Gavroche
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[QUOTE = deluxestogie; 139800] Bientôt, vous allez me faire ranting.
Bob [/ QUOTE]
No traduction...sorry !
Bob [/ QUOTE]
No traduction...sorry !
deluxestogie Grow Log 2017
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OldDinosaurWesH
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Bob:
I looks like your potted tobacco did pretty well. I tried using various size containers last year. Mostly because I had more seedlings than I had space to plant them. My potted plants did poorly. I concluded that the soil in the pots got too hot due to the intense sunshine. I chalked that one up to that steep learning curve.
Happy curing and eventual burning.
Wes H.
I looks like your potted tobacco did pretty well. I tried using various size containers last year. Mostly because I had more seedlings than I had space to plant them. My potted plants did poorly. I concluded that the soil in the pots got too hot due to the intense sunshine. I chalked that one up to that steep learning curve.
Happy curing and eventual burning.
Wes H.
Youn
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I think it means "hurler" or "râler" - just like "grumble", right?
Just a short message to say : No, board games are not dead !
I often do play board games, card games, computer games, well, many types of games.
I try to find time to play with my friends, my family, and we often play board games.
Nowadays, computer games are more for one player...
When I was kid, in the 80's, arcade games were social ! a lot of games alowed to play with 3 friends in the same room, in front of the same screen, sharing laugh and good times !
Now computer games are made for isolated people who want to fight other isolated people... no friendship, no "real" social link. sad.
Back to tobacco :
My Corojo 99 leaves tend to be hard to remove from the stalk, even when they became yellow (I waited as long as possible before harvesting) they seemed like they wanted to stay on the plant... did you notice the same behavior ?
I often do play board games, card games, computer games, well, many types of games.
I try to find time to play with my friends, my family, and we often play board games.
Nowadays, computer games are more for one player...
When I was kid, in the 80's, arcade games were social ! a lot of games alowed to play with 3 friends in the same room, in front of the same screen, sharing laugh and good times !
Now computer games are made for isolated people who want to fight other isolated people... no friendship, no "real" social link. sad.
Back to tobacco :
My Corojo 99 leaves tend to be hard to remove from the stalk, even when they became yellow (I waited as long as possible before harvesting) they seemed like they wanted to stay on the plant... did you notice the same behavior ?
Console games allow competitors to play in the same room. For some of my current favorite computer games (Civilization V, Civ V: Beyond Earth, and StarCraft--the original one) I have to ignore the multi-player mode, and play those games alone, until I can defeat the most difficult mode of AI. Then I put it aside for a year or so, by which time I have to learn it all again. Although all of those games are essentially combat games, for the Civ games, I develop massive defenses, so that I seldom get attacked. I don't like fun combat. But I do enjoy the challenge of developing functioning, self-protecting societies. And for the Civ games, the music is superb. Same for Civ IV: Colonization--stave off the French, Spanish, Dutch and ultimately the Mother Country--Britain, while listening to charming music that is contemporary to the game setting. And in Colonization, I can even grow tobacco!
Most of my Corojo 99 leaf snapped off fairly easily, but as I approached the upper part of the stalk, they became more and more difficult and woody. I don't know if that means anything about the final, cured leaf.
Bob
How a ballcap ages
Today, I stumbled into a digital photo of my embroidered ballcap (specially made for a Grand Canyon hike in '06) taken in 2007. That was 10 years ago. I retrieved the hat from my overburdened hat rack, and shot another photo of it today. Although the cap's vibrant blue has faded from the passing of a decade, it shows no sign of becoming threadbare.
Left: 2007. Right: 2017.
Bob
Today, I stumbled into a digital photo of my embroidered ballcap (specially made for a Grand Canyon hike in '06) taken in 2007. That was 10 years ago. I retrieved the hat from my overburdened hat rack, and shot another photo of it today. Although the cap's vibrant blue has faded from the passing of a decade, it shows no sign of becoming threadbare.
Left: 2007. Right: 2017.
Bob
Gavroche
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In France we say: a kiss without mustache, it is as a soup without salt
really? What say it your feminine conquests?
En France on dit: un baiser sans moustache, c'est comme une soupe sans sel ... vraiment? en désent vos conquêtes féminines?
really? What say it your feminine conquests?
En France on dit: un baiser sans moustache, c'est comme une soupe sans sel ... vraiment? en désent vos conquêtes féminines?
Youn
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Nice pictures!
I prefer you with the beard... but I'm not objective
I prefer you with the beard... but I'm not objective
And then there is the sagging. Ten years of aging has caused the bookshelves to begin to sag.
Bob
Alpine
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The weight of culture...
pier
pier
Youn
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Hahaha! Right! I had first believed in a perspective effect!
"bookshelves" reminded me of a slang expression (argot parisien) which refers to the ears : "les étagères à mégots" = "buttshelves" or "stubshelves" (butt or stub as cigarette end, I don't know if those are words used in US for that?)
OldDinosaurWesH
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The engineering term for the sagging shelves is called "shear".
Wes H.
My eldest brother is a licensed structural engineer.
Wes H.
My eldest brother is a licensed structural engineer.
Actually the engineering term is "sagging", it is the definition of a negative bending moment... in engineering terms. "Shear" denotes how a force is applied. In this case (of the bookshelf) the force is applied perpendicular to the axis.
