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John Larkin
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This is suitably weird.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/okuw8p9r39we3e9/Larkin_Street.jpg?raw=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/okuw8p9r39we3e9/Larkin_Street.jpg?raw=1
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Phil Hobbs
Guest
On 2023-03-03 16:29, John Larkin wrote:
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Joerg
Guest
On 3/3/23 1:29 PM, John Larkin wrote:
And you don\'t have to lease, you could build your own business park plus
condos in Larkinville
https://www.liveinlarkinville.com/
Maybe do it in your township:
http://www.larkintownship.org/
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
And you don\'t have to lease, you could build your own business park plus
condos in Larkinville
https://www.liveinlarkinville.com/
Maybe do it in your township:
http://www.larkintownship.org/
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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John Larkin
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:53:42 -0500, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
\"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...\"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
\"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...\"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fred Bloggs
Guest
On Friday, March 3, 2023 at 4:29:52â¯PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
Larkin Street
Thomas O. Larkin
An early settler who arrived in San Francisco in 1832 during Mexican rule. He was appointed by President John Tyler as the first (and only) US consul to Alta California and served as a clandestine US agent during the Bear Flag Revolt. He later served as a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention in 1849.
http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/#9070
And this:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/thomas-o-larkin
Old age and typhoid caught up with him. People need to be cautious as they age. Old age means fragility.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/diseases-and-conditions/pathology/typhoid-fever
Larkin Street
Thomas O. Larkin
An early settler who arrived in San Francisco in 1832 during Mexican rule. He was appointed by President John Tyler as the first (and only) US consul to Alta California and served as a clandestine US agent during the Bear Flag Revolt. He later served as a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention in 1849.
http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/#9070
And this:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/thomas-o-larkin
Old age and typhoid caught up with him. People need to be cautious as they age. Old age means fragility.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/diseases-and-conditions/pathology/typhoid-fever
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John Larkin
Guest
On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:38:17 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:
A million people left Ireland during the famines, and about a third of
them seemed to be named Larkin.
wrote:
On 3/3/23 1:29 PM, John Larkin wrote:
This is suitably weird.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/okuw8p9r39we3e9/Larkin_Street.jpg?raw=1
And you don\'t have to lease, you could build your own business park plus
condos in Larkinville
https://www.liveinlarkinville.com/
Maybe do it in your township:
http://www.larkintownship.org/
A million people left Ireland during the famines, and about a third of
them seemed to be named Larkin.
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Jan Panteltje
Guest
On a sunny day (Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:29:33 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<lqo40i967kf2c79mrelst1r15tdjlkk1ia@4ax.com>:
Cool!!
Larkin Street Stairs!!
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<lqo40i967kf2c79mrelst1r15tdjlkk1ia@4ax.com>:
Cool!!
Larkin Street Stairs!!
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Anthony William Sloman
Guest
On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 11:18:27â¯AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
It\'s not a family name at all, but a contraction of a description, \"larrikin\"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikin
If you don\'t get enough to eat your brain doesn\'t develop well. The less damaged emigrants could survive the long sea voyage to Australia. The more damaged victims had to opt for the shorter sea voyage to the US.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:38:17 -0800, Joerg <ne...@analogconsultants.com
wrote:
On 3/3/23 1:29 PM, John Larkin wrote:
This is suitably weird.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/okuw8p9r39we3e9/Larkin_Street.jpg?raw=1
And you don\'t have to lease, you could build your own business park plus
condos in Larkinville
https://www.liveinlarkinville.com/
Maybe do it in your township:
http://www.larkintownship.org/
A million people left Ireland during the famines, and about a third of
them seemed to be named Larkin.
It\'s not a family name at all, but a contraction of a description, \"larrikin\"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikin
If you don\'t get enough to eat your brain doesn\'t develop well. The less damaged emigrants could survive the long sea voyage to Australia. The more damaged victims had to opt for the shorter sea voyage to the US.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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John Larkin
Guest
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 06:49:55 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
We like to explore stairs.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6xn4kb939rfawn7/AADtfziGEgpqIeHTOzKu1R2Oa?dl=0
San Francisco was barely designed by amateur hacks who had no
experience in urban design. Entire neighborhoods were designed by
nobody. In some places, rectangular grids of streets were plopped onto
maps with no consideration for hills or cliffs or swamps. Larkin
Street is pretty goofy that way. Ditto Castro.
Some houses are on stairways with no street access. You see crews of
husky guys carrying refrigerators and pianos.
Some towns in California, and I guess elsewhere, have straight streets
with nicely aligned houses; the organized ones got that way by burning
down and being rebuilt a few times.
I grew up in New Orleans, totally flat, and hills and stairs still
amaze me. People who grew up here barely notice.
I think engineers, or some engineers, have some instinctive like for
3D shapes and motion. One interesting interview question might be \"Do
you like roller coasters?\" Compare hardware and software engineers
maybe.
wrote:
We like to explore stairs.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6xn4kb939rfawn7/AADtfziGEgpqIeHTOzKu1R2Oa?dl=0
San Francisco was barely designed by amateur hacks who had no
experience in urban design. Entire neighborhoods were designed by
nobody. In some places, rectangular grids of streets were plopped onto
maps with no consideration for hills or cliffs or swamps. Larkin
Street is pretty goofy that way. Ditto Castro.
Some houses are on stairways with no street access. You see crews of
husky guys carrying refrigerators and pianos.
Some towns in California, and I guess elsewhere, have straight streets
with nicely aligned houses; the organized ones got that way by burning
down and being rebuilt a few times.
I grew up in New Orleans, totally flat, and hills and stairs still
amaze me. People who grew up here barely notice.
I think engineers, or some engineers, have some instinctive like for
3D shapes and motion. One interesting interview question might be \"Do
you like roller coasters?\" Compare hardware and software engineers
maybe.
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Fred Bloggs
Guest
On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 11:19:39â¯AM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
Cities are not planned, they evolve. Looks like San Francisco\'s early development was heavily reliant on the cable car.
Cities are not planned, they evolve. Looks like San Francisco\'s early development was heavily reliant on the cable car.
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John Larkin
Guest
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 12:43:01 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:
Cable cars came along about 1873, well after the city was founded, and
there were just a few lines. Streetcars moved and still move a lot of
people in the flatter parts of town.
Cable cars are slow and expensive and only made sense in really steep
parts of town.
New Orleans still has streetcars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Charles_Streetcar_Line
I used to ride that one to school.
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:
Cable cars came along about 1873, well after the city was founded, and
there were just a few lines. Streetcars moved and still move a lot of
people in the flatter parts of town.
Cable cars are slow and expensive and only made sense in really steep
parts of town.
New Orleans still has streetcars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Charles_Streetcar_Line
I used to ride that one to school.
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Anthony William Sloman
Guest
On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 8:12:36â¯AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
<snip>
> Cable cars are slow and expensive and only made sense in really steep parts of town.
Now they only make sense in really steep places.
When they were introduced, before electric motors were up to the job, they made perfect sense in flat country as well.
The city of Melbourne in Australia, which is on pretty flat ground, had one of the largest cable trams networks in the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_cable_tramway_system
It started running in 1885, but the cable cars were progressively replace by electric trams - starting in 1889, though they didn\'t get serious about it until 1906, and the last cable car was retired in 1940.
What the rest of world now calls electric trams. Melbourne still has them. Sydney did have trams and had dumped all them in favour of buses by 1961.
This was actually a bad idea, and they\'ve made comeback in the last few years,
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
<snip>
> Cable cars are slow and expensive and only made sense in really steep parts of town.
Now they only make sense in really steep places.
When they were introduced, before electric motors were up to the job, they made perfect sense in flat country as well.
The city of Melbourne in Australia, which is on pretty flat ground, had one of the largest cable trams networks in the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_cable_tramway_system
It started running in 1885, but the cable cars were progressively replace by electric trams - starting in 1889, though they didn\'t get serious about it until 1906, and the last cable car was retired in 1940.
What the rest of world now calls electric trams. Melbourne still has them. Sydney did have trams and had dumped all them in favour of buses by 1961.
This was actually a bad idea, and they\'ve made comeback in the last few years,
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Jan Panteltje
Guest
On a sunny day (Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:12:17 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<a2c70id3mgjs31vbscu3ij5ucbdd61n9ov@4ax.com>:
Amsterdam has hundreds..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Amsterdam
Has underground lines too (tube).
