Great! Thanks Alan.

A great example of "right place, right time"! Scott

I also started SU about a year ago and first didn't think about earning/making money with it. Yet I got some jobs and did make some money and now I'm thinking of gradually becoming independent from my present (dull, boring and tiring) full time job at the municipality of my home town and working (among others) with SU to make a living. Funny at first... There is also this SketchUp viewer that also lacks a lot of functionalities therefore it cannot really be a good tool for now.

and I bet the code department is a slight easier too

Yeah, I also saw it! (posted in the "membership growing... topic!) You're fast Tom!

Well, we can start counting down: 999

Coen, I finally found out the problem - the cookies from PayPal were banned (?) on my Firefox. Now everything looks fine.

I thought Harrington had lost it when he did not opt for a driver on the last hole and Garcia did. I thought it might even go to sudden death. Very enjoyable to watch. If the missus was watching and she hates golf Mike

Edson, So sorry to hear you were indeed so closely involved with this awful event. Unbelievable sudden sadness...? The initial news report here indicated hydroplaning was the culprit. The new runway wasn't sawcut to limit this (as many around the world aren't), and it was 700' shorter than the 7,000' considered minimum for the aircraft type (as many around the world are also). They showed (on our PBS) evidence the pilot tried to steering the plane into the grass without success (I understand many airports provide concrete crash bunkers to slow the plane quickly and contain the damage...supposedly saving the passengers as well). Unfortunately we won't hear anymore about this unless there is more awful news, so please keep us posted on what develops if you can. My best, Tom.

So motivational, so much energy. thanks John Alan

Holy crap. Shocked There are so many things that could've gone wrong with that setup- that guy must have a deathwish. I wonder what the G's actually were? Jackson

great job Jackson... your sleuth is unbeatable! Krisidious

Ross Mmmm. Now Iwonder if my wife would be happy trying that out in the lounge. Its a bit wet over here at present. I'm sure I read an article in Fine Woodworking years ago about these 'races'. Its sounds like a great day out. cheers Alan.

Ah Juan .... nothing perfect but its close Bryan, be sure to look me up when over the neck of the woods. Mike

I'm in the process of letting one go myself. walkinfurniture dot com. After I finished a cherry Study project back in 2002, and I considered it to be "walk in furniture", I reserved the domain. But, alas, I'm no longer in that line of work. Todd

@anssi said: So nobody remembers MacPaint? It was black and white, and I loved it. The application, together with MacWrite and the operating system fitted on a single 600 Kb floppy, with space left over for documents. The year for me was about 1986-7 Anssi I remember when I grasped the concept of FATBITS. What a revelation! You'd actually manipulate individual picture block thingies! Oh yeah- prixels, right? :ewink:

Thanks for all the info everyone. It was really helpful. I bid the next project as suggested seperately with modeling time and animation. That was VERY good advice. Thanks again!

Thanks Mike, will give it a chop...... A

Thanks for the links Mike. The price is already coming down then. I'm very interested in the prospects of having diy 3d printers but the RapRep project seems still quite rudimentary The fabbers seem to be a bit further on. I've downloaded a free version of Pepakura, a free "model unfolder". Interesting. http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/