Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
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| Comment | Post #290621 |
Oops. I thought I was in the Meta category. I must have mis-clicked, hit Gear Recommendations accidentally, and not noticed. I have undone the downvotes and will delete the other comment. Sorry about the confusion. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290621 |
This question isn't about the site. It doesn't belong in this category. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289976 |
What is "DWR"? Define your TLAs. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286458 |
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— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286585 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Durable backpack that won't rip if carried on one shoulder 20-25 kg, or 45-55 pounds weight, is too much to expect to carry on your shoulders. That's especially true if only over one shoulder. Not only will that put a lot of stress on the shoulder straps, but a lot of stress on your shoulders too. However, that weight is within range of a "overnight" ba... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286458 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: To leaf peep in Adirondack Park, how many Scenic ViewPoints can you drive up to? Adirondack park is large, especially by northeast US standards. There are quite a number of roads, from main paved roads to lesser paved roads, to good dirt roads, etc. There is something for every type of car, and plenty for ordinary road cars. There are more scenic turnouts than on a typical r... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286320 |
Most bird nests are too small for more than one adult sitting on eggs. Once the chicks hatch, you don't see an adult in the nest at all. Eagles are unusual in that the nest is big enough for everyone. Also, where do birds sleep when they aren't nesting? Most bird nests are left empty all the time... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286277 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Where's this mountain road, in Kumamoto Japan? This road looks too hazardous and narrow for automobiles, because there's no fence! What kind of road is this? Solely for pedestrians? That's clearly an automobile road. Having a steep dropoff on one side of the road is really not that unusual. The normal way to deal with that is to add a guardr... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286247 |
If you already know the town, then why can't you just look around with Google Earth? This ridge with the road cut is quite distinctive, and should be easy to spot within a general location. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285816 |
Hooks for optional mud guards? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285475 |
Ask the store. How is this not obvious? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285475 |
Doesn't look all that wilted. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285336 |
Great clue! I missed that one. I have to do some real work now (the kind they pay me for), but I'll do some digging with Google Earth later using your clue. You should put this in an answer so that it can be upvoted. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285313 |
What do you mean by this "crossing"? Is this a crossing point between Alberta and Saskatchewan? That seems unlikely with the mountains nearby. What is the significance of this crossing? What exactly is crossing what? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285313 |
Instead of showing us a picture with a bunch of stuff, then saying to ignore part of it, you should crop the picture to the relevant part in the first place. That's basic courtesy when asking a bunch of people for a favor. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285336 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285336 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Jig Radio, Wiesbaden? I found the picture below in a stash of things that belonged to my father. My father served in the US army during WWII in the signal corps. He was referred to unofficially as a "radio repairman" apparently. After the war ended, he continued to be employed by the army as a civilian for a couple o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285317 |
I think @Canina's post does a good job of describing the requirements for picture identification questions. I would rather judge each question on its own merits than artificially limit users to a certain number of concurrent questions, whether good or bad. The points in Canina's post are spelled ou... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285322 |
This is what I've been trying to say here and there, but were able to state it clearly and in one place. I completely agree. This is what our site policy should be. Perhaps this should be a separate meta post so that it can be unambiguously voted on without all the other tangents in this questions... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284808 |
You just dumped 6 totally unresearched pictures ID questions on us. All are from some travel book, apparently. I agree with @Canina. These kind of dumps are not OK unless you have some personal connection with the picture, show evidence of reasonable research and explain why it failed, and give us... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285311 |
This is yet another picture dump. You don't explain any personal connection, you have shown no attempt at research, and it's not clear what you intend to do with the answer. It feels like you are simply asking the volunteers here to do your work for you. As you well know, such questions are a topic o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285310 |
This is yet another picture dump. You don't explain any personal connection, you have shown no attempt at research, and it's not clear what you intend to do with the answer. It feels like you are simply asking the volunteers here to do your work for you. As you well know, such questions are a topic o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285312 |
This is yet another picture dump. You don't explain any personal connection, you have shown no attempt at research, and it's not clear what you intend to do with the answer. It feels like you are simply asking the volunteers here to do your work for you. As you well know, such questions are a topic o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285309 |
This is yet another picture dump. You don't explain any personal connection, you have shown no attempt at research, and it's not clear what you intend to do with the answer. It feels like you are simply asking the volunteers here to do your work for you. As you well know, such questions are a topic o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285308 |
This is yet another picture dump. You don't explain any personal connection, you have shown no attempt at research, and it's not clear what you intend to do with the answer. It feels like you are simply asking the volunteers here to do your work for you. As you well know, such questions are a topic o... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285307 |
This is yet another picture dump. You don't explain any personal connection, you have shown no attempt at research, and it's not clear what you intend to do with the answer. It feels like you are simply asking the volunteers here to do your work for you. As you well know, such questions are a topi... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285317 |
I don't mind a single user asking more than one <i>legitimate</i> picture identification question at a time. While "legitimate" is hard to nail down, @Canina's post pretty much nails my feelings too. Those rules are somewhat subjective, but that's why we have close votes. Moderators need to be wil... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285060 |
@Mithical: While there can be some disagreement about what is rude and not, some of the deleted comments wouldn't be interpreted as rude by any reasonable standards. For example <i>"What research have you done to narrow this down? Why was it unsuccessful?"</i>. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285060 |
You've said similar things before, but there hasn't been much rudeness at all here. Asking users what research they have done, or even just pointing out that the site rules require some research before posting is not rude. Yet, comments like that have disappeared, presumably deleted by you? If so,... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285056 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How can we grow this community? You've asked some good questions. Unfortunately all can't be answered honestly in an open message like this one. Ping me privately if you want more detail. Structural problems Old content. We've talked about this before, but nothing ever seems to get resolved or done. This site is very deep... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285045 |
New England and eastern Canada are closely connected. The same general weather patterns will be in both, and the trees don't know where the border is. You mention Vermont, but the climate isn't suddenly different when you step from northern Vermont into Quebec. Going east from Maine into New Bruns... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284963 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284963 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284963 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Where's this view of the Columbia River George located? Yes, that picture does indeed seem to be taken from White Salmon, WA. Specifically, it seems to be taken from one of the hills above the east end of White Salmon, as can be seen here around the center of this picture: Here is the view roughly from there, looking downriver (west): This ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284960 |
Whoever downvoted this, please let us know what you think is wrong, misleading, or badly written. I have read it over, and still don't see it. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284960 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: When and where to happen upon Aurora Borealis in Vancouver, BC? The sun is currently in the more active part of its cycle, where solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are more common. Auroras are caused when high-energy charged particles hit the vicinity of Earth. These charged particles spiral down to earth along the magnetic field lines, which inter... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284797 |
<i>"If you go back to 4 months"</i>, there you are before we got deluged with just picture dumps. Your historic picture in the Sierras is a good example. You gave some context, and seemed to have some personal interest. That's quite different from the more recent raw dumps of pictures from a trave... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284797 |
<i>"without these, this site would be like photography and have basically no questions"</i> Lowering quality standards is not a sustainable way to get volume. This site has low volume because we haven't gotten the word out, and possibly because search engines are penalizing us for all the old copied... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284802 |
I started out writing an answer saying that "minuteman" was used in colonial times, particularly in what is now New England, and that should considerably narrow down looking at state emblems. Then I got curious and searched on "National Guard minuteman emblem", and very easily found all the informat... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284802 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284802 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Which unit/State National Guard was this F-100 Super Saber from? It seems that insignia is for the Air National Guard as a whole, not a particular unit. The minuteman is the emblem of the National Guard, and is a stylized drawing of the minuteman statue in Concord Massachusetts: (image copied from Minuteman National Park web site) The minuteman emblem f... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284797 |
I could accept requests to ID such widely-seen pictures, as long as some basic research was attempted. Say what clues you see in the picture, how you tried to follow up on them, and explain how that didn't work. At least that shows you tried. It then feels more like jointly trying to find clues an... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |