Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Nov 09 2019 17:22:00 Hi Nancy! Hmm: starting to get dark out there and not even dinner time! BM> I don't have a reason to fly to Vienna without my Mother so "picking BM> her up in Boston" is the only makes-sense option. And she BM> really-really- REALLY likes Swiss (airline) so not going to change BM> that. BM> As for any other flying, Moline (IL - MLI) is just too convenient so BM> would be the starting and ending points. Easy to fly into Chicago or BM> Detroit (United and Delta hubs, respectively), or other cities. LIS, BM> mostly depends on location. NB> Indeed... both your location, and where you are trying to get NB> to... :) Right. And LIS last summer was considering changing routes a bit just so wouldn't have to get up so early for the starting leg -- good thing I didn't because of something happening at the terminal I was considering flying in to. Not recalling what it was but would have more than likely delayed my arrival in NH, so all the convenience of a little extra sleep would have been discarded. BM>> When I was growing up in southern New Hampshire any major flying was BM>> done out of Logan International (Boston - BOS); there was an airport BM>> in Nashua NH but no commercial flights, next one was in Manchester NH BM>> -- I don't recall much about it back then other than it was a military BM>> airbase. While I was in college Manchester (MHT) took off (no pun BM>> intended!) and became an alternative of sorts to Logan, only 50 miles BM>> away. That allowed it to really expand and is now "Manchester - BM>> Boston Regional", so a lot of travel which had gone to BOS now goes BM>> to MHT. Lots of shuttle services between the two airports and the BM>> areas between, air and ground. NB>> Makes sense to divert some of the traffic off of Logan... keep it NB>> from getting too congested.... BM> Right, and I don't think they can expand too much -- fill in Boston BM> Bay? No idea if there was an actual plan to make Manchester (NH) the BM> 'expansion' or if it just sort of happened. NB> Hard to say... could have been either, or some of both... The NB> airports around DC are similar, at taking some of the load off NB> each other... with BWI the major one, and the other two having NB> their own particular benefits for certain situations... ;) I think somewhat the same for Chicago's O'Hare (ORD) and Midway (CHIA -- hmm: go to Brazil and land at PET ?!) -- close enough to take some of the traffic off the primary airport. BM>> Also was thinking: we tend to think of the Earth as flat. Not BM>> thinking Flat Earth Society flat, but flat as in table top map rather BM>> than the actual sphere, which tends to alter the perception of where BM>> things are. Looking at a flight path mapping ORD to ZUR is a definite BM>> arced route on the flat map -- closer to a straight line on a globe. BM>> Plus that route is north of the US's New England boarder with Canada, BM>> so BOS is a detour. (The things one finds out with these little BM>> chats!) NB>> Never know what might prompt looking up things and learning details... BM> Keep going East and I end up in ....Spain?! I'll admit to generally BM> thinking England or maybe France is more easterly but they're north. BM> Does make sense because know the coastal ocean water flow is pushed BM> out towards England and causes their fog by Cape Cod. (Filed under BM> "Things only a New Englander generally knows". ) NB> UBI's, a friend of mine used to call things like that... Useless NB> Bits of Information.... but often interesting... :) And sometimes called 'trivia': not too important, but sometimes important enough in some instances not to be trivial. 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 to NB>>> go... and then one might even learn the right word for it... :) BM>> Right. Some times the correct word makes just as much if not more BM>> sense than the descriptive word/s: "picture too big" ==> "overscan", BM>> though that makes sense only if one realizes the display on the screen BM>> is really being scanned and not magically appears. OTOH "judder' -- BM>> maybe derived from 'jerking' and 'shudder'? ...My brain hurts! NB>> Now that's a word I'd not heard before.... ;) BM> Nor I, which probably contributed to why I (and others) didn't know BM> how to describe the visual effect in a single word. NB> But a useful word to learn, at least in this context... :) Yes, as you have said in other messages better to learn the right word to use. Though as the taglines says, what's the use of learning how to speak proper English if no one will understand. ("Doo-flingy" is not a sufficiently technical term in just about any conversation.) OTOH, one does have to find out what the correct word is in order to be able to use it. BM>>> One way of learning is to get thrown into the pool! NB>>> As long as one doesn't drown doing it... BM>> But then one could have a whole new set of error messages! Reboot BM>> could be 'everone out of the pool'; a computer freeze could be 'system BM>> went ice fishing but the hole disappeared'..... NB>> No thank you..... ;0 BM> I'm thinking the novelty would wear off very quickly. NB> Exactly...! "The wording is there but no one there to appreciate"? ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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