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Useless Fact
Apr. 15th, 2016 09:12 pmAccording to GoogleEarth, Fat Boys Bar-B-Q restaurants still exist in the following Florida locations: Crystal River, Kissimmee, Ocala, St. Cloud and Lake Wales.
Writer's Block: Home Sweet Home
May. 2nd, 2012 02:38 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
They say a pix is worth a dozen tweets.
They say a pix is worth a dozen tweets.
Inviting Other Nations
Apr. 16th, 2012 09:37 pmWhat happens when I don't have enough bandwidth to go stalk the wild factoid?--Brainstorm. As in, what would NASCAR look like if more marques participated? Let me show you!
This Graphic: Acura, Audi, BMW, Citroen, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, Kia.
This Graphic: Lexus, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Subaru, Volvo, Volkswagen.
The worksheet came from ARBodies.com, whom I've mentioned time and again. While NASCAR's Cup Series and Nationwide Series are both going to more sculpted bodies, the vast majority of "Late Model" series leagues are going to persist with the current "one shape fits all" body type, which means only drivetrain and graphical stickers to tell the marques apart. And there is no law that says that current teams can't just have stickers made to match what's under the hood.
This Graphic: Acura, Audi, BMW, Citroen, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, Kia.
This Graphic: Lexus, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Subaru, Volvo, Volkswagen.
The worksheet came from ARBodies.com, whom I've mentioned time and again. While NASCAR's Cup Series and Nationwide Series are both going to more sculpted bodies, the vast majority of "Late Model" series leagues are going to persist with the current "one shape fits all" body type, which means only drivetrain and graphical stickers to tell the marques apart. And there is no law that says that current teams can't just have stickers made to match what's under the hood.
Writer's Block: Internet addictions
Sep. 28th, 2011 12:49 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Facebook, Meez, YouTube, Google, Yahoo!, Kenzerco Forum, Dream Pod 9 Forum, Reaper Forum...
Facebook, Meez, YouTube, Google, Yahoo!, Kenzerco Forum, Dream Pod 9 Forum, Reaper Forum...
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* Great American Stories (an anthology book that includes Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce fiction)
* Artwork by Jean Bierce
* A graphic for the Henry Bierce Company in Akron
* Full Frontal Nerdity strips
* Medium Large strips featuring "T.O.D.D. & Son"
* My IPMS reviews of books and model kits
* The Battletech Unseen and Reseen Mechs
* The Phalanx/AAC Penetrator gunship helicopter
* The Heavy Gear TV series and the Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad TV series, from my reviews on IMDB.net
* Artwork by Jean Bierce
* A graphic for the Henry Bierce Company in Akron
* Full Frontal Nerdity strips
* Medium Large strips featuring "T.O.D.D. & Son"
* My IPMS reviews of books and model kits
* The Battletech Unseen and Reseen Mechs
* The Phalanx/AAC Penetrator gunship helicopter
* The Heavy Gear TV series and the Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad TV series, from my reviews on IMDB.net
Who Is Stephen Bierce?
Jul. 28th, 2010 01:05 amHaving a Harvey Pekar moment...no better time for it.
Google Image has retooled the interface, which means that you get to see more content and don't have to click through a lot of pages to do it. That's nice. You lose some detail and control tho'. Not sure if I like that so much.
So I decide to look up myself tonight. I have a habit that automatically narrows the focus: I set the name "Ambrose" as well as two alternate spellings of that in the EXCLUDE box, so my most famous relative isn't caught in the sweep. Nor do I wish, necessarily, to receive responses related to the author of Band of Brothers.
One of the first things that came up was a photo of a tombstone in a cemetary in Danby, a suburb of Ithaca, NY. One "Stephen Beers". He was born just before the American Revolution and lived till the 1840s. I do not know if he would have been a relation of mine geneology-wise...but the facts are that the family migration started in Massachusetts, crossed the lower Hudson Valley, and swept through upstate New York to the Ohio Valley, where eventually Lucius and Ambrose came along in our history. There are some missing links between my family line and the one that started it all in Massachusetts...and I want to find them someday.
But that begs the question, who is he to me?--And who am I to him? Should I take it as a good sign or a bad one that he lived to be seventy-five years of age in "interesting times"? And will, a century and a half from now, there be somebody as curious about me and my life, as I am about this man in the past?
Is there somebody in your past centuries...forgotten but for that time you look yourself up in a search engine?
Google Image has retooled the interface, which means that you get to see more content and don't have to click through a lot of pages to do it. That's nice. You lose some detail and control tho'. Not sure if I like that so much.
So I decide to look up myself tonight. I have a habit that automatically narrows the focus: I set the name "Ambrose" as well as two alternate spellings of that in the EXCLUDE box, so my most famous relative isn't caught in the sweep. Nor do I wish, necessarily, to receive responses related to the author of Band of Brothers.
One of the first things that came up was a photo of a tombstone in a cemetary in Danby, a suburb of Ithaca, NY. One "Stephen Beers". He was born just before the American Revolution and lived till the 1840s. I do not know if he would have been a relation of mine geneology-wise...but the facts are that the family migration started in Massachusetts, crossed the lower Hudson Valley, and swept through upstate New York to the Ohio Valley, where eventually Lucius and Ambrose came along in our history. There are some missing links between my family line and the one that started it all in Massachusetts...and I want to find them someday.
But that begs the question, who is he to me?--And who am I to him? Should I take it as a good sign or a bad one that he lived to be seventy-five years of age in "interesting times"? And will, a century and a half from now, there be somebody as curious about me and my life, as I am about this man in the past?
Is there somebody in your past centuries...forgotten but for that time you look yourself up in a search engine?
Writer's Block: Googling Myself
Apr. 6th, 2010 12:02 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I Google myself on a regular basis. I have been surprised sometimes, like with my namesake Civil War soldier, and a horror parody story with a namesake character, and another namesake supposedly in Mongolia, but there is very little about me on the 'Net that I haven't initiated.
I Google myself on a regular basis. I have been surprised sometimes, like with my namesake Civil War soldier, and a horror parody story with a namesake character, and another namesake supposedly in Mongolia, but there is very little about me on the 'Net that I haven't initiated.
Randomnity
Feb. 8th, 2010 01:17 am*) On the Super Bowl--for the first time ever I saw Peyton Manning's dark side. At a few times when he was on the sidelines watching his team try to hold the Saints, the looks on his face reminded me of Tony Perkins in Psycho and Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. For all his "nice guy" image it wouldn't surprise me if somebody cast him as a villain in a horror movie after his football career is over.
Meanwhile, nobody can say the Saints didn't earn their victory. Yes, they DID have "something to prove"...and now we'll have to get used to them being called "defending NFL champions".
I didn't watch the Who's halftime show or more than a few commercials. I get my sister's point about the Denny's commercial with the screaming chickens. I can't remember the last time I ate at a Denny's anyway.
*) I'm starting a Google account. I used to have one, but then I shuffled it to Mum for reasons that aren't worth explaining.
*) The weather is typical February lousy. Tonight is cold...not enough to freeze the water pipes, but enough to make us miserable. I've been hitting the coffee and cocoa very hard but wish I didn't have to.
*) I'm waiting for three things in the coming mail: a package of scale model parts to review; a check from the State of Tennessee to pay me for three days of jury duty; a response from the IRS to my return. Which one would you think I'd get first?
Meanwhile, nobody can say the Saints didn't earn their victory. Yes, they DID have "something to prove"...and now we'll have to get used to them being called "defending NFL champions".
I didn't watch the Who's halftime show or more than a few commercials. I get my sister's point about the Denny's commercial with the screaming chickens. I can't remember the last time I ate at a Denny's anyway.
*) I'm starting a Google account. I used to have one, but then I shuffled it to Mum for reasons that aren't worth explaining.
*) The weather is typical February lousy. Tonight is cold...not enough to freeze the water pipes, but enough to make us miserable. I've been hitting the coffee and cocoa very hard but wish I didn't have to.
*) I'm waiting for three things in the coming mail: a package of scale model parts to review; a check from the State of Tennessee to pay me for three days of jury duty; a response from the IRS to my return. Which one would you think I'd get first?
Sentimental Journey Postscriptage
Jul. 19th, 2009 01:27 am1) Not a Wal*Mart, a Home Depot. So shows me Google StreetView.
2) The Venus Diner was sold in 2006 and moved to Cleveland according to sources. Gibsonia, you did NOT know what you had when you had it!
2) The Venus Diner was sold in 2006 and moved to Cleveland according to sources. Gibsonia, you did NOT know what you had when you had it!
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Sentimental Journey Part II
Jul. 18th, 2009 09:12 pmNow, one thing about moving is where you had been up to then. This afternoon, I GoogleEarth'ed one place I hadn't physically been in thirty years--the town and neighborhood in suburban Pittsburgh I called "home" for the years of 1976 to 1979. Saw a couple really glaring changes.
"Fawn Haven III" has added a new neighborhood where the farm used to be to the north. A road that had been a dead end just west of our street was extended and that whole area cleared and new streets added. But thanks to the end of the housing bubble, the land hadn't been built up much when the satellite took the shots of the area. I guess if I wanted to live there again, I wouldn't have to buy an older house--I could just have a new one built within walking distance.
