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Posts Made By: John Hopkins

June 16, 2003 11:41 AM Forum: Religion

Re: SHHHHHHHH!

Posted By John Hopkins
Right you are. In tech support we're allowed to surf all we want as long as no calls are waiting. If my posts ever seem scatterbrained, it's because we really don't have quiet days around here and by the time my post is done it's been interrupted several times. (This one was interrupted twice.)

And I don't visit astromart on the weekends, unless I'm really itching to buy something.

June 16, 2003 11:51 AM Forum: Religion

Speaking of death... (death clock) :-O

Posted By John Hopkins
Uh, thanks anyway. I'm already morbid on Mondays...

June 16, 2003 04:48 PM Forum: Religion

Tribalism versus religion

Posted By John Hopkins
>>I would argue that tribalism, not religion is at the root. <<

Yes, but as Eddie Izzard said about the NRA dictum that people kill people, not guns: "I think the gun *helps*." The source of conflict in the middle east is not only land, but the fact that this disputed land is being contested for between two groups most definitely identified by their religious affiliation. Israel is a Jewish state, period. All the countries around them are mainly Islamic with small pockets of other religions (in countries, that is, that haven't outlawed other religions).

You could use 'tribalism' to describe nearly any grouping effect among people. All of us long-haired headbangers back in the late 70s were most certainly our own tribe. Then we decided we needed to eat and pay the rent more regularly, and the tribe kinda dissipated. (This sounds like a silly analogy, but it works to a degree. I distinctly recall the suspicious looks I got after admitting I liked a Devo album!)

June 30, 2003 12:18 PM Forum: DVDs and Music and Books That You Recommend

Guilty pleasures and a DVD-R question

Posted By John Hopkins
Thanks James, but this is a different question. I already have a 'tweaked' player to run discs from other regions. wink

I'm talking DVD-Rs, in other words home-burned stuff. I had a standalone recorder for a while but since they're still pretty expensive and should come down in price soon I sold it. All the discs I burned played fine in my old player but have problems in the new one. Not only that, but a few that I received from someone who burned his on a PC DVD-RW drive barely play at all.

I get the feeling I'll need to try these in some other brand of dvd player before I'll have an answer.

July 14, 2003 12:12 PM Forum: Religion

Guess this falls under Philosophy;

Posted By John Hopkins
>>THERE ARE 2 THEORIES TO ARGUING WITH A WOMAN..NEITHER WORKS<<

"The only way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run." --John Barrymore

>>WHEN YOU'RE FULL OF BULL, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.<<

"Never miss a good chance to shut up." --Scott Beach's grandfather

While I'm at it:

"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy." --W.C. Fields

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." --Oscar Wilde

"Poets are mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." --G.K. Chesterton

"'Whom are you?' said he, for he had been to night school." --George Ade

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." --last words of Pancho Villa

July 14, 2003 12:59 PM Forum: DVDs and Music and Books That You Recommend

Gangs of New York

Posted By John Hopkins
Well I didn't find it boring and thought it was very, very well made. However it *is* excessively bloody so it will be the best movie that I'll never, ever watch again.

July 15, 2003 02:36 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Collimation=disadvantage???

Posted By John Hopkins
>>I am not trying to fuel the<< (etc.)

You don't have to try. Mere mention of anything that remotely compares sct's/newts/refractors will light a fire in this forum.

July 15, 2003 03:03 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Televue 41 Pan vs. Pentax 40 XW

Posted By John Hopkins
>>In my opinion the cost of both of these EP's is extreme<<

The cost of this hobby is extreme! (mostly)

IMO the premium diagonals and EPs are worth it, period. I have no hard data to back this up, only my subjective experience at the scope.

July 16, 2003 11:36 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

"202 New"

Posted By John Hopkins
All together now:

Oh say can you see
Through an air-spaced triplet
The entire damn Veil
Or a nebulous fuzzy

Through a fourteen inch Dob
The Pleiades look cool
But just try to resolve
Cassini with a short-tube

And the wait makes you frown
As the Cat-thing cools down
Just one little bump
And you'll curse out your go-to

So sell that tiny apo
And get one of these truss beasts
You'll need a bigger truck
But you'll see Hadley's Rille

July 28, 2003 05:32 PM Forum: Religion

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Posted By John Hopkins
"Keep Honking While I Reload"

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