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post #4471 of 4983
3/11/09 at 7:42pm

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Holy heck. It's now 8:40 PM and there's still twilight in the west.
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post #4472 of 4983
3/12/09 at 6:28am
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The things that become more and more important to us as we continue to celebrate birthdays...


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post #4473 of 4983
3/13/09 at 6:06pm

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Holy heck - the "mobile" forum doesn't get much traffic.

I pulled the hardtop off the Miata this afternoon and went for a drive out in southern Canyon County. That last cold snap is over. IIUC spring is truly here.
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post #4474 of 4983
3/14/09 at 7:42pm
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Cees: The Netherlands baseball team in the World Baseball classic has certainly made baseball fans (and the entire baseball community, for that matter) stand up and take notice. To twice beat the vaunted team from the Dominican Republic is an awesome accomplishment.

How much notice has it received in The Netherlands itself? Does the nation much care about baseball?
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post #4475 of 4983
3/14/09 at 7:59pm
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart T 2008

Dodes'ka-Den 1970

Peter Ustinov QV 1951

VM TR 1953 Life Magazine - CS private screening

Cary Elwes & Robin Wright Penn TPB 1987
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post #4476 of 4983
3/17/09 at 2:00am

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Baseball? Baseball, you said?

Most people are interested in a little game called soccer (we say the equivalent of: "football").




Ha, ha, yes it was noticed, even after the 9-3 defeat by the American team. Oh well, it's you guy's sport.

We weren't really upside down or on our heads or out of our minds, like our ambassador in the US said in a TV program apparently. But there were big head-lines in the sport sections of newspapers and ample attention in sports programs on TV.

This is a surprisingly well-balanced and powerful team.

(In Dutch the name of the game is "Honkbal". "Honk" being a slightly older word for "home" or "base": generally a place of your own you operate from or be at your leisure, not being your real home.
It's only used nowadays in contexts like - and considered a bit cheesy then - "youth home", jeugdhonk, for a provision for teenagers in a specific neighbourhood.
And in Honkbal).


Cees
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post #4477 of 4983
3/17/09 at 3:06am

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How odd. "Honk's" is the name of a chain of local "dollar stores" around here. Maybe it's owned by some Dutch guy who views it as a store for items for the home.

Would Honkbal be played by Goose Gossage?
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post #4478 of 4983
3/17/09 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by Cees Alons
This is a surprisingly well-balanced and powerful team.

You've just said a mouthful. Teams in the US will spend like crazy on one superstar or another...only to have an unbalanced team with serious deficits in imprtant areas and then wonder why their high-paid star cannot carry the rest of the team on his back.

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Would Honkbal be played by Goose Gossage?

Maybe Whitey Ford...
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post #4479 of 4983
3/17/09 at 11:32am

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Mike,

Your thread now has 150 pages (if you group them 30 posts/page, that is).


Cees
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post #4480 of 4983
3/17/09 at 2:26pm
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Crazy, ain't it.

All these pictures from movies, etc...making their way into the RoundUp.
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post #4481 of 4983
3/19/09 at 10:42am

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Spring tomorrow.
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post #4482 of 4983
3/19/09 at 10:58am
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Just in the nick of time. For some reason it seemed like it would never get here this year.

My wife took some pictures in our tiny garden alongside the house. Some daffodils are up:



As are the tulips...munched on by the neighbor's malicious cats:

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post #4483 of 4983
3/20/09 at 1:45pm
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Jean-Pierre Léaud 400B 1959

SC & Jill Masterson G 1964


DC & Olga Kurylenko QoS 2008

AJ AMH 2007

Bolt 2008
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post #4484 of 4983
3/21/09 at 1:55pm
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Lloyd Haynes, Karen Valentine, Denise Nicholas, Mike Constantine R222 1969
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post #4485 of 4983
3/22/09 at 1:49am

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And next week we thank heaven for little girls.



In 2.35:1. The BRD image sure makes the "tree" he's leaning against look like an MGM studio lot prop.
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post #4486 of 4983
3/22/09 at 5:04pm

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Did you ever hear my story about the cats being pasta thieves?

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post #4487 of 4983
3/24/09 at 7:19am

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Quote:
Although Constitution and Victory never went yardarm-to-yardarm, which [Cmdr.] Bullard notes was lucky for "Old Ironsides," they did come within sight of each other off the northern coast of Africa in the early 19th century. Lord Horatio Nelson, then aboard Victory, is credited with saying "[I see] in the handling of those trans-Atlantic ships a nucleus of trouble for the navy of Great Britain."
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post #4488 of 4983
3/26/09 at 4:46pm

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By the way, it's been too long between bucket posts.

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post #4489 of 4983
3/26/09 at 8:36pm
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Equal time...

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post #4490 of 4983
3/27/09 at 12:02am

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OK wyse guys...

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post #4491 of 4983
3/27/09 at 12:08am

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This is really odd. I just upgraded from IE7 to IE8, and it now treats photos here at HTF differently. With IE7, all photos here appear smaller and left-shifted, and move to the center and enlarge when you move over them with the cursor that's a magnifying glass with a + inside, and then click. Now with IE8 the photos start out being 'native size' and just move over.
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post #4492 of 4983
3/27/09 at 6:46am
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Firefox acts the former.

Maybe you want to ask Parker about the latter.
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post #4493 of 4983
3/28/09 at 12:28am

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Glad I'm not in Fargo. That's awful....flooding and freezing at the same time. It's really dangerous in many ways to live in the plains. When a river gets too full, there's nowhere for the water to go but sideways, so areas up to, say, 10 miles away end up under water. I live between two big rivers - the Boise and the Snake - but both are at the bottom of canyons. The Snake in particular is 800 feet down from the canyon rim.
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post #4494 of 4983
3/28/09 at 5:03pm
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Some of those pictures have been amazing...

This is Briarwood, North Dakota:



This is Fargo:

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post #4495 of 4983
3/28/09 at 5:36pm

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I really think what hits home the most is the combination of ice/snow and floods simultaneously. That's got to be miserable. At least when New Orleans got flooded the water was at room temperature.
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post #4496 of 4983
3/28/09 at 6:05pm

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So Mike, have you ever cuddled up with a lion?

In 1976 I got to have a bootleg lion cub sit in my lap and cuddle.
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post #4497 of 4983
3/28/09 at 8:28pm
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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls
In 1976 I got to have a bootleg lion cub sit in my lap and cuddle.

Ah...those long-ago and carefree 1970s...

But be careful, any more talk about bootlegs and Cees will come in with the pruning shears!

That must've been fun (and adorable)!
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post #4498 of 4983
3/28/09 at 8:38pm

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
Some of those pictures have been amazing...

This is Briarwood, North Dakota:



This is Fargo:

Yep, agree with that one. Thanks for sharing everyone.
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post #4499 of 4983
3/28/09 at 8:48pm
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MM SP 1958

Dev Patel & Anil Kapoor SM 2008

WS & Rosario Dawson SP 2008

OW JA & friend M&M 2008

HW TM 1999
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post #4500 of 4983
3/29/09 at 12:38am

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Mt. Redoubt eruption from space.


Interesting list to consider:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tes_of_America

Only one volcano on the list is east of the Mississippi, so I guess you're safe Mike. Nothing's gone off around here for a long time, but we do abut the world's largest "active" volcano at Yellowstone. Yellowstone last erupted in 13,000 BC which isn't that long ago for a volcano. A major eruption there could be a major extinction event worldwide.

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The last full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano, the Lava Creek eruption which happened approximately 640,000 years ago[14], ejected approximately 240 cubic miles (1000 cubic kilometres) of rock and dust into the sky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_caldera Compare this to the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa which ejected approximately 21 cubic kilometres (5.0 cu mi) of rock, ash, and pumice. Fifty times bigger than Krakatoa.

It does give one pause though. Everywhere around here is covered with chunks of basalt or maybe ryholite. Lots of active hot springs. We had a magnitude 7.3 earthquake under Mt. Borah in 1983.

Oh here's a good map: the progression of the Yellowstone hotspot from Owyhee county south of me.

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