Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread mike wilson
Funny how the land of the free seems to be suffering in exactly the same way as other places. Maybe even worse. That might be something to do with you having as close to a monarchy as you've had in 250 years. I know whose queen I would rather have. I always thought Orwell's novels were about

Re: Old Mills

2020-04-14 Thread Bob Pdml
You might find this useful for helping to determine when the light will be best: https://www.photoephemeris.com/ > On 15 Apr 2020, at 06:25, Dale H. Cook wrote: > > Well, here I go starting another photographic interest. A friend got me > interested in SPOOM - the Society for the Preservation

Old Mills

2020-04-14 Thread Dale H. Cook
Well, here I go starting another photographic interest. A friend got me interested in SPOOM - the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills (https://www.spoom.org). This morning I joined SPOOM, downloaded their PDF of existing old mills in Virginia, and I spent the afternoon in nearby Floyd Co.

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread P. J. Alling
We have a tradition of not trusting our "bettors", usually with good reason.   One should never forget Orwell, describing socialism, in Animal Farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Orwell wrote 1984, Animal Farm and a fair number of essays  as cautionary

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread mike wilson
> On 14 April 2020 at 19:49 "P. J. Alling" wrote: > > > Everyone seems to forget the initial intent of these measures. It was to > slow the spread of the virus so as to not overwhelm the medical > infrastructure.  Well weather it was the lock down or simply the fact > that the US isn't as de

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread P. J. Alling
Everyone seems to forget the initial intent of these measures. It was to slow the spread of the virus so as to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure.  Well weather it was the lock down or simply the fact that the US isn't as densely populated as many other advanced nations, or the fact that

PESO: Malo Seaways

2020-04-14 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Yet another stupid ferry: https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/ein-kurzes-gastspiel-fotoralfbe/43717489 Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pent

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Larry Colen
> On Apr 14, 2020, at 5:51 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Larry, that is a seriously cool car! Thanks Mark. It is a point of pride that she’s been called “the coolest car at the track”. Shortly after I installed the blower, I was at SCCA driver’s school to renew my license and someone came u

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Larry Colen
> On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:03 AM, Ken Waller wrote: > > Good looking vehicle, in great shape, a shame it’s just sitting there. Yes it is, and I only need two things to get her back on the road, time and money. > > > -Original Message- >> From: Larry Colen >> Sent: Apr 13, 2020 7:26 P

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread Steve Cottrell
One thing that is often sidestepped during this crisis is the mental wellbeing of people not affected by the virus. I fully understand the need to isolate contact between humans to mitigate spread of the virus, and clearly keeping travel to a minimum is essential to this end, but given that peop

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread Stanley Halpin
Ken, the issue I see with fishing is that most people can’t fish in their back yard, they need to go someplace. Which means that they are not Staying Home. If they can fish in their backyard (e.g., I could Stay Home and fish in the small river running by our house), then I don’t believe anybody

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread Bill
On 4/14/2020 9:31 AM, Ken Waller wrote: I understand the inter action issue, so why not just close the big box stores entirely? Also fishing is very popular here what’s the issue with fishing? It’s the inconsistancy in the rulings that’s bothers a lot of people. Things still go wrong with peop

Re: Lockdown life

2020-04-14 Thread Ken Waller
I understand the inter action issue, so why not just close the big box stores entirely? Also fishing is very popular here what’s the issue with fishing? It’s the inconsistancy in the rulings that’s bothers a lot of people. -Original Message- >From: Bill >Sent: Apr 13, 2020 9:16 PM >Sub

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Ken Waller
Good looking vehicle, in great shape, a shame it’s just sitting there. -Original Message- >From: Larry Colen >Sent: Apr 13, 2020 7:26 PM >Subject: Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG > > > >> On Apr 13, 2020, at 3:54 PM, John wrote: >> >> BTDT ... gotta do it again someday. >> >> I'v

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The Great Recession of 2008-2011 pretty much wiped me out, and I sold off FrankenSpider (and many other things) to survive. G > On Apr 13, 2020, at 3:54 PM, John wrote: > > Your spider was a beautiful car. So what happened to it? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The Great Recession of 2008-2011 pretty much wiped me out, and I sold off FrankenSpider (and many other things) to survive. G > On Apr 13, 2020, at 3:54 PM, John wrote: > > Your spider was a beautiful car. So what happened to it? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.n

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Paul Stenquist
Very nice. A great lockdown project. Paul > On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Larry, that is a seriously cool car! > > Larry Colen wrote: > >> My project car is a ’69 MGBGT, it served double duty as a daily driver and >> the car I used to teach performance driving: >> >>

Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG

2020-04-14 Thread Mark Roberts
Larry, that is a seriously cool car! Larry Colen wrote: >My project car is a ’69 MGBGT, it served double duty as a daily driver and the >car I used to teach performance driving: > >http://red4est.com/jasmine > >When it was last running, with the supercharger on it, it could keep up with >Spec M