First it was too warm, then it is to chilly.
While I don't agree with some of what's been posted here in the past, but
neither do I agree with throwing a wet blanket on the interesting
socializing that goes on here.
It's too bad. I'll just find somewhere else to hang out, I guess.
George
On
A few billion years from now, when all humans are long extinct, and robots
rule, what will they be saying about their creation? ;)
Don't assume they'll remember us. It's possible they could become so
advanced that they see us as irrelevant.
George
On 1/11/08, dirt...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> Th
Y'all be a lot happier when y'all finally realize y'all are just figments of
my imagination.
George
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/
Ben has some interesting points. The Flash introduction is kind of funny,
but the supertrailer of the movie gets more philosophical.
George
Unless you really trust those people, save your money. It just moves the
problem to a different location. You have to control (or trust)
the endpoints of a VPN before it gives you true security.
If a third party involvement is a must, onion-routing (eg:
https://www.torproject.org/) is one way to
That's not necessary. They already know we're an "underground"
organization. ;)
George
On 12/24/07, Mixon Bill wrote:
>
>
> Meanwhile, just for amusement and to keep them on their toes, everyone
> could include the words "White House" and "bomb" in all their e-mails
> in some perfectly innocent
There's no reason to fear Google any more than any other service.
Google is at least being up-front and honest about what they're doing. We
don't know much about the other guys.
Unless you're taking insanely heroic measures to encrypt your data, most of
it is wide open to anyone with access to t
I'm sure there's a certain amount of hysteria involved, but there does seem
to be substancial evidence that lead exposure during childhood has a big
impact on their neurological development.
Apparently lead tastes sweet to children, so they're likely to ingest
harmful quantities.
I've heard that
Never in my life have I ever come across a true cinder block. They were
always made of concrete. Where I grew up (Nebraska) the "cinder" and
"concrete" names were used interchangeably for the same kind of block, but
the older generations seemed to prefer the word "cinder".
During the summers of
You know, if we just wrapped our homes in lead-based materials, we wouldn't
have to worry so much about radiation.
It's always something, though
Just to briefly merge two off-topic discussions, here are some lyrics to a
popular Dan Fogelberg song:
I hear the thunder three miles away
The Island's leaking into the bay
The poison is spreading
The demon is free
And people are running from what they can't even see
Soif you opened the side doors and drove off a cliff, could you land
safely?
Man, that's depressing.
Especially when he was only 56, and we're going to hear a lot of "Same Auld
Lang Syne" the next few weeks.
George
On 12/17/07, David Locklear wrote:
>
> Dan Fogelberg passed away today.
>
> I recall on some of my first caving road-trips around 1984, listening
> to his m
I've always wondered if it would be easier for everybody if we just merged
Mexio/US/Canada into one unified group, sort of like the EU.
That's probably just crazy talk, but it would make for a much shorter run of
fence on the southern border.
George
I'm not sure why the guy thinks he need $2,000,000 for this. I'm sure you
could do a proof-of-concept quiet cheaply. Just start working with a
prototype suit and a crash-test dummy.
With a runway and some sort of advanced personal landing gear (like straping
a skateboard to your chest) you migh
eLorian was stainless steel.
> > There was a version of the Jaguar XK150 that was aluminum. I recall that
> > my college roommate's older brother had one. The body was cast aluminum!
> >
> > I believe those aluminum bodied Jags to be rare.
> >
> >
> >
A big drawback of aluminum is its metal fatigue characteristics. You pretty
much have to expect that it's eventually going to fail, but you really don't
know when.
What I find really disturbing is that aluminum is used for airplanes. The
only reason they aren't falling out of the air more often
>Does anybody remember back in the 70
>when rich folks lived in homes like the
>Brady Bunch had?
I never got the impression that the Brady's were rich. Anway, the "house"
wasn't a very good true representation. I think the "real" house, only has
a couple of bedrooms. The way it was portrayed on
Try the Youtube version: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qF6hqN580b4
On 11/6/07, Lyndon Tiu wrote:
>
>
> Sob, sob. I tried to go to this site at work and this is what I got:
>
> Forbidden
> You were denied access because:
> Access denied by SmartFilter content category. The requested URL belongs
> t
Probably the biggest limitation to cavers might be lack of coverage in
Mexico. I haven't looked recently, but a few years ago XM coverage only
extended about 100 miles over the border. I think Canada might have more
coverage now.
