http://www.brickboard.com/FORUMS/uid=22251 The Volvo owner's resource since 1997. en Copyright 1997-2009, Jarrod Stenberg Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:29 GMT Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:29 GMT brickadmin@denizen.net brickadmin@denizen.net volvo 1440 http://www.brickboard.com/images/logo_b_25.gif http://www.brickboard.com/ 25 25 The Volvo owner's resource since 1997. Southern Maine beekeepers org? Names, ranks, serial numbers. Please. Regards. cwhite1@maine.rr.com http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1032504&rss=1 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:56 GMT What I recall of that V70 is your comment about "rebooting" the eBrain by way of a key in the door. I also recall thinking that was much better than diddling with carbs. Friends of ours just bought a floor model '05 wagon. They only have one complaint and the complaint is based on previous ownership of a Buick wagon. (Yeah... I know.) They'd prefer the rear gate be split - glass up, primary door down. Makes sense. Keeps the goodies from crashing to the ground. I'm finishing the interior of a very nice house in York. Hoping to complete by New Years. Nice folks with liquid assets. Fireplace surrounds, dueling built-ins and a cherry kitchen. Working alone and happy about it. Good to hear from you. I'm out. Enjoy the winter... http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1027223&rss=1 Fri, 2 Dec 2005 01:15 GMT Drink your share of 6X and it makes no difference who's brewed it. Have that 'last one' and it might as well be Harvey the Rabbit pulling the tap. We brew our mind benders, too. I hear pubs may stay open longer than 11PM in the hope that pub goers will no longer pound 'em down before the bell then pound each other in the streets once pissed. My last visit to London was an eye opener. I guess folks there call it a "punch up". Bad manners on the left. Hooligans to the right. Not exactly my scene. Folks here have been skiing in the western mountains (of Maine) for awhile now. Everybody's got their gig... Sayonara. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1026917&rss=1 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:52 GMT No worries, Bill. I make everyone sad. :) I decided the fit of web forums wasn't quite right for me. A little tight in the shoulders. And the color made me look pale. These days, my contributions are limited to a fly fishing site. (Some men are called to God. I was called to Orvis.) I write about "Travels with Dad" and his return to this sickness after a 30 year break. It seems to ring with the handful of folks that bother to read it. I butcher the language and it is good. Weren't you coming here to ski? Did you make it? Did you break anything serious? Here's to you. Bottomless pints of Marston's 6X. I'm buying... http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1026610&rss=1 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:11 GMT I've always been able to count on "that day" in mid November. The one with knees deep in rotted plant stuff. The one with sodden clothes dragging me low. The one with fists held to the heavens. I'd cry, "Damn ye, Mittenhed!" as the pitchfork porked up another dozen bulbs. Not this year. Maybe it was the rainy, rotty Spring... or the Summer drought. Maybe I shouldn't complain?! Small crop, and you? I'm about 10 minutes away from owning my last of the "modern" Volvo's. Just don't have it in me to repair. I wondered out loud when my brother sold his last XJS for cheap, but now I understand. There are other things to do. Clean fingernails are good. Cars that start make women happy. Bought a snowblower. Bring it on. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1026601&rss=1 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:54 GMT Forever working on my barn. (You paint in perpetuity. I shingle.) Plans are to galvanize the roof sometime this winter. Like the old man blurts, "We'll see." Speaking of the Old Man... We spent 10 quality September days wandering the R. Quimby parcel. Conclusion: Anyone who objected to her vision hadn't walked her land. The agreement 'twixt Quimby and Gardner is, on the face, great news. It's seriously beautiful land. The Wassataquoik: Old growth white cedars wider than the reach of one 6'3". Moose and Black Bear in every direction. Full spawn Brookies came to orange caddis and stoneflies. Work is exactly that. Lots of it. A good thing. Tortola, BVI this Spring. Tarpon: the big, bad, beautiful, silver freight trains of the sea. An itch to scratch. Wagon has a headache. Nothing I can't remedy but the desire to do so is on back order. The days are darker. There's ice in the chicken coop. Be well. Be warm. Regards. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1025870&rss=1 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:26 GMT Ask your health provider about: Telemedicine/Telehealth/Telehospice. Two fists. Everyday. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1025843&rss=1 Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:49 GMT Kindred spirit. You'll appreciate the first bit. I graduated design school and began the agency madness with a French guy named Jean. We both had plans for the new world order - truth in advertising, truth in media and independent publishing. It's was nice to be young. Over the course of twenty years, as a design team, we printed everything together from postcards to posters to short-run magazines (the precursor to blogs). Some of it brilliant. Some of it self-indulgent. He still works, as do I, but we haven't published as a *team* in quite awhile. Jean's new work is a quarterly piece. Almost entirely illustration. It's wierd shit. He calls it a quarterly because he prints it four times annually. Problem is, he mails whenever so sometimes you get two issues at