TIL: Today I Learned

GasBandit

GasBandit

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PatrThom said:
This is the part of living in Texas that you like?

--Patrick
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It's not the only thing. But it's one of the things. I like living in the barrens. I've lived in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas... I like having the open road and empty horizon no more than a few minute drive at any given time.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
It's not the only thing. But it's one of the things. I like living in the barrens. I've lived in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas... I like having the open road and empty horizon no more than a few minute drive at any given time.
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This dedication's goin' out to the guy who likes to live where other people don't.


--Patrick
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

GasBandit said:
... I guess the Bronx sank into the sea at some point.
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No, no, we blew the Bronx away and sank Manhattan out at sea (but picked the Yankees up for free.)


The part that REALLY blew my mind is that to get to New Jersey you go NORTHWEST. I'd always assumed south, because in general, New Jersey is south of New York.
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Sort of. If you're are leaving from the George Washington Bridge, you're going northwest. If you're taking the Lincoln Tunnel, you're going just west. If you're taking the Holland Tunnel or the Verrazano Bridge, you're going southwest.

DarkAudit said:
I always thought it funny that it cost nothing to enter New Jersey, but you had to pay to get OUT. :)
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That's because most people that work in Manhattan don't live there. Want to get to work? Bend over and take it from the MTA. :( Or, no ones want to live in NYC if they don't have to, we just want it's money. :p[DOUBLEPOST=1427652211,1427652099][/DOUBLEPOST]
HCGLNS said:
We need to make this a Halforums event; "Canadians locating things in NYC"
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Chad Sexington might win. He did pretty well when we were walking around together.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

But seriously, i wouldn't expect someone from New York to be able to name the amalgamated cities that make up Toronto, let alone have actual geographic knowledge of where they are. Likewise there isn't much use for me to know where the different New York burroughs are.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

checkeredhat said:
I think Ellis island is just nearby. That's where they made Irish people change their names, right?

Ellesmere though, that's one of the Canadian Arctic islands, isn't it?
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Yeah, Ellesmere is in the artic, and they made them change their Irish names in Quebec not NY.

 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Now do traveling mattes!
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Hmm...that's not what I meant. Looks like what I'm talking about is motion tracking a mask.

--Patrick
 
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GasBandit

GasBandit

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PatrThom said:
Yes, and apparently in the newest version they have reduced it to pretty much a one-button fix.

--Patrick
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Man, that'd sure save a lot of time with what I've been doing the last two days. I've been doing that exact sort of thing, frame by frame.

Also it bothers me that he says "track mask" with two different vowel sounds (pronounces "mask" like "mosque").
 
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GasBandit said:
Manhattan and Staten Island. Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are all on the mainland. I know that much from vidya games/pop culture! Though it's funny, if you play Prototype, Manhattan has open ocean to the north - I guess the Bronx sank into the sea at some point.

The part that REALLY blew my mind is that to get to New Jersey you go NORTHWEST. I'd always assumed south, because in general, New Jersey is south of New York.

I like being in the middle of Texas. You go north? Texas. South? Texas. East? West? Still Texas. For hours and hours and hours of driving, it's Texas all the way.
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Brooklyn and Queens are not on the mainland, they're on Long Island. From west to east it basically goes Staten Island, Manhattan, The Bronx (which is on the mainland), Brooklyn, Queens.
 
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Then there's Washington Heights, Five Points, Bed Stuy, Flatbush, Bushwick, Gowanus, the Bowery, and Battery Park.

Yonkers is NOT part of NYC, but it does directly border The Bronx to the north.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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This specifically was the one that told me Flatbush existed



Of course, I didn't get the joke until I asked my father exactly where Flatbush is (in the middle of Brooklyn, about 5 miles from the Bowery where the above antagonist starts). The "forest primeval" indeed.

Much later, I learned that Bugs' accent is actually described as a Flatbush accent, being an equal mix of Bronx and Brooklyn.
 
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DarkAudit

DarkAudit

So even though the credit card company rep said they don't usually call customers when their lost card is reported found, they did just that. Guy came to retrieve his wallet after I went home for the day.
 
Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

Celt Z said:
Holy crap... someone call Prince, because that link made me think it was 1999!
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Nobody has put an expiration date on things the necromancer might pull up :p

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after thinking about it, it makes more sense to say that ALL things I pull up are liable to be past their expiration date.
 
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