User talk:Foriskak

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Greetings Foriskak,

it appears you are relatively new here, so I'd like to take the opportunity to welcome you aboard. Thanks for updating the Boo.com article, I was suprised to see that it didn't exist already. GregRobson 12:15, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Wheelbase

Hi Foriskak. I like your wheelbase page & illustration - kudos. But could I check out with you whether the first sentence and the second sentence convey different meanings?

  1. In automotives, the wheelbase is the distance between the center of the front wheel and the center of the rear wheel.
  2. It is equal to the distance of the rear tire from the CG(center of gravity) plus the distance from the front tire to the center of gravity.

I'd have thought that 1, being a straight line, would be shorter than 2, which appears to be a couple of lines which would only describe the straight line if the centre of gravity was on the line between the two centre points; if the CG is not on the straight line connecting the two points, then 2>1 and => 1!=2. Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but, err, I am :) best wishes --Tagishsimon

Hello Foriskak.

I see you uploaded your wheelbase image as a .bmp file. This works fine, but for the type of image you uploaded, .gif files provide better compression and a smaller file size. As a bmp the file takes around 300 kilobytes, but as a gif it's closer to 2 or 3 kilobytes.

I only noticed because I'm on a 56k modem, so it's not a huge issue or anything. It's just something that'll be helpful in the future. Welcome to the community. --Michaeltoe 00:35, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have changed the image to wheelbase_2.png. If you don't like it you can change it back... TwoOneTwo 00:57, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mandalay

Hey Foriskak,

Thanks for your help with the Mandalay article. I was wondering if you could write the captions for the images you put up. Thanks.

--Alsocal 01:07, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Query on a section of the "Kiska" article

Hi Foriskak, I was going through the article history on the island of Kiska in Alaska and saw that your edit on 7 August 2004 [1] added this reference about a Navy weatherman who hid on the island after the Japanese invasion:

One member of the detachment escaped for 50 days. Starving, thin, and extremely cold he finally surrendered to the Japanese. The next day Attu was captured by the Japanese.

This reference is still on the current article for Kiska.
I'm an animation student currently researching this topic for a one minute film project I'm doing, and this anecdote has really grabbed my attention. It's quite dramatic and is almost like an American echo of Hiroo Onoda. I was wondering though if you have any more information on this anecdote, perhaps who this person was, what his name was, where he came from or what his fate was after the war... Or even just what source you encountered this information in. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated! If you'd prefer to email me the information rather than using a publicly viewable form like this, or if you have any reasons for not giving out such information I understand. Just let me know and I'll give you my email address.
Again, thanks for the help!
--Altima 23:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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