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generoll
2012-11-09, 23:17
Anyone remember the book "Alas Babylon"?
MonkeyBoy
2012-11-09, 23:33
Anyone remember the book "Alas Babylon"?
That was to be based on a city here in Florida named Mount Dora.
generoll
2012-11-10, 08:30
yup. I climbed Mt. Dora.
yup. I climbed Mt. Dora.
MT Dora. Not MISS Dora... :-)
yup. I climbed Mt. Dora.
did you experience altitude sickness?
Hog On Ice
2012-11-10, 11:52
better question - did you have to trespass to reach the summit?
john pickett
2012-11-10, 14:12
My dad climbed Mt Fuji, In 1946 I believe.
generoll
2012-11-10, 14:46
I got a nosebleed
Superman
2012-11-10, 15:24
My dad climbed Mt Fuji, In 1946 I believe.
I tried to climb Mt Fuji in 1967. Pepe and I never got to the mountain because we took a commuter train that just made circles around Tokyo.
I have pics of me on top of it. There is a tram and steps
I have pics of me on top of it. There is a tram and steps
You do realize how wrong this sounds, right? Damn... Eewww, ...
Hog On Ice
2012-11-11, 07:27
could have been worse - clyde could have been talking about the Grand Tetons
john pickett
2012-11-11, 17:35
Those are known as the SweaterGirl Mountains these days.
A few days late to the party, but I read that book recently in an old-school SciFi trifecta kick. (Alas Babylon, The Earth Abides and Canticle for Lebowitz)
All good reads in a SHTF / sad kinda way...
sheepdog
2012-11-19, 19:53
need to get out and buy more rice and bullets.
Holy hell - you are the only person I've ever met that has actually read A Canticle for Lebowitz. I loved that book.
Hog On Ice
2012-11-19, 20:51
not true - I read it a long time ago - a good read
No shit? I've told people about that book and always got the "are you nuts?" look. But I get that a lot.
Hog On Ice
2012-11-19, 21:58
the biggest problem with that book these days is that nobody under about 40 knows what blue prints look like whereas when I started work they were in common use
saimyoji
2012-11-19, 22:13
I'm under 40 and I know what blue prints look like...its when they rub your fingers in blue ink and then roll them on a card when you get arrested, right?
the biggest problem with that book these days is that nobody under about 40 knows what blue prints look like whereas when I started work they were in common useI just love the smell of ammonia in the morning. That's what those big printers that spat out blue prints smelled like.
I still use part of my drafting kit! The horse hair brush is great for dusting off computer monitors.
john pickett
2012-11-20, 09:04
"I've told people about that book and always got the "are you nuts?" look"
I hate to say it, but I don't think it's the book; it's you.
D'Artagnan
2012-11-20, 09:48
I used to love the sound those mimeograph machines made. Kinda like a train going over the tracks.
"I've told people about that book and always got the "are you nuts?" look"
I hate to say it, but I don't think it's the book; it's you.
Hey, I admitted I get that a lot. But at least I know how to use the quote function on HHQ.
Bazinga!
Skidsteer
2012-11-20, 13:18
Stealing that. :biggrin:
Hog On Ice
2012-11-20, 13:27
+2 for Elder
atraildreamer
2012-11-20, 13:27
Anyone remember the book "Alas Babylon"?
Read it in high school, (remember when kids in high school could read? :biggrin:).
sheepdog
2012-11-20, 19:28
read it in high school, (remember when kids in high school could read? :biggrin:).
lol
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john pickett
2012-11-21, 14:52
What's a "Quote" function? And what's it do I didn't do with cut and paste?
Hog On Ice
2012-11-21, 15:13
What's a "Quote" function? And what's it do I didn't do with cut and paste?
it automatically puts a link back to where the quote came from for one point - sometimes useful when looking at a modified quote to see where it came from originally
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