Now I understand. The shear weight of culture is causing my buttshelf to sag.
Bob
Bob
Who knew that the Jalapa that I grew for several years was so rare and expensive?
From early July of 2012.
Almost $7 per cigar. Wow.
Bob
From early July of 2012.
My Jalapa was rich and delicious. I would have kept it among my grows, except that it seems particularly susceptible to Tobacco Brown Spot. So I gave it up with a sigh.JR Cigar said:
Almost $7 per cigar. Wow.
Bob
Cassini Requiem
Same image, but twice as wide (1024 x 594 px), and suitable as a Windows desktop wallpaper. (Download the 37k file, and place it in C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper then you can select it when personalizing the desktop.)
For most folks, the images and discoveries from NASA's various orbiters, rovers and probes are an occasional, interesting news item. Sometimes a little more breathless, like New Horizon's encounter with Pluto.
I have been enthralled by the technology and audacity of the world's space programs since the days of Sputnik, when the Soviet Union placed humanity's first artificial moonlet into orbit around Earth. I was 9 years old.
Of course, I watched the Apollo 11 Moon Landing live, during the summer of 1969, as did every human on Earth who was within reach of a TV. [Keep in mind that the widespread adoption of television itself was only 20 years old at that time--half the age of personal computers today!]
But beyond those colossal events in human history, I have closely followed the soap opera of many, many less sensational space achievements. When Mars Opportunity Rover began transmitting its first closeups of the soil and stratified rocks, the pebbles and cracked clay patterns on the surface of Mars, I would glory in going to the rover's website and closely inspecting every one of the scores of raw images streaming from it. It was better than standing there on Mars with an iPhone camera. That was 13 years ago, yet the tough little solar-powered rover is still working and exploring on our behalf. Mars is close enough to the sun for Opportunity to do that on solar power. Not so, with Cassini.
The Cassini–Huygens mission, launched almost 20 years ago, has held my attention for the past 13 years, ever since it entered orbit around Saturn. Cassini even launched its very own mission, the Huygens probe, which successfully landed by parachute on Saturn's moon Titan. All the photos Cassini has sent back to us would easily fill the shelves of any small library, if they were printed and bound into books.
Knowing that Cassini was exhausting its plutonium fuel, its keepers euthanized it today, by incinerating it in a high-speed plunge into Saturn's atmosphere.
To me, it feels like losing a cherished pet. It never knew me, but I knew it well.
The photo above was one I selected from the raw photos streamed by the doomed Cassini yesterday--it's last Earth-day in existence. Cassini is now vapor.
Bob
Same image, but twice as wide (1024 x 594 px), and suitable as a Windows desktop wallpaper. (Download the 37k file, and place it in C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper then you can select it when personalizing the desktop.)
For most folks, the images and discoveries from NASA's various orbiters, rovers and probes are an occasional, interesting news item. Sometimes a little more breathless, like New Horizon's encounter with Pluto.
I have been enthralled by the technology and audacity of the world's space programs since the days of Sputnik, when the Soviet Union placed humanity's first artificial moonlet into orbit around Earth. I was 9 years old.
Of course, I watched the Apollo 11 Moon Landing live, during the summer of 1969, as did every human on Earth who was within reach of a TV. [Keep in mind that the widespread adoption of television itself was only 20 years old at that time--half the age of personal computers today!]
But beyond those colossal events in human history, I have closely followed the soap opera of many, many less sensational space achievements. When Mars Opportunity Rover began transmitting its first closeups of the soil and stratified rocks, the pebbles and cracked clay patterns on the surface of Mars, I would glory in going to the rover's website and closely inspecting every one of the scores of raw images streaming from it. It was better than standing there on Mars with an iPhone camera. That was 13 years ago, yet the tough little solar-powered rover is still working and exploring on our behalf. Mars is close enough to the sun for Opportunity to do that on solar power. Not so, with Cassini.
The Cassini–Huygens mission, launched almost 20 years ago, has held my attention for the past 13 years, ever since it entered orbit around Saturn. Cassini even launched its very own mission, the Huygens probe, which successfully landed by parachute on Saturn's moon Titan. All the photos Cassini has sent back to us would easily fill the shelves of any small library, if they were printed and bound into books.
Knowing that Cassini was exhausting its plutonium fuel, its keepers euthanized it today, by incinerating it in a high-speed plunge into Saturn's atmosphere.
To me, it feels like losing a cherished pet. It never knew me, but I knew it well.
The photo above was one I selected from the raw photos streamed by the doomed Cassini yesterday--it's last Earth-day in existence. Cassini is now vapor.
Bob
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Bob, I think I understand what you feel, when I think about these little pieces of humanity that we send so far from there home, in their journey from which they will never return...
They bring us with them in the stars...
Rest in peace, Cassini, and thank you for the trip !
They bring us with them in the stars...
Rest in peace, Cassini, and thank you for the trip !
Bex
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Amazing....I felt exactly the same way when I was watching the video out of the Jet Propulsion Lab last night. I felt like I was in mourning, that they were putting my pet to sleep. It was so sad. Yes, definitely RIP Cassini......As I write this, I am now thinking - there is so much talk about AI on the web these days, etc. Just imagine how us silly humans will anthropomorphisize those AI 'robots'....until they finally overtake us. Interesting......
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