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Those pipes were removed from Ong's Hat after the gate imploded, and should have been destroyed, dammit!

I would suggest not propagating links that people give you unless you know them to be safe and unoffensive in the context in which you distribute them. A lot of malware gets propagated this way.

Great read! Thanks for posting that.

This is actually really interesting. There has been a lot of discussion on the net over the last year or two about viral marketing in forums. Companies have hired people to get involved in forum communities and promote their product or point of view. The somewhat humorous content of this...

I was in Princeton myself today. Got out of there around 2:45 when it started coming down a little more heavily. So far up here on the mountain it's about 2" and glazing.

Never did, and the Inquirer didn't print anything about it the next day that I saw. Just another drunk in Philly, I guess. This was January of 1985. Hope he did something with his life. It's very nice of you to say the word "hero", but with the perspective of 20 years, it was a very stupid...

Yeah, he made it. Last I saw him they were hustling him off in an ambulance. Andre Armbruster, who used to be the harbormaster at Penn's Landing and a good friend of mine, hustled me into his office and broke out the medicinal spirits :). I heard from Andre later that the cops told him the guy...

People usually don't respect the water nearly enough, unless they work on it. I worked on it for a time, and I respect it. Even water that you would say feels warm will kill you pretty quickly. In water up to 60 deg. F. you'll survive 1 - 6 hours depending on initial condition...

That was an extremely interesting episode of Nature. I had no idea the Red Knot migrated that far: Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic every season. It was also a fascinating look at the interconnections in nature that are often not immediately evident to researchers. I did find the comment that a...

Neither could I, really, but it sounded good. O'neals I have some great memories of. Back in 1985 I was working on the restoration of a ship at Penn's Landing, the Gazela, and we used to wander up there for burgers and beers three or four nights a week. They found out we were the guys everyone...

I'm guessing some kid had to run home and change his shorts after seeing guys with M-16s charging through the brush at him.

Ah, Dock Street. That brings back memories of many a long, cool yard. Another favorite was O'Neill's on.... 3rd I think, off of South. Wonder if that place is still there?

Hi TrailOtter. I posted awhile back about some bricks seen near Munyon Field that were marked as being from the S&F B Co. Turned out to be Sayer and Fisher of Sayerville. Sounds like yours were slightly different, but wanted to mention it in case they are related...

Yep, I would go with chimney caps or roof vents myself. Perhaps one of the terra cotta works produced them as a sideline?

But at the same time they did have some important technical limitations that contributed. Gibbon (whom I know has been discredited in many ways) makes a good case that their failure to find ways to increase food production was a factor in dooming the widespread civilization they created. They...

Haha, I'm expecting a lovely nature seen and I click on that first one and... well I won't be a spoiler.

Yeah, and there's another thread now too. Are they pimping for a career school or something?

In certain cultural and political terms I think that's true. In terms of technology, I think you can view the achievements of various civilizations very roughly as a series of waves where each crests a little higher than the preceeding, due to having something left over to begin building on. For...

It's L that has always interested me in that equation. I think people implicitly assume that once achieving, say, our level of advancement, a civilization just lasts forever and continues to become more advanced. Of course, we have no local experience to support that idea. If you extrapolate...

I can only quote Sue's reaction, and perhaps add an O. M. G.