On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:51:38 -0500, John VanSickle 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.
> 
> Then my subconscious must be convinced that I will never be in a crisis
> situation.  All of my dreams recently have involved living an ordinary
> life in an ordinary place, doing ordinary things.

Maybe it's just that you don't remember the trials.  :-)

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

LOL!

Jim

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Invisible wrote:
> Oh, and in other news, apparently there was an earth quake last night...

Probably 'shopped, but amusing nonetheless

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/13/1204118301/etchasketchquake.jpg

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          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:48:35 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> English has an expression "you come from the wrong side of the tracks", 
> i.e., you grew up in the poor neighborhood close to the noisy railroad 
> tracks, unlike us rich snobby folks.
>
> You don't even need to be particularly close to the tracks. I was in a 
> dorm room in university about two blocks away, and when the train with 4 
> locomotives pulling 450 cars behind it hit the horn, it set off the car 
> alarms for like 3 blocks.

I lived my childhood in a vicinity of the railroads, and I grew fond of
the sound of trains, and of the railroad announcements. It took me a long
time to forget how I missed those sounds when I moved.

-- 
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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.

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                                                          - Warp

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Tim Attwood wrote:

> I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
> dripping wet in just my undies =) 

Thanks for the mental image. That's just how I wanted to start my work 
day... :-}

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> Maybe it's just that you don't remember the trials.  :-)
> 
>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...

...no, I think he remembers the trails!

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>> 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.

Or just look at the URL.  The b3ta board is a place to show off your 
humour/photoshop skills.  Just look at last weeks challenge:

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/scientology/

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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...

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>> 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...

You've been reading too much XKCD. ;-)

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Invisible 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...
> 
> You've been reading too much XKCD. ;-)

Maybe (and it's all your fault), but this happened years ago...

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> You know how sometimes you're just laying in bed trying to go to sleep, 
>> and suddenly you get that feeling like you're falling really fast just 
>> for a split second? I really hate that. Makes me jump out of my skin... 
>> but then of course you realise you only imagined it.
> 
>   Blog... ;)
> 

stop picking on him ;-)

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Invisible escribió:
> Tim Attwood wrote:
> 
>> I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
>> dripping wet in just my undies =) 
> 
> Thanks for the mental image. That's just how I wanted to start my work 
> day... :-}
> 

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/27/funny-pictures-cannot-be-unseen/

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And lo on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:21:13 -0000, St. <dot### [at] dotcom> did spake,  
saying:

>
> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:47c556e3@news.povray.org...
>
>
>>       Yeah, you would have felt it more than me, I think. It felt like a
>> gentle rumble for about 5 seconds.
>
>     I think I should explain the above further. I was lying on the settee
> watching the telly when it hit, and I thought, "Why is the telly looking
> jerky?" But I finally came to the assumption that it was 'me' that moved!
> Lying on three soft cushions, I felt it more I guess(?!) I *think* I  
> heard
> it too - that rumble. Not sure. Some said it sounded like a deeper (read:
> massive) thunder rumble. I'll go with that if they were closer than me.
> Think about it though; that's giant rock structures/formations  
> underneath us
> having a bit of a wobble. Ah, you gotta love Mother Nature...  :o/
>
>     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.

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.

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And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> 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...

[Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]

Dream-wise it's been pretty quiet in my head recently (which is a good  
thing) I didn't even get anything out of the sudden awakening due to  
earthquake. Currently I go to bed, everything goes dark, then everything  
goes light as I wake up and wait a couple of minutes for my alarm to go  
off... I guess the alien abductors have switched to a different formula :-P

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Phil Cook

--
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Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 -0000, Bill Pragnell 
> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
>> 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...
> 
> [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]

I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was effective!

> Dream-wise it's been pretty quiet in my head recently (which is a good 
> thing) I didn't even get anything out of the sudden awakening due to 
> earthquake. Currently I go to bed, everything goes dark, then everything 
> goes light as I wake up and wait a couple of minutes for my alarm to go 
> off... I guess the alien abductors have switched to a different formula :-P

Have a stilton nightcap. Guaranteed to get hot and cold running 
dinosaurs in both frontal lobes.

:)

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And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:20:24 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
>> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
>>> 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...
>>  [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]
>
> I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was effective!

I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in Charge  
of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.

>> Dream-wise it's been pretty quiet in my head recently (which is a good  
>> thing) I didn't even get anything out of the sudden awakening due to  
>> earthquake. Currently I go to bed, everything goes dark, then  
>> everything goes light as I wake up and wait a couple of minutes for my  
>> alarm to go off... I guess the alien abductors have switched to a  
>> different formula :-P
>
> Have a stilton nightcap. Guaranteed to get hot and cold running  
> dinosaurs in both frontal lobes.
>
> :)

Ah, so that's where I've been going right.

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Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:20:24 -0000, Bill Pragnell 
> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 -0000, Bill Pragnell 
>>> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
>>>> 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...
>>>  [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]
>>
>> I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was effective!
> 
> I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in 
> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.

Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous 
no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at 
home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "

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And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:56:04 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:20:24 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
>> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>>> And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
>>>> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
>>>>> 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...
>>>>  [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]
>>>
>>> I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was  
>>> effective!
>>  I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in  
>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>
> Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous  
> no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at  
> home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "

Oo I could feature as one of the 'victims' - 'I slipped on the floor at  
work and got a big fat payout leaving my company bankrupt and my  
colleagues unemployed'

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:56:04 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>Phil Cook wrote:

>> I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in 
>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>
>Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous 
>no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at 
>home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "

You both might wish to purchase some of my live dinosaur repellent powder. I can
almost guarantee that it works.
I have been running a trial in Piccadilly Circus for the last five years and
there has been no reports of live dinosaurs recently.

Regards
	Stephen

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Phil Cook wrote:
>>>>>  [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was 
>>>> effective!
>>>  I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in 
>>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>>
>> Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous 
>> no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at 
>> home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "
> 
> Oo I could feature as one of the 'victims' - 'I slipped on the floor at 
> work and got a big fat payout leaving my company bankrupt and my 
> colleagues unemployed'

You mean you slipped whilst attempting to roundhouse the aforementioned 
slavering sauropod? Or just generally? What the hell, you ain't gotta 
work for six months either way - moneymoneymoneymoney

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Warp wrote:
>   What do you mean "probably"? 

I mean it seemed so outrageous that I didn't even *try* to figure out 
whether it was 'shopped. Not being a graphics professional, it actually 
takes me effort to find inconsistencies in such things.

Now, ask me to crash a program, and I'm right on it. ;-)

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:24:51 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>>>>>>  [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was  
>>>>> effective!
>>>>  I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in  
>>>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous  
>>> no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at  
>>> home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "
>>  Oo I could feature as one of the 'victims' - 'I slipped on the floor  
>> at work and got a big fat payout leaving my company bankrupt and my  
>> colleagues unemployed'
>
> You mean you slipped whilst attempting to roundhouse the aforementioned  
> slavering sauropod?

Yeah my company failed to buy any of Stephen's dinosaur repellent powder  
to match that tiger repelling stone that sits in the front office.

> Or just generally? What the hell, you ain't gotta work for six months  
> either way - moneymoneymoneymoney

You've got to know what's most important in life.

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Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:56:04 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Phil Cook wrote:
> 
>>> I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in 
>>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>> Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous 
>> no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at 
>> home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "
> 
> You both might wish to purchase some of my live dinosaur repellent powder. I can
> almost guarantee that it works.
> I have been running a trial in Piccadilly Circus for the last five years and
> there has been no reports of live dinosaurs recently.

Hey, no fair! That's just my basilisk repellent powder, painted blue, in 
   a tin marked 'dinosaur repellent'!

damn you

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"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.


>
> 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. 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.  ;)

    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...

     ~Steve~



>
> -- 
> Phil Cook
>
> --
> I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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St. wrote:
>     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...

I'm only guessing, but I expect the local noise and effects depend 
entirely on what sort of ground you have under you, what sort of 
buildings you have around you and so on.

To put it another way, dropping the brass section and the percussion 
section off a cliff would make very different noises! :)

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:03:49 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>
>Hey, no fair! That's just my basilisk repellent powder, painted blue, in 
>   a tin marked 'dinosaur repellent'!

