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I think Bob is expressing a very healthy sense of skepticism. I'm just as skeptical. The website is professionally done and well-written, so you're not Nigerian scam artists. It is full of the kind of prose favored by technology companies that are long on vision and short on customers. Nothing...

Neat stuff, Boyd. Thanks for the link.

Most authors would love to work with a good editor, in the way that the old-timers had these career-long relationships with the best ones, but it doesn't happen much anymore. The whole business operates on such thin margins, with most of the available development budgets dangled out to fish for...

Great stuff, George! I would love to see that chimney up close sometime. It does indeed seem massive, even in the pictures.

Self publishing isn't so much a matter of time. In fact, a mainstream publisher might take more of your time than you would take yourself. What you don't get in self-publishing are the things that mainstream publishers do to make a book successful: edit it and market it. Though it's fair to say...

Very interesting! From the wear I'm thinking that is quite old.

I'm sure it is rare, just based on the likely number of copies that would have been printed and sold. I'll have to check to be sure, but I think Art Pierce sourced his excerpts of the diary for "Iron in the Pines" from Bisbee's transcription. In any case, having a complete transcription of...

I'm there!

Great pics, Guy. That's one hell of a high tree stand!

The problem with gun control advocates is that they tend to be the same people who want to take it easy on criminals. Not long ago the average length of a sentence served for murder was around seven years, and in a lot of the nation's prisons those seven years are served in a place with...

Isn't there also a good bit of debate over whether he is buried there at all?

It would be interesting to try and apply for a permit just to see what the requirements are. My guess is there are no requirements, and you're not getting one, no way no how. My own opinion is that anyone should be able to hunt for coins and whatnot down to about six inches or so, as long as...

I don't think either of them made a good VP pick. Palin was an obvious attempt to pander to women and the right-wing evangelical vote, and as for Obama, he's all about change and he picks Joe Biden? Change is the one thing that will never come out of a race with three Senators in it.

You can also find bits of china flatware in the plowed field by Harrisville. Could be from a household refuse dump.

Speaking of termite-infested deadwood... I hadn't used the fireplace in close to two years, for various reasons. When we fired it up tuesday beetles starting fleeing it, and we were throwing them back in as fast as they exited. Ben... all I can say is, you've gotta get your calcium.

It was so much less than awesome up here :). I love winter, and snow, but dammit it's October :). Anyway, it came down too fast to be pretty, blanketed everything in white cement, and and went off like a bomb in our forests. I would like to know the tonnage of wood that hit the ground Tues. in...

Hey man, when you guys emerge from your holes, blinking in the bright sunlight, I'll be up at Starbucks with my laptop. Come on over and I'll buy you a latte. Ben, I was thinking about that whole firewood thing yesterday as I cleared up fallen branches. Back when wood was the primary source...

I love that show. But I'm pretty sure it's just because of the British accents and the cool cars. Plus, how can you not like a guy who thinks it would be cool to launch small autos from a compressed air cannon and shoot an antitank weapon at them?

You don't miss it 'til you don't have it. As you guys may have heard we got slammed Tuesday by a freak October storm that dumped up to 11 inches of really wet snow on our area in about three hours. It was like a bomb went off. Every tree or limb that was even slightly weak came down. I've got a...

I have never heard anything official, but I would guess that it is sort of like Batsto vs. Atsion. You can't preserve everything, so the question becomes whether enough has been preserved to be representative of the period. I don't know how much historical value is assigned to the Amatol site by...