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I saw an Orgeon at the REI today. Screen was on but the thing was bolted down and it was the model with no detailed maps on it, but the screen looked nice and bright. It is a lot bulkier than the Nuvi they had on display. I also called up Garmin to ask how much it would cost to repair the...

No, sorry, the overlords say that you can't have Ron Paul. They'll tell you who you can pretend to choose between, and then they'll run your pretend vote through their preprogrammed Diebold voting machines and tell you who won, in fact they'll tell you who won even before you waddle in to the...

I don't trust Facebook either. "Dragonfly Whisperer". Good name. I'm a moth whisperer.

"Why does the moon look so small in photos?" http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071213064544AA0vwbp Yeah, I've heard that "optical illusion" explanation before, but...

"Doubt that you will find a Montana at Best Buy." Nah, not at the rather small one I went to. I should be by an REI shortly. "The Montana does sound like the best for now, tho I'm still going to hang on to my 276C as long as the creaky buttons hold up" That may be sooner rather than...

Moon, Venus, Marsh by Chase Schiefer, on Flickr _______________ Nice one! But why does the moon appear so big in the sky and so tiny in photographs?

It is wonderful to see how fast the pitch pine forests in the Barrens recovers from fire. A month from today there will be yellow-green sprouts everywhere.

How often do these "controlled burns" turn into disastrous forest fires?

Come on. This is silly. How many long distance elementary school helium balloons are there compared with, say, plastic bags, plastic soda bottles, oil spills, big ships dumping their refuse, cities dumping their refuse, old fishing nets, chemical dumping, Fukushima radiation, future radiation...

I don't really remember where the balloon I found was from, someplace pretty far away, maybe even Virginia too. Hey, is the Pine Barrens like the Sargasso Sea, but a collecting place for lost aerial devices? Nah, I don't think that elementary school helium balloons are a serious environmental...

Yeah, REI will let you take their bikes outside to try them too. I've been an REI member for the longest time. I saw Best Buy selling the Montana by googling it, but maybe it's only online. Yes, 276C has a USB interface. Thanks for the Basecamp link. I'll try it. Is it much better than...

Good to hear that frogs are still singing. I was afraid they were going extinct. I remember camping out one summer night around 1970, by Bamber Lake. It sounded like Jurassic Park. Speaking of fifth graders, once, long ago, hiking in the depths of the Barrens, I found a helium balloon with...

"Pan, I think you're on the verge of over-thinking thi..." You're right, Boyd. I do tend to do that, and I'm not even ready to get one yet. I was just in a REI store. I should have taken a look - but in stores the GPS units aren't turned on so you can see the actual screen in action, are...