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I know for sure that the farthest distance that I've ever been from any other human being is
3 miles. I can't be entirely sure, but it could be as many as 20-30 miles.
What about you?
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Try Australia, we have some of the most remote roads in the world... I have driven on the Barrier Highway[^] to Adelaide. There is not a lot to see... Photos[^]
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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I remember driving from Waga Waga to Adelaide and the road was empty and straight as an arrow for mile after mile. I was ruminating what would happen if the car broke down, when I saw a Rolls Phantom in the back mirror and, soon after, it disappeared in front of me. Than I realized: I would travel in style 
Mircea
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Well I'm about 8,000 miles away from some guy in China right now.
And in 1969 I was about 250K Miles away from the crew of Apollo 11.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 16-Dec-23 16:39pm.
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Probably less than a km.
(Israel is a crowded country)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Have been or would like to be?
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If you go alone on several day mountain trips, it can be hard to tell. You don't know if there are people in the cabins you see in the distance. Down in the valley behind the mountain a car may be passing by on the road. I wouldn't know, and it would be insignificant.
I guess that the loneliest place where I have been all alone was in between the two huge sheets of ice making up the Svartisen glacier in the north of Norway, directly under the polar circle. In direct line-of-sight, the nearest road was about 15 km away - but that would be across the glacier. For all practical purposes, the nearest point were I could be sure to find another human was about 20 km away, if you don't mind crossing a glacier. If you prefer to walk on dry land, you would have at least a 25 km walk.
There might have been other mountain walkers in the same area, but I didn't see anyone, didn't talk to any other human for a full week. I still have a longing back to that area, but it seems like I am now unable to build up the physical strength to repeat that mountain walk.
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Not far enough. 
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Outside of your job, what are your side projects?
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a.) Writing tools for visual handicapped people. E.g. Sound editing programs with 'auditive UI'
b.) Attempting to understand and program numerical solutions of differential equations without the help of libraries 
But at the end it is related to my job 
modified 16-Dec-23 12:44pm.
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Meeting Mrs.' every whim with a smile.
Keeping my greyhound happy with treats without letting him get fat.
Calibrating the amount I pet my fat cat ("don't pick me up! rub my belly!") and my skinny cat ("too much is never enough").
Trying to find all of my marbles I've lost over the years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Writing a Z8050 Bus spy using STM32F722, long way to go and I have many other projects for the SO that keeps me busy.
Just finished her xmas present, a sewing cabinet out of cypress and cherry. Turned out nice, she likee!
I keep telling her; you don't have to remind me every 6 months I know what I need to do.
She's not a bit amused!
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Pictures please 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Follow link and in menu on left click on Projects.
Sewing Cabinet
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Wow. Very, very nice Mike.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thanks Gary.
She likes it but the finish I put on it takes 30 days to cure so she won't get it in time for xmas.
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Recreating the Battlefield of Gettysburg. With blocks.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My dad's side of the family is from Gettysburg. Definitely not the same town it was when I was a kid. Much more crowded with general commerce that you see in any town and less touristy.
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Computer graphics stuff and robot simulators. I have figured out forward kinematics and I'm trying to figure out inverse kinematics now. There are pictures in my profile. My 'avatar' is one example of the CGI stuff.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I've used inverse kinematics in AutoDesk 3D Studio with a biped. Fun stuff.
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I have a recording studioette in the basement where I dick around mixing and remixing then mixing again songs I wrote.
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Writing, recording, mixing my own music, usually very badly.
Creating things with stained or art glass.
DIY home improvement projects.
Exploring a few of Tennessee's 12,000 known caves.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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TNCaver wrote: Tennessee's 12,000 known caves.
Wow, no kidding? There are THAT many caves in Tennessee? That sounds really cool. 
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