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In article , "Phil Kane"
writes: On 23 Mar 2004 16:58:44 GMT, N2EY wrote: And I do like the term "McMansion"! We have some of them around here. Big houses, big price, tossed up quickly by cheap nonunion labor. CC&Rs out the ying-yang. We call them "tract mansions"...... ggg HAW! We have a half-dozen of them going up near here in an area that was last developed twenty years ago. Just for yah-yahs I'm going to check out the CC&Rs after they are open for sale. Probably don't allow you to have a pair of rabbit ears on the TV set. What I find most intriguing is that the tower was there long before the McMansions were built, so the builders and the buyers were not surprised. Now they're all upset. Just like when the Blue Route was finally built here in the Philadelphia area. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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N2EY wrote:
In article , "Phil Kane" writes: On 23 Mar 2004 16:58:44 GMT, N2EY wrote: And I do like the term "McMansion"! We have some of them around here. Big houses, big price, tossed up quickly by cheap nonunion labor. CC&Rs out the ying-yang. We call them "tract mansions"...... ggg HAW! We have a half-dozen of them going up near here in an area that was last developed twenty years ago. Just for yah-yahs I'm going to check out the CC&Rs after they are open for sale. Probably don't allow you to have a pair of rabbit ears on the TV set. What I find most intriguing is that the tower was there long before the McMansions were built, so the builders and the buyers were not surprised. Now they're all upset. Just like when the Blue Route was finally built here in the Philadelphia area. Not uncommon at all, Jim. In my area, we have farmers that hve sold off land for development, after which the people that moved into the development sued to shut the farmer down because of the noxious smells emanating from the farm. I don't blame it entirely on the people suing, the farmer had to be pretty stupid to not know that "development people don't like nature very much....... - Mike KB3EIA - |
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(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article , (William) writes: JJ wrote in message ... Len Over 21 wrote: Hello? What does "N-ZERO-IMD" look like written out? Hint: N0IMD. November Zero India Mama Delta Brian Burke. Check it out on QRZ.com. Brian been here for a while...good ham, independent thinker. You thoudn't be thuch a thinker. Plank LHA / WMD Hello? So why does he use the name William? Why not his real name if that is who he is? I don't know that William is Brian Burke or billybeeper or whatever other name he may post under, why should I place any stock in what he claims if he has to use so many names? He uses an id of juno.com, yet he is posting from google, that dosen't sound like one can put much stock in anything he says. So what's your call lennyboy? Oh, forgot, you can't pass the test so here you are a non-ham who has no credibility on a ham group. So JJ doesn't have a name or a callsign? No credibility. All he is is the equivalent of heavy breathing at the other end of an obscene phone call. Maybe it's just some AI program? Lots of Artificiality in that "Intelligence"... :-) LHA / WMD JJ just leetle feesh in leetle pond. Got chased out of CB, so trying to make splash here. Say he speak for SecDEF and DirFEMA. I say he whacko. |
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In article , Mike Coslo
writes: N2EY wrote: In article , "Phil Kane" writes: On 23 Mar 2004 16:58:44 GMT, N2EY wrote: And I do like the term "McMansion"! We have some of them around here. Big houses, big price, tossed up quickly by cheap nonunion labor. CC&Rs out the ying-yang. We call them "tract mansions"...... ggg HAW! We have a half-dozen of them going up near here in an area that was last developed twenty years ago. Just for yah-yahs I'm going to check out the CC&Rs after they are open for sale. Probably don't allow you to have a pair of rabbit ears on the TV set. What I find most intriguing is that the tower was there long before the McMansions were built, so the builders and the buyers were not surprised. Now they're all upset. Just like when the Blue Route was finally built here in the Philadelphia area. Not uncommon at all, Jim. In my area, we have farmers that hve sold off land for development, after which the people that moved into the development sued to shut the farmer down because of the noxious smells emanating from the farm. Now that's dumb! I don't blame it entirely on the people suing, the farmer had to be pretty stupid to not know that "development people don't like nature very much....... How would the farmer know? This past Wednesday, I was in Lancaster County, PA. Amish/Mennonite country, although development is pushing many of the Old Order out. We stopped at the Wawa at the intersection of 30 and 896. In three directions there were outlet malls and retail stores. In the fourth direction was a working farm, and a farmer with a team of 6 horses cultivating. The smell was definitely rural but not unpleasant. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Subject: Why Can't N-ZERO-IMD Validate His Own Claims...?!?!
From: PAMNO (N2EY) Date: 4/3/2004 9:32 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: In article , Mike Coslo writes: What I find most intriguing is that the tower was there long before the McMansions were built, so the builders and the buyers were not surprised. Now they're all upset. Just like when the Blue Route was finally built here in the Philadelphia area. Not uncommon at all, Jim. In my area, we have farmers that hve sold off land for development, after which the people that moved into the development sued to shut the farmer down because of the noxious smells emanating from the farm. Now that's dumb! Even dumber... It's now moot...but when I was at El Toro/Tustin in the 80's we'd routinely get phone calls at the abse complaining about the "[expletive] jet noise"... I don't know how the one call got routed to the AeroClub this one Saturday morning, but the guy was P.O.ed that an A6 Intruder just flew by his new condo. I asked him to give me his location so I could pass the info to Base Ops...Turns out he bout a condo for a quarter mill only 350 YARDS from the right-of-way corridor to the 34 duals at El Toro. I asked him if he hadn't noticed all the jet traffic when he bought the place and he said no. I told him that my pick-up truck, which cost less than a tenth of what he paid for his condo, had features on it I didn't care for, but I didn't fuss about them because I KNEW what I was buying before I signed on the dotted line! I also pointed out that the base had been here since 1942 and flying jets since 1949. His condo was still dripping wet pain off the ceiling. That's when I hung up on him. I don't blame it entirely on the people suing, the farmer had to be pretty stupid to not know that "development people don't like nature very much....... How would the farmer know? This past Wednesday, I was in Lancaster County, PA. Amish/Mennonite country, although development is pushing many of the Old Order out. We stopped at the Wawa at the intersection of 30 and 896. In three directions there were outlet malls and retail stores. In the fourth direction was a working farm, and a farmer with a team of 6 horses cultivating. The smell was definitely rural but not unpleasant. Nothing like fresh tilled earth....But it's the freshly fertilized earth (courtesy of the team of horses!) that set it apart! 73 Steve, K4YZ |
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Steve Robeson K4CAP wrote:
Subject: Why Can't N-ZERO-IMD Validate His Own Claims...?!?! From: PAMNO (N2EY) Date: 4/3/2004 9:32 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: In article , Mike Coslo writes: What I find most intriguing is that the tower was there long before the McMansions were built, so the builders and the buyers were not surprised. Now they're all upset. Just like when the Blue Route was finally built here in the Philadelphia area. Not uncommon at all, Jim. In my area, we have farmers that hve sold off land for development, after which the people that moved into the development sued to shut the farmer down because of the noxious smells emanating from the farm. Now that's dumb! Even dumber... It's now moot...but when I was at El Toro/Tustin in the 80's we'd routinely get phone calls at the abse complaining about the "[expletive] jet noise"... I don't know how the one call got routed to the AeroClub this one Saturday morning, but the guy was P.O.ed that an A6 Intruder just flew by his new condo. I asked him to give me his location so I could pass the info to Base Ops...Turns out he bout a condo for a quarter mill only 350 YARDS from the right-of-way corridor to the 34 duals at El Toro. I asked him if he hadn't noticed all the jet traffic when he bought the place and he said no. He probably didn't! So many people manage to go through life with amazingly little interface with the outside world. It's like I ask - what do they spend all their time thinking about, if they are thinking about anything. One of the best education's I ever got was from a teacher in high school that showed us exercises to increase our observational skills. I told him that my pick-up truck, which cost less than a tenth of what he paid for his condo, had features on it I didn't care for, but I didn't fuss about them because I KNEW what I was buying before I signed on the dotted line! I also pointed out that the base had been here since 1942 and flying jets since 1949. His condo was still dripping wet pain off the ceiling. That's when I hung up on him. I don't blame it entirely on the people suing, the farmer had to be pretty stupid to not know that "development people don't like nature very much....... How would the farmer know? This past Wednesday, I was in Lancaster County, PA. Amish/Mennonite country, although development is pushing many of the Old Order out. We stopped at the Wawa at the intersection of 30 and 896. In three directions there were outlet malls and retail stores. In the fourth direction was a working farm, and a farmer with a team of 6 horses cultivating. The smell was definitely rural but not unpleasant. Nothing like fresh tilled earth....But it's the freshly fertilized earth (courtesy of the team of horses!) that set it apart! It's all okay, except for the pig manure! 8^) - Mike KB3EIA - |
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In article , Mike Coslo writes:
I sometimes wonder what these people "do" spend their time thinking about. Other things! Isn't modern life complex enough? True! like who's on "The Simple Life" tonight, or that insulting talent search show - lotsa important stuff like that. Exactly. Modern life has always been complex enough, always has been and always will be! The question is whether the complexity makes life better or worse. Here's an example: Suppose a person goes for a job interview and things go well. Usually the next step for the interviewee is to send a thank you letter to the interviewer. Pretty simple task, right? And it hasn't changed much for decades. Many years ago, a handwritten letter would be appropriate. You had to know how to write legibly. And you needed pen, ink, and paper. Then came typewriters, and for such business correspondence a typewritten letter was standard practice. You had to know how to type, even hunt-and-peck style. But typewriting did not replace writing legibly. You needed a typewriter and paper, which was more of an investment than pen and ink, but a typewriter lasts a very long time. Then came personal computing, word processing, and printers. And the standard for the thank you business letter went up another notch, as did the necessary equipment to do the job. And the learning curve to use it all. Plus the PC did not eliminate the need to write legibly or type. And the equipment's life cycle is much shorter - remember daisy-wheel printers? dot-matrix printers? fanfold paper with holes in the side? How many different computers, peripherals and software packages have come and gone in the past, say, 20 years? Yet the basic function remains the same: Send a thank you letter. But now we need all this equipment. Of course a PC is far more than just a word processor, but you see the point. You might also enjoy this site: http://www.fybush.com/site-021219.html Interesting history of W2XMN, the past, present and future of a famous site. Click on the links to see how far ignorance can go. Cool! I just heard about the tower this past weekend, and here you come along with a link to it Good timing, Jim. bwaahaahaa ...ze barracuda knowz whean to sterike... It's a little scary at first sight, but a magnificent structure nonetheless. I've seen it from a distance but never up close. It's on the list. (I've been to W1AW and operated there. Also visited NIST in Boulder and the WWV/WWVB transmitter site in Fort Collins.) As for the concerned residents of Alpine, they might want to chuck their cell phones if they are so worried about RF exposure - though of course I'm sure they never use them! 8^) "Inverse square law? What's that?" But frankly, they strike mer as being less than smart. hehe, nothing like me talking about people being stupid and making my own typo in the sentence!!! 8^) HAW! Do not underestimate folks like that. Look at the BPL mess. Did you see the Wall Street Journal article? No I didn't. It was reprinted here. Might be a link on the ARRL website. Education and intelligence does not make a person smart. I always thought that one of the things that makes for smart decisions is to be able to extrapolate consequences. That's one definition. Remember that whenever someone describes ham radio as "a hobby", they are giving the BPL folks an argument against us. If amateur radio is "just a hobby", then why should it be any more important than anyone else's hobby, such as downloading pr0n via BPL? And I do like the term "McMansion"! We have some of them around here. Big houses, big price, tossed up quickly by cheap nonunion labor. CC&Rs out the ying-yang. The average mobile home has better construction methods, and often better hardware, cabinets, etc. than those conspicuous consumption hovels. You mean "manufactured housing", I think. And I agree. Of course there *is* quality construction going on, but it's not cheap. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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