Richard Riley wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:33:49 -0600, Dan wrote:

Richard Riley wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:13:42 -0600, Dan wrote:

Roger wrote:
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It must be psychological. Last night when the outside temp was showing
-6 I bumped the shop up to 72 from 70 and still felt cold. The
temperature in the shop is very consistent throughout the whole
building.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Dern sissy, when I was young I had to trudge through blizzards to
get to my hangar. It was up hill...... both ways...

Now let me tell you about having to kill a cave bear to get sinew to
sew fabric for my first airplane.......
Sinew!? This generation, I tell you, they don't appreciate what they
have!

In my day we had to beat papyrus bark to make the fiber to spin into
thread! But tell the kids these days....
We had no papyrus in the glaciers. We had to shave live woolly
mammoths to get fibers to weave for our fabric.

On the bright side our wives didn't complain about our building
airplanes, I was the first in my glacier to build one, since there was
no such thing as divorce. We would simply trade 'em off to another clan.

Life was rough back then, I tell ya.

We never had momoths. We tried shaving giant sloths once, couldn't
get them to hold still long enough. I tell you, for something called
a sloth, those babies can move. We did figure out obsidian blades,
though - they're great if you're near a volcano. Sharp and cheap.

Now you know why sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.


But these kids today, with their fancy "steel" and "aluminum" and
"gasoline" - they don't understand what it was like in the old days.

Hey, is it true you can distill fermented honey by freezing it? My
old building buddy Og swears he's seen it done.

Dunno about that, but the youth of today don't appreciate how we
invented such nav aids as the first VOR at Stone Henge.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired