Here, in Tucson, we can buy dried hybiscus in Mexican grocery stores to make jamaica (ham-AY-ika). Steep in boiling water, add sweetener. Very good.
The Royal Observatory has a wonderful museum of time with a copy of Harrison's first nautical chronometer that I understand never went to sea because the second was so much simpler and better.
If you look at the Royal observatory in Google Earth, the Prime meridian (0 longitude E-W) of the mathematical (inertial) Earth is about 80 m east of the King's meridian.
StanMac wrote:
A question to ponder - Why do we glorify bad behavior?
Stan
That's easy. A lot of guys got hit with rocks which froze their intellectual development in second grade when we thought bad behavior was funny. Women, on the other hand, aren't part of that "we" (above) because they didn't throw rocks when they were second-grade girls.
You guys know what hatebook is, why is anybody surprised?
Blaster34 wrote:
......Oh, well, not hard to live with the nickname, I'm not losing any sleep over it however bee keepers may lose a lot of sleep
Perhaps you would not be quite so cavalier if you realized that bees pollinate a lot of the plants that make up our food supply (more than half, as I remember). Bee-eating hornets, exotic pests with no local predators, might very well eat your lunch, so to speak.
Few people realize how outrageously expensive these airplanes are. This is a 0.01% hobby or, maybe, 0.0001%. Military aviators get in their airplanes and fly, and maybe the maintenance officer, less likely the C.O., knows the cost per hour. Nobody has to care, it's our job.
But, when somebody falls in love with an airplane (like the AD, the Spad), gets out of the Navy to become a high priced lawyer, and then finds one for sale, it's a hole in the sky! Ordinary people like you and me don't fly airplanes that cost more than a kilobuck an hour. I sent money to a guy who is trying to resurrect a P2V (2 ADs in tight formation) but, not being Zuckerberg, he ain't gonna make it.
I loved that airplane but only governments can afford to fly it.
MSW wrote: "if you cannot do your own plumbing, shame on 'ya, but if you can, you are among the self sufficient, non-snowflake, independent bunch that around here we call "Americans."
Good will, like toilet paper, seems to be in very short supply in modern America. Not everybody is mechanically adept, some people just don't get it and don't deserve to be sneered at.
My father was a good provider, an adequate handy-man, but never taught me a damned thing. Which was OK because I can just look at something and pretty well know how it works, how to fix it, and when to leave it alone and let somebody else do that. Why is this? I have no idea, I just can, but I have taken time to think about it and be thankful for my blessings.
Which is why I will never speak ill of anybody who is baffled by machinery (unless they try to fake it). I love music but can't play an instrument or sing. My wife can turn a piece of cloth into shirt, I'm doing well to button it.
About the sink, Jerry: You are better off doing it yourself. I just had an interesting conversation with the plumber my sister-in-law called because I was too smart to try to help her, myself. He is (was, pre-Covid) backed-up with jobs because he can't find anybody either willing to work or smart enough to handle jobs on his own.
Still doing geology at nearly 80 in the Sonoran Desert, where the capacity for evaporation exceeds precipitation (dimly remembered Koppen definition of desert). Morning fog occasionally rolls up the "valley" from the Gulf of California.
Another dimly remembered story is about harvesting "fog" at some places on the west coast of South America where westerly winds are forced by mountains above the lifting condensation level. Fish nets "catch" the water droplets that fall off into a trough. It's enough for a few people, anyway.
I'm too lazy to look it up.
I live in Tucson and have only seen half of the murals pictured. This is a good town for public art.
luvmypets wrote:
Are you one of the people that will be going back to work or are you retired and will be staying home while someone else goes to work?
Are you willing to risk your life and the lives of your family and everyone you come in contact with because of the possibility of you contracting C***d ** while at work? It has been proven that you can contract C****a v***s and spread the v***s but never have symptoms therefore you would be infecting everyone you come in contact with.....spouse, children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors etc.
How would you feel if you discovered that you gave the v***s to someone you care about and they died because of it?
Can you guarantee that masks, gloves and distance will keep anyone returning to work from contracting the v***s?
V***ses mutate. The flu shot you get each year is based on previous mutations and is modified each year after a new mutation has developed. The v*****e that we will receive will work like a flu shot building your i****e s****m to work against this known v***s but will not prevent future mutations and will have to be modified to handle new mutations as they develop but there is no way to predict how it will mutate. There is no cure for the flu so it is unlikely that there will be a cure for C****a v***s.
Every day there are health care workers, truck drivers, store clerks and many others who ARE risking their lives and the lives of everyone around them to make sure you and everyone else have things you need and want. They are out there so that others don't have to be. You should be grateful they are willing to put themselves in harms way and saddened by the losses.
I think you are a very selfish person to put the economy ahead of people.
Are you one of the people that will be going back ... (
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"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
If she wants beer, why is she holding up a Coors can?
Except for the garish colors, it looks like something Andy Goldsworthy might do.
Costco has been doing this in Arizona for the past three weeks. It sort-of works. I've been there twice and haven't died - yet.
OK, OK, enough hate and discontent! Everybody (most people) just want to be helpful but the internet has some really nasty people on it. I guess the lesson of the hour is this: If you read something that looks good, Post the link, not the text!
The Windows/Mac problem is philosophical, no solution can exist.
Back in the old days (1970s-80s) when the world was being created, Steve Jobs had a vision of computing as it should be. His computer was a tool, like a hammer, its function was to do a job like write a letter (drive a nail). As the carpenter need not obsess over the beauty of his tools as his wall goes up, the Mac user just wrote her words and selected a font she liked to print them with.
IBM, on the other hand, was a company of engineers, and engineers appreciate tools for what they are. That hammer IS beautiful, even if I cannot reliably hit a nail with it, much less drive that nail home with the one or two blows needed to actually finish a house. The IBM/Microsoft/Windows operating system was open for the user to appreciate (and play with) whereas the Mac OS was closed. (Don't you worry your pretty little head about what goes on inside, we'll take care of you).
The end result was two competing systems that cooperated only when forced. Windows is open and everything is interchangeable, Mac is closed and everything is proprietary. Truth be known, I would have been better off with a Mac (considering how much time I wasted trumping around with the OS), but I simply couldn't afford it at the time. Intel/Microsoft/Windows was much, much cheaper in those days and remains so.
If you decide to switch to Mac, you will have to replace what you currently own with their stuff. It will work really, really well but it will be proprietary. If you can afford it, good on 'ya. The end result is image quality, after all.