The Base Camp

WedaPashi

06:11

Hello Everyone!

requiem

06:42

Howdy!

Aravona

So what have I missed?

WedaPashi

@requiem: Hi there!

requiem

That must be one big tent you have to carry...

WedaPashi

@ara: Umm, even I was off the grid for 2 days, so I can't say.. @liam was not here too

@requiem: It indeed it.

@ara: how was your weekend?

@nhinkle: Hi there!

@Rory: Here comes the Mod! :D

Rory Alsop

Pfffft

Morning

WedaPashi

06:52

@Rory: Morning :-) How was the weekend?

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi was good thanks. Fairly chilled out, and went to a friend's baby's christening. Very chilled out - did nothing significant :-)

How about you

Aravona

@Weda my whole week off was great except I got sick when we went camping :(

It has lead to one or two questions for TGO though lol...

nhinkle

Further proof that everybody in this room lives on the other side of the pond, I'm about to go to sleep!

Rory Alsop

@nhinkle lol - you west coast US?

nhinkle

@RoryAlsop yep

Rory Alsop

06:55

it's another autumnal morning here in Scotland

nhinkle

Scotland, hm? You guys are thinking of giving the ol' british independence thing a try, I hear.

Rory Alsop

@nhinkle oh lord, don't! It's the biggest pile of nonsense. I blame Braveheart and Mel Gibson

At least all the fuss will be over by the end of this week

nhinkle

Haha. It's mildly amusing for Americans because everybody's thinking "oh, yeah we tried that once... it went okay..."

Aravona

@Rory my friends scottish mother and english father are heading up to their Inverness house on vote day... We think them a tad mad!

Her dad said he was going to put on his beat english posh accent... My mate said how would he like his funeral to go.

Best*

nhinkle

@Aravona FYI you can just hit the up arrow key to edit your previous message if you mistype something

Aravona

07:02

@nhinkle yeah i know but its piss annoying to edit on a phone dude

nhinkle

@Aravona ah, yes. Chat on a phone = not an easy experience.

They need to work on the mobile chat.

Aravona

@nhinkle yup so thats why i just post the amend after lol

WedaPashi

@Rory: I did a trek this weekend, except for a aching shoulders, everything is great :-) Saw a leopard cub :-) Damn Happy about it!

@ara: Aww, falling sick on camping is so annoying. Get well soon!

Aravona

@Weda I am well lol... And yeah. My whole kit needed a good wash when we got home lol

We did get some good geocaching in when we were in Weymouth though!

WedaPashi

@Ara: Good.

@requiem: It was this tent. decathlon.in/hiking/tents/family-camping/t4-tent/p-237036.htm

Aravona

07:07

We are doing this thing called Open London this weekend

WedaPashi

Open London?

Aravona

You get to go in London buildings which are normally closed to the public and we are taking a friend to go and see Paddock, one of Churchills war rooms.

nhinkle

Welp, actually going to sleep now. Hope you all have a great day!

Aravona

If we are still sober from Fridays street fair haha :P

Night @nhinkle

Rory Alsop

@nhinkle later

requiem

07:09

Gods! that it huge! Make your companions carry it?

WedaPashi

@requiem: Yeah, true. But we already had heavy stuff with us, we went for solar lamp distribution (as a part of charity that we do), so we were already a bit heavily packed.

Aravona

My coworker is trying to get me to go to a halloween geocaching event

Rory Alsop

@requiem for a hiking tent that is pretty big...

@Aravona Heh nice - gets you out the way of trick-or-treaters. Off the back of that gig in Orkney, we've been asked to do a big Halloween gig. Which will be fun.

WedaPashi

@Rory: It was a two day trek, and a rather off the route thing. First day we all were doing great, the next day, we were not feeling out shoulders and limbs, it was just mechanical.. :D

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi yeah, I can imagine!

Aravona

07:17

@Rory awesome! You guys come pre dressed up too ;)

WedaPashi

Overall this Open London sounds amazing :-) I'll ask my cousin to try and be there. I don't think he has ever been to Open London thing, as I haven't heard of it from him. Though he lives in North London, Fulham.

@requiem: BTW, where are you from?

requiem

California!

Rory Alsop

@Aravona :-)

requiem

(currently scoping out some backcountry ski gear for winter)

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi I love the Open Edinburgh / Glasgow ones as well

WedaPashi

07:23

@Rory: Edinburgh is beautiful as my sister told me. I'd love to be there on a tour someday. :-)

@requiem: Thats good. :-)

requiem

...and it's off to bed for me as well. Have fun!

WedaPashi

@requiem: okay. Good Night!

Where is @liam today? Hope he had a good trek on weekend!

Aravona

@Weda we hadn't heard of open London either until we looked into visiting Paddock :)

@Rory I am so excited to go to Edinburgh! :D

Aravona

08:00

0

Q: How to clean vomit from camping gear?

Some background. Whilst car camping down in Weymouth recently I was unfortunate enough to encounter a stomach bug (we initially thought it was food poisoning but later realised it was a bug as my other half developed the same symptoms over 3 days later). I ended up making a mess inside the tent, ...

Delicious question for everyone! :P

Rory Alsop

@Aravona you poor thing!

Aravona

@Rory yeah it wasn't fun but at least Haven has good facilities!!

I'm just glad my sleeping bag is machine washable

Rory Alsop

@Aravona definitely! Your question has strong merit though - imagine you are a week away from civilisation and all your kit is covered in vomit from someone with a nasty stomach bug. That's got to have major health implications.

WedaPashi

08:21

@Ara: Feel bad for you. Added tag for Hygiene.

Aravona

08:31

@Rory yeah and I don't usually trek but plan to in the future so if anyone has experience Id love to hear it

@Weda thanks! And it could have been worse. I got out the tent 3 out of 4 times lol!!

Liam

@Aravona Amazing

Morning all

Weekend work climbing trip was successful!

though one of the guys only did the first 100 yards then sat in the car for the next 6 hours???!

I'm the one in blue if anyone is interested!

Rory Alsop

@Liam injured?

@Liam good work fella

Liam

@RoryAlsop Nah, just gave up!

Said it was too hard

Rory Alsop

@Liam 100 yards! Was it hard enough that you were roping etc?

Liam

@RoryAlsop No! That was just the footpath!

Rory Alsop

08:35

lol - maybe the poor guy has a secret fear of heights and didn't want to embarrass himself?

That's all the excuses I can think of used up

Liam

Seemed a long way to come to simply give up but I had spent a long time explaining it was going to by physically demanding!

Aravona

@Liam brilliant!

Liam

Lack of fitness was the issue

Got a great shot of my co worker hovering on Adam and Eve

Rory Alsop

@Liam photoshopped!

Liam

@RoryAlsop ha ha, just well timed!

Aravona

08:44

Lol!

Liam

09:08

I think I may of just made myself very busy....

Now everyone wants me to take them up a mountain!

@Aravona Having you considered getting a dog to lick it off...if I have trouble like this fester normally helps out

Aravona

@Liam currently we have no dog... Though the crows ate what was outside the tent lol...

Liam

10:44

@Aravona, that question's a tough one..?!

Russell Steen

@Liam -- That's become a real problem with our local hiking groups too. People who come and then decide they can't handle it (even for relatively easy trips) so stay in the car.

@Aravona -- Step 1, don't puke in the tent :P That's not really helpful though. No idea how I'd clean that with my typical setup.

Aravona

@Liam I don't see why you commented. It is a clearly delibrately generalised question. One cannot always aim when vomiting... So it could be ANY gear

@Russell I got outside three out of four times. That was a miracle in itself. Just glad I made it to the bog when the other end had a turn.

Liam

@Aravona Just trying to clarify, cleaning a tent is going to be very different to cleaning a sleeping bag. I was trying to think of a good solution. It's hard though?

@RussellSteen It's not as if I hadn't warned the guy either. I went over th top if anything playing up how hard it was going to be

Aravona

@Liam might be best then to just wait and see if anyone else answers?

The tent wipes clean easily when we had towels for example. I do not think the integrity of the tent was effected by the vomit as it was the second go so just acidy water. My thinking is... If you unfortunately get sick out trekking... What would you do... Find a stream and clean it all up and leave it out to dry for a few days? Treat it like wet mud and leave it to dry then scrape it off...? Lol I hope someone has a few ideas

The reason I left it generalised is you might just be walking and having a break then puke on someones bag... All this ran through my head when being sick haha

I do have another related question for this too.

Russell Steen

Well, I gave it a shot.

Really it's just "how to clean vomit", and assuming it would work for gear too

@Aravona -- That would be my fear. I generally know and have plenty of warning when I am going to puke. Now you have me worried about other people puking on me :P

Aravona

11:01

@Russell that is no where near how I clean vomit up so that's actually some good info :) and as for the stream that was more of a comment cos that's how we clean boots around here as no stream is drinking water :P

@Russell I heavily salivate before being sick, and it's always a sweet taste, it's nasty.

