Markle

Congrats tokencollector! I figured once I found my old book I had a chance. Thanks for the contest Tsunrisebey!!

disk - nearly circular ordits in the plane of the galaxy halo - randomly oriented elliptical orbits I need to find some way to consolidate my posts

halo - part of spherical component thin scattering of stars, star clusters and almost no gas and dust cool, lower main sequence stars and giants extends beyond edge of disk stable glubular star clusters bulge - similar to halo stars but center contains younger hot stars (Rose McGowan?) obscures visual wavelengths due to concentration

disk - all matter confined to the plane of the disk No sharp boundaries defined by stars at about 1000 pc thick very weak magnetic field contains associations and open clusters of stars

Astronomy book!! I forgot I took that in college. I gotta find my old book!!

I think that's a song by Muse.

Wow... holy... wow.... I just got my computer to pull up the search page and when I got here to type in the answer.... I was clearly trounced. LOL Nice job to the winner!! Whoever ye may be. Thanks for the entertainment Tsun.

56 K... That's all I have to say. At least it's not 2400 baud.

Lucky!.. Gah

While still very new to these forums I just want to add some two cents here... I vote us dial-up users should get a handicap. I kid, I kid -M

LOL! Thanks for the token! My very first item off of these forums. I'm so proud.

I haven't gotten a package yet but all the talk is getting me excited. I'll be checking the mail a lot tomorrow!!

I made the list! Woo hoo! I've been lurking in here for a few months now and am dipping my feet in the pool o' coins. I can't tell you how excited I am that I made your list, even if it was #21. Thanks so much. Just another example of how generous all you coin folks are. THANKS AGAIN!!!

I've been reading this thread for a while and as a relative newbie I thought I'd chime in a little here, but not on the topic of the hide. I heard about geocaching last year and did a little research into it. My girlfriend ended up getting me a GPS for Christmas and now we're both addicted. She travels a lot and finds caches to kill the time. We like to cache together to spend time with each other. We sit around coming up with devious hides to place. We've never met any of the other local cachers but from the posts and hides we almost feel like we know some of them. This has been a great hobby for us and I sincerely hope that you don't let one bad experience spoils it for you. And from your other perspective... Since I've started caching I've started a list of parks that I want to go to because of caching that I would never have known existed without the hobby. From my perspective I've gotten a new appreciation for the green spaces we have around us and taking care of them. I LOVE hitting the greenbelts and hiking and I LOVE finding new places through the game. I think geocaching would be great to add in your programs and I think it's a great way to let people know about the park systems we have. You could even make CITO part of the program. Just a thought. I don't know if any of this is relevant but I just had to throw out my part as well. For Elisabeth and I this has been a GREAT hobby and a great introduction to all of the great parks and greenbelts around us. I hope you won't take this one bad experience and let it ruin the game for you. Mark

I've used Illustrator in the past but I don't really have access to that anymore. I'm hoping Inkscape will have a similar interface. And you bring up a good point. I've been wondering how people have made their 3D coins. Some of them look great (the new Moun10girl is nice) and I'd love to know their secret.

Inkscape... never heard of that one. I'll look that up. Thanks for the tip!

Good point. Thanks so much for your time.

I will definitely try that. Now that you say it I almost want to smack myself in the head for not thinking of that in the first place. How do you normally handle eyes? In the sketching I do the eyes make or break a picture. In something like this I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle an animals eyes, without being cartoonish.

After lurking in the shadows for a while I thought I would chime in and ask a question. Just after getting addicted to geocaching I had a nasty little knee injury which has sidelined me for anywhere from 6 weeks to almost 5 months. (PLEASE be 6 weeks) Anywho, I've really gotten the bug about geocoins and I'd like to start in on the craziness. I figured since I'll be sitting on the floor for quite a while this would be a great time to design a coin and see about maybe minting one so I can start some trades and stuff. Ooooo, exciting! I have a question or two about the design process I'm hoping someone with some experience will be willing to help me out with. Here we go... 1. I'm trying to turn a picture I have into a 2D image with color. My problem is that when I get to a part of the picture that's a little more detailed it, well.... looks not so good. Low detail I actually really like but the higher detail part... eh. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. 2. I'm also curious about what software you all are using to design your coins. I have access to Photoshop but that's not really great with vector graphics so what do you all suggest? 3. On a less design related issue, when you all post a design of a coin, do you take orders first and then submit to the mint so that it's paid in advance or do you take the risk and buy 'em. I've never been really clear on accepted protocol. Thanks so much and I hope to be a more frequent member of the forum!

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