Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Oct 27 2019 09:30:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Seems funny to take someone to Canadian airport but for your location BM>> probably makes more sense. Playing with Google Maps -- takes about BM>> an hour longer to drive to Boston than to Montreal. NB>> The Montreal is the closest actual international airport to the NB>> Pond... his flight from Istanbul was non-stop direct... and it's NB>> about 2 1/2 hours from the Pond... BM> So makes more sense to use Montreal. Just 'sounds funny' with my BM> limited experience. NB> I've flown out of Toronto to Great Britain a couple of times... NB> made for a less expensive and better connecting flight... A NB> British friend of mine that lived here in the Rochester airport NB> told me that she flew that way all the time when she'd make trips NB> back home, so I gave it a try... :) Makes sense. The various locations play a big part. When I was growing up in southern New Hampshire any major flying was done out of Logan International (Boston - BOS); there was an airport in Nashua NH but no commercial flights, next one was in Manchester NH -- I don't recall much about it back then other than it was a military airbase. While I was in college Manchester (MHT) took off (no pun intended!) and became an alternative of sorts to Logan, only 50 miles away. That allowed it to really expand and is now "Manchester - Boston Regional", so a lot of travel which had gone to BOS now goes to MHT. Lots of shuttle services between the two airports and the areas between, air and ground. BM> And LIS in a message last week, I had assumed the Swiss (airline) BM> flight to Chicago was the same as the one at Boston - nope. Guess a BM> thousand miles isn't that much more for an international flight. NB> They do tend to use the larger planes, with a longer flight NB> ability... When tends to work out well as landing in the ocean to refuel isn't done! ...Overland one needs to watch out for those short runways! Also was thinking: we tend to think of the Earht as flat. Not thinking Flat Earth Society flat, but flat as in table top map rather than the actual sphere, which tends to alter the pereption of where things are. Looking at a flight path mapping ORD to ZUR is a definite arced route on the flat map -- closer to a straight line on a globe. Plus that route is north of the US's New England boarder with Canada, so BOS is a detour. (The things one finds out with these little chats!) NB>>>>> So now you just have to figure out how to make that work... :) BM>>>> And learn Python and other programming stuff..... NB>>>> Keeps your brain limber and flexible (as long as it doesn't totally NB>>>> overwhelm [g]).... BM>>> Right now I'd have to have a need other than 'handy to know'. BM>>> Admittedly a lot of my recent learning tends to be knee-jerk: this BM>>> isn't working, error code is , find what that means, etc. BM>>> And I really have no need to do programming -- well, in-depth, do do BM>>> some 'lite' stuff with the occasional scripting, but that's more BM>>> cookbook: patch in bits and pieces. Is more time consuming than if I BM>>> knew how to do from properly learning but.... NB>>> Maybe someday when you are caught up on all those projects, and NB>>> no But Firsts get in the way.... Maybe even take a course at NB>>> the community college, or online...? :) BM>> Isn't Googling for the answer considered 'on-line'? Actually BM>> taking a classroom or on-line class wouldn't be a bad idea. By the BM>> time all the But Firsts have dwindled down to allow for time to take BM>> the classes there won't be any crisis for me to use my new knowledge BM>> on! NB>> But it could be useful for the next crisis thereafter... ;) BM> True; really more reasons for than against taking the classes. NB> That's what it was looking like to me... :) But First....! NB>>>>> So understanding it might make reporting bugs better/easier.... :) BM>>>> True - I'd probably know better what was expected so would be able to BM>>>> narrow down the error information. NB>>>> Or at least be able to use the right jargon correctly... ;) BM>>> That would be helpful! NB>>> A reason to consider the whole idea more strongly... :) BM>> "So that's what the wachamacallit is called!!" NB>> [snicker] BM> There are times when I have and I have seen others describe what the BM> device looks like, what the screen appearance is, etc., because don't BM> know the term ==> "the display from the computer is larger than the BM> TV's showing" "Oh, you mean 'overscan'." NB> When one doesn't know the word, description is definitely the way NB> to go... and then one might even learn the right word for it... NB> :) Right. Some times the correct word makes just as much if not more sense than the descriptive word/s: "picture too big" ==> "overscan", though that makes sense only if one realizes the display on the screen is really being scanned and not magically appears. OTOH "judder' -- maybe derived from 'jerking' and 'shudder'? ...My brain hurts! NB>>>> Totally mind-boggling to me... I think I'll just avoid the huge NB>>>> files and stay happily in my old small system... ;) BM>>> Probably 95% of my files are the usual handful of megabytes; the BM>>> over-4GB ones are recordings of TV shows and normally I don't have a BM>>> thing to do with them other than select which one to play and the BM>>> computers handle the rest. Manual copying is rare, with the exception BM>>> of the Transfer Project. NB>>> Still mind-boggling to me... ;) BM>> Just the copying of the usual and customary small files on a grand BM>> scale! ...Though sometimes get into the little details of a file system BM>> will only handle so big a file and probably some other etc's. NB>> True.... and EXACTLY... BM> One way of learning is to get thrown into the pool! NB> As long as one doesn't drown doing it... But then one could have a whole new set of error messages! Reboot could be 'everone out of the pool'; a computer freeze could be 'system went ice fishing but the hole disappeared'..... ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Fatal Error: User Executed. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .