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This little sailboat with a Big motor may be on its was to becoming a Frankenboot motor cruiser. Dennis McFadden's Michalak Scram Pram, Granny Smith.
Being involved in the Strangers Project has provided me with a certain power and boldness that I normally would not have. For example, like most people at weddings, I tend to congregate only with friends and family members. Yet at the wedding that I attended this past weekend, I chatted with three complete strangers and took their pictures for my project.
Tiffanie was the third stranger that I met from the wedding. Unbeknownst to me, she too is a relative of the bride. She is originally from Paris, France, but now lives in Austin, TX. She said, as beautiful as Paris may be, she moved to the United States because there are more opportunities in this country.
Tiffanie works for Apple in their online French Division. I asked her if it’s because she can speak French, she replied with a smile “yes.” And she loves working for Apple.
While we were talking, her boyfriend came over to tell her something (probably to tell me to scram). After he left, I asked Tiffanie if he also lives in Austin. She said he actually lives in Virginia. Of course curiosity got the best of me and I had to ask how they met. She used to live and work in Maryland and that’s how they first got together. So far the long-distance relationship seems to be working out.
Tiffanie, thank you for participating in my project. Have a safe trip back to Texas.
This picture is #28 in my 100 Strangers Project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
How To Order Your Eggs
1. Sunny side up. Egg is not flipped, whites slightly runny and yolk is warm and runny.
2. Over Easy. Egg is flipped quickly white is runny and yolk is warm and runny.
3. Over Medium. White is cooked all the way, but yolk is still runny.
4. Over Medium Well. White is cooked all the way & yolk is slightly cooked.
5. Over Hard. White is cooked all the way, yolk is poked and cooked all the way.
6. Scram Soft. Eggs are whisked together & slightly uner cooked, look wet.
7. Scram. Eggs are whisked together & cooked all the way through.
8. Scram Hard. Eggs are whisked together, cooked until slightly brown.
9. Basted. Fried in a pan & water is added & a lid on top to barely cook. These are very runny.
10. Poached. Cooked in water like a boiled egg without the shell. These are very soft and runny.
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This is a busy time of year for me, but I managed to slap together an hour's worth of slap-happy rock 'n' roll for you, the listener. From New Mexico come bands like The Scrams and Kilimanjaro Yak Attack. Some of the bands I've gotten to know from The GaragePunk Hideout are here like Lovestruck, The Manxx and J.J. & The Real Jerks. Plus we take a trip into Indian Country with a segment featuring goofy novelty songs from the '50s and elsewhere, as well as some rocking tunes from Native American artists. You'll have to slap yourself to realize you're not dreaming.
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Here's the playlist:
(Background Music: Slap It by Ronnie & His Twangy Little Fellow)
Bitch Slap Attack by Lovestuck
Chimp Necropsy by The Scrams
The Masks by Death
Omega Todd by Kilimanjaro Yak Attack
Cornfed Dames by The Cramps
(Background Music: Taos Pueblo by Impala)
Red Man by Slidin' Clyde Roulette
Indian Rock by The Musical Linn Twins
Big Chief Little Puss by The Olympics
Boppin' Wigwam Willie by Ray Scott
The Radical by Russell Means
Yata Hei by Keely Smith
Millennium Car by Keith Secola & His Wild Band of Indians
(Background Music: Geronimo by Link Wray)
Mustangs and Camaros by Stargunn
Where the Rio de Rosa Flows by '68 Comeback
Broke Yr Spell by The Manxx
Chicken Shack by Hellwood
Seersucker Suit by J.J. & The Real Jerks
(Background Music: Slappin' Rods and Leaky Oil by The Savoys)
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That modest dance school on the edge of Siem Reap town produced top dancers through the years. Doing their stretching exercise combined with the form of Cambodian Classical Ballet, the novice was trying to imitate the senior pupil here. This was 2010.
My last visit, most of the best dancers had been poached from this troupe by the better funded outfits like Smile of Angkor or big hotel show with promise of better pay. Capitalism at its best of course, so the school has scramed for more trainees in 2012. It's a sign of producing good products I supposed.
Western Gulls, Larus occidentalis. There's a story in these three adjacent pictures. When I first started looking at this rock, the chicks were hidden on the far side. What caught my attention was the squabble between the two adult gulls. I believe the squabble was the gull parent telling the other gull it was too close to its chicks and to scram.
The Hylan/Kealler SCRAM class Light Freighter is best known for it's agility. It has 4 state of the art ion engines that propel it faster than most other ships it's size.It is capable of flying in both an atmospher and in space. It can carry up to 140 tons of cargo, and it's cargo bay is easily accessible through it's large overhead doors, making loading and unloading easy for cranes or zero-g teams. As such it is one of the most practical and affordable cargo ships on the civilian market.
The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style, it also bears the influence of architectural trends introduced at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, combining elements of French and Italian Renaissance. Its triangular plan was a clever response to the awkward site produced by the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue at at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.
Like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade, whose forms simulate the effects of rustication, is separated into three parts horizontally. Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet, which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time. At the rounded tip, the triangular tower is only 6.5 feet (2 meters) wide. The 22-story Flatiron Building, with a height of 285 ft (87 meters), is often considered the oldest surviving skyscraper in Manhattan, though in fact the Park Row Building (1899) is both older and taller.
When completed, it was officially named the Fuller Building after the building's promoter George Fuller. Locals took an immediate interest in the building, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down and nicknaming it "the Flatiron" because of the building's resemblance to the irons of the day. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building.
Today the Flatiron is a home to several book publishers, most of them under the umbrella of Holtzbrinck Publishers. It was featured in the Spiderman movies as the office of the newspaper, the Daily Bugle.
The Ladies Mile Historic District, an irregular district defined roughly from 18th Street to 24th Street and Park Avenue South to Avenue of the Americas, preserves 440 buildings on 28 blocks. Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores, including Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, W. & J. Sloane, Arnold Constable, Best & Co., and Bergdorf Goodman. Also included is Daniel H. Burnham's Flatiron Building, at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street; most of the Ladies' Mile Historic District lies within the Manhattan neighborhood named after that building, the Flatiron District.
In 2007, the Flatiron Building was ranked #72 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Flatiron Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. The Ladies Mile Historic District was designated a historic district by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1989.
National Register #79001603 (1979)
Ronald's words still rang in his ears as he made his way downtown. It was late. It was cold. He didn't care.
"You'll never be more than a supporting act, pal," Ronald had mumbled dismissively, cigarette bobbing between his ruby lips.
Grimace had protested. "There's more to me. Just give me a chance. People like me. Kids like me. I can-"
"People have no idea what the fuck you ARE," Ronald snapped. Grimace froze. He knew he'd entered dangerous territory. He knew never to push Ronald to the point of confrontation. And yet here they were, at the point of no return.
Beady little eyes peered into his from above layers upon layers of caked and cracking white makeup. "Listen to reality. Forget the kids. The parents have the money. The parents have to trust you. You know how hard it's been getting these Gen Xers to forget about that clown in Poltergeist and accept me as a someone they'd feel comfortable babysitting their little rugrats? Yeah, well it's been real fuckin' hard." He crushed the smoldering butt of his Camel out underneath a giant floppy shoe. "But at least they know what to call me. You, what are you. An amoeba? A gumdrop? You got nothing. Even Hamburgler -- and let's remember, he's based on THEFT. A MORTAL SIN. Even he'd have a better shot at hitting the big time than you because people can identify what the shit he is. Now scram. I got a massage in 10 minutes."
Grimace shook his head, snapping back to the present and trying to erase the scene from his head. Forget about it, he told himself. This'd work itself out soon enough. Meantime, he just needed to relax. Clear his head.
