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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
On Jul 4, 2020, Ken Hart wrote
(in article ): On 7/2/20 12:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 2, 2020, nospam wrote (in ) : In , John McWilliams wrote: ...and here is the promised Morro Bay video. As I said above, it was shot at 4K 60fps, ISO100, SS 1/120, with an ND16+CPL filter. Rendered using iMovie. https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work/i-XVQXqpV/0/0ad11a2c/1920/MB-701-4K60-1920.mp4 Twice "Video playback aborted due to a network error" :-( Perhaps you need a better network. the network is very clearly not the problem. Let’s see; Original MA2 recorded mp4 OK. iMovie rendering OK. SmugMug import & rendering OK. Folks in California, TN, FL, and a few other places see the linked mp4 OK. So that leaves us with the question, “What could possibly be wrong in NZ that a network error is generated?" I have difficulty viewing with firefox, but no issue with chromium. There is lot of buffering, but here in the rural midwest (SW Indiana), internet speed is not so great, nor is that likely to change soon. Speedtest shows 4.3M down, 0.9M up right now. I usually get faster speeds, but the telco gear seems to be affected by the heat- it has happened before. My DSL link show 7M down, 1.2M up, about normal here. (Just three more weeks, and I'll be living in the civilized world in central Pennsylvania!) Just three more weeks, and then central Pennsylvania. Is that a retirement move? I guess that makes some sort of sense if you have to deal with rural Indiana. I have only been through Indiana once back in 1973 when I travelled from Syracuse, NY to Columbia, MO to visit some college friends in Columbia. That time we drove around Indianapolis without stopping. On the return trip we tracked North, and spent one night in Elkhart, before getting back to Syracuse. That was enough Indiana for me, and I haven’t been back since. For now, I am quite content in my retirement here on the Central Coast of the Peoples’ Republic of California. Though it is a tad dry, and vulnerable to wildfire. ....and as a quick check on current speed, here 13 miles West of Paso Robles, CA, I show 114Mbps down, and 10.8Mbps up. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:55:37 +0100, David_B wrote:
I very much enjoyed it too. :-D Surely, though, Savageduck UPLOADED the clip so that we could enjoy it? You are correct, of course. My brain was away when I posted. -- croy |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
On 7/4/20 10:08 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Jul 4, 2020, Ken Hart wrote (in article ): On 7/2/20 12:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 2, 2020, nospam wrote (in ) : In , John McWilliams wrote: ...and here is the promised Morro Bay video. As I said above, it was shot at 4K 60fps, ISO100, SS 1/120, with an ND16+CPL filter. Rendered using iMovie. https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work/i-XVQXqpV/0/0ad11a2c/1920/MB-701-4K60-1920.mp4 Twice "Video playback aborted due to a network error" :-( Perhaps you need a better network. the network is very clearly not the problem. Let’s see; Original MA2 recorded mp4 OK. iMovie rendering OK. SmugMug import & rendering OK. Folks in California, TN, FL, and a few other places see the linked mp4 OK. So that leaves us with the question, “What could possibly be wrong in NZ that a network error is generated?" I have difficulty viewing with firefox, but no issue with chromium. There is lot of buffering, but here in the rural midwest (SW Indiana), internet speed is not so great, nor is that likely to change soon. Speedtest shows 4.3M down, 0.9M up right now. I usually get faster speeds, but the telco gear seems to be affected by the heat- it has happened before. My DSL link show 7M down, 1.2M up, about normal here. (Just three more weeks, and I'll be living in the civilized world in central Pennsylvania!) Just three more weeks, and then central Pennsylvania. Is that a retirement move? I guess that makes some sort of sense if you have to deal with rural Indiana. I have only been through Indiana once back in 1973 when I travelled from Syracuse, NY to Columbia, MO to visit some college friends in Columbia. That time we drove around Indianapolis without stopping. On the return trip we tracked North, and spent one night in Elkhart, before getting back to Syracuse. That was enough Indiana for me, and I haven’t been back since. For now, I am quite content in my retirement here on the Central Coast of the Peoples’ Republic of California. Though it is a tad dry, and vulnerable to wildfire. ...and as a quick check on current speed, here 13 miles West of Paso Robles, CA, I show 114Mbps down, and 10.8Mbps up. Retirement was last year at 62, but I continued part time work. This will hopefully be total retirement, in a down-sized home on the edge of a small town, with the town park just off my backyard. Weird things about Indiana: 1. What the hell is a "Hoosier"? 2. "Fast Time" and "Slow Time". The northwest and southwest counties are on Central time, the remainder of the state is Eastern time. Until a couple years ago, the west counties on EST did not observe DST. 3. Santa Claus, Indiana. French Lick, Indiana. English, Indiana. Tasmania, Indiana. 4. Huntingburg, IN, the Hollywood of the midwest. "Hard Rain" and "A League of Their Own" were filmed in this town of 6000 people. Never saw either movie. Christian Slater finished filming, and began his 90 day jail sentence the day after the premiere of Hard Rain. Were you in on that arrest? 5. In Spencer county, there is a Abe Lincoln National Park. Across the street, there is an Abe Lincoln State Park. The National Park is free. The state park charges $10, but you can go boating there, just as Abe would have done. 6. The weather. As they say in Indiana: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." Good things about Indiana: 1. Indiana Military History Museum in Vincennes. $7 gets you access to a fantastic display of military equipment in realistic settings, including a French ambulance that the French government would like to have back. Three times a year (pre-C-19) they did re-enactments, $3 parking fee. The last WW-I event included a strafing run during the battle. I assume there were no live rounds! If you get to Pennsylvania, stop in. I can show you the Statue of Liberty in the Susquehanna River upstream from Harrisburg, and where antifa threatened to burn the Flag at Gettysburg National Cemetary, but thought better of it when they saw all the bikers with bullets. I suspect my internet speed in Pennsylvania will be similar to here for DSL, but I will also have cable available. I'm told cable is much faster, when it is working. -- Ken Hart |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
In article , Ken Hart
wrote: Weird things about Indiana: 1. What the hell is a "Hoosier"? why is that weird? 2. "Fast Time" and "Slow Time". The northwest and southwest counties are on Central time, the remainder of the state is Eastern time. Until a couple years ago, the west counties on EST did not observe DST. dst needs to go away. it's one thing indiana had correct but later ****ed up. 3. Santa Claus, Indiana. French Lick, Indiana. English, Indiana. Tasmania, Indiana. there are plenty of places with weird names all over the world, including asylum and intercourse, pennsylvania. or this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****ing,_Austria 4. Huntingburg, IN, the Hollywood of the midwest. "Hard Rain" and "A League of Their Own" were filmed in this town of 6000 people. Never saw either movie. Christian Slater finished filming, and began his 90 day jail sentence the day after the premiere of Hard Rain. Were you in on that arrest? 5. In Spencer county, there is a Abe Lincoln National Park. Across the street, there is an Abe Lincoln State Park. The National Park is free. The state park charges $10, but you can go boating there, just as Abe would have done. yawn. 6. The weather. As they say in Indiana: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." they say that for just about everywhere. https://meh.com/forum/topics/request...phrase-if-you- dont-like-the-weather-wait-five-minutes Ive lived in 4 different cities in the United States and somebody always says If you dont like the weather, wait five minutes! as if the weather always changes just in their particular area. The weather changes all the time, everywhere. Your location isnt that special. Besides, there have been days where the weather was unlikeable and it took weeks to change! however, in the san francisco bay area with its microclimates, they say drive a few miles. the difference between san francisco proper and the valley can be 20-30 degrees and roughly twice that for the interior valley. Good things about Indiana: 1. Indiana Military History Museum in Vincennes. $7 gets you access to a fantastic display of military equipment in realistic settings, including a French ambulance that the French government would like to have back. Three times a year (pre-C-19) they did re-enactments, $3 parking fee. The last WW-I event included a strafing run during the battle. I assume there were no live rounds! that's the best thing about indiana??? If you get to Pennsylvania, stop in. I can show you the Statue of Liberty in the Susquehanna River upstream from Harrisburg, and where antifa threatened to burn the Flag at Gettysburg National Cemetary, but thought better of it when they saw all the bikers with bullets. i see ignorance knows no bounds. I suspect my internet speed in Pennsylvania will be similar to here for DSL, but I will also have cable available. I'm told cable is much faster, when it is working. dsl is obsolete. cable is much faster, however, it's asymmetrical. the future is wireless. |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit - / (1/1) [2K]
On Jul 5, 2020, Ken Hart wrote
(in article ): On 7/4/20 10:08 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 4, 2020, Ken Hart wrote (in article ): On 7/2/20 12:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 2, 2020, nospam wrote (in ) : In , John McWilliams wrote: ...and here is the promised Morro Bay video. As I said above, it was shot at 4K 60fps, ISO100, SS 1/120, with an ND16+CPL filter. Rendered using iMovie. https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work/i-XVQXqpV/0/0ad11a2c/1920/MB-701-4K60-1920.mp4 Twice "Video playback aborted due to a network error" :-( Perhaps you need a better network. the network is very clearly not the problem. Let’s see; Original MA2 recorded mp4 OK. iMovie rendering OK. SmugMug import & rendering OK. Folks in California, TN, FL, and a few other places see the linked mp4 OK. So that leaves us with the question, “What could possibly be wrong in NZ that a network error is generated?" I have difficulty viewing with firefox, but no issue with chromium. There is lot of buffering, but here in the rural midwest (SW Indiana), internet speed is not so great, nor is that likely to change soon. Speedtest shows 4.3M down, 0.9M up right now. I usually get faster speeds, but the telco gear seems to be affected by the heat- it has happened before. My DSL link show 7M down, 1.2M up, about normal here. (Just three more weeks, and I'll be living in the civilized world in central Pennsylvania!) Just three more weeks, and then central Pennsylvania. Is that a retirement move? I guess that makes some sort of sense if you have to deal with rural Indiana. I have only been through Indiana once back in 1973 when I travelled from Syracuse, NY to Columbia, MO to visit some college friends in Columbia. That time we drove around Indianapolis without stopping. On the return trip we tracked North, and spent one night in Elkhart, before getting back to Syracuse. That was enough Indiana for me, and I haven’t been back since. For now, I am quite content in my retirement here on the Central Coast of the Peoples’ Republic of California. Though it is a tad dry, and vulnerable to wildfire. ...and as a quick check on current speed, here 13 miles West of Paso Robles, CA, I show 114Mbps down, and 10.8Mbps up. Retirement was last year at 62, but I continued part time work. This will hopefully be total retirement, in a down-sized home on the edge of a small town, with the town park just off my backyard. Enjoy! Weird things about Indiana: 1. What the hell is a "Hoosier"? I have wondered that myself. Nothing to do with hoses. Perhaps Tony Cooper might be able to educate us, he is IIRC an Indiana native now exiled to FL. 2. "Fast Time" and "Slow Time". The northwest and southwest counties are on Central time, the remainder of the state is Eastern time. Until a couple years ago, the west counties on EST did not observe DST. That sounds much like the Nevada-Arizona time changes, and observances 3. Santa Claus, Indiana. French Lick, Indiana. English, Indiana. Tasmania, Indiana. We have our share of odd place names in California, including near Carpinteria, a “Santa Claus Lane” and a “Santa Claus Beach”. 4. Huntingburg, IN, the Hollywood of the midwest. "Hard Rain" and "A League of Their Own" were filmed in this town of 6000 people. Never saw either movie. Christian Slater finished filming, and began his 90 day jail sentence the day after the premiere of Hard Rain. Were you in on that arrest? No. I spent a good deal of my time dealing with California gangs covering the complete ethnicity spectrum, White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Armenian, and Russian all quite nasty. 5. In Spencer county, there is a Abe Lincoln National Park. Across the street, there is an Abe Lincoln State Park. The National Park is free. The state park charges $10, but you can go boating there, just as Abe would have done. At 62 you are entitled to buy a Lifetime Pass for National Parks& Monuments. I believe the price has increased since I bought mine at $20. It gets you and the occupants of your vehicle into all the great overcrowded parks. 