Posted on 01/12/2006 8:39:35 AM PST by dhls
What I like about them is the nice roundness they exhibit.
We'll find one that is a perfect fit for our Flying Castle enclosure, and when we park it in its crater, it will look as though it has always been there.
That's why I want to leave a dome. Over the course of years, we can fill the space with air and plants, and have a ready shelter for any visitors to the Red Planet.
Broad leaf plants? We need birds, don't forget...they spread seeds...
Wellnow! That works for me! I like it!
I'm off to bed, kiddies.
Take care, all of you, and I'll see you tomorrow.
'Face
Good night, 'Face.
Uh NnB - that dark splotch is Ming's Imperial cesspool....
Sorry. Our delusional fantasies have priority over yours.
Ah... Monster Mike - my favorite. Know him well, the Shot heard round the World. Thought I'd seen all the nuke sites but somehow I missed that great pic.
Gold and gems - take that up with the Tax Goddess.
I have no need for tawdry lucre, I am satisfied to be the mere First Citizen Lord God Emperor Imperator Divine Crusher of Worlds and King of the Solar Mysteries.
Ming farts in the bathtub and swallows the bubbles.
running on low power and working feverishly to wade through a backlog of crap built up during my active illness, plus having twits constantly getting underfoot... does not add up to me being in a fine fettle.
ah, well.
hehhehheh
not sure - the Latin is lousy, and not a famous quote (or at least not one I recognise)
however, part thereof translates roughly as "risk taker" so the silly plea for investmewnt fits at least that part of the header.
in terms of the common performance of the massed majority? never.
individuals often surprise me pleasantly, though.
the Latin for bat?
Chiroptera (actually, that's Greek - and the scientific nomenclature, not the vernacular)
the common vernacular Latin for bat is... vespertilio... presumably deriving from "vesper" (evening or dusk)
could be worse... had the Romans been a bit more literal, and given a nod to the dusk AND dawn activity of the critters, they'd have called the little flying mice something like "crepuscultilio"
oh, the *other* type of bat is a "clava" for a club or bludgeon (which is durn close to "clavis" or key... the Romans were sometimes goofy that way... but maybe old time keys really were THAT big...)
and you and The Fuzzy One claim that *I* spin a good yarn of bizarre life-experiences!
write your own damn book, o my sibling
*wiping away copious mirthful tears*
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Don't know when I'll be back in; maybe Saturday if I'm lucky and not too wiped out.
In the meantime, some pictures from a couple of days ago. The first two are of Delhi's (a href="http://asi.nic.in/qutab.html">Qutb Minar (spire, think "minaret") -- an absolutely amazing tower some 800 years old. The carvings (in the second picture) are very Islamic in nature. The third picture was taken from the Lotus Temple (Baha'i); conditions were very poor for a photo of it, but there were these other towers in the distance -- a temple or monument or some such to one of the gods. I may go there today...
welcome to the UT, Lochlainnach
BTW, in the first photo there's a bit of telephoto effect; the people in the picture would be about a third that height standing next to the minar.
Gotta go finish packing. See you in a day or two...
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