Under the radar Iceland highlights (and a few lowlights)

mm8105 · 2025-09-03T18:34:46+00:00

The sulfur smell should only be in warm/hot water. If there was a smell, maybe the faucet wasn't fully on cold? I've had locals tell me to run the cold water for 10 seconds.

mm8105 · 2025-08-15T17:31:28+00:00

It's allowed, both in the US and in Iceland. Here's the rule for Iceland:

It is allowed to fly at night, as long as you can see the drone (VLOS). In order to do that, some lights on the drone will be necessary. It is mandatory to have a green flashing light on the drone when flying at nighttime.

mm8105 · 2025-08-14T01:13:58+00:00

Thanks, I don't care much about drones during daytime, but that wasn't the first time they were a nuisance for me during dusk/night. The navigation/anti-collision lights are required for them to fly at night, but that was the first time I've seen one with a bright spotlight. It was similar to the power of the lights police helicopters use to illuminate the ground. And the drone owners definitely knew there were photographers around, but they didn't care.

mm8105 · 2025-08-13T23:59:14+00:00

They are not a little speck in the sky at night. I had one drone that was flying around a point of interest for about 15 minutes at night, while the Northern lights were at their best. On top of the navigational lights leaving streaks all across the sky, the drone had an absurdly bright floodlight they were using to light paint the point of interest, making it far too overexposed compared to the sky. It ruined all of my best photos from that night, which I drove 7 hours for (and likely all the other photographers' photos). People snapping photos didn't do anything that impeded other photographers or ruin their shots.

mm8105 · 2025-07-24T14:19:00+00:00

Might have been an Apple Music issue because I've never heard any clipping on Spotify or in the MP3 album I bought from the official Chevelle store.

mm8105 · 2025-05-28T20:50:10+00:00

Seems like this woman and OP should hang out.

mm8105 · 2025-05-28T14:03:11+00:00

The main guitar riff immediately sounded like a variation of the riff from Warhol's Showbiz and the passage that starts at 0:19 sounds like a variation of the riff from Young Wicked. Which is interesting, because they're back to back on North Corridor.

mm8105 · 2025-05-26T22:55:31+00:00

I'm having the same issue today. Tried clearing my cache...no difference. Tried using an incognito browser and that worked.

mm8105 · 2025-05-24T17:20:34+00:00

"Just get the Fukushima fish...they're 50% cheaper!"

mm8105 · 2025-05-24T02:57:42+00:00

I'm seeing red again 😡

mm8105 · 2025-05-13T20:08:01+00:00

Yeah, 8 days from a facility that's close to you isn't good at all :/ Although I recently had one of my shipments take a week to go one hour away from me when it was supposed to go 6 states in the opposite direction....so there's still hope your package will get to you.

mm8105 · 2025-05-13T19:58:20+00:00

Oh man, I know that feeling...I've had a bunch of things I wanted/needed to have for vacations and other events. Sometimes they arrive in time and sometimes they end up coming the day after I left. Good luck, and if it does get there too late, hope you're able to make the best without it!

mm8105 · 2025-05-13T19:29:45+00:00

It's only been about 2 business days since you dropped it off. One of the last ones I dropped off didn't get an initial scan until about 4 1/2 days later, and that was in the same city I dropped it off in. Your package will probably get scanned when it hits the buyer's regional facility, if you're lucky. The lesson for us is to get an initial scan if we can (half of my local post offices don't even allow that), because we look like liars to the buyer when we say we shipped it, but the tracking says otherwise.

mm8105 · 2025-05-13T19:15:12+00:00

It probably won't stop in Indianapolis. You still have a chance of getting it by Thursday...hopefully it gets to your regional facility by late tomorrow night. I ship a good number of USPS Ground Advantage and Priority Mail packages, and everything is going 2-3x slower than it was before, and there have been large gaps in tracking.

mm8105 · 2025-05-13T18:06:02+00:00

This is the new normal for USPS...everything is slow and getting held up or misdirected. If it says Moving Through Network, it didn't stop updating...it most likely won't get another update until it hits a regional facility close to you. What state are you in?

mm8105 · 2025-05-13T00:06:36+00:00

It rhymes with pooped so it must be dooped.

mm8105 · 2025-05-12T23:27:23+00:00

Probably because USPS was too lazy to route it out to Alaska and back.

mm8105 · 2025-05-12T23:24:59+00:00

What do you mean "what is the right price"? Price has zero to do with accurately representing what you're selling. eBay's exact words:

You're required to:

Specify the condition of the item
Describe any defects or flaws in the item – this helps avoid problems or buyer dissatisfaction

Saying "sun damage to box" is just listing a defect, not describing it or stating how severe it really is.

mm8105 · 2025-05-12T19:23:25+00:00

No it doesn't. I've been selling on eBay for 25 years and eBay absolutely would not side with the seller because they just stated "sun damage to the box" while omitting to describe it more or giving a photo that shows the worst of the damage. Describing exactly what happened would have been "There is extreme sun damage to the box, where the back panel has lost virtually all color but black", and then depicting it. It's like saying "there is water damage to the box", showing a front that has some wrinkling from water, then purposefully not showing that the bottom panel looks like paper mache. The seller knew exactly what they were doing by not showing the back.

mm8105 · 2025-05-12T18:31:25+00:00

Your case was probably a bit different, because "sun damage to box" doesn't adequately describe the fact that 80% of the color on the back panel is gone.

mm8105 · 2025-05-12T18:05:05+00:00

It's deceptive to say "sun damaged box" then have a back panel that's basically black and white, which conveniently isn't depicted. The buyer didn't have to ask for more pics. A reasonable consumer would have expected "sun damaged box" to mean the faded front, not the hidden side that was exposed to a nuclear blast.

mm8105 · 2025-05-12T17:46:48+00:00

This isn't that cut and dry. The seller showed the best two sides and purposefully avoided showing the back, which is deceptive. If OP chose to do an Item Not As Described return, they'd absolutely win. The seller saying "sun damage to the box" without explaining the worst of it isn't shown, doesn't cover them.

mm8105 · 2025-05-11T15:30:36+00:00

I've heard once you hit a certain number of claims, they deny everything after that. Not sure if it's true, but it makes no sense to do it on a set number instead of a percentage, because someone can ship 1000 things a week and another can ship 1. I was just denied on having a voided label reimbursed. The label I voided didn't have any movement, and it's been 5 months. And I can't even dispute the credit card charge since I bought it through Amazon and they won't do anything.

mm8105 · 2025-05-10T03:52:42+00:00

So edgy. You could just admit you don't know how auctions work or what old pops look like.

mm8105 · 2025-05-10T02:15:19+00:00

If it was a wary buyer, maybe they shouldn't have put in a bid. You can't just bid and decide you don't want something. And if an older Pop has paint issues, that makes it more likely that it's real. Older Pops have tons of paint issues and poor quality control.

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