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That's incredible, Guy. How the hell could they miss a splinter of wood in the ear drum? What a bizarre and unfortunate incident. I hope you get it straightened out soon.

It might be that by the late 1800s wood wasn't so easy to find in the area? It's an interesting question. We have a lot of stone barns and buildings up here, and I always assumed they were built of stone for a) permanence; and b) fire resistance.

Wow, Largo, that barn is amazing. Is that all local sandstone? What a beautiful piece of work. Do you guys think that if you wanted to build something like that today, anyone local could be found who could do it?

The odds of there being other intelligent races in the universe _right now_ are pretty close to zero, in my opinion. On the other hand the odds that there were at some point other intelligences, or that there will be in the future, are pretty high. But then the odds that it will ever matter to...

I'm a computer gamer from way back; a seventies-era Tolkien freak with a distinct appreciation for virtual worlds. I'm a programmer, and get a charge out of the whole idea from that angle as well. I played Everquest (had a guild of developers at a small company I started and we all played after...

Most farming isn't that dirty anymore, unless you're fixing equipment.

It's something that bothers me very much. Most kids, mine included, aren't allowed to walk a neighborhood alone, daylight or not. Most kids, mine included, aren't allowed to ride a bike to a friend's house. They could never, ever, God in his Heaven forbid, walk the mile to Schooley Mt. Park and...

Poor choice of words on my part. Maybe "low point of a drainage basin" would have been a better way to put it. Up here everything is hills and valleys. Anyway, I think bobpbx has it right. Water just wants to head down to sea level. Up here that means collecting in the valleys and forming...

I've often suspected that with cats only one of them enjoys it.

Treated lumber uses less caustic materials than a few years ago, but it still contains... I think... arsenic and some other goodies. I'm not one who worried much about the health affects, but I wouldn't burn it and stand in the smoke for a couple of hours. I rebuilt our 16 x 50 deck three or...

I'm sorry to hear that Woodjin. I know how that feels, but it's certainly better to hit the poor beaver than bounce the car off the guard rail.

Haha, yeah, but the parents will all be dead. No, it's not about fitness per se. It's about organized activity, and trying to fill their days up now that we don't let them do anything on their own anymore. The facilities are way overcrowded, and they schedule games from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM.

I know they hold water, and I have been through some deep holes, but you didn't see this kid's Jeep. I realize that many of the mud holes these guys play in are on the back roads, and I've seen some of those places. Also sand hollows, pits, etc. But there are lots of them that look for bogs too.

Well let's get back to first causes. It really all comes from getting married, having children, and then moving to an area where people think that if your kids aren't in sneakers and sweating by 7:45 AM on Saturday you're a slob. I actually have a coach negotiating with me to amend my...

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He actually referred to "Washington Forge" as in a town surrounding a works, i.e. "Martha Furnace." It doesn't really seem to fit with anything in the area east of Quaker Bridge. But one fact that is a little dissonant with the Morris County hypothesis is that he described it as being on a...

I've heard it said that no stream crosses the barrens: all the streams which exit the woods rise within the woods. But are they all actually freshwater springs? We have many streams up here that have their source in upland seeps at the center of a drainage basin. But our bedrock is close to...

I think that was likely done by a jeep, or other mudhound vehicle. There are a lot of people living on the periphery of the barrens who like nothing better than to get up to their hoodline in a bog. You can find dozens of their videos on YouTube, and in fact if you just search on "New Jersey...

He barely had control of that ball as he went down. You could almost argue that he didn't, but I think it was the right call. It was an amazing play, no question about it.

They visited Callico after camping at Allen's Bridge on the north side of the Wading. Not far from Callico they "came upon the rarity of an inhabited house," complete with a stone-lined well. The Adam's farmhouse perhaps? Did it have a well? From there they simply state that they proceeded to...