MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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This is from Shenzhen, the IT capital of China, near Hong Kong. Not sure how fast it goes.
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Here’s a pic of midnight Christmas Eve from Calafate in southern Argentina. Where it’s pretty warm this time of year (I just checked, it’s 66 degrees there right now – 19C). If Santa’s trying to pilot his sleigh in the middle of that, he’d better be careful.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoorr/87448250
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Nice tree. Somebody obviously earned his $3/hour on that one.
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That was interesting too. Such detail.
The more I think about it, I think I’ve seen the Hamburg model railroad before. Not recently though. Very cool.
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A klick is 2/3 of a mile, more or less, so that’s around 200 mph.
Life is a lot of approximations anyway. 😄
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Probably none. I remember my job in college I made around $1.25 per hour working in a restaurant. But $3 doesn’t go far these days.
My ex-wife’s brother has a big tree farm in Indiana. He has planted many acres of walnut trees, and in between the walnuts, there are evergreens, which grow faster. The evergreens encourage the walnuts to grow straight up towards the sunlight.
Some day his children or grandchildren are going to have a lot of valuable walnut trees. And in the meantime it’s not that much work.
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A friend of mine I worked with in 2 different startup companies lives in Singapore, I always thought it would be an interesting place to visit. Beautiful too, and I wouldn’t have to shovel snow. Any place where you have to fake snow to have any doesn’t sound all bad.
I had to look up Dino Glow though. I didn’t remember dinosaur/Godzilla types during Christmas. I guess it’s a toy they have here in the States too.
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Jürgen,
That was very cool. I don’t remember ever seeing a model train with Christmas lights like that before. It reminds me of the Lionel train set I got when I was very little. 5 years old or less.
It’s amazing how many things I’ve seen in the Club have reminded me of something I hadn’t thought of for a long time.
Where is that train from? Nice touch to overlay that snow falling on it too.
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Another serious tree. I used to think if I ever moved out to a farm, I’d use part of the land to plant Christmas trees. Yes, you need to trim them, but otherwise not that much work.
Or maybe this is just another example of anyone else’s job looks easy.
Anyways, thanks for posting that Tim.
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Nice cars. Do they have green ones to go with them?
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I love jjigaes. Soon dubu Jjigae is a favorite. I am pretty open minded about trying food that not every American would try. I know only a few food words in Korean. Jang is sauce, for example. I probably know more German than Korean. But for all practical purposes, zero of both. I do remember once, someone in the Club wrote a post in German, and I looked at it and thought, I know what that means! Only happened once though.
Thanks for the tip on Korean Air. I will remember it. If you ever go to Paris, I recommend Air France. They have real food too.
I remember flying back from Paris once on Northwest Airlines. We stopped on the way to the airport at a traiteur, which is a shop that sells prepared foods. We skipped the Northwest dinner and ate the good food we brought — I don’t think they’d let us do that now. The French people across the aisle apparently didn’t know to do that, and they were not happy. C’est mauvais, ca.
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Jung,
That was cool. Interesting version of Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Reminded me of when I was a choir boy in grade school. I still remember the harmony I used to sing to that, although I’m not a soprano any more. But the version on the video sounded like a mechanical voice singing it.
I have the opposite problem from you. I have never been to Asia but I would like to go sometime. And Seoul is on my shortlist. I live in a city of 120,000 people which has always had around 3 dozen Korean restaurants. I don’t know why there are so many, but I’ve gone through a lot of Bi Bim Bop in my time here. Yeah and kimchi and other banchan. Lots of gochujang. Food is one of my other hobbies. It would be very cool to try out restaurants in Korea.
My daughter is seriously into video games, so Seoul is the #1 place in the world that she’d like to go, so I’ll have a traveling partner when the time comes.
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Very nice. And looks like at least a little snow.
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Train Kept a Rollin’ was an old blues tune that Aerosmith covered.
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Okay, so since it was headed away from me, I have almost a year to figure it out if I want to ck it out next year.
I know there are train lines that go to/from US and Canada as if the border wasn’t really there. One that comes to mind is the Grand Trunk Railroad in Flint.
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