Rich,
that´s one of my favorites - CC in the role of AH.
Sir Madog richhotrain Sir Madog Certainly one of the biggest achievements of Austria in history is, that the world believes Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German Ulrich, are we speaking of Herr Schicklgruber? Rich The little weirdo with that funny mustache? That´s him!
richhotrain Sir Madog Certainly one of the biggest achievements of Austria in history is, that the world believes Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German Ulrich, are we speaking of Herr Schicklgruber? Rich
Sir Madog Certainly one of the biggest achievements of Austria in history is, that the world believes Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German
Certainly one of the biggest achievements of Austria in history is, that the world believes Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German
Ulrich, are we speaking of Herr Schicklgruber?
Rich
The little weirdo with that funny mustache? That´s him!
LOL
Ulrich, are we speaking of Charlie Chaplin?
Alton Junction
TA462 2-0 Canada VS the US.
2-0 Canada VS the US.
TA,
I thought that you were banned from the Diner?
No, no Mozart for me. Just not my taste, too sweet, too playful.
I´d go for Bach and Haendel, but also Rossini, Puccini and Verdi. Leave out Wagner - to dark, too "German"
Sir Madog galaxy Ah, Ulrich!I wondered if you would have some input to the situation. But I expected it to be more along the lines of "the Germans could have done it if the Americans hadn't stolen away our scientists!!!" If there is one field where I´d say Germans are excelling, it´s arts. What would the world be without Bach, Beethoven, Haendel and Wagner?
galaxy Ah, Ulrich!I wondered if you would have some input to the situation. But I expected it to be more along the lines of "the Germans could have done it if the Americans hadn't stolen away our scientists!!!"
Ah, Ulrich!I wondered if you would have some input to the situation. But I expected it to be more along the lines of "the Germans could have done it if the Americans hadn't stolen away our scientists!!!"
If there is one field where I´d say Germans are excelling, it´s arts. What would the world be without Bach, Beethoven, Haendel and Wagner?
We would be Organ, concertos, orchestral, "Messiah-caless", and overture chamber music-less!!!
I know why you left out Mozart, though,he is a definite favorite of mine! may "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" live on forever!!!
Now where IS that CD????
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Galaxy - you´ll never hear me chime into to THAT tune. True, German engineering has brought us some interesting products, like the computer, cars, planes (Otto Lilienthal, Gustav Weisskopf and Karl Jatho, who is said to be the first man in the air with a "real" plane - months before the Wright brothers), but it usually took American money and persistence to turn those inventions into a success.
Unfortunately, Germans also have a record of inventing not so nice things, like cruise missiles (V 1), and other mechanisms meant for destruction.
If there is one field where I´d say Germans are excelling, it´s arts. What would the world be without Bach, Beethoven, Haendel and Wagner? Note that I have not mentioned Mozart - he was Austrian. Certainly one of the biggest achievements of Austria in history is, that the world believes Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German
Sir Madog Galaxy - incidentally, Jesco von Puttkamer, one of the scientists in von Braun´s entourage, just died a few days ago, aged 79. von Puttkamer came to the US in 1962, following an invitation of von Braun to join the NASA staff. He was also the technical advisor to Paramount Pictures for Star Trek.
Galaxy - incidentally, Jesco von Puttkamer, one of the scientists in von Braun´s entourage, just died a few days ago, aged 79.
von Puttkamer came to the US in 1962, following an invitation of von Braun to join the NASA staff. He was also the technical advisor to Paramount Pictures for Star Trek.
I think I told you before MOH, who spent every other summer in Germany at OMI's house, growing up, always says "the germans make/build/do it best"..to the point ANY time on TV something German made/built/done shows up I say "Yes, dear,I know, the German's do it best"! One day, MOH finally said "well the German's don't do everything the best, but they certainly come close"!!
I like to point out the Vikings actaully got to the AMericas {New Foundland} first... {can you tell I'm a full 1/4 Norwegian direct decendant?}
Ah...the pedigree, filigree, appogee, apologee.....
YAWN....Morning Coffee...Please...
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Sunday, December 30th, 2012!!!
{Would you believe I tried Typing "January" for December, and "2013" for 2012 ALREADY!!!}
For some people it is strange, this hobby of ours, but for US, it is "not rocket science", SO:Meaning:
the subject under discussion isn't that difficult to understand
Origin:
It is no surprise that this phrase is American in origin. Of the English-speaking countries, America was the first to adopt a sustained program for the development of "rocket science". The first people who were widely known as rocket scientists were a group of German military technologists, who were transported to the USA in 1945 following their capture by allied troops in WWII. Other similar groups were transported to the UK and the USSR.
Led by Werner Von Braun, the US group had previous expertise in the field, having developed the V-2 rocket that was used to attack London and other targets earlier in the war. Their success during the 1940s and 50s in developing the sophisticated technology required for military and space rockets was the reason for rocket science being equated in the US public's mind with outstanding expertise. The perceived equation of 'rocket scientist = German = clever' can only have been enhanced by the persona of another German scientist of acknowledged genius, who was also working in the USA at the time - Albert Einstein.
The pre-eminence of German scientists in the space race was highlighted by a quotation from 1957, following the Soviet launch of Sputnik-1, the first orbiting satellite. The supposed reply to President Eisenhower's question "How did the Russians get there first?" was "Their Germans are better than our Germans". Many people have been attributed with the coining of that quip, which is a sure sign that no-one is now sure who said it first. It seems rather unlikely that the presidential conversation actually happened, but the line did reflect the national sentiment in the USA at the time and that feeling was the spur for even more German scientific manpower to be deployed, leading to the successful moon exploration programme, in which Von Braun was a central player.
If, by 1950, rocket science was generally accepted as being intellectually difficult and outside the capabilities of the average Joe, where and when did relatively undemanding tasks start being said to be 'not rocket science'? The answer to that is - the American Football field in the 1980s. Most of the early references to 'not rocket science' relate to football. For example, a piece from a sports report in a Pennsylvania newspaper called The Daily Intelligencer, December 1985:
"Coaching football is not rocket science and it's not brain surgery. It's a game, nothing more."
Prior to the 1980s, 'brain surgery' had been the occupation that simple tasks were said not to be. 'It's not brain surgery' dates from the 1960s. Before that, straightforward tasks were simply said to be 'as easy as pie' or 'as easy as falling off a log'.
George W. Bush is credited as having mixed his metaphors and come up with 'it's not rocket surgery' (or 'brain science', depending on what you read). Bush has occasionally mangled language in speeches but, while it can be said that no evidence that he ever made either of those slip-ups exists, I swear I heard him say that "its not rocket surgery" at one time. Maybe that is really what he meant to say!
*Note: easy as pie has been done before, or I would include it here!
The prayer candles will be lit for all who need them!
Good Morning!
Petra and I are still awed by what we could hear yesterday night. I am afraid this will be a once in a lifetime experience, as the wolf population in my country is hardly noticeable. There may be not more than a dozen packs in all of Germany - no wonder, in a country which has 10 times the population density of the US, there is not much room for these shy critters. Most of the sightings were made in the eastern part of Germany. I think this is a quite interesting development, as wolf, bear and lynx, our main predators, have thought to be extinct for centuries!
Don´t send your child to visit grandma´s house in the forest!
Janie - it´s Sunday, so I´ll go for a big breakfast, hot cakes, sausages, mushrooms, bacon & eggs, OJ and lots of coffee, please.
It´s close to 8am and daylight is just breaking. It´ll be a wet day, again!
Have a good day!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Well the C628 now has a DZ125 decoder. It runs very well and doesn't trip up on turnouts. The drive mechanism of the SD45 sits before me as I ponder on how best to make use of its parts. It has a blue box motor with long flywheels and spline drive shafts.Not much else done today. I helped my father bolt a rack with hooks into his kitchen ceiling so he has a place to hang his pots and pans. The operative word tonight weather-wise is cold. It's 35 right now but there's a 20 mph NW wind coming off the lake that makes it feel much colder. The low for tonight is supposed to be 25. The heaters gonna be cranked up tonight!Well, time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me please...
I ran out of energy several hours ago... If I could shake this cold I have, I could get a good nights sleep and feel better.
Made a huge pot of Turkey soup from a carcass I have been storing in my freezer since Thanksgiving. Turned out great. I called my son this evening and I will be bringing it to his house for dinner tommorrow night. Soup and Sandwich good Sunday evening meal for the whole family (Sunday is for all the relatives and they have around13 or 14 people there every week... Old family tradition on the MIL's side. Always good!
Ken, Those wolfhounds are an interesting breed. We get a bear in the area every now and then. Couple years ago there was one just a block away from where I live. Usually a young bear moving North to find territory. Have them out at camp now and then. Most don't stick around in the this area long. I was out on my back porch a couple years ago and a big buck and two doe ran around back of my house. The buck froze, then put down his head, and started pawing the ground... He was about 10' away at the time. I calmly backed over to the door and went inside... Then I changed my pants! My son lives on the edge of town and he commonly has fox, raccoons, deer, couple of resident snakes, and other critters in his back yard. His degree is in Fish and Wildlife, so he is teaching the girls to enjoy them from a distance and to be safe around them. The snakes are harmless and my son has picked them up and let Livy hold some from time to time.
Hope you all have a great and safe night! Prayers for all in need.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening guys
Partially cleaned out my room/workbench. I would finish if I had a box like the ones I used for containing rolling stock that I don't have boxes for, but I might be able to get a couple from work tomorrow. I started on the back-log of kit cars I have, but I halted because I forgot I was out of Kadees. So I'll probably be ordering a bulk pack or 2 whenever I get money (might try the all-metal proto-maxes instead since they are basically the same thing).
Haven't installed any of the DA kits I got on any of my F-units. Reason being is I want to primer the units I sanded the nose on again to see if there are any remainants of the mold lines on the units. But I have to buy primer and wait for the weather to warm up a bit. Guess I could cut off the remaining brows and experiment with ways of plating over the windows on the B-units. BN seems to have had a few ways of doing this. One was plating the porthole, which I'm thinking sand the frames off and use a hole punch on some .01 and glue it where the frame was. For the ones where they replaced the panel, I'm thinking glue in the window insert, then sand the frame off, and use filler to hide the seam.
Ken, will those wolfhounds keep bears away? We have bear problems around here (but not now, they are probably hibernating). There are big cats and coyotes around here but they aren't an issue like the bears. The cats and coyotes stay away from the populated areas, but the bears will climb the fence looking for food.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Good Evening...
About 4" fell on us today...another 4" tonight forecast again later on...
Had a nice quiet day here...actually got downstairs to the trainroom and ran some trains around and dusted the layout...
Anyhow...have a good evening...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Evening All....Its cloudy and 25 here...got more snow this PM....I'll have Cocoa and a cookie please...Thank You..My Grand Daughter made this snow man from snow from our deck...Here He is arriving in Mattoon Yards...
You all have a good one...Jerry
Well, after I got all set up to put the lights up, I discovered that I was all out of BX 2-14 so I had to back to the Home Depot to get some after I'd already been there once today. Should have looked before I went but that would have made too much sense
Once I got back, I had lost interest and the light was failing so I did some track work instead. There's always tomorrow.
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
LSWrr Good morning all, Richhotrain, is that a Chicago Bridge in your icon? We are up to 15” of snow since the 26th and there is a new band coming in off the lake right now. We don’t have wolves, but the foxes and coyotes are making a comeback, in town. The animal activists over the years have prevented us from hunting the deer, now the deer are over running the towns and the predators are coming into the towns after the deer. Unfortunately peoples pets have become appetizers. Burlington Northern #24, if you send me a list of what you are selling and contact info I will pass it on to my N-visible friends.
Good morning all,
Richhotrain, is that a Chicago Bridge in your icon?
We are up to 15” of snow since the 26th and there is a new band coming in off the lake right now.
We don’t have wolves, but the foxes and coyotes are making a comeback, in town. The animal activists over the years have prevented us from hunting the deer, now the deer are over running the towns and the predators are coming into the towns after the deer. Unfortunately peoples pets have become appetizers.
Burlington Northern #24, if you send me a list of what you are selling and contact info I will pass it on to my N-visible friends.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
LSWrr Richhotrain, is that a Chicago Bridge in your icon?
Yes, that is one of the two bascule bridges crossing the south branch of the Chicago River at 16th Street on the St. Charles Air Line.
There are actually two bascule bridges there, one permanently raised in an upright position since the demise of the B&O railroad.
I have a bascule bridge on my layout, and I am nearly finished with a second one. I hope to post photos soon.
Evening Dinners
Did some say they had Wolf Problems!
I have your solution Ulrich, you need some of theses!
No problems with Wolf's, Coyotes or Cats at my house! OK, there was the wild chicken for awhile? What you folks need is a Irish Wolfhound, no fuss and simple to care for! Don't leave your house with out one!
Flo, I will take a and Shaddy needs a Cheeseburger.
No Shaddy, they don't serve cats as a side-order.
Work Front As good as it was for me yesterday, today I caught ever Oil Change that walked into the door. Oh well, sometimes the door swings your way, sometimes it hits you in the faces. Today my nose got flatten.
Galaxy Sometimes I read just the heading, sometimes I read some of it and sometimes all of it. Found Mad As A Hatter interesting and read the whole thing.
Train Front Tonight I am running one of my many alternate routs. I think I have around 8, yet seldom uses them for some reason? Funny with me having around 50 + turnouts?
See you all later tonight!
Ken
I hate Rust
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
well, the time has come for me to sell some of my rolling stock... 9 locos, 10 AMTK superliners, and who knows how many freight cars. this is so that I can replace this stuff with newer much better equipment like MTL, atlas, and kato cars.
see ya'll later.
Chochowillie : We have one of those also, it is called Washington politicians.
chochowillieHum, ah given the way you say your temper is Jeffrey, does the wild life quote include you too
jeffrey-wimberlyLots of wild life out here.
Hum, ah given the way you say your temper is Jeffrey, does the wild life quote include you too
Just kidding, too much Christmas makes me silly, well, more silly than usual according to my MOH.
On the weather front, we have a HEAT WAVE called a Chinook. It's a welcome break from the cold.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the term Chinook, it's a warn inflow of air from the Pacific that comes over the Rocky Mountains and flows out across the prairies particularly in central and southern Alberta. The word itself is a Cree/Blackfoot word meaning "Warm wind from the west".
We can go to bed at -35 C and wake up to + 4 or 5 C.
It's kind of an awesome thing to experience actually.
Well, I still haven't hung those lights and since no one else is going to do it I'd best get at it
Later folks....
Sir MadogSince the fall of the Iron Curtain, wolves have been immigrating back into Germany from way back east. There have been sightings recently also in our neck of the woods. Tonight we enjoy a wolf howling right in our neighborhood! A walk in the woods sure gets a new quality with someone like him watching out for you:
It looks like my IHC C628 will be converted to DCC sooner than I thought. I have a 70's era Athearn SD45 that doesn't like #4 turnouts. It has a Digitrax DZ125 decoder that I can use for the IHC. This also gives me a good blue box motor I can use on another remotor project.On the weather front it's gotten up to 44°F. I don't think we're going to see 48°F. It is sunny though. The weather guesser is making noises about the temp nose diving to 25°F tonight. At least he didn't mention anything about snow or ice. That kind of talk could get him hung!
Good Evening!
The day is closing and I will retire soon. Gosh, I am exhausted from doing nothing!
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, wolves have been immigrating back into Germany from way back east. There have been sightings recently also in our neck of the woods. Tonight we enjoy a wolf howling right in our neighborhood! A walk in the woods sure gets a new quality with someone like him watching out for you:
After over 150 years, wildlife has finally come back!
Galaxy - I am glad that you will continue posting the tidbits next year. Each is an English lesson for me, helping to improve my understanding of the language!
Well, I am off - CU tomorrow!
Good Afternoon All,
At least here we fight nicely. I look forward to Galaxies words and phrases each morning. Wouldn't be the same without them I think.
What's with the suit Barry? Hope you're not planning on wearing it out in the freezing rain today. You did see what happened to the Tin Man (as in Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't already have). And watch out for Todd with that blow torch - he loves giving hot feet.
A Salvage car is one that was totaled. When my Focus got hit there was nearly no damage beyond the front bumper cover windscreen and airbags. Of course since the airbags went off the insurance totaled the car but I opted to buy it back for ther salvage cost (just over $1000.00) so I could recycle the parts from it including the Wings West body kit, supercharged motor, lightweight clutch and flywheel, Quaife diff and hand built suspension with 4wheel disc brakes. I had almost 5k in parts on the car and just over 50,000 miles so the car was in good shape other than the air bags and windscreen. If i rehabilitate the car and get it reregistered with the salvage title I need to go through a very tedious state inspection including pages and pages of paperwork. It is easier to transfer the trick parts to a donor car, keep the donor registered and insured and rebuild the drivetrain and suspension off the donor to put through the state inspection process thus giving me two cars one easily and the other after a fairly lengthy process. The car my youngest got hit in was also totaled but it had the best base parts of the three and will end up with the majority of its' parts on the first "salvage" car as it's frame is mangled enought to preclude an economical repair. Aren't you sorry you asked now?
Well, speaking of doing all this stuff, I'd better get back to it. I'll check in later, J.R.