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zBrown
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Webcams seem to have improved in quality over the years. They are thoughtful enough to point out that viewing is limited at night!! If I'm out there in the water or on the pier, I'll be sure to wave. Keep an eye out.
http://obhotel.com/webcam
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2015 - 07:44pm PT
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Well, it's certainly more nicer than the "Rainbow Vomit" posted by Gnome OD.
Today was a skate, until the man from Madera went down with a Wounded Knee. We five were goina be loaded up in the Hover Van when he was decked by incoming and we all gathered round and got him up and into a wheelie=bird, which was probably the trip-mine to begin with--they have deadly foot-rests that stick out and wait for the unwary.
He was checked out by the X-ray and sent to the sick bay for diagnosis. It took a while, and we couldn't leave without him, so we hung in there and traded stories for three hours. We got back to base After Five. Ranger Rock was not involved in this story, BTW.
All is green light for me but have yet to get my teeth cleaned. My teeth are in great shape for not having been to a dental check-up in over forty years.
I owe it all to Crest, conscientious brushing, and my genes.
So "the word" is that I was mistaken about the surgeons opening me up and doing the heart surgery and then having any oral surgery done at the same time. It was a miscue-munication. They only want to know if I need oral surgery. I don't. As soon as my teeth are cleaned under the gum-line, we can start going for a date for the open-heart.
zBrown, I met an instructor in computers who runs classes at CSU STanislaus and has a fine reputation with Apple, HP, and other Silly Valley outfits for turning out prime meat for their needs. His name is Skippy. He talked my ear off. Call me Van Go. Get me outta here! A little info goes a long ways, but we had a decent one-way conversation, as those go. I promised to send him some of the old western novels that I received from feralfae...he's really big on a Britisher who wrote 126 novels, of which he has 123--quite the collector. His name is J.T. Edson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Edson
Such a story!
Skippy served 24 years in the Army as a computer tech, teacher, and trouble-shooter. He has stories you would like about Bill Gates and his rise, among them the one of how Eagle Computers of Los Gatos became one of Gates' possessions, though the Wiki article I looked at mentions nothing like what he told me. Grain of salt has been duly taken.
Here is another take on the tale, which involved a red Ferrari. It's kinda what you might expect from a man who flew fighters in WWII.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triumph-then-death-in-a-ferrari.html
All in all, it was a diverting day.
A hearty thank you for your service to all the veterans on the Taco.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Last I heard there are more than 3 trillion trees on the Earth (down nearly 50%).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 3, 2015 - 08:40pm PT
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Just count the middle ones, otay?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 05:43am PT
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A touching story of sensitivity from the Daily Mail:
"Are smartphones changing the shape of our BRAINS?"
Area that controls the thumbs is larger in people who use touchscreens daily.
People who use touchscreens daily have a larger somatosensory cortex.
This is the area at the centre of the brain which controls the thumbs.
Swiss team tracked 37 volunteers over ten days - 27 of them using touchscreen phones,
and 11 using traditional mobiles with fixed buttons
During these tests, researchers monitored each user's brain waves
Those using touchscreen phones had altered the function of their cortex
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2885213/Are-smartphones-changing-shape-BRAINS-Area-controls-thumbs-larger-people-use-touchscreens-daily.html#ixzz3klvo73Ew
Like?
I don't care.Get back on your wheel, dingbat.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 09:22am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Get your Kix.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 03:30pm PT
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Pope Francis will canonize Father Serra Sept. 23 during his visit to Washington, D.C.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/blessed-junipero-serras-cross-gets-a-kiss-from-pope-francis-63042/
Enslavement of and help in the eradication of native populations will go on the shelf with the rest of the grievances I have against the motherly church:
its stance on divorce, its refusal to countenance women priests, its harboring of pedophiles and enforced celibacy.
As to the California Natives, they were all "good persons" but this was not good enough for Mother Church.
She wanted souls, she claimed, but ended up with slaves populating her missions.
Humans are at base capable of fooling themselves along with others by claiming to be made in the image of God.
We are a race of idiots, in fact.
In reading the novel The Bitter Tea of General Yen by Grace Staring Stone, I ran into this conversation between Miss Davis,
newly come to China to marry a missionary, and the powerful but thoughtful warlord.
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General Yen says,
"Now I've told you what our goal is, tell me what you understand to be yours.
I'll see if I think it is so much finer than a life of agreeable social relations."
"You explain things so much better than I do, I don't know whether I can tell you."
She thought a moment.
"I suppose," she said,
our ideal is all contained in the words of Christ. "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with thy whole mind, thy whole soul, and thy whole strength.'
And following that, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' He himself says that is all the law."
"To love my neighbor as myself has always seemed to me a very disgusting injunction. I can only say that you don't usually carry it out.
You personally perhaps, but then you are strangely sincere.
To you the important thing seems to be a certain generosity.
You are willing (you must forgive me this, Miss Davis) to be generous at nearly any one's expense.
Most people are not.
Your tenet, if carried out, would lead to an inconceivable state of disorder.
It is possibly the theory most dangerous to humanity at large that has ever come into the world.
It is fortunate, perhaps it was inevitable, that it should have been accepted by races gifted with an ability to think one way and live another.
The Ideal. Yes. To them that remains sufficient in itself.
They hold itu up in one hand, as if it were a great crystal ball, and they say to others,
"See, this is what I aspire to. Isn't it beautiful of me!'
And with the other hand they quietly pick the purse of an admiring listener."
Megan burst out laughing, partly at the droll twist of his eyebrows as he said this,
and the sly gesture of the hand delicately picking an invisible pocket.
"It isn't fair to judge a man by what he succeeds in accomplishing," she said.
"Your theory of social relations, you admit, doesn't work out perfectly."
"No, it does not.
But taken purely as an ideal of conduct, tell me why I should be expected to love and aged beggar,
who sits outside my gate, who is a congenital scoundrel,
and who is loathsomely afflicted with elephantiasis?"
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As for me, I am content to at least think, in quiet early meditation and examination of my conscience,
of how I can be better and how can I help others in the same direction.
I'm getting older and not very much wiser, but I can go to my grave knowing that I have tried to make the world a better place.
This is not sanctimony on my part.
It is part of my personal shabby system of belief, reflecting many-many different influences.
And I don't make any claims as to its superiority over others, nor do I make apologies for it.
It is what it is and it is, among those many influences, mutable.
Dogma is a pile of steaming dog-poo, one might say.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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He already has his own museum (donated by the venerable George Marston along with Presidio Park) and now gonna be a saint. When shall we come marching in?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 04:28pm PT
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^^^Genius!
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2015 - 05:36am PT
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Whatever you do this weekend, be fire-safe.
[Click to View YouTube Video]This was fun and less emotional than wingsuit flying.
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