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by Slider & Smurf
07 August 09 11:46 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Launching Australia's First Ever Mega Event-Wagga Wagga 2010
Replies: 484
Views: 187279

Re: Launching Australia's First Ever Mega Event-Wagga Wagga 2010

Slider & Smurf plus the 2 kidlets will be there with camper-trailer in tow.

Andy.
by Slider & Smurf
16 January 08 6:20 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Geocache saves mountain climbers
Replies: 7
Views: 2779

Geocache saves mountain climbers

Thought you folks would appreciate this story, all over the news today here -<br> <br> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004126199_webclimbers15m.html<br> <br> A couple of climbers got stuck on Mt Hood in Oregon, and dug themselves a snow cave - right on top of a geocache. The content...
by Slider & Smurf
23 June 07 2:04 am
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: WAAS, so what?
Replies: 13
Views: 4292

I don't believe the groundstations are obselete - there are a few more due to come online sometime in the next couple of months (northern summer). Our experience with WAAS, we were often getting down to less than 10 feet, or 2-3m. A bit better than the 4m you're now getting, but at that point we're ...
by Slider & Smurf
16 June 07 9:27 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Australia National Geocaching Team Tshirts
Replies: 18
Views: 6473

Another vote for the Hanes Cafepress shirts - our netball team here has a number of clothing items through Cafepress, and they all hold up very well.
by Slider & Smurf
30 April 07 4:43 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Travel Bugs
Replies: 6
Views: 2266

Must've hurt to keep up that Attenborough accent for so long!! Good job Mix :D
by Slider & Smurf
30 April 07 4:32 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: They shot Scotty
Replies: 2
Views: 1368

Here's an article from the local paper about the event - Scotty spent his last years in Seattle, hence the coverage. <p> Also explains a little about why the launch was sub-orbital rather than a one-way flight - NASA defines "space" as above 50mi, so with this trip Scotty finally earned his astronau...
by Slider & Smurf
28 April 07 5:21 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Lest we forget. 07
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

There's something to be said for the smaller remembrance services, too - we were in the UK for Anzac Day in 2000, and participated in a service at a local church cemetery. We had a bugler for the Last Post and Reveille, a British Army piper in dress uniform - and only about 20 people gathered. Toget...
by Slider & Smurf
25 April 07 2:32 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Linux On a Palm Treo 650
Replies: 11
Views: 3685

There's rumours circulating about the next PalmOS version being based on Linux, but nothing at the moment to 'reflash' an existing PalmOS machine.
by Slider & Smurf
19 April 07 4:54 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Proud Dad
Replies: 11
Views: 4281

She's a real cutie, Embi ... they grow so fast, don't they? Isobel has been crawling for a little over two weeks now, and she's into EVERYTHING!! I feel like we're fighting floodwaters, we're shuffling everything two inches higher each day :wink:
by Slider & Smurf
07 April 07 3:34 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: On the topic of Geowives....
Replies: 35
Views: 12054

Stable tables (with the bean bag base) also work pretty well for keeping hot laptops off your lap.
by Slider & Smurf
03 April 07 10:32 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Film Buff Challenge
Replies: 142
Views: 36548

Re: Film Buff Challenge

Bronze wrote:#7 - I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.
Vivien Leigh, as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
by Slider & Smurf
03 April 07 3:02 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Film Buff Challenge
Replies: 142
Views: 36548

Re: Film Buff Challenge

Bronze wrote:#1 - We're alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs.
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Audrey Hepburn, as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
by Slider & Smurf
29 March 07 5:10 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Not "Fleet to Federation" Call for naming ideas...
Replies: 47
Views: 12375

Beach to Birdsville?
by Slider & Smurf
24 March 07 12:38 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: OT: Parenting
Replies: 62
Views: 16839

My wife refused to shop with our oldest son anymore when he was about 4. He chucked a full on tanty one day in the supermarket because he couldn't get what he wanted, so I chucked a bigger one right next to him mimicking everything he did until he ran out of the shop. <p> And I thought Slider was t...
by Slider & Smurf
18 March 07 1:42 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: OS Maps for Ozi
Replies: 1
Views: 1284

Can't say we've tried them, but we giggled about a company offering GPS maps that are "optimazed" ... is that using a wall follower or recursive backtracker algorithm?! :wink: