Oh, yeah, now that I remember, movies have a refresh rate of 24fps, which is not enough to fully trick your brain into believing what you see is reality, but instead it creates a dreamy atmosphere... I guess I have to stop rendering my videos at 30fps...

I prefer Douglas Adams' take on it. From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: @unknownuser said: “This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.” Cheers.

Just to bring the ongoing saga up to date. I made six more of the hexagonal hubs out of plywood. (As an aside, let me state that it is a lot easier to build things in the virtual world of SketchUp than the real world of saws, drills and wood... and I have the bandaids to prove it.) The jig I built to assist with creating the hubs helped but I'm not able to cut the hexagons to the tolerances really needed to make the jig work well. Anyway, I put everything together yesterday, glued it up and tightened up the bolts. I am quite pleased with the results. I now have a prototype of a structurally solid wooden TIN. I can stand (all 200+ pounds of me) on the center hub and the TIN barely flexes. Next step is to cut triangles for the faces out of 1/2" plywood. [image: vJ9q_IMG_5300.jpg] [image: Vb22_IMG_5298.jpg] [image: Uttk_IMG_5296.jpg]

They're just trying to follow Macs infamous business model of overcharging their faithful customers.

Good fun

Hm. Interesting. I got this doing it without break or anything (note that I'm practically half blind as I have a 90 something % cataract on my right eye and something "unidentified" refracting in my left). [image: 8r5z_ScreenShot005.png] Interestingly, there are mistakes definitely separable in all 4 regions Also I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean: [image: dzB7_ScreenShot006.png] (especially the "highest" score saying 1485 while only 99 on the right of the scale )

I love FFD, Bezier Curved Edges, FreeScale etc etc. Beaucoup Fun!

There is no IQ test for Criminals. We have Nimrods who write demand letters on the backs of their own business cards, checks or phone in bomb threats on their Caller ID phones! What is really interesting is that if you total up the average haul from a bank job and divide that by the number of hours that person spends in prison for the crime, he ends up making about 35 cents and hour. I think I read that somewhere. Morons.

Oh yes, very real. It's at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, no less. The original story can be found here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7718587.stm Talk about fight the good fight.

@thomthom said: @alan fraser said: Tower Bridge is very well done; I guessed it was CG only because The Tower of London isn’t floodlit in the background. To me, it was the repeating texture of the bridge foundation where it meets the water that immediately stood out. Me, it was the fact that a lot of the beams from the lights were completely out-of place, and very similar, and the bridge even seemed out of place from the background.

the notes after the end: The characters and incidents portrayed and the names in this movie are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person or company is entirely coincidental and unintentional and please do not sue us for we are nothing more than starving artists with no money. This film is a work of pure fiction and has no correspondence to historical facts or the buddhist religion.

I'm so embarrassed... I seem to have a hand for making threads go completely off-topic!

I can personally verify the attached as I took the photo of a menu outside a restaurant in Kobe a few months ago. I quite admired their logic, they obviously realised they were unable to translate it correctly, so if in doubt why be specific? [image: niFh_DeepFriedThing.jpg] Japanese bar names are a treasure trove of absolutely bizarre English- pretty much every single building entrance in any Japanese downtown area is plastered with dozens of signs for a plethora of tiny bars hidden away on upper floors. Almost without exception the bars have English names even though non-Japanese are often unwelcome and as even a small city has probably tens of thousands of these miniscule drinking dens they have to be very imaginative to come up with anything original.... very imaginative indeed. http://gaijintonic.com/2007/05/21/bizarre-bar-names/

Definitely cool (however it's been here already)

thank you sooo much. The last time someone referred to me as rank . .it wasn't a good thing

Check the website of the software maker, and look for local dealers.

@unknownuser said: By 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species" As long as I get to play Neo... By the year 2049 I hope to able to still be strong enough yell at kids to get the h*ll off of my LAWN!!! And not pee myself.

"We kill for you" funny! I wonder if we mention these kinds of words in a topic what the ads will end up as

@solo said: You know you are from Texas when.... ~Finally, you are 100% Texan if you have ever heard this conversation: "You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper." Damn right!

If i remember correctly your sent an automated password to log in with which you can then change once youve logged in. You can copy and paste the password that was emailed to you in for extra ease.