*Your* basilisk repellent powder? Well I'll have you know I stole it from Tommy
Cooper twenty years ago delving deep on a BBS. He proved to me his shark
repellent worked wonders in central London. 
On a tangent, my claim to fame is that we shared the same doctor. I only got the
left foot though :)

>damn you

Too late. Why this is Hell nor am I out of it.
(Second time this month :)
 

Regards
	Stephen

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
>
> 
> To put it another way, dropping the brass section and the percussion
> section off a cliff would make very different noises! :)

I was wondering what to do this weekend. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

John

-- 
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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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Tim Attwood wrote:
>>> Heh, I was wondering how things were over there. "An earthquake near 
>>> London" was not something I expected to hear. Glad you're OK, though.
>> Well, apparently it's "the biggest earthquake in almost 25 years" (so 
>> that's, what, 24 years then?)
>>
>> And I guess Lincolnshire is near to London for suitable definition of 
>> "near"... ;-)
> 
> I was at the epicenter of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001 (6.8),
> had a hutch tip over and break the glassware and doors.
> It sounded like a train went through the house.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_Earthquake
> I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
> dripping wet in just my undies =) 
> 
I was in queenstown during the 7.1 earthquake of August 22nd 2003. About 
100 km from the epicenter. It was IIRC just after midnight, lying in 
bed. I first felt something like a truck passing by. Could not be 
because we were in a dead end street. It gradually built up until we 
were shaking 20-30 cm in every direction in our bed. It felt like being 
in a bus with bad suspension on a very bad road driving much to fast, 
only in bed. Because it was so gradually, when we decided that this was 
too much and that we should go outside, the floor was shaking so much 
that that was not an option. Next day when I got outside, I looked 
around at the mountains and realized that they too had been shaking the 
same amount in every direction. I knew that earthquakes often happen 
miles below ground and that they must move a bit of rock, but standing 
there suddenly made me realize what that really meant.

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>>     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...
>
> I'm only guessing, but I expect the local noise and effects depend 
> entirely on what sort of ground you have under you, what sort of buildings 
> you have around you and so on.


   That makes sense to me.



>
> To put it another way, dropping the brass section and the percussion 
> section off a cliff would make very different noises! :)

     Heh, yes, true. :)


     ~Steve~

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:18:49 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>> Maybe it's just that you don't remember the trials.  :-)
>> 
>>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...
> 
> ...no, I think he remembers the trails!

But not the 'trials'. :-)

Jim

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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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                                                          - Warp

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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.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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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.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com

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>> ...no, I think he remembers the trails!
> 
> But not the 'trials'. :-)

GGAAAH!!! >_<

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Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:03:49 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hey, no fair! That's just my basilisk repellent powder, painted blue, in 
>>   a tin marked 'dinosaur repellent'!
> 
> *Your* basilisk repellent powder? Well I'll have you know I stole it from Tommy
> Cooper twenty years ago delving deep on a BBS. He proved to me his shark
> repellent worked wonders in central London. 

Could have sworn I got mine from a heavily-modified Spike Milligan 
Elephant Poison. Ah well.

> On a tangent, my claim to fame is that we shared the same doctor. I only got the
> left foot though :)

Not bad.

"Hello? Is that the local swimming baths?"  "That depends on where 
you're calling from sir"

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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:44:18 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>
>"Hello? Is that the local swimming baths?"  "That depends on where 
>you're calling from sir"

LOL :-)

Regards
	Stephen

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Warp wrote:
> 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.

POV is too hard to crash. Quality is too high. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Darren New wrote:

> POV is too hard to crash. Quality is too high. :-)

Don't be daft. A few seconds with a hex editor should be all it takes... ;-)

-- 
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Darren New wrote:
> POV is too hard to crash. Quality is too high. :-)

More precisely, in *this* case I know a whole range of techniques to 
try. But since I don't really even have spare time for my own projects, 
trying out all the techniques on POV is beyond what I have time for. :-)

Plus, I expect it would be fruitless.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:14:23 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> ...no, I think he remembers the trails!
>> 
>> But not the 'trials'. :-)
> 
> GGAAAH!!! >_<

LOL!

Jim

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:14:27 -0500, John VanSickle wrote:

> 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.

Stranger things *have* happened - just look at the history of the LDS 
Church...

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

LOL!

Jim

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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:43:04 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> POV is too hard to crash. Quality is too high. :-)
> 
> Don't be daft. A few seconds with a hex editor should be all it takes...
> ;-)

Ah, but modified binaries aren't supported ;-)

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:

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

Dreams of stuffed alligators reminds me of this site:

http://www.parapluesch.de/

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