6. The weather. As they say in Indiana: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." The weather here is very different to back East, but it certainly has variety, by having the Pacific coast, and a few hours drive away the Sierra Nevada mountains. The one thing I do not miss is shoveling snow in those Upstate NY winters. Good things about Indiana: 1. Indiana Military History Museum in Vincennes. $7 gets you access to a fantastic display of military equipment in realistic settings, including a French ambulance that the French government would like to have back. Three times a year (pre-C-19) they did re-enactments, $3 parking fee. The last WW-I event included a strafing run during the battle. I assume there were no live rounds! Beyond the California National Parks, like Yosemite, and Sequoria/Kings Canyon, there are several places other than Hollywood Boulevard, and Disneyland worth visiting. (I really don’t like SoCal, and the LA Basin with a a few exceptions). If you ever have the misfortune to visit L.A. consider visits to both Getty Museums, The Getty Center, and The Getty Villa. Then there is the Petersen Automotive Museum. http://www.getty.edu/art/ http://www.getty.edu https://www.petersen.org Then there is the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. https://www.californiarailroad.museum If you get to Pennsylvania, stop in. I can show you the Statue of Liberty in the Susquehanna River upstream from Harrisburg, I saw a recent YouTube video on that. I believe the original was made from venetian blinds, and cardboard, and was recently replaced with a more permanent structure after the original was destroyed by floods. and where antifa threatened to burn the Flag at Gettysburg National Cemetary, but thought better of it when they saw all the bikers with bullets. Gettysburg National Military Park is on my bucket list, as are quite a number of Civil War battle fields. So far the only ones I have been able to explore at length have been Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Lookout Mountain as those are right in the middle of my family tree. My father was born in LaFayette, GA. which is right in the middle of the Chickamauga battlefield. I suspect my internet speed in Pennsylvania will be similar to here for DSL, but I will also have cable available. I'm told cable is much faster, when it is working. That depends on just where you find yourself in Pennsylvania. Things improved for me many years ago when Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) started Charter Cable (now Spectrum) and installed a fiber optic cable which ran the 13 miles from Paso Robles to our development out at the lake. Up until then we only had dial-up, or outlandishly expensive satellite service. I have had no complaints for 30+ years now. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit - / (1/1) [2K]
On Jul 5, 2020, Ken Hart wrote
(in article ): On 7/4/20 10:08 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 4, 2020, Ken Hart wrote (in article ): On 7/2/20 12:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 2, 2020, nospam wrote (in ) : In , John McWilliams wrote: ...and here is the promised Morro Bay video. As I said above, it was shot at 4K 60fps, ISO100, SS 1/120, with an ND16+CPL filter. Rendered using iMovie. https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work/i-XVQXqpV/0/0ad11a2c/1920/MB-701-4K60-1920.mp4 Twice "Video playback aborted due to a network error" :-( Perhaps you need a better network. the network is very clearly not the problem. Let’s see; Original MA2 recorded mp4 OK. iMovie rendering OK. SmugMug import & rendering OK. Folks in California, TN, FL, and a few other places see the linked mp4 OK. So that leaves us with the question, “What could possibly be wrong in NZ that a network error is generated?" I have difficulty viewing with firefox, but no issue with chromium. There is lot of buffering, but here in the rural midwest (SW Indiana), internet speed is not so great, nor is that likely to change soon. Speedtest shows 4.3M down, 0.9M up right now. I usually get faster speeds, but the telco gear seems to be affected by the heat- it has happened before. My DSL link show 7M down, 1.2M up, about normal here. (Just three more weeks, and I'll be living in the civilized world in central Pennsylvania!) Just three more weeks, and then central Pennsylvania. Is that a retirement move? I guess that makes some sort of sense if you have to deal with rural Indiana. I have only been through Indiana once back in 1973 when I travelled from Syracuse, NY to Columbia, MO to visit some college friends in Columbia. That time we drove around Indianapolis without stopping. On the return trip we tracked North, and spent one night in Elkhart, before getting back to Syracuse. That was enough Indiana for me, and I haven’t been back since. For now, I am quite content in my retirement here on the Central Coast of the Peoples’ Republic of California. Though it is a tad dry, and vulnerable to wildfire. ...and as a quick check on current speed, here 13 miles West of Paso Robles, CA, I show 114Mbps down, and 10.8Mbps up. Retirement was last year at 62, but I continued part time work. This will hopefully be total retirement, in a down-sized home on the edge of a small town, with the town park just off my backyard. Enjoy! Weird things about Indiana: 1. What the hell is a "Hoosier"? I have wondered that myself. Nothing to do with hoses. Perhaps Tony Cooper might be able to educate us, he is IIRC an Indiana native now exiled to FL. 2. "Fast Time" and "Slow Time". The northwest and southwest counties are on Central time, the remainder of the state is Eastern time. Until a couple years ago, the west counties on EST did not observe DST. That sounds much like the Nevada-Arizona time changes, and observances 3. Santa Claus, Indiana. French Lick, Indiana. English, Indiana. Tasmania, Indiana. We have our share of odd place names in California, including near Carpinteria, a “Santa Claus Lane” and a “Santa Claus Beach”. 