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rcurl
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Iceland 2006
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Aug 15 20:04 UTC 2006 |
I have posted my slides from a 12 day Sierra Club group visit to Iceland
in June at
http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n154/ranecurl/
There are two albums, each for about half the trip. Open one and you can
choose SlideShow and go through them pretty fast! They are all titled,
especially for location, but that might not mean much unless you have a
map.
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mcnally
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response 1 of 15:
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Aug 15 21:10 UTC 2006 |
Interesting pictures. I think I once knew, but had definitely forgotten,
that Iceland is more or less treeless.
Nice falls pictures of Haifoss and Gullfoss. It definitely looks like an
interesting place to explore, and has long been on my list of places I'd
like to visit.
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tod
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response 2 of 15:
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Aug 16 00:43 UTC 2006 |
I like Thjodveldisbaer..
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rcurl
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response 3 of 15:
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Aug 16 06:06 UTC 2006 |
It is a reproduction of a building at Stong from ca. 1180 that was buried
by the vast eruption of Hekla, which drove people out of a third or more
of the island. We also visited the Stong site, which is a dig over which
they have built a shed for protection from the weather.
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tod
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response 4 of 15:
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Aug 16 12:56 UTC 2006 |
The High Falls look nice too. Is that where the hydropower plant is?
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rcurl
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response 5 of 15:
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Aug 16 16:47 UTC 2006 |
Haifoss is a couple of kilometers from the Sultartangavirkjun hydropower
station on the Thjorsa river. Haifoss is on a tributary that joins the
Thjorsa downstream of the station.
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mcnally
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response 6 of 15:
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Aug 16 17:17 UTC 2006 |
How large does an Icelandic (Islandik?) scrabble board have to be?
They've got a serious thing for compound words..
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tod
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response 7 of 15:
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Aug 16 17:21 UTC 2006 |
Eg skil ekki..
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rcurl
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response 8 of 15:
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Aug 16 23:22 UTC 2006 |
The Icelandic Scrabble set is shown at
http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/icelandic/ It has 32 letters plus
the blank.
Many of the large compound words are proper nouns, which are not allowed
in Scrabble.
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mcnally
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response 9 of 15:
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Aug 17 00:06 UTC 2006 |
I'm sure I could deal with the "th" character (is it called a thorn,
like in old english?) but having eleven vowels to pick from makes it
seem likely you'd never have the one you needed..
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rcurl
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response 10 of 15:
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Aug 17 05:54 UTC 2006 |
There are two "th" characters, the thing that looks like p, which is the
unvoiced th as in cloth, and the d with a line through the arm, which is
the voiced th as in clothe. (I was amazed that I could copy and paste
these special Icelandic characters into the titles on my slides in
PhotoBucket, if I found them on the web.)
Our guide and driver gave me an example of multiple meaning of some words
in Icelandic with a *sentence* that was a string of ohs, or rather it
sounded like "oh oh oh oh..." (I don't remember how many - it was a
children's rhyme about a cow, I think). I've tried to look it up on the
web but I'm not sure how all the ohs are each spelled.
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twenex
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response 11 of 15:
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Aug 17 13:07 UTC 2006 |
The first one rane mentioned is thorn, the other edh or eth.
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rcurl
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response 12 of 15:
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Aug 17 17:33 UTC 2006 |
More than you want to know about "th" is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_th After studying
that, you can take the quiz at http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/365.html
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behemmoth
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response 13 of 15:
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Jan 25 21:41 UTC 2007 |
Grate shots!
What kind of camera do you use?
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denise
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response 14 of 15:
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Jan 26 00:16 UTC 2007 |
Jorge, if you're interested in cameras and/or photography, do stop by the
photography conference sometime. Type j photography at the prompt.
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rcurl
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Jan 26 05:23 UTC 2007 |
I used a 1.3 Mpixel Olympus - the D340-R, set at its lowest resolution
(an 8 MB card is good for some 100+ shots) as I was more interested in lots
of shots than high resolution, since I expected only to view them on a
computer.
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