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Little Mermaid.

Je le ferais, mais je ne veux pas en faire trop. Il y a des gens que j'ai 'dégoutté', à trop leur en parler. Et je ne la connais pas du tout, du coup, je préfère prendre le temps.

Et oui, je suis né et j'ai grandit dans le Finistère, là où on fait juste une bise. Mais je suis un cas, même ma mère me reproche tout le temps que je n'en fait jamais (alors que j'en fait, mais trop rarement pour elle).
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I would, but I do not want to do too much. There are people I've 'disgusted', talking to them too much. And I do not know her at all, so I prefer to take the time.

And yes, I was born and I grew up in Finistère, where we just do a kiss. But I am a case, even my mother reproaches me all the time that I never do (when I do, but too rarely for her).

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acpartsman.

Tu me fais rêver avec tes machines ! Je me suis acheté un 2ème PC le mois dernier, dont je suis bien content. Mais comme on dit chez nous : "On boxe pas dans la même catégorie".

Mais on crunch tous ensemble, et c'est ça qui compte.
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You make me dream with your machines! I bought a 2nd PC last month, which I am very happy with. But as we say at home: "We do not box in the same category".
( https://www.linux-shop.fr/ordinateur-portable-linux-245-ls-asus-e15-pro.html )

But we all crunch together, and that's what counts.

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It's fine to let your experience guide you, stefada.
I think you know best after all

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C'est bien de laisser votre expérience vous guider, stefada.
Je pense que tu sais mieux après tout



EDIT: Talking about 'father': You could put a link to your father's model train here.
I cannot find it among all the pictures of cute dogs on your Facebook.
I'm sure we have an undergrowth of model train enthusiasts here

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EDIT: Parler de «père»: Vous pouvez mettre un lien vers le train modèle de votre père ici.
Je ne peux pas le trouver parmi toutes les photos de chiens mignons sur votre Facebook.
Je suis sûr que nous avons un sous-bois de passionnés de trains miniatures ici

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Stefada - when I first started crunching I picked up any cheap used machine I could get my hands on, then I started getting people to give me their old PCs. As I began getting bigger machines I started giving my old ones to kids who couldn't afford one. I still take any machine anyone will give me, either it's good enough to revive (or combine with another) to make one for someone who can't afford one (and sometimes they either allow me to keep BOINC running on it or they join themselves). Either way, I'm helping someone, somewhere.
In the event that the doner machine is only good for parts I strip down what's left and turn the parts in for recycle, printed circuit boards are usually worth a little extra over just handing it in assembled. Better than letting it end up in the landfill which is where most people send their old machines.

Being fellow crunchers is what helps make this fun, we get to "meet" people from all over the world that we never would meet otherwise.
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Being fellow crunchers is what helps make this fun, we get to "meet" people from all over the world that we never would meet otherwise.


Even Texas. laughing
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Even Texas, yes! biggrin
Lots of Texas and Texans
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Good Morning Base Campers!
Your concept is so touching, acpartsman.
What made you start crunching in the first place?
I think I should make a thread with that subject. Couldn’t it be interesting to hear what has motivated all our our co-crunchers?

I just started a book by a Danish journalist who worked in the USA for Danish TV called ’ When the Americans Parted Way’. He describes in a quite loving way how private charity is part of the Americans' life, soul, and make-up which it isn’t to nearly that degree in say Denmark. We pay a lot in taxes and expect the state to take care of our needs. And it does. Danish charity is something ’extra’ whereas American charity is what is needed because the state(s) isn’t supposed to take care of your needs.

I wonder how our Mexico trek will go worried and I’m nervous.
Staging the Hungary and Colorado ones was time consuming – but fun, too. I was privileged to have some personal knowledge of the two places, and I was happy to share my experiences with you.

I don’t have experience with Mexico execpt for that kind of sorry Tijuana excursion.
I’m afraid to disappoint you as I may need to scale down, but we’ll see.
I think we’ll have a good time anyway, and perhaps our host captain will find a minute to tell us about living in Mexico as our points begin to tickle his team graphs.

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Little Mermaid a demandé/asked ...

Si ça vous intéresse, mon papa fait une maquette de train depuis des années. C'est dommage que je ne sache pas vous le sous titrer, qu'il explique comment il a tout fait. Tout le décor, mais aussi rajouter la lumière dans les wagons (intérieur et feu). Et les autorails Atlas, il est a carrément motorisé lui-même.

Vous pouvez aussi regarder, juste par curiosité, que c'est joli. A partir de 2min08, vous êtes dans son garage :
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If you're interested, my dad has been doing a train model for years. It's a shame that I do not know how to subtitle him, that he explains how he did everything. All the decor, but also add light in the cars (interior and fire). And the Atlas railcars, it is a motorized itself.

