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If you're a Canadian, you don't tip at all!

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Geocaching

I am about 15 miles inland from SF Bay and at 300 ft altitude. There are "hills" visible from here that are >3000 ft and a ridge I can see out my window that is 1000 ft. The ridge had a dusting on it once this year that melted about 2 hrs after sunrise and the peaks get snow several times a winter.

Your from SD. How is a plane supposed to land there if this was in effect? (There's a parking ramp just before the runway that looks like you are about 50 feet above it).

Also, when its >100 degrees every day for several weeks in July, everyone stays in. Chef Jim lives right in SF where it can be 30-40 degrees cooler than where I do (30 miles away).

I use a handheld GPS for geocaching. Magellans were about the equal of Garmins, but I have heard they stink now. The car ones (Nuvi, etc) are not that good for hiking and geocaching, but are fine for car navigation. Garmin is pretty good with fixing them. I have heard of people sending them in over a year after the warranty had expired and getting a refurbished unit in return. The handheld ones are sturdy. I have a a 6.5 year old Venture. The printing on it worn off and some of the rubber is worn off. Last week I dropped it on a stump and cracked the screen, but it still works.

It was 70 yesterday and 73 today up in NorCal.

Until you feel your first quake nearby.

Yes it is. Flu viruses have RNA instead of DNA as their genetic material. There are no proofreading enzymes for RNA synthesis, so there are are a lot more mutations occurring. The strain determination is based on the proteins the virus incorporated into its coat. The social health practices could limit the spread of the virus. We now have vaccines which weren't around in 1918. That's why the push to get immunized occurred. On the other hand, the ability to travel halfway around the earth in a day could help spread it much quicker today.

Here's a picture from the Canadian Women's Biathlon Team Calendar! http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/biathlete3.jpg

The 1918 flu that killed MILLIONS was a H1N1 strain. The first wave wasn't bad, but it mutated and the second wave was the bad one. Whenever the H1N1 strain appears, there is the chance that it could mutate to be just as virulent. We were lucky that it didn't. As with the 1918 flu, this H1N1 killed proportionately more young people than other strains.

Partly sunny and 67 today. Warmest it has been in several months!

Hab SoSlI' Quch!

Who's bringing the popcorn?

Where the hell did the idea that I am a GOP "lap dog" come up? I thought Bush was too liberal on domestic issues. I didn't like Mc Cain, loved Palin but they were light years better than what we have now. I haven't been posting much recently, been busy.

I worked at one about 30-35 years ago.The coffee then was 40 cents a cup. The manager told us you would have to drink 14 cups for them to lose $- in other words, the company cost was 3 cents a cup. Probably the same margin on it now. The other big money maker was toast.

He was on TV the morning before he was shot bitching about how the cops are treating his kid. From the local news, it looks like it may be a domestic problem. The father and his girlfriend were arguing and the cops called. They responded and it cooled down. 30-60 minutes later, they get a call on the shooting. Witnesses say a black guy was running away from the site. Seems the girlfriend was cheating on either on the father or the shooter. Then about 11 PM last night, there was another shooting in the same area.

People forget he was an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Abscam scandal back in 1980.

Sorry he died. He should have quit a while ago.

Just emphasize your science education. They want easily swayed dummies on the jury if they can get them.

In the same city Wednesday: Ice Cream Truck Driver Shot

Isn't Planet Hollywood the Aladdin?

Looks like all the paste eaters are out today.

It's the same sort of mentality that makes people think that the Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy too. They can't believe it happened, so they have to invent these enormous conspiracies in their minds. I remember seeing Oswald shot live on TV and my father saying "Holy S***!"over and over (I was 6 at the time). It was the the same reaction I had to watching the second plane hit.