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A nail gun?

Seriously?

I don't recall, if I ever knew. It's a SonTek River Surveyor, c. 2010. I mostly did the field stuff: hardware, logistics, boat work, and keeping grad students from dying.

Cool! I love science stuff. Years ago, I worked on a project to place scanning spectradiometers at two spots in Antarctica and one in southern Chile to measure the ozone hole. Two brothers who had...

Since 52 metres equals 171 feet, that estimate seemed a bit off. So I checked a couple sources: it ought to be 5.2 metres or 17.06 feet.

For want of a decimal, the planet was lost.

Sh*t...

Felicitations!

Are you back in Seattle, or was it a quick visit?

Any sailing pics?

What sort of gear?

I worked designing and building gear that was used on the Greenland Ice Cap to gage meltwater volume in stream channels on the ice.

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The...

The recent climate legislation in Oz and the US are good first steps. But if that ice sheet goes, the consequences will be hard to ignore.

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I've donated regularly to Doctors Without Borders (previously mentioned).

Two other groups I support that are active inside Ukraine are Direct Relief, which donates medical supplies—...

Congratualtions to both of you.

Herself requested a pizza with no tomato sauce. So I used alfredo sauce, grated mozzarella, minced garlic and onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms, and vacuum-packed pieces of turkey breast from...

For a couple years, I lived in a treehouse, 10'x12', in a huge black willow overhanging a canal. It had a suspended bed with closet and dresser underneath, and a hotplate. I arranged bathroom...

Herself had back problems when she was writing a book— long hours sitting. She bought a Salli saddle chair.


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Read a good, scary SF book on the topic.

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You still haven't suggested a single useful action that you've taken.

Why don't you start by giving up beef?

Looking for a film: Two Trains Runnin', about the blues and the civil rights movement.

https://www.rosendaletheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Two-Trains-Running-copy.jpg

Not on Netflix. ...

Might as well pop several balloons at once.

Quite a few people on earth have never been on the grid, and try to grow their own food. Which, arguing from a privileged suburban viewpoint, you...

The most often used form of the word is "inalienable."

Seems like an outdated, colonial, white-privilege definition of "right."

Maybe you could get god into it?

FYI: not a dude. She's a Kiwi pop star.

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Proper job? Reckon she makes about a hundred times what you do in a year.

You wouldn't do that, even if you could.

Don't be stupid.

I do what I can. The house is not off grid. The PV system is grid-tied, which means our surplus power goes into the grid.

So far, rather few of the broad mandates and sweeping changes proposed...

When he retired from service, he jumped on the board of Raytheon, which supplies the missiles, etc. used by the Saudis to slaughter people in Yemen.

It might be better to have a SecDef a bit...

I like Bewley's.
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Also Barry's–...

Good book. Rules of Civility was also excellent. Wish he'd write faster.

I just started this.

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Beautiful descriptive writing that places the reader in the...

You're not going to see systemic change without individuals willing to change how they live.

BrianW used to troll for salmon before he went full airborne.

New Zealand, especially on the west coast, has one-lane bridges with railway tracks.

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Never...

A primer in photos.

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I love the bridges in Ireland: beautiful stonemasonry.

This is at Westport, I think.

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This is a bridge for sheep at Keam Bay on Achill Island.
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Sitka Salmon Shares has a web page about the fisherfolk and craft involved. Might be some good info there.

https://sitkasalmonshares.com/pages/our-fishermen

There are hundreds of ideas on the web. A friend boiled potatoes and drained the starchy water, then let it sit out with no lid. After a couple days, it started to bubble and smell sour, so he...

Cool! I've never tried that sort of thing: rolls with filling. I'd guess you cook the filling first, but how do you get it in the roll without a huge mess?

Cheese is a distraction. I'd go with a heap of corned beef and lots of mustard. Sauerkraut on the side.

Thanks, mon. Living 30 miles from town with no place to eat out, can't hang with my mates at the bar. No base for skiing yet.

What's a guy s'posed to do but cook up a storm?

(I'll try to...

I take the sauerkraut on the side. Makes the bread mushy.

I've been on a Cubano/panini kick. Made a grill press from scrap steel bar and got out the Le Creuset grill pan.
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Made a batch of sourdough ciabatta dough today: sandwich rolls and burger buns.

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The combination of sourdough starter and yeast really gives the dough a nice...

I posted a thread on a community-supported fishery in Sitka, Alaska: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?271760-A-Community-Supported-Fishery&highlight=

A commercial fisherman who's a Forum...

We?

Are you doing anything?

Or just waiting for the climate messiah?

The Reuben sandwich is an American grilled sandwich composed of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing, grilled between slices of rye bread. It is associated with kosher-style...

Ya'll? Really? Did you catch something from Pless?

Like Gertrude Stein said: a sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich.

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If you like it, it's good.

Odd that there are so many methods employed. Debit cards, direct deposit, paper checks. Womder i that just a way to distribute an enormous workload and not swamp the USPS with more mail.

Think...

Another one.

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Ta! Herself grew up Catholic, so despite her present unbelief, we still eat fishy stuff on Friday. It anchors our menus for the week.

Tomorrow we're having köfte lamb (same spices as Swedish...

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Orecchiette pasta topped with shrimp in a sauce of cream, capers, lemon juice and zest, on a bed of arugula sprouts from the greenhouse.

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Oyster Bay NZ pinot...

Rather like a pontoon boat on wheels.

Just got a VISA debit card in the mail, with a $600 balance. Anyone received theirs?

Last time it was a direct deposit into my checking account. This seems like it would encourage people to...

Wonder when the state of Texas will reprint it as a history text?

I just got a nice domino game app for the iPad. Free. No in-app ads or other crap.

Interesting how the ardent proclaimers of property rights (I call them propertarians) are the descendants of the colonial invaders who extinguished the sacred property rights of tribal people through...