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AnotherFairportfan wrote:No description, no warning.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Brilliant! The most amazing example of the "Damn you, Autocorrect" phenomenon I have ever heard.

I think what they did was run it through several iterations of Google Translate - like English to German to Japanese to Russian to English.

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Whenever i encounter a new spellchecker i run "Jabberwocky" through it.

(Opera's spellcheck thought "Jabberwocky" ought be "Cabinetwork".)

Translation Party used to be fun but trying to use it now gives a Bing error message. Bad Translator is a decent alternative.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I think what they did was run it through several iterations of Google Translate - like English to German to Japanese to Russian to English.

She has several such videos, and in one of them she states that that's what she does. In fact, in another video she downright asks viewers, at the end, to work on such translations and put the words in their comments (after giving them the name of the song to work on next), and she picks and chooses from those to make the next song/video.

Wow, thx for that. I shouldn't be so surprised but she's got a really great singing voice...

Complete and Total Idiot (Gainesville GA Editon)

So, we live at the top of a little short street named "Old Lakeview Road".  I have no idea why this little loop of road exists - it's not a logical routing to have been cut off by Lakeview Drive, which runs on the other side of our house.
 
Anyway, Old Lakeview is narrow - barely two lanes - and runs downhill, where it makes a sharp bend to the left to join Lakeview Drive (at the top it intersects a short stub of Fairview Rd, which crossed Lakeview).  The sharpness of the bend, and the fact that the left side of the road is wooded, with trees and bushes right up to the edge of the street, makes it pretty much a blind corner.  On the outside of that bend is a small house, which was recently leased to new tenants.
 
The driveway there is kinda short, and they have more than one vehicle - and often have visitors, who also need somewhere to park.
 
So they've found a perfect solution - park on the outside of the blind downhill bend in the narrow shoulderless road.
 
Oh - and their vehicle they park out there is black, and the street isn't well lighted.

I took this picture in a manner that shows the vehicle and also shows the view-blocking foliage - if i'd stopped just a few feet further up the hill, you wouldn't be able to see it at all.
 


Often there are two or three cars parked here.
 


And a map of the situation.
 


I swear - if i had an older car in poorer condition, i might just sideswipe them one dark night and then let their insurance improve my vehicle for me.

That certainly does seem like a really stupid place to park.

What are the actual rules/regulations/laws about parking in a spot like that?

Depending on the jurisdiction, it might be legal, or legal under some circumstances ("all wheels must be off pavement") or illegal. I know that in some areas, the car sitting there would be ticketed because it's "pointing the wrong way" - the driver must necessarily have driven "the wrong way" in the outside lane in order to park it that way.

If you were to sideswipe it... well, even if it was illegally parked, your insurance company (and the law) might find you at least 50% at fault for hitting it. It was obstructing the road, you were moving... so, if you hit it, you were moving so fast that you couldn't stop or steer away fast enough to avoid an obstruction in the road, and that's a no-no in many states. Might be an expensive form of personal satisfaction to pursue...?

ha ha ha, Now I know where to fly the Drones!....

(I shall be air-dropping a small payload of solar powered, mechanical 'cricket's, design to go quiet if approached and set to deploy at O'Dark-thirty, ever other night...)


muhahahahahaha.

Going out for pizza later.

The situation had changed:
 




Low-quality compressed video.

(There were three or four cars in the driveway, too. This is a typical evening there.)

Out of curiosity: dangerous as it might be, just what would you have them do differently (aside from, at the very least, pointing the cars in the right direction)?

lake_wrangler wrote:Out of curiosity: dangerous as it might be, just what would you have them do differently (aside from, at the very least, pointing the cars in the right direction)?

Park the cars above the blind turn, maybe.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I think what they did was run it through several iterations of Google Translate - like English to German to Japanese to Russian to English.

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Whenever i encounter a new spellchecker i run "Jabberwocky" through it.

(Opera's spellcheck thought "Jabberwocky" ought be "Cabinetwork".)

In their defense, I have done cabinet work...
;P

I wonder what magazines Euryale subscribes to? I have to say that I'd probably find this version more interesting reading than the usual Sports Illustrated.

shadowinthelight wrote:Translation Party used to be fun but trying to use it now gives a Bing error message.

Consistently? Bing must be broken then. Not that it bothers me because I never use it. But the site works fine.

Catawampus wrote:I wonder what magazines Euryale subscribes to? I have to say that I'd probably find this version more interesting reading than the usual Sports Illustrated.

That was my first thought when I saw it too..

18 February 15 vs 27 March 15, Gainesville Square









I didn't exactly duplicate the shots - i should have printed them out if i wanted to do it exactly - but i think the juxtaposition still works.

Interesting photos. Judging from that second to last one, I'm guessing that the freezing rain occurred recently, even as spring was on its way (frozen buds had already started coming out.)

lake_wrangler wrote:Interesting photos. Judging from that second to last one, I'm guessing that the freezing rain occurred recently, even as spring was on its way (frozen buds had already started coming out.)

That was February 18th.

I think i need to make the title at the top of the post more prominent.

Playing with Video2GIF, a free program that converts video to animated GIFs. The original three seconds of full HD, 60 frame-per-second video was sixteen meg. I converted it to a 960 k AVI (and rotated it) with Freemake Video Converter, then ran it through Video2GIF, which gave me a 1.3 meg GIF:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:Interesting photos. Judging from that second to last one, I'm guessing that the freezing rain occurred recently, even as spring was on its way (frozen buds had already started coming out.)

That was February 18th.

I think i need to make the title at the top of the post more prominent.

How early do trees start to bloom, in GA?

I lived one winter there (Hawkinsville, GA, South of Macon), but that was in 1988, so I don't particularly remember. I do remember thinking that if it was 80°F on Valentine's day, I would not last the summer, so we moved back North before the summer hit, though...