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A few years ago they put me in the 'attic' of the building, the 18th floor. From there I had this kind of a view: https://www.conrad-hotel.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/slider_1920_670_muenchen_Fotolia_78530602_XL_MichaelFleischmann.jpg
The mountains are not actually that close. That's a trick of photography, but on a clear day they take up the whole southern horizon.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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When I was a student, I tried to be a good student, getting up at 5:30-6:00 and spend a couple hours in the quiet, cool morning repeating the stuff from yesterdays lectures and preparing myself for the coming day, reading the textbook materials. At this time, I was in love with baroque music, and the early quiet morning was perfect for switching on, say, some Vivaldi flute concerts for a quiet background music.
Only it didn't work that way. Again and again, I caught myself in listening intensely to the beauty of the music, not reading a single word from the textbook for at least ten minutes. I didn't get any real study done. But I heard a lot of great music.
Wouldn't a view like the one in your picture have a simlar effect? It is simply too beautiful to be ignored. It is difficult to concentrate fully on something else. Maybe after a few months you get used to it, the beauty is no longer essential to you, and you can concentrate on your work. But then it has, to a certain degree, ruined the joy of the beauty. That is a little sad.
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Thanks for reminding me. I wanted to head out of town towards the mountains and record a (RC) helicopter video at different locations to make it appear as if its flying the entire way. Now where do I get a cameraman to shoot the scenes of it flying by?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Wow, That's some view! (Even if it's just a trick of photography  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's just an effect of the zoom they use for these pictures. The mountains are about 90 km away, but the zoom makes them appear as if they begin right after leaving the city.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Pity about the religious building in the foreground.
I once did a hot air balloon trip over Bagan, an amazing experience. When I mentioned this to the pilot his comment was "yeah but I do this every day for 5 months of the year", made me a little sad to hear that such beauty can become stale after a while.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I would not see it that way. Isn't it a good thing that the view does not distract him anymore and lets him do his job?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The larva has a metal track (11)
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Wild guess 
Amphitrocha
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And wild of the mark!
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Thank god for that 
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Oh caterpillar
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And you are up tomorrow! 
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I'll make superhuman effort to remember to post
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Google Calendar: It can send you an email 30 mins ahead of time (and any other days/hours/weeks ahead) to remind you. Google Calendar[^]
I use it for WSO CCC, MOT's, car Tax & Insurance, birthdays (that one is handy - repeat each year, remind me one week before, and then again three days before the date so I get a card).
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OriginalGriff wrote: I use it for WSO CCC, MOT's, car Tax & Insurance, birthdays (that one is handy - repeat each year, remind me one week before, and then again three days before the date so I get a card).
If you want to get a card, remind other people when your birthday is and they will send one to you.
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Hah! Not one of you buggers have ever sent me one! 
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Finito[^] became my instant favorite.
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I loved Sintel and Big Buck Bunny...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Yep, Both done by Blender. And opensource movies.
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The first thing I thought of when I read this was what about the delay and it turns it to have been issue for them. I can understand that. I used to have HughesNet for an ISP and measured 2000mS turn around times often.
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Just look at his nerdy shirt[^] 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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