The Cellar / Misc photographs

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/13/2020 11:06 pm

Something that hadn't occurred to me since I'm not a wino...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 12/14/2020 12:29 pm

Home wine making and production of sacramental wines were still legal.
It was seen as one way to keep the vineyards and grape varieties from disappearing.
John Parducci "escorted" trainloads of grapes from Mendocino County to the east coast for these purposes when he was a teenager.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/15/2020 2:21 am

I worked with an engineer who's Italian family was based in NYC. Family funerals/wedding would have cops lined up on one side of the room and gangsters on the other. They had the kitchen in the cellar, men would piss in the coal bin(size of a room) everyone else had to get the key from grandma to go up and use the bathroom. The key came with a warning not to set one foot in the parlor or else. Grandpa would go to the market and get a ton of grapes, as much as he could get in the car, to make wine. I guess there was a pretty sizable market, and a whole lot of sacrament-ing going on too.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/25/2020 2:57 am

My hose doesn't do that in the cold...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/26/2020 9:06 pm

Up close and personal on the asteroid Ryugu...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/28/2020 3:19 am

Not a color photograph...

Only the grid lines are colored but they're kind of cheating with bleedy lines.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 12/28/2020 4:01 pm

I am afraid I do not know what this is about.

**Posted by glatt** 12/28/2020 5:53 pm

The blurry image text suggests we go to http://pippin.gimp.org/ for more info,
and once there, there are a bunch of better quality examples and a video at the link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/color-grid-28734535

**Posted by Flint** 12/28/2020 6:46 pm

that's messed up.

When I was putting small items in my kids stockings-- I placed an item in the stocking, and was shaking it to the bottom, then it "fell through" the stocking (??) and onto the counter. My mom saw the same thing I did. I was like, "Did I just invent sleight of hand?"

Eyes are stupid

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/30/2020 12:29 am

Diaphone Jim wrote:
I am afraid I do not know what this is about.

It's a black & white photograph.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/03/2021 1:34 am

Came across this not a photograph but a picture of Lime Rock Park. It's out in the boonies of CT which is where it should be, but the country roads to it have a tough time with race day traffic which annoyed the locals. An ad hoc civic group and the local church sued and won a permanent ban on Sunday racing, but part of the CT Supreme Court ruling was they could run unmuffled on Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday. Since it's the third oldest operating track in the country it was quietly placed in the national historic register which strengthens their position.

It's a beautiful location and that 1.5 miles goes by real fast.

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (1/03/2021 1:40 am)

**Posted by glatt** 1/03/2021 7:26 am

unmuffled? When there is no breeze blowing, they can hear it 15 miles away.

I could hear Oxford Plains Speedway from my backyard in Lewiston as a child and that was 15 miles.

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**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/06/2021 8:00 am

Lots of hills and trees but I'm sure it carries. From Boeing Philly we could clearly hear the track at Bridgeport over in Jersey, not just noise but the acceleration and deceleration as they went around the track.

How big is 5 acres?

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (1/06/2021 8:02 am)

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/11/2021 3:20 am

Taken by a friend of a friend January 2nd at Long Beach near Gloucester, MA, a little north of Boston.

**Posted by griff** 1/11/2021 7:24 am

Nice.

**Posted by fargon** 1/11/2021 8:10 am

Beautiful.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/23/2021 3:04 am

Maybe beat Old Man Winter's chill by playing with the sun...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 2/07/2021 7:06 pm

Down in Happy Monkey territory...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 2/08/2021 12:58 pm

This is a neat pic. I have no reason to think it is not real, but I've written the author to ask:
https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2021/02/an-unusual-arch.html

**Posted by Happy Monkey** 2/08/2021 3:36 pm

xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Down in Happy Monkey territory...

Great Falls?

It looks very familiar; I thought I might even have a pic of the same spot, but I'm not sure.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 2/11/2021 1:20 am

Yes Sir, we have a winner.

I've seen this photograph of the 1927 Solvay conference at least a dozen times but could only pick out two of the people, so I was glad to find a copy with the names.

I understand Einstein said later they were a bunch of stuff shirts set in their ways... he was 48 at the time.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 2/11/2021 11:34 pm

I don't think this is true, I think fighting style adapted to how people evolved, not the other way round...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 2/12/2021 12:26 pm

Diaphone Jim wrote:
This is a neat pic. I have no reason to think it is not real, but I've written the author to ask:
https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2021/02/an-unusual-arch.html

After several emails with additional info with the very nice author of that EPOD, all I can say it is real (duh).
You can't ride your horse under it , however, since it is 11 feet long and 2 feet high. It is also about four feet wide, giving it additional support..
So the blocks are about foot cubes, making it easier to understand the physics that hold it up.
Its location has been somewhat guarded due to its vulnerability.

**Posted by griff** 2/12/2021 5:38 pm

That seems ripe for the safety scouts.

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=57016443&itype=cmsid

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 2/12/2021 8:05 pm

I thought of those dunces too.