Russell Steen

@Aravona -- Sorry, I wasn't trying to snark at you about the stream, but it did come across that way. I was more thinking of random people who might read it later. :(

Aravona

@Russell no worries makes sense anyway to state that. If using stream water we would fill up a kettle or something :)

I have another question about people care away from creature comforts when it comes to vomiting... My other half who had the bug three days later had the comfort of home and television to make life easier. And a bin to puke in haha

Usually thats why I don't have sick to clean up... I just have a bucket to.

WedaPashi

11:54

@liam: Hey buddy!

Liam

@WedaPashi Hey Weda

WedaPashi

@liam: Nice pictures :-)

Liam

@WedaPashi :)

Aravona

12:52

Quiet in here today

Liam

13:02

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Better :) @Aravona

It was like this last week!

I'm pretty busy at the mo so I'm having to leave this to one side a little :)

Question rates jumped up again, BTW

964

The Great Outdoors – outdoors.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for people who love outdoor activities, excursions, and outdoorsmanship.

Currently in public beta.

Aravona

13:16

@Liam great and yeah RAAAAAAWWWWRRRR

My code is misbehaving.

soph-e

@ara intimidate your code into submission, works everytime

Aravona

@soph if only... This damn mvc is a pain

Whole thing is badly made

soph-e

i thought mvc was the new be-all and end-all

Liam

@Aravona MVC is awesome! It was the future (it's now MVVM). You obviously never had to build ASP.Net web forms!

soph-e

mvvm sounds way silly

Liam

13:29

@soph-e Model-View-View-Model.... :) things like Angular and Backbone.js

Though personally I'm not convinced...

You's should have a peak at

Technology radar

soph-e

yeah my experience with mvc is pretty much limited to the tutorial on microsoft's website

Liam

@soph-e Nothing wrong with that. I think that's where I learned it too

soph-e

yeah the sad part is that we did that tutorial for the majority of a 15 weeks course I had

teacher would read the tutorial in front of the class, then we'd do a really similar project on our own

was super lame

Liam

@soph-e Sounds like lazy teaching!

soph-e

little bit

Liam

13:42

MVC works better, I think, because the old (.net way anyway) was trying to make the web work like windows forms, which it just doesn't. MVC uses proper HTTP requests, like you used to have to do back in the day. This makes sense because the web uses HTTP!

any hooooo

:)

I've been writing this stuff for like 15 years now though...

I'm old :-(

;)

soph-e

lol!

WedaPashi

@liam: How old are you?

Liam

@WedaPashi I had to count then...that's surely a sign your too old

33

WedaPashi

@liam: haha :D I am nearly a decade younger than you :-)

Liam

Your only as old as the girl you feel.....

Wow, that sounds pervy

:P

WedaPashi

13:52

@liam: Duh!

Aravona

I am clearly not ready to be back to work after my holiday / illness

I just tried to submit my form by having the action in the div.

Seriously? I have a degree in this... Though too my coworker just as long to realise my mistake haha

WedaPashi

@Ara: haha.. :D

Liam

@Aravona It's always the little annoying bugs that take the longest to find!

Aravona

I loooove Mondays...

Liam

@Aravona yeah

I can't be arsed

Aravona

13:58

@Liam yeah... This one was hilarious

Liam

@soph-e Wouldn't this question be a good one for you?

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Q: Legal permits required for trekking in Canada

I will be travelling to Canada for a business trip, and I can spare a weekend in between my schedule. I'd be keen to trek/hike near Vancouver, and I have banked upon hiking The Stawamus Chief. As I'll be there as a technocrat, am I legally allowed to hike in Canada? Or do I have to comply to any ...

trekking legality canada permits

soph-e

uhhhhhhhhhhh I've not heard of any permits required to hike anywhere in here :/

user116848

@Liam Nice pics above!

user116848

hi all

WedaPashi

@soph: Oh, thats bad

@Arrowfar: Hi

soph-e

14:05

there's got to be information on the websites of whatever park the trail is on, I can maybe check. I'd think if a local hiker doesn't need a permit, then a foreign hiker wouldn't need one either

WedaPashi

@soph: Its kinda same here in India as well. You don not permits except for trekking/hiking in restricted forests and sanctuaries, and Himalayas

Aravona

@Arrow howdy

user116848

@Aravona howdy!

Aravona

@Arrow hows it going?

user116848

@weda Yes, trekking is fun!

user116848

14:09

@Aravona Good I guess. It seems like a adventure chat so I come here :-)

Liam

Hi @Arrowfar! Welcome to TGO chat

soph-e

@Liam I found this information: "Officially open May 15 - October 12. If you go outside these dates you just have to walk in from outside the gates and camping is free however there are no services available which means that the washrooms may be locked and no water available" from squamishhiatus.com/squamishhikes/thestawamuschief.html, not sure if this type of website is reliable enough to base an answer on

Liam

Un less you've been and I've not noticed, which is possible...

user116848

@Liam Thanks! Nice pics pal :-)

Liam

@Arrowfar Glad you like them. Was a work thing, dragged some people who don't normally go inot the hills up a mountain in north wales

user116848

14:11

@Liam I see :) Looks like a fun place though

Liam

@soph-e I'm not sure! Never hiked in Canada. Maybe you don't need a permit?

@Arrowfar Yeah it's good, Grade I scramble so nothing too crazy. Everyone really enjoyed it!

Aravona

@Liam what area of canada was it? I could ask my brother

Liam

^ cannon rock

WedaPashi

@liam: I envy you mann, such an awesome country :-)

user116848

@Liam Nice one.

Liam

14:14

@Aravona I'm getting your and @soph-e mixed up!! near Vancouver

@WedaPashi Wales == Gods country

user116848

It looks pretty dangerous there :)

WedaPashi

@liam: This room is alive :-) Glad about it!

user116848

Yay!

Liam

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

user116848

Most of the time chat is dead here

Liam

14:15

@Arrowfar Nah it's fine

user116848

I see

soph-e

@liam yeah i'm on the coast opposite of vancouver ;)

Liam

There's normally a handful of us in here on and off

@soph-e I get easily confused

@soph-e I also forget Canada is so big

WedaPashi

@Arrowfar: I agree that its sometime dead room, but then when we chat in here, its fun, and that is too frequent to be called as dead :-)

user116848

@weda Are there cool places in India to camp?

WedaPashi

14:17

@Arrowfar: More than a thousand :-)

user116848

I see :)

WedaPashi

@Arrowfar: Where are you from?

Aravona

@Liam Wales is absolutely lovely

user116848

@WedaPashi I am from Pakistan BTW. In north we have some good places too

user116848

Like India may be :)

WedaPashi

14:18

user116848

Where is this?

WedaPashi

@Arrowfar: Oh, I see :-) We kinda live in similar sort of a weather :-)

user116848

@WedaPashi haha yes!

WedaPashi

@Arrowfar: Its Sahyadris, the Western ghats :-)

user116848

I see. Looks nice

WedaPashi

14:19

@Arrowfar: i dream about wandering the region neat Gasherbum and Broad Peak :-)

user116848

But in subcontinent weather is hot usually. Which is what I hate the most :)

user116848

@WedaPashi Yes. That area is like Western world.

user116848

I have been near K2 but not very near you know.

Aravona

The closest thing I have to me nature wise is a forest they plan to destroy :/

user116848

@Aravona Oh, no

WedaPashi

14:21

@Arrowfar: Umm, not really, the region is incomparably beautiful :-)

user116848

@WedaPashi You mean Subcontinent region or Western region?

user116848

Oh, you mean Gasherbum etc.

user116848

I see. Yes it is

WedaPashi

@Arrowfar: Every region painted by nature is a bliss to me :-) Be it Afgan deserts or be it Vietnam rivers, or be it the Alps :-)

user116848

@WedaPashi Very true :)

Aravona

14:23

@Arrow yeah all for the good of High Speed 2

user116848

hah

Aravona

I love how well a question about vomit went haha...

WedaPashi

@Ara: IMHO, Its fairly a good question :-)

Aravona

@Weda yeah and I did say I wanted more experience before asking / answering another question lol!

@Liam has it right... The more you go out and do the more you think of

WedaPashi

@Ara: Yeah, true. I love this question a lot though.

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A: How do you locate the "North Star"?

You need to know if you are in Northern Hemisphere or in Southern Hemisphere or nearby the Equator. If you are in Northern Hemisphere: First locate the Polaris. Its the last star in The Ursa Minor. I've had trouble in location it sometimes. If you are in such a situation, try locating The Ursa ...

