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Impenetent if there is any comparison to a train is relentless in believing that posting 1 sentence that means shit is the utmost in some sort of philosophy we are meant to get. I can post 1 sentence but I wont because I have respect for other people on a forum and am not just a ****.

My advice would to be to put the insipid mushroom on ignore he's not here to either do philosophy, explain philosophy or be anything to do with philosophy, he just posts crap, he's little more than a troll although I have no doubt he isn't one, he might as well be though, he has as much use as one. And it's all just wank, and it always will be because no offence the guy's a worthless, non philosophical mushroom with a will to post wank at people in lieu of anything real.

he thinks he's some laconic scout out there making philosophy something courageous but he's no fucking Han Solo, hell he's more like Ja Ja Binks and entirely pointless character added to the script to appeal to young people and morons. If this guy ever does post anything worth reading let me know because in 5 years of watching this speck of nothing post I haven't seen it yet. It's all just worthless, and he knows it and we know it and now you know it. A **** by any other name would smell like shit.


I'd rate Dave over this p**** there's nothing to see and there never will be.

If he had any sense of honour he'd change his name to penitent, and God help the worthless tit for his sins.

He did 3 sentences once he put it in hai coup poetry like some pretentious wanker, now he's down to one, hopefully in a year or two he will be down to one word, and then none, because that would at least be useful, as he does of course say nothing. Why not go the whole hog you **** and can the pretence and just not post at all, it's the same difference. You're a tired worthless nobody and you add nothing to any medium you are on, so why not just subtract you and add something to your life, which presumably can't be as worthless as any contribution you have ever made on any forum ever.

What a ****.

Gawd, he doesn't arf yak on doesn't he.

thedoc wrote:

SpheresOfBalance wrote:

Impenitent wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatjerFCRP8

-Imp

Good one, and I feel bad that I hadn't caught it. Maybe I have caught something, I feel sick! Doctor, Doctor please...

I don't make house calls, except for toy trains.

Actually I have some N scale stuff, not setup though, not much room, which is why I bought N scale all those years ago, go figure.

Good to see you haven't written me off yet, seemingly like all the rest. Who cares, like I said, I'm not here to make friends, just sharing, learning a little, hopefully causing people to think a little, making sure falsehood doesn't run rampant a little, (at least that which I'm capable of seeing), thus helping one to strengthen their argument a little.

I'm a doc of that sort too. Even had the pleasure of working on a miniature gas turbine engine once, contained in a huffer.

You know what sucks though, aging vision. All my life 20/20 and able to see extremely small parts up close, now the whole project just a blurry blob, thank goodness for bifocals though. Yea, but they still suck! How's that song go? 'You don't know what you've got, till it's gone,' something like that...

SpheresOfBalance wrote: Cell phones, are you kidding me? With respect to UFO's one would have to have a lens such as this: http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv40 ... 3V5361.jpg --And that's just the lens without the camera body.--

In order to do any real UFO, fact gathering, that is what you'd need. Cellphones indeed.

That's nothing! Look at this Leica lens:

http://www.hanci.org/node/787

2 million dollars!

SpheresOfBalance wrote:

thedoc wrote: I don't make house calls, except for toy trains.

Actually I have some N scale stuff, not setup though, not much room, which is why I bought N scale all those years ago, go figure.

Good to see you haven't written me off yet, seemingly like all the rest. Who cares, like I said, I'm not here to make friends, just sharing, learning a little, hopefully causing people to think a little, making sure falsehood doesn't run rampant a little, (at least that which I'm capable of seeing), thus helping one to strengthen their argument a little.

I'm a doc of that sort too. Even had the pleasure of working on a miniature gas turbine engine once, contained in a huffer.

You know what sucks though, aging vision. All my life 20/20 and able to see extremely small parts up close, now the whole project just a blurry blob, thank goodness for bifocals though. Yea, but they still suck! How's that song go? 'You don't know what you've got, till it's gone,' something like that...

Yep, me too, I'm a doc, sort of. My friends started calling me The Doc several years ago as in a Ph.D in Microferroequinology. My eyes started to go about 1990, it started when things started to be a bit blurry and I thought it was because my eyes were tired late in the day. Wishful thinking, now I wear glasses, but just reading glasses. I had a pair of bifocal safety glasses with a plain lens plus the reading prescription on the bottom.

A word of advice, make a list of everything you own, and keep it somewhere other than where you live. trying to remember all that you had in your house is a real pain, especially when it is all gone in a fire. Lucky for us we were able to remember enough to max out our insurance, but some of it was antique that was really hard to fine good values. One item was a glass from the door of a B&O passenger car rest room, no-one we talked to had any idea of what it might be worth. It was a kind of rippled glass that you couldn't see through but it had B&O molded right in the glass.

If you own your own home, and it happens to be an older house, it may be due for a new roof. Consider a Mansard style roof and make sure the builder leaves the inside clear, nothing through the attic to the roof, especially plumbing vents, they can be run through the floor to the walls. If the roof/attic covers the whole house you can end up with a nice sized attic, but heat might be an issue in a colder climate, get it insulated and try to include some kind of heat. Also consider extending the roof line to include an outside stairs as an entrance.

