In the Woods
@ctphil
I want to be a Crypto Ranger, outa sight and outa danger! Celtic Skeptic The Internet thing was a mistake, sorry. Datapoint, Xerox, Wang, OpenConnect.
Road sign in South Dakota. No Cell service, GPS doesn't work. Ended up in Sturgis instead of Pierre. Forgot my trusty old Rand Mcnally atlas. Traveled all over Europe with Michelin maps, but they used to have signs that also mentioned the BIG town further down the road.
Guy tried to fly a balloon from Hangar 1 at Lakehurst to Paris and land on July 4th. www.nytimes.com/1976/07/02/a...
Spoiler alert: Powerscourt Falls isn't really a waterfall either. Some water sliding down a rocky hill.
Giant Uncle Sam in front of the Danbury, CT Railway Museum. Station was used in "Strangers on a Train".
A tugboat and barge carrying a truss for the replacement of the Tappan Zee bridge approaching the Mid-Hudson Bridge at Poughkeepsie, NY. June 2016 Below Troy the Hudson River is a tidal fjord and beautiful.
They used to be on different days at different towns, but now they are mostly Fridays and Saturdays. The selection is as good as a big supermarket. Imagine if it was normal to have market days like Europe.
Just about June and this feels good. Wind chills in low forties, raw and spritzing rain.
John Jay house in Rye, NY. View from the porch. The dark green hills in the background are across Long Island Sound.
In Elkhorn, Manitoba they have one with 1 huge bucket. prairiegatewaytourism.ca/places/elkho...
2Kb standard, expandable to 16Kb. Eventually got to 64Kb. NY Telephone Co. used them to print phone bills.
You kids today. I once taught an intro to solid state logic class where I would draw this on a "whiteboard" and then use little disk magnets painted green and red to explain how the logic worked. Years later in business meetings we had overhead projectors.
Just when I was transitioning from agnostic to atheist they pulled me back in.