When's this "old enough to know better" supposed to start?

Pretty much sums it up.

Not sure there is a solution. I had the same problem with mine. I wanted to go from Indianapolis to Elizabethtown KY via a scenic route. No hurry I didn't have to be there until the next morning. It kept wanting to route me through Cincinnati Ohio. Just pulled out the paper maps and planned my own trip.

I had one go out during Obamas' watch, also frig light went out about the same time. I shudder what would go out if HC would have won.

Reads like any other topic at UHH.

Goose Pond is in Greene County, just outside of Linton, or about 30 miles south of Terre Haute then about 20 miles east. Just about anywhere close to the area you can see a lot of birds feeding in the cornfields that have been picked. Many types of migrating water birds use that area plus there's a couple of pair of eagles that call it home.

Somebody gave the wife one a couple years ago, still in the cabinet, to my knowledge never used. Will stick to my regular pot and the Kuerig.

Just thought I'd throw out a couple more pictures of Goose Pond.

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Last time we were there it was open, not much inside but was told the exhibits are still being gathered. The crane on my profile picture is from there.

The wife and I make it down to Goose Pond at least a couple times a year. We try to get there during the migrations haven't made it this year. Good picture.

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There was a lot more talk about "nuclear winter", but that is a completely different concept with a completely different cause. That's probably what you were thinking of when you claim to "remember" it.

Don't believe the word "nuclear" was ever used in the context that I remember, that came later. When I "claim"? to remember. As an IT guy I know has said: "Garbage in, garbage out". As far as statics go (an audited class in college) I learned i could prove anything I wanted to prove, just depends on how you ask the question or interpret the data.

Now to go a bit further I'm not saying that we shouldn't cut some of the CO2 that's around, the big question is how to get it done with destroying the economy or peoples lives. As of now the way I understand it, we can use wind and solar power to supplement but as yet there is no good way to store it yet for use when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine. Leave that to private enterprise and keep the government out of it.

Interesting article. Due to my job of taking care of trees for our city park system, I am taking a course (from USDA) on this subject. The short title is Forest Adaptation for C*****e C****e. Taking the worse-case and the greenhouse gases rise to RCP 8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathways ie: increase in greenhouse gas emissions) by the year 2100 Some tree species in my state (Indiana) will INCREASE by 20% (19 Species), 8 species will DECREASE by 20%, 14 species will have LITTLE CHANGE. There might be an increase in trees, 10 species that may move into our state, mostly ones that are associated with southern states.

The downside may be that our planting zone will change from 6a to 8a, meaning that plants that prefer warmer weather may be grown here. I have noticed that most reports I have read continue to use the words "might", "could", "maybe" etc.

I also remember the 1960's report of a minor "Ice Age" we were to experience. If we wait another 17,000 years we can all visit the Sahara Forest in North Africa when it changes back due to the tilt of the earth.

The cynic in me wonders that, if my paycheck depended on me embracing a catastrophic change what would I do. Anybody remember "Climategate"?

When I retired (at 60), I got through with my "saving for retirement" jobs around the house, got those done quicker than I thought. Although I had my hobbies (camera, bicycling & garden) the "honey-do" list kept on growing (wife is still working). I needed something to get out of the house, I'm now a seasonal employee for a local parks department, I ended up being their Interpretive Naturalist, the arborist & get to spend my time working in our 40-acre nature preserve. The best part is nobody questions me as to why I carry a camera in my work truck. While it's only 32 hours a week from March to October I find that still in the offseason I have to keep busy. I've watched too many people work 50 years, retire, sit on their porch and die in 6 months, I would imagine from boredom. Seems I'm busier now than when I was "working".

Looks interesting. Where did you find the plans?

I have both Nikon & Canon (the Canon was a gift, sorta). I shoot both and quite frankly can't tell any difference. Since you have the lens I say stick with Canon.