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We had to get up early because Big Boy's schedule had changed, so we headed out of the mountains into the Great Central Valley outside Lincoln, CA. It was a cold, rainy day, which made for some dramatic scenes. We parked by an "at-grade" crossing where trains usually blow their horns. We were not disappointed! Why was it going so slowly? That paid off big time for us as another train was coming, and Big Boy had been put on a siding track while a freight train passed. That allows us some time to get up close and personal with the massive engine.
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“If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.”
Falstaff makes the case for strong drink in this incredible scene from 'Chimes at Midnight' (1965), discussed in my new video with @Pinball_Lez : youtube.com/watch?v=Zsrxv6…

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Geekin' with James Hancock@gknout
As a guest on the Dean Martin show, Orson Welles gives us a peek behind the curtain as he gets into character as Sir John Falstaff. Check out my video with @Pinball_Lez where we discuss Orson's long relationship with the character both on the stage and screen: youtube.com/watch?v=Zsrxv6…
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@cremieuxrecueil @nypost ... and carry until they're all gone.
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@HistoryUnd @grok is it true that dads with high stress jobs tend to have daughters?
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@rorynotsorry Sounds like a plan. Curious, what is the format of the stuff prior to lyophilization? A wet sludge?
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@ithacarising This book grabs you by the hair and drags you forward.
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Jacques Barzun was the last of the proper cultural heavyweights. He was a one-man artillery of learning who could drop a 500 year history of the West on your lap at 93 and still leave you wanting more. While the rest of us were busy specialising ourselves into narrow little boxes, Barzun strolled through the whole shooting range - music, literature, education, even baseball - with the easy stride of a man who actually enjoyed civilisation and wasn't afraid to say so.
His From Dawn to Decadence isn't just a book, it's a cathedral built out of sentences, each one polished until it glints. He taught Columbia's Great Books course like it mattered, because to him it did. He championed clarity, style, the whole liberal-arts ethos against the rising tide of jargon and decline. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom the old-fashioned way: by defending the life of the mind against its reduction to mere public relations.
Few ever matched his range or his refusal to be dull. As one of France's greatest exports to the US - Parisian by birth, thoroughly American by choice and formation - Barzun was cultured, witty, and unmistakably humane. A giant, and one we're unlikely to see again.

DonPJenn@DonPJenn
A must read for serious baseball fans. A bit cerebral, but baseball is a cerebral game. Mr. Barzun was a resident of San Antonio. He died here in 2012 at age 104. theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/03/baseba…
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@JosieMarcellino Don't know anything about your breasts but you've got a way with words.
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@Shirinsmit I was disappointed to learn it was G6 and not "cheese stick".
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If you're curious exactly where and how I took a photo, you can find the exact location and camera settings at my Flickr site. All my photos taken since 2009 are geotagged and sorted in albums.
flickr.com/photos/jefflyn…

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@redbirdracing @BigDickBarclay I have two of the Honeywell T6 thermostats. Each has a remote sensor which sets the temperature (no averaging multiple temperatures or 'smart' modes). This works great for me.
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@BigDickBarclay Any recommendations for good tstat. Maybe even with a sensor(s) that could be set somewhere other than tstat location?
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@wordsmithI @worldclick56 You can drive there on a pretty rough dirt road out of Pinedale.
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@wordsmithI @worldclick56 Northern end of the Wind River range.
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