ReconRat

I just looked. There were a dozen yard sales or flea markets in Columbus, advertising records or albums this last weekend. One was an estate sale. Do those first. I also searched Troy, and found nothing. That's a clue. edit: I used this: it was quicker than trying to drill down in the newspaper: http://www.yardsalesearch.com/

You do know you can get re-mastered CDs of the same stuff or better? The good ones are remixed to be stereo. They could only do that if there was a photo or a record showing the location of the instruments on the stage. I bought a few for my Dad, I ordered through amazon. I also picked up several WWII big band collections at the same time. It might not be the nostalgia of the type you're thinking of, but it's closer to the live experience of being there. edit: Also go check out Squirrel Nut Zippers. Neo Big Band. edit: I don't have much, but I have a turntable. I do have a pristine copy of the Victory at Sea double album. edit: search yard sales on weekends. The amounts of vinyl have tapered off, but you do occasionally find a batch. Make an offer to buy it all. Cheaper that way. Besides, the first dealer that gets there will buy it all.

Flower shots - DroidX I don't even know what these are.

This works well. But you need to know how to weld inside like that. I use an impact driver. Hammer type. If part is exposed, I'll cut a straight slot across with hacksaw or dremel. And use the impact driver with a slot bit. Work it left and right till it loosens. Over the years I've learned to not break them quite as often. Stop before it breaks, and hit it a bunch of times with a hammer and a mild steel or brass drift to get at it if necessary. The impacts will loosen it up a lot. You can even use a smaller deep well socket and hit that. 3 and 4 pound short sledge hammers rule. Can't live without one. Steel hardware in aluminum threads can corrode and seize (if wet). Assemble with Loctite or anti-seize.

Another radar view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MG7aOjZciY&feature=player_embedded

Caution advised. It will take a couple of weeks to clear debris. And that would be only the big pieces. All roads will have to be carefully scouted first, I'd think.

I have mixed feelings about this one. Droidx shooting straight into the setting sun and fooling around with effects: Kinda came out like an infra red/HDR mix.

I'm impressed. You all are doing really well. I have a huge background in photography, that I pretty much never use. Lately it's mostly just taking pics with the 8mpixel camera in the Droid, since it's always with me. Couple of my Canon S3 favorites: I do very little post processing, if at all. edit: yeah, I'm in a yellow-blue-green mood today...

I came home once and found a storm had blown one of mine over in the driveway. It tipped into the wind, which was weird, but mostly landed on soft lawn grass, and one mirror hit a chain link fence, breaking the mirror. I used to be able to jerk a 500-600 pound bike off it's side with one hand. Half of it is just falling backwards to bring it up. Definitely thinking that's no longer possible. edit: I mean I'd try it with some bike other than mine, ha.

Yeah, well it was going in the jet stream path for a reason, but Meso events are really about unstable air masses. All the very hot air down low, wanted to be up high. When the storm started, it was small. But it started an exchange flow of hot air down low for cool air up high. A cascade type event occurred, that influenced even more of the hot air down low to head upward. Which in turn brought more cold air down. Since the lateral movement across the ground was high, it spread out instead of being a single massive storms (I think, not sure.) Causing again more hot and cold air exchanging. All developing into a frontal system of rotating storms, pushing a pressure and temperature front across the ground in front of it. Basically becoming a ripple in the atmosphere. A shock wave. There's even a very ultra low sound from stuff like this. You'll see birds and animals fleeing before it gets here. I didn't hear it coming... edit: I looked up some stuff on Meso storms, and they mostly don't describe it this way, but I do. The majority of the cold air coming down is in a single vortex in the middle of the storm. If the front is curved, the leading edge of the curve (the center) is where the major downdraft is located. It's big, really big. It's basically a tornado in reverse. That's why I call it a jet stream slapping the ground. Picture it as something like cleaning your driveway with a stream from a hose. Air or water, doesn't matter.

yeah, basically part of the jet stream said screw it, and made a turn down to ground level and headed East. Thanks for nothing.

dang, looks like a vortex to me...

btw, that only 20% chance of rain for Saturday isn't cutting it. There's a line of storms marching toward central Ohio. So some parts in an East-West line will have one storm after another. Doesn't look like much rain, but storms they are. edit: It's changing already, looks like moving to Southern Ohio. Still a fair batch moving across central. 8-9pm. edit again: It burned off, it's gone, nevermind... still some on it's way, but not much, or not anytime soon.

