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The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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A sudden tree or standing stone
New verse:
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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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To: Fedora
You know, actually, I don't think that chimney opened to the outside: when the father figure and his sidekick arrive near the end of the movie, they see the library nearly covered in snow and ice, still and lifeless; they make their way inside and manage to find the room with all the survivors in it, fire burning merrily in the fireplace. Smokeless fire, nice trick!
To: JenB
It was a nano-vending machine :) But six or seven people for a week--man, at vending machine prices, that must've cost a fortune!
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posted on
05/28/2004 5:53:48 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Maybe the fireplace was using cold fusion? :)
7,383
posted on
05/28/2004 5:56:07 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: JenB
It'll be "The United States of North America" within six months, I'll bet. After all the devious evil obviously Republican VP was in charge... I'll bet the envirowackos mostly froze to death, so nuclear power will be a go.This movie is starting to sound like a good idea. . .
7,384
posted on
05/28/2004 5:57:24 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: JenB
One of the things that struck me about the movie was the complete ignorance of satellite and radar weather data. The only satellite ever mentioned was the space station; as if it would be impossible to look down at the Earth without a person up there to do it. As if ground-based weather radar wouldn't detect the temperature variations and other atmospheric conditions necessary to form super hail and super tornadic storms...
The movie didn't display ignorance of just basic weather science... it displayed amazing ignorance of the technology used in weather science.
To: HairOfTheDog
Hey there... [sigh] this whole access-to-FR issue from da waterin' hole is really becoming an annoyance.
Get this: I can't even get to FR from here anymore. It worked for a little while earlier tonight (so they aren't explicitly blocking it) but then it just started to hang as time went on.
But: My internet connectivity is solid. Any other site loads at T-1 sorta speed.
Now: Just to prove my point.... I'm posting this by opening a VPN connection into my office, and then opening a remote desktop session on one of my servers... and now I'm browsing quite successfully outta California.
I'm tellin' ya... WayPort has HEAP BIG DNS problems, and they're just not listening. [sigh] [sip]
I feel better now.
7,386
posted on
05/28/2004 6:08:29 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
To: Ramius
That's amazing... FR is the only site you have trouble accessing?
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
just take the whole place over... Might just work... they're all in California anyway.
7,388
posted on
05/28/2004 6:10:40 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; JenB; Darksheare
One of the things that struck me about the movie was the complete ignorance of satellite and radar weather data. The only satellite ever mentioned was the space station; as if it would be impossible to look down at the Earth without a person up there to do it. As if ground-based weather radar wouldn't detect the temperature variations and other atmospheric conditions necessary to form super hail and super tornadic storms...The weather was using Stealth cloaking :)
BTW, the disaster in that movie was Jesus and Bush's fault, according to the liberals in this thread (which is in serious need of some FReeping):
Jesus is responsible for Global Warming
For the apotheosis of absurdity see esp.:
I thought you meant
BTW it doesn't mention Darksheare, but I suspect he was involved, too :)
7,389
posted on
05/28/2004 6:11:18 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I love bad science movies!
Let's see. There were two interesting previews with mine. "Cellular" looked like a good renter, and "I Robot". Did you have that preview? Asimov's spinning in his grave, but it ought to be worth watching.
7,390
posted on
05/28/2004 6:12:01 PM PDT
by
JenB
(The Hobbit Hole: We Cannot Get Out)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
It's the only one I've tried that I can't get to.
It's bizarre... I flushed my own dns cache... I can ping it without trouble. It does resolve OK, but it doesn't ever load in a browser. Eventually it just 404's. Really odd.
7,391
posted on
05/28/2004 6:12:50 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
To: Ramius
How odd. And very frustrating.
AT&T never believed me when I had bad DNS juju issues... It didn't get fixed until that major system crash of theirs when whatever was messed up before finally blew up along with the store, I guess.
7,392
posted on
05/28/2004 6:13:47 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(The Democratic Party has jumped the shark.)
To: HairOfTheDog
it seems as though there is no simple anwser to how to pronunce "Qatar" Everyone up north says "cutter", or "caa-ter" the people working here on the base say it just as I would assume ka-tar but who really knows. It is much like the mystery of the tootsie roll pop....the world may never know. Talk to ya later
Steve
To: smaagee
Well thanks for that answer to the most important question!
Stay safe friend!
7,394
posted on
05/28/2004 6:16:05 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(The Democratic Party has jumped the shark.)
To: Ramius
I can ping it without trouble. It does resolve OK, but it doesn't ever load in a browserHuh, weird. Does Windows have any utility such as traceroute, which will report back the hops that a packet makes on its way to its destination?
To: JenB
We had the "I, Robot" preview... my remark to Rose after seeing it, was that it looked like the only thing the movie got from Asimov was its name...
To: HairOfTheDog
DNS probs are sometimes the most frustrating at all... mainly because there are thousands of ways for name services to "slightly" fail, and sometimes they're really tough to track down.
Usually though, it's because of traffic. Nameserver gets hammered with too many requests too fast... and start responding erraticallly. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And diagnosis tests like PING and TRACERT always work because they are either given a higher priority or are more tolerant of slight delays.
Solution: Buy another stinkin' box. Bigger, better, faster, more. Words to live by.
7,397
posted on
05/28/2004 6:20:15 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; JenB
What did the preview look like?
7,398
posted on
05/28/2004 6:20:48 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: smaagee
Hey there Army! Good to hear from you.
How about we all just agree to call it: "Bob".
Werks fer me.
7,399
posted on
05/28/2004 6:21:24 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
To: Ramius
Hm...just FR?
Tinfoil hat time? ;-)
7,400
posted on
05/28/2004 6:21:25 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton)
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