I grew up there, priamry school was around the corner from where I lived.
Later we moved to the cuuntry and I had to bike many miles to and from high school
in any weather...
Parents said take a bus, but I ever did.
Yes I and all the water would flow away
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<a2c70id3mgjs31vbscu3ij5ucbdd61n9ov@4ax.com>:
Amsterdam has hundreds..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Amsterdam
Has underground lines too (tube).
I grew up there, priamry school was around the corner from where I lived.
Later we moved to the cuuntry and I had to bike many miles to and from high school
in any weather...
Parents said take a bus, but I ever did.
Yes I and all the water would flow away
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John Larkin
Guest
On Sun, 05 Mar 2023 06:16:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
Trams/streetcars are being retired in many cities, so San Francisco
buys old cars and refurbs them. We have an old New Orleans \"Streetcar
Named Desire\" car. And this one, from England I think.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aj91qofbd4fk5cf/Streetcar.jpg?raw=1
at the intersection of Market and Larkin.
Some of the streetcars run underground and some go through peoples\'
back yards. We also have electric busses, diesel busses, and BART. The
city has lost a lot of population and downtown jobs post-Covid, so
ridership is down and the economics are bad. Uber and Lyft haven\'t
helped either.
wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:12:17 -0800) it happened John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
a2c70id3mgjs31vbscu3ij5ucbdd61n9ov@4ax.com>:
Cable cars came along about 1873, well after the city was founded, and
there were just a few lines. Streetcars moved and still move a lot of
people in the flatter parts of town.
Cable cars are slow and expensive and only made sense in really steep
parts of town.
New Orleans still has streetcars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Charles_Streetcar_Line
I used to ride that one to school.
Amsterdam has hundreds..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Amsterdam
Has underground lines too (tube).
I grew up there, priamry school was around the corner from where I lived.
Later we moved to the cuuntry and I had to bike many miles to and from high school
in any weather...
Parents said take a bus, but I ever did.
Boai wrote:
Earth is actually flat,
I know, I was down under and it was flat there too, if it was a ball I would have fallen off.
Yes I and all the water would flow away
Trams/streetcars are being retired in many cities, so San Francisco
buys old cars and refurbs them. We have an old New Orleans \"Streetcar
Named Desire\" car. And this one, from England I think.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aj91qofbd4fk5cf/Streetcar.jpg?raw=1
at the intersection of Market and Larkin.
Some of the streetcars run underground and some go through peoples\'
back yards. We also have electric busses, diesel busses, and BART. The
city has lost a lot of population and downtown jobs post-Covid, so
ridership is down and the economics are bad. Uber and Lyft haven\'t
helped either.
J
Jan Panteltje
Guest
On a sunny day (Sun, 05 Mar 2023 08:34:37 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<sig90i58q7sgur02ha9giks288h59lvcmu@4ax.com>:
Nice, here it rains often, so for sunny days only..
Amsterdam is not doing bad these days, house prices are very high now.
It is not a very big city, although much new is now build bordering it.
Worked and lived there in the sixties,
After some adventures I returned to Amsterdam in the seventies
and had a TV repair shop there.
Then in the nineties I moved north to where I am now.
Better cleaner air perhaps here.
Of course big cities are target in a nulear war...
Safe place ? Africa? Australien outback? South America? Pacific?
Mars!!!
NASA needs to speed up that stuff, been waiting much to long since \'small step for man, big step for man kind\'.
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<sig90i58q7sgur02ha9giks288h59lvcmu@4ax.com>:
Nice, here it rains often, so for sunny days only..
Amsterdam is not doing bad these days, house prices are very high now.
It is not a very big city, although much new is now build bordering it.
Worked and lived there in the sixties,
After some adventures I returned to Amsterdam in the seventies
and had a TV repair shop there.
Then in the nineties I moved north to where I am now.
Better cleaner air perhaps here.
Of course big cities are target in a nulear war...
Safe place ? Africa? Australien outback? South America? Pacific?
Mars!!!
NASA needs to speed up that stuff, been waiting much to long since \'small step for man, big step for man kind\'.
