The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Touche? That was the truth, cept I had the dream 2 nights ago. The rest will be, as it appears. I just tried to write it differently.

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The Geography Site (Physical/Coastal) seems to give some more info.

PP was quite correct in his descriptions. I.e. you need strong waves to move pebbles. However, why one beach is sand and another is pebble... there really isn't a single answer.

Broadly speaking, you will only get pebble beaches where the beach is fairly "exposed" to stronger wave action, and it is not downwind from sandy beaches.

Of course, pebble beaches are where sand production is occurring, so in a sense, there're always downwind from themselves.

I'm trying to think about the Brighton beaches, on the South coast nearest London. Although it faces out across the English Channel, so the wave "reach" is small, hence the waves are not that energetic, it has pebble beaches. I suspect this was not always the case. Littoral drift moves its sand away (to the east, I believe - prevailing wind and longer reach) and does not replenish it (from the west). You can see this on the groynes there. If it were not for them, all the sand would just walk away, and only pebble would remain. Thes get replenished as the chalk cliffs erode, releasing mainly flints, I think.

Waffle over.

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I have a small jar. It holds some computer-type screws, and some other bits'n'bobs (like the bent paper clip for releasing CD/DVDs from the drive when the power is off). It has been home to that infamous key for some time. I used to keep this one under the monitor, but I kept finding it. Now I've lost it in a more convenient place. I'll put the jar back where it normally lives now.

You would be correct and wonderful flint it is. Knaps very nicely, very controlable. It's real flint and not what generaly passes for it here in the States, iirc, there are only two sources of real flint in the 48 States. That's why the ships coming from the old world had either French or English flint as ballest, or bricks, as a general rule. I used to be able to tell them on sight, but doubt if I could anymore, English maybe. French I doubt, I can't remember the color any more, but if I knew it, I could tell just by looking. Almost think it's an amber/honey color. Both very different from most here. There might be a Spainish flint too, but I don't recall ever handling that. Some day I'd love to sit in a field of obsiden and just bang away all day, that would be a dream. It knaps like butter, slivers are kind of nasty if you screw up.

Thanks for the info lau

Waffle over.

It shall be done!! !! ! Death and be lost o cursed key.

God what a laugh, that just took me totaly by surprise. But very wise words o'computer sage.

I owe you for that one, both ways.

Oh... and Godwit... has the TOC (down the bottom of every page in WP -> "Terms of Service - You must read this as a user of Wrong Planet.") got you all worked up?

I've always been willing to give Alex the benefit of the doubt on this one. The wording may sound rather Machiavellian, but I'm quite happy with it, even so.

Was it something to do with that, why you edited your two posts at the bottom of page 381 down into near non-existence? I thought the sunrise picture was rather beautiful.

I rarely ever go back to edit a post, beyond a few minutes, as it just confuses people. Where, other than here, is it so easy to confuse people?

My only exceptions are when I've gone back to correct something that shouldn't be left uncorrected (e.g. broken links, etc.), when I'll often leave a comment as part of the edit, to say why I've edited it!

My attempts at maintaining the FAQ were doomed, when I discovered that there is a one week (9999 minute) limit imposed on when you can still edit. I find that a stupid value. A 9 minute limit would be fine, or no limit at all. A week makes little sense.

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Lau - failing to recall dreams, as usual, but just recovering from thinking that he had been dreaming Godwit's sunrise, which was a dreamy image, and still is.

Gosh... Wow.... Over three hours with no posts! Do you realise that if weeks were hours and hours were weeks that would be a whole week without a post!

Anyway, cue "Thus Spake Zarathustra", as this is my post of the one more than a score of centuries kind.

I also refer you to The Alphabet Game, the garment from which now splendiferously adorns, embellishes and coordinates with my avatar.

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Congratulations on 2000 posts!

C ngrats!! !

Then I got to thinking (a bad thing!) and realised that no self-disrespecting Ex-Café would be complete with out a photo of my left leg:


So go ahead Codsmuckkit - you can now say you've pulled my leg.

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The epithet "Codsmuckkit" is a purposeful mangling of her correct user name in order to offend the truly marvellous being known correctly as "Cosmiccat" as much as possible. I.e. not at all. Thus spake the owl-awl-aul-ula-lalalala-ow! This leg will self-destruct in 15 seconds, and may the force be with it.
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PS. Thanks, Cardinal Fang\\\\Richlieu.

Nice leg! I have to keep mine in a T.E.D. stocking. I have bad veins and the never-ending-sore on the
ankle. What's up with the pink tutu?

just got up from an early morning nap.
that is when you usually get up at 5AM and it is a day off of work so I got up at 5 and had a cup of coffee then went back for a nap at 7AM and then a dream. . .

It seems I was on my hands and knees searching for somthing on the floor at the end of my bed. There was the sewingmachine I paid 10bucks for (US) at the garage sale crushed on the floor. . It is was odd, I thought to myself. . and then the air conditioner in my window had a big burned out hole through the side of it. . I sniffed and there was the smell of burning electrical wires. . phew!
I saw my television with the screen busted out. . looked like someone kicked it through the back. All of this disturbed me greatly and I remember turning because my knees were crunching on spools of thread that spilled from the bottom of the sewing machine case. . .I was so worried about my sweet little laptop and I had to go and see. . .how in the world ??? did someone rifle though my stuff? Did someone break in?

waking up was a blessing. . .

Merle

Sorry Merle. It was just me doing a belated April Fool joke on you.

I'll fix the sewing machine. I sorta took it apart, because I always do that to machines that fascinate me (all of them). I shouldn't have left it all spead out over the floor.

The AC unit did blow up, but I fixed that. I'll tack a sheet of aluminium (right out of aluminum) over the side, later.

The TV set was the joke bit. It's actually just a picture of a smashed tube on the front. Ha ha?

Do I get smacked wrists now?

oh, honey,
the pink tutu says more than you can possibly know!

but the mere idea you are in my dreams just FREAKS ME OUT!!

yeesh!

ok, thanks, for fixing them, though. I wonder what that was all about, anyway? Maybe I should lock my windows, but I have always thought that was so strange, because if they wanted to come in, wouldn't they just smash the damn window?

Merle

On writing things here. More was added to whom owns what, laws and such and Alex made a comment. From that I think you can pretty much glean intent. I think Anubis's statement there is a good one, it sounds dead on to me.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... sc&start=0

must be a nice late summer early fall afternoon. . .

guess I will take a nother nap


Merle

Dear Swami owl-awl-aul-ula-lalalala-ow! AKA Prince Tutu Much,

One good left appendage deserves another:



This is to advise that Codsmuckkit and all variations thereof have been offended not at all by the purposeful but well intended mangling of her correct user name. As forewarned, the leg you supplied did indeed self destruct with great force in the prescribed time and the spectacle will soon be available in slow motion on YouTube.

Sincerely, Her Marvelousness

PS, This post was produced in its entirety by my marvelous left foot.
No ribs were broken in the process.


Copy to: Cardinal Fang\\\\Richlieu.