Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

Yesterday at the Masters, Bubba Watson hit a drive that went almost 1100 feet. The fact that he was able to do this with a degree of precision is to me, absolutely incredible. 8O I do not play golf but I find watching a good match immensely enjoyable.

Billy, It's best just to tune all that garbage out. 90% of what goes out through the media is mindless drivel. A week from now the same idiots will be ranting and raving about something else. If possible, it's best to ignore stupidity; it only negatively affects an individual's state of mind.

What is the simplest method for downloading photos for an ad? I believe there is a limit for the size of a photo. When I take a photo each one is about 2.5 to 3 megs. Should I simply set my camera to the lowest resolution for ad photos.

What I am having to do now is download the photos, then send to an e-mail recipient/me(which automatically lowers the resolution of the photos in the e-mail). I then DOWNLOAD ALL and SAVE AS. Then I SAVE AS TYPE-All files-Save.

The files are saved as a zip file, which when opened, shows the photos listed as JPEG images. I then follow the normal procedure for placing the photos in an ad.

My procedure seems convoluted(probably an understatement) to me, but I so seldom place ads that this is the only way I know.

Any assistance on this will be greatly appreciated.

Anyone interested in the CWS beside me?

Billy, I'm afraid that is the nature of the capitalist system.

billy moss said:

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Does anyone know where 60mm tube rings can be found. All the advertisers that I have contacted, do mot make anything under 75mm. I have tried astro parts outlet, orion, and on ebay, I have put several wanted ads on astromart and cloudy night. Crawmach has made some items for me several years ago, but I have not been able to get in touch with him again, it seems that I read somewhere that he had quit, does anyone know. I have a nice black tube C-60 celestron(japan made) but no rings are to be found.
Billy

PM sent regarding 60mm rings.

I'm looking forward to the LSU/Arkansas game,the Mississippi State/ Alabama game, and hoping that Miami beats FSU.

I was checking on the Gas Buddy site earlier for prices in Louisiana and noticed it was down to $1.779 at a Costco and Sam's. I bought some here(Alexandria) at Walmart yesterday for $2.169 w/o a discount.

While reading this book, I came across a couple of passages that caught my eye, pertaining to the British author, Malcolm Muggeridge. Any of you who watched Firing Line with William F. Buckley might recall him being interviewed.

Apparently, Muggeridge who was at one time a skeptic, had written to Mother Teresa stating that he had no interest in Christianity because of all it's duplicity. She responded back, "Your problem is a finite one. God is infinite. Let the infinite take care of your finite struggle." Supposedly that resulted in his eventual conversion to Christianity.

The part about his problem being a finite one struck me as quite interesting. It seems that to view the world from a "finite perspective" is very limiting. If one has a sense/awareness of the infinite in just ordinary surrounding, an entirely new world opens up.

A quote by Muggeridge struck me as quite profound, "The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact".

To me, nothing could be more obvious. Man today is essentially man of 5000, 2000, 1000, etc. years ago. Anyone that thinks that mankind today is somehow more enlightened is sadly mistaken.

I was able to find some information over on CN, but I thought I'd check here as well. The rough focus on my Pro 100 is extremely "rough" to put it mildly. It works, but I can tell that it is out of adjustment. It came like that from the factory. It actually will make noise at one point of focusing and the focus movement is definitely not smooth.

Has anyone had any luck with adjusting and correcting these problems with the scopes? It appears to be a fairly common problem.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.