Another word of advice, if you finally get a large space for a train layout, don't fill it with track. Use wide curves and let room for scenery. I know many people who have made the mistake of just laying a lot of track and ended up not liking the layout very much.

SpheresOfBalance wrote: Good to see you haven't written me off yet, seemingly like all the rest.

No I haven't written you off yet, you'll have to do a lot more for that. There are only a few that are on ignore, but I can still see their posts if I don't log on, so there's still hope. If I seem to be ignoring a thread it might be because I just don't have anything to add. Sometimes I get tired of the hostility and, figuratively, walk away. I usually walk away rather than fight, both on a forum, and in real life.

Melchior wrote:

SpheresOfBalance wrote: Cell phones, are you kidding me? With respect to UFO's one would have to have a lens such as this: http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv40 ... 3V5361.jpg --And that's just the lens without the camera body.--

In order to do any real UFO, fact gathering, that is what you'd need. Cellphones indeed.

That's nothing! Look at this Leica lens:

http://www.hanci.org/node/787

2 million dollars!

Yes those are some sweet ass optics, Hubble look out...

...OK, not really but...

...then there was this mirror, ground incorrectly...

yeah! Talk about a SNAFU.

So how do you think Leica compares to Nikkor? I understand that it's the coatings that make Nikkor's so awesome.

When I had my hobby shop I sold amateur astronomical telescopes, Meade, Celestron, and Bosch & Lomb. the largest I had were the 8" Schmidt Cassegrains and some of the giant binoculars. Once I took one of the 8"s out to a park and set it up, when the policeman walked up to us he said "At least I don't need to ask what you are doing, but the park closes at sunset." He was nice and really didn't rush us to get out.

Right now i have a 60mm Cometron refractor sitting in my library next to a large window, and my son has an 90mm reflector, both left over stock when I closed the shop, and both are the original grey that Celestron used when they first came out. When I started to carry telescopes the company Tele Vue sold a refractor that was all black enamel, polished brass, and finished hard wood, it was a telescope that you would almost rather look at, than through. I should have gotten one but they were even more expensive that the 8" I was selling.

thedoc wrote:

SpheresOfBalance wrote:

thedoc wrote: I don't make house calls, except for toy trains.

Actually I have some N scale stuff, not setup though, not much room, which is why I bought N scale all those years ago, go figure.

Good to see you haven't written me off yet, seemingly like all the rest. Who cares, like I said, I'm not here to make friends, just sharing, learning a little, hopefully causing people to think a little, making sure falsehood doesn't run rampant a little, (at least that which I'm capable of seeing), thus helping one to strengthen their argument a little.

I'm a doc of that sort too. Even had the pleasure of working on a miniature gas turbine engine once, contained in a huffer.

You know what sucks though, aging vision. All my life 20/20 and able to see extremely small parts up close, now the whole project just a blurry blob, thank goodness for bifocals though. Yea, but they still suck! How's that song go? 'You don't know what you've got, till it's gone,' something like that...

Yep, me too, I'm a doc, sort of. My friends started calling me The Doc several years ago as in a Ph.D in Microferroequinology. My eyes started to go about 1990, it started when things started to be a bit blurry and I thought it was because my eyes were tired late in the day. Wishful thinking, now I wear glasses, but just reading glasses. I had a pair of bifocal safety glasses with a plain lens plus the reading prescription on the bottom.

A word of advice, make a list of everything you own, and keep it somewhere other than where you live. trying to remember all that you had in your house is a real pain, especially when it is all gone in a fire. Lucky for us we were able to remember enough to max out our insurance, but some of it was antique that was really hard to fine good values. One item was a glass from the door of a B&O passenger car rest room, no-one we talked to had any idea of what it might be worth. It was a kind of rippled glass that you couldn't see through but it had B&O molded right in the glass.

If you own your own home, and it happens to be an older house, it may be due for a new roof. Consider a Mansard style roof and make sure the builder leaves the inside clear, nothing through the attic to the roof, especially plumbing vents, they can be run through the floor to the walls. If the roof/attic covers the whole house you can end up with a nice sized attic, but heat might be an issue in a colder climate, get it insulated and try to include some kind of heat. Also consider extending the roof line to include an outside stairs as an entrance.

Another word of advice, if you finally get a large space for a train layout, don't fill it with track. Use wide curves and let room for scenery. I know many people who have made the mistake of just laying a lot of track and ended up not liking the layout very much.

Thanks for the advice. Sorry to hear of the loss, it really wasn't about the money I bet, at least with me it's usually about the sentiment, something that reminds me of a good time, when I look at it, instantly transported back in time to a younger me, an adventure.

