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David,

Thanks kindly for the mention. The Granville family were quite amazing and certainly deserve a plaque or two. I'd love to see a Gee Bee in flight.

Do you think the NBC team skipped class the day they were teaching about the North Pole? It's an important lesson in questioning everything, including what you see on the news.

Rich,

The link didn't work for me, so I'm trying to post it here (if HTML will work).

Love it!

Janice

So apparently when the web site was making money for J.K. Rowling by bringing attention to her books, but the web site owner was not getting anything for his efforts, it was perfectly Okay. Now that the web site owner wants a little bit back in return, it is a copyright violation.

Sowwy, but this sounds a little bit like JKR wanting to eat her cake and have it too.

J

Have fun Dave!

(As I ponder the enjoyment gleaned from a car full of teenagers)!

Janice

Dave,

Thanks for the mention!! How lucky you are to receive Civil War-era family history!

And I look forward to the future as I expect scanner technology to get even easier. I know they already make scanner wands, but I'd like them to become more user friendly and cheaper! I want them to save the photographs directly to a thumb drive.

Janice

Moses Farmer who was the co-inventor of the fire alarm system, was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire.

What I consider his greater feat was that in 1868, eleven years before Edison patented his version of the light bulb, Moses Farmer, with a dynamo of his own invention, illuminated a room of his house (in Salem Massachusetts) for several months--this was the first known case of domestic incandescent lighting.

http://cowhampshire.blogharbor.com/blog/_archiv...

David,

Happy New Year!

I wanted to take the time to let you know how your articles are appreciated. They are always interesting, and I enjoy the New Hampshire slant.

Best Wishes in 2008.

Janice

Dave, don't be too sure of that... depends on who is watching :D

Dave,

Having had a little bit of personal experience with dome homes, I'll add that placing furniture is difficult in a building of this shape..... and agree with your bet that they catch on like the yurt did :D

J

However, Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D.
Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who provided the original data that was used to compute the above estimate, himself states (in the same article, at the bottom) that the methodology and numbers used to estimate this power usage are faulty (based on a number of things but including that laptop computers use 10x less energy and that is not factored in).

J

Hey Earle, I'm wirewound resistor-challenged. In plain talk, what type of products use them and why are they wound with wire?

Janice

Dave,

Sounds like the linguistics lab now needs to hold avian tryouts for "Birds Got Talent".

J

ROFL Dave!!!!

Earle, I want to know how to program my television to go mute when the commercials come on....

Janice

David,

Thank you for mention of this event. I've written an article about Christa and linked back to here.

Janice

Sounds like the perfect playground for a right-wing militia group :D Great info you guys.

Janice

Dave,

But if they keep saying the same thing year after year, eventually they will be right! :D :D

Janice

David,

Welcome back! That was nice of Earle to help out while you were gone.

Janice

Earle,

I bet those sensations of being lost have more to do with your sense of direction rather than inability to see landmarks. A study of how men and women differ as far as getting from point A to point B indicates that men usually use compass points to know where they are headed while women use landmarks. Did ya ever notice how guys love that compass on the dashboard? And how women get lost if the Dunkin' Doughnuts on the corner is demolished? I got lost once in a town I'd traveled to many times because someone took down a large barn from a major intersection! :D

Janice

Rich,

I understand exactly what you mean. Recently I had the opportunity to visit the King Tut Exhibit in Philadelphia. Everything was carefully placed under plexiglass, and I felt distanced from the wondrous display. I probably would have not even noticed except about 10 years ago I had the different experience of viewing another Tut exhibit at the Museum in New Orleans. There were multiple signs reminding visitors NOT to touch the exhibit, however many of the large items were right out in the open, and if you got close enough you could imagine that you were smelling the ancient sands and exotic scents.

Surely with all the technology at hand, the museums and historical societies could do better to engage us rather than distance us from our heritage.

Janice

Due to digital cameras and web-sharing, so many people no longer print out the photographs they take. I do fear that some day when the Internet ceases to be our communication medium of choice, that all those great photographs will disappear. At least when they are printed out, some of them survive for the next generation. Your thoughts?

Janice

Hi Earle!

A comment and a question...

I was asked to participate recently in placing items in a time capsule that is set to be opened in 100 years. I had offered to put the photographs and documents on a mini-CD that would take up much less space than paper. They refused the CD saying that in 100 years people probably won't know how to play the CD (the technology will have disappeared). And so they either placed the original photographs (printed on acid-free paper) or documents reduced to special slides with the time capsule including a viewer.

Do you feel CDs will be unusable technology in 100 years? If so what is the alternative medium if you want to "back up" important documents and photographs so that your descendants can still view them?

Janice

However, all that scientific knowledge and application is for naught if you end up with a large family of squirrels messing with your stack.....

J

This is good to know. I've left my computer turned on for years (j/k).

Janice

I remember Uncle Gus (Gus Bernier), Rex Trailer and the rest. But most of all I remember Jimmy Copeland and the Texas Kids who had a fairly brief television show at WMUR-TV in Manchester NH, about 1956. Why do I remember him the most? Because he rented an apartment in my parent's home in Manchester. He even once had myself and my twin sister on his show. Unfortunately I do not have any photographs of him.
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/in...