Of course, you need a decent sky view, so coverage in some canyons
The two big players are Sirius and XM. They use different satellite
technology, but the companies are in the process of merging at the business
level. It looks like both hardware platforms will be supported for the
foreseeable future.
Technical aspects aside, as a conservative I prefer XM. Hipp
The tube has nothing to do with the analog/digital switchover.
Tubes are just going away because of the convenience and economics.
>From a storekeeper's perspective, just think how many flat screens you can
stock compared to similar tube screens. That's a big market motivator.
I don't remember
Has anyone been watching "Cavemen"?
They actually referred to themselves as "cavers" on the last episode.
"Bat Like Me"
http://cidutest.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/and-the-would-have-made-a-better-punchline-forty-seven-years-ago-award-goes-to/
George
On 10/10/07, Nico Escamilla wrote:
>
> Rats with Wings LMAO
>
> On 10/10/07, gi...@att.net wrote:
> >
> > ...and more.
> >
> > http://www.nsf.gov/n
Books also don't randomly garble your text while you're writing, either. ;)
George
On 9/24/07, George Nincehelser wrote:
>
> On 9/24/07, David Locklear wrote:
> >I will probably wrap them in plastic and store them away somewhere.
> >Maybe in 100 years they will be
On 9/24/07, David Locklear wrote:
>I will probably wrap them in plastic and store them away somewhere.
>Maybe in 100 years they will be collectors items. Would
>you want a 100 year old set of encyclopedias?
Yes and yes.
Printed encyclopedias from this time period are going to be rare.
Especi
>From the article:
"The holes may be openings, called skylights, in the ceilings of underground
caves".
I think this may have been discussed before, but is there such a thing as an
"aboveground" cave?
George
On 9/24/07, Minton, Mark wrote:
>
>Jerry Atkinson posted the following link:
>
I've no idea what this has to do with caving, but what's really scary is
that someone might mistake this for some kind of scholarly work.
If you've got a couple of hours to blow on something heavily based on comic
books and bad science/fantasy novels, go right ahead and watch it. However,
I think
I wouldn't recommend this at all for anything but emergency use.
AA batteries come in several different flavors. The most popular today is
"alkaline".
What is shown in this video are likely carbon-zinc chemistry. Yeah, they'll
work, but you're not going to get the same performance characterstic
Try the Texas Cave Conservancy: 512-249-CAVE
George
On 9/5/07, O'Bryan, Lisa Renee wrote:
>
>
> Hi, Im trying to get ahold of Mike Walsh regarding access to Beck Ranch
> cave
> but none of the contact information I have for him seems to be correct.
> Does
> anyone know how I can get in contact
I need to fill a part-time position here in the Austin area. I might be a
good fit for a caver.
The work entails refurbishing PC systems, taking deliveries, shipping, and
watching over our products in a dark, dingy warehouse in the northern part
of Austin.
Technical experience doesn't need to be
You keep a fainting goat with a herd of sheep. That way if the flock is
attacked by a predator, the fainting goat gets left behind to be an easy
meal, letting the rest of the flock run away.
That, in a sense, is kind of like being a scapegoatit's being sacrificed
for the good (or sins?) of th
I've no experience evaluating photos like this, but it just looks odd to me.
I think what bothers me is that shadow is so straight. Wouldn't you
expect it to be more curved?
Also, when you look at the wall, I see something that looks like a barren
rocky surface with a small impact crater.
The p
On 8/28/07, Louise Power wrote:
>
> Just consider Heisenberg's uncertainty principle which says, in simple
> terms:
>
> *Each new bit of information is gained at the cost of losing another.*
>
> What are we losing when we gain additional information about what we like
> to call "primitive culture
With the obvious problem with names, does anyone keep a registry where each
cave is assigned a unique identifier?
George
What is the -2190m in reference to? The entrance or some other reference
point?
Thanks
George
On 8/26/07, jerryat...@aol.com wrote:
>
> The deepest cave in the World became deeper (-2190m): news from
> Krubera-Voronja Cave, Arabika Massif, Western Caucasus
>
If you've played "Adventure", you'll understand.
http://brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/dhq/vol/001/2/09.html
George
I can't recall my source, but several years ago I remember looking at a scan
of a newspaper clipping (The Statesman?). Either that, or it was a clipping
from the Texas Cave Conservancy library.
Kids would go down in the cave, and then rescuers would have to pull them
out. The community considered
On 8/14/07, David Locklear wrote:
>
> I recall someone telling me there is a cave covered up underneath
> a Luby's parking lot somewhere in Austin.
I've heard it called "Dead Dog Cave" and it is supposedly underneath the
Luby's parking lot at Steck and Mopac.
George
Texascaver.com is now in my stable. Someone let it expire a few years
ago so I picked it up.
On 8/12/07, Don Cooper wrote:
>
> For how long now?
> Didn't someone in San Antonio recently give up the exact same domain
> name??
> (or was that texascaver.com ?)
> -WaV
>
>
> On 8/12/07, RD Milholli
I got a new HP laptop with Vista Business pre-installed as an evaluation
machine. 1 Gig RAM, Core 2 Duo, 2.1 GHz or so.
It's horrible. I just can't understand why a machine that should be peppy
is running like a dog.
One mistake I made was running it it 64-bit mode. For the most part it
works,
"This sentence no verb."
On 7/30/07, Bill Mixon wrote:
>
> Sentences seen in the July 2007 NSS News:
>
> "Rattlesnakes are one reason the place can be so foreboding."
>
> "We had a cave to map that required forging the river by foot."
>
> Does anybody read that stuff before it is printed? Shame!
This may not be the best way, but it works for me.
First, you have to have "Gimp" (http://gimp.org) It's not Photoshop, nearly
as good as, and it's free.
Assuming you have that, there's an elliptical selection tool. Use that to
select the area you're interested in, then copy and paste it into
Now for those who are still scratching your heads about the source of
approximately 99% of the heat on earth -
if you can't recognize a simple thing like a heat source that provides 99%
of the heat on your planet, perhaps you
might have a little trouble recognizing evolution, which plays just
Or phrased another way, why do we always seem to assume formations must grow
slowly?
Under favorable conditions, is fast growth possible?
Has anyone tried to grow "artificial" formations under controlled
conditions?
George
On 7/17/07, Fritz Holt wrote:
I am waiting for a knowledgeable geo
David Locklear said:
Do cavers carry super-glue in their cave-packs? Is DermaBond Skin Glue
something you can get without a prescription.
CA has its uses, but I've never found it to be very useful in the field.
Duct tape is just so much more versitile.
If I'm inclined to carry an emergenc
I've literally installed Google Pack on hundreds of systems without issues.
Granted, if you load *everything* and have a slow or already screwed up
machine, you're going to have problems. Things I avoid loading are
RealPlayer, Skype, and Google Desktop (which is a real pain on a slow
machine as
I am thinking about getting one, but thought I'd wait until the intial hype
had burned out (and my current cell contract expires). I might buy one
through Apple's web store, but there's a 2-3 week delivery time.
But I'd rather hold one in my hand before making a commitment.
What I'm wondering i
I think the trick is that you want something to ask as a pressure vessel,
then have a triggered nozzle on the hose. That lets the pressure build up
to the point where you can get a good steam jet going for a bit. Then you
have to stop and let the pressure build again.
Regulating the pressure ma
The recent book "The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourists's Guide' by Neil
Comins is an interesting and easy read. Most chapters start with "Journal
Entries" of some future space worker that sound an awful lot like postings
on this mailing list.
(
http://www.amazon.com/Hazards-Space-Travel-Touris
It's not so much the software, but the actual drives. It wasn't too long
ago that drives were often labled "multi-session capable" as the latest
feature.
There is quite a bit of difference between optical drives now in use.
Unless you stick to a plain vanilla feature set, you're bound to run int
Volume probably has a lot do with it. Those flash chips seem to be in
everything.
But, since bats are really mammals and not birds, they
should have been on the "unclean animals" list.
Did God not realize when creating the earth, that bats
are not birds but are really mammals and were not
related to birds in any way?
The taxonomy of the ancient Hebrews wouldn't be the same as
"Pop" is an understatement.
One of those steam jet cleaners might work. I'm not sure how you'd power
it, though.
George
On 6/26/07, Jon Cradit wrote:
The wet rocks could pop or crack due to the expanding water.
This may not give you the look or appearance you wanted.
