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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 14, 2016 - 07:44am PT
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Speaking of 1966.
The Sexual Freedom League, which was one of many student-led forays into the realm of sexual activism on campus, began at UC Berkeley in 1966.
Moving on to 1967. It's Steve Miller, Donovan, Jann Wenner, Tim Leary, Car Rallyes and Summer Government Internships. (click on link to read).
http://www.links.net/daze/01/08/pix/wennerleary.hg.jpg
Moving on further, a lot of strange stuff has happened in Laurel Canyon.
eek a bear
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 14, 2016 - 07:58am PT
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Moving back to 1952 First wetsuit invented by Berkeley Physicist Hugh Bradner.
Not to mention a strong role in the atomic bomb (1943). That's Oppenheimer and I "do not know who" (a Dr. Seuss character?). Theodor Geisel went to school at Dartmouth and Oxford, but did end up out near UCSD. Even has a library there now.
Continuing, Rube Goldberg received an engineering degree in 1904. He invented more machines than you can shake a stick at (if you had one).
http://engineering2.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0102history.html
Not to be outdone, the Sierra Club established itself in 1892.
The Sierra Club is co-founded by John Muir; UC Berkeley professors Joseph LeConte, J. Henry Senger and Cornelius Beach Bradley; Stanford University’s David Starr Jordan; artist William Keith; and attorney Warren Olney. Many of the club’s 182 charter members are scientists, and LeConte’s maps of the Sierra range are among its first publications.
http://www.berkeley.edu/about/history-discoveries
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 14, 2016 - 08:23am PT
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Rube Goldberg sticks you say?
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Which all goes to show that the old saw about a very few degrees of separation between Rock and Dylan is most likely true. Folksingers notwithstanding.
But Donovan? Yeah him too. And just what is the distance between right and wrong?
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Oh Mama, can this really be the end? Naw, it goes on and on.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2016 - 12:10pm PT
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The ability to speak several languages is an asset,
but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless.
There are times when my greatest accomplishment is just keeping my mouth shut.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 14, 2016 - 12:56pm PT
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I'm thinking that the pizza place I was thinking of is the one now occupied by Extreme Pizza @ 2352 Shattuck.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2016 - 02:24pm PT
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Cross-street is Durant. Looking for Dwight Way. Across from Radio Shack, "currently."
Speaking of telecom, I now have a Cardiocom "Commander Flex" Telemonitoring System in the house, courtesy of the VA.
It will take BP. It will measure my O2 saturation level. It will weigh me.
It is on its own cellular link to the VA Clinic here.
Stephanie will check it daily and this is "telemonitoring."
Tellitoringo.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 14, 2016 - 03:06pm PT
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Does it give you a Happy Ending?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2016 - 03:37pm PT
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DMT, It's different from one day to the next.
Like, sometimes I can breathe well, sometimes not.
Some days I produce more phlegm than others (gross, huh?).
Sometimes I have the ability to walk quite far with no stress.
Other times, like today, going to have my blood work, I walked until I felt I should catch my breath for a bit before I would have had to start pushing myself, raising my heart rate unsafely, unwisely.
The biggest thing about my condition, not knowing how I'm going to be, is frustrating and liable to get me in trouble if I don't take care.
I'm readjusting my intake of blood thinner right now, too.
That's another big bother, the blood tests and the time spent on the phone with that clinic in Fresno that monitors my INR levels.
"fur O'Semide"
Anyone hates to say their sauce is weak
But I'm past my prime, way past my peak.
It's quiet circumstances that I seek:
With fate I'm dancing cheek to cheek.
Now I gotta go and take a leak.
--MFM
Throwpie, I liked your pic of the Stooges, Moe and Larry.
Getting older (I'm already "old") beats any known alternative.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 14, 2016 - 05:27pm PT
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Before I read the text I thought it was Donini and Cosmic.
Are we talking pizza or bookstores here? The pizza place I recall was on the west side of Shattuck I'm pretty sure.
They didn't have fish, though Berry Melton used to eat there.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Jan 14, 2016 - 09:48pm PT
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The Next Room
I had gone to see a friend there
With a paperback in hand
It was just a sci-fi novel
But things don't always go as planned
Twas meant to be a thoughtful moment
But putting selfishness aside
His bed was made but it was empty
That's when I found out that he died
And the nurse explained it kindly
The night before he'd passed away
Where he'd gone during the nighttime
He's gone someplace I'd like to say
Looking back on it years later
Things they would never be the same
If I lived to be one hundred
I'll never quite recall his name
And in my mind when I am dreaming
And I go back to see him there
But he's always in the next room
I hear him laugh without a care
And if you think that this is easy
That it should not be my concern
You wouldn't dare be in my footsteps
Not if you knew what I had learned
That though I knew my friend was dying
I took my time to visit there
Till he had gone on to the next room
While I had hardly shown I cared
-bushman
01/14/2016
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2016 - 10:43pm PT
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That bar at Spenger's liked to think they specialized in Irish Coffee.
That was a double bar, a wrap-around bar, oval-shaped. The photo shows only one side.
There was considerable traffic there at eventide, lots of folks there for the food, glad to schmooze over Irish Coffee.
I only ever went there with the softball team that tolerated me as a player, Fear of Flying, or The Fear. I was a pitcher. I actually had a game-winning hit, too.
Woot!
Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 15, 2016 - 05:10am PT
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i derive all my moving vehicle image capture courage from the mouse of merced.i hope to someday soon show him the hooblie method of sudden shoulder stops where real valor lies
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2016 - 05:51am PT
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hooblie, total disregard for the safety of other vehicles is otay in the search for worthwhile images, or even crap photos of worthwhile images in some cases.
The full maneuver is called, in my opinion, "the shoulder stop and sudden door opening."
I have seen how good a driver you are--nobody was harmed or alarmed during our ride to Palo Alto, for example.
I'm sure we have a lot to share on this subject.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 15, 2016 - 05:58am PT
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outstanding. one handed high speed panning is high art. so far my only success has been the easily mastered vanishing point
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2016 - 07:31am PT
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I know that I can't recall having seen a single "selfie" taken by the Chief.
He's such a fun guy.
Doesn't a vanishing point indicate perspective? I seem to remember that from an art class.
High speed and a convertible is the quintessence of the "wheelie". We got selfies, we need wheelies.
Plain old stay-at-home wide-angle is cool, still.
Aujourd'hui.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 15, 2016 - 08:16am PT
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Spengers above:
Chevy, Dodge or Plymouth, Edsel, Cadillac, Ford
Below:
Plymouths?, Olds, Cadillac, Volvo or Renault?, Studebaker
Not a VW in sight. But who can forget the West Berkeley Mound?
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