Re: [Texascavers] Shoe-based radar system for underground GPS

2010-12-03 Thread Scott Boyd
Doesn't sound like it would work too great if you were crawling through your typical Texas cave. Something like Carlsbad - OK... Scott   --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Lee H. Skinner wrote: From: Lee H. Skinner Subject: [Texascavers] Shoe-based radar system for underground GPS To: "Cave Diggers" , "texa

[Texascavers] Bat hoodies!

2010-12-03 Thread Tina Mendez
Hi all-- Some friends of mine makes awesome hoodies and I thought I would pimp them to the cavers community. Presenting... BAT HOODIES! (With wings!!!) http://bunnywarez.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/64 They also make Bat Jammies, for those of you who want to keep toasty warm. http://bunnyware

Re: [Texascavers] Majlis Al Jinn

2010-12-03 Thread dirtdoc
You are correct, Gary.  Both Don and I worked for the Water Resources division  I often stayed in their house in Muscat when I came in from the field.  Cheryl was a gracous hostess as well as a supererb vertical caver. DirtDoc - Original Message - From: "Gary Moss" To: "Mixo

[Texascavers] Re: Shoe-based

2010-12-03 Thread dirtdoc
You are right.  More like "If the Foo s--.  Make sure your wear it.    Doc

[Texascavers] Re: Shoe-based

2010-12-03 Thread dirtdoc
Reminds me of some old shaggy-dog storry about if the Shoe Fits, wear it. DirtDoc

Re: [Texascavers] 3-D cave photography

2010-12-03 Thread Bob Booth
You might not have to buy a 3D camera, just take a lot of pictures from different angles and use software like this: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/02/unc-team-builds-3d-m.html or Microsoft's Photosynth: http://photosynth.net/about.aspx Bob On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:01 AM, David wrote: > I b

texascavers Digest 3 Dec 2010 19:08:53 -0000 Issue 1203

2010-12-03 Thread texascavers-digest-help
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RE: [Texascavers] NASA Microbiology Press Conference Video

2010-12-03 Thread George Veni
As many know, NCKRI's Dr. Penny Boston is one of the world's leading researchers on extraterrestrial life. Below is a link to the prestigious TED conference, which has a 20 minute video from a few years ago of Penny talking about how caves are part her studies to better understand what and where to

[Texascavers] cave biology

2010-12-03 Thread Jim Kennedy
Some of you may know Steve Taylor, who hangs around Austin periodically and has done a bunch of invertebrate work here, particularly on Fort Hood. He is also a good friend and former caving buddy of Jean "Creature" Krejca. He is featured is a really nice article at http://www.ouramazingplanet.com

[Texascavers] Tonight's Deadly Descent pilot episode on the Science Channel

2010-12-03 Thread Lee H. Skinner
Caving in Puerto Rico: http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20101203/NEWS01/12030311 Lee Skinner - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands

[Texascavers] NASA Microbiology Press Conference Video

2010-12-03 Thread caverarch
For those who are interested, here is most of the NASA Astrobiology Press Conference in two parts. The second part ends in mid-question, and I don't know how much is left out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr6okAKr-OI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO835qN1l10 (I didn't bother to invest

[Texascavers] Shoe-based radar system for underground GPS

2010-12-03 Thread Lee H. Skinner
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[Texascavers] RE: The other other white meat

2010-12-03 Thread Fritz Holt
Guinea hens, yes. Guinea pigs, I don't think so. Fritz From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:57 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] The other other white meat Folks, A fellow employee

Re: [Texascavers] The other other white meat

2010-12-03 Thread tbsamsel
"Cuy" doggies!   TDec 2, 2010 04:56:50 PM, gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org wrote: Folks,   A fellow employee is giving away two very plump and organically raised guinea pigs with a cage.  They even answer when called so you wouldn’t have to chase them around the cage to catch them.  Anyway, if som

[Texascavers] The other other white meat

2010-12-03 Thread Geary Schindel
Folks, The guinea pigs have been spoken for. I'm not sure if they are going to end up as dinner, breeding livestock, pets, or all of the above. Anyway, they are off the table for the moment LOL. Also, thanks for all the recipes, I'll keep them in mind for future dinner plans. Seems that som

[Texascavers] UT Grotto Calendar

2010-12-03 Thread Matt Turner
FYI the utgrotto calendar is being weirdly offset right now by google. We are not the only ones affected and google is trying to fix this problem soon. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out to me. Note that if you go to the week or day view it's normally correct. Matt Turner "It is the ma

Re: Re: [Texascavers] Re: Convention prices

2010-12-03 Thread tbsamsel
Vermonters make their money off of out of staters, summer & fall & winter. "Spring" is mud season.   TDec 2, 2010 08:40:26 PM, gi...@att.net wrote: When we had the NSS Convention in New Braunfels in 1978 many of uswere sick and tired of NSS Conventions costing 70 or 80 dollars, plusthe cost of fu

[Texascavers] 3-D cave photography

2010-12-03 Thread David
I believe I saw this camera for sale in Best Buy today for $ 499.99. http://www.fujifilm.com/products/3d/camera/finepix_real3dw1/ Potentially, cave photography could make a rapid change to 3D once the 3D TV's become mainstream, which is probably less than 5 years away. I have always enjoyed