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kikilagoon
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On 2011-03-10, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
It got killed year before last. Not sure if it got resurrected.
Let's look and see:
http://rivernewsherald.org/isleton_fair_1-19-2011.html
Intriguing.
About 15 yrs ago, SFBA was invaded by faux Cajun freaks. Started with
the huge New Orleans By the Bay Festival at Shoreline in Mountain
View. At that time, Paul Prudhomme, Cafe Dummond, Taj Mahal, etc, all
showed up and had booths and made for big fun. For about 2 yrs the
SFBA was gripped with Cajun mania. You couldn't walk ten feet without
tripping over a Summer Cajun festival of some sort in SFBA. Every
city, town, burg had one. Back then, ICF was not even around.
About when the other festivals started dying off (like sardines in
Socal), Isleton was jes a wink. It's out in real CA delta country,
about halfway between Sacto and SFBA. Jes a little bump off a levy
road, pop 1500. I discovered ICF about the time NOBB had become all
$$$ with no soul. No real heart, no talent, jes crass hawkers. All
the other wannabes were gone, too. I heard about ICF and rode my
Harley out to see.
Whatta wonderment. It was still quite small and the music, food, and
overall wide open silliness was refreshing. Drunks passed out in the
Main St gutters, a handfull of local cops, and a rocking good time.
Within 3 yrs, the traffic was backed up for miles, there being only 2
roads, both 2 lane, into town. Bikers, who were always an element,
began arriving in droves, as did the squares. Pretty soon, the county
sheriff's dept and CHP were overwhelmed and refusing to play unless
town and county $$$ was forthcoming. Fat chance. It died a state
pressured death, too many ppl in too small a locale and no one wanting
to foot the bill. It was fun while it lasted.
BTW, though the CA delta has jillions of crawdads (crawfish), but
there's no real industry to harvest them. Plus, CAs delta is so
polluted with legacy Gold Rush mercury, not a good idea to eat lots of
them. Hence, all crawfish are imported from LA.
The last time I went to the ICF, it had gone the way of all great CA
festivals, be it cars, bikes, food, whatever. They start small, get
outta hand far too quickly, and as word spreads, degenerate into jes
another overcrowded ripoff hassle. It's the CA way.
nb
It got killed year before last. Not sure if it got resurrected.
Let's look and see:
http://rivernewsherald.org/isleton_fair_1-19-2011.html
Intriguing.
About 15 yrs ago, SFBA was invaded by faux Cajun freaks. Started with
the huge New Orleans By the Bay Festival at Shoreline in Mountain
View. At that time, Paul Prudhomme, Cafe Dummond, Taj Mahal, etc, all
showed up and had booths and made for big fun. For about 2 yrs the
SFBA was gripped with Cajun mania. You couldn't walk ten feet without
tripping over a Summer Cajun festival of some sort in SFBA. Every
city, town, burg had one. Back then, ICF was not even around.
About when the other festivals started dying off (like sardines in
Socal), Isleton was jes a wink. It's out in real CA delta country,
about halfway between Sacto and SFBA. Jes a little bump off a levy
road, pop 1500. I discovered ICF about the time NOBB had become all
$$$ with no soul. No real heart, no talent, jes crass hawkers. All
the other wannabes were gone, too. I heard about ICF and rode my
Harley out to see.
Whatta wonderment. It was still quite small and the music, food, and
overall wide open silliness was refreshing. Drunks passed out in the
Main St gutters, a handfull of local cops, and a rocking good time.
Within 3 yrs, the traffic was backed up for miles, there being only 2
roads, both 2 lane, into town. Bikers, who were always an element,
began arriving in droves, as did the squares. Pretty soon, the county
sheriff's dept and CHP were overwhelmed and refusing to play unless
town and county $$$ was forthcoming. Fat chance. It died a state
pressured death, too many ppl in too small a locale and no one wanting
to foot the bill. It was fun while it lasted.
BTW, though the CA delta has jillions of crawdads (crawfish), but
there's no real industry to harvest them. Plus, CAs delta is so
polluted with legacy Gold Rush mercury, not a good idea to eat lots of
them. Hence, all crawfish are imported from LA.
The last time I went to the ICF, it had gone the way of all great CA
festivals, be it cars, bikes, food, whatever. They start small, get
outta hand far too quickly, and as word spreads, degenerate into jes
another overcrowded ripoff hassle. It's the CA way.
nb
The Duval Beast
New member
"J. Clarke" wrote:
It's not generally an alignment issue, but rather one of inadequate dish
size. In order to market the tiny little dishes, they compromised link
margins and as a result those in more northern areas don't have enough
link margin to handle the signal fade from heavy precipitation. This
issue is readily resolvable with bit larger dish, and the last I knew
there was at least one company that produced a ~36" replacement dish
that solves the problem.
It's not generally an alignment issue, but rather one of inadequate dish
size. In order to market the tiny little dishes, they compromised link
margins and as a result those in more northern areas don't have enough
link margin to handle the signal fade from heavy precipitation. This
issue is readily resolvable with bit larger dish, and the last I knew
there was at least one company that produced a ~36" replacement dish
that solves the problem.
monsterjamp
New member
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:24:23 -0800 (PST), Ostap Bender
wrote:
FN corporate offices are in NYC. They already know.
--
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
wrote:
FN corporate offices are in NYC. They already know.
--
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
geo the genius
New member
On Mar 7, 8:50?am, Wayne wrote:
[snip]
Gee, what an original recipe. Tyler let you rim him for promoting his
crap?
--Bryan
[snip]
Gee, what an original recipe. Tyler let you rim him for promoting his
crap?
--Bryan
Dancegoddess69
New member
Nunya Bidnits wrote:
The only people I hear obsessing over race or sex is the liberals.
How is it that the Republicans get viciously painted as racists yet they
go about promoting the best person for the job no matter what the race.
-First black Sec. of State-check
-First female Sec. of State-check
Obama is a loser, and no one gives a fig (ob food) about his race.
The only people I hear obsessing over race or sex is the liberals.
How is it that the Republicans get viciously painted as racists yet they
go about promoting the best person for the job no matter what the race.
-First black Sec. of State-check
-First female Sec. of State-check
Obama is a loser, and no one gives a fig (ob food) about his race.
bleeeh?!fur_ever
New member
On Mar 7, 4:53?pm, Dave Smith wrote:
Commercial media is aimed at those who are weak minded enough to be
susceptible to commercials.
--Bryan
Commercial media is aimed at those who are weak minded enough to be
susceptible to commercials.
--Bryan
Love it love it love it
New member
On 3/7/2011 4:32 PM, sf wrote:
That is the other thing they won't tell you unless you know what to ask
for. If you say "I don't have big needs so I want your most basic
Internet service" they will give you the lowest of the published tiers.
They have a level below that that has similar speed to mid range DSL and
is ~ $25/month. Two family members have it and it works great. It took
one three phone calls to get it.
That is the other thing they won't tell you unless you know what to ask
for. If you say "I don't have big needs so I want your most basic
Internet service" they will give you the lowest of the published tiers.
They have a level below that that has similar speed to mid range DSL and
is ~ $25/month. Two family members have it and it works great. It took
one three phone calls to get it.
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:56:04 -0700, "gloria.p"
wrote:
I get the "Cook" channel. I haven't watched it very much but it seems
to be back to actual cooking. Right now Jamie Oliver is on.
--
Susan N.
"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)
wrote:
I get the "Cook" channel. I haven't watched it very much but it seems
to be back to actual cooking. Right now Jamie Oliver is on.
--
Susan N.
"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)
On 2011-03-08, sf wrote:
I like Steinbeck, at least some of his stuff. Not all of it. I've
also not read Man/Sea. I'm not into ruminating about life for 12
hrs. If I don't find some good stuff, soon, I'm gonna hafta go back
to the complete works of Jack London. Now THAT was a writer.
nb
I like Steinbeck, at least some of his stuff. Not all of it. I've
also not read Man/Sea. I'm not into ruminating about life for 12
hrs. If I don't find some good stuff, soon, I'm gonna hafta go back
to the complete works of Jack London. Now THAT was a writer.
nb
theatrelover554
New member
sf wrote:
Show me evidence.