You can also watch, just out of curiosity, that it's pretty. From 2min08, you are in his garage:

https://youtu.be/lkZUrAvrLt8
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Sujo1 - glad we met and can help each other.
Stefada - thanks for sharing, that's an amazing layout. I love trains, both real and model.
Little Mermaid - I started crunching January 2002 after reading an article in Readers Digest about grid.org. I stayed with them till they pulled the plug April 2007. I met several fellow crunchers on their forum, I wish I had switched over to WCG sooner. After GRID shut down, I crunched on SETI for about a month with some of my machines, others I shut down. A fellow cruncher emailed me and invited me to WCG and I've been here ever since.

I ordered 2 16 core (32 threads) machines yesterday to replace several 8 core machines. Moving ever forward and up. smile
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Good Morning Base Campers!
I cannot express how much I enjoy the communication going on here hugs
Look, stefada, a train enthusiast right here on our doorstep to enjoy what your father created smile
it’s so beautiful to see a web being crafted.

A Readers’ Digest article ignited you, acpartsman, and you never looked back.
I ordered 2 16 core (32 threads) machines yesterday to replace several 8 core machines. Moving ever forward and up. smile
On the contrary
Does your wife's new computer run as it should?
And is your entire farm online again and hooked up with Virginia's largest utiliy after the adverse weather episodes?

Today became the day where I began to really trust I’ll get the support and help I need as a heart patient.
I had a very intense and productive discussion with the heartnurse who will be my anchor heartwise in the future.
She will set me up with the dietist and include me in the next discussion group
- the one with the priest angel
which my fitness team mates found useful. She understood that fatigue and shortness of breath were my main physical concerns and stumbleblocks and reduced my beta blocker intake by 50%, which may reduce - even eliminate - the problem along with time and continued physical activity.
I was asked and accepted to be enrolled in one more study. That makes three in total at the time of writing rolling eyes
I cannot die. All those test would break apart cool
If I have a certain DNA defect - 8% have - I shall be offered a four-year-double-blind phase 3 trial of a medication that will boost the 'good' cholesterol, so the project nurse drew the last blood from my vein sick

I counted our stairs where I live. Two floors, 34 steps, and a useful hand rail. The physiotherapists have served up lots of staircase exercises.
I never knew that staircases could be used in so many ways devilish
Finally, I’m completely at ease and confident that I’ll not walk alone unnecessarily.
I invited Upstairs Yvonne out for wienerschnitzel tonight to celebrate - she has been more worried than me.
As a test to top it off, I just contacted my insurance company to inquire as to whether anything medical would prevent me from being covered during a three-day trip to Germany with my German class next month.
No not talking
I’m clean peace
I shall ask again if I come upon serious ideas – such as Mexico, Kentucky, Arkansas, or Nebraska …… whistling


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Si tu adores ça, je vais t'en dire un peu plus sur cette maquette. Il y a un peu plus de 15 ans maintenant que papa travaille dessus, et son grand plaisir c'est de tout faire lui même.

Les arbres par exemple, sont fait de fils électriques torsadés dont il fige la structure avec de la soudure à l'étain. Ensuite, il recouvre de flocage, puis met une couche de peinture. Il faut compter environ une semaine, juste pour en faire un.

Les caténaires en forme d'ogive, ceux sont de vieux rails qu'il a tordu, découpé et soudé. Les isolateurs verts, ont été fait un par un, en torsadant du fil, et le peignant ensuite. Toute la ligne électrique, c'est du fil de fer 'travaillé maison' aussi. Je te laisse imaginer le nombre de points de soudure ...

Les montagnes, c'est du poli-styrène découpé grossièrement, un petit coup de chalumeau pour arrondir et éviter que ça 'parte en boule'. Et bien sûr, un coup de peinture.

Les maisons sont en carton, ondulé pour faire les tuiles sur les toits, plat pour les murs. Et puis avec les découpages, collages et la peinture, ça donne ce qu'on peut voir ...

Les entrées des tunnels, et la bergerie en ruine (on ne la voit pas bien sur la vidéo, mais elle est sur la page d'accueil du lien ci-dessous), sont faits en contre-plaqué, sculpté au ciseau à bois, puis peint.

Après, il y a toute l'électronique, que je ne sais pas expliquer, mais que j'admire. La maquette peut être alimentée en analogique ou en numérique, comme ça il peut aussi bien utiliser les vieilles machines que les modernes. Avec tout un système à lui, pour qu'en analogique, les départs et arrêts soient temporisés. Même avec un vieux Jouef, il va démarrer progressivement, et pareil pour s'arrêter.
Il a aussi conçu la lumière des wagons de manière à ce que ça ne 'saute' pas en passant d'un rail à l'autre.

