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You got me by ten years :). I started in 1975 on an HP3000, using a teletype and storing programs on punch tape. My phone probably has 1000x the processing bandwidth and storage that that roomful of hardware had 35 years ago.

I think that is one of the most striking pictures I've ever seen. It's also an excellent record of why the Navy more or less gave up on dirigibles.

Yeah, the Susquehanna drains almost half of Pennsylvania and a good chunk of southern New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Susq.png). Lots of fertilizer and run-off from farming and dairy operations. This was a topic of concern among watermen back when I was oystering on the bay in the...

What it reminds me of is beer-fueled enthusiasm for a stupid idea evaporating in the glare of sweaty reality.

I've come upon teenagers hacking up trees for no reason. Damn shame.

Man, that is a freaking gorgeous bike. That is exactly what a motorcycle should look like.

I agree with them, but it's completely unenforceable.

The F-350 and other super duty pickups are in a class the U.S. manufacturers own. Japan doesn't produce anything like it, so it's pretty hard to compare. I think you almost have to separate the auto industry out when thinking about U.S. industrial competitiveness. It's such a uniquely farked up...

I love the loco, and the caption too. "Lost Town Hunters." Those guys were us, sixty or eighty years ago. :)

"To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol." That's one textbook definition. I will admit that one drink sometimes excites me, but I will resist the suggestion that one drink leaves me stupefied. Although there was that experience with a tumbler of Everclear...

Do you know the definition of "intoxicated?"

Hahahaha, that's awesome, Ed. I would be running for the bar. Sprinting my ass off and never looking back.

Wow, just awesome, Guy. If the standing engine buffs find this page you can expect to get a few requests for Daryl's phone number.

Well, at least advancement in the sense that it was one of the few things you could drink before water treatment became possible. There was just enough alcohol in small ale to kill off, or I guess stupify, the harmful organisms. Edit: by the way, Al, that was quite an operation :). I worked at...

Heh, I think everyone who's worked heavy industry up to... say, the late eighties knew someone like that. I think it's a lot less common now, and a lot less tolerated. I take it he wasn't a union guy? He would have had an oiler on the rig and unless the oiler was a drunk too the union would know...

When I was in Italy in the late 80's I visited an industrial plant and had lunch in the cafeteria with the workers. I was surprised to see small bottles of wine offered in the line, and was informed that it was common in Italy to offer workers wine to go with lunch. I'm not sure if that's still...

When I first looked at the map I missed the call-out for the American Prison Assoc. in Atlantic City October 8-13. I think clearly this map was made as a handout at the convention to inform attendees about all the prisons they could visit. So although at first it seemed strange to have a map...

All our prisons, that is. I guess that's one way to promote the state. http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/NJinvitesYou_1955.gif

I'm still chuckling over "vast wilderness of rednecks and retired hippies." I'm apparently in either "Lake Houses owned by New Yorkers," or "Executives Living in Mansions and Driving Mercedes Benzes." I'm surprised they would let me stay in either place.