J. S. Bach

I am not sure what kind of bird this one is but he (she?) would not stand still long enough or come any closer:

And this little guy was on my porch railing this afternoon:

I would put Halsey up against any of those mentioned above (well, except Fisher, different category entirely); and that is even allowing for  even allowing for the "Battle of Bull's Run."

20 minutes ago, Kingzance said:

 ...snip... WWII was a significant turning point in naval power - it started with Britain's big battleships and battlecruisers dominating, it ended with the aircraft carrier and land-based long-range aircraft as demonstrated by the USN reigning supreme. In between, the submarine almost brought the UK to its knees!

War became three-dimensional.

Not a real plane (at least on the jacket front) but the artist got a lot right on the drawing of the plane:

Rear cover:

Note that it is not my type of music, but I just had to get the album for the jacket artwork.

...or maybe cry me a river:

And the lake in

Oddly, where the water is, is not where I thought that all of the low spots are.

And the lake in front:

On 04/07/2019 at 03:33, Wendell1976 said:

Here's a picture of a Chicago Transit Authority "L"(elevated) train in Downtown Chicago. The train is at the intersection of Adams Street and Wabash Avenue. The magnificent Trump International Hotel and Tower is in the background.

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/634193/

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

I think that train was a special excursion/fan trip. Those cars have been out of regular service for many years. Still, it is nice to see a public agency with a sense of its own history; the TA in New York does also.

1 hour ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Don't get many BBQ problems here  but in the past whilst living in a modern poorly -built semi I had a neighbour who was fond of having annoying pop music on a bit loud in the garden. I found that two minutes of Wagner usually did the trick

I prefer Gregorian chants for that!    

This was in my yard the other day:

4 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

 

 

The young man is pushing his bike because the chain is broken. It went bang just as he cycled past me. He wasn't best pleased.

 

 

cheers,

 

Martin.

Thank you, I thought that it had something to do with the crossing gates, they are quite different from the ones used here.

On 09/06/2019 at 19:32, martin_wynne said:

Broken chain.

 

camera at SO 43054 83588 looking E

 

Martin.

Please, an explanation of the broken chain for someone three thousand miles to the west. Is it something with the north gate? TIA

11 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

When a door needs an instruction manual (PULL), and the instruction manual is wrong:

(York station buffet yesterday - you had to push to get in)

It appears that there may previously have been "pull" handles at one time. Still the signs should have been changed.

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

The service you say was good, but was it miraculous? Such things are unsurprising in Florida. Very little is surprising in Florida.

 

The Village Inn is a big chain, though not quite "national". It's clear what you ordered last Friday.

 

The only other Village Inn that I have eaten in was in Farmington, NM; it, too, was very good.

Not a sign, but a sales receipt that I got at an Orlando, FL restaurant:

Actually, the food and service were very good; it must have been as we went back three times.

On 28/05/2019 at 05:46, DavidB-AU said:

Inspired by Recently/currently listening to... what interesting things are you currently watching on ...snip... other media?

Cheers

David

RMweb

In my yard the other day, the first turtle that I have seen here in the three years that I have lived here:

Many birds,  rabbits, squirrels, and a few deer but this is the first turtle.

One of my favorite threads on RMweb. I will never get to the UK but here I can see many, many places; some that the touristas never see either.

39 minutes ago, Damo666 said:

How come you have FF 68.0b5, I can only see 67.0 as the update option. Are you on their beta program?

Yes. I have been on it for awhile now. I am also on the Thunderbird beta program although there are far fewer updates there.

Let us not forget Henry VIII.

ZZYZX Rd? Well, in Kentucky, how about:

"Lick" is another name for creek or stream.

On ‎24‎/‎07‎/‎2015 at 05:24, PhilJ W said:

Its remarkable just how huge modern farm machinery has become.

Somewhere in west central Texas.

3 hours ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

More, more! (I'd be so tempted to put a whole lot in series and see if they agree.)

Thread drift, I love it!

Insulators (vaguely related to smart meters):

Telephones:

And, of course, trains:

O:

HO:

On 16/05/2019 at 10:10, 57xx said:

 

I hope they cleaned all the carbon off the ill-fitting contacts have been arcing before they installed the new meter!

 

I am not sure. He did remove and replace the new meter several times, though. Bear in mind that it was a college student hired for the purpose and not a meter technician and probably did not know more than the basics of what he was doing. Anyway, he did let me have the old meter seal for my collection and "accidentally" dropped a new, unused one that he "forgot" to retrieve  on his way to the next replacement. So far the new meter seems to be working well, my bills have remained consistent with the old meter's billing.

16 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Didn't realise that kangaroos could make beer...

Horses make the beer for Budweiser; why do you think that A-B has so many of those Clydedales?

Back on  02nov16 Duke Energy replaced my mechanical meter with a smart meter. Honestly, I have seen absolutely no change in my bills during the past two and a half years. Here are a few photos of the process:

Old meter:

New meters arriving (note that they are about a quarter of the weight of the mechanical ones):

The back side of a US (standardized throughout the US and Canada, btw) meter:

Meter socket:

Smart meter installed:

Note that I collect electric meters and asked if I could have the old one; no soap as it had to be returned. A couple of my older ones, note that the Westinghouse OB (reads 20 KWH) on the left now shows a little over half a megawatt of consumption as I have several different seasonal items plugged into it. The GE I-14 (reads 60 KWH) on the right is a self-contained table lamp with no other connections. The 18watt LED bulb that is in the lamp sure does not smoke the bearings of the rotor!

I do like to talk about my other hobbies but enough for now before I bore anyone to tears!

I hope that he is able to receive it in person.

A model railroad friend of mine (now deceased) was a survivor of the Bataan Death March; luckily for us, he was more that willing to talk to us about his experiences both on the March and his work in captivity at the copper mines in Ashio. He did make the statement that (at Ashio, anyway) the pows were not really maltreated as the commandant was wise enough to realize that weak/sick prisoners could not meet "production" levels.  Because they met assigned "levels", they usually got better rations. Very interesting stories he told, we would sit there listening and completely forgetting the trains!.