Radar loop of the event. Damn, it exploded out of nowhere and hauled ass...

It's now listed as a "Super Derecho". 80-90mph winds that traveled 700 miles in 12 hours from Indiana to the coast in Virginia area. At it's max, it equaled a category 1 hurricane. "Derecho" of Power Storms Slam 700 Miles of the US Here's what it looked like when it started near the Chicago area.

Terrible place to try and deal with. An awful lot of weaponry. Everything is buried in tunnels and bunkers. Everyone is in the military. They are very well trained. They won't even turn on the lights so you can see to navigate. Your best bet is to find the military food supplies, suddenly destroy a large percentage of it and cut and run. Sit back and wait. But to answer the question, battle simulations are run on huge computers for everything in the world. They run them until it's clear how to win. Then they do some more simulations. Yeah, there are answers.

I've often insisted that lack of water will cause most of the future warfare. Not too crazy, since any map of where wars are fought, matches where water is found. Hard to tell if water is necessary for war, or war is necessary for water. Quite noticeable in the Middle East where water is scarce. A recent UN sponsored study says the Earth can sustain a maximum population of 262 billion people. The remainder of the planet's surface has to produce food. We wouldn't run out of water on the average, but it would be problematic in certain areas. It already is. The guesstimate is for around 2100, 50% of the population could suffer water shortages. It would also mean roughly a quarter of the water resources would have to be under strict government control.

Rumors have it that there are a lot of troop movements in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Don't know yet, it's very hard to find a second source of info. What is true. Syria is falling apart. It won't take too long. The new Syria might not be much better, but at least the fighting will slow down. Humor: So talking to a guy at work, and he suddenly says Turkey has all Russian and old Soviet equipment. I'm stunned, I know they certainly do not. So I tell him "No they don't". And he insists they do. I give up after a while and walk away. He probably confused Egypt. There it would be true. Turkey has F-4E Phantoms and F-16s and is on schedule to buy F-35s. Their army has German Leopard main battle tanks, M-60T Patton, rebuilt M-48s, and a lot of old M-47s. Most everything else, Turkey creates and manufactures in Turkey. They have the skill, and are the third most powerful NATO member in military assets. Why does Russia care about Syria? It's one of their last places of influence (and sales of arms exports). More importantly, Syria is the last location of a Russia seaport outside Russia. The one at Tartus, Syria. Without that, Russia isn't the world power they once were. Granted, it's not much having lost all the others, but it would be "the last straw".

I looked at a car this morning, that got hit by gravel in the wind storm. Three broken windows. Front and both right side. Now that would hurt on a bike.

I stopped my rear tire on a flattened aluminum can, at a traffic light. Front tire was stopped. I laughed hysterically, as the back end came around 90 degrees in extreme slow motion.

If you don't stay hydrated, you get disoriented, distracted, and non-responsive. Early part of heat prostration. Yeah, accidents will happen. edit: oh, and tired. I get really exhausted when dehydrated. Water will fix it.

People shouldn't blow their horns like that. It's rude, selfish and self centered. It's part of the entitled "ME" generation, regardless of the age. One person does not own the road. I found my battery back was off when I got home, and it was inside a shell and holster. And I had never ever seen my battery that dead before. It's a conspiracy. (Or it was very hot outside.) edit: I've actually stopped when people blow horns like that. After all, the law says it's a device for warning other drivers. I'll stop and stare at the driver that's blowing the horn. That makes them very very angry.

ice, and lots of it (there's also thermal evaporation, from like a water cascade chiller, but ice was invented first, heh.)

You know, even with a heavy vented jacket on, it's not hot for a while when you stop. It's thick enough to insulate the heat out, and keep in some of that coolness from the previous airflow. But when the air temperature is above 95+, that's not much cool to trap. Doesn't last very long.

It was nice. It felt good. That comes from growing up in Florida and Texas as a kid. I still don't mind, but wearing gear on the bike is a drag when stopped at a light. edit: btw, it was this hot back in the 50s and 60s. but we didn't call it global warming back then, we called it.... hot. Today was the first day that I remembered to open the vents on my helmet... I think. I might have closed them, I better check. Heh...