Please bare with me here, as I am going completely stir-crazy from
work problems ( I was on unexpected furlough for the past 5 days ),
Just delete post please, if you don't want to hear my long-winded rants.
The video below shows some Canadian cavers in a wet cave
( presumably cold ). I have only skimmed thru it, but it looks
interesting. The story was in the news last month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSou4WbfXbk
In the video clip below there is a very interesting animation
of a cave-diver in video game.
Please skip to 14:55 in video and watch to 15:59, and please mute the sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1w4QZCQI
The Ob*ma's recently got a private tour of Carlsbad Caverns, and I can
not find one
decent photo of them in the cave, but here are 2 that they released to
the public:
http://img2-2.timeinc.net/people/i/2016/news/160627/carlsbad-caverns-800.jpg
http://www.heraldnet.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DH&Date=20160618&Category=NEWS02&ArtNo=160619187&Ref=AR&MaxW=800&MaxH=600&q=100
I am not sure what this story is below, or if it is a new news story,
but it is about a cave in Missouri that
has a pizza restaurant on top of it:
http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/cave-gang-pizza-opens-atop-legendary-carthage-cavern/article_c32264ad-3471-52e6-b99c-bded91fbdff5.html
Meramec Caverns has allegedly reopened after a few months of closure
for environmental reasons:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/meramec-caverns-reopens/239230378
Watch the video below from 2:16 to 4:22 about a sea cave with a scenic skylight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEFsQVMlRBI
It is just 20 days away until official activities start at NSS Convention:
http://nss2016.caves.org/trips/pre_alpine.php
There are probably numerous similar things on the web that are interesting, but
that was all I found from a brief search.
Nothing cave related below, just rants:
There seems to be a lot of gloom and doom in the news recently, more
so than usual. We seem to have a
toxic political climate worldwide. The cost of living and high rate
of crime seems to be problems here that
no candidate is willing to talk about. There is some good news
going on not being covered well by the media. The plane, "Solar
Impulse 2," is about to conclude a fascinating journey.
Smartphones will be in intense competition this fall to produce the
next upgrade of phones. Will it be the iPhone 7 or the HTC 10, or
something else ? As I mentioned in a previous post, I am excited
about the upcoming release of Linux Mint, maybe later this summer. I
am excited about any future improvements in caver headlamps, and look
forward to getting one. There are other positive things
going on to, like achievements by SpaceX: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex
Some people think we can somehow go back to a time to when things were
better. All I can think of to do
is purchase better locks for the doors on my house, and avoid going to
places where I might get mugged.
Will the U.K. leaving the E.U. have any negative effect on the food
quality at the 2017 TSA Convention ?
I turn 52 this weekend. I celebrated my birthday at L'auberge Casino
in Lake Charles. It was the first
time I have ever seriously gambled, and left with nothing but a coupon
for a free birthday cupcake, but I did have
fun for 10 minutes. They seem to purposely let you win when you
first walk in the door to get your adrenaline
flowing, and then they meticulously take it all back, and more. I
do not know a lot of cavers that are 52. They
seem to be either 60ish or 40ish or 30ish. I do not consider myself
a baby-boomer, because my parents
were baby-boomers. I was born in south Dallas, and my parents were
teenagers. My parents, and my grandparents were born in Texas, 2 or
3 of my great-grandparents were born in Texas, the rest near Texas, so
I tend to lean towards the mindset of typical native Texans. If any
of you are into genealogy, surnames in my immediate family are
Hutto, Daugherty, Maroney, Baumgardner, Wynn, Kilpatrick, Spurlock and
Locklear ( not BockBeer ). I feel most
of us are all distantly related somehow if you go back far enough.
I need to sell a 1998 Toyota Camry. The motor and transmission will
get you where you need to go, but the
rest of the car has fallen apart. Has 296,000 miles. The only
way that I could drive to Ely on July 15th would be to
drive this Camry. But that seems so unrealistic at the moment. I
drove it to the Howdy Party last year.
My daughter, who I nicknamed, CavePearl, is starting middle school
this fall. Time just seems to be moving
to fast when it comes to that topic.
David Locklear
dlocklea...@gmail.com
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