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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Feb 19, 2017 - 04:06pm PT
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high school stadium enclosed dome, twin cities of eagar/springerville az. combined pop almost 7k.
seats 9k for basketball, during the rodeo-chediski fire it sheltered almost 10k
i was able to peer through the glass doors and take the first image
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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 - Feb 19, 2017 - 04:09pm PT
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^^^^
Dear Glass Tin,
You had me at the giant spacecraft on the moon.
--Arky from Malarkey
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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 - Feb 19, 2017 - 05:41pm PT
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The weather went to hell over the course of the day today.
The rain began about 3 p.m. and is probably hitting Yosemite about now.
Where did you park that ark, Noah?
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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 - Feb 19, 2017 - 06:16pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Feb 19, 2017 - 06:30pm PT
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UM? What's up ? Personal attacks ? Trotting out personal stuff?
For why ?
Sir, please edify Otay? Or I'm on the way out again ?
Ws fun but it's not oK,
we kinda play at the edge of the abiss ~ that's always been the way
But what is this ?
Or that?
Will you take
Or make it go away? Not I fear ! so dear is your mis-understandun'
The View From Chu-la-Vista
I Absolutely Hate Autocorrect
It was a bakers dozen then I forgot the best one
and the artificial intelligence had changed it, made it go away
Bye n bye I've worked it back you might want to too
Or not
Not that my share does not still lean to imply the nefarious. It does.
Is it still? Was it ever nefarious to grow ones own?
To me it is The source of the (Sacramento N0!) sacrament !
But I'm just saying it looks like the base of a hydroponic system
It's only missing the 'girls'. tubing & the rock-wool.
The belay chant of the happy freezing monkey while waiting for the sun to rise
The cry of the wild monkey while on belay, freezing, waiting for the sun to crest the ridge
Chanting at the moon before the rising sun.
Freezing chatter from the belay
under the move, by pitch two, before the break day
Dawn shivers causing monkey quivers
Beyond the land of Oo-ta-cata hee-ta -woo.
All that is heard can not be understood
Standing, freezing on belay, the chatter from the lips at play.
The Last Chant, before linking 2 and 3
Get up there Bozo, before I freeze its almost the break of day
All good ones, some one else please pick
I'm partial to
The Chant Of The Cold Quick Monkey, On Belay
Feb 19, 2017 - 05:50pm PT
Belay Chant Of The Freezing Quicker Monkey
At Moon-set, Having to Wait For 1 Before Getting To Link 2 & 3
Oo-ta-Cuhuta - heet-ah-hoo
Oo-ta-cuhta-heet-a-hoo
Rata noo-tah-kee-ta-sloo
Perta-blee preeta-blew
Ooma-Ooma gaga
Oo-ta-Cuhuta - heet-ah-hoo
Oo-ta-cuhta-heet-a-hoo
Rata neeta keyta poo
Rata nata kata grew
Rata noo tah kee ta ha
Rata nee toh ooloola
IsmA Fay trax berda zap
Zap vox bee Zap lox cee
Oya-tota frame bing frame Bing oyta
Rata noo-tah-kee-ta-sloo
Perta-blee preeta-blew
Ooma-Ooma gaga
Oo-ta-Cuhuta - heet-ah-hoo
Oo-ta-cuhta-heet-a-hoo
Rata Rata Rata wee ha hoo
Who?
Whom?
From the disturbing mind of?
There is very little question - certainly not the brilliant Chuck, not the Weedge
- we all miss his surrealistically misbegotten sufferings played out for all of us to see.
Then to be in so much of time and space it was as to see him sckitching off the bumpers of cars and writing rings around the rest of us in his sotten funks . .
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Feb 20, 2017 - 02:43am PT
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Last of the Golden Eyed One
As the moon came up over the mountains
Shrouded in cloud with a grayish light
I thought only shadows followed me
As I hiked along alone in the night
Whispering the wind was cold
But the fire in me once burned bright
And casting my eyes up ahead again
I followed the road to the right
Then looming in the darkness
Beneath a huge and gnarled tree
Brooding like the Beowulf
Two golden eyes appeared to be
There stalking and watching as
I walked and kept one eye on he
As I quickened my stride silently
And puffed myself to a larger me
'Twas as if he were never there
'Till 'round came the night again
I heard him make a lonesome cry
'Till 'round came the night again
Inside my head I howled like he
'Till 'round came the night again
I was once a lot like he
'Till 'round came the night again
But the one I am most cautious of
Walks on two legs and cannot wait
For all the world to belong to he
With providence soured by hate
Now I'm much older and walk much slower
And have come upon that place of late
But never have seen those golden eyes
Although I move at a slower gait
'Twas as if he were never there
'Till 'round came the night again
I heard him make a lonesome cry
'Till 'round came the night again
Inside my head I howled like he
'Till 'round came the night again
I was once a lot like he
'Till 'round came the night again
-bushman
02/20/2017
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 05:39am PT
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In the Golden State
Once it was an empty spot
Horses passed by at a trot
Now it's just a parking lot
In the heat it's very hot
No more trilling of a brook
It once was a shady nook
This small Eden we forsook
When to the roads en masse we took
--MFM
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zBrown
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Feb 20, 2017 - 04:17pm PT
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Is it Talking Heads or Hair
She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know
It's not for lack of bread, like the grateful Dead, darlin'
Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy
Hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow, my hair
Can't sleep, why not tweet?
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 04:25pm PT
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That's whatinellime wondryn, Penryn.
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 04:26pm PT
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Wherinellis Penryn?
Sounds Welsh.
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 04:39pm PT
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Penryn (microarchitecture)
In Intel's Tick-Tock cycle, the 2007/2008 "Tick" was the shrink of the Core microarchitecture to 45 nanometers as CPUID model 23. In Core 2 processors, it is used with the code names Penryn (Socket P), Wolfdale (LGA 775) and Yorkfield (MCM, LGA 775), some of which are also sold as Celeron, Pentium and Xeon processors. In the Xeon brand, the Wolfdale-DP and Harpertown code names are used for LGA 771 based MCMs with two or four active Wolfdale cores.
The chips come in two sizes, with 6 MB and 3 MB L2 cache. The smaller version is commonly called Penryn-3M and Wolfdale-3M as well as Yorkfield-6M, respectively. The single-core version of Penryn, listed as Penryn-L here, is not a separate model like Merom-L but a version of the Penryn-3M model with only one active core.
Processor Cores.
The processors of the Core microarchitecture can be categorized by number of cores, cache size, and socket; each combination of these has a unique code name and product code that is used across a number of brands.
For instance, code name "Allendale" with product code 80557 has two cores, 2 MB L2 cache and uses the desktop socket 775, but has been marketed as Celeron, Pentium, Core 2 and Xeon, each with different sets of features enabled.
Most of the mobile and desktop processors come in two variants that differ in the size of the L2 cache, but the specific amount of L2 cache in a product can also be reduced by disabling parts at production time. Wolfdale-DP and all quad-core processors except Dunnington QC are multi-chip modules combining two dies. For the 65 nm processors, the same product code can be shared by processors with different dies, but the specific information about which one is used can be derived from the stepping.
In the model 23 (cpuid 01067xh), Intel started marketing stepping with full (6 MiB) and reduced (3 MiB) L2 cache at the same time, and giving them identical cpuid values. All steppings have the new SSE4.1 instructions. Stepping C1/M1 was a bug fix version of C0/M0 specifically for quad core processors and only used in those. Stepping E0/R0 adds two new instructions (XSAVE/XRSTOR) and replaces all earlier steppings.
In mobile processors, stepping C0/M0 is only used in the Intel Mobile 965 Express (Santa Rosa refresh) platform, whereas stepping E0/R0 supports the later Intel Mobile 4 Express (Montevina) platform.
Model 30 stepping A1 (cpuid 106d1h) adds an L3 cache as well as six instead of the usual two cores, which leads to an unusually large die size of 503 mm². As of February 2008, it has only found its way into the very high-end Xeon 7400 series (Dunnington).
That should satisfy the needs of the nerds. This beta is all elementary for them, according to IBM Watson.
NON EST
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 04:44pm PT
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Penryn, CA. Near Newcastle, CA. Near Roseville, CA, which is an outlying burg near Sacramento, CA, home of the basketball Kings, currently besieged by water.
The story of Penryn begins in late 1864 when a Welsh immigrant by the name of Griffith Griffith established a granite quarry on quarter section of land leased from the Central Pacific Railroad. A siding was completed on February 6, 1865, and the first load of cut stone was shipped less than a week later. The quarry was open for business, but as yet, had no name. The railroad, matter-of-factly, designated the siding “Griffith’s Granite Station,” but Griffith had something else in mind.
Back home in North Wales, G. G., like his father before him, worked in the Penrhyn Slate Quarry. In Welsh, the word penrhyn translates to headland or promontory, which aptly described the seaport from which the Penrhyn Quarry took its name. When it came to naming his new enterprise, the choice was obvious, but not the spelling. To simplify things and avoid the inevitable misspellings that were likely to occur, on the evening of May 17, 1865, Griffith, after discussing the matter with Central Pacific legal counsel Edwin Bryant Crocker (known later for the Crocker Art Museum), agreed to drop the “h” from the original Welsh spelling and settled on the name, and spelling, we know today. The following day, Griffith recorded this auspicious event in his diary: “Concluded last night with Judge Crocker to call this quarry Penryn.”
The quarry now had a name, but not the town, because there was no town, just the granite works and a railroad siding. Griffith’s employees all lived in the immediate area, so there were plenty of people, but no businesses outside of what amounted to a small “company store” near the quarry. The nearest supply centers of any consequence were Newcastle and Smithville, near present-day Loomis. Griffith’s early ledgers record numerous transactions at both places.
It was in 1869 that Griffith’s mercantile monopoly came to an end. That year, a large frame building housing a railroad depot, store and saloon, went up on the West side of the Central Pacific mainline, just South of today’s English Colony Way. In time, other businesses followed, but this single event marked the beginnings of what would soon evolve into the town of Penryn.
From the beginning, there was never any doubt or debate as to what the new town would be called. However, it’s interesting to note that most references, prior to 1870, generically applied the name “Griffith’s Quarry” or “Griffith’s Granite Quarry” to the area that included the small, embryonic village, which clearly indicates no name had yet been “officially” assigned to the place. That finally happened in May 1871, when Penryn was designated a voting precinct by the County of Placer. And the most “official” recognition of all came in June 1873 with the establishment of a U. S. Post Office. With that, you might say, the name “Penryn” was set in stone!
By the mid-1870s Penryn was an established community with a fine new schoolhouse, a hotel, at least one blacksmith shop, two or three stores and an equal number of saloons. The granite works was going strong, at peak times employing over 200 men, and would continue so until Griffith Griffith's death in February 1889. It was then purchased by Griffith's nephew, David Griffith, and would continue to operate on a somewhat smaller scale, until the latter Griffith's death in 1918. By the mid-1890s however, fruit raising had edged-out granite quarrying as the area's leading industry.
It was David Griffith's daughter, Enid, the great-niece of Griffith Griffith, who left the quarry property to the people of the County of Placer when she died in 1976. In accordance with her wishes, the site of the Penryn Granite Works is now a 23-acre (93,000 m2) park. The former quarry office building, erected in 1877, now houses the Griffith Quarry Museum, staffed by volunteers and open on weekends from noon until 4:00 pm or by appointment. Griffith Quarry was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and is also California Historical Landmark number 885.
Penryn granite is noted for its beauty and strength. Mottled in more-or-less equally sized specks of black and white, it appears a medium-to-dark gray in color, at first glance, but takes on an almost bluish-gray hue when viewed in a subdued light or, when wet or polished. This unique stone can be seen in the foundations and walls of a number of California landmarks including The State Capital and the old U.S. Mint in San Francisco.
[That will be all for now, Wiki.]
The steps of the courthouse in Merced are probably from this quarry of Griffith Griffiths, though this landmark is not mentioned on a historical monument plaque at the Penryn site, which lists several. It was constructed in 1874 as the CPRR came down the valley heading for Fresno and points south. The site is located about five or six blocks from where the granite would be off-loaded on Front Street.
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zBrown
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Feb 20, 2017 - 05:20pm PT
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In addition to being Rosemary's dawg, Penrod made other appearances historically.
May be Penrod, may be not Penrod.
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 06:53pm PT
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How many fingers is Jim holding up?
How many fingers does it take for a weather man to know which way the wind is blowing, Edge?
Eboracum is York in Latin. It means "he barks a lot."
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 07:01pm PT
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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 - Feb 20, 2017 - 07:02pm PT
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