Jon Cradit
-Or
When they fail, recovery is very difficult. Mainly because it is a serious
hardware failure.
On the other hand, they don't fail as often as portable hard drives because
there are no moving parts.
For general daily use, I find them more reliable and convienient than CD. I
wouldn't recommend the
It's kind of a silly claim for a memory stick, but I see no reason it
wouldn't survive the trip, assuming you let it dry out before trying to use
it.
George
On 6/25/07, David Locklear wrote:
There was an ad in the newspaper this weekend from
one of the electronic's stores advertising a "USB
There is no reason to Zip or otherwise encode data for the purpose of
providing a check on whether or not it is still good. There are multiple
levels of checking already in the data CD format. The basic CD format (even
for music CDs) has a lot of redundancy, error-correction, etc., and then
there
Don't rely on just the CD media.
If you really want to protect your data, wrap up all the files and folders
in an archive format like zip before putting them away.
Why? That way you'll be able to detect "bit-rot". If you do have bit-rot,
at least you'll know about and have a chance to deal wit
Scrapies.
Like I really need another reason not to eat squirrel brains.
George
On 6/22/07, Fritz Holt wrote:
No, but it is probably called mad squirrel disease. The last one I
killed was mad as hell. I hear that the disease manifests itself by
getting our fingers mixed up on the keyboard an
Rabbits are lagomorphs, not rodents.
My grandpa use to raise rabbits for eating. Apparently they were tasty
enough that he had problems with them being stolen. He rectified that by
putting a possum in one of the rabbit hutches.
You can buy rabbit at most HEB's.
George
On 6/22/07, Fritz Holt
This article is interesting. The source might be biased as it was written
by a beekeeper, but it sounds pretty rational.
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/misc/stings.htm
George
On 6/18/07, Bill Mixon wrote:
Tone's symptoms do not sound like anaphylactic shock. The most prominent
and
threaten
I second the notion of getting a few trusted medical opinions after having
so many stings at once.
It's possible that your next sting could be a real doozey, or you may have
absolutely no reaction at all.
From what I've read, some people get more sensitive with each sting, but
other less. My
Any idea what caused the bees to be so grumpy?
Could they have been Africanized?
George
On 6/17/07, Tone G wrote:
One for Winnie-the-Pooh
A True Caver Account by Tone Garot
2007 June 17
I have come across some most interesting experiences when caving or doing
caving related sports. Today
This one doesn't look much like a cave either, but it does give you a feel
for negotiating tight passages:
http://nincehelser.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=30 (the first of
a few pictures).
It's at Talking Rock Cavern near Branson, Missouri.
George
On 5/29/07, Rod Goke wrote:
Abo
Disclaimer: My family grows a lot of corn.
Corn may not be the most optimum choice for energy conversion, but right now
we have an infrastructure well suited to growing corn. We've got years of
experience on how to grow it, and we have the ability to produce lots of it.
If corn-based ethanol tu
There are actually 10. Those that understand binary, and those who don't.
On 5/23/07, Nascar Caver wrote:
There are 3 kinds of people in the world... those that can count and those
that cannot.
NCC
On 5/23/07, Duane Hummel wrote:
>
> So half the people are above average?
>
> Duane
>
Here's an interesting link on prices in other countries:
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/
George
On 5/19/07, Bill Mixon wrote:
Back some months ago, when gas prices were lower, I actually saw $1.99 a
gallon at one station. I was tempted to go in, although I would hav
Texas rat snake, I think. Non-venomous. From what I understand, round eyes
tend to mean non-venomous.
George
On 4/12/07, Scott wrote:
Python
- Original Message -
*From:* Ramon Godina Silva
*To:* Texascavers@texascavers.com
*Sent:* Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:48 AM
*Subje
On 4/10/07, addi...@caveresource.com wrote:
Mark couldn't be more correct. Google has no responsibility to provide
free
email service to anyone, and even if they do, they are not obligated to
keep it
running all the time.
Nothing is "free", Google is the equivalent of a digital drug
dealer.
SD memory cards are soon going to 8 gigabytes.
Same with Compact Flash, and USB thumb drives
are already there. Less than $80, too!
I've been using 16Gig thumb drives for the past few weeks. ($150)
They are big, but they are slo to write. (It takes me several hours
to write about
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