tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post7400046475597251356..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: [jules' pics] 10/12/2009 04:11:00 AMJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-76338550739264409072009-10-13T20:49:13.225+01:002009-10-13T20:49:13.225+01:00"If it ain't true, it ought to be."
..."If it ain't true, it ought to be."<br /><br />Never been, so feasibility may be an issue, but a couple of boiler suits, an old metal hatch and a mains key should be all that's needed.skankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14584908320777937193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-81012676019519933592009-10-13T20:14:24.206+01:002009-10-13T20:14:24.206+01:00> again
Checking my watch ...
http://www.plane...> again<br /><br />Checking my watch ...<br />http://www.planetjh.com/news/A_105442.aspxHank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-34294783604898936362009-10-13T01:26:02.176+01:002009-10-13T01:26:02.176+01:00The underlying supervolcano also keeps to a pretty...The underlying supervolcano also keeps to a pretty tight schedule (and is now a threat again). I wonder if that gets mentioned in the presentation.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-87881005057200889232009-10-13T01:19:09.430+01:002009-10-13T01:19:09.430+01:00I once heard a wonderful story from a fellow who w...I once heard a wonderful story from a fellow who was a Yellowstone ranger-naturalist in the 1950s. He said there was one naturalist on the staff none of the rest of them got along with -- and so they pranked him. They got a steering wheel with shaft from a junkyard, and hid in the bushes where they'd be behind him, and visible to his tourist audience, when he gave his Old Faithful lecture.<br /><br />And it's predictable enough. So about the time it was getting due, they (in full uniform, of course) came nonchalantly out of the background carrying the wheel-and shaft, well behind him but visible. Put the shaft upright so the wheel was about, oh, shoulder height. Looked at their watches quite obviously, for a while, til they heard the first little gurgle.<br /><br />Then they started turning the wheel as fast as they could, made like it ran 'round til it hit the stop at the end -- stood back, at attention.<br /><br />Reversed the procedure as the show was winding down, picked up the wheel and solemnly marched away.<br /><br />The guy they were pranking never turned around. And he never found out why his audience was so skeptical about what he was telling them about how Old Faithful works.<br /><br />If it ain't true, it ought to be.Hank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-49381709479832678872009-10-12T18:05:54.939+01:002009-10-12T18:05:54.939+01:00We could as well say that RP Sr. was being bovinom...We could as well say that RP Sr. was being bovinomorphized. :<br /><br />But actually had you paid more attention while in Boulder, you might have found the Peets *and* had a chance to pose with a well-known <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.unigo.com/privateAssets/0/176696/176700/186768/34c0cd9f-427a-426c-a23c-89aa1cb6ce9fbig.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.unigo.com/university_of_colorado_-_boulder/photos/22248/&h=324&w=432&sz=112&tbnid=h5LGmX9PTcdygM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCU%2BChip%2Bphoto&usg=__9-LHgkAFQyq63LJIpqIFXLcxkXk=&ei=k13TSonpCJOwsgPR2JnwCw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image&ved=0CA8Q9QEwAg" rel="nofollow">local</a>. (The lack of an obstreperous expression indicates that it's one of those rare moments when he's not defending one of his papers.)Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-77490416360624084872009-10-12T15:24:09.913+01:002009-10-12T15:24:09.913+01:00I know, I know, that's Shiva, destroyer of wor...I know, I know, that's Shiva, destroyer of worl ... oh, wait.<br /><br />Sorry, wrong mushroom.Hank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.com