My buddy had that happen until he got a cone for his, it doesn't block the signal but does block the weather stuff from affecting it. This page will give you an idea of what I mean:
I have had satellite dishes here for over 30 years now and I have been thinking about doing that every winter but as an old geezer/mad scientist I also like to save money so this summer I moved the lil DishNetwork HD dish closer to the front porch so I can now toss water on it to get rid of the snow (some winters we only get a couple inches and others several feet).....back in the old days it would take lots of snow to mess with my 10ft dish but these lil ones even get the signal blocked by the falling snow!
But if I show the wife those pics she would probably make one for us
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Well you may not have got that Nobel Prize for your research of toe in the tub black hole faucet but you are an artist with a keyboard and a mouse here
Oh and thanks for the suit comment........as much as it cost me the day before it better look nice!
And now Mens Wearhouse emails me twice a day
And yes that is about all the traveling I do these days (ok she does take me on a monthly shopping trip so I can push the cart and load/unload the car)
But when you live on the NE edge of the Olympic National Park it is a 15 mile round trip just to pick up those bills I get in the mail .......and I only drive a few of my old machines on a sunny day since they are spoiled and retired.
And if I wasn't home all the wild birds and deer and other critters would starve......or try to find a neighbor crazy enough to buy 200lbs of sugar just for the hummingbirds (they eat like flying piglets when it is snowing here)
And the hundreds of pounds of sunflower seeds to the other birds.
This is their favorite feeder in the winter (they have 2 others too)
11 of the girls eat at the same time since they have to all show up together so Mr Hummingbird can't chase them away when it is time to eat.
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Bill Skookum Marine ? Interesting ! If I remember correctly, Skookum is a Native American word roughly equating to 'Bigfoot' or Sasquatch !
I know this of course from watching 'In Search Of' with Leonard Nimoy )
Yes Bill they tend to name things after the Natives here in the Great NW along with all the casinos
Well you may not have got that Nobel Prize for your research
At the moment she appears to have the "No Bell" prize as one of that ilk has apparently gone missing. All will be revealed later, so tune in folks. And now a word from our sponsor.
Anytime Magic, a homemade one should work just as well, maybe even better!
As for me and Panama:
The footage we have of Mikey (the yellow flashing dot) suggests he never even got to Panama and instead has been spending his time showing off in front of a bunch of smurfs...
I can tell you I have learned to dislike flying!! My first airplane flight was when I was less than a week old, I flew from Detroit, Michigan to Tripoli in Africa!! My dad was in the Air Force and got stationed there, so off I went. I was okay with flying until the TSA made all the changes, necessary or not can be argued somewhere else, until then flying was fun and I had no problems. This last flight was short, DC to Fort Lauderdale, FLorida and back and surprisingly Jet Blue made it a pretty good flight! The ship went into the Panama Canal, going thru the first lock, where I then I got onto a smaller boat and thru the rest of the lock system, passing Manuel Noreiga's place of imprisonment on the way to the Pacific Ocean. The prison was an American one until Jimmy Carter gave the whole Canal Zone to Panama for them to control, that too can be discussed elsewhere as to whether it was a good idea or not. In the transfer Panama got the Prison too and when Noreiga was done in the US prison system he went to Panama to live out his life in a red roofed building with NO view of the Canal! He is jailed for life with NO possibility of EVER leaving, due to him robbing the Country blind while he was in charge!
Without ever doing the smaller boat ride I never would have known Manuel Noriega was in a red roofed building inside an old American Prison in Panama. As for seeing Noreiga, the guide said he is NOT allowed ANY visitors and even his lawyers, free ones now as his money was long ago taken away, only get once quarterly visits, IF they want to go see him. If they skip a visit they must wait until the next scheduled date to see him. WHY they would want to see him is not for this thread either. The guide said that there are currently NO other prisoners in that Prison, just Noriega. He said it was security purposes and Noreiga was NOT allowed out of his little building..EVER!! If he needs medical attention they are called from outside the prison and come to him. The guide said he did have a tv and was comfortable in his roughly 20 foot by 20 foot building.
Driving to work down the road past a vineyard this morning. A section of fence was down. All the grapes had got out. This often happens near harvest time - they know what happens next - but this was a big escape. Looks like most went north into the hills. I'll keep you posted as the reports come in.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Well you may not have got that Nobel Prize for your research
At the moment she appears to have the "No Bell" prize as one of that ilk has apparently gone missing. All will be revealed later, so tune in folks. And now a word from our sponsor.
