The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[RMDupree]

Why! Hello there, Master Cree! Been forever, it seems, since I've seen ya.

I'm hanging out at home tonight. Alyson is in her crib and Becky is with my sister over at a friend's house, so I decided I would stop in and visit my friends for a bit.

How are things with you? Jeanne?

[Ramius]

[sip] Eeeeevenninnn... so, are you ready for a weekend or what?

[RMDupree]

...Now that worked a lot better!! :-)

[Ramius]

Taglinus alterus.

[RMDupree]

Not half as ready as I would like, seeing as I have the girls! *laughing*

But it is always a blessed relief to know that I do NOT have to go back to work tomorrow.

This week was complete cheese, Monday thru Friday!!

[Darksheare]

Air currents are detectable a certain power outputs.
Certain IR jamming equipment under development at this moment heats up air arond the aircraft, creating odd hot spots.
Sometimes the disturbance itself from the heating is strong enough to be detected.
One way to detect a stealth aircraft is to detect the wake turbulance that it leaves behind it.
That is possible regardless of moisture content, but whether or not it is reliable or the info can be filtered enough for use is another story.
When radar starts detecting air disturbances, it detects quite alot of stuff, so filtering the info gathered and paring it down to useful info is difficult at best.

[Sam Cree]

We're good, looking forward, I hope, to seeing the kids, if they'll come home for a couple days.

We'll have to get together some time soon, Ruthy. I'll find out from Jeanne when we can.

I can't get over this breezy weather, seems more like March than May.

[Darksheare]

Did it work?
Or is it back to shake down this guy I ran ibto with really big ears who ran a bar?

[JenB]

Good tagline. Says nothing about the strength of wimmin. I'm stinkin' tired. Early night tonight, I think.

[RMDupree]

I'd love it! Just let me know when you are free.

Oh, and the weather is terrific! I really enjoy sneaking out of the office during the day for a few minutes to let the wind blow on my face. We both know that once "summer" arrives, we'll be begging for any kind of breeze at all!

[Sam Cree]

OK, that makes sense, kind of, that the turbulence caused by a plane might be detected, what with temperature differences.

But I am assuming that radar cannot detect clear air turbulence that has no machinery associated with it.

[RMDupree]

Didn't you see my invisible response earlier? Working better!

[RMDupree]

Good evening, Jen!

How was your day? Sounds like it was a bit of a drag.

[Ramius]

This is gonna play hell with my antigravity experiments. Dang it.

[Darksheare]

One of the early high powered radar systems detected simple air currents, like heavy breezes and such.
The main problem at the time wasn't power output, but filtering the data.
Anything that would disturb a smple radio signal can be detected by radar.
It's the processing of the return signal and catching whether or not it's important that is difficult.

Something new is 'bistatic radar.'
Basically emitter and receiver are seperated, mounted on vehicles miles apart.
However, there's a glut of info generated by this, air currents, birds in flight and such.
Computers currently available cannot filter the info yet.
But I suspsect that it will be useable soon.

[Fedora]

After all this, I think you need something with a Diesel Van, or Van Diesel, or Vin Diesel, whatever that guy's name is, in it.

I guess he fits that category, too, though I don't know how to spell his name, either :) Never seen any of his movies.

Hi, Hobbit Hole! Had to run a bunch of errands today, didn't get much chance to post; trying to catch up now.

[Fedora]

Hi, Jen! Sounds like you had a long day, too! I was tired today 'cause I stayed up watching Kenshin all night :) I'm about to pick up where I left on in Disc 3 with the goal of finishing at least the end of Disc 3 tonight. BTW I stopped by an antique store today and was in luck to find back issues of this old Marvel magazine, Epic, which featured fantasy and SF stories done by mainstream fantasy/SF authors--the ones I found include illustrated stories by Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison, among others.

[RMDupree]

Hi there, Fedora!

I saw XXX with Vin Diesel and the action sequences were fun (and way unrealistic), but do not bother looking for high quality acting or powerful plots. You will not find them.

[Fedora]

What, when, where, how, who, what?--oh, hi, Ruthy! :)

[Fedora]

Actually, I heard Vin Diesel was up for Best Actor for XXX, but he lost out to Eminem :) What's scary about that is, knowing Hollywood that could actually happen! I'm still mad at them for gypping Sean Astin. . .