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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290621 |
This question isn't about the site. It doesn't belong in this category. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289976 |
What is "DWR"? Define your TLAs. (more) |
— | 7 months 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) |
— | about 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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285816 |
Hooks for optional mud guards? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285475 |
Ask the store. How is this not obvious? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285475 |
Doesn't look all that wilted. (more) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284797 |
Yes, I totally agree with your previous comment. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284797 |
I don't really mind ID questions, within the right context. If it's something you personally saw, like out of a plane window, it can be a good challenge. Of course you need to tell us what you know about the flight, where you think you were, the direction, etc. I'd also be happy to help with an ol... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284784 |
You apparently already know this was taken in White Salmon WA, so what exactly are you asking? White Salmon can't be that big, and you know you're close to the river looking downstream (west). Go to White Salmon in Google Earth and look around. Or is the point of the question to get us to do this ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284609 |
Whoever downvoted this, please explain what you think is wrong. I looked it over, and as far as I can tell, this is correct. It is agrees with the other answer, which also seems correct. Silent downvotes do this site a disservice. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284328 |
As I said, it can be justified to intervene when the dog is in obvious danger. However, that still doesn't mean it was lost. Most likely, the dog knows how to get home. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283148 |
"How difficult" is opinion based. What do you expect for answers, "not very", "sorta hard", or "42"? This question would be on topic if it instead asked what the procedure would be, what issues to watch out for, etc. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282192 |
30x from a 6 inch long tube is going to be *very* wobbly. Basically forget about holding it to your eye while free-standing. This will only be useful if you can steady it somehow, like on a rock or against a tree. There is a reason binoculars usually top out at around 7x, maybe up to 10x for heavy... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281950 |
Note that shadows are on the left, so the sun is towards the right. The picture was therefore taken looking east. Since it is facing high peaks, that hints this is on the west side of the range. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280638 |
@Monica: Yes, go ahead. That's actually an alias, but should get to me. Or, you can use my first name at the embedinc.com domain. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280638 |
@Monica: I don't know what you have in mind, but you can send me email. I expect you can get my address from the database. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280638 |
@Monica: You explained what bumped one of the posts, but not the rest. That also happened weeks after the question was first asked. Charlie is a mod here, and should be answering such simple questions. The confusion as to what was really going on came from the previous meta question you are referr... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279707 |
@Monica: Ah, that makes sense. There is no way for us peons to see that. Now why couldn't he just *say so*!? Mods should be more responsive than that. It also doesn't explain the other post that show edit activity, but the before and after appear to be the same. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279681 |
Keep in mind that rivers change course over time. It is entirely plausible that the river was where you found the shells recently (in geologic time). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279380 |
@Charlie: I thought they might be tag-only edits too, but note that the tags are identical in the example I show. You did the edit. Did you actually change something, or intend to? What exactly happened? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279385 |
So are you saying that you deliberately made a no-change edit? There isn't a bug in the system that somehow thinks there was an edit when there wasn't? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279387 |
I wasn't really talking about the one where some answer got deleted. I was specifically referring to recent bumps where there seems to be no content change. The before and after text look identical, yet the system still thinks an edit was made. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279348 |
The obvious answer to this question is *"Because they think is sells better"*. Unless you expect someone from a marketing department with hard data to answer (very unlikely), this question should be closed as *opinion based*. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279348 |
@Lundin: *"why men couldn't use the same bike model as women back then"*. No, it's not "some 19th century macho thing". Women's bikes of that era don't have the bar across the top, forcing a less desirable structural tradeoff. There is much more stress on the frame down by the crank, making the fr... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279359 |
Keep a bear in the bear box. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279298 |
@Monica: Hmm. There there must be some kind of vote-bot on the loose, or someone went thru a lot of trouble to go thru imported posts and upvote lots of answers. Considering how dead it is here, it make no sense that I would have 656 rep, or Charlie 3313. There aren't enough active users here to e... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279111 |
What's with the downvote? Aren't identification questions on topic here? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |