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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Aren't they? I'm amazed how much they've grown.
Talon did all the wood and sheetrock facing on the wall last night. It turned from bits of wood, into a wall. The other hole that ain't a fireplace is a bookshelf. Mmm.
Ramius, is celestial nav part of you field of expertise?
Mornin' folkses... [sip]
As it would happen, yes. Cel Nav is something I can do. Haven't done it in a while, so I'm probably a little rusty. But it was something my QM chief really believed in. Even though we relied on electronics, we shot morning and evening stars and local apparent noon-- every day.
Good morning! Anyone else watch LOST last night? I'm still tired of the 'others', I wish they were all dead. :~)
Hi, Ramius. A discussion on how the Vikings may have practiced celestial nav is going on (after a fashion) on another thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1780920/posts).
One poster has maintained that any sailor will tell you that no matter the cloud cover and weather, the sun always shows itself at local noon well enough to take a sighting. I guess I'm a skeptic on that one, but figured you'd have an answer.
I'm going to watch it today. Finish it that is. Got about half before I crashed.
Maybe on his home planet, but not here. You do have to be able to see the disc of the sun. Will check out that thread.
Well...Danny's gone. That's one
I don't think I was surprised by the bus. I saw the set up coming. But it did startle me when it actually happened.
It would have been fairly startling, if I wasn't so numb...
The thing that bugs me about LOST is every time someone asks an important question, the respondent gets this 'faraway' look and woah - don't flash back, man.... stay here. Answer the question! - oh - man, here we go... Anyone want another beverage while I'm up?
meanwhile...
No wonder the story never gets anywhere :~)
Yeah...suddenly there's a whooosh, and then...
Yeah.
And I still don't understand the Others' logic. Or what they think passes for logic. Why not just *ask* for help, maybe even in trade for some of the stuff you have stockpiled, rather than playing endless mind games?
Went to pay my Verizon bill, and I'm now eligible for a free phone if I renew my contract, including things like those new Chocolate doohickeys.
Wish I could test one in the house to see if reception is even passable.
And it'd also be nice if I could see the future and know what's coming in the next two years.
I've spent many hours doing dead reckoning plots, back in the days before GPS, but never really had the opportunity or know how to do the celestial stuff, though I did once take a 3 day class on it, which was fascinating.
Took a boat up to Tampa Bay the other day, an area with which I'm not familiar. Had a GPS plotter aboard, which is nice, but still did my DR work on the paper charts, which I consider to be the "default" anyway. Got near Tampa, and the GPS plotter said "No Data," so I was obliged at that point to pilot the old fashioned way. The old fashioned way certainly does make you pay more attention, which is a good thing...I was kind of delighted to be reminded of that!
The old fashioned way is good to know. 'Lectric Machines being what they are... sooner or later the old ways come in very handy.
There were a couple of times that our Cel skills came in handy. One time down off of central/southern Mexico, couple hundred miles out... we lost our electronic fixes. The loran-c went walkabout. Satnav... nothing. We actually had to rely on morning and evening star fixes for a couple of weeks. DR in between. It was really, really cool. It was almost disappointing when the Loran finally came back up.
Another time was during Navy training in San Diego, running the "swept channel". Once you get cocky about how quick you can take fixes and run the channel, the navy trainers like to "kill" your electronics to see how long you go before you hit a "mine".
It's not "celestial" exactly, but the CG does something that the Navy does not. We set bouys, and we used horizontal sextant angles and a three-arm protractor to do it. It's the fastest and most accurate visual fix there is. We didn't need any electronics to run the channel. Our only change when they killed the radar and the other electronics was that we switched from the "dead" gyrocompass to magnetic. No worries. Our Navy trainers had heard of it, but hadn't ever seen it done before. They thought it was pretty neat. Our bridge gang score beat all the other Navy ships that year. Not that we were proud of that or anything. :-)
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And it was uphill - both directions :~)
~sip~
In the snow?
Barefoot?
zactly. [sip]
:-)
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