Les feux qu'il y a dans la gare, sont synchronisés sur les aiguillages, ce qui est très pratique quand on 'dirige la manœuvre'.

La rotonde est mécanisée, avec un système pour qu'elle s'arrête bien alignée toute seule. Il y a juste a appuyer sur un bouton pour la faire passer à la position suivante.

Enfin, il a fait une fiche informatisée pour chacune de ses locomotives. Les caractéristiques techniques, à quelle date, dans quelle région elles ont été utilisées. Est-ce qu'elles ont battu des records, etc ... (Il compte en faire un Wiki ou quelque chose du genre). Il a d'ailleurs un site depuis quelques années, où peut voir sa collection en entier (en photo), ainsi que quelques vidéos qu'il a faites (celle que j'ai montrée avant, c'est une chaîne web qui est venue faire un reportage).
C'est tout en Français, mais bon, Google Trad est notre ami wink
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If you love that, I'll tell you a little more about this model. There is a little more than 15 years now that daddy works on it, and his great pleasure is to do everything himself.

Trees, for example, are made of twisted electrical wires, whose structure is frozen with tin solder. Then, it covers flocking, then puts a layer of paint. It takes about a week, just to make one.

The catenary shaped warhead, those are old rails that twisted, cut and welded. The green insulators, were made one by one, twisting the wire, and then painting it. The whole electrical line is wire worked 'homemade' too. I let you imagine the number of soldering points ...

The mountains are polystyrene cut roughly, a small blow of blowtorch to round and avoid that 'leaves in ball'. And of course, a stroke of paint.

Houses are made of cardboard, corrugated to make tiles on roofs, flat for walls. And then with the cuttings, collages and painting, it gives what we can see ...

The tunnel entrances, and the ruined sheepfold (we do not see it well on the video, but it's on the homepage of the link below), are made of plywood, carved with a chisel, then painted.

Afterwards, there is all the electronics, which I do not know how to explain, but which I admire. The model can be powered analog or digital, so it can both use the old machines as modern. With a whole system to him, so that in analog, departures and stops are timed. Even with an old Jouef, he will start gradually, and the same to stop.
He also designed the light of the cars so that it does not jump from one rail to the other.

The lights in the station are synchronized to the switches, which is very convenient when 'directing the maneuver'.

The rotunda is mechanized, with a system that stops well aligned itself. There is just a push of a button to move it to the next position.

Finally, he made a computerized form for each of his locomotives. The technical characteristics, on what date, in what region they were used. Have they broken records, etc ... (He plans to make a Wiki or something like that). He also has a site for a few years, where can see his entire collection (in photo), as well as some videos he made (the one I showed before is a web channel that came make a report).
It's all in French, but hey, Google Trad is our friend wink

http://trainminiaturedularzac.webnode.fr (dont' know when the last update)


Little Mermaid

Bien content pour ta santé ! Et à coté de moi, il y a Docteur Louloup qui dit qu'il faut te prescrire un voyage dans le Sud Aveyron. Que l'air est très pur, et que même si on aime pas marcher, il y a tellement de beaux paysages (et tu en as eu un aperçu), qu'on le fait. Et en plus, la nourriture est bonne (saine et goûteuse), et on est au calme ! Pouvoir se réveiller par le chant du ruisseau et des oiseaux, c'est un sacré luxe.

Docteur Louloup insiste d'ailleurs sur le fait, que ça doit sûrement coûter moins cher que des traitements/talaso/etc, mais que le résultat est garanti.
(On a même l'option canoë soft, qui met des bulles de champagne dans la tête, et comme c'est sans alcool, c'est sans modération)
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Very happy for your health! And next to me, there is Doctor Louloup who says that you must prescribe a trip to South Aveyron. That the air is very pure, and that even if we do not like to walk, there are so many beautiful landscapes (and you had a glimpse of them), that we do it. And besides, the food is good (healthy and tasty), and we are quiet! To be able to wake up by the song of the brook and the birds, it is a sacred luxury.

Dr. Louloup also insists on the fact, that it must surely cost less than treatments / talaso / etc, but that the result is guaranteed.
(We even have the option soft canoe, which puts champagne bubbles in the head, and as it is alcohol-free, it is without moderation)

angel

PS : The 'step' is precisely because we realized that taking the stairs is very good for breath and endurance. To use a step 200 times, or to climb as many floors, physically is the same. But climbing stairs in the room, it would be a little 'technical' wink
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