If a raindrop falls to the ground...
If a raindrop falls to the ground...
... and I lose my internet connection, can anyone hear me scream?
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
The cats can
Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be
alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. — Garrison Keillor
alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. — Garrison Keillor
Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Shouldn't that be----Hoot-like-hell??
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Must admit it's more likely to be silent swearing at Verizon...
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
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Orin
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Are you using cable? I had trouble with cable all the time.
Since I've been using fiber the last few years I've been outage-free - to say nothing of the big boost in bandwidth I got when I made the switch, though I guess some folks on cable have access to a healthy pipe.
EDIT:
There was one outage. It involved my shovel going through the fiber line! Sure, I should have had them come by and mark it; but to be fair they told me it was 2 feet deep - turns out the contractors that put it in only dug a trench about 5 inches down. I didn't think I'd be even close.
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Since I've been using fiber the last few years I've been outage-free - to say nothing of the big boost in bandwidth I got when I made the switch, though I guess some folks on cable have access to a healthy pipe.
EDIT:
There was one outage. It involved my shovel going through the fiber line! Sure, I should have had them come by and mark it; but to be fair they told me it was 2 feet deep - turns out the contractors that put it in only dug a trench about 5 inches down. I didn't think I'd be even close.
Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
I'm on DSL... unless a squirrel scratches himself in Bethesda, in which case I'm waiting for DSL to come back online...
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
There are worse things one can lose other than the internet connection… not that it qualifies, but I accidently threw my car keys into the trash can once and didn’t remember until a few days after trash pickup that I had bundled them with some trash from my vehicle… actually what I remembered was the sound of the keys dropping inside the can… funny how the brain works… or not.
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
So the moral of the story is... never accumulate enough refuse in one's vehicle to lose one's keys in. Or, perhaps, never throw away the refuse.
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
About a year ago I lost connection every time it rained. Turns out that the squirrels ate through the insulation on the cable at the pole. After the cable company replaced the cable the problem went away.owlice wrote:I'm on DSL... unless a squirrel scratches himself in Bethesda, in which case I'm waiting for DSL to come back online...
Orin
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Or just refuse to put your keys in the refuse!geckzilla wrote:So the moral of the story is... never accumulate enough refuse in one's vehicle to lose one's keys in. Or, perhaps, never throw away the refuse.
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
If a man speaks in a forest but no woman hears him, is he still wrong?owlice wrote:... and I lose my internet connection, can anyone hear me scream?
"Perhaps I'll never touch a star, but at least let me reach." ~J Faircloth
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?
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Why is it that someone cuts a tree down and then cuts it up??
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'Cuz ya'd look pretty dumb cutting it up then trying to cut it down's what I figger.
But I never could figger why they got Interstate Hiways in Hawaii.
But I never could figger why they got Interstate Hiways in Hawaii.
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Personally, I'd much rather lose my car keys than my Internet connection. It's no problem at all getting by without a car, but without connectivity... no way.emc wrote:There are worse things one can lose other than the internet connection… not that it qualifies, but I accidently threw my car keys into the trash can once and didn’t remember until a few days after trash pickup that I had bundled them with some trash from my vehicle… actually what I remembered was the sound of the keys dropping inside the can… funny how the brain works… or not.
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Star*Hopper wrote:
But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?
http://blueridgeblog.blogs.com/blue_ridge_blog/2009/01/snowy-distractions.html wrote:
<<I am obsessed with falling snow. Often I stand amid a flaky chaos, hypnotized, as snow tumbles to its eventual destination. Sometimes when I am out in a storm I feel my world is a Dreamswork creation (think Polar Express) and I fixate on an individual snowflake way up in the sky and follow it's journey until it becomes part of the blend. The other day, when it was way too cold, I stood outside my office and watched as the sun was a backlight to a blizzard. This snowy abstract is the playful result of using a rather small aperture and long-ish shutter speed.>>![]()
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
For the most part, the terminology used to describe the particular percipitation process may have much to do with he shape of the particle in question.Star*Hopper wrote:But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?
(Rain) Drop can be defined as an ammount of liquid that is held together by its surface tension. The ammount of surface tension in the liquid involved will determine the maximum size of the drop. Other factors with respect to Rain drops are the speed of the wind and the speed at which the drop is falling. The average raindrop, without the influense of wind, will fall at about 600 feet (183 meters) per minute or about 7 miles (11 kilometers) per hour. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
Snow forms in Flakes rather than drops and has a higher atmospheric resistance. They fall, when not driven by the wind, at about 1.5 mph Flake sizes can range from 1mm (0.1 cm.) up to slightly larger than 0.66 cm. with the average being about 0.45 cm.
![Image](http://th09.deviantart.com/fs39/150/f/2008/344/a/e/A_Party_of_Flakes_by_crimsonpenguin.jpg)
an image from that site
So Rain drops and Snow falls
Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Rain drops and snow flakes. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Why do we "shine" a flashlight but "shoot" or "fire" a laser?
Oh wait, I know.
LASERS GO PEW PEW
![Image](http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep4/tie-f1.jpg)
Oh wait, I know.
LASERS GO PEW PEW
![Image](http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep4/tie-f1.jpg)
Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
And fishys swim back and forth.owlice wrote:Rain drops and snow flakes.
![Fishy :fish:](./images/smilies/animal0028.gif)
![Fishy :fish:](./images/smilies/animal0028.gif)
![Fishy :fish:](./images/smilies/animal0028.gif)
![Fishy :fish:](./images/smilies/animal0028.gif)
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
Another rain drops song!
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Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
orin stepanek wrote:
Another rain drops song!
Art Neuendorffer
Re: If a raindrop falls to the ground...
That's not snow... it's a waterfall.neufer wrote:So...what's with the snowfall in the background![]()
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