J
John Larkin
Guest
On Mon, 06 Mar 2023 06:46:44 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
It basically doesn\'t rain in the summer here. The risk to a party on
the boat streetcar is the fancy ladies freezing to death in the cold
fog.
Yeah, a hundred megatons of nuke would be bad. There should be no
nukes on Earth, but crazies want them.
wrote:
It basically doesn\'t rain in the summer here. The risk to a party on
the boat streetcar is the fancy ladies freezing to death in the cold
fog.
Yeah, a hundred megatons of nuke would be bad. There should be no
nukes on Earth, but crazies want them.
J
Jan Panteltje
Guest
On a sunny day (Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:01:57 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<5ihb0il0g082ee8hemfabshgira2q7o9h4@4ax.com>:
Well, its a difficult subject, if a new weapon comes about then somebody or some life form will use it.
If indeed they manage to create a black hole in CERN and we are all sucked up in it
together with the rest of the solar system and galaxy..
Is that a predictable outcome?
Biological weapons. same thing
Nukes may have a purpose, protecting us by blowing up asteroids that threaten to impact us for example,
or even on earth creating huge changes in the landscape that may be needed for our survival...
Blowing up ice sheets in an ice-age, creating waterways...
And there is project Orion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
to get us to other planets fast...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
there are more...
Nukes can be fun!
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in
<5ihb0il0g082ee8hemfabshgira2q7o9h4@4ax.com>:
Well, its a difficult subject, if a new weapon comes about then somebody or some life form will use it.
If indeed they manage to create a black hole in CERN and we are all sucked up in it
together with the rest of the solar system and galaxy..
Is that a predictable outcome?
Biological weapons. same thing
Nukes may have a purpose, protecting us by blowing up asteroids that threaten to impact us for example,
or even on earth creating huge changes in the landscape that may be needed for our survival...
Blowing up ice sheets in an ice-age, creating waterways...
And there is project Orion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
to get us to other planets fast...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
there are more...
Nukes can be fun!
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Anthony William Sloman
Guest
On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 12:16:14â¯AM UTC+11, Jan Panteltje wrote:
<snip>
Nobody sane ever thought that it might, but it is the sort of lunatic fancy that gets the attention of half-wits like Jan.
> Is that a predictable outcome?
Only if the creature doing the \"prediction\" laks any grasp of reality.
> Biological weapons. same thing.
The product of a diseased imagination on it\'s way to the lunatic asylum?
> Nukes may have a purpose, protecting us by blowing up asteroids that threaten to impact us for example,
Blowing them up won\'t help, The mass might be spread out a bit when it hits the earth, but it\'s still a lot of mass moving quite fast.
Blowing the asteroid into a different orbit so that much less of it hits us might help - Project Orion was intended to do exactly that - but you have to know that your asteroid is solid enough that it will get pushed into a different orbit rather than turning a loose cloud of rubble most of which will still hit us.
Project Ploughshare. Flyguy think that means \"nuking your own country\". He is remarkably stupid, but so are all the other people who voted for Donald Trump.
Presumably no less impractical.
Until the highly radioactive exhaust hits your back-yard.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
<snip>
Nobody sane ever thought that it might, but it is the sort of lunatic fancy that gets the attention of half-wits like Jan.
> Is that a predictable outcome?
Only if the creature doing the \"prediction\" laks any grasp of reality.
> Biological weapons. same thing.
The product of a diseased imagination on it\'s way to the lunatic asylum?
> Nukes may have a purpose, protecting us by blowing up asteroids that threaten to impact us for example,
Blowing them up won\'t help, The mass might be spread out a bit when it hits the earth, but it\'s still a lot of mass moving quite fast.
Blowing the asteroid into a different orbit so that much less of it hits us might help - Project Orion was intended to do exactly that - but you have to know that your asteroid is solid enough that it will get pushed into a different orbit rather than turning a loose cloud of rubble most of which will still hit us.
Project Ploughshare. Flyguy think that means \"nuking your own country\". He is remarkably stupid, but so are all the other people who voted for Donald Trump.
Presumably no less impractical.
Until the highly radioactive exhaust hits your back-yard.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney