Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
You paint a gloomy picture. The real problem is too many people. Thank goodness I live in Phalaborwa! Alan C On 14-Jul-19 09:14 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 14.07.19 um 20:07 schrieb John: I think I've mentioned this one before. https://www.aixam-pro.com/fr/e-truck/fourgon I'd buy one if they were available in the U.S. It's got ample room in the back for musical instruments and/or camera gear. In Dunkirk where we spend part of year the diesel version is quite popular with pensioners for taking their fishing gear to the beach. BUT... You are aware that they're restricted to a max speed of 28 mph and even at that speed offer no protection to speak of if you collide with anything more solid than a cream pie? We don't have them here in Germany but the French papers are full of gruesome pictures from accidents involving those vehicles. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Mountain Aloe
Thank's Dan. She has 4 plants but to her dismay only 2 flowered this year. They are about 10 years old . Eventually they will be several metres tall. I only have some lesser species but they still put on a good show. Alan C On 14-Jul-19 05:38 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Wow! Much more interesting and dramatic that the aloe that grows here! Nicely shot, Alan. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 11:03 AM Alan C wrote: A couple of shots of a Mountain Aloe (Aloe Marlothii) in my next door neigbour's garden. (Scroll R for the others). Along with the Cape Aloe (Aloe Ferox) among the most spectacular of the aloes. After a couple of dry years it looks as if 2019 will be a good one for the aloes. I'm busy growing some seedlings from last years' seeds but they are still very small after some months. It's hard to believe they will get this big. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/48280674997/ K5 with the DA 18-55 WR f4.5, ISO 100, 1/800sec. Alan C -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote on 7/14/19 7:25 PM: As a car guy most of my life, I have a certain nostalgia for when it was fun. It isn't any more, not for me at least except on rare occasion. I drive less and less because it's just too irritating to drive much any more, and foresee the day when I sell my nice car and buy some utility vehicle for the absolute necessities of transporting stuff that is impractical to carry on bicycle or public transport only. The sort of fun that you can have with cars has definitely changed. The modifications that you can make with a daily driver are much more limited in many ways, but you can buy a Honda Civic with more horsepower than the Corvette my dad had just before I was born, and he had checked every performance option off the list. Cars for driving on the street with upwards of 500 hp are not rare. You can pick up a Dodge Hellcat with 800 hp for $72k, or about $12k in 1973 dollars. Since these cars are fresh off the showroom floor, not only do they have more horsepower than cars did 30, 40, 50 years ago, they also handle better, are safer and get better gas mileage, for less than it would cost to upgrade a base model to that performance. When I started driving a bit over 40 years ago, I pretty much had carte blanche on the local mountain roads, there were only a few that were patrolled and the cops didn't have radar. Plus, traffic was lighter. These days if you want a fun, clean, run over hwy 9 or bear creek you pretty much need to do it between 9 and 10 am on a weekday. On the bright side, 32 years ago, there weren't a lot of opportunities to take a daily driver out on the racetrack, unless you belonged to certain marque clubs. If you wanted to drive on the track, around here anyways, you pretty much had your choice of building an SCCA racecar. These days you can go to most tracks, almost any week, for a track day, in your daily driver for between $200 and $400. Once your skills have developed to a certain level, you can go out in the advanced, open passing, groups and drive pretty much as hard and fast as most people would want. If you don't want to risk your car on the track, accidents at track days are rare, but they do happen, there are plenty of opportunities to rent track prepared cars. It's not that you can't have fun with a car anymore, it's just different fun, and in many ways, much more fun than what was available 35-40 years ago. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
As a car guy most of my life, I have a certain nostalgia for when it was fun. It isn't any more, not for me at least except on rare occasion. I drive less and less because it's just too irritating to drive much any more, and foresee the day when I sell my nice car and buy some utility vehicle for the absolute necessities of transporting stuff that is impractical to carry on bicycle or public transport only. And that something will likely be either solar-charged electric or one of the hybrid variants, I think. Cars and the pursuit of personal transport freedom went too far. They've cost us as a society vast amounts of money, real estate, and precious resources, never mind the amount of pollution and waste they've brought into the world. It is time to think differently about the question of personal transport and approach it from another angle. Now back to photography … I made a nice little set of birthday cards today and mailed them to the folks I made them for. You've seen all the photos I used. Very satisfying and pleasing. :-) onwards! G — "Simplify, simplify, simplify.” ~ Henry David Thoreau "One 'simplify' would have sufficed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
Am 14.07.19 um 20:07 schrieb John: I think I've mentioned this one before. https://www.aixam-pro.com/fr/e-truck/fourgon I'd buy one if they were available in the U.S. It's got ample room in the back for musical instruments and/or camera gear. In Dunkirk where we spend part of year the diesel version is quite popular with pensioners for taking their fishing gear to the beach. BUT... You are aware that they're restricted to a max speed of 28 mph and even at that speed offer no protection to speak of if you collide with anything more solid than a cream pie? We don't have them here in Germany but the French papers are full of gruesome pictures from accidents involving those vehicles. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
Am 14.07.19 um 19:42 schrieb John: I suspect the future for city dwellers is going to be community systems; shared resources. This is no longer the future. It's already here. Sooner or later, we won't be able to afford a car. I already pay 1200 euros per year for a place in an underground car park. For the last five years, two levels of this car park have been leased to a car sharing company. Since the beginning of this month, the city has been swamped with e-scooters which are now also competing for the little room there is on our streets. Meanwhile, they're making the place ever more unattractive for car traffic. Our former grand avenues have been reduced to one lane per direction with a restriction of 30 km/h (18 mph) and speed cams at every corner. Loading or unloading in front of the building where we live is a constant race against the city's traffic wardens. The PV system on the roof will provide service for all of the building's tenants. You'll share both the cost & the benefits. And we will be paying taxes for the electricity we generate with our own PV systems. This is the closest thing they've ever come to a sunshine tax. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
John wrote on 7/14/19 11:07 AM: On 7/13/2019 00:08:19, Larry Colen wrote: Paul Stenquist wrote on 7/12/19 8:18 AM: Thanks Rick. I enjoyed driving the Bolt for a week While I was working on the charging piece. I think we’ll eventually see cars with 400 mile range and much faster charging. Paul For most people, an EV would handle the vast majority of their needs. I was just suggesting to a friend that if he wants an EV for daily use, but occasionally needs to take long trips, he would do well to own two cars, a nice EV and a not so nice IC car. I think I've mentioned this one before. https://www.aixam-pro.com/fr/e-truck/fourgon That looks nearly as good, and almost as comfortable as a 2CV. Actually, it looks like what happened after a 2CV went on a bender and had a drunken one night stand with a golf cart. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Moss Landing Pelican taking off
> On 14 Jul 2019, at 18:20, mike wilson wrote: > > >> >> We have them in London, on the Serpentine. They eat the pigeons and small >> children. On a sunny day in the park, with a little imagination and a bottle >> or two of Lambrini, you can easily picture yourself on the upper reaches of >> the Limpopo. > > Especially with the flocks of ring-necked parakeets swooping down for a drink > and the hippos waddling around the water's edge. That's no way to talk about our tourist friends! > >> >>> On 14 Jul 2019, at 06:09, Alan C wrote: >>> >>> That's a nice set Larry. They make good subjects. Rare in Kruger (I've >>> never seen one), occasionally coming up the Limpopo River to the northern >>> parts. >>> >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
On 7/13/2019 00:08:19, Larry Colen wrote: Paul Stenquist wrote on 7/12/19 8:18 AM: Thanks Rick. I enjoyed driving the Bolt for a week While I was working on the charging piece. I think we’ll eventually see cars with 400 mile range and much faster charging. Paul For most people, an EV would handle the vast majority of their needs. I was just suggesting to a friend that if he wants an EV for daily use, but occasionally needs to take long trips, he would do well to own two cars, a nice EV and a not so nice IC car. I think I've mentioned this one before. https://www.aixam-pro.com/fr/e-truck/fourgon I'd buy one if they were available in the U.S. It's got ample room in the back for musical instruments and/or camera gear. I think it could provide for all of my transportation needs with the exception of the occasional trip to Grandfather Mountain ... Chevy is in a good position for the following business model. If you buy a bolt, you can rent an Internal Combustion car for some reduced rate (maybe even something like 24 days a year for free). Likewise, they could even arrange it that while your bolt is being on exchange, they could rent it out to someone else. It might even make more sense for them to do it as a lease, they own the car, and you have a timeshare lease on whichever car you need for the moment. Note the above is not a detailed business plan, but just some very broad strokes. The problem with most vehicle sharing plans I'm aware of is they're not really tailored for people who need a car every day. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT: Otherworldly landscapes—created by whisky
>From the recent Nat Geo Magazine https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/07/these-pictures-look-like-planets-but-they-are-whisky-glasses/ Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
On 7/13/2019 06:15:21, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 12.07.19 um 22:38 schrieb Paul Stenquist: DC electric vehicle chargers that operate on solar power are on the near horizon. All this is good and well for people living in the suburbs or the countryside. But what about us city dwellers? Most people in Europe live in urban appartments and we have no roof to put our PV systems and no garages or driveways to charge our cars. We can't just dangle a cable out of a window on the 3rd floor because that would require finding a spot for parking below said window. Might work once every two or three years... I suspect the future for city dwellers is going to be community systems; shared resources. The PV system on the roof will provide service for all of the building's tenants. You'll share both the cost & the benefits. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Moss Landing Pelican taking off
> On 14 July 2019 at 18:14 Bob Pdml wrote: > > > We have them in London, on the Serpentine. They eat the pigeons and small > children. On a sunny day in the park, with a little imagination and a bottle > or two of Lambrini, you can easily picture yourself on the upper reaches of > the Limpopo. Especially with the flocks of ring-necked parakeets swooping down for a drink and the hippos waddling around the water's edge. > > > On 14 Jul 2019, at 06:09, Alan C wrote: > > > > That's a nice set Larry. They make good subjects. Rare in Kruger (I've > > never seen one), occasionally coming up the Limpopo River to the northern > > parts. > > > > Alan C > > > >> On 13-Jul-19 09:15 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> I was driving home from work the other day, saw a pelican in the slough in > >> Moss Landing, and got a couple of frames before it took off. > >> > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/48270525717/in/album-72157709609068767/ > >> > >> > >> It turns out that there were a whole bunch of critters to photograph > >> there, most of which I can't ID beyond "that's a little bird with red > >> feathers on its head" > >> > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157709609068767 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Moss Landing Pelican taking off
We have them in London, on the Serpentine. They eat the pigeons and small children. On a sunny day in the park, with a little imagination and a bottle or two of Lambrini, you can easily picture yourself on the upper reaches of the Limpopo. > On 14 Jul 2019, at 06:09, Alan C wrote: > > That's a nice set Larry. They make good subjects. Rare in Kruger (I've never > seen one), occasionally coming up the Limpopo River to the northern parts. > > Alan C > >> On 13-Jul-19 09:15 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I was driving home from work the other day, saw a pelican in the slough in >> Moss Landing, and got a couple of frames before it took off. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/48270525717/in/album-72157709609068767/ >> >> >> It turns out that there were a whole bunch of critters to photograph there, >> most of which I can't ID beyond "that's a little bird with red feathers on >> its head" >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157709609068767 >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Computer Speakers
It's a Dolby 5.1 setup - Front Left-Center-Right; Surround (rear) Left-Right; plus sub-woofer. On 7/13/2019 11:59:45, P. J. Alling wrote: If they are simple tip ring ring interface speakers that's not surprising. USB speakers on the other hand can be difficult... On 7/12/2019 6:07 PM, John wrote: No big deal. I just thought y'all might enjoy hearing about something in my life that is NOT a minor disaster. At the same time I was going through all my travails with email, I discovered that my old (like 10+ years, maybe even more) computer speakers had failed. I got a new set to replace them. Delivered expeditiously, installed easily. Worked perfectly first time I turned them on. Everything worked out brilliantly. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO: Top of the 'Shroom to you
A top view of a wild mushroom I found in my yard yesterday. I like it as an abstract image. http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2019/7/14/top K-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F 2.8 Comments are invited and appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Mountain Aloe
Wow! Much more interesting and dramatic that the aloe that grows here! Nicely shot, Alan. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 11:03 AM Alan C wrote: > A couple of shots of a Mountain Aloe (Aloe Marlothii) in my next door > neigbour's garden. (Scroll R for the others). Along with the Cape Aloe > (Aloe Ferox) among the most spectacular of the aloes. After a couple of > dry years it looks as if 2019 will be a good one for the aloes. I'm busy > growing some seedlings from last years' seeds but they are still very > small after some months. It's hard to believe they will get this big. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/48280674997/ > > K5 with the DA 18-55 WR f4.5, ISO 100, 1/800sec. > > > Alan C > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
GESO: Mountain Aloe
A couple of shots of a Mountain Aloe (Aloe Marlothii) in my next door neigbour's garden. (Scroll R for the others). Along with the Cape Aloe (Aloe Ferox) among the most spectacular of the aloes. After a couple of dry years it looks as if 2019 will be a good one for the aloes. I'm busy growing some seedlings from last years' seeds but they are still very small after some months. It's hard to believe they will get this big. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/48280674997/ K5 with the DA 18-55 WR f4.5, ISO 100, 1/800sec. Alan C -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 5:22 PM William Robb wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 12:01 PM David J Brooks wrote: > > > But,l I refill my propane tanks, I'm doomed > > > > I've heard you refill your propane tanks with natural gas that your body > self generates. > "If its natural it has to be good". G Paltrow 2018. Dave > > bill > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO: Evil incarnate
I fell asleep in my chair and awoke staring at this: http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2019/7/14/vader Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Paul's NYTimes piece
> On 13 July 2019 at 18:23 Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > > Am 13.07.19 um 15:59 schrieb mike wilson: > > > This has been common sense for decades in urban environments. I used to > > use a motorcycle for normal transport and hire a car when I needed the > > capacity. It's only since becoming a parent and having a job that requires > > me to move stuff around on a regular basis that I have transitioned to car > > ownership. I'd go back to a bike in a heartbeat - and will when I retire. > > If you feel safe on anything with less than 4 wheels that's fine. I don't. > Feeling safe in a motor vehicle is pretty much a fallacy. It's also worth considering that a high feeling of security may be at least partly responsible for some of the poor and aggressive driving we see. Being on two wheels makes me acutely aware of my vulnerability and forces me to be fully aware of my surroundings. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
