On Oct 3, 2022, at 11:56, Tony Thompson <tony@...> wrote: [...] > Among the sources which provide a clear description of the background of the legislation, the details of what it requir

> On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:46, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote: > > Love the Great Valley Rye painted on the building. Rye is making a great comeback in the country. Anchor Distilling in San

In particular, it's at the confluence of the Ohio and the Big Muddy, where Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri meet.

It's most likely Thuja plicata, the PNW endemic cedar. Note the genus - not cedrus, but the same family - a cousin, as it were to the so-called "true" cedars. California incense cedar (calcocedrus dec

See Bill Kaufman's book on the subject, from Signature Press. My copy is duly autographed.

Whenever this subject rears its head above the noise level[0] I remember reading and photocopying one or more articles in Model Railroader [pre-1979] discussing fully equalizing a locomotive (in HO sc

The thing resembles the roosters that coupled streetcars (trams) for towing purposes. Happens between PCC cars in San Francisco on occasion.

Because it's Japanese, it's "Ah Kah Neh".

There were some glorious monsters in the good old days, including the Solano and the Contra Costa, both over 400 feet long. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_(ferry)>

That looks like a typical motorized scow which replaced the schooners that'd been all over the Bay until the 20s or so. Model Petaluma and yagotta model the watercraft!

Age has its compensations.

... for some values of "middle of nowhere"- it is on US50, only about an hour from Great Basin National Park, and seniors can get a lifetime pass which covers things like admission and most camping fe

A friend gave me a Calcomp to connect to the PDP-11/20 he'd earlier given me; unfortunately I had neither the power at home for the computer nor an interface for the plotter, ao I donated the plotter

[unsolicited plug from a satisfied user] I use WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) in its precompiled form Crossover from Codeweavers. WINE accepts calls to the Windows application binary interface and rem

I'm not Dave, but I've been using Turbocad for a very long time (since Windows 3, but I don't keep it up to date) and it's good enough for me; I use 3rdPlanIt for more than just track plans, as the 3D

There's invest-ment, and invest-iture, Brian, and this could be the second meaning.

I lad-handled (in my late teens/very early twenties) an Allis-Chalmers HD-16 two summers, and needed to grow an exra pair of hands to do so. I *did* learn very quickly to keep my hands off the frictio

I remember seeing that when I were a wee lad. It was on the way from Chester to Susanville to visit some of Dad's Paiute friends who lived off the rez, and Dad thought it'd impress us two kids. It did

I've not, but I suspect that it's select or better lumber; the "Red River" in the caption brings to mind Bob Hanft's book by that name, but my copy is inaccessible at the moment. If it's in the book o

That much? My dentist (a former neighbor and still a good friend) batches up his not-ready-for-prime-time tools for me and weighs me down every visit.