Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, one of my friends has a Miata. It has the silly plastic fantastic headlight covers. He has done the polish and clear several times, and they still get foggy.

The headlights in neither of my cars has ever gotten foggy, even after two decades or more. If they did, 8 bucks for a new headlight, and done.

The wife's Macan has the plastic headlight covers. Evidently Porsche puts a laminate on them from new, and that helps a lot. Of course her car sits in the garage most of the time and that helps even more. She just turned 13,000 miles on it. I have 368,000 on the trusty ol El Camino. And guess which car we will be driving to Enid on Thanksgiving, in the rain. It has made the 100 mile, each way, journey to Enid way over 100 times.

[Porsche-poor]

Moring all. We had enough hail last night that it looked like it snowed. The roads were a mess for bit but then cleared up.

[GH85Carrera]

We had a bad hail storm back in early spring. It wiped out the roof of most of the houses in the area. Our neighbors across the street and down a house just got a new roof yesterday. Today the neighbors behind our house are getting a roof. So another day of hearing hammering.

We put on a Class 4 hail resistant roof, and had almost no damage at all. No new roof for us this year!

[Porsche-poor]

Our hail is not that big. Think BB sized just lots of it.

[RKDinOKC]

Glass headlights on the 928, no issues.

On the first Cayenne Turbo, replaced the headlight assemblies (the plastic part). They were foggy but had other issues. The insulation on the wiring inside the assemblies was baked and shorting. They were $1500 each from Porsche. Got them for $700 directly from Valeo in Spain. Also had to get new bulbs, ballasts, and wiring harnesses that connects the headlights,

The supposedly good rattle can clear coat is like $40 on Amazon. Sounding like the bodyshop guarantee is pretty good

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Our hail is not that big. Think BB sized just lots of it.

Thunderstorms are weird things. I can remember 100+ degree days and a hail storm coming through and dumping several inches of bb sizes hail and suddenly it was cold outside. The hail took overnight to melt, and still had drifts in places in the morning.

The reverse can be true. I remember one evening it was a pleasant mid 70s degrees. The sun was down, and a thunderstorm just collapsed over my area of town. Suddenly it was 100+ degrees outside.

It is mind boggling how much energy those huge temperature changes required. All provided by the power of the sun.

[RKDinOKC]

Brother Bob told me there is some guy that says he was recruited by the government at a very ypung age because he had a high IQ. At 18 was sent to live on Mars for 20 years. Evidently there are 3 native civilizations living underground on the dark side of Mars. Say he fought in wars between those beings.

I have a couple of issues besides travelling to Mars and back..

Mars does not have a dark side.
If you are going to be a soldier, why do you need a high IQ?

Told Bob that guy should be writing sci-fi stories instead to trying to tell everyone he lived it.
Said he tried to write a book and the government stopped him.
Told him there are a LOT of sci-fi writers the governemt doesn't say boo to.

Makes me smell rotten fish.

[Porsche-poor]

Cue the cool music!!!

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, Brother Bob must have read Stranger in the Strange land. A human raised by Martian gets really special brain powers. Mars is a really really hostile place. I loved the move the Martian but the science is poppycock in many places in that movie. It is just a movie.

And besides, the government does not control the writing of science fiction authors, it is the Bigfoot and Unicorn consortium that takes care of that.

[RKDinOKC]

Hey, Bigfoot is real. It was called gigantopithicus and is in lots of indian lore like the other animals like bears. etc. However, today it leaves no droppings, hair, or bones, dna, and somehow remains hidden. Think most consider it extinct like the pigmy ape/people they found on some island.

My older brother and two cousins are all the same age. They went camping/hunting/fishing a lot as preteens on one of the cousins large farm. They camped on the bank of one of the ponds. One night they were cooking frog legs on the camp fire and heard some kind of a weird growl. Across the pond they saw something moving in the trees and brush. It scared them so they grabbed there guns, 22 rifles and a 410 shot gun, and ran for the house.

The most direct route to the house they had to cross the pig pen. I was made of a railroad tie fence they had to scramble over. Just as they crossed the house side of the fence they heard something behind them, looked and saw something bigger than a man that was white, hairy, and looked kind of like and ape. It was on the other side of the pen next to a tree. They unloaded their guns at it, turned and ran into the house. My brother said in the time it took for the screen door swing open and shut all three were in the house.