As for the train set? Probably not going to be set up for a while, I'd like to, but we really need to get rid of some of the clutter, I tend to be a pack rat, "never know what this could be used for, maybe to repair something, I'll put it here." She should probably shoot me for all the junk, but in her eyes I can do no wrong, which makes me , if you know what I mean, so much baggage and seemingly sinking fast...
Maybe some other day, a train, then it never really comes, does it? "Wastin' away on the thin ice of a new day." (no, I stole it from Jethro Tull, just changed it a little.)

Currently listening to this on repeat.

Not to worried though, I'm one hell of a fireman, DOD training! Class A, B, C, or D, any one of which, I know how to fight it. Got insurance though. Years ago my solution was taking pictures of everything in the whole house, 2 sets, one for home, the other somewhere off site. That way Ins. Co. is happy, well kinda.

Yeah, well my PhD seems to be in "Jack of all trades, master of none." Too many things interest me, none of them enough. Not enough time, in a lifetime!

Later, Doc

P.S. If that tune I'm listening to was on an LP it'd be two rings by now, connected with a vinyl spiral!

thedoc wrote:When I had my hobby shop I sold amateur astronomical telescopes, Meade, Celestron, and Bosch & Lomb. the largest I had were the 8" Schmidt Cassegrains and some of the giant binoculars. Once I took one of the 8"s out to a park and set it up, when the policeman walked up to us he said "At least I don't need to ask what you are doing, but the park closes at sunset." He was nice and really didn't rush us to get out.

I've had my eyes on this one for some time:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00013D2MY/ref ... QPS3QQ9TGJ

Just got other priorities. Our budget is indeed tight. I think the goto feature is pretty cool. Not like my old 4" Meade reflector, where I had to manually set up the polar axis with Sirius, then use a star map. Unfortunately the main mirror has corroded, useless now. Oh well, I'm sure I can use the parts for something...

thedoc wrote:Right now i have a 60mm Cometron refractor sitting in my library next to a large window, and my son has an 90mm reflector, both left over stock when I closed the shop, and both are the original grey that Celestron used when they first came out. When I started to carry telescopes the company Tele Vue sold a refractor that was all black enamel, polished brass, and finished hard wood, it was a telescope that you would almost rather look at, than through. I should have gotten one but they were even more expensive that the 8" I was selling.

Cool, but did you get a camera attachment for any of them?

SpheresOfBalance wrote:

thedoc wrote:When I had my hobby shop I sold amateur astronomical telescopes, Meade, Celestron, and Bosch & Lomb. the largest I had were the 8" Schmidt Cassegrains and some of the giant binoculars. Once I took one of the 8"s out to a park and set it up, when the policeman walked up to us he said "At least I don't need to ask what you are doing, but the park closes at sunset." He was nice and really didn't rush us to get out.

I've had my eyes on this one for some time:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00013D2MY/ref ... QPS3QQ9TGJ

Just got other priorities. Our budget is indeed tight. I think the goto feature is pretty cool. Not like my old 4" Meade reflector, where I had to manually set up the polar axis with Sirius, then use a star map. Unfortunately the main mirror has corroded, useless now. Oh well, I'm sure I can use the parts for something...

Another word of advice, when I was selling telescopes the discount was 50%, so for a retail $1,000.00 scope I paid $500.00, I can't say what the price structure is now but things like that usually don't change much. The celestron site lists that scope at $1.529.00? So what is going on with Amazon?

http://www.celestron.com/browse-shop/un ... -telescope

SpheresOfBalance wrote:

thedoc wrote:Right now i have a 60mm Cometron refractor sitting in my library next to a large window, and my son has an 90mm reflector, both left over stock when I closed the shop, and both are the original grey that Celestron used when they first came out. When I started to carry telescopes the company Tele Vue sold a refractor that was all black enamel, polished brass, and finished hard wood, it was a telescope that you would almost rather look at, than through. I should have gotten one but they were even more expensive that the 8" I was selling.

Cool, but did you get a camera attachment for any of them?

I think I had some camera rings, but I didn't have much call for them at that time 1984 - 1995. I think I started selling scopes after about a year in the shop 1985?

SpheresOfBalance wrote: Not to worried though, I'm one hell of a fireman, DOD training! Class A, B, C, or D, any one of which, I know how to fight it. Got insurance though. Years ago my solution was taking pictures of everything in the whole house, 2 sets, one for home, the other somewhere off site. That way Ins. Co. is happy, well kinda.

This raises an interesting question, is it better to have a total loss and start over, or a little damage and repair what you had? If you're happy with the house you had, repairs are probably the best choice, if your house is a "Work in Progress" perhaps a total loss and a new structure is better. We didn't have a choice, but our new house suits us quite well. FYI, my wife and I were both accumulators and one of our problems before the fire was how to get rid of some of the things we had saved for the future? Now we have both made a conscious effort to only buy the things we really want of need. We are certainly not filling the new house with furniture just because we have the room. We opted for fewer but larger individual rooms and wide hall ways. In our living room we had 2 baby grand pianos for 2 years, one was being stored for someone else, and plenty of room besides.