ExiledInIllinois

The transistor. /EndThread 😆 People aren't inventions, God doesn't make mistakes!

I agree a bit with you. The 1962s were the worse... BUT Nader did usher in changes... People were still getting impaled on their steering wheels with all makes models without collapsing steering columns, and other safety advances... Unfortunately, the Corvair took the brunt of the hit. I mean, the 1962s did need aftermarket tweaking. That's kinda bad...

You may have saved your life... conversely, you may have been smarter than most: https://www.goldeagle.com/tips-tools/was-the-corvair-as-bad-as-ralph-nader-claimed/ "Unsafe at any speed."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-photographer-explains-captured-moment-185519596.html Great article!

I still watched it in all it's glory! That's printed in my memory! Yet... You gotta learn it somehow... The camera aspect. I will be a pro for my next eclipse shooting. I learned so much more shooting it for the duration. Exposures, my camera, etc... Such a valuable learning experience! I just need better time management. I didn't think it was that critical. Every second in totality counts when shooting. I didn't think it was gonna be that dark in totality. I knew you could take off glasses off, but didn't realize lens filter must come off to. Pretty stupid I know, but 4 minutes breeze by when your staring up in awe... Totally slipped my mind that street lights would come on.

"Look... I was going to kill her, but I got the yips and stumbled into Nicole and Ron getting tuned-up by random. You gotta believe me!" 😏 So much vice signaling in this thread. 😆🤣

Just a thought. What if OJ walked into an Andy Dufrasne situation? 😏 How would they have ever defended that. Wouldn't it be easier to win his defense on the sloppy and racist cop work? Of course he still guilty in civil...

That was a nice left/one handed catch by Joe Namath during warm-ups!!! 😆 My father @ the VA turned around and asked the doctor if he should kiss him. They threatened to send him to the psych ward. 😆... Ah the good ole days! Try that humor today and one may take you up on the offer!

Good. Money well spent for the little guy!

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Then let them run though the posh digs when they get home! Just don't let them in the other vehicle! 😉

Of course take the dog to the farmer's market in the Lexus. 😆🤣

Life isn't about "stuff" it's about experiences! 😆🤣 I heard that somewhere before, but forgot where! 😆

The perfect lineup is called get a Pentax. No holes in the Pentax lens line up for mirrorless... Pentax cameras are totally backwards compatible with any Pentax lens ever made. Sure you won't get all the modern features, but you can always shoot pure manual mode with the +50 year old lens or even the one's you can match pre K-mount days. They were a little bit late into the digital game, but Pentax came on strong, did it right and now are here to stay! Why I stayed with them, I have no wasted glass acting as paper weights.

Getting the right filters and such, at least one can take pictures of the sun now. Setting up for the eclipse opened the door to other shooting not normally done. Not as good as the West Seneca police, but epic still the same:

West of Cleveland was cloudless @ times... Then a little later just high wispy cirrus clouds. I took my glasses off for totality... Then hunting around on camera LCD and could find nothing but black... I forgot to take lens filter off! 4 minutes goes by fast when things are going wrong. I wish I clould have practiced this thing!😕

The way I am reading this: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-69.03714,54.49219&extent=82.67628,189.49219&map=false Is there was another one in New Jersey, 3.8 @ about 5pm local time. This list is only the ones +2.5 or higher, last 24 hours, around the world. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/there-was-just-an-earthquake-in-new-york-city-what-we-know.html

Actual earthquake:

Well there are 120 million people on the Eastern Seaboard. Just wait till the tsunami alarms go off.😆🤣

USGS is saying: Califon, New Jersey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-88.6516,-229.92188&extent=88.63495,40.07813&map=false While I got everyone's attention, notice there was some activity @ the mid-Atlantic Ridge the past 24 hours. Wonder if it's related?

My daughter felt it in South Jersey.

Meet the grandpuppies mom!

This one is for the ShoutBox ragers: