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    How clueless is Gil Brant?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Settle down, noob.

     

    If I had it my way, you newbs wouldn't be allowed to post until you reached triple digit post count. You noobs are everything that's wrong with America!

    So how should a noob reach a triple digit post count if they are not allowed to post prior to reaching said post count?

    UFO Found on Ocean Floor?

    in Off the Wall

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    ^^^^lol that was a quality video

     

    Im a union surveyor, the curve of the earth isnt factored in when laying out a structure or a small job. But when laying out a road or a job with tight tolerences the curve of the earth is always factored in.

     

    I did the Buffalo airport runway extention, the blacktop tolerence had to be within .02 of the designed final grade over then entire length of the runway. When we did an initial benchmark run prior to construction, we found that the certified grades were off 0.17 from one side to the other. This was because the curve of the earth was not factored in for the initial design.

    Last Record Theatre location to close its doors

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Awesome, than you so much PRBills! That is exactly the place I was thinking of.

     

    The building (house actually now that I look at it!) still exists per google earth, but it's not clear if it's still open as a store.

     

    Tried calling the phone number listed on the FB link but got a 'no longer in service' message: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zoundz-2001/209777372365784

     

    Also found this web site with info that it was open as recently as 2014: https://www.jigidi.com/jigsaw-puzzle/AE36T6V6/Zoundz-2001

     

    If anyone here happens to go by, please let me know - I would definitely make a trip back there on my next visit back to WNY

    U r welcome my friend. My father and I rarely talk, besides the obligatory "happy fathers day" text, this was the first time i communicated with him this year. Although it felt like sitting in the waiting room at the dentists office (sorry teef) waiting for a reply, i will text him again and find out if the store is still open and what his number is.

    Last Record Theatre location to close its doors

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Bumping this once, to see if anyone can tell me the name of that Niagara Falls record store. Been racking my brain all weekend...

    I kno what store u r talking about, been there many times as a kid. My father owns the record exchange and knew the owner of that NF store very well. I believe his name is jerry... I shot my dad a text asking him, let u kno when i get a reply.

     

     

     

    The old hippy dudes name was Ted, the name of the store was Zoundz 2001

    Today I Learned....PartII

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Surprisingly, The Secret History of the Mongols is a very good one. Genghis Khan invented Mongolian writing, then had scribes write a surprisingly honest account of the Mongolian Empire. It's generally very well-thought of for being an honest accounting and not a propaganda device (Genghis might be the only emperor in history that didn't commission a work of propaganda as "history.") \

     

    Jeremiah Curtin has some good descriptions of the destruction of Khwarezm, but he's a century old or more, so it's chock full of rough, turgid Victorian prose, and not the easiest read.

     

    Hildinger, Warriors of the Steppe, is pretty good, but only devotes a chapter to the Mongols proper (the Mongols were Turkic, so loosely descended from the Scythians and Huns, and last all the way to the Crimean Tatars, Cossacks, and the end of the Manchu dynasty.)

     

    Michel Hoang's Genghis Khan is pretty good, but it's originally in French, and I have yet to read an English translation of any French writing that I felt was truly accessible.

     

    Those are the three that are on my bookshelf within eyesight right now. I know I've got others, but they're more military history oriented (the Mongol invasion of Khwarezm was the foundation of Russian - and thus by extension German - armored tactics in World War 2), and they're probably in another room somewhere where I was looking something up.

    Have you watched the series "Marco Polo" on Netflix? Its very entertaining and historically accurate depiction of 13th century Mangolia under kublai Khans rule. One of my favorite shows

    Jeremy Maclin (Agrees to 2 year deal with Ravens)

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    So true on everything you said.

     

    Santaserios on Niagara was one of those italian restaurants I went to as a kid through age 30. Old style italian place, red checkered table cloths, drink wine out of juice glasses, big pots of sauce, pasta fagiola with peppers, lentils, huge meatballs.....can't find places like that anymore.

    Santasieros is the best italian in Buffalo.

    draft day trade

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Trade Dareus for Cleveland's next years number one pick.

    I think that the dead cap implications for Dareus have been discussed accross the interweb ad nauseum. Sportrac is your friend.

     

    Sigh...don't give the newcomers here any ideas

    Yes because the newcomers of TBD are all unintelligent and incapable of forming their own thoughts and opinions.

    Bills Showing Interest in Josh Gordon?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    It doesnt sound like the Browns are giving up on Gordon just yet:

     

    Are the Browns willing to part ways with eternally suspended wideout Josh Gordon?

     

    It doesn't sound like it.

     

    "We're not in a position at wide receiver to turn down a guy like Josh if we feel like he's settled himself," Browns executive VP of football operations Sashi Brown said Tuesday at the Annual League Meeting in Phoenix, per the Akron Beacon Journal.

    .....Hugh has given up on him......so everything hinges on the upcoming reinstatement hearing.....if reinstated and knowing Hugh gave up (even though Pryor is gone), why offer anything if his release is imminent?....

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    Last season, Browns coach Hue Jackson told reporters the team planned to "close that chapter" on Gordon, saying: "We're moving on."

     

    Brown, though, sang a different tune on Tuesday night.

     

    "Josh, assuming that he'd play at the level we started to see glimpses of last preseason and certainly when he was in the league before, would be a talent I think no team in the NFL would turn down if he got back in," Brown said. "Our decision with Josh is just understanding where he is in his process and being able to add him."

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000796096/article/sashi-browns-not-in-position-to-dump-josh-gordon

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