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 Aug 28 2006, 09:57 AM
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The ultimate forum backup has been made
 I've been planning a shed that is also an office for about 12 months - but 9 days ago my neigbour helped me set up the wooden shuttering so that this weekend just gone, we could pour a concrete base for it. Now - you can't just set to work with the mixer and get on with it can you...oh no....you have to do two things 1. Bury stuff 2. Write things in the concrete So -as these pictures will show - a backup of the forum was taken - burnt to DVD - tucked away in a case, in a bag, and burried under the concrete just about where the door of the shed will be - and the UMSF logo badly drawn on top of the spot. Also, In the far corner of the concrete where it will stick out a bit from the shed base, I also wrote DHLLL and the logo - that's Me, Helen, Lee (the neigbour) Lorren (his little girl who helped...a bit...she's on the 'pluto is a planet' side of the fence) and Lorraine, (Mrs the neigbour). i.e. everyone who was involved in sorting out the foundations for UMSF HQ I'm still finding concrete in my hair!! Shed will go up in the next couple of weeks, but it will probably be after I get back from Valencia before I can sort out the inside of the shed and fit it out with a proper floor, walls and office 'stuff' Anyway - the DVD should be fairly safe for a few years under 4 inches of concrete! Doug
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Aug 28 2006, 11:46 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Good work Doug - nice to see the HQ construction underway.
Lets hope you never have to dig up the backup!  James -------------------- |
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Aug 28 2006, 12:03 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The best part...literally seconds after we finished tapping down a nice flat surface...Suzi the forum cat decided taht she needed to test the concrete and put a perfect set of paw prints around the edge of it
Doug |
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Aug 28 2006, 03:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
Why are there no pics of "Suzi the forum cat"? Personally, I'd like an anaglyph or cross-eyed stereo of the mascot.
-------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Aug 28 2006, 03:30 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Have you ever tried to get a pet to stay still enough to take two pictures before it moves
http://www.rlproject.com/suzi/ Doug |
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Aug 28 2006, 04:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Sweet - UMSF can survive a direct atomic hit! (well, maybe not)
Though are we supposed to call you Doug "Two Sheds" Ellison now? Suzi looks quite pensive, almost wistful in those photos - a beautiful cat you have there! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 28 2006, 05:35 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (lyford @ Aug 28 2006, 11:06 AM)  ...are we supposed to call you Doug "Two Sheds" Ellison now? Yes, I think we should. After all, he was once asked whether or not he might ever think about building a second shed. That's all it needs...  -Doug "No Sheds" Van Dorn -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Aug 28 2006, 10:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
That looks familiar. Isn't concrete so much fun to work with? I poured a small sidewalk recently, with a very similar-looking rented mixer. I weigh about 120lbs, so moving around many 80lb bags of concrete mix was just loads of fun.
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Aug 28 2006, 10:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
Presumeably, Pluto has been buried with "Full Planetary Status" as part of the UMSF Logo?
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Aug 29 2006, 12:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
awesome, mars loon, very awesome
the fine folk at umsf never pass up the chance to weave threads together 
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 29 2006, 01:45 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
Ah, there's nothing like a good shed! I've got a fairly big one in my back yard that houses all of my astro gear and other toys - it's dubbed "The Man Area" or "Daddy's House". Note that I am blessed with a wonderful wife, three lovely daughters, two female cats, and a female dog. I dearly enjoy them all, but sometimes I need to retreat to my shed when the estrogen levels in the house become toxic for males
Good luck on the project, Doug, and post more images as you build! -------------------- --O'Dave
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Sep 5 2006, 07:25 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Aug 28 2006, 07:46 AM) Good work Doug - nice to see the HQ construction underway. Lets hope you never have to dig up the backup! James But who is going to be able to read CDs in 50 years? 
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Sep 5 2006, 07:46 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 5 2006, 09:25 PM) But who is going to be able to read CDs in 50 years? Only Voyager I & II
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Sep 5 2006, 07:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (climber @ Sep 5 2006, 03:46 PM) Only Voyager I & II They are LPs. If nothing else, whoever finds the Records and uses the stylus that went along with them could put the needle in the groove and at least listen to the music, languages, and sounds. Plus there are playing instructions on the covers. That information will remain on them for as long as the records last - at least 1 billion years or so. CDs and DVDs, on the other hand, apparently won't last more than a century or so, to say nothing of them probably being unreadable long before then. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Sep 5 2006, 07:54 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Well - I had a look around the house for the perfect metal disc, etching CNC tooling and gold plating bath but I can't find them...maybe I put them in the loft but hey
If it helps - yes - I put an old IDE DVD Rom drive in there Doug |
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