4. Huntingburg, IN, the Hollywood of the midwest. "Hard Rain" and "A League of Their Own" were filmed in this town of 6000 people. Never saw either movie. Christian Slater finished filming, and began his 90 day jail sentence the day after the premiere of Hard Rain. Were you in on that arrest? No. I spent a good deal of my time dealing with California gangs covering the complete ethnicity spectrum, White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Armenian, and Russian all quite nasty. 5. In Spencer county, there is a Abe Lincoln National Park. Across the street, there is an Abe Lincoln State Park. The National Park is free. The state park charges $10, but you can go boating there, just as Abe would have done. At 62 you are entitled to buy a Lifetime Pass for National Parks& Monuments. I believe the price has increased since I bought mine at $20. It gets you and the occupants of your vehicle into all the great overcrowded parks. 6. The weather. As they say in Indiana: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." The weather here is very different to back East, but it certainly has variety, by having the Pacific coast, and a few hours drive away the Sierra Nevada mountains. The one thing I do not miss is shoveling snow in those Upstate NY winters. Good things about Indiana: 1. Indiana Military History Museum in Vincennes. $7 gets you access to a fantastic display of military equipment in realistic settings, including a French ambulance that the French government would like to have back. Three times a year (pre-C-19) they did re-enactments, $3 parking fee. The last WW-I event included a strafing run during the battle. I assume there were no live rounds! Beyond the California National Parks, like Yosemite, and Sequoria/Kings Canyon, there are several places other than Hollywood Boulevard, and Disneyland worth visiting. (I really don’t like SoCal, and the LA Basin with a a few exceptions). If you ever have the misfortune to visit L.A. consider visits to both Getty Museums, The Getty Center, and The Getty Villa. Then there is the Petersen Automotive Museum. http://www.getty.edu/art/ http://www.getty.edu https://www.petersen.org Then there is the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. https://www.californiarailroad.museum If you get to Pennsylvania, stop in. I can show you the Statue of Liberty in the Susquehanna River upstream from Harrisburg, I saw a recent YouTube video on that. I believe the original was made from venetian blinds, and cardboard, and was recently replaced with a more permanent structure after the original was destroyed by floods. and where antifa threatened to burn the Flag at Gettysburg National Cemetary, but thought better of it when they saw all the bikers with bullets. Gettysburg National Military Park is on my bucket list, as are quite a number of Civil War battle fields. So far the only ones I have been able to explore at length have been Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Lookout Mountain as those are right in the middle of my family tree. My father was born in LaFayette, GA. which is right in the middle of the Chickamauga battlefield. I suspect my internet speed in Pennsylvania will be similar to here for DSL, but I will also have cable available. I'm told cable is much faster, when it is working. That depends on just where you find yourself in Pennsylvania. Things improved for me many years ago when Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) started Charter Cable (now Spectrum) and installed a fiber optic cable which ran the 13 miles from Paso Robles to our development out at the lake. Up until then we only had dial-up, or outlandishly expensive satellite service. I have had no complaints for 30+ years now. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:01:52 -0400, Ken Hart
wrote: On 7/4/20 10:08 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 4, 2020, Ken Hart wrote (in article ): On 7/2/20 12:56 PM, Savageduck wrote: On Jul 2, 2020, nospam wrote (in ) : In , John McWilliams wrote: ...and here is the promised Morro Bay video. As I said above, it was shot at 4K 60fps, ISO100, SS 1/120, with an ND16+CPL filter. Rendered using iMovie. https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work/i-XVQXqpV/0/0ad11a2c/1920/MB-701-4K60-1920.mp4 Twice "Video playback aborted due to a network error" :-( Perhaps you need a better network. the network is very clearly not the problem. Lets see; Original MA2 recorded mp4 OK. iMovie rendering OK. SmugMug import & rendering OK. Folks in California, TN, FL, and a few other places see the linked mp4 OK. So that leaves us with the question, What could possibly be wrong in NZ that a network error is generated?" I have difficulty viewing with firefox, but no issue with chromium. There is lot of buffering, but here in the rural midwest (SW Indiana), internet speed is not so great, nor is that likely to change soon. Speedtest shows 4.3M down, 0.9M up right now. I usually get faster speeds, but the telco gear seems to be affected by the heat- it has happened before. My DSL link show 7M down, 1.2M up, about normal here. (Just three more weeks, and I'll be living in the civilized world in central Pennsylvania!) Just three more weeks, and then central Pennsylvania. Is that a retirement move? I guess that makes some sort of sense if you have to deal with rural Indiana. I have only been through Indiana once back in 1973 when I travelled from Syracuse, NY to Columbia, MO to visit some college friends in Columbia. That time we drove around Indianapolis without stopping. On the return trip we tracked North, and spent one night in Elkhart, before getting back to Syracuse. That was enough Indiana for me, and I havent been back since. For now, I am quite content in my retirement here on the Central Coast of the Peoples Republic of California. Though it is a tad dry, and vulnerable to wildfire. ...and as a quick check on current speed, here 13 miles West of Paso Robles, CA, I show 114Mbps down, and 10.8Mbps up. Retirement was last year at 62, but I continued part time work. This will hopefully be total retirement, in a down-sized home on the edge of a small town, with the town park just off my backyard. Weird things about Indiana: As a native Hoosier (Indianapolis), I'm bound to reply. 1. What the hell is a "Hoosier"? No one really knows the origin of the term. Most say Origin Unknown. 2. "Fast Time" and "Slow Time". The northwest and southwest counties are on Central time, the remainder of the state is Eastern time. Until a couple years ago, the west counties on EST did not observe DST. 3. Santa Claus, Indiana. French Lick, Indiana. English, Indiana. Tasmania, Indiana. It was always said that French Lick isn't as much fun as it sounds, but I attended a wedding there a few years ago and quite enjoyed myself. I did my undergraduate studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. Near Bloomington is Gnawbone, Indiana. East Chicago IN is south of Chicago. Michigan City is in Indiana. Logansport is landlocked. There is a Brazil, Warsaw, Edinburgh, and Peru in Indiana. If you go to Versailles, you pronounce it Ver-Sales, not Ver-Sigh. Batesville has a company - Hill-Rom - that makes cradle-to-grave products: cribs, hospital beds, and caskets. 4. Huntingburg, IN, the Hollywood of the midwest. "Hard Rain" and "A League of Their Own" were filmed in this town of 6000 people. Never saw either movie. Christian Slater finished filming, and began his 90 day jail sentence the day after the premiere of Hard Rain. Were you in on that arrest? I have a poster in my office from the movie "Hoosiers". That movie was roughly based on the Milan High School 1954 basketball season. I was a sophomore in high school that year, and attended the Milan vs Muncie state final at Butler Field House. Little known bit of trivia: In the movie, the coach of Hickory's opponent in the final game was played by Ray Crowe. Ray, in 1954, was the basketball coach at Crispus Attucks, and coached Oscar Robertson. The "Big O" was one of the first smooth and graceful basketball players, and one who started the trend away from clunky white guys. Another favorite movie of mine was "Breaking Away". While it was set at Indiana University, most of the exterior shots were filmed in North Carolina. Good movie, but technically full of inaccuracies that a Hoosier would catch. 5. In Spencer county, there is a Abe Lincoln National Park. Across the street, there is an Abe Lincoln State Park. The National Park is free. The state park charges $10, but you can go boating there, just as Abe would have done. 6. The weather. As they say in Indiana: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." I was not fond of the weather growing up there and having paper routes where trudging through snow and sleet with a heavy bag of newspapers was common. I still shudder at the thought of the buckles on my galoshes catching and causing me to trip in the slush. I left Indiana to go to graduate school at Northwestern in Evanston IL, and exchanged walking through the snow delivering newspapers for endless delays on the Expressways or the Outer Drive in any kind of weather. Good things about Indiana: 1. Indiana Military History Museum in Vincennes. $7 gets you access to a fantastic display of military equipment in realistic settings, including