CaveTex: Re: Brian

I am deeply saddened to hear that Brian is gone. He was a friendly, capable and decent man who will be sorely missed. I remember his bold laugh, graceful acceptance of hardship and unflagging good humor that lightened many a caving trip. I wish him well on the next stage of his journey, and h

CaveTex: Re: Whats in a name?

Since I seem to have precipitated this, and the discussion has veered into the direction of "political correctness," I'd like to make another brief comment. Geographic landforms, like city streets -- and cave names for that matter -- are *always* having their names changed, and this is not a

Re: [Texascavers] lots of LED stuff

A vast amount of varying but interesting information on projects to do with LEDs, -- and the electronics involved -- can be found at MAKE Magazine, the magazine of people who refuse to believe there are "no user serviceable parts inside"... Go to Google and enter this in the search field --

Re: CaveTex: deep cave question

now about the other time -- no doubt to my great spiritual benefit. Edward Sevcik University of Texas School of Information Austin, Texas

CaveTex: Passport Requirements, Central America

//travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2225.html> I have no idea if these new requirements cover such things like driving across the border with a hundred pounds of explosives hidden under the floorboards of the truck bed, etc. ;-) Edward Sevcik University of Texas School of Information Austin, Texas

Re: CaveTex: bats and insects

dollar grant application... Edward Sevcik University of Texas School of Information Austin, Texas

CaveTex: Speedy Stitcher Needles?

Anyone know where I can get spare needles for a speedy stitcher? The store I checked had only the complete stitcher set in a box, and searching online has not proved fruitful. I need the smooth needles, not the canvass needle with the triangular point. Thanks for any help. Ed Edward

Re: CaveTex: vegie chili and the Thought Police

At 04:26 PM 8/12/2005, Gill Ediger wrote: [...]Chili is an entity unto itself--almost holy in its own right. [...]"Chili with Beans" is adulterated chile. "Vegetarian Chili" is adulterated chili. Again, remember, it is not chili. It is something else; it is chili with something else added; it i

RE: CaveTex: Texas to Soon Have Country's Highest Speed Limit

jord...@cavetex.net with the following message--unsubscribe cavetex. For help and information go to www.cavetex.net. List administrator: mailto:jswh...@cavetex.net Edward Sevcik University of Texas School of Information Austin, Texas

CaveTex: Labor Day Deep and Punkin Trip - need ride from Austin

Logan McNatt Susan Chelf Falicia Vereland Erin Vereland Rick Corbel Erin Corbel Bob Cowell? Carl Ponobcheck? Michelle Bryant Paul Bryant Steve Bryant Walter Feister Cindy Ditullio Steve DiTullio Don Auburn Jennie Auburn Eric Holman Malissa Holman Brian Holman Evan Holman Linda Pali

Re: {Virus?} CaveTex: watch out folks - we're getting scammed for card numbers.

For what it's worth, when you attached a copy of the Ebay phishing scam to your post, you helped spread the scam and also set off a lot of automatic detection alarms on people's software and systems. This unfortunately creates additional confusion. The best procedure is to report the proble

CaveTex: Re:Katrina Volunteers

I know that Cavetex has hosted many discussions of interest that weren't specifically related to Caving, but this debate seems uniquely non-productive. There are a quarter million Katrina refugees in Texas already and more on the way. Anyone in any major or mid-sized Texas city now has the

CaveTex: Re: RSS

RSS is a file format that is used to automatically update subscribers when new information is posted to a web site or news blog. You should only receive RSS notifications when you have intentionally subscribed, but perhaps Worldwide Caving News subscribed you automatically, or you recently

RE: CaveTex: OT: More help needed for animal hurricane orphans!!

The debate I was responding to came before your post, and was about whether Texans should get in their cars and drive into the disaster areas on their own, with a general intention of helping. Some said this was practical, others argued that it is impractical. I said that there are already wa

Re: CaveTex: geographic names lists

An interesting experiment: On the query page, for "feature name" enter the word "ni**er." (in this message I have replaced the letter g with stars to prevent automatic email filtering.) Select state: Mississippi. No results returned, although there are many features in Mississippi that used

CaveTex: GIS follow -up

k has been reviewed in the New York Times and on both public and network TV. A word search at Amazon will easily find this book. 4. None of this will stop hot feelings but again, please reply to me personally not to Cavetex, I will read your post. Edward Sevcik University of Texas School of I

CaveTex: further apology

Dear All -- I have re-read the messages I received and thought about them. I appreciate your feeling that the content of my message was inapprporiate. I was incautious and hasty and I should have thought more deeply about the variety of people who use Cavetex, before I sent it. I have been