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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2015 - 12:52pm PT
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No more snow for you, Gnome! That's what you need. And that's what I'm sending to you. It may take a few days.
neebee, I appreciate that you appreciate the appreciation I've shown to you for all you do here by sending the dates!
It may be the closest I ever come to having a date with any woman ever again, excepting the lovely doctor--her name is Bernadette--in the Cardilogy Dept. in the Fresno VA hospital when I was there last.
DMT, I love Hershey's kisses! How did you know?
(I'm referring to neebee's thread about appreciating moi, of course.)
It was quite nice to wake from a nap and find the updated Saturday edition of the front page and the encomiums awaiting me there. Thank you all for being so tolerant of my gaffes early on in my Taco postings (I've since seen it's a fairly common affliction).
Who can forget the...well, that's all in the past.
I work hard and I used to play hard, too, but only on the easy stuff.
It pays to advertise, too.
The revenue coming in from the Advice & Cheese Shop alone is paying for part of my continuing education here at ST State!
I'm lookin' to complete this semester and go on to a possible Masters in STone,* followed by a Doctorate in Taco Drama.
Aside to neebee, the Medjool dates I've sent are not as good as the ones we had a few years ago here (through Grocery Outlet). They were a bit larger and MUCH more caramel-like and a little sweeter.
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-medjool-dates.htm
"Date palms that give rise to medjool fruit are believed to be indigenous to the North African coast and Arabic Peninsula. Fossil evidence suggests that the fruits were enjoyed by ancient people in countries as far apart as Saudi Arabia and Morocco..."
They must use carbon-dating.
Their pits are easily removed and cast into the fire pit, make lovely fossils.
The fact that they have only @ 66 cals per unit is offset for use as climbing bivvy food by their tremendous ability to "keep things moving."
The G.O. still has a stock of lesser dates stuffed with almonds and coated with sesame seeds in a sweetened goo.
May we all enjoy a measure of peace and contentedness today, and those of you who are hooked up, doubly so.
*Date pits are also known as stones, All monocots have stones...the apricot, the peachicot, etc.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2015 - 02:02pm PT
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zBrown, I wonder what Chris Sharma's palms look like.
Aside from Corsica, the Western Mediterranean offers other isles, like Sardinia and the Balearic Isles. I recall in grammar school when my older brother Mike had a report to turn in on the Balearics.
Robert Graves lived much of his life there, among the British ex-pats.
Here's a trip to Spain's Enchanted Isles, from August, 1928, courtesy of the Grosvenors (lovely couple) and National Geographic.
Strictly speaking, bb is a French concoction.
Every boy should experience the joy
Of removing a patch of pricklies.
We should do this again.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 14, 2015 - 02:21pm PT
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If you do not find watching the hardest of hard core, or the sub titles throw you off, please take a look at the opening of the video, it has some nice simpocatica with z's video, but more
with . . .
. . . awh he's sick, Yes he is a catchy little number, . . .and She 's no fun she fell right over,
He sneezes she GOES, weeee, pufft! at three minutes into the video,
the chemistry between the two is to be drunken in absorbed, on Valentine's
A sweety and her Sweety getting hard hard climbing done.
Cedric, Nina, cows, sheep and clouds.
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Now this is funny as I consider The writings of James Joyce, when I google how to spell;
simpatico,
Using my spelling from above, the google gives me myself and flames and supertopo!
That said, I have no shame - so I will leave my word to grow some.
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So much snow and more due on Wednesday!
MY STARZ
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2015 - 09:27pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Aside from today being Valentines Day, it seems it was Old Flames day, too.
Larry Jones, last seen in June 2013, came through with his dogs, Miss Sophie and Mister Darcy. He has a red Dodge crew cab. Of course we go for a cruise. It’s what Flames do.
Statesboro Blues is playing on the sound system from the first Taj Mahal LP. I can’t get over it, because it’s the same one his late wife Barb downloaded to a disc for me the night before she passed. I hadn’t seen her in something like thirty years and it turned out to be the last time I ever saw her. You cannot make this stuff up, it just happens.
T Hocking, that was the same road trip during which we visited Tom’s Thumb.
Before we go further out Bear Creek Drive, which is where we cruised, Larry asks about Gypsy and Ariel and I tell him that you both are great and doin’ swell.
He tells me that I look like crap, like an old homeless guy, and he’s right. I felt like crap right then--tough time breathin'. Boomer would have agreed about the close resemblance to a bum.
We talk a great deal about Dylan’s music on this trip. the Rev never plays his radio unless it’s talk radio sh#t. And he is not the intellectual that Jones is. Larry’s an artist, he don’t look back. But he knows exactly how many days he was married to Barb.
He also has taken up the ukelele. Even I bought a uke, but soon realized it was beyond my physical ability and gave it to my boy Scott to hold until one of his kids decides to try it. Larry hangs with the Pinole Ukes, or PU. He’s a guitar player, too. He tells me he is always messing up with the guitar D chord by playing a uke G chord, or some such. Crossover’s tough.
So, Dylan. And we are heading out South West Bear Creek Drive. He tells me about Ry Cooder, and I tell him about Tom T. Hall and Kris Kristofferson's effect on him--devastatng! He tells me of Bob's Chronicles I, which he read recently. I tell him it's a great book by an amazing man--what's left to do but listen to him? He hasn't any Dylan CDs with him, so he pulls out Lucinda and we listen to Car Wheels on a Country Road.
It's been a songwriter's week, huh?
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We have an actual destination, the Flying X Ranch, aka the last ranch on Cunningham Rd., the title of one of the two Linda Abbott paintings which I own. It’s way out there by the Mariposa line. It’s a working ranch, and they have a yard full of sheep and lambs right now.
We stop a couple of times so I can shoot some photos. The nut trees are finally getting their blossoms out. I apologize for the fuzziness of some of these shots. No tripod plus failing eyes equals poor manual focus.
We listened to Lucinda some more on the way home--though the road is paved now it once was gravel.
I’d found this stuck to my door on the way down to join Larry. It is from Lulu, my neighbor down the hall.
If I had died today when I got home I’d have been to the pastures of heaven already.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2015 - 11:25pm PT
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Larry told me about his boy, Avery, who is a careerist with the Gap, makin' it in the big city in a big way.
He was a gym rat at the gym the Great Hans runs. He did hard-hard until a couple of fingers got too stressed, sidelining him indefinitely.
He waited and waited until finally he was ready to try climbing again. The very day after he resumed his efforts he drove a drill bit through his hand! Yikes!
He no longer thinks about climbing.
Larry's brother Brian and he took a good long trip together last year and went over the mountains to the Eastside.
He said the worst part was waiting for Brian to finish dithering for hours--coffeeing up, getting everything dried out perfectly, rolled and folded perfectly, packed perfectly.
Larry has been a solo backpacker for years, ever since he took off into the Warner Mts. of NE California and dropped his new Himalayan pack off one of the peaks. He's more the Colin Fletcher type than the Sierra Clubber.
He'll never go out with Brian again. Too much for him. Larry's got long legs and sets a good pace. I never thought about going with him.
He never invited me. We are cool with that. He tried rock climbing, but it hadn't the appeal of moving across vast distances quickly.
Larry once got a federal loan for school, took the money and went over to Hawaii and came back with a kilo of Primo hash, which he took up to Yosemite Valley. He got a room at Degnan's dorms and lived the life until the hash ran out. Then he went back to the land of reality somewhere.
On our little cruise today, we talked of Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, two old school songwriters.
Edgar Yipsel "Yip" Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg, Yiddish: איסידור הוכברג; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "April in Paris," and "It's Only a Paper Moon," as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow." He was known for the social commentary of his lyrics, as well as his liberal sensibilities. He also championed racial and gender equality and union politics.--Wiki
Harold Arlen (February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).--Wiki
Cab Calloway recorded several of Arlen and Harburg's collaborations.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 15, 2015 - 06:19am PT
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And a fond hello to Larry Jokes and Avery
and in honor of yesterday's valentines day here is my favorite Lucinda Williams tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtxCNDfrcDw
I have absolutely no idea how people post the actual video in these threads...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 15, 2015 - 08:03am PT
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Well it works like this Gypsy.
"EXTRACT THE BOLDED PARTS, then replace the two {} brackets with the [] brackets and you're home free."
-Lucinda in the sky with Diamonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTT3VPriV8**
{youtube=fBTT3VPriV8}
Happy Valentine's Day Chele and Ms. Calabash, wherever you are.
What do you call the biggest guy in THE Count-FIVE?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 15, 2015 - 08:15am PT
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Gypsy, are you interesting !
wow how much I have loved the pics and humor and vibe!
I wish you all the finest things, and breath
fresh and deep !
Pure and Cryptic
evocative art and a great ability to capture,
a fleeting moment
or create entire universe es!
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 15, 2015 - 08:31am PT
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She blushes.
Thanks for the info zBrown. I'll try it next time.
For a trip around the world you can always catch my radio show:
http://www.ashevillefm.org/musical-migrations
by going to the link above and clicking on the single word "listen" on the left side of the page above the play lists.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 15, 2015 - 08:46am PT
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My pleasure Gypsy. I've caught your show in the past. Somehow I dropped it. I'll put it on my computer desktop, I'm told I spend a lot of time there.
Michele was a math teacher so I'm now having to develop an equation where a lot approaches too much, asymptotically speaking. It may indeed be a case of "asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".*
mfm, can I get a witness, or at least some beta?
*The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for it's discovery in 2004 and as Doc Hartouni has told me, "don't argue with physics", it's the law. Everybody knows what happens when yhou fight the law.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 15, 2015 - 09:53am PT
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zBrown is leading you astray, Gypsy, as he has done with many a lady. :0)
I do it two ways, depending.
one way--
Find your video on Youtube.
Point the cursor at the title in blue and right click one time.
A box appears with a menu.
Choose "Copy link address" and left click once to copy.
Go to the Post a Reply box on ST and paste it there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXewIR7Y7cc
When it's pasted it looks like this ^^^.
Delete the "s" from "https:" and you're home free.
or another--
Or if you want the video block to appear and not simply the link, use the last eleven digits to paste into the slot which appears when you click "video" on the top of the Post a Reply box.
You can go to the URL line at the top of the Youtube page to capture and paste the eleven digits for insertion into the Video slot. (That sounds crude, I realize.)
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a catchy little number--GOTD
In Africa today, a member of the Big Five has passed away.
I can almost guarantee it.
In Africa, the big five game animals are:
the African lion,
African elephant,
Cape buffalo,
African leopard,
and White/Black rhinoceros.
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I'd like to suggest a remedial math course for you, zBrown. In it they will maybe teach you that the middle finger is the largest of the Count to Fives. His name is the Fickle One, though he is actually in the third position.
Also, the Cabal's monthly meeting at Coffee Dan's every third Friday, FYI. Where have you been? You've missed the last two in a row.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 15, 2015 - 11:06am PT
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I'll tell ya something right off the top from the bottom of my heart (it is afterall only one day since St. Valentine has come and gone) mrMFM.
You've got a problem in your method right there at step one. What if your video is not on Youtube?
Take the case of the famous video of Camp Four Plus and the mysterious plane crash of (now corrected to) 1976. Who you gonna call, ghostdancers?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 15, 2015 - 11:11am PT
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So I sez to zBrown, I sez, sez I, "How many Vimeo Videos or other venues have I posted videos from?"
And he's, like, all flummoxed.
http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/104674326_295x166.webp
I'm not enrolled as a member of Vimeo or any of those gangs of five as I'm already committed heart and soul to the gangs of Camp 4.
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Remember the Five Points.
1. Always hire one half of the dirtbags, kill the rest.
2. Saint MICHAEL cast Satan out of Yosemite Valley.
3. A local is a man who is willing to give his life for his National Park.
4. the earth turns but we don't feel it move.
5. I've stayed alive all these years because of fear.
"One spark and the sky is on fire."
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 15, 2015 - 11:30am PT
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Everybody's talking at me and they want to know what .webp file is, because they do not recognize it.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 15, 2015 - 11:32am PT
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ONE SPARK & SKYZZ FIRE
Ya gotta know what your lookin' at
z has posted a picture of the Gnomes' favorite hat!
It smells abit of Avigaz but when dried to perfection
Sparks fly,
FROG kept some around for kicks to choke the Hausers,
in Canadian that would be hozzers,
When he left the tent we had a laugh at the dorf's revenge.
Ahack ahack ahacka spew.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 15, 2015 - 11:46am PT
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IT SURE HAS BEEN A COLD HARD RIDE
WHEN POURING OVER ICE LET IT TRICKLE DOWN THE 'CICLENOT YELLOW SNOW BUT THE SAME IDEA
THIS WOULD BE LIKE DRINKIN' ROOF SNOT
S NOT A GUD IDEA
DID I HEAR SOMEONE SAY GO PLAY WITH YOUR HULA HOOP?
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