The Onion's take on St. Patrick's day here in the US...

(www.theonion.com)

Tonight is gonna be a good night.

bigasspicture.com

This domain may be for sale!

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Yankees, Rangers payroll disparity largest in playoff history...

http://gossipsports.com/?p=684

A couple fun tidbits from the article...

The difference between Alex Rodriguez (Yankees’ highest-paid player) and Michael Young (Rangers’ highest-paid) is Mark Teixeira.

Re: The Rangers’ five highest-paid players. Cliff Lee, Cristian Guzman and Jorge Cantu were just picked up this summer via trade. Rich Harden was released four days ago.

For the price of Alex Rodriguez, you could sign every Texas Ranger except the six highest paid.

The difference between the Yankees payroll and the Rangers payroll is the Cubs payroll. The Cubs have the third-highest payroll in baseball.

I'm with Pete, glad to see the Rangers advancing and hope they beat the Yanks. Not just because I don't like the Yankees but because having Cliff Lee pitch against Roy Halladay in the World Series would be fantastic. Phils will win it all regardless of who they face, they're better than they were 2 years ago when they won.

Let's not even start arguing about overturning Row vs. Wade!

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

-Kurt Vonnegut

I'm actually using v7.1, just haven't updated my profile here since the upgrade.

I see how the bamboo model is constructed and understand that the lines can't form a face. I guess my question is what do I to to my model so edges will show? Thee's got to be a trick, right? There aren't that many buildings and the 2D trees are common, the ones that come included w/SU.

Thanks for staying with me on this.

Thanks for the explanation, I guess that makes sense. I think I know what you mean by 'stand alone edges'. Any tricks for getting them to export? The trees are components and each building is a group. Do I need to remove the edges from each group and put them in their own group or on their own layer?

I've been exporting my model from SU to GE using the 'Place Model' button and all I'm getting to show in GE is the faces. I've looked around in both applications for a setting that is either not sending them or not displaying them and no luck so far. I've got a bunch of 2D trees in the model (on their own layer) that I'm trying to include and the only part of those that show up are the pine trees that have faces, their edges don't show in GE. Other trees, all of which have faces and edges, don't show up at all. I'm modeling in the Google Earth style just for simplicity's sake. Any wisdom out there?

Thanks.

the redneck tubetop

We've all seen the lighter side of what happens when tech like this is misunderstood, like the commercial where the a guy's buddy throws his controller through his flat screen TV. The Wii has warnings all over it about whacking stuff around you with the controller. So what happens when the controller is your whole body? Get people running all over their living room looking at the TV instead of where they're going and watch the hilarity ensue!

The Onion, slashdot, and I can't believe nobody said Facebook yet.

LIDAR in the palm of my hand, I love it.