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The T 
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 17:50 |
 Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
The T wrote:
People park and drive like idiots here in FL. I can bet all my wealth (not that the winner will get out of poverty anyway) that the worst drivers in the world were sent here to the personality-less state.
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I've driven in Florida and while they are bad by US standards they have nothing on Greeks, Tunisian, Italians and Parisians.
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You never been in Lima Perú
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 17:30 |
The T wrote:
People park and drive like idiots here in FL. I can bet all my wealth (not that the winner will get out of poverty anyway) that the worst drivers in the world were sent here to the personality-less state.
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I've driven in Florida and while they are bad by US standards they have nothing on Greeks, Tunisian, Italians and Parisians.
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Ian
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Dean
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 16:57 |
The Doctor wrote:
Here everyone drives around as if they are stoned (which I'm guessing they often are - this is Austin after all) or are mentally in a dimension where there are no other cars around. And whoever times the traffic lights here should be strung up by their ........... after being told they will be let down once the light changes to green. And then it never changes to green.  |
The American love affair with traffic lights are the one reason why a manual gearbox would be pointless option on an American car - lights change to green, into 1st gear, pull away, about to shift into 2nd and ah, no, another set of lights and they're red, slow down to a dead stop, handbrake on, knock it into neutral and sit back watch your fingernails grow while waiting for them to change to green, and so on ad infinitum until you've traversed the 10 blocks from your hotel to Pappasito's Cantina in a demented game of traffic light leapfrog, bt which time you're no longer hungry because you've gnawed through most of the foam & plastic off the dashboard facia. What you guys need to do is invent the roundabout, however to avoid confusion I guess you'd need to call it the Trunk Road Automotive Gyaratory Interchange Carousel or somesuch.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 16:30 |
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Green has been diluted in Aalborg. Makes me infuriated.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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The Doctor
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 15:52 |
Here everyone drives around as if they are stoned (which I'm guessing they often are - this is Austin after all) or are mentally in a dimension where there are no other cars around. And whoever times the traffic lights here should be strung up by their ........... after being told they will be let down once the light changes to green. And then it never changes to green.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 15:47 |
^ Because it's filled with retirees?  
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The T
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 14:47 |
People park and drive like idiots here in FL. I can bet all my wealth (not that the winner will get out of poverty anyway) that the worst drivers in the world were sent here to the personality-less state.
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Finnforest
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 14:36 |
Dean wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Light polution is a problem here too for general stargazing, but a few hours north...incredible, even with the naked eye. Getting a decent to good telescope is on my bucket list for someday, one of several hobbies I'd like to pursue to get me away from computer monitors...theoretically.... |
I made the mistake of getting too ambitious too soon - the bigger and more complicated the telescope the less you'll use it because it's such a faff getting it out and setting it up. I use a small pair of binos more than my small telescope and I use my small telescope more than my larger newtonian reflector. A small spec of light 40 light years away still looks like a small spec of light when magnified 400 times and the Orion nebula looks like a tiny smudge on every amateur telescope no matter how much you spend. Unfortunately we're spoilt by quality professional photographs, Hubble and the wonders of Sci-Fi cgi images so our expectations can be bigger than the reality of what we can achieve in our own backyards with a $300 telescope.
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Mmm....thanks for the tip, makes sense. And yes, watching my Hubble DVD along with Stargate probably has inflated my expectations... 
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:31 |
The Doctor wrote:
Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here? This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room. Get mad or get out!  |
My bad.
Or let me rephrase that: I'd like to see the people who dress up children in those Little Miss Perfect contests to be paraded out on the street and receive a good public violation by a series of enraged and horny giraffes.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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The Doctor
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:30 |
Dean wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here? This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room. Get mad or get out! |
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...what I meant was...
" What I should have bought first was a  ucking good pair of astronomical binoculars!"  |
Much better. 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Dean
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:28 |
The Doctor wrote:
Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here? This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room. Get mad or get out! |
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...what I meant was...
" What I should have bought first was a ucking good pair of astronomical binoculars!"
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Padraic
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:22 |
Dear Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
Go die in a fire.
Sincerely, Pat
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Dean
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:21 |
Finnforest wrote:
Light polution is a problem here too for general stargazing, but a few hours north...incredible, even with the naked eye. Getting a decent to good telescope is on my bucket list for someday, one of several hobbies I'd like to pursue to get me away from computer monitors...theoretically.... |
I made the mistake of getting too ambitious too soon - the bigger and more complicated the telescope the less you'll use it because it's such a faff getting it out and setting it up. I use a small pair of binos more than my small telescope and I use my small telescope more than my larger newtonian reflector. A small spec of light 40 light years away still looks like a small spec of light when magnified 400 times and the Orion nebula looks like a tiny smudge on every amateur telescope no matter how much you spend. Unfortunately we're spoilt by quality professional photographs, Hubble and the wonders of Sci-Fi cgi images so our expectations can be bigger than the reality of what we can achieve in our own backyards with a $300 telescope.
What I should have bought first was a good pair of astronomical binoculars.
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The Doctor
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:15 |
Hey, hey, hey?! Aren't we supposed to all be angry here? This is the "ranting room" not the "peace, love and happiness" room. Get mad or get out!
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 12:10 |
Yeah well, we can all hope eh? I have a lot of things I'd really like to do one day, seeing the neon light sea of jellyfish in Fiji, climb Kilimanjaro, trip to Goa - all that and the list is loooong. I truly hope some of it happens one day. Main problem is finance though. I'm too fond of music...
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Finnforest
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:54 |
Light polution is a problem here too for general stargazing, but a few hours north...incredible, even with the naked eye. Getting a decent to good telescope is on my bucket list for someday, one of several hobbies I'd like to pursue to get me away from computer monitors...theoretically....
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:52 |
However it's done, it sure is beautiful.
We get a lot of stars up here in the northern part of Denmark. All you have to do, is venture out beyond the little communities and swoop a huge glistening serpent of light appears on the sky screen. I didn't get anything close to that back when I lived in Copenhagen.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Dean
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:48 |
Sadly I didn't, we don't get to see the depth of the milky way galaxy like that in the South of England due to light polution. Yes, those would be trees, with a fixed camera the long exposure needed would get streaked stars and static trees so the camera must have been on a tracking mount that kept the stars stationary and blurred the treeline. I've yet to try astro-photography with any real determination, I've takes a couple of less than impressive photos of the moon through my telescope and that's about it.
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Finnforest
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 11:39 |
That is awesome Dean, did you shoot that?
Are those trees in the foreground?
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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