a French ambulance that the French government would like to have back. Three times a year (pre-C-19) they did re-enactments, $3 parking fee. The last WW-I event included a strafing run during the battle. I assume there were no live rounds! From a photographer's viewpoint, Indiana offers a lot of opportunity if you like old barns, abandoned old cars and farm equipment rusting in fields, and interesting rural scenes. I spent most of my working life in the specialty surgical instrument field, and my job in that field sent me back to Indiana. I called on surgeons from Layfayette down to the Ohio River. In those days, there was a local, independent, restaurant in every town. Good food and really excellent choice of pie in each. Most of us live, at first, where our parents happened to be. After that, it's usually employment that has us move to some other state. Most people don't have much choice of where the live until they retire. Employment moved me to Florida, but I stayed after retirement. If you get to Pennsylvania, stop in. I can show you the Statue of Liberty in the Susquehanna River upstream from Harrisburg, and where antifa threatened to burn the Flag at Gettysburg National Cemetary, but thought better of it when they saw all the bikers with bullets. I suspect my internet speed in Pennsylvania will be similar to here for DSL, but I will also have cable available. I'm told cable is much faster, when it is working. Dunno where you are in Indiana...but no cable internet? Boonville or further west? -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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In article , Tony Cooper
wrote: Most of us live, at first, where our parents happened to be. obviously. After that, it's usually employment that has us move to some other state. nope. it's usually college or university. Most people don't have much choice of where the live until they retire. nonsense. everyone has a choice where to live and work, although some may choose to not exercise that choice, both prior to and in retirement. Employment moved me to Florida, but I stayed after retirement. that's not a good place to be right now and it's going to get a *lot* worse before it gets better. |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:44:03 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Tony Cooper wrote: Most of us live, at first, where our parents happened to be. obviously. After that, it's usually employment that has us move to some other state. nope. it's usually college or university. How do you come up with that? Very few people *move* to another state to attend university. They may temporarily live in that state while attending university, but they will either return to their home state after graduation or move somewhere due to an employment opportunity. Some may stay within the state where they attended university, but often in a different city. Most people don't have much choice of where the live until they retire. nonsense. everyone has a choice where to live and work, although some may choose to not exercise that choice, both prior to and in retirement. Employment moved me to Florida, but I stayed after retirement. that's not a good place to be right now and it's going to get a *lot* worse before it gets better. As usual, you have nothing to contribute but an argument. Not a very good one, either. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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Morro Bay -Drone Revisit
In article , Tony Cooper
wrote: Most of us live, at first, where our parents happened to be. obviously. After that, it's usually employment that has us move to some other state. nope. it's usually college or university. How do you come up with that? because it's true. duh. Very few people *move* to another state to attend university. nonsense. They may temporarily live in that state while attending university, but they will either return to their home state after graduation or move somewhere due to an employment opportunity. in other words, they moved to attend school. once again, you agree with what was said, yet you try to argue anyway. it's truly bizarre. Some may stay within the state where they attended university, but often in a different city. which would be yet another move. you're catching on. Most people don't have much choice of where the live until they retire. nonsense. everyone has a choice where to live and work, although some may choose to not exercise that choice, both prior to and in retirement. Employment moved me to Florida, but I stayed after retirement. that's not a good place to be right now and it's going to get a *lot* worse before it gets better. As usual, you have nothing to contribute but an argument. Not a very good one, either. there is no argument. as usual, you are wrong and refuse to admit it. |
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