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Post by Dub on May 15, 2023 22:27:58 GMT -5
Yup, and HAL was born in the Center for Advanced Computation at U of Illinois in Urbana, Ill. What do you mean? The center was a consultant for the film? They built the film's HAL hardware? What? (Please.) I think he means that was the story line from the film. Urbana was one of the legendary places in early computer science.
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Post by billhammond on May 16, 2023 7:21:38 GMT -5
What do you mean? The center was a consultant for the film? They built the film's HAL hardware? What? (Please.) I think he means that was the story line from the film. Urbana was one of the legendary places in early computer science. Ahhhhhhhh, I don't recall that detail. I was too busy singing along with a decelerating "Daisy, Daisy." Thanks for the clarification.
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Post by Marshall on May 16, 2023 9:18:56 GMT -5
I went to U of I. I took a couple Computer Science courses at the computer lab in Urbana. Of course I would remember that from the movie. The big thing back then was The Illiac Computer.
There were radical protests on campus back in the day, because the Illiac was the most advanced computer at the time, and 60% of the computational time was under contract to the DOD. So, how could the most advanced computer help mankind when 60% of it's time was dedicated to killing people?
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Post by Marshall on May 16, 2023 9:33:44 GMT -5
Actually, my commputer class wasn't in the Big computer center. But a fried of mine and I did a special project where we designed a fortran program that would calculate the strength of any reinforced concrete column. It had many, many do-loops in the program for every known strength of concrete and percentage of steel. George had a friend that worked in the big computer lab. So we got free off-hour time to run our program and print out the results, I had a 5 ft tall stack of computer printout from the final late-night print out of the program. Like 10 booklets. I kept a couple booklets for several years after to remind me of the project.
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Post by Hobson on May 16, 2023 11:38:39 GMT -5
Pier 39, part of Fisherman's Wharf. www.pier39.com/Not to pull the thread back on track.
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Post by theevan on May 16, 2023 14:43:22 GMT -5
When I married Wendy one of the things I wanted to do with her is travel since she has done so little travel. Besidesour honeymoon we've done several epic trips out west as well as numerous jaunts over to Texas as well as the Redneck Riviera (Gulf Shores/Perdido Key). Took a beautiful fall color trip up the Smokies/Asheville/Blue Ridge Parkway. Took her to Wales/Cornwall/London. Probably our favorite. Just got back from Romania/Switzerland. Another great trip.
She is GREAT to travel with. Both of us have cruised and neither of us find it our cup of tea.
Just booked fall color flights for Portland ME for fall color. We'll do Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont. It's on her bucket list and I used to live in New Hampshire.
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Post by Dub on May 16, 2023 15:25:28 GMT -5
…Both of us have cruised and neither of us find it our cup of tea. We don’t think we’d enjoy that either.
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Post by RickW on May 16, 2023 19:27:16 GMT -5
You worked out on your vacation? ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) (We like to work out too. Just not on vacation.) We did a cruise for our honeymoon, and very much enjoyed, and have not done it since. Susan’s sister and BIL go on incredibly expensive luxory cruises, and really like it. They just did one around Japan, but way outside our price range. We’re think of doing some all inclusive tours in Europe. Right now, we’ve been traveling to nice resorts around the province, and really enjoying that. This July we’re going to take a ferry to the central BC coast, to a place called Bella Coola, and then drive the somewhat hair raising road that goes from there to the interior. Should be fun. We’ll end with two days in Whistler, which is always great.
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Post by epaul on May 16, 2023 19:39:03 GMT -5
...Both of us have cruised and neither of us find it our cup of tea... No surprise there. Frankly, from all I know of you, I would be SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED if you were into the cruising scene. This really isn't a forum of cruisers... well... maybe Bill... there is a... ah... a friskiness to Bill that...that goes beyond just trying out the latest at Culver's. Oh, and Rob. Definitely Rob.
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Post by david on May 16, 2023 19:44:59 GMT -5
Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western skies On my cayuse let me wander over yonder 'Till I see the mountains rise I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses
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Post by Dub on May 16, 2023 20:28:20 GMT -5
...Both of us have cruised and neither of us find it our cup of tea... No surprise there. Frankly, from all I know of you, I would be SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED if you were into the cruising scene. This really isn't a forum of cruisers... well... maybe Bill... there is a... ah... a friskiness to Bill that...that goes beyond just trying out the latest at Culver's. Oh, and Rob. Definitely Rob. Concertinagirl waxes rhapsodic about cruises and reading her stories makes them sound fun, at least to me. I think it’s worth having cruise ships just to make Concertinagirl happy.
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Post by jdd2 on May 16, 2023 20:30:52 GMT -5
Culver's cruisers... might be sitcom in that.
(edit: but don't teach it schools)
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Post by Marshall on May 16, 2023 21:32:05 GMT -5
I have lotsa friends and relatives that go on and love cruises. But neither Sue nor I have any interest. I’ve been in a place, Bar Harbor Maine, when a cruise ship sailed in to harbor. And for a couple hours skiffs shuttled hoards of old people into town. And all day the benches and curbs were filled with old folks eating ice cream cones. The tee shirt shops were filled.