Show me evidence.
starlitebrite234
New member
On Mar 6, 6:57?pm, I_am_Tosk wrote:
Another ludicrous decision by Tom whats-his-name. It's supposed to be
about Indian cooking, using Indian-centric spices. I've never
watched.
Another one, not about cooking - is that Emily person who won next
design star competition - talking about how to "style"
rooms. No thanks, it is so light-weight. I can't watch Antonio,
either, who won the year before Emily.
N.
Another ludicrous decision by Tom whats-his-name. It's supposed to be
about Indian cooking, using Indian-centric spices. I've never
watched.
Another one, not about cooking - is that Emily person who won next
design star competition - talking about how to "style"
rooms. No thanks, it is so light-weight. I can't watch Antonio,
either, who won the year before Emily.
N.
Nunya Bidnits wrote:
I know you weren't asking me but I'll answer anyway. Re: "Birthers",
they're not really on *my* radar and I only hear about them from in
passing (usually from liberals). I believe the small group that are
labeled such are interested in looking at Obama's legitimacy to the
office (since the Constitution does require our presidents to be US born
citizens) and his early life is a bit of a mystery, right? I seem to
recall hearing people questioned John McCain's legitimacy also since he
was born in Panama.
The color of skin isn't the question (in my mind)and you insisting it is
is BS.
I know you weren't asking me but I'll answer anyway. Re: "Birthers",
they're not really on *my* radar and I only hear about them from in
passing (usually from liberals). I believe the small group that are
labeled such are interested in looking at Obama's legitimacy to the
office (since the Constitution does require our presidents to be US born
citizens) and his early life is a bit of a mystery, right? I seem to
recall hearing people questioned John McCain's legitimacy also since he
was born in Panama.
The color of skin isn't the question (in my mind)and you insisting it is
is BS.
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:18:37 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:
Actually, we just "adjusted" it. Subscribed to more stuff and saved a
buttload of money. I think someone screwed up along the line though.
I thought we were paying for 20mpbs, but customer service told me
we're just paying for 14 mbps. The speed test that day clocked at 22
mbps and today at 16, almost 17 mbps download. Okay, I'm good
there... but now we're not getting channels we used to get. I don't
know what's going on, but they're channels we don't watch very much.
I wouldn't even have noticed it if other threads today hadn't
mentioned the Cooking Channel and Fine Living.
--
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
wrote:
Actually, we just "adjusted" it. Subscribed to more stuff and saved a
buttload of money. I think someone screwed up along the line though.
I thought we were paying for 20mpbs, but customer service told me
we're just paying for 14 mbps. The speed test that day clocked at 22
mbps and today at 16, almost 17 mbps download. Okay, I'm good
there... but now we're not getting channels we used to get. I don't
know what's going on, but they're channels we don't watch very much.
I wouldn't even have noticed it if other threads today hadn't
mentioned the Cooking Channel and Fine Living.
--
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
Re: [email protected]
Pete C. wrote:
There's little difference here except that in the past you had to buy an
extra package with the sat vendors for local channels, something I found to
be completely ludicrous. I've heard it's part of the deal now but I don't
know if that applies to their entry level programming package.
MartyB
Pete C. wrote:
There's little difference here except that in the past you had to buy an
extra package with the sat vendors for local channels, something I found to
be completely ludicrous. I've heard it's part of the deal now but I don't
know if that applies to their entry level programming package.
MartyB
I see what you did there.
New member
On 2011-03-10, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
And your statement about a "miniscule minority" is "statistical
evidence"!? Amazing how that works for you, but no one else.
As for security guards being highly trained, HAH! There's a reason
they earn the same or less than a janitor. Most of 'em couldn't walk
and chew gum at the same time. The only criteria for security guard
is being too dumb to question why, on the pittance they receive,
they're still required to pay for their own uniforms.
nb
And your statement about a "miniscule minority" is "statistical
evidence"!? Amazing how that works for you, but no one else.
As for security guards being highly trained, HAH! There's a reason
they earn the same or less than a janitor. Most of 'em couldn't walk
and chew gum at the same time. The only criteria for security guard
is being too dumb to question why, on the pittance they receive,
they're still required to pay for their own uniforms.
nb