JimBlue wrote:
can't tell that from your avatar.chief wrote:
my dna test missed my run in with an ugly stick, yet everyone can see it in my facial features. i don't get it.
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meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
Currie Park is a golf course in Milwaukee County.
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WanderingStovie wrote:
meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
Currie Park is a golf course in Milwaukee County.
You must be watching with closed captioning turned on.
After high school actor Bruce Willis was a security guard at Salem nuclear power plant near his home in carney's point NJ. -
Drybones wrote:
jimmyjam wrote:
JimBlue wrote:
The only problem I have had with the ancestry . com dna test is it doesn't show my Native American ancestry. And yet Native Americans tell me they see such ancestry in my facial features. Oh well.
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JimBlue wrote:
Newspapers are obsolete.
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JimBlue wrote:
Newspapers are obsolete.
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Oh, and use ziploc bags for fish. And absorbent pads for training pets. And fly swatters for killing flies.
Papier mache? Maybe newspapers are not obsolete. Maybe you should read "How to Make Flibbers, etc."The post was edited 1 time, last by WanderingStovie ().
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I still get two of the old fashioned kind. Once my son finishes playing baseball I may quit (unless they do first).The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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meat wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
You must be watching with closed captioning turned on.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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Nuclear energy is like a pet elephant. The problem is figuring out what to do with the waste.
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Astro wrote:
meat wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
You must be watching with closed captioning turned on.
I have a friend who is an engineer that does consulting at nuclear plants around the country. He says that regardless of whether nuclear is the long term answer, if we had half a brain we would immediately build new, safe nuclear plants (modern designs have an exponentially lower risk of meltdown) in order to replace the dilapidated nuclear infrastructure that we currently have. They have not built a large scale nuclear plant in this country in decades and nearly all of the ones that are operating are beyond their intended lifespan.Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them. -
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I'm watching Freddy vs. beaver on Discovery.
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SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Astro wrote:
meat wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
I have a friend who is an engineer that does consulting at nuclear plants around the country. He says that regardless of whether nuclear is the long term answer, if we had half a brain we would immediately build new, safe nuclear plants (modern designs have an exponentially lower risk of meltdown) in order to replace the dilapidated nuclear infrastructure that we currently have. They have not built a large scale nuclear plant in this country in decades and nearly all of the ones that are operating are beyond their intended lifespan.
WanderingStovie wrote:
I'm watching Freddy vs. beaver on Discovery.
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SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Astro wrote:
meat wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
I have a friend who is an engineer that does consulting at nuclear plants around the country. He says that regardless of whether nuclear is the long term answer, if we had half a brain we would immediately build new, safe nuclear plants (modern designs have an exponentially lower risk of meltdown) in order to replace the dilapidated nuclear infrastructure that we currently have. They have not built a large scale nuclear plant in this country in decades and nearly all of the ones that are operating are beyond their intended lifespan.
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Astro wrote:
meat wrote:
WanderingStovie wrote:
meat wrote:
Madame Currie is on TCM
You must be watching with closed captioning turned on.
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Astro wrote:
max.patch wrote:
JimBlue wrote:
Newspapers are obsolete.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
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all 32 of my great great great grandparents were born in sweden, but my DNA test came back as only 50 percent Scandinavian. The other half is Finnish and western Europe.
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I am currently reading Sojourner in Islamic Lands by Russell Fraser. A somewhat literary travelog of a trip through Central Asia.
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odd man out wrote:
all 32 of my great great great grandparents were born in sweden, but my DNA test came back as only 50 percent Scandinavian. The other half is Finnish and western Europe.
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meat wrote:
odd man out wrote:
all 32 of my great great great grandparents were born in sweden, but my DNA test came back as only 50 percent Scandinavian. The other half is Finnish and western Europe.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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You've discovered the Catskills, I see!
Including the fishing.
When Elf and I tried for the Bushwhack Range (made Lone, Rocky, Balsam Cap, bailed on Friday), he said he was glad we didn't have you along, because we'd never have got you away from the river. Lots of skittish little wild brookies.
Easiest way to that spot is to park at the Denning Road trailhead. Take the Finger Lakes Trail (yellow) east to the terminus, and turn right on the Peekamoose-Table Trail (blue). Very quickly you'll come to a bridge over the Neversink. Past the bridge, there's a DEC campsite on your left, and the start of an unblazed fishermen's path that heads upstream, fording the river a few times. (In summer, it can be rock-hopped if your balance is better than mine. Elf managed to keep his feet dry.) Lots of holes to fish in along the way.
FLT/Peekamoose-Table/fishermen's path is an easy hike.
Burroughs Range Trail over Slide, Cornell, Wittenberg is not an easy hike. The west side of Slide is pretty moderate - it's an old jeep road for the most part. From Slide to Woodland Valley is terrain that's roughly comparable to Moosilauke or the Wildcats. Peekamoose and Table are about the same level of difficulty. The 2700-foot elevation gain from the Rondout (good fishing on some of the tributaries there, too!) to the summit of Peekamoose is surely enough to get the blood pumping.
As far as those four peaks to the south go, I'll ask Elf to tell the story. He tells it better than I do. Of the Catskill high peaks that I've done so far (33 out of 39 climbs), I'd say that Rocky was the toughest, simply because of the length of the whack needed to get there.
And - with the hiking in the Catskills, I strongly recommend the NY Long Path for LASHing. The hundred miles from Riggsville to Conesville is a jewel! hikerboy tells me that Wurtsboro to Wawarsing is also splendid. Some of the rest of the LP is pretty sucky. Getting a good trail through suburbia or farm country can just be too much of a challenge. The area near Middleburgh makes for cool day trips, though, with great views from both Vrooman's Nose and The Cliff, and a stand of 600+-year-old cedars.
And, of course, the Devil's Path may just be the toughest trail in the East.I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here. -
Astro wrote:
meat wrote:
odd man out wrote:
all 32 of my great great great grandparents were born in sweden, but my DNA test came back as only 50 percent Scandinavian. The other half is Finnish and western Europe.
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odd man out wrote:
Astro wrote:
meat wrote:
odd man out wrote:
all 32 of my great great great grandparents were born in sweden, but my DNA test came back as only 50 percent Scandinavian. The other half is Finnish and western Europe.
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/scienceco…have-an-extra-chromosome/
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JimBlue wrote:
I bought and reading today. The Ardennes 1944 by Anthony Beevor.
Beevor has written accounts of D-Day and the Stalingrad siege. The latter is particularly interesting as logistics problems encountered by the Germans are addressed.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC -
The best book on Russia vs Germany I ever read was The Tigers are Burning by Martin Caidin. That is where I learned about the Stavka. Reserve. Millions of troops and thousands of tanks Stalin pretended he didn't have. They were all just east of Stalingrad. The military commander in Stalingrad supposedly didn't know of them just a day away.
He also wrote a number of well researched books on ww2. Aircraft.--
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sheepdog wrote:
The Blade Itself...Joe Abercrombie. If you like swords , intrigue, a little magic and a lot of fighting this is the book for you. Lots of adventure and great character development.
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Currently reading the book that jimmyjam recommended. Bad Country by thru hiker, CB McKenize. It's pretty good.Lost in the right direction.
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Grinder wrote:
Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr
Love his approach, get there first with the most. If a fight is necessary, that has always appeared to be the best method to me.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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Astro wrote:
Grinder wrote:
Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr
Love his approach, get there first with the most. If a fight is necessary, that has always appeared to be the best method to me.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
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Astro wrote:
Grinder wrote:
Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr
Love his approach, get there first with the most. If a fight is necessary, that has always appeared to be the best method to me.
I'd love to see some alternative history writer (COME ON, Harry Turtledove!) run with the story if Bragg hadn't been such an obstruction and Forrest had been turned loose on Sherman's supply lines sooner, or if someone had seen fit to install him at a much higher level of command. Or send him east and turn him loose on the likes of that candyass martinet McClellan. Not to disparage J.E.B. Stuart in any way, because he was brilliant (if a little too glory-conscious) in his own right, but he wasn't a patch on the Wizard of the Saddle.Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. - Robert E. Lee
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