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  1. Boyd

    2023 Advent calendar

    Me too! https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/rack-servers.html I remember a number of years ago, Carly Fiorina gave a speech and said something like "...when I was CEO of Hewlett Packard, I learned that it takes more than a nice rack to be successful in business". :D
  2. Boyd

    Kenny Rogers - the photographer (?!!)

    I had no idea... and yes, it is that Kenny Rogers! https://iphf.org/inductees/kenny-rogers/
  3. Boyd

    Introducing my 2023 traditional USGS-style topo

    Santa has delivered a new topo map to the server, just in time for Christmas! When looking at the current lineup on boydsmaps.com, I decided it really needed a new traditional-style topo map. My original idea was just to do a "light" version of the 2020 dark topo and that would have been a...
  4. Boyd

    Christmas at Batsto

    Maybe one of the carpenters was trolling him and he didn't notice? :D
  5. Boyd

    Christmas at Batsto

    Maybe a stylized Masonic symbol (compass)? https://www.freemason.com/masonic-symbols-square-compasses/
  6. Boyd

    Music for the day

    Robert Hunter said "By "box of rain," I meant the world we live on, but "ball of rain" didn't have the right ring to my ear, so box it became, and I don't know who put it there." (from The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, p138) This line has always haunted me... Such a long, long time...
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    Beer (again)

    Well, they even served that 3.2 beer in the University snack bar, I was 19 as a freshman. But that stuff was terrible. We would go out of state on road trips to places where the drinking age was 18, like New York. Maybe Washington, DC? Can't remember...
  8. Boyd

    Beer (again)

    When I was in college in Virginia (a couple hundred years ago) you could get 3.2 beer if you were 18. We called it "near beer" back then.
  9. Boyd

    Happy Winter Solstice!

    (It happened around 10:30 last night) As the years pass, I appreciate this day more and more. I like knowing that each day will be a little brighter. Right now, the noonday sun barely makes it above the tree line at my place!
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    I made a map of lost taverns, furnaces, etc in Wharton

    I'm confused... assuming you're referring to my earlier post. The Cook map (c. 1885) is the first one https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.696554/-74.720603/cook/0.00/0.00 The second map is from the USGS c.1949 https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.696554/-74.720603/pines1949/0.00/0.00 They both show...
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    I made a map of lost taverns, furnaces, etc in Wharton

    Think we've discussed this before, but can't find the thread. Anyway, I think the USGS is actually to blame for this. Go to their confusing GNIS (Geographic Names Information System) website and search for Rockwood with the exact match option...
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    I made a map of lost taverns, furnaces, etc in Wharton

    https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.696554/-74.720603/cook/0.00/0.00 https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.696554/-74.720603/pines1949/0.00/0.00 I made the same mistake on my 2017 topo! https://boydsmaps.com/#14.00/39.696554/-74.720603/pinesHD/0.00/0.00 But in a few days, that map will be...
  13. Boyd

    Forked River Mountain Hike

    I used to go there frequently from around 1994-2014. It was never easy to get there. Remember one time when I had a pretty new VW Rabbit and passed a guy in a beat-up jeep. He said "You brought that new car out here????" and just laughed. :D Never got stuck, but it was always dicey. Sounds like...
  14. Boyd

    Comcast hack may affect over 35 million users

    A big problem with this sort of thing is that lots of people use the same names and passwords on multiple sites. So, it's possible that this can cause a lot of collateral damage across the web and even affect users on sites like NJPB. :argh: This might help, although it's really intended to...
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    Comcast hack may affect over 35 million users

    This sounds like bad news.... "Xfinity says it's informing customers of the incident via its website, email and by other means. It's urging them to change their passwords, to make sure they don't use the same passwords on different accounts and to enable two-factor or multi-factor...
  16. Boyd

    13,000 people watched a chair fall in New Jersey

    No comment... except I don't consider Route 47 a "back road". But, whatever. :D https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/19/new-jersey-chair-fall/71959894007/
  17. Boyd

    Forked River Mountain Hike

    After all the rain we just had, might be a good idea to wait awhile. :)
  18. Boyd

    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    I woke up around 4:00 because the wind and rain were so loud. Banned spammers for awhile at MacRumors, went back to sleep. :) Some flooding around here, just now I had to backup several hundred feet and turn around to avoid going through some deep water that was flowing fast across a small...
  19. Boyd

    Test Pits on the top of hills..?

    Found this at the top of page 309 of "South Jersey Towns, History and Legend" by William McMahon. Guessing it's a different Alligator though.... "On October 25, 1782, about a mile South of Barnegat Inlet, a crew under command of Captain Andrew Steelman of the privateer Alligator unloaded goods...
  20. Boyd

    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    The way it was pounding down last night, I had a feeling we were getting a lot of rain. And we did!
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