Pissed my uncle off being awoken so he kicked them out of the house. The got into and slept hiding in the cab of uncles pickup truck.

The next morning they looked and the pig pen railroad tie fence was torn up where the had seen the creature and shot at it. And they were good shots. Remember sitting with one of the cousins under a few big trees while he shot locusts out of the tree with a bb gun, then his dog would grab them and bring them to him. Anyway they told my uncle. He got angry and took them to their camp in the truck. He was sure they had shot one of his cattle.

All the items in their camp was ripped to shreds. Their tent, sleeping bags, fishing poles ripped up. The sticks they were cooking frogs legs on looked like something bit the legs off stick and all. They had to drive around and count all the cattle making sure none had been shot. It was the last time my cousins went camping on that farm.

I've heard this story from each of the three cousins and my uncle. Heard it from them at different times over the years and the stories were the same.

[GH85Carrera]

Golly trying to tweak a 40 Gig tiff file is fun using Photoshop.

Photoshop just starts to cry and will not play with a file bigger than a paltry 4 GB. So I have to chop up the giant file into bit size pieces that Photoshop can handle. I end up with 25 tiles, that I can tweak, make them look better, and then make a final image the clients will love.

What a boring part of the job. I can't even take a nap today because of it!

[RKDinOKC]

There used to be software that loaded just the chunk viewed on the screen, then loaded and unloaded as you scrolled. It did some of the stuff photoslop did. It would apply the filter to the entire image, but it worked in chunks and took a very long time to save the edit to a document. It was for working with giant files. Sorry, don't bemember the name.

[RKDinOKC]

Dang it. Went to look up the vin number to see what options were on the titanium and the registration the tag agency gave me has the vin from the @#!! turbo not the titanium. Evidently they are not used to the procedures for keeping the tags.

Did find the options besides the titainum trim like: trailer hitch, roll up sun screens on rear windows, dark wood interior trim steeering wheel and shifter, 4-zone heat/air, roof railing in titanium, and exterior color of icelandic silver metallic.

[GH85Carrera]

The truly annoying thing is Photoshop will indeed load and display the 40 GB tif file, and it would let me edit and do whatever, it just ain't gonna save it in any format except the proprietary "large file" formats that no mapping program uses. It just refuses to save it in any format that I can use. And the Photoshop version of JPG2000 is something totally goofy and not gonna work in mapping programs. It will not open of save the JPG2000 files from real mapping programs.

Its like Adobe is up to the same old tricks, yea we can do that, but we don't want to make it impossible for someone running Photoshop 5 on their MAC OS 7.6 to be excluded from opening it. I don't care one iota what standard of tif file it violates. Tif file or JPEG files that are 40 GB are not uncommon in the world of mapping.

It is just so close, yet the programmers put in a file size limit and no option to say ignore that file size limit. I think they are taunting me.

[RKDinOKC]

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

Glen, photslop and jpig2000 did that just to annoy you specifically I am sure.

Found that since the accident am intolerant to anything called milk, cow's, lactaid, almond, or soy. Guess will have to eat my Cheerios dry. Cheese seems okay, but no ice cream!

[GH85Carrera]

No doubt it is all part of the Evil Adobe "Annoy Glen at all costs" plan.
Just to check out the exact image size I loaded it up. Yea, is is a big ol file, I get it, and no one with a Windows 95 computer can load it. So dang what.

I just want to be able to save it after a little tweaking.

[Jim Richards]

72 Gig? Meh. Go big or go home.

[Porsche-poor]

Mourning all. Well the better half is happy both kids are home for turkey day. No hail last night but lots of wind.

[RKDinOKC]

Yeah, we had some big wind yesterdee evening. Gusts were big enough Pepper immediately came running back in the house. Have not checked to see if the old rickety south side stockade fence blew down.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, we had lots of wind as well. 50 MPH gusts at times. We were lucky to miss the snow that Colorado got, and now Jim and Sidney are sending me rain for tomorrow.