OT Things to ponder

[scout1]

A golf course ? Didn't know Gorns have taken up the sport ...

[Barb]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

An assortment.....

Actually a great photo of several FAA planes used during the war:
On the right - Two Fairey Barracuda
In the center - Grumman Martlet
In the front: Vought Corsair
Up front: Supermarine Seafire

[geofflambert]

I just had a Thanksgiving experience that may be atypical from what I've heard. Many people present voted one way in this past election and many others voted the other way including in some cases opposite of their spouses. No blood was spilt. We talked about anything but politics and we talked about fun stuff that amused everyone.

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Guess number one

Not exactly on the Tn/AL line it's about 35 miles from there[:)]

[MakeeLearn]

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[MakeeLearn]

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[geofflambert]

Here's a first for me, a Carolina Wren. It's vibrating so much all the pics I took are a bit blurred. The feeder is in perfect focus. That blur on the right is a female House Finch.

[geofflambert]

I watched the fog roll in this morning. First one streetlight off towards the river, then the next, then the next and so forth.

[geofflambert]

What is up with this guy's ears? Funny looking.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

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warspite1

To be fair, this gentleman has chosen the only sensible option here.

[geofflambert]

So, I'm supposed to be counting birds today and tomorrow for the Cornell Ornithology Lab. I hate it when people start a sentence with "so". In the dawn hour I saw a finch on one of my feeders. A female House Finch. One bird. Next one I saw was a Cooper's Hawk. It was sitting on my fence. For four hours straight. No other birds dared come around. So my count for the morning was two birds, one finch and one hawk. There were some more in the afternoon but they were wary. That hawk is starting to act like my personal pet, always hanging around. He looks at me. That don't make no never mind to him (Festus Hagen reference). Nuts.

[geofflambert]

There were people jogging by looking at that bird. They even crossed the street to put some distance between them.

[geofflambert]

I have at least one Barred Owl in the neighborhood and their calls are almost as funny as Kookaburra's. Go here and click on the green buttons to hear them. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/sounds

[MakeeLearn]

I almost ran over a Bald Eagle, Saturday as I was going to town. It flew up from the side of the road.

[geofflambert]

Are you saying you almost discriminated against an eagle simply because he was bald?

[geofflambert]

As you all may be aware, I'm trying to get ready to play AW1Steve in a campaign PBEM. I downloaded and installed the 1126b current beta into my Beta2 folder. It replaced the shortcut I was using. At first try I got a missing PW data error. I put back in the switches I had been using and still got the same error. I only do this every year or two so I can never remember what to do. Here's my path: "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -fd -altFont -px1920 -py1080 -archive -cpu1 -w

What now?

[geofflambert]

Here's the contents of the Beta2 folder




When I installed it, it wanted to install it to the regular folder and not the Beta2 folder but I changed the target destination to the Beta2 folder. Was that a mistake?

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

I almost ran over a Bald Eagle, Saturday as I was going to town. It flew up from the side of the road.

That happened to me once. Driving across South Park Colorado (not the cartoon) with a camper and my boat just at dusk. Driving down the highway at 65-70 mph, over a slight rise and Boomp, There It Is!! That guy was @ 7 ft off the ground. I locked up the whole rig, he sailed right over us. To this day I don't know how I missed him [X(]

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert


What now?

Is that shortcut valid?

[Anachro]

Extract the exe from beta2 folder to your main folder (I would only do this in a copy of the game and not your base vanilla installation). Run the shortcut with switches from your main folder then.

Or make sure in properties for the shortcut that it is set to start in the main folder and not the beta2 folder.