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I sent off a batch of postcards today. :)
 
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Evo said:
I bought MIH a really adorable birthday card a couple of years ago. It's sitting on the table in the hallway. I see it almost every day and it makes me think of her. She'd love it. :redface:

Maybe you could take a picture of it? :smile:
 
I am planning an ambulation across some of the darkest land of Warwickshire, the dangers are untold, but i expect to have to navigate through gorse and brier, quagmires and foreboding woods, and may be brave rabid wild life, all in the hope of getting a photograph that would be worthy of using as a post card to send to esteemed friends.
 
Evo said:
I will probably actually buy postcards. They will probably end up with all the other things I've bought for people knowing how much they would enjoy them and then never actually sent.

I am at a post office at least twice a week. Chemical software is sold just through downloads, so that's not a problem, by dyslexia therapy programs are on CD and I have to deliver them somehow. If not for that I will probably end at the same stage.

I have not bought postcards yet - I have been at the post office yesterday and they have just some bunnies and birthday wishes; I want something Warsaw related.

Finally, I wonder how long it will take for postcards to reach destination. Those sent by air mail are getting cross the Atlantic pretty fast, but those sent cheap must be delivered by row boats. I have seen them traveling for 6 weeks.
 
wolram said:
I am planning an ambulation across some of the darkest land of Warwickshire, the dangers are untold, but i expect to have to navigate through gorse and brier, quagmires and foreboding woods, and may be brave rabid wild life, all in the hope of getting a photograph that would be worthy of using as a post card to send to esteemed friends.

How admirable, Wolram,

Meanwhile five cards on their way.
 
I like postcards - especially from foreign countries (like California or Alaska, for example).
 
Math Is Hard said:
Maybe you could take a picture of it? :smile:
I'll do that tonight when I get home.
 
Borek said:
Out of curiosity I have entered all addresses that you have sent me into Google Earth. Wow. It works. You can even tell who has a black car :wink:

I have a quantum car according to Google Earth :cool:

It is both at work, and at the boat launch. But not at home. hmmm... can particles go through 3 slits at once? Ooops! Off topic.

Being a philatelist, I would greatly appreciate exchanging post cards with the international PF community.

Borek, you are first on my list.

And what a great way to properly stalk my local PF'ers(instead of endlessly driving around their neighborhoods): lisab, Ivan & Tsu, Integral, et al. :rolleyes:
 
BobG said:
I like postcards - especially from foreign countries (like California or Alaska, for example).

I can see Russia from my house! :approve:
If I use Google Earth.
 
OmCheeto said:
I have a quantum car according to Google Earth :cool:

It is both at work, and at the boat launch. But not at home. hmmm... can particles go through 3 slits at once? Ooops! Off topic.

Cool - I need a quantum car!

I guess they only update images a few times a year. I've been looking at Galveston and it seems to be all pre-hurricane images.
 
Math Is Hard said:
I guess they only update images a few times a year.

Depends on place, but in general few times a year is a very high frequency.
 
Borek said:
Depends on place, but in general few times a year is a very high frequency.
Some places get updated more frequently than others. The view of where I live is about 2 years old, but a friend in DC was under a year.
 
MIH, here is your card, it's the best shot I could get of it. Now the surprise is gone. :frown:

The message inside says "May cosmic bliss come down and scratch you on the belly" Happy Birthday

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oh, Evo! That is so sweet! Is that a Beagle? I love Beagles!
Thank you. This makes my crummy day into a good one :)
 
Math Is Hard said:
oh, Evo! That is so sweet! Is that a Beagle? I love Beagles!
Thank you. This makes my crummy day into a good one :)
Yes, it's a beagle. I'm glad you like it. I guess it will still be a surprise if you get it. Oh, and Dr Foofer just signed it. Your card now has claw marks on it. :redface: I should put it back before he hacks up a furball on it.
 
Speaking of postcards... I came across this website/blog and I am fascinated with it:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

for instance:
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and

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and

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Evo said:
I bought MIH a really adorable birthday card a couple of years ago. It's sitting on the table in the hallway. I see it almost every day and it makes me think of her. She'd love it. :redface:

:smile: I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does things like this. Yet another PF support group forms. :biggrin: I have CDs with the photos from my nephew's 3rd birthday party that were supposed to be sent to my sister and mom. They're still on my desk and my nephew is now 5. I just found Christmas cards from last year that I meant to send to a couple of friends. :redface: They weren't just regular Christmas cards either, they were fancy ones that happened to remind me of them, so they're special, but needed extra postage and I didn't know how much. I guess I can still send them this year. :rolleyes: Oh, and there's the present stored with my Christmas stuff that was supposed to be sent to my mom, oh, probably 3 years ago or so. It's clothing and she's not the same size anymore, so no point sending it now. I guess I should just give it to Good Will or something, but again, that would require making a trip to their thrift store and remembering to bring the clothes when I do it. :rolleyes: I desperately need a personal assistant to run errands to the post office for me.
 
Math Is Hard said:
for instance:
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:smile: One of my students is still a bit ticked off that I busted him on his flirting in class. Actually, I thought it was WAY too obvious to be real flirting and thought he was just goofing around, but by the shades of red he turned when I told him he would get more work done if he wasn't spending the lab period flirting, I think it really was flirting. :redface: :smile:

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OUCH!
 
Moonbear said:
:smile: I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does things like this. Yet another PF support group forms. :biggrin:
Thank goodness I'm not the only one!

Oh, I just remembered we had a US Post Office at work. I hope it's a real staffed one and not self service. I will have to try to find it tomorrow. Oh and we have an employee store somewhere, maybe they sell postcards and there is a custom graphics store. I need to get my little map out and look for these places.
 
I decided i am crap with photography, so i will send a plain one with some added interest.
 
wolram said:
I decided i am crap with photography, so i will send a plain one with some added interest.
Draw me a doggie on mine.
 
Too bad Zooby is not playing. He has made some lovely postcards out of his abstract colored pencil drawings.
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That's beautiful. He made some really great drawings.
 
Math Is Hard said:
Too bad Zooby is not playing. He has made some lovely postcards out of his abstract colored pencil drawings.
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Zooby? who is Zooby?

zoobyshoe?

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that's almost a full year. and before I joined this forum. do you think he drank the water?

but that is a beautiful card.

do you have his/her address? I'm ready to invest.


in postcards...
 
~christina~ said:
I'm wary of giving out me address.

1) Talk like a pirate day is over.

2) I agree. I'm only going to exchange cards with people I know pretty well here and have known for a while.
 
~christina~ said:
I'm wary of giving out me address.

Yep watch out guys i am coming pillaging, i can not promise the other.
 
I sent my cards today Monday.