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I wish you all the best, Scott. My parents are getting up there too.

Great pictures, James! That image of the four wheelers playing in the water looks like Old Halfway. If it was, I hope they stayed stuck long enough for the rangers to find them, since the whole area is posted off-limits to motor vehicles.

LIP, you'll never get anywhere on this topic by parsing what you experience day by day, or even year by year. I don't know how to explain it better than I already have. We have had very cold spells within the last few years. Heck, all of this past May was cold, rainy, and windy. You notice what...

From an NYT blog post on Tasers... "And sales of Tasers have hardly slowed since the ugly scene in Gainesville. The day after the tase heard around the world, Taser International, the manufacturer, announced that the United States Forest Service had ordered 700 X26 models, along with 'related...

I think you missed my point, or I didn't express it well. I basically wanted to get away from the question of global warming, which can't be answered, and focus on the question of whether this hot spell is indicative of it, which can be answered. Also, I did not say we had a 50/50 shot of...

As I said in your other thread on this same topic... most of the current heat records for October in the state of NJ were set in the late 1930's through the early 1950's, and those temps meet or exceed what we've just experienced. Now whether global warming is occuring or not may be an open...

They've been doing this very aggressively up here in the NW corner as well. With the highlands act and a lot of local anti-growth zoning initiatives the environment for new home construction has changed quite a lot. As a homeowner with equity in an heavily anti-growth area, a misanthrope, and a...

But the point is that it isn't. The record high for Oct. 3 is 82F, 1950. The record high for Oct. 1 is 85F, 1953. For Oct. 2 it is 85F, 1954. For Oct. 4 it is 86F, 1941. Of all the record highs for October the latest is 2001, and it is a relatively modest 78F. The hottest October day ever was a...

67F right now in early October. Not that unusual at all for Northern NJ over my 12 years of experience.

IE7, all the links on the page work.

Beautiful pictures. Looks like you guys had a great time. Thanks for the posts and description.

Ok, I listened to the two latest of Whippoorbill's recordings (sorry for getting your user name wrong, Whippoorbill :) ). With respect to Guy's challenge, I didn't realize what was happening in file 7 until the music grew loud enough to comprehend. I'm assuming you weren't sitting right on the...

I'm a happy Comcast triple-play subscriber. I don't use their webspace tools because I have a server elsewhere, but as far as television, net, and phone, they do a good job. My only complaint is the lack of a good and well-supported solution for PC/DCTV desktop integration via something like...

Who ya gonna call?

History Channel seems to have gone to hell, too. Used to be my favorite place to land, but now half the shows are on the prophecies of Nostradamus, the Knights Templar, or some guy in a windbreaker hunched down in a sewer saying "Wow! Cool!" every thirty seconds.

I have an M-Audio pre-amp for my home recording setup. They make good stuff. Bought mine from Sweetwater. The quality of your recordings is really outstanding.

Thanks for that! I'll Google them and see why whatever they are hitting something with doesn't turn to mash. Edit: wow, I listened to the next two and continue to be impressed by the clarity of the recordings. I'm going to make them into one long loop to play when I'm sitting back and...

I just finished dinner and a half-bottle of some Tuscan red, so I don't know about you guys, but I am major-league relaxed. I know you are dying to ask what we ate with the wine. Well what else do you eat with a nice red wine? A hoagie.

The safety issue is certainly a good point. Beyond that I have to admit I have never thought in terms of our having a responsibility to leave refuse in place once it's been there long enough to become habitat. Very interesting viewpoint. I'll further admit that in the case of non-toxic refuse...

I think the presumption is that all of these fauna got along fine before we humans started dumping our crap in the woods. I'm generally skeptical of "artificial reefs" and other such euphemisms being applied to our garbage. Many of those experiments have been less successful than proponents...