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Better than the original, for once...
MY FAVORITE VIDEO (TODAY) IS...
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It will be a great thing when this technology evolves farther:
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The problem with it is that it is hydraulically operated. The above video is with an electric hydraulic pump that is pretty quiet. See the hydraulic lines coming from it?
"In the wild" you need some sort of motor and the four legged version is still a bit too loud to be around. See below:
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Of course there is a somewhat cheaper model:
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Now having an army of those marching across the playa ... maybe wearing swim fins ... would be something to behold.
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The problem with it is that it is hydraulically operated. The above video is with an electric hydraulic pump that is pretty quiet. See the hydraulic lines coming from it?
"In the wild" you need some sort of motor and the four legged version is still a bit too loud to be around. See below:
[youtube][/youtube]
Of course there is a somewhat cheaper model:
[youtube][/youtube]
Now having an army of those marching across the playa ... maybe wearing swim fins ... would be something to behold.
Pabst Blue Ribbon - The beer that made Gerlach famous.
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WEll that's sweet, but it doesn't capture the complexities and the anger I was feeling. Yes, of course I want those, but they are years away from being something I coudl afford and I'm not a paraplegic. Not very kind fo me, but I like to be honest with myself, if I can be, and keep in tough with the not as nice parts of myself.Ugly Dougly wrote:How about "cool!" ?theCryptofishist wrote: I don't know if I have the words to say what I'm feeling right now.
Or just "thank god for nerdy engineers?"
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"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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Is preposting allowed?
But, how did you know?
Is preposting allowed?
But, how did you know?
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Keeping old skills alive. Old waterman from Tilghman Island shows you how to make a crab net. In four parts.
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And this one brought a pang of homesickness when I realized I recognized the bridges. The drawbridge is the old Kent Narrows bridge with the new higher bridge just beyond. The steel bridge seen in the background on a couple of the workboat scenes is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge that goes from Sandy Point near Annapolis to Kent Island near Stevensville.
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It is a dying occupation. My family weren't watermen but my friends and neighbors were. The waterman is basically the icon of the region where I grew up. When I hear songs like that one, and this one:
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and I hear about them talk about the Choptank River and Tilghman (or Tilghman's as a local might say it) Island I start to realize just how long it has been and how far away I am.
The odd cadence of the old Rock Hall dialect would be like music to my ears but there probably aren't many left who speak it.
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And this one brought a pang of homesickness when I realized I recognized the bridges. The drawbridge is the old Kent Narrows bridge with the new higher bridge just beyond. The steel bridge seen in the background on a couple of the workboat scenes is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge that goes from Sandy Point near Annapolis to Kent Island near Stevensville.
[youtube][/youtube]
It is a dying occupation. My family weren't watermen but my friends and neighbors were. The waterman is basically the icon of the region where I grew up. When I hear songs like that one, and this one:
[youtube][/youtube]
and I hear about them talk about the Choptank River and Tilghman (or Tilghman's as a local might say it) Island I start to realize just how long it has been and how far away I am.
The odd cadence of the old Rock Hall dialect would be like music to my ears but there probably aren't many left who speak it.
Pabst Blue Ribbon - The beer that made Gerlach famous.
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Hell yeah! When I got to the neighborhood where I live now, the local Safeway didn't carry Old Bay. They do now! Or at least they did a couple of months ago. That stuff is awesome. I use it on chicken, in salad, all sorts of stuff besides its "normal" use as crab seasoning.
The smell of a mess of blue crabs steaming in old bay brings me right back to my childhood when my sister and I could dip half a bushel right off the pilings of the piers at the marina on a summer afternoon.
And "Murlan" is more the Western Shore way of saying it. Where I grew up it was more Mare-lin. (Maryland is divided by the Chesapeake Bay and the "Western Shore" is very culturally different from the "Eastern Shore" of the bay).
Reminds me of an old fart I knew who had never in his life left the Eastern Shore. He decided to drive across the bridge to see what it was like over there. He said the people were just crazy over there and he was never going to leave the USA again.
The Skipjack is another icon of the region. It is the boat used to harvest oysters. The law says you can't take oysters by power boat. So they still work to this day by sail.
There's a lot of culture in that little bitty area that dates back to the 1600's. The little church in the town where I grew up was built in 1878 and is the "new" church. The original chapel was subject to flooding from a nearby creek. The town cemetery is at the old location and is the continued growth of the original cemetery of the chapel. It is what is called a "chapel of ease" in that the parish church was some 15 miles away and too far for many to get to on horseback or on foot. So the smaller outlying towns had chapels. The parish church was built in 1732 "at a cost of 140,000 pounds of tobacco" by the Church of England and that is also the "new church" in that town. The old church burned down in the early 1700's.
The smell of a mess of blue crabs steaming in old bay brings me right back to my childhood when my sister and I could dip half a bushel right off the pilings of the piers at the marina on a summer afternoon.
And "Murlan" is more the Western Shore way of saying it. Where I grew up it was more Mare-lin. (Maryland is divided by the Chesapeake Bay and the "Western Shore" is very culturally different from the "Eastern Shore" of the bay).
Reminds me of an old fart I knew who had never in his life left the Eastern Shore. He decided to drive across the bridge to see what it was like over there. He said the people were just crazy over there and he was never going to leave the USA again.
The Skipjack is another icon of the region. It is the boat used to harvest oysters. The law says you can't take oysters by power boat. So they still work to this day by sail.
There's a lot of culture in that little bitty area that dates back to the 1600's. The little church in the town where I grew up was built in 1878 and is the "new" church. The original chapel was subject to flooding from a nearby creek. The town cemetery is at the old location and is the continued growth of the original cemetery of the chapel. It is what is called a "chapel of ease" in that the parish church was some 15 miles away and too far for many to get to on horseback or on foot. So the smaller outlying towns had chapels. The parish church was built in 1732 "at a cost of 140,000 pounds of tobacco" by the Church of England and that is also the "new church" in that town. The old church burned down in the early 1700's.
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