gnats are the worst. At least the mosquito's let you know they are around with that high pitched buzzing....
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It's not an optical illusion.
It just looks like one.....Comment
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No kiddin, That's about what are ramps are looking likeOriginally posted by da.bell View PostDidn't you want to try that to launch your boat like that bu did when it came off the trailer? Now is your chance.
Everything is closed except on lane at one of the main access ramps, I think they are leaving it open for the Holiday but nothing big can launch, and one other access way north has 4 open and one closed but I think a couple more lanes will close by this weekend
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I hear you. My lake that I have been talking about is going to a 5 mph zone. Yes, the entire lake. Then there is another lake about an hour away that the county is talking about outlawing motorized boats. urgh!!!!!!!!!Originally posted by chpthril View PostNo kiddin, That's about what are ramps are looking like Everything is closed except on lane at one of the main access ramps, I think they are leaving it open for the Holiday but nothing big can launch, and one other access way north has 4 open and one closed but I think a couple more lanes will close by this weekend
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Man!!!!Originally posted by da.bell View Post
The worst are those big old horse fly / cattle fly beasts!!!!!!!
I grew up working bee hives with my dad, and learned early that stinging insects will basically leave you alone unless provoked.
There is a cattle herd just west of my house and I get those darned flys, especially when I am working on something. I will go all day with a bee buzzing me, but I come unglued when I hear the distinct sound of that type of fly. I almost got bottom paint on my yellow '05 Stingray swatting at one of the dam n ed things the other evening.
They HURT when they bite you!!!!!It's not an optical illusion.
It just looks like one.....Comment
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It's not an optical illusion.
It just looks like one.....Comment
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That sucksOriginally posted by da.bell View PostI hear you. My lake that I have been talking about is going to a 5 mph zone. Yes, the entire lake. Then there is another lake about an hour away that the county is talking about outlawing motorized boats. urgh!!!!!!!!!
I hate flying bugs, cant wait for a winter freezeOriginally posted by philwsailz View Post
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History of the different cubits
[edit] The Egyptian Royal Cubit and Sumerian Nippur cubit
From the Nippur ell to the old royal cubitThe cubit is among the first recorded units of length used by an ancient people.
The earliest attested standard measure was called the Royal Cubit and was 523.5 to 524 mm (20.61 to 20.63 inches) in length, and was subdivided into 7 palms of 4 digits, giving a 28 part measure in total. Secure evidence for this unit is known from architecture, from at least as early as the construction of the Step Pyramid of Djoser from around 2,700 B.C.
This unit was used virtually unchanged throughout the Egyptian dynastic period, and is evidenced into the 1st millennium B.C.
In 1916, during the last years of Ottoman Empire and in the middle of WWI the German assyriologist Eckhard Unger found a copper-alloy bar during excavation at Nippur from c. 2650 BC. which he claimed was a measurement standard. This irregularly formed and irregularly marked graduated rule supposedly defined the Sumerian cubit as about 518.5 mm or 20.4 inches, although this does not agree with more secure evidence from the statues of Guduea from the same region. A 30-digit-cubit known a a kus was nevertheless known from the 2nd millenium B.C., with a digit-length of about 17.28 mm (more than 0.68 inch).
Old Egyptian geometers could calculate the square root of two from the value of the hypotenuse of a Cubit. This well-attested old Egyptian unit was known as the "construction remen" and used a good approximation: 2×20/28 ≥ root 2.
[edit] Other important cubits
The Roman cubitus is a six-palms-cubit of about 444.5 mm. Twenty-four Roman cubits equal thirty-five English feet. So, the Roman cubit is defined to be 17.5 inches exactly one.*
The Greek pechua (πεχυα) was also a 24-digit-cubit. So, the Greek Kyrenaika Cubit measured about 463.1 mm and the Greek Metrios Cubit about 474.2 mm; respectively 25/24 and 16/15 Roman cubits. Other Greek cubits based on different digit measures of other city-states are less important. The Greek 40-digit-measure, called bema, corresponds to the Latin gradus, the step or half-a-pace.
The Arabic Hashimi Cubit of about 650.2 mm (25.6 inches) is considered to measure two French feet. Since the established ratio between the French and English foot is 16 to 15 (the small error of about 0.086 % is owed to imperfect standards, not-adjusted mutually), one can give following equation: 5 Hashimi cubits = 10 French feet = 128 English inches. Also the length of 256 Roman cubits and the length of 175 Hashimi cubits are equivalent.
The Guard Cubit (Arabic: ammatu rabitu) measured about 555.6 mm; 5/4 of the Roman cubit. Therefore: 96 Guard cubits equal 120 Roman cubits equal 175 English feet.
The Arabic Nil Cubit (or Black Cubit) measured about 540.2 mm. This means 28 (later called) Greek digits of the "Pous of Kyrenaika" equal to 25/24 of a Roman foot or just 308.7 mm. Thus 175 Roman Cubits equal 144 Black Cubits.
The Mesopotamian cubit measured about 533.4 mm, 6/5 Roman cubit. Thus, 20 Mesopotamian cubits equal 24 Roman cubits equal 35 English feet.
The Babylonian cubit (or cubit of Lagash) measured about 496.1 mm. Also a Babylonian trade cubit existed, nine tenth of the normal cubit, i.e. 446.5 mm. The Babylonian Cubit is fifteen sixteenths of the Royal cubit. 160 Babylonian trade cubits equal 144 Babylonian cubits equal 135 Egyptian Royal cubits. (The Royal cubit is equal to 529.2 mm. See above).
The Pergamon cubit 520.9 mm or 75/64 of the Roman cubit.
The Salamis cubit 484.0 mm or 98/90 of the Roman cubit.
The Persian cubit of about 500.1 mm or 9/8 of the Roman cubit, which is also 9/10 of the Guard cubit.
In Izapa, a Precolumbian Mesoamerican city, the measuring unit was equivalent to about 495 mm, very close to the Lagash cubit. This is probably a coincidence, since a diffusion of culture from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica has not been conclusively demonstrated.
The different Jewish cubits (אַמָּה ama) are generally borrowed either from Babylonians or Greeks or Romans. In ancient Israel during the First Temple period, the cubit was 428.1 mm (= 26/27 Roman cubit). During the Second Temple period, a cubit of about 444.5 mm (= Roman cubit) was in general use, but in the sacred areas of the temple a special cubit of 437.6 mm seems to have been used instead (= 63/64 Roman cubit).[1]
* 17.5 inches, with 25.4 mm per inch gives 444.5 mm for the Roman cubit.It's not an optical illusion.
It just looks like one.....Comment
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I call those the helicopter flies. They are the ones that can lift a baby and take them away if you aren't watching them..Originally posted by philwsailz View Post
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No doubt!!!! I understand THAT comparison for sure!Originally posted by da.bell View PostI call those the helicopter flies. They are the ones that can lift a baby and take them away if you aren't watching them..
It's not an optical illusion.
It just looks like one.....Comment
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My dam calculator at work..... I just plugged the number in again and you are right. I must have input the wrong numbers.... Good job you are looking and verifying.... Measure 1,000,000 times cut once!!!!!!!!!!Originally posted by philwsailz View Posthuh? 45.72/2.54 = 18.0000
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I ran my best work outs sat morning after putting down beer at 6am to go run 12 miles at sub 6 pace at 630Originally posted by G-MONEY View Postwelcome to hell
We had practice at 7AM Saturday mornings just so we couldn't go out Friday night....
Have you ever done PFP's/bunt practice in the dark
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i love that type of floss!!Originally posted by G-MONEYComment
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da.bell your count keeps getting closer
good thing I get my iphone, broad band, and new mac this weekend (I hope )
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