Sometimes, we like to go to restaurants for the halibut.......................other times, we truly have a reason for going............................
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Sometimes, we like to go to restaurants for the halibut.......................other times, we truly have a reason for going............................
I cn veraphi thay donutt.
Sometimes when we're in Juneau we go to the King Crab shack... gotta crack them yourselves but they ar quite delicious dipped in clarified butter... DISCLAIMER: I don't know these people!
Can you clarify that for me?
Sometimes when we're in Juneau we go to the King Crab shack... gotta crack them yourselves but they ar quite delicious dipped in clarified butter...
Can you clarify that for me?
I dunno, @Morrighan . But part of my job 40 hours a week is answering dozens of emails from users and I believe all the typing has kept my fingers limber. I can play an entire evening and my hands don't get fatigued. Now my feet back and shoulders-- that's another story....
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I dunno, @Morrighan . But part of my job 40 hours a week is answering dozens of emails from users and I believe all the typing has kept my fingers limber. I can play an entire evening and my hands don't get fatigued. Now my feet back and shoulders-- that's another story....
Both are exercises in finger independenceo
Can't even recall the last time I had king crab. Sign me up! Just finished making a cucumber salad for dinner. Saturday was a cucumber from this garden, tonight's repeat is with two certified organic cukes from the growers' market, and organic cilantro, garlic and jalapenos.
I once wrote a third party word processor for a station that Zerox marketed as a replacement for the typewriter. No mouse. I used emacs commands or arrow keys to move the cursor around. The secretaries that used it caught on fast. It was in service for many years.
It was the beginning of the end of the typing pool. Eventually people created their own documents on their desktops. Filing clerks also started their decline. Everything changed.
It was the beginning of the end of the typing pool. Eventually people created their own documents on their desktops. Filing clerks also started their decline. Everything changed.
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The card index at the library is gone, along with the librarians who knew the stacks backwards and forwards to Sunday. Now people check out videos.
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Technical journals are published online. Many are not free. At one time, when you published a paper, you'd get written reprint requests. The journal would often, not always, give you a supply of high quality copies of the article to fullfill these requests. They would be mailed to all corners of the earth.
Many libraries are now online. I dislike reading technical material online. You need to be able to refer back, make notes. The material often isn't easy to read and digest.
I used to go to the library to search for papers online. You couldn't do it on your own. You booked time with a special librarian who would sit with you and perform searches of databases on a mainframe. They would add or subtract keywords to narrow down a list of articles. You could get abstracts but had to request papers via interlibrary loans if they didn't have the journal or conference proceedings on site. If you found a good paper, the references at the end of the paper would open further doors. All very cumbersome and time consuming.
Then there was material on microfiche. The quality was often bad.
Many libraries are closing down or consolidating. Their days are numbered.
I very much like the concept of Lulu, an evelution in publishing. Have bought many books from them. You order, they print and bind the book for you. Anyone can be an author without being signed to a publishing contract.
Online Self Publishing Book & eBook Company - Lulu.
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To de-slime okra (some say, to make it edible): dredge slices in egg, then cornmeal, and fry golden-crisp in bacon fat. Of course your doctor may not agree
Haven't had any fried okra for quite some time. My favorite okra is pickled. I never even heard of such until I was in my late twenties while 'working the back door' for a local grocery store. The Pepsi route guy, who always had great jokes, asked me if I had ever tried it. I sought some out and discovered it's deliciousness.
Haven't had any fried okra for quite some time. My favorite okra is pickled. I never even heard of such until I was in my late twenties while 'working the back door' for a local grocery store. The Pepsi route guy, who always had great jokes, asked me if I had ever tried it. I sought some out and discovered it's deliciousness.
Like sauerkraut, nature’s digestive broom?
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Certain I am able to devise a Vitamin M fortified pickling brine to market as Nature's Digestive Leaf Blower.
Man, I loved the 13 I had in my first FL COE....and they'd likely be equally lost if you started explaining the difference between splitting gears with a Road Ranger 13 speed versus simply selecting high/low range with the 9 or 10 speed, and why you don't push the clutch all the way in to shift unless you're at a complete stop (or you just want to destroy the clutch brake).
Oh yeah, and very few people really understand the relationship between "spring brakes" and "air brakes" and the two way air valve that releases the brakes (from spring pressure) and then directs air to operate them when needed. It's amazing how we can feel totally lost in some areas and assume what we know is just common knowledge when it would be totally baffling to others.
I'm lost in this conversation.....
Update to this: It's an app called Ireal tunes. Costs a few bucks as he put it.
Well, not in reverse! I use one finger(right hand)to type; one finger(left hand) to shift.
One time in the early 2000's I had a dream of inventing mouspad material paper coffee cup sleeves, customized with my Alaskaboy logo on it. I told my father in law, who is a professional glass half empty guy, and when we went to Salem Oregon, he promptly took me to a grocery cart full of mousepad sleeves, all for 25 cents! I was dejected until I returned to Sitka and told my then boss. He said, "don't be depressed that it was already done, be happy that someone verified you had a good idea." I'm still looking for my next million dollar idea!
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Nice rig! My indoctrination to the big stuff was an Astro 95 with a Detroit 8V-71 318 and Roadranger 10 speed. I really loved the way those DD 2-cycles sounded, but they didn't feel like the most powerful engines out there. It was a fond part of my younger days when I was working as a mechanic and going to school.
Here's what I spent the evening doing.. singing online karaoke. It's fun. I have a very nice cheap mixer, mic, and headphones and it takes me away to another place...
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Try some of this Karaoke, Will, something new and different, possibly.
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