On the topic of shipwrecks, if you saw this New Yorker article over the summer, let me tell you that 100% the semi-retired Florida couple put their finger on the scale to come off as more hapless and innocent than other documents show. For example, the "purchased from" bit.
All Pittsburgh ever gets is dumped cars in the river.
And I bet they aren't even because of an ice road.
The rivers haven't even frozen enough to carry a person in decades.
But really, I bet you have dozens of pieresqueries under the megatons of concrete the corps of engineers poured on your riverbanks.
Maybe. But mostly it's finding of cars, sometimes with people inside.
The army is notoriously careless.
But mostly it's finding of cars, sometimes with people inside.
Peeresque. Pierce-arrow-esque. Pier-ceroesque.
Heebie murdered an anonymous lurker and drowned them in a car.
Pirlo-esque is a reasonably common existing word.
That's an outdated stereotype. We're very clean now.
All along the northern coast here there are hundreds of stone laid fish traps. They're very well preserved and a few of them are even still in use. An archeologist friend of mine is working on them to get them preserved and world recognition iykwim. He's been fighting with an ecologist friend of mine who insists on planting mangroves all along the coast even though the species involved is not native and they would end up destroying the fish traps. Most of them seem to go back several centuries. Archeologist friend brought in two maritime archeologists who said one site may even go back to the neolithic but it's very hard to tell. I've been to many of the sites with Arch friend, fuck it, I'll call him Indy like our pub group does, and they're extensive. You can see them using Google Earth or even the satellite layer of Google Maps. Usually fish traps like that would be made of wood/netting/reeds or the like and this is pretty damned unique.
Technically, when the Pet Rock trend started, we entered the neoneolithic.
Hey unfogged! I am going to be in SFO from Wednesday to Friday. Anyone want to take advantage of this scheduled Alex Availability?
I really feel like pier-esque ought to have been a preëxisting word.
It couldn't pass peeresque review.
12: These things?
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.0127845,51.3942593,1031m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
16 Those are fairly simple, go here and also follow the coast eastwards from there
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZdzxyHy8rzFV94Wg7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
The Mon may have a B-25 bomber...
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news/the-ghost-bomber-of-the-monongahela-blends-conspiracy-truth-and-tragedy-24665538
I wouldn't have looked very hard for something in the Mon in 1956 either.
Those are cool, and as you say well preserved. But not as cool as these.
Those are cool. These are massive, I walked a good part of it and have pics
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GdGrmFSK2pLmvX5K7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
20 Indy says they're going to have to take a look at those and others for a comparative study
Was going to mention 18. Have kayaked there with dalriata and did not encounter a plane ...
Did you look on the bottom of the river?
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Holy shit, Hurricane Milton looks terrible. This sounds as bad, or possibly worse meteorologically, than Katrina.
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Did you look on the bottom of the river?
The bottom of a river smells like roses.
I looked up how far Gainesville is from Tampa, but I guess the hurricane still has error bars.
14: i'm around & happy to get together, would be lovely to see you alex.
I guess you aren't supposed to be in Florida now. Or not most of it.
For this thread it's compulsory.
I'm trying to figure out if "Democrats control the weather" is an improvement, because it isn't as directly antisemitic as the precursor, or if it's worse, because it's obviously less plausible.
If my office had a Slack, maybe I could ask at work tomorrow.
"This is urgent: Our fundraising has slowed down dramatically. We're now at a point where we won't have the funds to control the weather in Arizona."
There's less atmospheric moisture in Arizona, so a hurricane costs more.
But even a small hurricane would leave a big impression.
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Fuck these guys.
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-maid-deport-malaysia-dissent-80e6155380d495511a30ae6cda174878
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39 I'm reminded of this crap: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgk8gnpg0zo
There's also been widespread repression of pro-Palestinan speech there, even at NYU's branch campus in AD. I was a finalist for a job there just before the blockade and I'm so glad I didn't get it.
30 and anyone else: either tomorrow night or the next, say 9pm at the Utah?
My favorite thing I read today was "as Hurricane Milton prepares to circumcise the United States...."
Some nobody always comes along and wants to steal the credit.
apologies for being lame but a starting time of 9 pm on a weeknight exceeds my abilities to stay upright & chatty. heebie i think has my email & if you'd like to come by our flat for a drink at say 7-8, that would be lovely & just drop me a line, i'll send you the address.
hope you are enjoying your visit. & of course totally happy to take you for a swim in the bay tomorrow morning if you'd like, the water is still pretty warm & only about 6 knots predicted for tomorrow at 6 a.m., it'll be flooding but still i think pretty chill.
Your Name is cheesy and predictable but nonetheless visually and musically gorgeous and totally worth watching even if your screening turns out unexpectedly not to have subtitles. Massive architecture porn. (Granted, the orbital geometry was all wrong. And I have reservations about the geology in that crater. But I was willing to suspend disbelief.)
also you could dm me in bluesky if you're there - dairyqueen@bsky.social
One of the best things I ever ate was fried oysters. It was somewhere in San Francisco, but I don't remember where.
On topic because lurking underwater, some lovely footage here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6qz387qjgo
Anyway, some time after 7pm tonight would be good - I tried to drop heebie an e-mail but the @ unfogged.com address doesn't work. (Error 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table, if anyone maintains anything)
Paddington In Peru Will Nod To Werner Herzog's Aguirre And Fitzcarraldo
Not an April Fool's article!
(Surely few actors have ever been better able to deliver a hard stare than Klaus Kinski...)
When I watched Aguirre, I did think a stuffed animal or two would humanize the film.
49: heebie.geebie at gmail should work!