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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 8:42:38 PM   
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Morning thread. the hunt for red october is on. always a personal favorite of mine.



Yeah - i just finished watching that as well... then took the dogs for a walk... they got less than 1/3 of the way into a normal walk and they gave out... i had to carry one for a while... the older dog started a wheezing noise (never heard that before)... they are resting now...

About 1/2 of the yards i passed showed some flooding from the rain - looks more like Beaumont than Dallas... VERY humid - sun is intense... probably get more thunderstorms later... i am about to go out and tackle the grass with the mower/tractor...

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 9:00:34 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 9:01:35 PM   
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Morning thread. the hunt for red october is on. always a personal favorite of mine.



Yeah - i just finished watching that as well... then took the dogs for a walk... they got less than 1/3 of the way into a normal walk and they gave out... i had to carry one for a while... the older dog started a wheezing noise (never heard that before)... they are resting now...

About 1/2 of the yards i passed showed some flooding from the rain - looks more like Beaumont than Dallas... VERY humid - sun is intense... probably get more thunderstorms later... i am about to go out and tackle the grass with the mower/tractor...

Have fun with that mowing wet grass is never fun

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 9:07:30 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 9:28:55 PM   
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We want "Fluffy" here!





It was brought to my attention that I already (and unknowingly) posted Fluffy the dog picture here few daysa ago...

Is this it?


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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 9:39:06 PM   
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Hi all,

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We want "Fluffy" here!





It was brought to my attention that I already (and unknowingly) posted Fluffy the dog picture here few daysa ago...

Is this it?


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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 10:10:01 PM   
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It's awful quiet around here....

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 10:14:52 PM   
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 Don't even think about it.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 10:15:45 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 10:37:32 PM   
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LOst in the great purge but worth a repost:






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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 10:43:45 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 10:52:57 PM   
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Don't even think about it.


A lesser man than myself would have tried it. But not me, oh no. That's just not cricket old bean.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/1/2007 11:19:15 PM   
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Ahhh rain in north texas again what a suprise hopefully it will clear at some point today since this is supposed to be my long run day

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:21:51 AM   
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Morning thread. the hunt for red october is on. always a personal favorite of mine.



Yeah - i just finished watching that as well... then took the dogs for a walk... they got less than 1/3 of the way into a normal walk and they gave out... i had to carry one for a while... the older dog started a wheezing noise (never heard that before)... they are resting now...

About 1/2 of the yards i passed showed some flooding from the rain - looks more like Beaumont than Dallas... VERY humid - sun is intense... probably get more thunderstorms later... i am about to go out and tackle the grass with the mower/tractor...

Have fun with that mowing wet grass is never fun



You are right - the tractor got bogged down in mud twice, and i was almost done cutting the front lawn when the skies opened up...

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:23:26 AM   
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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

Morning thread. the hunt for red october is on. always a personal favorite of mine.



Yeah - i just finished watching that as well... then took the dogs for a walk... they got less than 1/3 of the way into a normal walk and they gave out... i had to carry one for a while... the older dog started a wheezing noise (never heard that before)... they are resting now...

About 1/2 of the yards i passed showed some flooding from the rain - looks more like Beaumont than Dallas... VERY humid - sun is intense... probably get more thunderstorms later... i am about to go out and tackle the grass with the mower/tractor...

Have fun with that mowing wet grass is never fun



You are right - the tractor got bogged down in mud twice, and i was almost done cutting the front lawn when the skies opened up...

You know the solution to that is to get a bigger tractor.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:24:34 AM   
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Year 58:

Roman emperor Nero is also a Roman Consul.

The friendship between Nero and Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina, and Otho is sent to Lusitania as governor.

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east captured

Artaxata in Armenia, in the war against Parthia.

The Ficus Ruminales begins to die (see Rumina).

In Thuringia conflict between two Germanic tribes erupts over access to water.

Start of Yongping era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Ming-Ti, new emperor of China, introduces Buddhism to China and the West Indus Valley.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:26:48 AM   
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What, you ask, is ficus ruminales?

Funny you should ask:

The Ficus Ruminalis was a wild fig tree on the Palatine Hill in ancient Rome near the Lupercal on the Palatine. This tree was said to be sacred to the goddess Rumina. It is also the spot where tradition said the trough containing Romulus and Remus landed on the banks of the Tiber and were reared by a she-wolf.

Tradition said that this tree was removed by the augur Attus Navius and thenceforth stood on the Comitium. Ovid states that only vestigia remained on the original spot in his day, but Livy, in telling the story of the twins, says that the Ogulnii, aediles in 296 B.C., erected a monument that represented the twins and wolf, ad ficum ruminalem. It has also been suggested that the Plutei of Trajan are from a small enclosure wall built around the Ficus Ruminalis and a statue of Marsyas.

It is possible that the site continued to be called Ficus Ruminalis, after the tree itself had disappeared. Ruminalis, according to one view, is to be connected with Ruma the Etruscan, the name from which Rome and Romulus are derived.

The Romans themselves, however, derived it from ruma, rumis, breast; and Herbig has put forward the view that "Roma" is the Latinised form, and as a proper name means "large-breasted," i.e. strong or powerful.

When the tree began to droop in 58AD it was seen as a bad portent for Rome.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:26:54 AM   
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I had to go over my lawn twice yesterday...once at a higher deck level then again at a lower one...the riding mower wouldn't get it down where I wanted in one shot. It hadn't rained in a day but the grass underneath was still real wet. I'm gonna have to jack my mower up and clean it out before I use it again.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:26:58 AM   
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Bump the thread can't be below the anti thread.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:28:49 AM   
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Morning thread. the hunt for red october is on. always a personal favorite of mine.



Yeah - i just finished watching that as well... then took the dogs for a walk... they got less than 1/3 of the way into a normal walk and they gave out... i had to carry one for a while... the older dog started a wheezing noise (never heard that before)... they are resting now...

About 1/2 of the yards i passed showed some flooding from the rain - looks more like Beaumont than Dallas... VERY humid - sun is intense... probably get more thunderstorms later... i am about to go out and tackle the grass with the mower/tractor...

Have fun with that mowing wet grass is never fun



You are right - the tractor got bogged down in mud twice, and i was almost done cutting the front lawn when the skies opened up...

You know the solution to that is to get a bigger tractor.



Nah - the yard is sort of designed around the dimensions of this tractor... any bigger and i'd need 2 machines...

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:30:18 AM   
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I had to go over my lawn twice yesterday...once at a higher deck level then again at a lower one...the riding mower wouldn't get it down where I wanted in one shot. It hadn't rained in a day but the grass underneath was still real wet. I'm gonna have to jack my mower up and clean it out before I use it again.

Lee

yeah my bother mowed my parents lawn last week and i came over to do some car work on the 57 and he had lef wet grass in the mower. it wasn't a pretty site.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:43:55 AM   
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Nah - the yard is sort of designed around the dimensions of this tractor... any bigger and i'd need 2 machines...


I have a standard RAF married quarters garden, approx dimensions are small x small It's almost a waste of money even owning a lawn mower

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:55:02 AM   
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Ah - well, this is close to 4 acres... the trees and flower boxes (and gates) are designed to be just big enough to let the tractor get through.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 12:59:04 AM   
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Ah - well, this is close to 4 acres... the trees and flower boxes (and gates) are designed to be just big enough to let the tractor get through.


I haven't measured mine. There doesn't seem to be much point....

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 1:02:57 AM   
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i knew one guy who said he had almost 250,000 microacres...

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 1:13:35 AM   
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What is a microacre?

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 1:27:51 AM   
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A question for my Thread bretheren. I have an old pentium machine running Windows 98 in my basement (purchased about 2001). I am contemplating pithching the machine or possibly trying to turn it into a multimedia server.

If I went the multimedia direction I would need to upgrade the CD player to a DVD player. I have a spare external HD I could plug in. The issue would be the OS. I doubt the machine has enough power to run Windows XP much less the new Vista. However, I might be able to run Unix. Anyone have experience trying to run Unix on an older comp? Should I just pitch the old computer? Any thoughts?

Where's Mynok when I need him.

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 3:15:24 AM   
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Be glad you don't live in Virgina. Even I think this is excessive:

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/virginians-face-3000-traffic-ticket/20070701103509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 3:28:51 AM   
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A question for my Thread bretheren. I have an old pentium machine running Windows 98 in my basement (purchased about 2001). I am contemplating pithching the machine or possibly trying to turn it into a multimedia server.

If I went the multimedia direction I would need to upgrade the CD player to a DVD player. I have a spare external HD I could plug in. The issue would be the OS. I doubt the machine has enough power to run Windows XP much less the new Vista. However, I might be able to run Unix. Anyone have experience trying to run Unix on an older comp? Should I just pitch the old computer? Any thoughts?

Where's Mynok when I need him.

It will run most flavors of unix/linux but i doubt it will be that useful as a multimedia machine. What is the processor speed and how much ram does it have?

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RE: THE THREAD !!! - 7/2/2007 3:29:05 AM   
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Be glad you don't live in Virgina. Even I think this is excessive:

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/virginians-face-3000-traffic-ticket/20070701103509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

wow

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