portelli wrote:
> 
> True but nothing beats Michigan weather.  Where else can you have it 60
> degrees in the morning and by afternoon have the ground covered by snow?
> 

A small town named Greeley in Colorado where I spent 4 years of
freezing in the winter and smoldering heat in the summer. Of
course while I was there I loved every minute of it.


-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Hi!

Is somebody recording this thread?

It really would be nice to see us all on a map as little red dots or
something (since pin-needles are so hard to transfer over the internet...)
to get an idea of the POV-user distribution all over the world...

Anybody out there with too much time on the hands???

Johannes.

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Phoenix schrieb in Nachricht ...
>'T was on Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:06:36 +0100,
>that Rudy Velthuis wrote:
>> Really? I mean Rudy is simple enough, but here in Germany most people
have
>> big problems understanding my last name at the telephone (to them it
sounds
>> like Welltush) and even more to pronounce my name when they read it. So
"De
>> Ruiter" could be more of a problem than Sietse. Only French speaking
persons
>> would propably pronounce it well.
>
>Forget it. The French can't pronounce even one syllable of my name

>
>As for "De Ruiter"... Well, it's the 'ui' thing again, eh?

For the French speaking, you'd propably have to write "Site-ce de
Roeuilteur" and "Rudi Velthoeuis", but then they would pronounce it more or
less right. The German and the English speakers simply CAN'T (Even if I




--
Rudy

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Margus Ramst schrieb in Nachricht <36cb1a33.0@news.povray.org>...

>Anyway, English speakers mainly have trouble with the "ram", since it's
>pronounced quite differently in Estonian. As far as I know, only Germans
get
>it almost right.

Don't forget us Dutch. We can pronounce almost everything right (this is my
serious opinion). We would pronounce Ramst like the Germans and propably
Scandinavians would. Margus Ramst "sounds" very Scandinavian to me, anyway.

--
Rudy Velthuis

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Ron Parker schrieb in Nachricht <36cb00d4.0@news.povray.org>...
>On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:39:17 +0100, Fabien Mosen wrote:
>>Pov-snobbery : I don't need any dirty modeller to win the IRTC, hehe !
>>(but I like highly specialised tools such as sPatch or SpilinEditor)
>
>sPatch?  Real POV snobs model their bicubics by hand! 

Yep!

>My upcoming IRTC entry has two objects made of bicubics, one with 
>176 patches and one with 200 patches, and an object made from a
>lathe.  I didn't even use graph paper, let alone a modeler.

I use paper sketches, but not graph paper.

-- 
Rudy Velthuis

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Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Having only recently discovered this group, I'm curious as to where you're all from.
> 
> Andy Cocker
> 
> York, England.
> 
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk


Currently i'm in front of my PC. Usually, it stands in my house.
This one, is (up to now) in Bruxelles, Belgium.

That's it.

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I'm having a bit of trouble following all the places listed so far.
Latitude/longitude anyone?

86 degrees 52 minutes West longitude, 34 degrees 32 minutes North
latitude.

However as far as general areas, think I have a mental picture.


Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Is somebody recording this thread?
> 
> It really would be nice to see us all on a map as little red dots or
> something (since pin-needles are so hard to transfer over the internet...)
> to get an idea of the POV-user distribution all over the world...
> 
> Anybody out there with too much time on the hands???
> 
> Johannes.

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I used to live in the terribly named "Gympie", a town in Queensland.  What
kind of a name for a town is that anyway?  It came from some stinging tree I
think...  How apt...  Now I live a little further up along the coast, where
the sun's always out and the water's always great!

--
Lance.


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Well, actually I live higher up on the coast now.  I moved up 6 months ago
and I'm slowly fitting in.  Gympie was a pretty bad place to live, as the
name suggests, it hasn't really got too much going for it...  The floods
were highly over-rated actually.  I have some friends there still which I
keep in contact with through ICQ.  Floods in Gympie are a regular thing, so
no one was surprised... The media just got a hold of the idea that it was
the worst flood in a century (well, it was), and then said it was
devastating for the town, which it really wasn't.  My oldest brother who is
in London at the moment even said that he saw a short story on Gympie's
floods on Sky News!!!  Now I'm living on the coastline of Australia in the
Fraser Island area.  (HINT:  I can see Fraser Island from here).  The
sunsets are great here too.  Oh yeah, and sorry to everyone that I just
disappeared over the last week or two.  I'm back at school now so I don't
get much time to get on the net.  Especially with the homework I'm getting
from the subjects I'm doing!!!

At least I've finished Certificate III in Arts now for Digital Art, that
should take a little pressure off.  Now I've just got to contend with
English, Math B, Math C (they're the the hardest math subjects), Physics,
Information Processing and Technology (programing, artificial intelligence
etc) and Commercial Art and Design (full computer design for me, the other
people in my class have to slave away with Traditional Media, while I get to
use NT workstations ;-).

I'm lucky that the school I'm going to has huge computer orientation.  The
Art computers are great.  They have a network of over 250 computers in the
school with Proxy Internet access and full access to their Intranet (which I
must say needs a facelift).  I've just started another large project for
Commercial Art and Design.  My last project was a 30 seconder fully
generated in MAX.  I've just finished the rendering of the final 720x576 PAL
TV 25-FPS version for output to video through a Perception Drive and Speed
Razor.

My newest project however is a multimedia CD-ROM career guide called
Horizonz.  It's aimed at getting people of my age interested in what they're
actually going to do with the rest of their lives!!!  I've only just started
doing the interface design for it.  There will be 5 interfaces in the
program, all based around specific themes.  It's certainly going to be a
challenge, but of course it will be really fun!!!

The other thing that has kept me from the net the last few days is my Rio
MP3 player.  I've just got it and it's really cool (it's a portable MP3
player about the size of a cassette tape, actually, it's smaller).

So, in conclusion, sorry to everyone that I haven't been online much
lately!!!  Over the next few days I'll be in Brisbane too so I won't be on
(at least not in news groups).  I think I'll be online pretty much all day
today, I'm helping someone beta test their FTP server.

Gee, that was a pretty big message...

Lance (here to stay!!!)


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Bob Hughes wrote:

> That it is.
>
> Bob and Kelly Crispen wrote:
> >
> > Decatur Alabama.  The Heart of Dixie.
> > --
> > Bob Crispen
> > cri### [at] hiwaaynet
> > "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
> > -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
>
> --
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I thought Atlanta, Georgia was the heart of Dixie!

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