[ot_caving] computer news - Intel DoTel

2008-12-03 Thread Gill Ediger
At 11:01 PM 12/2/2008, Don Cooper wrote: Oh yeah - using a quantum pre-fetch add-on appliance on the backplane of the golden idol power matrix, your applications can load before you even start the computer. It only costs 35 billion dollars Not to worry. Just last weekend the corps of

[Texascavers] belated Punkin Cave survey trip report

2008-12-03 Thread Jim Kennedy
Sorry for the delay, but I went to Mexico soon after the last Punkin trip. Here is a brief report of our activities. Feel free to republish in newsletters and other listserves. -- Jim

RE: [Texascavers] KY Cave Fatality

2008-12-03 Thread Louise Power
About three or four years ago, the Bureau of Land Management prosecuted a local (southern Oregon) man for digging up not only artifacts, but also human remains from a shelter cave in the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada and selling them on the artifact blackmarket. Apparently, the

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RE: [ot_caving] computer news - Intel

2008-12-03 Thread Louise Power
They build them for the same reason they build muscle cars that go from 0 to 120 in 1.2 seconds (or whatever). Even though you can't drive them like that, there's always somebody out there that wants one so they can bore everybody at the next party by telling them that their car will do 0 to

Re: [ot_caving] computer news - Intel

2008-12-03 Thread Don Cooper
I'm more like the guy that brags on the fact that never mind the car takes an hour to get to 100mph, I built it for only $1000 and it gets 50mpg. I think it's IDIOTIC to drool over the biggest, fastest and most expensive shiny phallic object. Which - if you are really ok with yourself - you

Re: [Texascavers] book idea

2008-12-03 Thread John Brooks
How about 1001 topics for Cavetexseems like Mr Locklear has a good start on this book. Sent from wmy iPhone On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Philip L Moss philipm...@juno.com wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:06:00 -0600 David dlocklea...@gmail.com writes: Here is a book idea for a caver

[ot_caving] NO MORE DEODORANT

2008-12-03 Thread Gill Ediger
At 02:16 PM 12/3/2008, Don Cooper wrote: ...aluminum chlorhydrate under my arms. So, Cooper, you're saying deoderant and then mentioning aluminum chlorhydrate somewhere down in the bowels of the paragraphs. Aluminum chlorhydrate has nothing to do with deoderant; it's the anti-persperant and

[Texascavers] Clarification - Texas Natural Areas Survey

2008-12-03 Thread dirtdoc
Clarification: The Texas Natural Areas Survey only existed for 6 years in the 1970�s and was the brainchild of Don Kennard, a Texas Senator from Ft. Worth who later lived in Austin. He recruited me while I was working in Austin at the Bureau of Economic Geology. Don was the politician,

Re: [Texascavers] Clarification - Texas Natural Areas Survey

2008-12-03 Thread CaverArch
Thanks for the further information on the program. I wonder if it served as a model for the currently operating Florida Natural Areas Inventory. The Florida Cave Survey provided input on karst and caves for this similar land acquisition planning program. Roger Moore GHG In a message dated

texascavers Digest 3 Dec 2008 23:28:43 -0000 Issue 657

2008-12-03 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 3 Dec 2008 23:28:43 - Issue 657 Topics (messages 9547 through 9555): belated Punkin Cave survey trip report 9547 by: Jim Kennedy Re: KY Cave Fatality 9548 by: Louise Power Re: book idea 9549 by: John Brooks Re: cave restoration 9550 by:

[Texascavers] re: cave restoration

2008-12-03 Thread Jules Jenkins
I have a request from a UT-Austin geology professor for information about cave restoration - how to do a cave restoration. I'd appreciate any info. websites, articles, etc. that I can forward on to this professor. Specifically, looking for proper methods for lint removal, cleaning flowstone and

RE: [Texascavers] re: cave restoration

2008-12-03 Thread George Veni
Jules, I'm replying to everyone for those not aware of the book Cave Conservation and Restoration. At 600 pages long and with high quality material, it is by far the most comprehensive, complete, and up-to-date source of information on the topic. It was published by the NSS two years ago and

RE: [Texascavers] re: cave restoration

2008-12-03 Thread Ron Ralph
I am holding in my hands about 6 pounds of Cave Conservation and Restoration, the 2006 Edition, edited by Val Hildreth-Werker and Jim C. Werker and published by the National Speleological Society. It is 600 pages thick and may be purchased on-line from the NSS bookstore

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2008-12-03 Thread Charles Goldsmith
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2008-12-03 Thread Charles Goldsmith
Just doing a sanity check, spam prevention is a pain these days. Where do you hail from, which grotto are you a member of, if any, and where did you hear about our mailing list? Thanks Charles

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2008-12-03 Thread Alan Downey
Hello, Im Alan Downey from Austin, Texas. I'm not a member of a grotto yet, but I am a highschool senior at St. Stephen's, and am a captain in the Devils Canyon Wilderness Program, which does a caving season every fall. Becky Jones is our coach, and since I am looking to do more caving beyond

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2008-12-03 Thread Charles Goldsmith
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[Texascavers] Cave potential in The Solitario

2008-12-03 Thread dirtdoc
I have spent 8 or 9 months (literally - over about 17 years) in The Solitario and Big Bend Ranch in the 70's running the field programs for the Texas Natural Areas Survey (NAS) (those reports formed the scientific justification for the acquisition of the land from Mr. Anderson), using it as a

Re: [Texascavers] Cave potential in The Solitario

2008-12-03 Thread Matt Turner
Wow, that's some really interesting information. Has there ever been another attempt to get something like that going again/would there even be a need? Sounds like I owe you a million thanks as many of the parks you mentioned greatly influenced my love of nature, and I've spent many many hours

[ot_caving] Personal Hygiene Tip - NO MORE DEODORANT

2008-12-03 Thread Don Cooper
(I know this is a topic which most people would typically keep to themselves, but as far as airing personal issues in public - but I wouldn't be the first to do so...And this has some positive information that others might actually benefit from!) You've probably seen a post or article somewhere on

Re: [ot_caving] Personal Hygiene Tip - NO MORE DEODORANT

2008-12-03 Thread Scott Nicholson
Great post! The only thing missing from your experiment-report is an odor-summary.  :-) Does it work?? ciao,  Scott Nicholson, Director KW Commercial 512-947-2688 Discovery Realty Group www.DiscoveryAustin.com www.KWCommercial.com From: Don Cooper

RE: [ot_caving] Personal Hygiene Tip - NO MORE DEODORANT

2008-12-03 Thread Louise Power
For additional information on the deodorant topic, see the following in Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/antiperspirant.asp List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:16:08 -0600From: wavycaver@gmail.comTo: ot@texascavers.comSubject: [ot_caving] Personal