Aravona

14:33

@Weda I'm no good with any stars except the orion constellation... But I was so shocked at the number of stars you can see from my local hill at night... It was like a blanket of them... And yet from home you can see almost none but the brightest...

soph-e

ugh "you need at least 10 reputation to post more than 2 links" How am i supposed to answer without heavily cited answers :P

WedaPashi

@Ara: Yeah, that true.. Its more fun when you start locating things :-)

Aravona

@Soph just post an answer and when it's upvoted once edit it?

soph-e

yeah, it's no biggie

Aravona

Lol we can always upvote you ;)

It's not like we haven't a bit before haha

WedaPashi

14:39

@soph: Let us know :-)

Liam

sorted it for you @soph-e

soph-e

haha, thanks

Liam

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A: Legal permits required for trekking in Canada

From the park's own website: A permit is not required for front-country camping, hiking, moorage, etc. in most parks. Campsite reservations are accepted at many front-country parks. To be absolutely sure, you could try contacting the park itself. As a bonus, this page has a lot of gene...

Aravona

I'm bang on 1500 rep lol

2

soph-e

puu.sh/bA3AJ/12e3d9869e.png heh, as if I wasn't doing that already ;)

3

WedaPashi

14:45

@Ara: Kudos to that! :-)

user116848

After trekking at a nice place, I hate coming back to city. Because it's very peaceful in the wild :-)

Aravona

I love living where I do. No city. Some forest... Mostly fields but driving distance from most places. Just a shame I can't enjoy whats around more

WedaPashi

@arrow: There is always a flip-side to it. People there in the wild are more crazy about gadgets and city life. Thats being Human!

user116848

@Aravona You are very luck pal :-)

user116848

@WedaPashi Yes that's true too lol

user116848

14:48

@Aravona So why can't you enjoy it more? I don't understand

Liam

@WedaPashi when I was a kid, living north wales was drag. You were miles from anything. It's why I think I lived in a big city for so long but these days, with broad band and a Tesco on every corner you can get pretty much anything in the country as you can in the city

In the UK anyway!

We're a very overpopulated country

user116848

@Aravona You mean too busy to enjoy?

Liam

UK has the same population as France but half the landmass! (in case anyone is interested)

user116848

I think Subcontinent is the overpopulated one lol

WedaPashi

@liam: If not India, then I would have loved to be born in Norway or Alaska (I know Alaska is not a country, and is a State) :-)

user116848

14:52

I would love to go to Tongus forest one day

user116848

Looks very nice there

Liam

@WedaPashi Norway's a lovely place. My ex's sister lived in Bergen we used to go visit sometimes

WedaPashi

I love where I live, its a city, major city in India, but a couple of hours drive/ride, and you are in a wildlife sanctuary where you'd get to see a Leopard Cub, or get a 1.5K feet wall to climb, or may b a 2.5K feet wall to rappel :-) , or drive a little longer, and get a white sand beach. Its all about willingness. Even a simple hike does feel good, if you love being outdoors :-)

user116848

@WedaPashi Nice!

soph-e

@Liam Canada has an absolutely insane landmass, and a minuscule population in comparison!

WedaPashi

14:56

@soph: Thats good. :-)

user116848

Populated areas aren't fun to live in

WedaPashi

See, the room is alive. Stop calling it dead, its dormant at times, not dead :-) #Cheers!

soph-e

@weda except everything is super far, and telecommunications are way expensive because the network has to cover a multiple of the distance to reach a small subset of the population

Aravona

@Arrow because of work yeah

user116848

I see :-)

WedaPashi

14:58

@soph: I kinda have an attraction for Canada.. btw, Bryan Adams is a canadian :-)

soph-e

When Europeans come to visit, they are surprised they can't drive all over in one weekend!

WedaPashi

@soph: lol, thats true..

Aravona

@Liam if I could have a hut in the middle of nowhere with broadband I'd be happy lol

user116848

@soph-e Yes no one can drive all over Canada in one weekend :)

Aravona

@Soph where my step dad is from it takes an hour ro drive across

WedaPashi

14:59

@Ara: lol @ With Broadband

user116848

@Aravona I agree. Braodband is a must :-)

soph-e

@ara jeez, in an hour I'm not outside of my city

Aravona

@Weda how else would I bother you lot??

WedaPashi

@Ara: You win :-) :D

Aravona

@Soph hes from Maurice aka Mauritius

user116848

15:00

@Aravona Where are you from btw?

user116848

If you don't mind me asking that is

Aravona

@Arrow boring old blighty. Southern England.

WedaPashi

@Arrow: @Ara is an astronaut :D

user116848

@WedaPashi I don't believe it :-)

WedaPashi

@Ara: :P

user116848

15:01

So what is an astronaut is doing in Southern England.

