Island,  the Island is called Great Britain.

    The Thames is a river.   It flows through London.

     

    thanks!!

    power station, seeing a ferris wheel symbol

     

    That's cos London is powered directly from the river - huuuuge water turbines.

     

    Kidding.

     

    It's a ferris wheel, called the London Eye. Its where all the new years fireworks are.

    smiley

    I know I'm being pedantic but the "London Eye" is not exactly a "Ferris Wheel" as designed by CWG Ferris (supported on both sides).  It's a "Cantilever" wheel (supported on one side only).

    CWG Ferris designed & built the original "Ferris" wheel in 1893 for the Chicago Exposition.  

    I think the cantilever wheels are much more impressive technically. cheeky 

    CWG Ferris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_wheel

    But everybody knows what you're talking about when you say "Ferris wheel".  Or when you say "Kleenix" or "Ketchup"

     

    Agreed.   I quote from this site  https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/articles/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-london-eye/

    1. The London Eye is not a Ferris wheel. It’s the world’s tallest cantilevered observation wheel

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Someone is ranting into a megaphone a little after dawn about something somewhere down the block, voice is so distorted and wind tossed is almosr like timeless percussion :)

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    True, but if you say it's a "cantilevered observation wheel", 9 times out of 10* people will say, "Huh?"

     

    * Statistic provided by the Bureau of Made Up Stuff

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Huh?

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456
    TangoAlpha said:

    True, but if you say it's a "cantilevered observation wheel", 9 times out of 10* people will say, "Huh?"

     

    * Statistic provided by the Bureau of Made Up Stuff

    9 out of 7 people believe that Bureau actually exists

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    my disaster area

    armed with a measuring tape, duct tape, and a table knife to use as a screw driver

    need to make this space ready for a sofa   but still be computeable

    stummified

     

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    Kulay Wolf said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    True, but if you say it's a "cantilevered observation wheel", 9 times out of 10* people will say, "Huh?"

     

    * Statistic provided by the Bureau of Made Up Stuff

    9 out of 7 people believe that Bureau actually exists

    And 4 out of those 6 work there.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ...no.  It is on the shore of Lake Michigan though it has a couple rivers that go through the centre of the city as well.

    Looks like a shot from Futurama.

    There is a  section called Jones Island however it is more of a peninsula than an actual island.  For years it served as a major fuel terminal as well as home for the city's main sewage plant. Just to the north across the inlet to the Milwaukee river is old Maitland Field, once a downtown airport that in the 1950s became a Nike missile site.  The missiles were there until 1969.  The old airfield is now a park  that hosts the annual MIlwaukee Summerfest.

    The Nike Missile site

    As the current Maier Festival Park

     

    was wondering why searching on futurama brought up Milwaukee smiley

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    MistyMist said:

    Huh?

    Exactly.

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    New product submitted, hurrah! And now it's time for bed. Nitey night.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...no.  It is on the shore of Lake Michigan though it has a couple rivers that go through the centre of the city as well.

    Looks like a shot from Futurama.

    There is a  section called Jones Island however it is more of a peninsula than an actual island.  For years it served as a major fuel terminal as well as home for the city's main sewage plant. Just to the north across the inlet to the Milwaukee river is old Maitland Field, once a downtown airport that in the 1950s became a Nike missile site.  The missiles were there until 1969.  The old airfield is now a park  that hosts the annual MIlwaukee Summerfest.

    The Nike Missile site

    As the current Maier Festival Park

     

    was wondering why searching on futurama brought up Milwaukee smiley

    ...episode #57 titled Love and Rocket

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    edited July 2016
    TangoAlpha said:

    True, but if you say it's a "cantilevered observation wheel", 9 times out of 10* people will say, "Huh?"

     

    * Statistic provided by the Bureau of Made Up Stuff

    The 10th will say "What?"*

    *ibid

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    edited July 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...no.  It is on the shore of Lake Michigan though it has a couple rivers that go through the centre of the city as well.

    Looks like a shot from Futurama.

