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    I Should Move Where??

    Nothing new, really. The BA is friggen expensive. SF prolly the worse of the worst. I can't ride, 'cause I can't * also * pay for a garage in the City and things are eating up all of my money. The job pays OK, but doesn't pay like the tech job I had. At least during the time of...
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    Web Page Blocked for Some BARF Ads

    Just FYI. At least one advertiser isn't getting through. See attached image:
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    This Day in History

    1901. Wow. -- Jan 10 1944 - Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 ( GI Bill of Rights ) is passed by Congress. 1945 - Rod Stewart was born in London, England 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations convened at Westminster Central Hall in London, England 1949 - RCA...
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    This Day in History

    January 9 1976 - Queen had the top song in the U.K. with "Bohemian Rhapsody". 1982 - Top Ten Albums: 1. AC/DC For Those About to Rock We Salute You 2. The Police Ghost in the Machine 3. Foreigner 4 4. Journey Escape from Journey 5. Earth, Wind & Fire Raise! 6. Olivia Newton-John Physical...
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    This Day in History

    Ran across another interesting thing for today: On this day in 2005, USS San Francisco (SSN 711) collided with an uncharted mountain, killing one crew member and injuring 70. The head-on crash ruptured the submarine's forward ballast (buoyancy) tanks and flooded its sonar dome — see the...
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    Thread about YouTube! Tags

    re: http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=532469 even though the conversation started in http://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=532467 -------- I think it would be better like the following. Even though it's longer, I think it's a little easier: -- The...
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    This Day in History

    I just happened to run across this and since it's a favorite... In 1888 the 36-inch refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Observatory
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    R1200ST from Alaska

    A friend of mine's brother left his appx 2006 BMW R1200ST in Alaska and I was just presented with the idea of my riding it back to the 48 for him. Such a trip is pretty long -- in distance the same scale as riding to the East Coast. Would you do such a thing on this sort of bike? How...
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    David Buchanan Parrish Paintings

    I know I had seen his work before, but something prompted me to google him again today. Just thought I'd share! . . . . . Sources: http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2010/04/david-buchanan-parrish-born-1939.html...
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    Helmet Cams

    I'm on two wheels again, but a bicycle for now. Hopefully, I'll be on the moto and I will want one or two cameras... mainly for evidence should something stupid happen on the road. What are people liking nowadays?
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    Small LCD and Large LDC and LDD and VGA and XLR :teeth

    I'm gathering gear to do a very special music recording project, and well, BARF is BARF so you never know what someone may have lying around that they want to get rid of for pennies. I'm looking for free-to-cheap, so old and beat up (but functional) is fine with me. I'm looking for: - 4 or...
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    2018-12-19 Skipsmas Photos

    I've uploaded my photos at https://flic.kr/s/aHsmxRC6rS but they will eventually disappear from there. Same photos are here, just slightly smaller versions.
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    Paging DataDan and Others with Info

    Hi guys! Hope things are good for everyone; sorry I've been mostly quiet in the last while. But, today my friend Krista 84 would like to connect up and talk about ways to improve moto safety on Hwy 84 in Santa Cruz mountains. -- So, Krista, what kind of data / info have you collected so far...
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    Amazon Air Clarkson

    http://mashable.com/2015/11/29/amazon-prime-air-jeremy-clarkson Amazon has a video showing, essentially, proof of concept for packages delivered by drone. Do you think it can work? How often do you think they'll be downed by teen-aged pranksters and professional thieves?
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    Sourcing Parts

    I'm thinking about making a bunch of kites. Anybody know about good resources for things like carbon fiber and plexiglass rods? How about getting small plastic parts fabbed up?
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    CCSF City College TA's

    City College is looking for some teaching assistants. Some positions are similar to mine in the Math Department, but others are in other departments too. If you're interested in applying, let me know and I can give some pointers about resume preparation that is specific to CCSF...
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    Givi Topcase at SF Goodwill on Geary

    Not mine, but it's been sitting there for a week and someone should pick it up. I didn't check for a model number. It says "monokey" on the side. They said they thought they had a key. It looks like it has some mounting equipment with it. (I don't know what it needs, I just saw that it came...
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    Photo shoot location where you can see traffic in background

    What do you want in the foreground? Talking heads? A medium shot? -- My favorite spot that I can think of is on top of Yerba Buena Island, looking east with the westbound traffic in the background. 101 near you: In the corner of the Home Depot parking lot near Ikea. (I think you can see...
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    Suggest a Different Author

    Since bruceflinch created his thread I realized that I need help finding some good books for me. My primary criterion is different though: I want books that have a lot of good vocabulary. See, I'm going to apply for graduate school before too long and I need to improve my vocabulary to the...
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    How Music Affects Us

    So, I remember this book I picked up briefly at a record store in Tulsa, OK, in about 1984. It was about Reggae and on a page or two it hypothesized that different parts of the music (and / or sound spectrum) affected different parts of the body. It was something like: - The bass and the...
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