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  1. Haversack

    Monetary Slang

    It goes the other way around too. "California Banknotes" was the name given to dried cattle hides back in the early 19th C. Prior to the Gold Rush, California's main export was hides from all the Ranchos. Their main trading partner was the shoe industry of New England. The trade was illegal...
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    Steampunk, Dieselpunk, etc.

    I would second Chanfan's endorsement of the Foglio's _Girl Genius_ comic for the look, plot, and humour. Mad Scientists, airships, and Mitteleuropa. For well-made modern clothing which would not be out of place in such a setting, there is a sub-set of traditional Germanic fashion known as...
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    Historic Estates

    Well that was odd... I didn't know that typing l-o-l resulted in an icon. Apology for the illegibility. Haversack.
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    Historic Estates

    think I can provide you some: The Filoli Estate Woodside, CA The house was designed by Willis Polk with fantastic gardens for the Bourne family. Their wealth came from the Empire Mine in Grass Valley. http://www.filoli.org/ The Empire Mine State Historic Park Grass Valley, CA This...
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    A Lot o' Mottos: What are your words to live by?

    "Any plan in which you lose you hat is a Bad Plan!" Haversack
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    Rain Hats

    What I use for my "bucketing-down" rain hat is Filson's Packer Hat. I have it in heavy wool, (not felt), for those now too few cold wet days, (and from living in Oregon), and in their Tin Cloth, an oiled cotton, for the now more common warm rains. Being true hats, they do a good job in...
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    What Is There Left To Invent?

    The social consequences of inventions is a topic which has always fascinated me. Consider the effect the automobile has had on our cities and landscape. One hypothetical device that would open an entire warehouse of canned worms would be Time Televison. Not the future. Only the past. Just...
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    What Is There Left To Invent?

    A couple of other problems with cheap, wide-spread use of teleportation has been explored in a variety of short story science fiction. Larry Niven wrote _Flash Crowd_ back in 1973. When some event happened, thousands of people would port in to view, gawk, and rubberneck. It eventually...
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    'distressed' jeans...

    I was amused when the slashed pants look appeared. Who would have thought that a look first made famous by a bunch of ditch-spawned, nails mercenaries would reappear 500 years later? "Hai Landsknecht! Leben ist nicht aber Krieg und Schreck." Haversack.
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    how did people back in the old days stay so thin and lean?

    I definitely agree that much greater physical activity and smaller portions on a day-to-day basis were largely the cause of the thinness of the previous generations. However, if we are talking about the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, people actually ate a fair amount of processed food. Fresh fruits and...
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    What Are You Reading

    I've just finished with _Lost Voices of the Edwardians_ by Max Arthur. This is a book of interviews and annecdotes from people who lived in England in the years 1901-1910. It is broken up into chapters such as Childhood, Making a Living, Politics, Daily Life, etc. The people who speak in it...
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    Makeshift submarine found in East River

    I wonder if they watched the Sinatra movie, _Assault on a Queen_ too many times. Haversack.
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    Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo

    Growing up on the West Coast of the US, I always heard stories about "tunnels under Chinatown". It didn't matter what town it was, the stories all concerned the local Chinese settlement. (And just about every town that had diggings or the railroad had a Chinese settlement.) These stories were...
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    Knives and forks

    Growing up, I was always a very slow eater and followed the US method of knife and fork work. When I was stationed in Germany, I endevored to blend in when eating on the economy and taught myself the German/Continental method. It took and has become my default. One big difference I found is...
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    Knives and forks

    Then there is the British school of practice that uses mashed potatos as a mortar for attaching peas to the back of the fork... Haversack.
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    The most important meal of the day!

    Well, I get up at 5 AM in order to allow myself a somewhat leisurely breakfast. After a couple of days of oatmeal and strawberries, today I made myself a more substantial breakfast. Two mini-omlettes - One with gouda and cherry tomatos from the garden, and one with garlic jack cheese and more...
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    Big Business sinks lower and lower

    Feng_Li said: "That sounds like the premise for a B SciFi/Cyberpunk movie..." Well, Heinlein's first short story involved the life insurance industry killing off a guy who invented a device that predicted the date of an individual's death. And, Spider Robinson once wrote a short story...
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    Uninvited guests

    It depends on the critter and the circumstances. Crane files I leave alone. They are harmless and don't have long to live anyway. Mosquitos and houseflies get swatted outright. Ditto any moth or small beetle. (These require a more systemic approach as they tend to be harbored in the pantry...
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    Valkyrie

    Get the mannekin out of the way in that photo. I want to see more of Tante Ju. Haversack.
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    does it feel a little creepy wearing a dead person's clothing?

    I've come across a related behavior among many of the aerospace and electronic engineers who work in Silicon Valley, (pre-Web). They refuse to live in a house that someone else has lived in. Its not so much a reaction to "people having died there" but is instead is against the idea that...

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