JamesSavik

I call it therapy on the cheap!

For the last few weeks I've been preparing for this summers garden. Today I planted. I have been growing a Azalea cutting in a pot and today I moved it around to plant. I annoyed a toad who was living in the pot. He glared at me with his little toad eyes and I told him- hey bro, you're moving up. The garden is a better neighborhood. I'm trying something new this year. The last few years the picking from the garden have been slim. June, critical to the growing season, has been unusually hot and dry. To combat this problem, this year I'm using landscape cloth over the dirt and mulch over the landscape cloth to keep the soil from drying out too quickly. Today I planted 3 dozen tomato plants, 18 various pepper, corn, watermelon and some garlic. I grow some herbs too but I grow those in containers. The tomatoes are a mix of the Better Boy and Goliath varieties. They have to be heat tolerant because... the next zip code from here is heck. The corn- any of it grows here. If I'm diligent, I can get two crops of it. As for the peppers- I have a mix of green bell peppers, Jalapeno and cayenne. The rest of the garden is ornamental but that has to be dealt with too. I divided some of my favorite daylilies and spread them out. Planted some wild gladiolus and I added a Confederate lily. I got the good kind that's red and whit and blooms till frost. I planted the little Azalea is a spot I made for it. After having to move I think the toad is finding his new neighborhood much to his liking.

If you read much sci-fi, you'll run into the Competent Man theme. Critics say the competent man is a stock character who can do anything perfectly, or at least exhibits a very wide range of abilities and knowledge, making him a jack of all trades. Heinlein's major characters all seems to fit this mold. The competent man differs from Mary Sue in that old Mary seems to go through the plot line with near magical good luck. The competent man goes through the plot with smarts and cunning. Is the competent man a variation on Mary Sue or is he simply a well rounded individual?

Thank you guys. I must point out, it's not decided yet. In fact, they say they might not be sure for a while. I've been beaten up but besides for the flu, I've never been really sick. CraZy, yes. Sick... not so much. It's spooky and there's Parkinson's on my Dad's side of the family. I think it would be easier if it was a certainty. This maybe stuff is annoying.

It started with typos. J's became k's. E's became r's. People asked me if I was all right because I was shaking. When I could barely keep my hands still enough to use my calculator (and believe me, I have a kick ass calculator) I decided I might need to see what the deal was. So... I got some tests. Blood pressure. Check. Cardio tests... check. Blood sugar. Check. Bunch of other stuff I can't spell... check. Early on set Parkinson's... Maybe.. I've got more tests. Other things it might be are worse. Then again it could be stress. Imagine that. What could I possibly be stressed about? ..

When I was a kid, we expected to have flying cars when I grew up. Heck I expected to work at the moon base. Now... just driving the interstate, the idea of some of those idiots flying isn't just a bad idea. It's a nightmare. Some of these drivers are clueless in two dimensions. Give them three dimensions and cue a Yakety Sax musical interlude. Now- I am for all for freedom but, not everyone is cut out to be a pilot. It just won't work. The speeds involved, vision requirements and spatial awareness requirements of flight just aren't there in much of the population. That's why it has always been difficult to find and train pilots. They are a breed apart. If you make it restrictive, by requiring flight training and licensing, I can see it. I don't think Bubba's flying work truck with tools falling off as it banks towards his next job is going to work, Hey... is that a miter saw? *runs to retrieve loot*

Would be Brit.

Ancient Volcanoes of the Mid-South Between 80 and 70 million years ago the South Eastern United States was a shallow sea. A line of three volcanoes grew into islands. It may be associated with an ancient hot spot that was dragged west to east by continental drift. These three volcanoes are at Monroe, LA, Midnight, MS and Jackson, MS. This area has been extensively explored by the oil and gas industry. I have no heat data for the Monroe and Midnight volcanoes but- Jackson is indicated in red because there is still significant heat down there. Groundwater at depth is in excess of the boiling point. It would be interesting to explore the other two sites to see if there in still heat rising from their magma chambers. This heat has no where to go. Its trapped thown there and may provide access to geothermal power. Geothermal power may be an important answer to our future energy needs. All you need to produce electricity is to boil water to drive a turbine. Our difficulty is with fuels- coal, gas, oil and nuclear power all have downsides. Geothermal energy, if we can figure out how to utilize it, would have none of the down sides of fossil fuels or nuclear power. Regardless of where you stand on climate change, this is a problem that we need to solve. A power source that like geothermal energy that can't be depleted and doesn't pollute is very promising. _________________________________________ Sources: The Jackson Volcano - Wikipedia https://www.deq.state.ms.us/MDEQ.nsf/pdf/Geology_Volume018Number3September1997/$File/Vol_18_3.pdf?OpenElement

Equivocation cat equivocating.