    There is a  section called Jones Island however it is more of a peninsula than an actual island.  For years it served as a major fuel terminal as well as home for the city's main sewage plant. Just to the north across the inlet to the Milwaukee river is old Maitland Field, once a downtown airport that in the 1950s became a Nike missile site.  The missiles were there until 1969.  The old airfield is now a park  that hosts the annual MIlwaukee Summerfest.

    The Nike Missile site

    As the current Maier Festival Park

     

    was wondering why searching on futurama brought up Milwaukee smiley

    ...episode #57 titled Love and Rocket

    Press to play>

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited July 2016

    I drew a thing last night :>

    Melkezyk - Wyrm of the Lowlands~  Whipped up this new dragon OC for myself, sketchy but I’m happy with it <3

    Well, except the upper wings. There shouldn’t be indents on that honestly - makes it look like it’s the underside instead of the topside.

     

     

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sitting in a worse mess.  i'm tired of looking at the b&w bookcase, haz for over 30 years. Pought it at pergaments.  iz sturdier than anything i can buy today in my price range. woes.  

    gonna put everything in sterilite plastic drawers

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sipping seltzer water doesnt help at all with naggie joint aches and aches.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    MistyMist said:

    sipping seltzer water doesnt help at all with naggie joint aches and aches.

    I must be pretty tired right now, since I mis-read your post as saying "Jaggi joint aches"  and not "naggie"  x'D

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,243
    MistyMist said:

      i'm tired of looking at the b&w bookcase, haz for over 30 years. Pought it at pergaments.  iz sturdier than anything i can buy today in my price range. woes.  

    Paint?  Contact paper?  flocking!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    Tjohn said:
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...no.  It is on the shore of Lake Michigan though it has a couple rivers that go through the centre of the city as well.

    Looks like a shot from Futurama.

    There is a  section called Jones Island however it is more of a peninsula than an actual island.  For years it served as a major fuel terminal as well as home for the city's main sewage plant. Just to the north across the inlet to the Milwaukee river is old Maitland Field, once a downtown airport that in the 1950s became a Nike missile site.  The missiles were there until 1969.  The old airfield is now a park  that hosts the annual MIlwaukee Summerfest.

    The Nike Missile site

    As the current Maier Festival Park

     

    was wondering why searching on futurama brought up Milwaukee smiley

    ...episode #57 titled Love and Rocket

    Press to play>

    ...what was sad in the 80s, Strohs bought Schlitz out so The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous ended up being brewed in Detroit.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393

    I just noticed a rather silly mistake in my picture I posted.  I was working on that at 4 in the morning so I guess that explains it.... But that human is apparently nine feet tall in the pic :B

     

    I'll have to fix that tomorrow ><

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    The download and installation of 30 GB of game data took 9 hours in case anyone was wondering.  The process would have been faster if my computer was connected to the router with an ethernet cable.

    I had another comment but I forgot what it was.  Maybe I'm too sleepy now.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159

    ...yeah went out had a couple pints and a great Bloody Mary at this one neighbourhood pub (only 3$ and both spicy and strong).  Came home, made dinner, and the brain is totally starved of oxygen. 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    Rezca said:

    I just noticed a rather silly mistake in my picture I posted.  I was working on that at 4 in the morning so I guess that explains it.... But that human is apparently nine feet tall in the pic :B

     

    I'll have to fix that tomorrow ><

    Here thar be giants! smiley

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,374
    Rezca said:

    I drew a thing last night :>

    Melkezyk - Wyrm of the Lowlands~  Whipped up this new dragon OC for myself, sketchy but I’m happy with it <3

    Well, except the upper wings. There shouldn’t be indents on that honestly - makes it look like it’s the underside instead of the topside.

     

     

     

    Cool.

    Dana

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    I'm afraid my entire knowledgeof Milwaukee comes from a short speech by Alice Cooper in the movie, Wayne's World.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    Good morning!   I woke up this morning to find  Captain Charisma in my DIM.

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