That looks like a Skookum boat but that website is not actually *Skookum Marine that built all those boats of the past.
It started in the 1960's by my wifes Dad and was left to her when he passed away in the early 80's (as did her Mom) and they were all made in Port Townsend WA
No new ones have been built the last 30 years.
But they are all over the world still sailing (usually 53 footers) and the biggest was the 72'
That's a nice craft. I've always liked sailing boats. At the marina in Robe recently there was a host of beautiful craft. Most were quite ocean worthy. Next to them were more than a few professional fishing boats with all the kit - radar, sonar, where-are-the-fishar etc. Robe has a very sheltered area behind a breakwater pier and then through a brief channel to the moorings. Big bucks of course.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Ok.. so I had to keep an appointment. It really didn't feel like I was out that long.
WHAT HAPPENED ?!?!
I come back and start reading the thread and it's like an early episode of Ren & Stimpy (Space Madness to be precise).
Everyone has gone completely off their collective nut. Just trying to read through all of this was...
...okay, okay, I was really looking mostly at the pictures and I STILL think everyone here has lost it, found it, lost it again, and forgotten what it was they may have had so began collecting imaginary butterflies.
Grapes escaping from fields??? I mean, this started-off as a nice thread about ordinary, simple things, like sheep and elephants and theoretical physicists, and now I'm having flashbacks to some of those early sixties movies with the inexplicable psychedelic sequence that does not have anything to-do with the plot... or anything else! (Why am I seeing James Coburn in a tie-dyed silk shirt and remembering something about Woody Allen with multi-colored hiccups)
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE ALL DONE! Do you people understand and accept your responsibilities, here?
I've been set back forty plus years and I know that must be true because my face is starting to break out. My eyes haven't been this red since, well...nevermind that... let's just say my eyes have never been this red.
Just reading through this thread is enough to make a guy have a break with reality and when you look at the illustrations it's, it's, it's like trying to read a Phillip K Dick novel that he wrote on acid, while you're on acid.
It makes a kind of sense... and you just know it shouldn't.
RE: My buddy had that
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Nice link Mikey
I have had satellite dishes here for over 30 years now and I have been thinking about doing that every winter but as an old geezer/mad scientist I also like to save money so this summer I moved the lil DishNetwork HD dish closer to the front porch so I can now toss water on it to get rid of the snow (some winters we only get a couple inches and others several feet).....back in the old days it would take lots of snow to mess with my 10ft dish but these lil ones even get the signal blocked by the falling snow!
But if I show the wife those pics she would probably make one for us
Well you may not have got that Nobel Prize for your research of toe in the tub black hole faucet but you are an artist with a keyboard and a mouse here
Oh and thanks for the suit comment........as much as it cost me the day before it better look nice!
And now Mens Wearhouse emails me twice a day
And yes that is about all the traveling I do these days (ok she does take me on a monthly shopping trip so I can push the cart and load/unload the car)
But when you live on the NE edge of the Olympic National Park it is a 15 mile round trip just to pick up those bills I get in the mail .......and I only drive a few of my old machines on a sunny day since they are spoiled and retired.
And if I wasn't home all the wild birds and deer and other critters would starve......or try to find a neighbor crazy enough to buy 200lbs of sugar just for the hummingbirds (they eat like flying piglets when it is snowing here)
And the hundreds of pounds of sunflower seeds to the other birds.
This is their favorite feeder in the winter (they have 2 others too)
11 of the girls eat at the same time since they have to all show up together so Mr Hummingbird can't chase them away when it is time to eat.
Yes Bill they tend to name things after the Natives here in the Great NW along with all the casinos
RE: Good afternoon
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Nice Job there Scott !
Well, I've got two movies here to watch )
Indiana Jones - and the last Crusade.
and - Star Trek - Into Darkness.
Got them both at China Mart (wal mart) for $4 dollars each.
I may have to go back up there tomorrow and dig through their pile
and see if they have any other good ones )
Bill
Right now I am watching the
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Right now I am watching the original first episode of Lost In Space
.........goodnight
RE: Well you may not have
)
At the moment she appears to have the "No Bell" prize as one of that ilk has apparently gone missing. All will be revealed later, so tune in folks. And now a word from our sponsor.
http://www.skookummarine.com/aboutus.asp
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Anytime Magic, a homemade one
)
Anytime Magic, a homemade one should work just as well, maybe even better!
As for me and Panama:
The footage we have of Mikey (the yellow flashing dot) suggests he never even got to Panama and instead has been spending his time showing off in front of a bunch of smurfs...
