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Originally Posted by szlamany

@shaggy - yup - you are the Johnny Appleseed of the fish world! Our non-American viewers will have to look up that reference!

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Don't be calling me that.:lol::lol::lol:

You probably aren't aware of it, but that particular phrase is used to deride people in fresh water fish biology. It has to do with the fact that all kinds of invasive fish species have been put all over the place, which we now regret.

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Funny thing is he grabbed the suet cage and dragged it down to the hickory tree.  Second time he did that same thing - dragged it down there - and our son got pics of him eating it.  We were blaming monster squirrels for opening the cage 50 feet away from the feeder area

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Suet has to be the ultimate winter treat for a bear.

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We've even had bobcats as well - just not a frequent!

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Of course. That's because I wasn't there.

I've been with so many people who have said, "oh look, there's a bobcat!!" I look...and they say, "oh, it just left."

They aren't pulling my leg, either. I've been a few seconds late to seeing a bobcat more often than I can say. I've seen everything else, including the very first coyote ever seen in the Everglades. I didn't KNOW it was the very first coyote ever seen in the Everglades, I just knew it was a coyote. Only a few days later did I find out that the park was all atwitter (before Twitter was a thing) over the coyote being there. I thought it so unsurprising that I hadn't even told anybody, but lots of others had seen it, too, and they DID report it.

So American litigation tendencies extend to the wildlife?! Any time a bear sees something he doesn't like, he'll suet.

That's a bearly tolerable pun.

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Originally Posted by szlamany

In the past month we've had:

• two black bear visits (he enjoys the pig nut hickory tree we have - ate every last one, and our woodpecker's suet)
• pair of happy red foxes jumping around the yard
• coyote traveling up the other side of a brook we have in our yard
• and yesterday at dusk a mink jumping in and out of the water catching fish!

And I live about an hour from NYC - wow! CT wildlife variety is on the rise!

I gotta get me a couple of trail cams!

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I see your bears and raise you a Hedgehog.... which is about the only animal I have seen in my garden recently that arent magpies or cats !!

There are otters in my garden demanding cake.

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Originally Posted by Bonker Gudd

There are otters in my garden demanding cake.

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I was out at my sisters' place one time when an otter came out of a tiny, decorative, pond in their lawn. So...yeah, that happens. There weren't even any fish in that pond, though there were salamanders.

"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"

so I am not a programmer, I don't drink coffee:( Oh wait... Yes I am one, I drink a lot of zero coke :D

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Originally Posted by Delaney

"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"

so I am not a programmer, I don't drink coffee:( Oh wait... Yes I am one, I drink a lot of zero coke :D

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Don't they have some new diet coke that has come out with more caffiene?.. Yeah it's called Diet Coke XTRA: https://www.dietcoke.ca/en/xtra/infused-blackberry/

There was a soda sold back in the 80s and 90s, which may still be around, called Jolt. It was advertised as "All the sugar and twice the caffeine."

In my case, caffeine has no noticeable effect on me.

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Originally Posted by kfcSmitty

Don't they have some new diet coke that has come out with more caffiene?.. Yeah it's called Diet Coke XTRA: https://www.dietcoke.ca/en/xtra/infused-blackberry/

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I didn't know that !! I have to taste it, but I think I won't find it in France

At one point, you could get caffeinated water. I assume that somebody made espresso with caffeinated water, just to up the kick a bit.

Nothing going on these days.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

In my case, caffeine has no noticeable effect on me.

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Same. Been drinking coffee every morning since I was a kid, and it can't keep my awake when I am sleepy.

« Le meilleur pour les turbulences de l'esprit, c'est apprendre. C'est la seule chose qui n'échoue jamais... »
« The best for turbulence of the mind is learning. It's the one thing that never fails ... »


Marguerite Yourcenar,

Nope, l'esprit is a bar down the bayou.

https://goo.gl/maps/n1byvQD6nRrnB3FMA

Those photos under Google maps did not show the building. The algorithm is broken!

Well, in this case, it is : learn to drink ;)

PS : you can see a picture of the bar in the streetview mode

Here was a video from New Years Eve 2009 into 2010 where my wife's parrain, RIP, was playing You Shook Me All Night Long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQauZdwhZek

My wife and I are in that video quite a bit, but only accidentally (we're in a big crowd). I'll never forget that Ross was so proud because he had just bought a wireless guitar chord so he could walk out into the crowd while he was playing his guitar.

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Originally Posted by dday9

... a wireless guitar chord ...

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We call that an air guitar.
Having a wireless guitar cord on the other hand would be handy to connect the guitar output to an amplifier without a cable.

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You Shook Me All Night Long

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Pretty good rendition of it too. One of my faves.

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Originally Posted by passel

We call that an air guitar.
Having a wireless guitar cord on the other hand would be handy to connect the guitar output to an amplifier without a cable.

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Technically, a wireless guitar cord would be a string.

I believe in most cases it would be a sleeve, not a string. And a lot of guitar strings are made from wire, so they would be air without the wire. Can you have nylon wire?

A sleeve becomes a string when stretched sufficiently.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

A sleeve becomes a string when stretched sufficiently.

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Advanced string theory from our resident piscatorial master! The best of both worlds! We are all blessed!

We have been blessed with the largest snowfall of the year, on this day....well, of this year so far....and I suppose I'm really talking about this WINTER, not this year, because otherwise I'm leaving out the snow that fell in December. I haven't bothered shoveling the walk, yet, and probably won't. The ground was warm enough that the walk melted most of the snow...until it cooled down enough, so now there is ice with a dusting of snow on top of it. Other places got 2-3 inches. Maybe even 4, really, but the sidewalk melted most of what hit it, so it's mostly just lumpy ice. Shoveling it wouldn't work so well, and might be counterproductive. Right now, the bit of snow provides a bit of traction.

It's still snowing, too, and might for the next several days. That's a bit of a surprise. We certainly need the snow in the mountains, and getting a bit in the valley isn't so bad, but this is kind of late in the year.

We were supposed to get snow, in South Louisiana.

I have lived below I-10 nearly all my life with a brief exception for a couple of months after Hurricane Rita. Long story short, I am not built for snow.

It looks like now it won't snow on Saturday but it might snow on Monday.

That has to happen only about once every couple decades, or less.

I know that it has snowed in Miami at least once in recorded history, so I assume that you'd have snow, being so much further north as your are, but it has to be mighty rare.

When I was a boy, I saw snow once in '94.

What is crazy is that my son was born in '14 and he has seen snow 6 times already. In the past 7 years we have had more snow than we have had in the past 30 years.

The jet steam acts like a fence between the arctic and the temperate zones. As the arctic warms, the jet stream becomes increasingly sinusoidal, which means that arctic air can dig further south over the middle of the country.

Went up skiing. That was fine. Also got back home safely, but it wasn't great. Four mashed cars on the way down the mountain. Two had mashed each other, the other two may have mashed one another, or hit trees. I wasn't clear on that.

Normally, once I get to the valley, the roads are fine. Not tonight. It was ice all the way home. Several interesting accidents on the interstate. Top speed was probably about 30 mph. Nice, steady, slow, cruise home.

One small car had managed to rear-end a semi. Both had stopped. The car was only moderately damaged. The truck...looked about how you would expect a semi to look when it was bumped at low speed by a tiny car. I'm surprised they even realized they had been hit.

Something is missing from this thread hmmmm..............

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Moar!

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Originally Posted by dday9

Moar!

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MOAR!!!

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is that the kind of fishes that Shaggy is studying ? :cool:

Only half of them.

Mermaids are impractical.

Soooooo we are definitely getting snow on tomorrow. 19 degree low with 100% chance of snow.

Careful, Niya. You know how that turned out last time.

We have been getting snow for two days, now. It's rare to get snow in the valley, and even this has been melting out a bit. Some places look like they have about a foot, some places look like they lost a bunch. There was a gap in the snow, yesterday, but it's back.

It won't last much, though. The snow is supposed to turn to rain by noon, and the temperatures should get well above freezing.

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Careful, Niya. You know how that turned out last time.

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Nuggets ?

We wound up getting precipitation at the wrong time and missed the snow. We got a bunch of sleet, but no snow.

My parents on the other hand got a ton of snow in Lake Charles. It is hilarious because there are pictures of friends using debris from the hurricane to scrape off ice.

Now there are videos of people using their hurricane debris for "snow boarding" :afrog:

We got loads of snow, then it warmed, the sun came out, and it was melting fast this afternoon. Eventually, it also rained, which further dampened and melted it. Still plenty of snow out there, though. With the coming forecast, it won't last more than a day or two.

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Originally Posted by dday9

When I was a boy, I saw snow once in '94.

What is crazy is that my son was born in '14 and he has seen snow 6 times already. In the past 7 years we have had more snow than we have had in the past 30 years.

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Snowed today in Athens.
It hasn't snowed for 12 years!

So everybody ignored the covid and went up to Likabetous hill.


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Mardi Gras!!!!

Drunk.

That is all.

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Mardi Gras!!!!

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time for some crepe/pancake !!!

One of my clients is a health insurance provider. They recently got a $20 million dollar claim on a patient.

Must have been a hangnail. Those are murder.

The actual worse part is when I found out that the insurance carrier was able to negotiate it down to just $1 million. What is the real cost of care?

Nobody knows. That kind of stuff happens all the time. Frankly, I don't think the providers know, nor do the insurance companies, nor anybody else. It's pretty messed up.

and the winner of the 'Most obnoxious company' award is......... facebook - for it's blocking of news feeds to its Australian users... :p

Are you aware of the law that was recently passed in Australia that was the driving factor behind Facebook's decision? What obligation does a company have to continue offering a given service?

It seems to me like the government of Australia wants its cake and to eat it too.

I'd say that Facebook was capable of winning that award without the help of Australia.

I do like the fact that Facebook completely botched pulling out their Australian news feed.

People like doctors without borders got temporarily banned just for being tangentially related to "news" and this sort of thing happens all the time to libertarians. During the great purges of 2020 many libertarians were banned (some permanently) for holding ideas that aren't necessarily right-wing(or alt-right or neofascist, or whatever you want to call it) but weren't "mainstreamed".

Ultimately, Facebook is a private company that is serving as some kind of international platform, a role it was never designed to play. They're scrambling, improvising, and even floundering (that's when both of your eyes move to one side of your head), but what could anybody really expect?

I'm no fan, nor a member, but they sure are popular.