Compare and contrast the convergence zone St Helens with the Hot Spot Kilauea volcano. Pay attention. There will be a test. This is an excellent account of the Mount St Helens eruption. It was the biggest eruption in the continental US in modern times. St Helens is a fairly typical Cascades volcano. Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been erupting continuously for thirty years. Kilauea on Live Science

It is possible. If a cooling fan or your power supply packed up

Hot Spot Volcanism We understand Convergence zone volcanism but what about hot spots? What are they? How do they form? Hot spots are mantel plumes that allows very hot materials from as deep as the outer core to rise up and literally burn their way through the lithosphere. It can happen anywhere under a tectonic plate, deep under an ocean or even a continental crust. No one is really sure what these hot spots are, what causes them or why they can last for millions of years. It has been suggested that they are flaws in the mantle that allows convective forces to focus the movement of liquified rock on these points. These hot spots last so long in geological terms that as they stay fixed at one point. Tectonic plates are dragged across the hot spots slowly creating features like the Hawaiian Island chain or the Snake River caldera complex or the Yellowstone hot spot. US Geological Survey Article: Hot Spots or Thermal Mantle Plumes The basaltic lava that comes from hot spot volcanoes is very different from the kind produced by convergence zone volcanism. In many ways it is the chemical opposite of silica. rich Rhyolite lavas. It comes from much deeper inside the earth. It flows much more like iike a true liquid than a silica based lava which behaves much more like wet lumpy clay. Rhyolite has to be blasted out of volcanoes. Basaltic lava cools slowly and is content to pool and run like any other liquid. This liquid is somewhere in excess of 1200 degrees centigrade and will destroy almost anything it encounters. Basaltic lava flows can be enormous. The largest known volcanic event in the last 500 million years created the Siberian Traps and may have caused the Permian-Triassic (PT) extinction event from out gassing so huge a volume of magmatic gas that it changed the chemistry of the atmosphere. On top of the massive outgassing event, the Siberian Traps supervolcano deposited 1 to 4 million cubic kilometers of basaltic lava (240,000–960,000 cubic miles). The Columbia River basin in Washington State is a basaltic lava flow that occurred about 16 million years ago in Eastern Washington and Idaho and ran all the way to the sea. In some parts of Washington these lava flows are three miles deep. This picture comes from a Hawaiian volcano that has been erupting constantly for forty years. This type of lava cools unevenly. The top can cool and harden while inside its still molten. This type behavior is how lava tubes are formed. _______________________________________________ As I've run out of allowed images, that's all for today. we'll take it up there tomorrow.

What a good Southern name to join our forum. Welcome General! Isn't it about time for you to light the bat signal or something? The south is pretty restless these days. It might be just about time. *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*

Subduction Zone Volcanism Subduction Zone Volcanism Subduction zone volcanism occurs when one plate is shoved under another. In the case of the Cascades subduction zone that would be the Juan de Fuca plate sliding underneath the North American plate. To see more about it take a look at Cascadia Subduction Zone at wikipedia. This has been the focus of some of the most violent geology on the planet since the beginning of the planet. The mega-quakes, the volcanic eruptions and lava flows are that we modern humans have seen are child's play in comparison with some of the earth shattering geological calamities that this region, and others, have seen in the past. Juan de Fuca Plate Subduction zone volcanoes are quite different than hot spot volcanoes (which we will discuss tomorrow). As the plate subducts, it melts creating silica rich lavas like rhyolite- the kind so common around Mount St Helens. Rhyolite There are many subduction zones in the world. One runs through Japan. Another through Indonesia. Another through New Zealand. There is one that runs down Italy of which the famous Mount Vesuvius is a part. Another one runs through Greece. If you notice the volcanoes all have several things in common.They build huge, beautiful but explosive stratovolcanoes like Mount St Helens, Krakatoa, Mount Pinatubo. They are explosive because their silicate rich lava it thick and doesn't flow very well. They get all stopped up sometimes for hundreds of thousands of years (or thousands or even hundreds of years) and explode. There is some evidence that when groundwater gets in the magma chamber, flash to steam and provides some of the violence in these explosions. These volcanoes are killers and can devastate hundreds of square miles when they blow. Why are other obviously active volcanoes almost gentle? Tomorrow we'll talk about hot spot volcanism, how it is different from subduction zone volcanism and how these massive basaltic flows have formed much of the earths surface. Mount Hood ~50 miles east of Portland Oregon is a stratovolcano. It hasn't been active since 1805 but it still burps and gurgles. There have been microquakes underneath it since the seventies so there is lava in the magma chamber. It's known for great skying and snowboarding but there is a beast underneath.

Fun With Corporate Logos No one noticed anything was wrong until their customers started

That this had become such a problem that it rated instructions is a bad sign.

#567 seems hot... think I'll give it a go

Hood's Wrath Sandy, Oregon Joey Hammond arrived at his home just before dark. A suburb east of Portland, Sandy wasn't far for a commute but, the traffic was brutal. He had to leave early and would arrive home late. He wouldn't have it any other way. Joey's house wasn't huge, but it was his favorite place to be. It was a split-level on a steep hillside on Bluff Road that always smelled of the NorthWest woods. No one would ever believe that smell if you put it in an ai

James Savik's Career Advice Try this at work. No one will steal your lunch. The rumor that you eat human hearts will put you on the fast track to management.

Some one will pay for this outrage!

Easter is coming... Some one is going to pay for this outrage!

I went to see Logan. What I expected was a bloody action gore-fest without a great deal of depth. What I saw was a bloody action gore-fest with much greater depth than I expected. This was Logan in his finest hour as we've never seen him. This is Dr. X and Wolverine as we've never seen them: old, alone and vulnerable. It is difficult to see them that way. I shall not give away any spoilers but these are not the invulnerable characters they once were. Old age has, as it will anyone who is lucky enough to make it to old age, humbled them. Despite it all, they are still the people that they have always been. This is a classical theme and if i have not completely butchered my school boy Latin: tu quoque mortale. You too are mortal. Such things are not popular to consider but they are the bitter truth of this life.

Cats are silly

Who you want when you dial customer service... Who you get... Yes. They are both laughing at you and your Windows ME (Mediocre edition) PC.