Post #160,930
6/21/04 10:43:52 PM
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What are your three most prized possessions?
1. My bike. I still like to just look at it. I own a classic.
2. My Dad's 8th AAF shoulder patch and aircrew wings. They've been over Germany.
3. My TI-92+. This little 68000 based computer has been extremely useful since day 1 - whether to convert units, look up the value of Planck's constant, or crank out a calculation in Clifford algebras. It's also a blast to program (nice little script language that is sort of unique, or cross-compiled C).
-drl
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Post #160,931
6/21/04 10:45:39 PM
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My list.
1. My airplane.
2. My airplane.
3. My airplane.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #160,968
6/22/04 3:48:33 AM
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Luverly feeling in't it
Flying sure is a ball grabber :-)
Doug
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Post #160,938
6/21/04 11:06:31 PM
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Irreplacable things that people have made for me. Prob > 3.
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #160,943
6/21/04 11:21:05 PM
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Mine.
1) The Christian Brothers wine bottle I decoupaged in 3rd grade.
2) My HP-41CX.
3) My recliner.
It's a funny thing. I really had to think on this before I could come up with any answers....
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #160,966
6/22/04 2:42:40 AM
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Faith, knowledge, and self-control. (cf II Peter ;)
The only physical object which I would have difficulty giving up is my bass, but even that could go, given moderate cause.
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Post #160,973
6/22/04 6:17:18 AM
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control of my Peter is pretty important too
Since a youngun I have steeled myself to not get attached to people places or things. My self awareness, self respect is important but not much else.
thanx,
bill
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Post #160,982
6/22/04 8:07:10 AM
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AKA
L33tness, Map-knowledge, and the ability to select the shotgun in favour of the rocket launcher.
Peter
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Post #161,044
6/22/04 1:32:47 PM
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w00t
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Post #161,071
6/22/04 3:34:52 PM
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pwnt.
Peter
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Post #161,079
6/22/04 4:03:51 PM
6/22/04 4:15:50 PM
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Re: Faith, knowledge, and self-control. (cf II Peter ;)
My wife, my son, and my faith...
Physical objects would be my guitars :)
I just got one of these as a birthday present from my wife:
[link|http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/lespaul/Studio.html|http://www.gibson.co...spaul/Studio.html]
here's a pic:
[image|http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/lespaul/images/lpst_fi.jpg||||]
Pretty cool, huh?
Edit: added pic
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Steve
Edited by Steve Lowe
June 22, 2004, 04:15:23 PM EDT
Edited by Steve Lowe
June 22, 2004, 04:15:50 PM EDT
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Post #161,088
6/22/04 5:24:09 PM
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Hey! Nice present!
What are the chances I can talk your wife into getting me a Warwick Bubinga Thumb neck-thru 4-string for my birthday?
[image|http://www.warwick.de/include/getimage.php?imgid=00000000175||||]
(Just thought I'd ask...)
jb4
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Post #161,115
6/22/04 7:47:21 PM
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I empathize with that
Obviously I don't have faith, but the others I do. Substitute caring for faith and you might have a winner.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #160,967
6/22/04 3:43:53 AM
6/22/04 4:20:13 AM
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Re: What are your three most prized possessions?
1. Mind (if youv'e ever had a relative with alzheimers you'll know why - watched my Mother give up will to live, stopped eating & died after she could no longer live with not remembering who anyone was (cept my wife :-))
2. Reasonably good health & stamina (worth more than any wad of $s - my brother has been a paraplegic for 15 years after once being a country champion parachutist)
3. Pictures, images & videos of all my children & grandchildren (embryonic family dynasty records - If I lose them I lose a recorded history that many in our families future generations will learn so much from)
Doug M
#2 In fact in 10 days I will be in NZ at the 1st of my Dynasty's clan gathering (both my parents & my 1st wife's parents are dead so we is it!.
All the chillun, all the gran chillun, all the spouses & a few hangers on. First time we have all gathhered together in one country at one place, in recent years. Natch will be there with video cams & digital cams & lots of recording media. Ages will range from (aged but young :-) to 3 x 2 years old.
Gathering will be in a little sleepy little town in NZ called Wanganui. Biggest fame for it is that when IT was being decentralised, NZ Govt set up a govt bureau called the Wanganui Computer Centre. Figured it was to far from anywhere & anyone to ever be harmed or threatened. Anyone with malintent who goes there quickly succumnbs to its mind numbing simplicity. Below is a pic of one of my clan in her Wanganui high school winter uniform - this is dead serious (no joking).
[image|http://www.qwhs.com/netpics/dsc04489-3.jpg||||]
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!".
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
Edited by dmarker
June 22, 2004, 04:20:13 AM EDT
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Post #161,010
6/22/04 11:45:35 AM
6/22/04 12:34:05 PM
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Re: What are your three most prized possessions?
1. My 1968 Plymouth Fury III Commando V8 car.
2. The ID bracelet that my husband(to be) gave me when we first started dating in 1996.
3. Everything I've ever written.
Nightowl >8#
Edit: sorry, 1968 Plymouth.
"At last, a moment's peace!"
Edited by Nightowl
June 22, 2004, 12:34:05 PM EDT
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Post #161,014
6/22/04 11:59:14 AM
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Re: 1868 Plymouth? :)
Alex
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
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Post #161,015
6/22/04 12:00:16 PM
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I like my 1492 Plymouth just fine!
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Post #161,016
6/22/04 12:02:20 PM
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No, that's a 1620 Plymouth, if it's a day old!
Alex
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
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Post #161,019
6/22/04 12:08:43 PM
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No... Mine was the
Revisionist Edition.
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Post #161,025
6/22/04 12:36:41 PM
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Allright you silly guys...
It's a TYPO... hehee. 1968 Plymouth.
I fixed it. I didn't notice it sooner because I'm having severe ISP problems today, both with my main AND my backup. I can barely stay connected a few minutes.
Nightowl >8#
"At last, a moment's peace!"
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Post #161,078
6/22/04 3:59:07 PM
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Our Presyudent has that last problem, constantly.
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Post #161,119
6/22/04 8:17:01 PM
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I don't own them yet.
I honestly cant think of anything I own that I truly 'prize'. Some I'm proud of, some I like. That's it.
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It is much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why?
Because it is easier to give someone the finger than it is to give them a helping hand.
Mike Royko
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Post #161,135
6/22/04 10:26:38 PM
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Ah.. that was my problem, too
The Bugatti
Starry Night
Just one copy of the British Guiana One-cent Magenta
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Post #161,168
6/23/04 8:44:27 AM
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you DID say copy right? :-)
Anchorage AK: House for sale 3 bed 1 bath 1440 sq feet huge lot near Cheney Lake 175K FSBO 813.273.3518
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Post #161,124
6/22/04 9:08:54 PM
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Re: What are your three most prized possessions?
Wife and kids (but that makes 4)
Behind that are my guitars...no big mark names like fender or Gibson...but they are >mine<.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #161,125
6/22/04 9:19:05 PM
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Mine, too.
Hey! I can afford to have her repaired now! Once again I can be doing my guitar the great injustice of actually inflicting my chords and notes on her...
Besides that - a box containing a broken alarm clock and some Pokemon cards - given to me by my ex-fiance's kids... When they were given to me, they were THEIR most prized posessions.
And - believe it or not - a plush toy that I've had since infancy. It's in bad shape, but is preserved in a box.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #161,143
6/22/04 10:59:59 PM
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You move south? You own them now?
Or is this one of those Neocon cults you've gotten mixed up with?
[image|/forums/images/warning.png|0|This is sarcasm...]
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #161,144
6/22/04 11:02:17 PM
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No...I'm starting my own Islamic sect :-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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