Vacation
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I just got back from spending the week in Yellowstone national park. All I have to say is WOW, what an amazing experience. If you ever get a chance to get out there take it you wont regret it. :-D Just remember to take a camera with you everwhere you just never know when an Elk or Bear will show up. :doh: Oh yea and bring sun tan lotion, I even got a little sun burn (I've never once burned, how do you fair skinned poeple handle this ) Did I miss anything interesting around here?
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
Did they have any part of the park off-limits due to volcanic activity? There is a giant super-volcano brewing underneath Yellowstone, and I've read that parts of the ground are too hot to walk on. Did you see any geysers?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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Where in MN? I grew up in eastern SD close to Lake Benton on the border. So I understand the wildlife thing. I grew up in a town where Laura Ingalls Wilder used to live and we put on a play of the books each summer. We had tons of kids who got excited over the horses and even the cows. Kind of sad. ND is quite friendly. Never been to MT. I think once you get outside the cities though most MNians are nice. SDians like to make fun of MN drivers but after living this close to Nebraska, I don't mind the MNians anymore. I find the deer sillouette on the deer-crossing signs funny. They look so majestic on their back feet. They should have something that looks more life-like such as that dumbfounded face heading towards the grill of a car.
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leckey wrote:
Where in MN?
North metro
leckey wrote:
We had tons of kids who got excited over the horses and even the cows. Kind of sad.
Funny enough, I didn’t see a Cow up close until I was an adult. However, Deer and most wild life are everwhere as long as your willing to stop and look. I was chatting with someone from Ontario, and she commented on how clean Minnesota is. Well that true, but driving along I94 through North Dakota, I think they have legions of people laying in wait in the bushes along the freeway because WOW I don’t think I saw but two pieces of litter the whole trip. People are friendlier out of the cities, but like everything you have to travel further and further to find those folks. Shrugs, maybe its time I think about a move. Leckey I think you’re on to something with the change to the Deer crossing signs, think you can come up with something similar for bike trails? The Deer have most pedestrians beat by hundreds of IQ points.
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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jason_lakewhitney wrote:
they decided that the name ocean was not limiting enough
Well if the pacific isn’t an Ocean anymore I cant imagine any of the Oceans would meet the requirement. I wonder what that would spell for the 10,000 puddles of water here in Minnesota; they finally get a real name like leftovers from a sippy cup spill? :rolleyes:
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
S Douglas wrote:
leftovers
That is exactly what they named them! Did you read the memo to?:laugh:
God Bless, Jason
Paul Conrad wrote:
Chuck Norris keeps the hamsters going whenever Chris is gone on vacation. Just stares them down and they keep the servers going
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leckey wrote:
Where in MN?
North metro
leckey wrote:
We had tons of kids who got excited over the horses and even the cows. Kind of sad.
Funny enough, I didn’t see a Cow up close until I was an adult. However, Deer and most wild life are everwhere as long as your willing to stop and look. I was chatting with someone from Ontario, and she commented on how clean Minnesota is. Well that true, but driving along I94 through North Dakota, I think they have legions of people laying in wait in the bushes along the freeway because WOW I don’t think I saw but two pieces of litter the whole trip. People are friendlier out of the cities, but like everything you have to travel further and further to find those folks. Shrugs, maybe its time I think about a move. Leckey I think you’re on to something with the change to the Deer crossing signs, think you can come up with something similar for bike trails? The Deer have most pedestrians beat by hundreds of IQ points.
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
Oh yeah, and the mall people. Those families that need to walk elbow to elbow as if they are playing Red Rover in the third grade. The others are those who cannot walk a straight line so you have to keep zig-zagging to get around them. I either feel the need to yell, 'Feel free to look!' or 'Stay in School!'
______________________ stuff + cats = awesome
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I just got back from spending the week in Yellowstone national park. All I have to say is WOW, what an amazing experience. If you ever get a chance to get out there take it you wont regret it. :-D Just remember to take a camera with you everwhere you just never know when an Elk or Bear will show up. :doh: Oh yea and bring sun tan lotion, I even got a little sun burn (I've never once burned, how do you fair skinned poeple handle this ) Did I miss anything interesting around here?
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
Photos! Show me photos please... (Thinking of going there myself after the next MVP summit - if I can)
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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Did they have any part of the park off-limits due to volcanic activity? There is a giant super-volcano brewing underneath Yellowstone, and I've read that parts of the ground are too hot to walk on. Did you see any geysers?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
Richie308 wrote:
Did they have any part of the park off-limits due to volcanic activity?
Not really, they don’t let you walk directly on the Geysers, but you can get fairly close (and even then you can feel the heat from them)
Richie308 wrote:
There is a giant super-volcano brewing underneath Yellowstone,
Yea your right and I guess the southern portion of the park (down by the lake) changes elevation as result of the activity under it (not that walking on it would you notice, took the park service years to notice I guess).
Richie308 wrote:
I've read that parts of the ground are too hot to walk on.
Well in the geyser basins and Sulfur holes you aren’t aloud to walk about freely because the ground can be unstable and brittle; things change too much to keep track of all of the holes I guess. I didn’t think to get a picture of it but in one of the parking lot around “Sulfur Caldron” the pavement gave way and there is now a sulfur hole in the middle of the parking lot (they do have it blocked off). Woot.
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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S Douglas wrote:
leftovers
That is exactly what they named them! Did you read the memo to?:laugh:
God Bless, Jason
Paul Conrad wrote:
Chuck Norris keeps the hamsters going whenever Chris is gone on vacation. Just stares them down and they keep the servers going
jason_lakewhitney wrote:
Did you read the memo to
So much for going on vacation, yea miss everything... :)
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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Photos! Show me photos please... (Thinking of going there myself after the next MVP summit - if I can)
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
Photos! Show me photos please
I did take some pictures, but with a cheap camera. Not sure how they will turn out and well I’m no Paul Watson. Your better off just going there is way too much to fit into a simple picture. (But if yea like when I get the film developed I put them up on flickr and send yea a link).
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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S Douglas wrote:
Just remember to take a camera with you
And microscope! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070524-yellowstone-video.html[^]
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus "Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are teams of scientists there studying well everything. Bacteria clearly live just outside of the sulfur holes (which is just amazing)
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
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Oh yeah, and the mall people. Those families that need to walk elbow to elbow as if they are playing Red Rover in the third grade. The others are those who cannot walk a straight line so you have to keep zig-zagging to get around them. I either feel the need to yell, 'Feel free to look!' or 'Stay in School!'
______________________ stuff + cats = awesome
leckey wrote:
and the mall people
What pray tell is a “Mall”? I don’t think I’ve been in one of those places in years, thank goodness
With respect, I must disagree. A quick look at middle management in just about any corporation shows that the dodo not only survived, it's reproducing in record numbers. Christopher Duncan
