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All my time on this forum and never realized it had a astronomy subsection!!! If your interested or have a kid interested in Astronomy for Christmas buy this telescope/camera combination for only $550. It is a reputable store in Tucson and is where I do all my astronomy shopping. Real...

Good riddance to getting rid of Jimmy Rogers. The Cougars have hardly ever been a very good team. But they were always fun to watch. Rogers made them a boring, mediocre team. It has been hard to watch the boring Cougar games this year. WSU needs to bring back the COVID coach. Berkeley...

Depends how old you are......when I was in my 20's it was the first pee in the morning. Damn, climate change has changed that river into a crik over the years.

Years ago, there was a person transferring in to the Forest Service office in Wenatchee from out of state. I believe he was moving from California. We talked fishing and he asked for a copy of the Washington state fishing regulations. After I gave him "the book" he thought I was kidding...

Hmmm, lets see. The code is being written by 20 something graduates of computer science schools, complemented by a large component of Indian and foreign HB-1 workers that are being supervised by the likes of people like Bill Gates, Zuckerburg, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk. What could go wrong...

Here is a book about AI and the "real world". https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Game-Death-Forever/dp/1796098698 Worth reading on how AI can get out of hand. It is "science fiction" today. It might not be "science fiction" tomorrow. The underlying statement in the book is AI knows that it is...

That is pretty funny.

Google Scholar is part of the Google search engine. I did not follow it closely, but the scientific journals tried to limit access to published science articles that were funded by the Federal government. Anything you do as a Federal employee or material produced by Federal funding is in the...

I have started using AI in a variety of technical subjects. Here goes with some observations. As a forester, I have used AI in writing forestry subjects for the layman and used AI. That was interesting. So the typical AI searches the internet. It took my professional opinion and used...

My point wasn't about baseball. It was about culture. Throwing a baseball or kicking a soccer ball with your kid is not done in all cultures. The family relationships between adults and children are very different depending on the culture.

Where do you live Scott?? The reason that "many kids have never even thrown a baseball with their "parents" is they are playing soccer with their kids. In Wenatchee, over 60% of the school kids are immigrants or born here to immigrant parents. Between the immigrants and their kids that are...

I started tying the Squirmy Worm and realized that the tying instructions were awful. He recommends running the point of the hook through the worm. Just use the worm to tie a knot on the hook and then use super glue to hold in place. The video is worth watching, but the knot is so much...

Skagit Swinger, do you have more information on the second fly?? You guys sent me down several rabbit holes with video links. I found this "fly" on the rabbit hole trip and realized that it took only ONE material and ONE hook. Even more amazing I found the material in my stash of useless fly...

Yeah, I was thinking that I should drop it to two materials or less. My favorite flies are two or less for a materials list. Well, for me they are NCW lakes since I only fish lakes. Unless the streams have firm feeling bottoms.

I loved the Elk Hair Caddis when I lived in Idaho. I did not like working with the dubbing. I was looking at Wade's video IOBO humpy and it looks like it would be really simple to tie a Elk Hair Caddis using the same procedures. Is that what you were thinking??

After a couple of decades I might be losing my fly tyer, so have cleaned up my fly tying stuff and starting to tie for this coming spring. I am a bad fly tyer. So the rules for me are quite simple. Five materials or less. The hook is one, the thread is two. That leaves me three materials...

just different. different is fine. That is hard to learn at 22.

Both the US and Canada are good countries. Both Americans and Canadians are good people in almost ALL cases. My issue was that I was 22 and just graduated from UC Berkeley and moved to graduate school at UBC. Canada is socially a very conservative country. It was even more so, in 1973...

I can see the light pollution dome from Seattle at my house in Wenatchee. That is an incredible waste of electricity. Good thing that Seattle is covered in clouds most of the time.

I spent the entire decade of the 70's without a TV. And working large chunks of time in the back country without even a phone and poor radio reception. Though the clear channel stations were great. But listening to the news in San Francisco at night, when you live in Idaho isn't that...