"Psst," came a voice from the shadows to his left. He recognized it. Looking over, he saw the silhouette in the shadows. He could faintly make out the scruffy beard and cardboard crown in the shrouded moonlight. He shuffled into the alley.
The gaunt figure held up a small plastic baggie. Crystals glistened within. "You look like you've had a night. How about you ... have it your way?"
Grimace's eyes flicked from the bag to the figure's face and back. "Yeah," he grumbled. He slipped a wad of bills into the shadowy man's other hand and snatched the baggie. "I think you could say I deserve a break today."
Now I have to be careful when typing the selection of products, otherwise I might get a pregnancy test as opposed to a snack. It is more or less a matter of taste to mix foods with pregnancy test and condoms. And the Snacketti are advertised with a horror fish. Let's scram! Rheineck, Switzerland, March 21, 2014.
Vacuum tube transportation designed by EARL R. STONEBRIDGE.
If such a project is possible, it can avoid all government regulations in both nations by being contructed beyond the 12 mile limits of offshore monitoring, thus becoming a true project found by citizens of two nations. The tax issue can be avoided by sending the revenue to a bank that is not connected by any ties to either japan or the usa, thus making the entire trans-pacific project historical in nature. There would be many details to be worked out in a project of this scope. The matter of ferrying the passengers beyond the limits, the matter of visa and passport validations, etc, but the entire project is feasible and one that i imagine will become a reality within the next two decades
Saturday, March 25, 2017
First half intro by John
Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:
LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!
Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!
Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!
Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.
John Field
Your Grandest of Sheiks
Foundations Exhibit -
Sydney's original graffiti artists paint side by side with the Insomniaks (formerly Ignore Mainstream crew), Sydney's very own newschool delegates.
Foundations is curated by Phibs in association with aMBUSH Gallery and will include artists such as Paze, Spice, Styles, Scram, Kerupt, Prins, Mare, Kade, Rexy, Gane 2, Mystery, Houster, Kode 2, Poser, Yzer, Oricks, Oke,
The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style, it also bears the influence of architectural trends introduced at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, combining elements of French and Italian Renaissance. Its triangular plan was a clever response to the awkward site produced by the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue at at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.
Like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade, whose forms simulate the effects of rustication, is separated into three parts horizontally. Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet, which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time. At the rounded tip, the triangular tower is only 6.5 feet (2 meters) wide. The 22-story Flatiron Building, with a height of 285 ft (87 meters), is often considered the oldest surviving skyscraper in Manhattan, though in fact the Park Row Building (1899) is both older and taller.
When completed, it was officially named the Fuller Building after the building's promoter George Fuller. Locals took an immediate interest in the building, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down and nicknaming it "the Flatiron" because of the building's resemblance to the irons of the day. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building.
Today the Flatiron is a home to several book publishers, most of them under the umbrella of Holtzbrinck Publishers. It was featured in the Spiderman movies as the office of the newspaper, the Daily Bugle.
The Ladies Mile Historic District, an irregular district defined roughly from 18th Street to 24th Street and Park Avenue South to Avenue of the Americas, preserves 440 buildings on 28 blocks. Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores, including Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, W. & J. Sloane, Arnold Constable, Best & Co., and Bergdorf Goodman. Also included is Daniel H. Burnham's Flatiron Building, at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street; most of the Ladies' Mile Historic District lies within the Manhattan neighborhood named after that building, the Flatiron District.
In 2007, the Flatiron Building was ranked #72 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Flatiron Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. The Ladies Mile Historic District was designated a historic district by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1989.