I can tell you I have learned to dislike flying!! My first airplane flight was when I was less than a week old, I flew from Detroit, Michigan to Tripoli in Africa!! My dad was in the Air Force and got stationed there, so off I went. I was okay with flying until the TSA made all the changes, necessary or not can be argued somewhere else, until then flying was fun and I had no problems. This last flight was short, DC to Fort Lauderdale, FLorida and back and surprisingly Jet Blue made it a pretty good flight! The ship went into the Panama Canal, going thru the first lock, where I then I got onto a smaller boat and thru the rest of the lock system, passing Manuel Noreiga's place of imprisonment on the way to the Pacific Ocean. The prison was an American one until Jimmy Carter gave the whole Canal Zone to Panama for them to control, that too can be discussed elsewhere as to whether it was a good idea or not. In the transfer Panama got the Prison too and when Noreiga was done in the US prison system he went to Panama to live out his life in a red roofed building with NO view of the Canal! He is jailed for life with NO possibility of EVER leaving, due to him robbing the Country blind while he was in charge!
Without ever doing the smaller boat ride I never would have known Manuel Noriega was in a red roofed building inside an old American Prison in Panama. As for seeing Noreiga, the guide said he is NOT allowed ANY visitors and even his lawyers, free ones now as his money was long ago taken away, only get once quarterly visits, IF they want to go see him. If they skip a visit they must wait until the next scheduled date to see him. WHY they would want to see him is not for this thread either. The guide said that there are currently NO other prisoners in that Prison, just Noriega. He said it was security purposes and Noreiga was NOT allowed out of his little building..EVER!! If he needs medical attention they are called from outside the prison and come to him. The guide said he did have a tv and was comfortable in his roughly 20 foot by 20 foot building.
Driving to work down the road
)
Driving to work down the road past a vineyard this morning. A section of fence was down. All the grapes had got out. This often happens near harvest time - they know what happens next - but this was a big escape. Looks like most went north into the hills. I'll keep you posted as the reports come in.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: Well you may not
)
That looks like a Skookum boat but that website is not actually *Skookum Marine that built all those boats of the past.
It started in the 1960's by my wifes Dad and was left to her when he passed away in the early 80's (as did her Mom) and they were all made in Port Townsend WA
No new ones have been built the last 30 years.
But they are all over the world still sailing (usually 53 footers) and the biggest was the 72'
That's a nice craft. I've
)
That's a nice craft. I've always liked sailing boats. At the marina in Robe recently there was a host of beautiful craft. Most were quite ocean worthy. Next to them were more than a few professional fishing boats with all the kit - radar, sonar, where-are-the-fishar etc. Robe has a very sheltered area behind a breakwater pier and then through a brief channel to the moorings. Big bucks of course.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Ok.. so I had to keep an
)
Ok.. so I had to keep an appointment. It really didn't feel like I was out that long.
WHAT HAPPENED ?!?!
I come back and start reading the thread and it's like an early episode of Ren & Stimpy (Space Madness to be precise).
Everyone has gone completely off their collective nut. Just trying to read through all of this was...
...okay, okay, I was really looking mostly at the pictures and I STILL think everyone here has lost it, found it, lost it again, and forgotten what it was they may have had so began collecting imaginary butterflies.
Grapes escaping from fields??? I mean, this started-off as a nice thread about ordinary, simple things, like sheep and elephants and theoretical physicists, and now I'm having flashbacks to some of those early sixties movies with the inexplicable psychedelic sequence that does not have anything to-do with the plot... or anything else! (Why am I seeing James Coburn in a tie-dyed silk shirt and remembering something about Woody Allen with multi-colored hiccups)
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE ALL DONE! Do you people understand and accept your responsibilities, here?
I've been set back forty plus years and I know that must be true because my face is starting to break out. My eyes haven't been this red since, well...nevermind that... let's just say my eyes have never been this red.
Just reading through this thread is enough to make a guy have a break with reality and when you look at the illustrations it's, it's, it's like trying to read a Phillip K Dick novel that he wrote on acid, while you're on acid.
It makes a kind of sense... and you just know it shouldn't.
Ah yes tbret The Presidents
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Ah yes tbret The Presidents Analyst is a classic especially when you were 12 years old when you first saw it,and never forget it.
Coburn is one of the greatest and most of them are gone now.
It has been about 10 years since I have seen it.
(see many of us are mad scientist/geezers)
But I do watch this one a few times every year on the classic westerns channel
(I should put that on the gate at the end of my driveway now that I think about this)