SevenSeasJim

I've only sold CD's on one occasion, so there's some horrible gems in my collection....of the top of my head, The Best Of Krokus comes to mind.

I didn't realize that Krokus had enough songs for a best of album.

C'mon Badams update your signature line.

I'll comment on Lindros later' date=' too hung over right now.[/quote']

That's better, although I'm confused about this god thing.

Just some extra information about the moon.

The Moon Illusion

The moon illusion is one of the most famous of all illusions. Stated simply, the full moon, when just above the horizon, appears much larger than when it is overhead. Yet the moon, a quarter of a million miles away from the earth, always subtends the same angle wherever it is in the sky, roughly 0.5 degrees.

The first problem is for photographers. A wonderful picture presents itself, with the full moon just rising above a spectacular horizon. Click, the picture is taken. Yet the result is disappointing. The moon seems much smaller in the photograph than it did when viewed with the naked eye. Even professional photographers fall for this one. Yet on a normal lens, 50mm on a 35mm camera, the field of view is around 50 degrees, and the width of the moon, subtending an angle of 0.5 degrees, will be 100th of the width of the photo! Many photographs that you see in magazines, containing both a moon and a landscape, will be composites. The landscape will be taken with a normal lens, the moon taken with a telephoto lens, to get a bigger image.

How does this illusion come about? Since the moon always subtends an angle of 0.5 degrees, the image on the retina must always be the same. Clearly the problem is one of interpretation. One simple experiment shows this to be so. A full moon just above the horizon will not appear so large to the human eye if a piece of paper is held up to that eye with a hole in it, so that only the moon can be seen through the hole and not the horizon. If the other eye is open at the same time, viewing both the moon and the horizon, the two eyes will each see different sized moons!

The explanation is believed to be as follows. We 'know' that a cloud that is overhead will be larger than when it moves towards the horizon. And an airplane that is a mere speck on the horizon becomes large when it is overhead. And we are all familiar with standing under a tree which seems enormous, yet at a couple of hundred paces seems insignificant. It would seem that so much of our world is interpreted this way that we are ill-equipped to cope with an object like the moon, that subtends the same angle at the eye, whatever position it occupies in the sky. And so our brain 'interprets' the image that it 'sees', and tells us that the moon is larger than it really is.

C'mon Badams update your signature line.

Leafs went 7-16 on the power play.

Leafs up 4-0 through 2 periods in Atlanta.

Tucker with 1g 3a so far.

I I'm the freaky long blonde/grey haired dude

I'm glad to see that you added the grey part :wink:

I just saw the replay's from the Det/LA game last night and Kirk Maltby gave Avery a good sucker punch with his glove on. I said Kirk Maltby.

They had Karsten Heuer + Leanne Allison on CBC radio today talking about this film. Sounds interesting. Has anybody seen this?

It's showing in Ottawa on Oct 24/05.

Link to site

no but i am watching the ball games ' date=' oh oh who do you think will win

the team that won on sunday

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Probably the purple team.

They had Karsten Heuer + Leanne Allison on CBC radio today talking about this film. Sounds interesting. Has anybody seen this?

It's showing in Ottawa on Oct 24/05.

Link to site

no wonder everyone's grandmother wanted to stick her tongue up his ass.

I always knew my grandmother was a little fucked but I didn't know why...

I thought you were talking about this :grin:

McIntosh apples out in N.S., Honeycrisp in

ast Updated Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:20:06 EDT

CBC News

Farmers in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley are planning to scale back on a traditional Canadian apple in exchange for a newer, more lucrative American variety.

Waldo Walsh, president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association, says old varieties like the McIntosh have fallen out of favour. The McIntosh apples, first developed in Ontario from a single tree in the early 1800s, are often sold at cost.

Walsh and other producers in the province say they'll rip out 10 per cent of their orchards and replace them with a variety called Honeycrisp, which Walsh says could earn four times as much as the McIntosh.

The Honeycrisp is a cross between a Macoun and a Honeygold. It was developed at the University of Minnesota and grows well in colder climates. The university's Horticultural Science department describes the apple as "explosively crisp."

Nova Scotia growers have been shipping Honeycrisp into the U.S. for years.

"The reports we're getting back from the people we're dealing with down there is that ours are superior compared with the other ones they can buy on the market," said Walsh.

Walsh says the replanting operation will take five years, at a cost of around $5 million. He hopes the province will kick in about one-quarter of the money

Jim Rome is all over this story on today's show.

Freaking hilarious takes.

I've only listened to Rome 2 or 3 times and found him annoying. For those of you you listen to him regularly, does he know what he's talking about?

I predict that I am done predicting Habs games :wink:

Have you e-mailed the Customer Care link on the website?

shoes for each season.

Are you telling me that people don't wear steel-toed boots through all seasons :wink:

To add to this....if the person you were talking to is making minimum wage then they probably (prolly for some of you) don't give a fuck. If it was a manager then I would start kicking ass.

When your pet starts to get old, you'll kick yourself for not having pet insurance.

That's what the ground behind the shed is for :grin:

-Willy, what dog was Baggie playing with?

and Souray will lay a beating on Neil.

Sens 5 Mtl 2

Wouldn't it be fun to do this sort of thing in baseball? If the game goes longer than 9 innings have just one extra inning then a homerun derby to decide the winner :grin:

I'm not a big fan of the shoot-out either. Too gimmicky. In my opinion it takes away from the game. Hasek's penalty for playing the puck outside "the zone" was bullshit as well. Unfortunately many of these new rules are for the casual fan and not the knowledgeable/purist fan. I do like the smaller goalie equipement though. Every game you see a goal that would not have gone in before.

I hear Med School is looking for students :grin:

well, mother nature is really starting to show her hatred of all of us. Hurricans, Monsoons and now a huge earthquake.

What an odd thing to say.