Re: Kid's telescope buying advice?

2009-12-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/12/2009, at 6:26 PM, Bryon Daly wrote: *Delurking* I could use some telescope purchasing advice, if anyone's interested in helping. My astonomy knowledge is quite limited. I'd say you'd be better off getting a decent 'scope for the family and getting the lad a good book on how to

Re: Kid's telescope buying advice?

2009-12-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
believe both have links to follow for more info.) Also, if you can find an amateur astronomy group in your area, contact them. (I believe the one here locally covered buying a first 'scope for kids last month at the November meeting.) They can probably give you lots of advice, perhaps even give

Re: Kid's telescope buying advice?

2009-12-10 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 10/12/2009, at 6:26 PM, Bryon Daly wrote: *Delurking* I could use some telescope purchasing advice, if anyone's interested in helping. My astonomy knowledge is quite limited. I'd say you'd be better off getting a decent 'scope for the

Re: Kid's telescope buying advice?

2009-12-10 Thread Bryon Daly
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Ronn! Blankenship ronn_blankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: SkyandTelescope.com - Homepage Equipment - Low-Cost Starter Scopes - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/equipment/home/69745547.html This was exactly the kind of article I had been looking for. The Orion 3

Kid's telescope buying advice?

2009-12-09 Thread Bryon Daly
*Delurking* I could use some telescope purchasing advice, if anyone's interested in helping. My astonomy knowledge is quite limited. My 9 year old son asked for a telescope for Christmas (amongst a million other things). My mom bought him a $37 Toys-R-Us one which I think is likely little

Re: Not Buying It

2008-09-25 Thread Julia Thompson
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: We need another FDR to start up some a new CCC, WWW etc. What are those AFTs? CCC is Brazil was Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (hint: Caça = Hunt, the other words are the same in English). And WWW sounds terribly like

Re: Not Buying It

2008-09-25 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jon Louis Mann wrote: We need another FDR to start up some a new CCC, WWW etc. What are those AFTs? CCC is Brazil was Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (hint: Caça = Hunt, the other words are the same in English). And WWW sounds terribly like WWIII... I hope I don't preach the same solution to

Re: Not Buying It

2008-09-25 Thread John Garcia
2008/9/25 Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: We need another FDR to start up some a new CCC, WWW etc. What are those AFTs? CCC is Brazil was Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (hint: Caça = Hunt, the other words are the

Not Buying It

2008-09-25 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Thank you for correcting me again, Julia. It's been many years since I taught Social Studies and I plead early Alzeimer's!~) Jon CCC = Civilian Conservation Corps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps WWW? Dunno. Did Jon mean WPA? That would be Works Progress

Re: Not Buying It

2008-09-25 Thread Julia Thompson
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: Thank you for correcting me again, Julia. It's been many years since I taught Social Studies and I plead early Alzeimer's!~) Jon You're welcome, although my primary intent was not to correct an error, but to provide information to answer a

Not Buying It

2008-09-24 Thread John Williams
http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/not-buying-it.php What's clear is that a bunch of financial institutions have made mistakes and lost money. What's unclear is why anyone (other than the owners and managers) should care. People make mistakes and lose money all the time

Not Buying It

2008-09-24 Thread Jon Louis Mann
What's clear is that a bunch of financial institutions have made mistakes and lost money. What's unclear is why anyone (other than the owners and managers) should care. People make mistakes and lose money all the time. Restaurants fail, grocery stores fail, gas stations fail. People pick

Re: Buying cars, was Another dang interruption

2003-11-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:55 AM 11/26/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: If you let people know what your situation is as far as what, exactly, you need the car *for*, better advice could be offered. And if the answer is I need it *for* a price I can afford, which seems to be significantly less than what anyone is

Re: Buying cars, was Another dang interruption

2003-11-26 Thread Julia Thompson
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:55 AM 11/26/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: If you let people know what your situation is as far as what, exactly, you need the car *for*, better advice could be offered. And if the answer is I need it *for* a price I can afford,

Re: Buying cars, was Another dang interruption

2003-11-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:06 AM 11/26/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:55 AM 11/26/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: If you let people know what your situation is as far as what, exactly, you need the car *for*, better advice could be offered. And if the