GeorgeBo wrote:
You know, I am still waiting for one of those baking soda powered toy submarines. Now that I think about it, that toy that was never delivered may have driven me to go into the Submarine Service.
International mail won by 2 hours 20 minutes. The loopy "two day priority mail" package was labelled correctly, and is great condition. I have no idea why it took so long.
James Markus wrote:
Fortunately I am a patient man. They both are out for delivery today - YAY! Only took five days from the other side of the planet, and twenty six days from >1200 miles away. Literally fedx versus usps. I once sent a international package to my love in Hobart Tasmania that got rejected in Hobart (after going through Sydney) for "insufficient postage". They sent it back across the planet for a lack of 38 cents. The local post office guy admitted he put the wrong weight on the package - let me add the 38 cents, and it arrived in 5 days. I always thought it was a great illustration of the word pedantic.
This leaves me speechless. Fortunately I don't have to make those decisions!
USPS is just unpredictable, though currently in my area Fedex is so far behind it will sit at the local distribution center for days after arriving there; I think the record for me is 9 days. I recently sold a lens and it made it in two days across Ohio via USPS Priority Mail, even though it had to leave Ohio, come back through, and then to the other side of the state.
HCE HCE wrote:
Why is it called cricket? Seems an odd name for a sport.
D800 24mm PC-E and 85mm AI-S
Something to do with the old English word for stick apparently !
From wiki -
Derivation of the name of "cricket"
In the earliest definite reference, it was spelled creckett. The name may have been derived from the Middle Dutch krick(-e), meaning a stick; or the Old English cricc or cryce meaning a crutch or staff, or the French word criquet meaning a wooden post.
Ken Hill wrote:
Andy that stadium shot in my mind is the G.O.A.T. shots ever. Has it all!!
From the roadside of rural Kentucky and Tennessee.
Thanks Ken ! I love it, I took the 16/3.5 on the Z6ii specifically for this shot I had in my mind's eye.
Great to see all corners of the States, keep them coming, I'll get there one day.
You may like this one, I had to drive up from Melbourne to Brisbane last week, I took an unplanned trip up what is called the Great Alpine Way over the mountains. This road is usually closed for part of the year due to snow (yes snow! in Australia!) and I passed through a few Skiing Resorts on the way. Even Ski lifts. Stopping bays to fit chains to your wheels and everything. All green right now of course and a great twisty road for the Benz.
HCE HCE wrote:
Why is it called cricket? Seems an odd name for a sport.
D800 24mm PC-E and 85mm AI-S
Although mainly played by Americans from former British colonies, it was played in Philadelphia years ago. Two very prestigious golf clubs statred as cricket clubs - Philadelphia Cricket Club, that has an Indian head/cricket bat logo and Merion Cricket Club, which founded Merion Golf Club in 1896.
If you find "cricket" obscure try the following
Wicket - the bowlers taget of three stumps sumounted by bails
Crease - an area in front of the wicket - there are two , the batting crease and the popping crease -one at each end of the pitch (also known as wicket)
Wicket keeper - the fielder (equivalent to catcher in baseball)
Bowler - the person bowling at the stumps
Over - there are six balls in an over (unless one or more is a no-ball (illegal delivery) in which case it has to be rebowled
Long leg - a fielder on the leg side (the batsman's back) at an angle of about 30* behind the wicket.
Short leg - a fielder behind the back of the batsman
In this day and age people just don't have the time to sit for 5 days following cricket, but I do remember sneaking a little pocket radio into school and listening to a game (way way back), and getting it confiscated by the teacher once he found out. Fortunately he gave it back to me at the end of the day
Oosty wrote:
Although mainly played by Americans from former British colonies, it was played in Philadelphia years ago. Two very prestigious golf clubs statred as cricket clubs - Philadelphia Cricket Club, that has an Indian head/cricket bat logo and Merion Cricket Club, which founded Merion Golf Club in 1896.
If you find "cricket" obscure try the following
Wicket - the bowlers taget of three stumps sumounted by bails
Crease - an area in front of the wicket - there are two , the batting crease and the popping crease -one at each end of the pitch (also known as wicket)
Wicket keeper - the fielder (equivalent to catcher in baseball)
Bowler - the person bowling at the stumps
Over - there are six balls in an over (unless one or more is a no-ball (illegal delivery) in which case it has to be rebowled
Long leg - a fielder on the leg side (the batsman's back) at an angle of about 30* behind the wicket.
Short leg - a fielder behind the back of the batsman
Thanks Andy!!! I will dream of traveling to Australia to watch cricket once international travel isn't subject to the vagaries of a fast mutating virus. For that matter travel to Europe to watch football (soccer).
cadman342001 wrote:
This is why I like Melbourne so much, more than Sydney (Ben!). A trendy roof top bar that does amazing vegan calamari and lots of obscure beers but also, the city, a miss mash of old and new, thousands of hidden bars and eateries and old interesting buildings. I don't know Sydney that well but it seems to me that outside of The Rocks area it's not like that. But Sydney Harbour is amazing.
Now, see that pointy dome roof on the right side of the pic? Those of you have been here long enough may recognise the next pic. The shopping mall was built around the victorian era shot tower.
A shot tower was for making shot for shotgun pellets etc. the point being if you drop lead from the top it forms into a perfect sphere as it falls, landing in sand below.
I think the submarine came with captain crunch, maybe I am wrong, lol, that was a lot of years ago. I remember even before that the seed catalogues with rewards like Xray glasses and sea monkeys. lol Z7 sold, nibbles on D500, not sure whether I will sell the XT-4 or not. Ordered the 40mm D.C. George. Just waiting on my half case and a few more helicoils.
Some shots from yesterday. It'd been a week since I picked up the Df. My shoulder issue became a whole arm issue. It has been diagnosed as a pinched nerve on the neck. I am seeing a physiotherapist. I think it is helping although I have been warned progress will be slow.
Love that plant in the 1st one Siphiwe, they have a variety here but it's classed as a weed, really vibrant yellow and red with many names including Scarlet Flame Vine.
You are right Samy, 5 days is too long for most these days but is still my preferred form of the game, used to watch England getting pumped on the BBC in my school summer holidays. Nothing changes, just a different country these days !
The game I took in at the MCG was a Big Bash 20/20 game and only last about 3h 30m and was very enjoyable but I think I would have preferred to watch a 50 over game.
I got lured by the sheen on another originally non-ai Nikkor P (factory ai'd later). It looked like brand new and was inexpensive. It simply is beautiful, and it is like I found a lens forgotten on the shelf for 50 years & 5 day shipping! - all shot with the 55mm f3.5 AI'd.
The sheen that hooked me
Home for a period metal front cap I been hanging onto for years
Look at how bright the aluminum is - amazing.
flawless glass
Still playing with the long-way-round package, but it was worth the wait. I did find one flaw on the 180mm f2.8 ai'd lens. There is a tiny, tiny rub (about the size of a fly poo) on the back edge of the builtin hood. It really looks like a highlight to me, but I would think that it makes it miss the Rafael perfection seal of approval.
I have a decidedly less sheen-y version of that lens, this one is gorgeous! The images from it will be very enjoyable.
James Markus wrote:
I got lured by the sheen on another originally non-ai Nikkor P (factory ai'd later). It looked like brand new and was inexpensive. It simply is beautiful, and it is like I found a lens forgotten on the shelf for 50 years & 5 day shipping! - all shot with the 55mm f3.5 AI'd.
Still playing with the long-way-round package, but it was worth the wait. I did find one flaw on the 180mm f2.8 ai'd lens. There is a tiny, tiny rub (about the size of a fly poo) on the back edge of the builtin hood. It really looks like a highlight to me, but I would think that it makes it miss the Rafael perfection seal of approval....Show more →
James - that 180mm looks great, although I wonder if you would give those of us not familiar with fly poo another point of reference as to the size of the rub mark?
Fingers crossed, the post is working well in Europe. I've received parcels from France, Ireland and Germany, they usually take 4 or 5 days depending on the day of the week they're posted.
I haven't been out to shoot for a week or so, so here's an early effort with the 5cm f1.4 LTM
cadman342001 wrote:
I now am living in Brisbane for new job starting in Jan, more specifically the southern suburbs between Bris and the Gold Coast.
Suburb after suburb of 1970's brick.
I lived in Brisbane for a short while when I was a child. I loved it then. When I went back 30 years later I was shocked by the high rise and the new developments. It looked more 90s than 70s to me, but then I didn't go into the suburbs. I'd love to live on the Gold Coast, in fact, I'm considering it, except I don't think I could afford it.
