[Texascavers] Re: NSS dues going up

2008-12-06 Thread Alex Sproul
Mixon said: Some idiot has put the NSS bylaws in a place on the NSS web site that can be visited only if you're already a member, though. The two- and three-year old and new rates can be found in the minutes of the November 2008 Board of Governors meeting. Of course, those are also inaccessible

[Texascavers] TSS work session

2008-12-06 Thread Ron Ralph
Cavers, There is a scheduled second Wednesday work session of the Texas Speleological Survey December 10th, at the JJ Pickle Research Center on Burnet Road north of highway 183. We will file exchange copies of newsletters from all over the country and continue to update electronic files

[ot_caving] a new crank powered LED flashlight

2008-12-06 Thread David
Snap-On Tools is getting on the LED wagon. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31IBM4OVTtL._SL500_.jpg This flashlight looks like something good to have during and after a hurricane. It puts out a lot of light for a crank-powered flashlight. It even has an emergency siren, and claims to

Re: [ot_caving] computer news

2008-12-06 Thread David
Charles, In 1990, I was working for a respectable engineering company that had computers doing drafting ( Intergraph ).They were powered by a mainframe, using a language by DEC. I wanted to impress the IT guy, and was trying to learn as much about it as I could. Fortunately, this guy was

[ot_caving] OT - sleep apnea

2008-12-06 Thread David
As an honorary life-member of the Sleep Apnea Association, http://www.sleepapnea.org/ I would like to thank Geary for the recognition. My hall-mates in my college dorm ( Dunn Hall ) on several occasions hit the sideboard of my bed with a golf club at 3 in the morning to wake me up. They

[Texascavers] [Guanoslide Etymology]

2008-12-06 Thread Gill Ediger
Ahhh, now we're getting somewhere. Good job, Don. --Ediger At 12:26 AM 12/6/2008, Don Arburn wrote: I'm no linguist or wordsmith and I prolly got it all wrong but this seemed fun, and so I tried: Guano (from the Quechua 'wanu', via Spanish) is the excrement (feces and urine) of seabirds, bats,

[Texascavers] NSS Business pages

2008-12-06 Thread Philip L Moss
Alex and all: I have to agree with Mixon on this one. Even if other organizations don't put their budget, agenda, and minutes online for the public to see, that is no reason for us not to do so. Personally, I find this a very tiresome argument. I often hear that we are the premier caving

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Business pages

2008-12-06 Thread Don Cooper
I hope I'm not committing an impropriety or violating the NSS's trust, but would someone who is NOT a current NSS member (and who has had no NSS member using their computer to access the caves.org website) please try and access the NSS business pages with this URL?

RE: [Texascavers] NSS Business pages

2008-12-06 Thread Ron Ralph
I tried and could not get anywhere. Ron _ From: Don Cooper [mailto:wavyca...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:25 PM To: Philip L Moss Cc: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] NSS Business pages I hope I'm not committing an impropriety or violating

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Business pages

2008-12-06 Thread Don Cooper
Ok! Thanks everyone. Results indicate that the NSS site does use cookies and just 'hopping over the fence' doesn't grant everyone access to the business page. I guess its good to see that their web coordinator is quite competent. I do however miss the point as to why the information is