On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 +0000, Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the
>> place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis
>> situations.
> 
> Excellent. I once woke myself up whilst trying to fend off an enraged
> velociraptor when my knee connected with the wall. Good to know my
> subconscious has all bases covered...

I've had that thought as well, after all, I'm set to fight off stuffed 
alligators.

Jim

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Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> 200-300 meters *** only *** ?

Yep - not exactly next to, but near enough to get some good vibrations 
occasionally.

> For the real deal see below ;)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWAUAburgLU
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6qBApQBuJY

If the track were that close, I wouldn't have bought the house ;).

> 
> G.
> 


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Jim Henderson wrote:

>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...
> 
> LOL!

Like all dreams, the strange part is that my, let us say, imaginations 
on this topic do not run to having four women at once.  It started with 
three, but at some point I said that I'd rather one of the women be 
replaced by another.  The replacement showed up, but the one to be 
replaced did not leave.

We were still looking for some place where every passer-by could not 
look in on us when I woke up.

Regards,
John

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> Now, ask me to crash a program, and I'm right on it. ;-)
> 

Make Freecell crash on NT or W2k.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Now, ask me to crash a program, and I'm right on it. ;-)

  Crash POV-Ray and make a proper bug report. That would be helpful.

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:30:57 -0500, John VanSickle wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...
>> 
>> LOL!
> 
> Like all dreams, the strange part is that my, let us say, imaginations
> on this topic do not run to having four women at once.  It started with
> three, but at some point I said that I'd rather one of the women be
> replaced by another.  The replacement showed up, but the one to be
> replaced did not leave.
> 
> We were still looking for some place where every passer-by could not
> look in on us when I woke up.

Your brain sounds about as weird as mine.  But only if there was pizza 
involved.

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:30:57 -0500, John VanSickle wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>>>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...
>>> LOL!
>> Like all dreams, the strange part is that my, let us say, imaginations
>> on this topic do not run to having four women at once.  It started with
>> three, but at some point I said that I'd rather one of the women be
>> replaced by another.  The replacement showed up, but the one to be
>> replaced did not leave.
>>
>> We were still looking for some place where every passer-by could not
>> look in on us when I woke up.
> 
> Your brain sounds about as weird as mine.  But only if there was pizza 
> involved.

I'm waiting for a Muslim to start telling me that my dream means that 
the true wish of my heart is to convert to Islam.

Regards,
John

(Seriously, what kind of religion can claim that a man with only one 
penis has need of more than one wife?)

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Probably 'shopped, but amusing nonetheless
> 
>> http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/13/1204118301/etchasketchquake.jpg
> 
>   What do you mean "probably"? Just compare the perspective of the wall
> to the perspective of the tablets.

I am guessing that Photoshop can easily stretch a pasted graphic so that 
the perspective matches, so this would have to go down as How Not to 
Make a Convincing Photoshop Composite.

Regards,
John

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And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:14:50 -0000, St. <dot### [at] dotcom> did spake,  
saying:

>
> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message
> news:op.t68ndylqc3xi7v@news.povray.org...
>> And lo on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:21:13 -0000, St. <dot### [at] dotcom> did spake,
>> saying:
>
>>>     Some places are saying that it was 10 seconds long, but for me it  
>>> was
>>> nowhere near that, (and I felt it from begining to end).
>>
>> People saying it lasted "minutes", people further away from the  
>> epicentre
>> then I talking about how it shook everything... as I've said elsewhere -
>> house went up, house came down.
>
>    Yeah, I read that, nice humorous little read and description as always
> with you Phil.

Thankee kind sir.

>>
>> Really though it was all the news stories that were amusing me. CCTV
>> footage of the event "the camera shakes violently" um take a camera in
>> your hand now gently oscillate it up and down and side-to side; ooh yeah
>> violent.
>
>      Heh, yeah, I noticed that. GMTV were *pleading* with anyone that  
> might have good footage of anything that happened around them.

Oh they were all pleading for pictures and videos.

> Erm, yeah, I'll
> just whip out the video camera, wipe the sleep from my eyes, and shoot a
> house falling down in the street at 1am - all in 10 seconds.  ;)

Well statistically given the number of mobiles out there with video  
footage and the numbers of people out and about at that time someone  
somewhere must have a recording... so please send it in oh and check with  
the T&Cs first that state that doing so means we own your SOUL um footage.

>     What I'm wondering though, is quite a few reports mentioned differing
> effects and noises with the quake, so I'm wondering if quite a few faults
> were involved with this one, or would it have been a much bigger quake if
> that was the case? Hmm...

Well as Bill said ground may have something to do with it, but the teeny  
tiny cynical part of me thinks it has more to do with what people expect  
an earthquake to be like from watching films. I mean if you look at the  
seismic recordings you get rumbles-peak-rumbles; translate over distance  
and all you're going to get is the peak.

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And lo on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:48:07 -0000, John VanSickle  
<evi### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Warp wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> Probably 'shopped, but amusing nonetheless
>>
>>> http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/13/1204118301/etchasketchquake.jpg
>>    What do you mean "probably"? Just compare the perspective of the wall
>> to the perspective of the tablets.
>
> I am guessing that Photoshop can easily stretch a pasted graphic so that  
> the perspective matches, so this would have to go down as How Not to  
> Make a Convincing Photoshop Composite.

Heck if PSP7 can manage to do it... still amusing though.

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Phil Cook

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