National Register #79001603 (1979)
Ryan Helbach, a Hypersonic Research Engineer, stands in Hypersonic Combustion Research Cell 22, used in research into SCRAM jet technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, Jul 21, 2016. Helbach is the program lead for AFRL's Intellect to Intellect Exchange (i2i Exchange) which pairs AFRL scientists and engineers with innovative private tech companies and created the AFRL Entrepreneurial Program allowing scientists and engineers to take sabbaticals to pursue outside for-profit goals. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
"The SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet ("Hammerhead") is the main-stay of the Marine Corps. Their SCRAM engines enable them to fly in atmosphere and the almost complete vacuum of space. Following the modular design of aircraft of the late 20th century, Hammerheads can be adapted for normal combat, search and rescue, and possibly other missions."
Prepare yourself for some gritty space action waaay before a BSG reboot (featuring 90's hairdo and sometimes weird dialog)!
"Space: Above and beyond" (or Space: 2063 in german TV) was quite contrary to my beloved Star Trek. Nonetheless I liked it a lot back then. Most prominently of course, the iconic Hammerhead attack jet.
More information on Rebrickable: SA-43
these are so cute when you see them closeup. They usually hang around with the ducks and get what they stir up..
You can tell that they are ready to scram
The JM97 Police Speeder bike is a futuristic Hover Bike was built to be able to acend above conjested city traffic and fly over to the scene of a crime, or to pursue villans. It has twin SCRAM-Jet Engines coupled to a repulser lift, and can do 230MPH.
This is one of my oldest standing MOC's originally built in 1997-ish. It was inspired by the Playstation video game Jet Moto. I built two of these for my city. This one has been updated recently with new parts to give it a cleaner look (old parts were very dusty) and to add tail lights. Otherwise this model has been unchanged since I first built it. It carries the same equiptment, (a Flashlight/gun and a radio), as Lego's 6324 Police Trike did back in the day.
It's a Scram Pram - 16' x 6.5' cabin sailboat - designed by Jim Michalak, built by Dennis McFadden of Vancouver BC, at the Red Lantern Rally
Rapid Offensive Unit
- Short range, atmosphere-capable fighter and reconnaissance-unit.
- Aft and wingtip reaction thrusters allow for acrobatic maneuvering in vacuum.
- Primary drive uses some kinda gravity-field generator, which is supplemented with scram-jets when in atmosphere.
- Low radar, lidar, and EM profiles.
- Full electronic warfare suite.
- Crew complement: 2, with hybernation/suspension systems for both.
- Pilot has optional manual controls, tactical H.U.D., and holo-volumetric display.
The 2010 Steve Terrell Spooktacular.
Fe fe, fi fi, fo fo fum, it's a Monster's Holiday! Halloween is here again and it's the second anniversary of The Big Enchilada! Sit back with a cold glass of your favorite blood type and enjoy the ghoulish sounds of Stud Cole, Roky Erikson, Johnny Dowd, Deadbolt, The Monsters, The Fuzztones, The Scrams, Electricoolade, The Electric Mess, The Hydeouts, Marshmallow Overcoat and so many more. Rock your rockin' bones!
Here's the playlist
(Background Music: Zombie by The Big Guys)
You've Become a Witch by The Electric Mess
Monster's Holiday by The Plainsmen
Creeps at Night by The Hydeouts
Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt
The Witch by Stud Cole
La Llorona by The Scrams
Witchcraft in the Air by Bettye LaVette
(Background Music: Spooks-a-Poppin' Theme by The A-Bones)
Don't Shake Me Lucifer by Roky Erickson & The Resurectionists
I'm the Wolfman by The Fuzztones
Coffin Nails by Coffin Nails
The Zombie Stomp by Danny Ware
Breathing With the Dead by Organs
I Got the Creeps by Big John Bates
Frankenstein Meets The Beatles by Dickie Goodman
(Background Music: Zombie March by Dirtbag Surfers )
Spookie Boogie by Cecil Campbell's Tennessee Ramblers
Werewolf Dynamite by Kim Fowley
Zombiefied by Electricoolade
13 Ghosts by Marshmallow Overcoat
I Was a Teenage Werewolf by The Monsters
Demons and Goats by Johnny Dowd
Want More Spooky Tunes?
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Don't accidentally lean against one of the thousands of buttons, or you might abort the reactor and cost the United States the war!
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Vice Sheik intro
Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:
LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!
Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!
Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!
Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.
John Field
Your Grandest of Sheiks
Flatiron Building: "Not well known among those not from the area, or not into historic architecture, the Flatiron Building is a favorite of New Yorkers and admirers around the world. Perhaps because it symbolizes so much of how New Yorkers see themselves -- Defiant, bold, sophisticated, and interesting. With just enough embedded grime and soot to highlight its details. The Flatiron's most interesting feature is its shape -- a slender hull plowing up the streets of commerce as the bow off a great ocean liner plows through the waves of its domain. The apex of the building is just six feet wide, and expands into a limestone wedge adorned with Gothic and Renaissance details of Greek faces and terra cotta flowers. The building has two claims to fame -- one architectural, the other cultural. Some consider the Flatiron Building to be New York City's first skyscraper. It certainly was one of the first buildings in the city to employ a steel frame to hold up its 285-foot tall facade, but not the first. Some felt its shape (like a flatiron) was less artistic and more dangerous. They thought it would fall over, and during construction the Flatiron Building was nicknamed "Burnham's Folly." The building's cultural legacy is a little more interesting and has passed into the local social consciousness as a fable. It is said that the building created unusual eddies in the wind which would cause women's skirts to fly around as they walked on 23rd street. This attracted throngs of young men who gathered to view the barelegged spectacle. Police would try to disperse these knots of heavy-breathers by calling to them, "23 Skidoo." This phrase has passed out of common usage, but its descendant, the word "scram" remains in a back corner of the American lexicon." - www.glasssteelandstone.com
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The first-ever SALISH 100, June 22-28, 2019, was a small-boat cruise running the length of Puget Sound--100 nautical miles from Olympia to Port Townsend, Washington, and including more than 100 watercraft ranging from Stand-Up Paddleboards to kayaks, rowing boats to pocket-cruising sailboats, and about 15 larger support boats, otherwise known as Motherships.
Organized by the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters group, the SALISH 100 was commercially sponsored by Duckworks Boat Builder's Supply of Port Townsend. Co-sponsors included the Northwest Maritime Center, the Puget Sound chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA), Kingston Mercantile & Marine, The Artful Sailor, Small Craft Advisor magazine, and the Gig Harbor Boat Shop.
Planned overnight stops along the route included Henderson Cove just east of Olympia WA, Penrose Point Marine State Park, Gig Harbor, Blake Island Marine State Park, the Port of Kingston, and Mats Mats Bay before the final destination of Port Townsend.
Boaters came in from all over North America to participate in the event, which promised to be the largest organized small-boat cruise in North America, if not the world.
Registration was free, and advance registration is being accepted for the 2020 SALISH 100 cruise. To add your name to the contact list for 2019 SALISH 100 updates, or to register for 2020, please email organizer Marty Loken at Norseboater22-at-mail.com (replace”-a- with the ampersand @!
We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!
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I have taken my Innova pinhole on some pretty good adventures in the short time I have had it, but none were quite as interesting as the trip inside a nuclear reactor. Back in July, four of us (all packing Hasselblads no less) made the trip out to Tri Cities to take the B Reactor tour at Hanford. I had never been inside a nuclear reactor before (I am not sure too many people can say they have) so I did not know what to expect. It was both more and less impressive than I had imagined. The sheer size of it, it just towers above you, and the weight of the history in the room really gets to you. But I get ahead of myself.
A bit of history. Hanford was built to make a bomb. Specifically Fat Boy that was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. They didn't know they were going to build Fat Boy back then, but the point of Hanford was to produce a nuclear reactor (the world's first on this scale) to use non-fissile Uranium to make Plutonium, which could be used in a bomb (and was). Hanford was selected because it was vast and remote. Some 50,000 workers were brought in to build it, and they did, in complete secrecy in just over 12 months from 1943 to 1944. Nobody knew what Hanford was, not even the workers building it. The secrecy around the construction was so well kept that the workers themselves became disgruntled that they weren't doing something to help the war effort. Despite assurances that they were in fact building something of importance for the war their dissatisfaction eventually led to them pooling funds and contacting Boeing and having their own bomber built, which they donated to the Air Force.
Anyway, back to the reactor. The large cube-shaped thing in the center of the image is the reactor core itself. It is a five story tall graphite cube bored through with 2004 horizontal shafts. Aluminum pipes were inserted into the shafts and into those pipes a uranium slug (or several in one tube actually) would be inserted. At which point boron control rods would be removed and nuclear reaction would begin. River water from the Columbia would be pumped in at the rate of 75,000 gallons a minute. It would enter the reactor at a temperature of about 50 degrees and leave a little over a second later at about 190 degrees F. It was critically important that the water never reached boiling. Over time the rods would decay into Plutonium and workers would shove the rods out of the back of the reactor, at which point they were radioactive enough to kill an unshielded person in ten seconds, or so. In fact, Hanford to this day remains the most radioactivally polluted site in the U.S. Being the world's first production level reactor, they did not know as much as was probably prudent about nuclear waste, and much contamination occurred of the area and river. Amazingly, in Hanford's decades of operation, the reactor never had to be SCRAM'd and other than one case of exposure to Americium, there were no severe cases of radioactive exposure.
Whew. Anyhow, it is quite a trip. The tour lasts about two hours, you ride a bus out to the middle of the site. You can bring cameras! In fact, they give you 45 minutes or so after a tour and lecture to wander pretty much freely and photograph what you will. I think I only made seven exposures, I was so wrapped up in the history of it all. The tours are free, but they tend to fill up pretty fast once registration begins in the spring. Though one volunteer told me if I got a group of photographers together and called their offices they would arrange a special photographer tour.
There is a lot more I could say about this whole experience, and in a sense most of those words would not do the experience justice. There is a certain type of awe that settles over you when you are standing in front of something like this that just cannot really be described or photographed.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Intro of Second Half
Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:
LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!
Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!
Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!
Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.
John Field
Your Grandest of Sheiks
Greetings, out there in podland, the 96th exciting episode of The Big Enchilada is here, so weep no more. We have wild new sounds from He Who Cannot Be Named, Alien Space Kitchen, Sex Hogs II, San Antonio Kid, a couple of Swedish bands, Rattanson and Fezz, classic punk rock from The Germs, The Eyes and Skull Control, a strange ditty from rockin' Rod McKuen and to celebrate episode 96, some sweet sounds from the 9,696-year-old Perfect Master himself, Question Mark (and the Mysterians).
Download here: archive.org/download/BigEnchilada96/BigEnchilada96.mp3
Here's the playlist:
(Background Music: Honey Rock by Barney Kessel)
96 Lagrimas by Los Shains
"8" Teen by Question Mark & The Mysterians
Losing My Mind by Alien Space Kitchen
MDManne by San Antonio Kid
Wandering Black Hole by Rattanson
I Dig Her Wig by Rod McKuen
(Background Music: Banshee by The Derangers)
Lovedoll by He Who Cannot Be Named
Pigtails by Sex Hogs II
Magma by The Scrams
Demolition Man by Skull Control
Ugly by SA90
I'm Your Witchdoctor by The Chants
Around and Around by The Germs
(Background Music: Straitjacket by Bill Haley & The Comets)
Fezzalized by Fezz
I Want You to Be My Baby by Grace Chang
Kill Your Parents by The Eyes
Hellbound by Sinners
There's a UFO Up There by Travis Wammack
Money Changes Everything by Ought
(Background Music: 96 Tears (en Espanol) by Question Mark & The Mysterians)