As nightfall came they all shuttled back on board and the ship tooted it’s horn as it pulled back out to sea. And we had the town to ourselves. A lovely quiet seafood dinner and watched the behemoth ship motor out of the harbor.
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Post by TKennedy on May 16, 2023 23:47:03 GMT -5
I have lotsa friends and relatives that go on and love cruises. But neither Sue nor I have any interest. I’ve been in a place, Bar Harbor Maine, when a cruise ship sailed in to harbor. And for a couple hours skiffs shuttled hoards of old people into town. And all day the benches and curbs were filled with old folks eating ice cream cones. The tee shirt shops were filled. As nightfall came they all shuttled back on board and the ship tooted it’s horn as it pulled back out to sea. And we had the town to ourselves. A lovely quiet seafood dinner and watched the behemoth ship motor out of the harbor. I have done one cruise, an Alaskan inland passage gig. Similar experience, pull into a port, regurgitate thousands of seniors into a little town like ants, pillage the curio shops and restaurants, and then herded back on board. It was quite a scene.
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Post by Marshall on May 17, 2023 8:41:20 GMT -5
I have to say my BIL & SIL do cruises to places like Norway and Iceland and love them. And some friends have done river cruises and rave about them. So, they are a good fun thing for many people.
But I still think I’ll pass on the idea.
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Post by Marty on May 17, 2023 8:46:17 GMT -5
Pier 39, part of Fisherman's Wharf. www.pier39.com/Not to pull the thread back on track. Oh! I thought you meant in San Pedro, never mind.
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Post by billhammond on May 17, 2023 8:47:20 GMT -5
I have to say my BIL & SIL do cruises to places like Norway and Iceland and love them. And some friends have done river cruises and rave about them. So, they are a good fun thing for many people. But I still think I’ll pass on the idea. Well, you're spoiled -- you've hiked in places like Portugal. ![](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/514360979/photo/walking-path-to-the-lakes-of-sete-cidades-azores-portugal.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=is&k=20&c=Ubb9rx8C1v6stqnXzkytb8QDA9eHD3VnOeqPL__NtLc=)
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Post by drlj on May 17, 2023 9:27:39 GMT -5
We wanted to do the Alaska cruise, which would have been on a small ship, because we figured it would be the easiest way to see it. Covid killed that one. Then we had the Mississippi River cruise which we felt we probably wouldn’t like. We were apprehensive & considered canceling it. Turns out we loved it. We saw a lot more than we would have on our own, didn’t have to worry about restaurants or places to stay and, since there were only 350 passengers, we had all the privacy we wanted or needed. Our stateroom was a nice size and comfortable. On board entertainment, which I expected to be cheesy, was actually great. A Cajun band, Blues performers, Jazz, etc that was geared toward the music of the area we were in. I don’t think we would be all that comfortable with a long ocean cruise on a boat with 1,000 people, but the small one was pretty nice. We really enjoyed it. This was the boat & it was big and brand new. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/9wwzM84p/IMG-0490.jpg)
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Post by billhammond on May 17, 2023 9:44:03 GMT -5
We wanted to do the Alaska cruise, which would have been on a small ship, because we figured it would be the easiest way to see it. Covid killed that one. Then we had the Mississippi River cruise which we felt we probably wouldn’t like. We were apprehensive & considered canceling it. Turns out we loved it. We saw a lot more than we would have on our own, didn’t have to worry about restaurants or places to stay and, since there were only 350 passengers, we had all the privacy we wanted or needed. Our stateroom was a nice size and comfortable. On board entertainment, which I expected to be cheesy, was actually great. A Cajun band, Blues performers, Jazz, etc that was geared toward the music of the area we were in. I don’t think we would be all that comfortable with a long ocean cruise on a boat with 1,000 people, but the small one was pretty nice. We really enjoyed it. Where did you start and where did you end up?
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Post by drlj on May 17, 2023 10:21:47 GMT -5
We wanted to do the Alaska cruise, which would have been on a small ship, because we figured it would be the easiest way to see it. Covid killed that one. Then we had the Mississippi River cruise which we felt we probably wouldn’t like. We were apprehensive & considered canceling it. Turns out we loved it. We saw a lot more than we would have on our own, didn’t have to worry about restaurants or places to stay and, since there were only 350 passengers, we had all the privacy we wanted or needed. Our stateroom was a nice size and comfortable. On board entertainment, which I expected to be cheesy, was actually great. A Cajun band, Blues performers, Jazz, etc that was geared toward the music of the area we were in. I don’t think we would be all that comfortable with a long ocean cruise on a boat with 1,000 people, but the small one was pretty nice. We really enjoyed it. Where did you start and where did you end up? We boarded in New Orleans and flew home from Memphis.
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