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AstronomerXI reacted to TheoFire's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.George Carlin said that the first thing you do when you go to the funeral home is subtract your age from the deceased age to see on...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Ableza's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.All these old computer memories and people talking about their first PC (mine was an 8086 IBM) made me think of:
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AstronomerXI reacted to StimpyWan's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Is @bcowen his Pinocchio...? 🤣
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AstronomerXI reacted to Bowmoreman's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I highly recommend Scott/Diane Horstman at Backyard Observatories. They built my 10x12 Roll Off to a treat, warm room, motorized roof...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Bowmoreman's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Mounts are EVERYTHING (especially for any imaging)… Before I moved to Texas (in 2018) I had a roll-off roof observatory (build by...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Bowmoreman's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Nice! I miss my setup. Found an old shot when I was SBS with the dueling Taks…
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AstronomerXI replied to the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up.Thanks for the info - much appreciated. I'll keep Backyard Observatories in mind. Wayne Parker's SkyShed company is not far from me...
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AstronomerXI reacted to tafens's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.It’s been nice reading the recent comments about programming languages some of you all been into, made me think of what ones I’ve dealt...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Balthazar B's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I'm glad you didn't get one of my uncle's Stanley Cup rings, which somehow wound up offered on Ebay several years ago (our side of the...
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AstronomerXI reacted to LobalWarming's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Brilliant! You could market this to hoarders accumulators like @bcowen and me as a space-saving gravity-fed auto-declutter desk...
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AstronomerXI reacted to JanMc's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.My first IT job was writing JCL for IBM 360/370 computers at Warner Brothers. The computers were the size of cars, the tape decks the...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Whazzzup's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I’d love a telescope, but it’s past beddy bye times
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AstronomerXI replied to the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up.Nice personal and club observatory! I'm a bit of an observatory research junkie these days - I'm in the early planning stages of my own...
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AstronomerXI reacted to wotts's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I had to pass on the Mach 1 during the first run. My father picked it up (we both went on the waitlist) and it's now in his observatory...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Balthazar B's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I'm more interested in the Maurice Richard photo. My uncle played in the NHL back in the day...well, lots of days ago. And he played...