Recent content by mike656

It's a gamble, of course, but the hotel room was cheap, gas is cheap right now, and if the dreaded "c" word occurs, there is always 2024.

Myself, like probably most others, haven't been around long enough to experience a "total" solar eclipse but have seen partial ones. Now IMO, there is no comparison between the 2 whatsoever, you have to be in the totality corridor otherwise you will be underwhelmed by the experience, I know I...

I would have done that and was considering it, but from where I will be seeing it ill have 2:35 of totality, and its only a 7 hour drive from home.

Just curious if anyone else is as excited about this as I am? Just booked my hotel in Columbia SC and will be counting down the days until August 21st hehe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017 http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html

Yuck, sounds like the LA region on the I-10, except this being north south. Leaving super early is sounding better and better, I don't care much for sitting in traffic or doing that 0-5 stuff, especially when on vacation.

Yeah there is no way I would take that, I stick to interstate style highway whenever possible, thats why I originally planned to take 826 to 874 to 821 from I-95 (where they come together with the end of the 91 turnpike).

I see that on the map, looks like a popular crossover point because they are so close. Originally I was looking at FL-786 PGA Blvd further north but south of your suggestion or I-595 further south if traffic became an issue en route. How early does the rush start in the Miami region?

I agree I defiantly want it to be daylight, at least for the Keys. Getting to the start of the Keys probably around 7am would be near sunrise I think, figuring 4 hours from Orlando to there.

We are planning on staying in Key West, and maybe do a few excursions to other parts of the Keys, still preliminary as I haven't booked anything yet. Sounds like getting up real early (2 am) to leave might be necessary, how early in the day does US-1 turn into a parking lot? I hate sitting in...

Been there once when I was around 10, so I have rode but not driven, don't remember much about the drive.

Going on a trip to the Keys from Orlando this summer and noticed there are several travel options, but after going to the Florida turnpike site and calculating a round trip, it would cost almost $37 ($18.44 exactly each way)!!! Rather than spending a nice dinner for two on road tolls, I came up...

Ugh one of the fans in my MacBook Pro died earlier, still crunching though albeit with throttling, units running about 20-25% slower.

During the P4 era, I was a die hard AMD guy, once Nehalem came out though........ back on topic. My Athlon T-Bird is at 82% over 3h5m on the extended PPS llr, the bigger ones will probably be 12 hrs as predicted.

Heck yeah, its crunching plus heating your home. Running about 5 million XP updates on it now, so SLOW. Needed it up anyway since I have floppies, Zip disks, and tapes I want to finally toss but check the data on.

Adding one more core later, my lightning quick Athlon T-Bird 1 GHz box hehe, i'm thinking like 12 hours for one unit.