Liam

@soph-e Literally 5 min walk and I'm in a field!

user116848

You guys are messing I guess :)

soph-e

@Liam grocery shopping must be annoying where you're at ;)

WedaPashi

@Ara: please tell him :D

soph-e

5 min walk, I can be in a grocery store

WedaPashi

15:02

@liam: Oh, that great

@soph: rofl :D

soph-e

;)

user116848

@Aravona Is this for real? Astronaut talk? :-)

WedaPashi

5 min walk, and I'll still be in company premises :P

Liam

View from the end of my road

google.co.uk/maps/@53.114593,-3.125213,3a,75y,273.72h,85.22t/…

user116848

@soph-e So stores are close to where you live?

soph-e

15:03

@liam okay now I'm jealous

WedaPashi

@liam: Such a lovely place :-)

Liam

@soph-e One shop, no pub

user116848

I never get jealous

user116848

It's not a good thing imo

user116848

:-)

Liam

15:04

Just ignore the cemetery...!

soph-e

cemeteries can be nice...if you don't find them too glum

user116848

@Liam Very nice place pal

Liam

One of my fav spots to go for a run, about 2 min drive

google.co.uk/maps/place/Treuddyn,+Mold,+Flintshire+CH7/…

@soph-e Fester likes to poo by the gate...don't tell anyone

user116848

I think liam is the luckiest guy in the room ;-)

Liam

@Arrowfar It's a big change to where I lived like 2 months ago

City centre of liverpool. Right in the middle

soph-e

15:06

google.ca/maps/dir/45.4329266,-73.6313314//… the view from the end of my street

Aravona

@Weda @Arrow I'm scared of flying lol not an astronaut

user116848

@Aravona Yes I knew it was a joke :-) (Astronauts usually camp on moon)

Liam

My previous views! ha ha

google.co.uk/maps/place/Liverpool,+Merseyside/…

@soph-e Pharmaprix! ha ha are you kidding! This is hilarious in UK english

soph-e

@liam mm that looks nice too

user116848

So these images from google maps are from the road cameras?

user116848

15:08

I never get that how they make it?

soph-e

@Liam an english translation would be pharmaprice, not very different :P

@Arrowfar they have cars driving around with cameras on the roof

Aravona

@soph my sister used to be on our local google maps lol

soph-e

@arrow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

user116848

@soph-e I see. You are not kidding, right?

Aravona

She got caught on the camera like 6 times you can see her moving around her road

soph-e

15:10

there are some really funny things on google maps, people falling and all kinds of stuff

Liam

@Aravona At least she wasn't shop lifting

Aravona

@soph and some scary stuff too!

user116848

@Aravona Who? lol Sophe?

Aravona

@Arrow my sister

user116848

Oh, I see

soph-e

15:11

@arrow her sister, who is not me :P

user116848

@soph-e thanks for the link! I didn't know

user116848

@soph-e i see :-)

Liam

telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10869951/…

this is hilarious...google maps

soph-e

I'm not sure what their business model is with the street view, but it sure is useful (and fun!)

user116848

Yes it is

Liam

15:12

@soph-e It's about google owning everything!

:)

Aravona

@Liam lol!

To be fair google maps / streetview is helping me buy a house

soph-e

They can own everything as far as I'm concerned, I think they tend to do a great job!

#googleFan

Aravona

:)

soph-e

I like their ISP efforts in wherever, Texas

Liam

@soph-e Don't get me wrong I actually like what google does but their business model is all about owning all the data

soph-e

15:17

once they have it all it'll be worth $$$

Liam

user116848

May be there aren't any competitors to Google Maps

Liam

@Arrowfar Bing maps are pretty good

soph-e

was there...apple maps?

Liam

@soph-e yeah but who cares....#hateapple

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:)

soph-e

15:18

hahahaha!!

there aren't any apple products in my household ;)

user116848

Me too. Apple is very expensive too

user116848

I use Dell products :-)

user116848

Or Intel etc.

Liam

WedaPashi

@liam: Totally agreed. #HateApple!

user116848

15:21

Plus in camping all we need is some groceries and an internet connection :D

user116848

No Apple needed.

user116848

They would be pissed if they visit here lol

soph-e

lol

Aravona

@Liam haha gases... You don't want me doing that in a tent lol

WedaPashi

15:43

@Ara: I hogged, again :D

soph-e

15:58

outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6732/… anyone want to let this guy know why he might be getting downvoted?

Liam

16:26

@soph-e Written a little something

soph-e

thanks! it always sucks having a question with downvotes and zero response

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