Arkayos Forum Posts (377)

RE: WOOHOO, IT'S RAINING IN QLD.

Fun round today - We were just teeeing of on the 15th hole (the furthest from the club house) when they sounded the evacuation alarm.

We walked back in and got to the club house just as the heavens opened, and it bucketed down. Twenty minutes later and the course was flooded...

Lunar Eclipse

Yes, It was a good eclipse - I ended up going to bed around 2am...

Now if we do survive through 2012 (despite all the doom and gloomers) the next eclipse is in 2014...

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3/4 of the moon is gone now...

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thanks Jem, but I only have a few moments... (despite the superman reference...)

The clouds have closed in right now, but I am waiting for a break...

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The full moon does funny things to me Merri... meet you there...

Financial Armageddon

I can understand why you might think gold can bubble, but it never has in the past. Gold blew out to $2400 an oz (adjusted for inflation) in 1981, but it wasn't a bubble so much as a lack of confidence. Reagan got elected and gold dropped to $200 an oz.

You see anyone like a Reagan anywhere in the world? We have a lack of confidence in Europe... A lack of confidence in the US, and even China and India aren't meeting expectations...

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I do have a hereditary british title Merri, but you don't need to call me sire...

I think the trembling thing should be connected to the staying power in bed thing... one should lead to the other don't you think?

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Wow... do I know that feeling or what...

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I have been called "the man of steel" more than once... not sure if that related to my super powers though...

And I have flying foxes fighting in the tree beside me... but no koalas

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Half the moon is missing now...

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I am just seeing between the clouds, but a bit more is missing... It will be cool...

Always ready to jump into an opening...

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Hi Merri,

No staying in bed is easy... But staying power In Bed, is much more fun, and a bit harder... so to speak...

We are getting a little broken cloud tonight. We can see the moon once in a while. Watch for the sky to go darker, even with the clouds...

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lol...

Sometimes jem, it is staying power In bed which is more important...

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is only just starting Jem... It will go red with the umbra in about three hours...

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There was a little break in the clouds just now...

Someone took a little bite out of the moon...

RE: WOOHOO, IT'S RAINING IN QLD.

There is nothing like watching your boat sink, while you are at sea...

It is much like jumping out of a plane, and seeing your parachute not open... You know you are dead, but you are just hoping for the miracle...

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Hey Pebbs - I thought saturdays were shirt off...

Think you might be putting the rest of us to shame mate...

RE: WOOHOO, IT'S RAINING IN QLD.

Actually a cross over from the laura dekker thread - Shipping containers are a serious hazzard at sea. More than one sail boat has gone down after hitting a shipping container... Depending on what they are loaded with, they can float just at or just below the surface. You can't see them at night, and if they are low enough, you don't see them durring the day... deadly... hit them at full steam and you end up with a bloody great hole in your hull...

And on another departure... The discovery of the world sea currents, and how they are connected, was due to a container of rubber ducks being lost over the side during a storm. The rubber ducks got out, and were found all over the world over the next two years.

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I Like Onions...

Some signs the overcast might be breaking up...

Keeping an eye on it...

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Completely overcast here too, and raining...

RE: WOOHOO, IT'S RAINING IN QLD.

It was amazing - It rained all night - stopped just long enough for me to get my round in - then started raining again...



Now for my round tomorrow, I hope it does the same thing...

RE: Young Kiwi born sailor Laura Dekker

I agree with you Kizz, scientists don't get the recognition they deserve.

But you are missing the human desire to push the boundaries - the first, the youngest, to make or do...

Sailing around the world is an acheivement. It is hard. Doing it single handing is both very very hard, and dangerous. Sailing around the world single handed, when you are 14 years old - that is amazing. I'm an experienced sailor, who has sailed around the world, and much more, and I do appreciate what this lady is doing. I don't care how she got her boat, it is what she is doing that is amazing.

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Forcast is for clouds and rain here in Brissy...

Just our luck to miss the last Lunar eclipse...

RE: Incredibly large amounts of boredom...

QLD is the best place in the world Curly - I haven't tried everywhere, but believe me, i've tried enough to know - there ain't no where better...

RE: Incredibly large amounts of boredom...

Almost afraid to ask what you are going to do to make me Aussie...


As a Canadian, I am used to being owned by a foriegn country...

but since no one else will eat it... Vegimite is as aussie as... no matter who makes it...

RE: Incredibly large amounts of boredom...

Suddenly I crave a pickled onion, or a pickled egg... WTF I crave vegimite on toast...


Yes!!! I must be an aussie!!!

RE: Incredibly large amounts of boredom...

Hey, I've got re-runs of "west wing" playing - what I put on, if there is nothing on tv...

If you know of an online monolpoy game, I would play it with you... I'm just playing online pool and maajjong right now...

RE: ASTEROID QQ47

Not to worry Krista, the chance a major PHO hits in your life time, assuming you live to 80, is about 1 / 10,000. They do hit every 800,000 years or so... But a serious torino 10 event will happen in you life time is about 1/ 650,000... not much of a chance really...

But the chances are it will hit an ocean - The tsunami will be miles tall, moving at just sub-sonic speeds (near 1000 km/hr.) Having lived through a tsunami, I have nightmares about this...

But I put it aside and live for the day -Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

or : (if you are jewish)?? ?? ?????, ?????

Financial Armageddon

A few weeks ago, I switched all my super funds into cash (good move since If I hadn't they would have lost 12% - in a little over three weeks.)

I've not trusted the market since 2006, so all my savings are in term deposits, staggered in case I get in financial trouble. (yeah, some of us saw the GFC coming)

My debts are nil (Other than my car, which is deductible.)

The only thing I regret, is not putting all my savings into gold in 2006...

Financial Armageddon

The Euro does float against other currencies, which is part of the problem (and boy does it give me headaches.)

The latest crisis meeting to save the Euro will be happening in a few hours. This will be the 26th crisis meeting to save the Euro, and all they have been able to do is postpone the collapse.

The markets were hoping the ECB would start issuing EuroBonds (essentially - print money from nothing) as Ben Bernanke did in the US. But the ECB doesn't have that kind of mandate - not to mention the inflation it would cause, as the value of the Euro dwindled to nothing. The chief fo the ECB pointed this out, and today the markets here collapsed...

but only down 2% for the week... Will hate to see what happens in the European markets - especially if this crisis meeting doesn't come up with something...