I guess if I put that picture on my gate it might scare the UPS driver away......can't have that!
That would be like a gravesite at the gate with a tombstone that says "The Last Person Who Bothered Me".
Actually up nearby ridge here, at the dead end of a long gravel road is a property. A big sign on the gate says :
"Your GPS is wrong. Yes it actually is. Don't ask. Just go back. I really mean that."
Whatever the original issue was, the road now gets more traffic from people wanting to see and photograph the sign. Word has gotten around you see. But for me I have seen the photos and am happy not to attend in order to verify. This I feel is one of the more definitive DO NOT TOUCH THE WET PAINT signs in This Universe & very much without the usual "except for me" subclause. [ ... plucking of dueling banjos in the background ... ]
Quote:
Mike, you mean I have to put up with this altered reality for as much as two years?
Errr .... that's the normal course of events, yes. To be sure I did eventually bother to look up the instructions. To be thorough. It would seem that if you take more "aspirin" in the meantime it exponentiates : two realities/years becomes four, four realities/years becomes eight, eight realities/years becomes ....
I'm just sayin' :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I have a new, (used), cruncher just added. (Prometheus) It is a Pentium E5200 dual core 2.5 GHz system with Win 7 Pro x64, 8 GB RAM - (256 MB reserved for on board graphics, not used), and an EVGA NVIDIA GTX275 with 896 MB GDDR3 RAM.
It's on a micro-ATX board inside an Antec full size tower. (I think I need to go into the BIOS and turn off the on board video to free that 256 MB RAM... The on board card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9400.)
The system was donated to me. I added the OS, a SATA DVD drive, a SATA hard drive, a CoolerMaster CPU heatsink and fan, and a 4-Port USB Hub. So, in essence, I paid about $100 for a free system. I was also given a 17" HP w17e monitor with speakers by a second donor.
Prometheus is circa 2008/2009 and the GTX275 is circa 2009. The Antec case; however, may be much newer. I was told by Central Computers that I could use it for a new system with water cooling... (When/If I ever get enough money for a high end new system...)
That would be like a gravesite at the gate with a tombstone that says "The Last Person Who Bothered Me".
Actually up nearby ridge here, at the dead end of a long gravel road is a property. A big sign on the gate says :
"Your GPS is wrong. Yes it actually is. Don't ask. Just go back. I really mean that."
Cheers, Mike.
Mine is the typical *No Trespassing or face prosecution*
And the gate is 300ft from my house and made of steel 8ft tall and 16ft wide and weighs 900lbs.
Hey guess what Mike?
*Duck You Sucker* is on here in 10 minutes on Encore Westerns channel
It has taken me not only all afternoon but also all evening to read this thread.
Responding to random things in reverse order as I go back looking for the bits I vaguely remember wanting to respond to:
Mike:
Seriously, has no one yet said The Grape Escape?
Annie:
What have you got against whit? It's a perfectly good word. It describes the amount of common sense that most of us don't have, especially after reading your wit.
tbret:
Among the other things Annie is responsible for is a tremendous lack of productivity in my job.
Mikey:
I have only flown twice in my life. In 1975, my grandmother took me to Disney World. I was 8 at the time. It was the first of annual summer vacations we took until I graduated from high school at 17. Most of the rest were by train. Clarification: by twice, I mean two round trips. The second time was when we returned to Disney in 1980, just after I hit puberty (with the result that I was constantly trying to see into the shirt of every female in the park who had anything in there worth looking at, even on the teacup ride). Okay, and somewhere in between those, we took a helicopter tour of St. Louis. Not sure I would do that now. (If you're wondering why we didn't take the train to Disney, she didn't know in 75 that I would want to, and the Floridian was one of the victims of the discontinuances of 1979. To get from Chicago to Florida now, you have to go to Washington and change trains.)
Chris:
Thanks for ruining one of the last bits of my childhood innocence.
Bill:
Nice work, but locomotives do not float (except on barges and ships). Neither do posters of Alfred E. Neuman, and I definitely appear to be off the side of the tugboat.
Magic:
Thanks for reminding me why I don't switch to satellite.
Back to Annie:
When I guessed Einstein, I was being semi-facetious. Or I thought you were going for the hidden-in-plain-sight [term I can't think of right now because I should have gone to sleep over an hour ago]. Or something like that. Point is, Oppy did not fit the same criteria as Albert. (For no particular reason, I am reminded of this.)
Pictures:
I am completely, and yet not at all, surprised to see that Bernd looks like that. Nice to see some of you others too.
That appears to cover everything back to my early morning nauseating pain. (Did I mention that half way to the hospital, I had to pull over and throw up?)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I did a search on my GPS for that property. It is ( still ) mapped as having the road going right through the property to join up with another down the hill, around 500m away. So I reckon that's your back story right there.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: I guess if I put that
)
That would be like a gravesite at the gate with a tombstone that says "The Last Person Who Bothered Me".
Actually up nearby ridge here, at the dead end of a long gravel road is a property. A big sign on the gate says :
"Your GPS is wrong. Yes it actually is. Don't ask. Just go back. I really mean that."
Whatever the original issue was, the road now gets more traffic from people wanting to see and photograph the sign. Word has gotten around you see. But for me I have seen the photos and am happy not to attend in order to verify. This I feel is one of the more definitive DO NOT TOUCH THE WET PAINT signs in This Universe & very much without the usual "except for me" subclause. [ ... plucking of dueling banjos in the background ... ]
Errr .... that's the normal course of events, yes. To be sure I did eventually bother to look up the instructions. To be thorough. It would seem that if you take more "aspirin" in the meantime it exponentiates : two realities/years becomes four, four realities/years becomes eight, eight realities/years becomes ....
I'm just sayin' :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Good afternoon everyone.
)
Good afternoon everyone. :-)
I have a new, (used), cruncher just added. (Prometheus) It is a Pentium E5200 dual core 2.5 GHz system with Win 7 Pro x64, 8 GB RAM - (256 MB reserved for on board graphics, not used), and an EVGA NVIDIA GTX275 with 896 MB GDDR3 RAM.
It's on a micro-ATX board inside an Antec full size tower. (I think I need to go into the BIOS and turn off the on board video to free that 256 MB RAM... The on board card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9400.)
The system was donated to me. I added the OS, a SATA DVD drive, a SATA hard drive, a CoolerMaster CPU heatsink and fan, and a 4-Port USB Hub. So, in essence, I paid about $100 for a free system. I was also given a 17" HP w17e monitor with speakers by a second donor.
Prometheus is circa 2008/2009 and the GTX275 is circa 2009. The Antec case; however, may be much newer. I was told by Central Computers that I could use it for a new system with water cooling... (When/If I ever get enough money for a high end new system...)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
Looks Great there Scott
)
Looks Great there Scott !
Bill
RE: That would be like a
)
Mine is the typical *No Trespassing or face prosecution*
And the gate is 300ft from my house and made of steel 8ft tall and 16ft wide and weighs 900lbs.
Hey guess what Mike?
*Duck You Sucker* is on here in 10 minutes on Encore Westerns channel
It has taken me not only all
)
It has taken me not only all afternoon but also all evening to read this thread.
Responding to random things in reverse order as I go back looking for the bits I vaguely remember wanting to respond to:
Mike:
Seriously, has no one yet said The Grape Escape?
Annie:
What have you got against whit? It's a perfectly good word. It describes the amount of common sense that most of us don't have, especially after reading your wit.
tbret:
Among the other things Annie is responsible for is a tremendous lack of productivity in my job.
Mikey:
I have only flown twice in my life. In 1975, my grandmother took me to Disney World. I was 8 at the time. It was the first of annual summer vacations we took until I graduated from high school at 17. Most of the rest were by train. Clarification: by twice, I mean two round trips. The second time was when we returned to Disney in 1980, just after I hit puberty (with the result that I was constantly trying to see into the shirt of every female in the park who had anything in there worth looking at, even on the teacup ride). Okay, and somewhere in between those, we took a helicopter tour of St. Louis. Not sure I would do that now. (If you're wondering why we didn't take the train to Disney, she didn't know in 75 that I would want to, and the Floridian was one of the victims of the discontinuances of 1979. To get from Chicago to Florida now, you have to go to Washington and change trains.)
Chris:
Thanks for ruining one of the last bits of my childhood innocence.
Bill:
Nice work, but locomotives do not float (except on barges and ships). Neither do posters of Alfred E. Neuman, and I definitely appear to be off the side of the tugboat.
Magic:
Thanks for reminding me why I don't switch to satellite.
Back to Annie:
When I guessed Einstein, I was being semi-facetious. Or I thought you were going for the hidden-in-plain-sight [term I can't think of right now because I should have gone to sleep over an hour ago]. Or something like that. Point is, Oppy did not fit the same criteria as Albert. (For no particular reason, I am reminded of this.)
Pictures:
I am completely, and yet not at all, surprised to see that Bernd looks like that. Nice to see some of you others too.
That appears to cover everything back to my early morning nauseating pain. (Did I mention that half way to the hospital, I had to pull over and throw up?)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: Mike: Seriously, has no
)
Spoiler. I was keeping that one for further on. Damn .... :-)
I'll have to go with Planet of The Grapes now ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Why don't you like satellite
)
Why don't you like satellite David?
I have loved mine since 1983
(watching *Duck You Sucker* right now)
I did a search on my GPS for
)
I did a search on my GPS for that property. It is ( still ) mapped as having the road going right through the property to join up with another down the hill, around 500m away. So I reckon that's your back story right there.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Yeah these days we can use
)
Yeah these days we can use google satellite map and look at peoples house and cars around the world.
I have looked at my place from the sky many times to see if they update the picture.
City pics really zoom in better than places like where I am.
Never had a GPS in a car but people have found my driveway when they are making a delivery over here.
on the train to Mesa Verde!
(just noticed that Rod Steiger and James Coburn actually died 4 months apart in 2002)
Nice new avatar there, Magic.
)
Nice new avatar there, Magic. I think that is Mr Tesla. In his reading* room perhaps ?
One of Rod Steiger's best was in Dr Zhivago I think.
Cheers, Mike.
* For myself, I find I can't really focus on a good book without a spot of high voltage arcing.
( edit ) Yes, The Google Van hasn't come around our place for some five years at least. We still have the old gate on.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal