At least, that's how it (counter clockwise) was explained to me when I worked at the horse track (Finger Lakes Race Track) watching the thoroughbreds run.
Of course, the person pouring out their knowledge upon me had no idea who started horses running left to begin with, or that horse races also used to be like road races today, left and right turns...;-) but that's a different story.
Oh my! TV Land (?) played an episode last year and I forced my wife to watch "the coolest space show of my youth". I switched to something else after about 5 minutes, embarassed for the actors on the show. Clearly my memory of the show far outshone the reality.
The concept was fantastic, but the execution was miserable...
I have a room like this too, it's about 6x6 with massively insulated walls and door, a vent to the outside, sounds the same anyway.
We store all sorts of things in it from canned goods to fresh veggies and fruit to wine and beer. We have yet to store milk or meat because of the time we left the light on... a thermos can keep things cold, or hot, eh.
The other thing we have is a shaft that runs from the basement to the crawl space attic, interrupted by firewall that is pierced with pipes for the sewage system and power lines.
The same thing could be done to heat the home in the winter. 2 radiators, 2 hoses. One radiator in the basement, one in the attic. 2 termostats, one in the attic, one in the basement. When the furnace is active, and the thermo in the attic is warmer than the basement, pump the coolant through the radiators and pump heat from the attic. Might even work with gravity if the temperature difference is high enough...
> what to do with that old Gremlin sitting on > blocks in your yard.
evict the racoon family and RACE IT!
Interesting the machines you see down at Watkins Glen or the other tracks now-a-days. When I was growing up, we visited the track often as my dad raced h-production in Austin Healy sprites. Just goes to show you how little the chasis plays into a decent amateur race car.
website thieves: Maybe they get tons of traffic on the web, or they were just looking for a website that got hits + had no resources to counter attack. The hits are going to come from people who mostly know better though. i.e. people intimately familiar with the workings of this club.
kodak USED to sell CDR media with a 99 year guarantee. That is, as long as the media wasn't damaged by scratches or other overt physical problems, it would last quite a while.
Of course, the key phrase is "used to sell". They dumped the CD media business a few years ago. I have some of these "Info-Guard" cd media and they are fantasic, still viable after 8 years, and recently burned one I discovered was blank, worked fine.
quote: How has your life changed? I'm almost 42 years old and I can tell you, my life hasn't changed one iota in that last 42 years at all unless I personally change it. The government hasn't done anything TO me or FOR me."
Amen! Anyone who claims, "things happen to me" or that they are victims of bad circumstance or good luck are lazy and refuse to accept the basic facts of life. You are the author of your own fortune.
Life is not what happens to you, but how you make it.
It's much easier to blame President Bush or Former President Clinton than it is to get off your ass and improve yourself.
Dog food, cat food, fish food, cattle food, human food, plant food... carp are cheap and super easy to catch. They need several carp processing facilities and a way to get the carp to the facility and a way to get the processed carp to market.
I vividly remember a neighbor paying us $0.10 per foot of carp he would unceremoneously dump in his mulch box. Imagine a blacktop driveway with an old guy and a tape measure and 12 feet of carp lined up head to tail and several youth calculating how many packs of baseball cards are in 12 feet of carp. IIRC, in 1979, the answer was 5 packs of cards.
Imagine a preserve, tens of thousands of acres, filled with clones (and their descendants) of the hardest hunted [deer|bear|elk] a group of hunters ever encountered... All those trophies on the walls of all those hunting lodges and homes are a treasure of genetic material waiting to be harvested and brought back to life. Most represent (in our view) the best of their species. (who wants to hang a scabby/scrawny specimen on the wall?)
fox are all over western New York, black bears aren't that uncommon either, one was just spotted in a suburb of Rochester... "they" say there's panthers around too, but "they" are usually full of crap.
yeah, I'm in the same ringing boat after years marching snare drum in a fife and drum corps. Those old style rope tension drums can get quite loud. My left ear was the one that was damaged by ~20 years of drumming, as the snare drum hangs off the left leg and the sound mostly hits the left ear. Then switched instruments 4 years ago and now my right ear is taking a beating. I started wearing an ear plug in whichever ear I need. Right for fife, left for snare. Anyone who thinks the bass beat at a hot nightclub is deafening hasn't been around a bunch of rudimental drummers.
When one of my daughters screams, all I hear is ZTZTZTZTZTZTZTZTZT.
We have a fan in the bedroom at night to generate noise as much as to circulate air, to cover the ringing. I'm lucky though, at least it isn't painful like many who suffer this condition.
The point: Too many people ignore the need to protect the hearing starting from a young age. This stuff should be tought in school, and every adult that works with kids in loud situations should encourage good hearing protection (or suffer the wrath later!). I do now, I carry 50+ natural colored plugs in my haversack at each event and hand them out, and all our fifers learn to play the instrument with a plug in the right ear.
my particular hobby is one that values quite a bit exactly what you describe. For example, The fifer or drummer from the French and Indian War scribbling notes to a friend describes his day starting out playing three camps and moving on to fatigue call, and (most importantly) writing it out. Or the drummer complaining that practices in garrison at fort such-and-such during the civil war sucked, all we did was play x y and z over and over.
Those details, and comments in newspapers and advertisements of the day, are almost all we have. Everything else may as well be word of mouth.
I imagine what the civil war drummer would have typed in his blog, had he one, and hope that he mentions the stupid things like the tunes he played that day, and exactly what he did during the battle.
It is my own practice to mention the tunes played whenever I post on the subject on the various mailing lists, as well as impressions of the event just incase sometime in the future someone digs up an archive wondering what we played "back in '03".
I don't believe the President is in a hard-core religious fog. If he were, he would have never invited the muslim leaders to the Whitehouse to celebrate the start of Ramadan... unless he took the opportunity to ask them to accept Jesus, of course.;-)
The marxist-leftists? They are the ones who slaughtered more people in a few short years of the 20th century than every other ideology combined in all of recorded history... and a small war in Iraq is suddenly a big deal.
While I'm ranting, and speaking of "a war of agression against a country that poses no threat to us." did you notice no comments or mainstream media news stories covering the revelation of all the various links between saddam and al-qaida?
i.e. archived here: http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/20 03/11/1 5/20031115_182204_flash32.htm
I got around this by altering the guestbook software to create gif files with image magic using text from/usr/share/dict/words... then requiring that word as one of the fields in the submit entry. it's a hack of the lowest sort, but it works.
stopped the automatic spam cold, the occasional manual spam comes through (1 in 6 omnths).
Farmers love the stuff, indeed any company that uses electricity (read just about all companies) and neighborhoods could use them too.
A company near me has a hybrid wind / natural gas system is highlighted here:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WHEC/M5869.asp?cp1=1 and here: http://www.rochesterenvironment.org/RGBN/wi ndessay.html
(note different $ #'s in each story, interesting # conflicts there)
or from the horse's mouth here: http://www.harbec.com/environmental.html
It's a story about a plastics company on Route 104 just East of Rochester, NY who is using it's single 250Kw wind turbine / and natural gas micro turbines to alleviate high costs of electricity from our local nuke plant supplied (and Niaraga falls supplied) energy company.
They report cost change from 10.4 cents/KWh to 6 cents with added benefit of providing heat for the building with co-generation.
Cool stuff and a salute to them for their solid use of technology to prove that thinking green can be economically viable.
We did fight the Russians though not nuclear, and not in major engagements that included, say, company or higher level clashes.
Many times we put US troops against Russian troops in direct conflict where US troops and Russian troops killed each other.
We directly fought the Russians at the end of WW2, then directly against Russian (and lots of Chinese infantry, of course) commanders and pilots in Korea and in Vietnam.
We fought "proxy wars" in Afghanistan, in the middle east, even in GW1 etc. Certainly they supplied Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lybia (those were russian planes we smashed in the 80s).
Thankfully no major army-on-army wars with Russia, and no nukes used. You are right, we did prepare for it though.
What's up with the 1920's comment? I'm ignorant of an anti-england thing in the 20s.
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I'm the preacher! I'm the preacher! Send check or money orders please.
You get the golden donut trophy for that answer.
;-) but that's a different story.
At least, that's how it (counter clockwise) was explained to me when I worked at the horse track (Finger Lakes Race Track) watching the thoroughbreds run.
Of course, the person pouring out their knowledge upon me had no idea who started horses running left to begin with, or that horse races also used to be like road races today, left and right turns...
Oh my! TV Land (?) played an episode last year and I forced my wife to watch "the coolest space show of my youth". I switched to something else after about 5 minutes, embarassed for the actors on the show. Clearly my memory of the show far outshone the reality.
The concept was fantastic, but the execution was miserable...
I have a room like this too, it's about 6x6 with massively insulated walls and door, a vent to the outside, sounds the same anyway.
We store all sorts of things in it from canned goods to fresh veggies and fruit to wine and beer. We have yet to store milk or meat because of the time we left the light on... a thermos can keep things cold, or hot, eh.
The other thing we have is a shaft that runs from the basement to the crawl space attic, interrupted by firewall that is pierced with pipes for the sewage system and power lines.
The same thing could be done to heat the home in the winter. 2 radiators, 2 hoses. One radiator in the basement, one in the attic. 2 termostats, one in the attic, one in the basement. When the furnace is active, and the thermo in the attic is warmer than the basement, pump the coolant through the radiators and pump heat from the attic. Might even work with gravity if the temperature difference is high enough...
> what to do with that old Gremlin sitting on
> blocks in your yard.
evict the racoon family and RACE IT!
Interesting the machines you see down at Watkins Glen or the other tracks now-a-days. When I was growing up, we visited the track often as my dad raced h-production in Austin Healy sprites. Just goes to show you how little the chasis plays into a decent amateur race car.
website thieves: Maybe they get tons of traffic on the web, or they were just looking for a website that got hits + had no resources to counter attack. The hits are going to come from people who mostly know better though. i.e. people intimately familiar with the workings of this club.
Hey, my dad is in that club!
The poor Finger Lakes Region SCCA Webserver. I hope it doesn't get too badly slashdotted...
What a totally weird thing to rip off, a regional SCCA website, not even the national one. Perhaps the thieves are merely practicing?
kodak USED to sell CDR media with a 99 year guarantee. That is, as long as the media wasn't damaged by scratches or other overt physical problems, it would last quite a while.
Of course, the key phrase is "used to sell". They dumped the CD media business a few years ago. I have some of these "Info-Guard" cd media and they are fantasic, still viable after 8 years, and recently burned one I discovered was blank, worked fine.
huh! 69 items found for imaginary girlfriend
how apropos
It's not the luck that determines the course of your life, it's what you do with the luck.
Unless of course you get hit by a meteorite or something...
quote: How has your life changed? I'm almost 42 years old and I can tell you, my life hasn't changed one iota in that last 42 years at all unless I personally change it. The government hasn't done anything TO me or FOR me."
Amen! Anyone who claims, "things happen to me" or that they are victims of bad circumstance or good luck are lazy and refuse to accept the basic facts of life. You are the author of your own fortune.
Life is not what happens to you, but how you make it.
It's much easier to blame President Bush or Former President Clinton than it is to get off your ass and improve yourself.
Dog food, cat food, fish food, cattle food, human food, plant food... carp are cheap and super easy to catch. They need several carp processing facilities and a way to get the carp to the facility and a way to get the processed carp to market.
I vividly remember a neighbor paying us $0.10 per foot of carp he would unceremoneously dump in his mulch box. Imagine a blacktop driveway with an old guy and a tape measure and 12 feet of carp lined up head to tail and several youth calculating how many packs of baseball cards are in 12 feet of carp. IIRC, in 1979, the answer was 5 packs of cards.
Imagine a preserve, tens of thousands of acres, filled with clones (and their descendants) of the hardest hunted [deer|bear|elk] a group of hunters ever encountered... All those trophies on the walls of all those hunting lodges and homes are a treasure of genetic material waiting to be harvested and brought back to life. Most represent (in our view) the best of their species. (who wants to hang a scabby/scrawny specimen on the wall?)
Good looking and good eatin' too!
fox are all over western New York, black bears aren't that uncommon either, one was just spotted in a suburb of Rochester... "they" say there's panthers around too, but "they" are usually full of crap.
yeah, I'm in the same ringing boat after years marching snare drum in a fife and drum corps. Those old style rope tension drums can get quite loud. My left ear was the one that was damaged by ~20 years of drumming, as the snare drum hangs off the left leg and the sound mostly hits the left ear. Then switched instruments 4 years ago and now my right ear is taking a beating. I started wearing an ear plug in whichever ear I need. Right for fife, left for snare. Anyone who thinks the bass beat at a hot nightclub is deafening hasn't been around a bunch of rudimental drummers.
When one of my daughters screams, all I hear is ZTZTZTZTZTZTZTZTZT.
We have a fan in the bedroom at night to generate noise as much as to circulate air, to cover the ringing. I'm lucky though, at least it isn't painful like many who suffer this condition.
The point: Too many people ignore the need to protect the hearing starting from a young age. This stuff should be tought in school, and every adult that works with kids in loud situations should encourage good hearing protection (or suffer the wrath later!). I do now, I carry 50+ natural colored plugs in my haversack at each event and hand them out, and all our fifers learn to play the instrument with a plug in the right ear.
'can the States afford anything right now that has nothing to do with their social programs?'
how about we slash those bloated, wasteful, inhumane "social programs"?
troll.
well stated, AC, You can never go wrong reminding the left about the wonders of Reagan. It really makes them squirm.
Maybe he knew we were all descended from a lost colony of Pak Breeders. There are all sorts of aliens in Known Space...
my particular hobby is one that values quite a bit exactly what you describe. For example, The fifer or drummer from the French and Indian War scribbling notes to a friend describes his day starting out playing three camps and moving on to fatigue call, and (most importantly) writing it out. Or the drummer complaining that practices in garrison at fort such-and-such during the civil war sucked, all we did was play x y and z over and over.
Those details, and comments in newspapers and advertisements of the day, are almost all we have. Everything else may as well be word of mouth.
I imagine what the civil war drummer would have typed in his blog, had he one, and hope that he mentions the stupid things like the tunes he played that day, and exactly what he did during the battle.
It is my own practice to mention the tunes played whenever I post on the subject on the various mailing lists, as well as impressions of the event just incase sometime in the future someone digs up an archive wondering what we played "back in '03".
A very interesting reply, thank you for that.
;-)
I don't believe the President is in a hard-core religious fog. If he were, he would have never invited the muslim leaders to the Whitehouse to celebrate the start of Ramadan... unless he took the opportunity to ask them to accept Jesus, of course.
The marxist-leftists? They are the ones who slaughtered more people in a few short years of the 20th century than every other ideology combined in all of recorded history... and a small war in Iraq is suddenly a big deal.
0 03/11/1 5/20031115_182204_flash32.htm
While I'm ranting, and speaking of "a war of agression against a country that poses no threat to us." did you notice no comments or mainstream media news stories covering the revelation of all the various links between saddam and al-qaida?
i.e. archived here:
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2
I got around this by altering the guestbook software to create gif files with image magic using text from /usr/share/dict/words... then requiring that word as one of the fields in the submit entry. it's a hack of the lowest sort, but it works.
stopped the automatic spam cold, the occasional manual spam comes through (1 in 6 omnths).
Farmers love the stuff, indeed any company that uses electricity (read just about all companies) and neighborhoods could use them too.
i ndessay .html
A company near me has a hybrid wind / natural gas system is highlighted here:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WHEC/M5869.asp?cp1=1
and here:
http://www.rochesterenvironment.org/RGBN/w
(note different $ #'s in each story, interesting # conflicts there)
or from the horse's mouth here:
http://www.harbec.com/environmental.html
It's a story about a plastics company on Route 104 just East of Rochester, NY who is using it's single 250Kw wind turbine / and natural gas micro turbines to alleviate high costs of electricity from our local nuke plant supplied (and Niaraga falls supplied) energy company.
They report cost change from 10.4 cents/KWh to 6 cents with added benefit of providing heat for the building with co-generation.
Cool stuff and a salute to them for their solid use of technology to prove that thinking green can be economically viable.
this card reader is about 3 steps from a roll-your-own keycard accessed door lock... I would use that every day on several doors around the house.
We did fight the Russians though not nuclear, and not in major engagements that included, say, company or higher level clashes.
Many times we put US troops against Russian troops in direct conflict where US troops and Russian troops killed each other.
We directly fought the Russians at the end of WW2, then directly against Russian (and lots of Chinese infantry, of course) commanders and pilots in Korea and in Vietnam.
We fought "proxy wars" in Afghanistan, in the middle east, even in GW1 etc. Certainly they supplied Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lybia (those were russian planes we smashed in the 80s).
Thankfully no major army-on-army wars with Russia, and no nukes used. You are right, we did prepare for it though.
What's up with the 1920's comment? I'm ignorant of an anti-england thing in the 20s.
All empires / societies lose power in the end, by definition. the only ruler is Emporer Entropy, eh.