Looks like a Wal*Mart went up behind the shopping plaza where the Woolwooth used to be. I think the movie theater where I saw Star Wars and half a dozen Ray Harryhausen movies was there too, but my folks aren't sure they agree with me.
I think my folks want to go north again this fall...and perhaps I'll go with them. But I want us to spend a day in Allison Park. It may not mean as much to them as it does to me, but it is a part of who I am.
"Fawn Haven III" has added a new neighborhood where the farm used to be to the north. A road that had been a dead end just west of our street was extended and that whole area cleared and new streets added. But thanks to the end of the housing bubble, the land hadn't been built up much when the satellite took the shots of the area. I guess if I wanted to live there again, I wouldn't have to buy an older house--I could just have a new one built within walking distance.
Looks like a Wal*Mart went up behind the shopping plaza where the Woolwooth used to be. I think the movie theater where I saw Star Wars and half a dozen Ray Harryhausen movies was there too, but my folks aren't sure they agree with me.
I think my folks want to go north again this fall...and perhaps I'll go with them. But I want us to spend a day in Allison Park. It may not mean as much to them as it does to me, but it is a part of who I am.
Does Anyone...PeekYou?
Jan. 6th, 2009 04:53 pmSomebody Did!
Googled myself and found this site I had nothing to do with. May need to contact these blokes.
Googled myself and found this site I had nothing to do with. May need to contact these blokes.
Writer's Block: Google Founded
Sep. 7th, 2008 04:03 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I use Google everyday, but use other search engines as well. I guess the most useful parts of the site for me are Image Search and Group Search. Google and the other search engines were definitely more useful to me when I was a n00b nearly ten years ago. The Internet in general redefined me as a person, and Google has been a definite force in that transformation.
Ever try looking yourself up and seeing where there are mentions of you?
I use Google everyday, but use other search engines as well. I guess the most useful parts of the site for me are Image Search and Group Search. Google and the other search engines were definitely more useful to me when I was a n00b nearly ten years ago. The Internet in general redefined me as a person, and Google has been a definite force in that transformation.
Ever try looking yourself up and seeing where there are mentions of you?
Google Video Embed Test
May. 29th, 2008 02:41 pm( Video Related to Ground-Loop At Berlin Airshow )
The plane featured in this video had a minor ground-loop accident this week. I saw a snippet of video on a local news broadcast a couple nights back and I was curious about it, but the newscast went by it so fast I couldn't tell where it was or what really happened.
The damage to the plane looks to be relatively minor and the pilot wasn't hurt, so both are very likely to fly again.
FP
The plane featured in this video had a minor ground-loop accident this week. I saw a snippet of video on a local news broadcast a couple nights back and I was curious about it, but the newscast went by it so fast I couldn't tell where it was or what really happened.
The damage to the plane looks to be relatively minor and the pilot wasn't hurt, so both are very likely to fly again.
FP
Postscript: Afterburner Retentive
Mar. 21st, 2005 12:01 amHey.
I was so intent on putting the previous piece to bed I didn't mention anything about how I came to the answers to my little mystery. Well, this is about how it came down...
I did a few Google Image searches for pictures of the planes, specifying either the Fairchild or Fokker F27, and tried to limit my answers to American lines. Ultimately, this brought me to Airliners.net, with a side trip to a site devoted to the histories of Pilgrim Air and Bexair (http://www.geocities.com/bexair). The Bexair site has FAA registration numbers that I checked against the government's database (http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/nnum_inquiry.asp).
As for the Fokker D.VII, I goofed...the markings weren't Udet's; they probably were supposed to be Herrmann Goering's. I haven't found any online pictures of that one and finding any website mention of that machine has been impossible so far.
Keep em flying!
FP
I was so intent on putting the previous piece to bed I didn't mention anything about how I came to the answers to my little mystery. Well, this is about how it came down...
I did a few Google Image searches for pictures of the planes, specifying either the Fairchild or Fokker F27, and tried to limit my answers to American lines. Ultimately, this brought me to Airliners.net, with a side trip to a site devoted to the histories of Pilgrim Air and Bexair (http://www.geocities.com/bexair). The Bexair site has FAA registration numbers that I checked against the government's database (http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/nnum_inquiry.asp).
As for the Fokker D.VII, I goofed...the markings weren't Udet's; they probably were supposed to be Herrmann Goering's. I haven't found any online pictures of that one and finding any website mention of that machine has been impossible so far.
Keep em flying!
FP
