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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,225
    That's fine Ron. I can be scary, I suppose, but not that day. David is doing 3D stereo photography. We are at an NSA convention in Albuquerque. (National Stereoscopic Association).
  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,678

    You are not scarey. You're a great looking couple.

    My friends loved your picture. They also loved the parts of your ongoing story I shared with them.

    It's difficult to share the story because many of them don't have a computer or the Internet.

    So I printed some of the pictures and told them the story.

    You really look like some of those old comedies. Like Around the World in 80 days!

    You ought to star in a movie!

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,678
    edited July 18

    I've decided to convert two of my computers back to dual monitors.

    I remember how nice it was to use DAZ Studio with a dual monitor setup.

    I put away two 24" monitors about 5 years ago. I wanted to reduce the clutter on my desks. So far I've pulled one 24" monitor out of the closet and dusted it off. I just need to find the proper cables to reconnect it.

    The other 24" monitor will go on a monitor arm to raise it about the desk where I deal with my "business stuff" including printing, etc.

    I'm recreating my family trees. It's so much nicer when I can have Family Tree Maker on one screen, and the Ancestry web site on the other screen.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,867

    barbult said:

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    I rode in a Hot Air Balloon this morning at sunrise and then went to the Balloon Museum. In the gift shop I saw Richard Haseltine taking a rather unique balloon ride.

    Ah, air-skiing. Though I gather I should have used a speed boat, not a speed moke. 

    I had to research what a "moke" is. You Brits have a strange vocabulary - strange to me anyway.

    "Origin unknown" according to the Concise Oxford, and apparently it is used in Australia to mean a very poor horse rather than a donkey. I would have guessed it to be a US term, I can just pictue a grizzled prospector using it to describe his donkey or mule 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,225
    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    I rode in a Hot Air Balloon this morning at sunrise and then went to the Balloon Museum. In the gift shop I saw Richard Haseltine taking a rather unique balloon ride.

    Ah, air-skiing. Though I gather I should have used a speed boat, not a speed moke. 

    I had to research what a "moke" is. You Brits have a strange vocabulary - strange to me anyway.

    "Origin unknown" according to the Concise Oxford, and apparently it is used in Australia to mean a very poor horse rather than a donkey. I would have guessed it to be a US term, I can just pictue a grizzled prospector using it to describe his donkey or mule 

    The Internet tells "In the United States, "moke" is a modern slang term for a mixture of cannabis and tobacco, usually smoked out of a bong or water pipe.". I've never heard of that, though.
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,231

    I really wanted a Mini Moke when I was young but everyone talked me out of it saying it was unsafe

    I eventually ended up riding motorscooters even in my 50's so probably safer than that

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 458

    To Mini fanatics everywhere (myself included)  "Moke" is also the name of a car that can be built using a Mini as the donor vehicle.  It's called the Mini Moke (second Image).  I should stress that when I say "Mini", I'm referring strictly to the famous British original designed by Sir Alec Issigonis (first Image), not the German abomination that appeared many decades later when Bayerische Motor Works (BMW) sucked-up the name from Rover.

     

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  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 458

    Just missed Wendy's post, but it figures since the original Mini was popular in Australia, and that will have created an interest in the Moke.
     

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,871
    The groundsman at my junior school had a mini moke. He bombed about in it in summer and used his collection of tractors in winter. Only if the weather was foul did he use his canvas topped short wheelbase Landrover. Fantastic vehicles. Regards, Richard
  • backgroundbackground Posts: 918

    I believe the Mini Moke was developed with the idea of it being a light weight military vehicle, possibly suitable for airborne troops, but it was rejected by the military because of its low ground clearance.

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 458
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    @OtherRichard
    Sporty little beast the Classic Mini, so a Moke is gonna inherit that to a large extent and be fun to drive.  There's actually a whole bunch of kit cars than can be built from the Classic Mini, including one called the Mini Hustler (see attached), which to me looks like something out of 60s/70s Sci-Fi.

    A groundsman could have used it in the rain, and I suppose even Wendy would have been better off with a Hustler.  Plenty of space for shopping, and just imagine how many cats she could fit in the back of that!!!

    @background
    Crazy stuff, I'm amazed they even considered it for such a thing  :-D


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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,231
    edited 5:10PM

    Australia had the Purvis Eureka kit car that used a Volkwagon Beetle chassis as it's base

    considerably more affordable for 3DIO than a Lamborgini though somewhat slower

    apparently good for EV conversions these days as lightweight 

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  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,678
    edited 5:29PM

    Those cars look great.

    Hope you don't mind I share some good news.

    I was talking to some of my friends at lunch. One of the ladies said she liked rain. I said "I hate the rain," and told the ladies about a book of children's poetry I'd written around 1997.

    I had posted some of my poetry on an Internet Usegroup. One lady reached out to me. 

    We met, and felt a strong connection. I eventually moved in with her and her two daughters, aged 8 and 10.

    I wrote the book of poetry with them in mind. It was the first time I'd written that many poems that rhymed.

    I printed out the book recently, and shared it with some friends. Now I'm thinking about doing some illustrations to go with the book.

    Of course I get an anxiety attack thinking of it.

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