once. The last issue had a cover photograph. (We both convert images in Photoshop, then output to polymer plates, then print letterpress.) The cover photograph was an "outake" from his shop depicting tools of the trade - stacks of papers, some proofs, ink canister, plates and a set of rollers. Nice image but basic printers fare. The fun part: The block had ID lettering on the side. It read, "GW. FU." (I added the letters to the base of my original post.) I asked Jean if he'd intentionally included the ID letters. He said nothing. I knew he had. He likes to push buttons. Some of the response to his quarterly was incredible. Even within a crowd of readers who are supposed to be "with it", some did't want a quarterly in their mailbox with "GW. FU." on the cover. Felt it was asking for trouble, I guess. What trouble? GW was the plate ID for an interior illustration and FU stands for "Finish Side Up." As I said, he likes to push buttons. That's what being an artist is all about, isn't it. Pushing buttons. You've certainly pushed your share - including a few of mine. I deserved it. No doubts you'll push a few more. --- Today was the first day in a week or more without steady rains. Everyone rushing to cut their grass before the skies re-open. I walked out to the barn and tinkered with the 140. I keep manuals and old brickboard advice on the bench. In the stack was a Brickboard digest from the early days. The entire digest went all of ten posts. Can you believe that? Abe Crombie and George Downs. Where the hell would I be without them. A green manual for my long gone '73 that I got in the mail from Don Foster. Assorted things from Ed. (Don't let him con you into taking Dahlias, btw.) It's quite a car. May very well be one of the finest original 140's on the road today. I got lucky. I knew a guy that knew a guy. --- So, that's it. I am officially outta here. Nothing much left to add that doesn't involve fly fishing and I've got a better place for that. Be good. Craig http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=965040&rss=1 Sat, 28 May 2005 01:58 GMT Anyone? I have an out-of-print collection of 70's Jamaican vinyl too good to keep to myself. "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" - or such. Broadcast I will. Years back, a friend and I bought a press. A 1920's Chandler & Price 8x10 letterpress. We publish with irregularity. Illustration, nonsense, etc. GW. FU. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=964595&rss=1 Thu, 26 May 2005 23:32 GMT Perhaps you're referring to our brethren from the South... Slappy and his cousin, Uncle Joe. You can convert a stainless keg for the system. They're cheap, if you know who to ask. If you can "plumb" and engine, you can build a still. moonshine-still.com has schematics. I've never tasted anything better than Thin-X, myself. If you give up on the idea, you can reuse the keg as a brew pot, the copper coil as your wort chiller and most of the ducting to plumb out a home brew system. In that case, Morebeer.com is probably your best bet for things you won't find in the average shop - and the shipping is free. Barleywine and Mead are all I brew these days. Happy mediums 'twixt beer and booze. http://www.morebeer.com/ http://www.moonshine-still.com/ http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=964350&rss=1 Thu, 26 May 2005 11:26 GMT I spent about a year and a half renovating our 1830's home. People ask what it looked like before restoration and I say "crack house". Still working on the place and have already started to renovate the renovations. Never satisfied. Early on, when I couldn't find what I needed (millwork, interior and exterior fixtures) I started purchasing the equipment to make them myself. A builder friend asked for some parts for a home he was starting and a business was born. Now, I can't help but notice older homes that look to be in good hands. That house in the woods is just amazing. Honestly, the finest craftsmanship. The fact that they lugged all that stuff so far into the woods puts it over the top. Restoring old homes, cars, barns, bicycles and even people. Anyone who participates gets the nod. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=963903&rss=1 Wed, 25 May 2005 11:44 GMT I spend quality time deep in the woods of the pine tree state. It's a regular thing. We go this way in the Spring. I go that way in the Fall. The Spring trip passes through most of the civilized state and on into the parts that aren't. Very near the edge, there are just a few homes. The last home - "pass middle of nowhere, hang left" - is special. A man and his family (one wife and a yard full of critters) live there. They've been renovating a 19th century farm house for at least 8 years. Or, at least as long as I've been passing by. What a masterful job. Gable end courses of shingles cut in geometric splendor - everyone of them spot on. Clapboards spaced in historically correct exposures. Countless timber frame pegs - square and mitered. Perrenial beds built from gravel and granite spill out from the front of the house towards the road ... that NOBODY travels. And that's the thing. It's a road that NOBODY travels. It's mind bending craftmanship for no one to see. Patience and pride: Alive and well and living in the woods of Northern Maine. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=963673&rss=1 Tue, 24 May 2005 22:49 GMT My Poplar stand has matured and is now in decline. "How does he know?" Two of the remaining thirteen trees lost their tops in last nights wind. One hit the ground like Space Lab. The other is perched 50 feet above the roof of the barn that houses my shop with all its fancy tooling. The neighbor asked if I believed in God. I said, "Yeah. Why, does he know something?" No power all night. No power this morning. All the clocks are wrong. How high's the water, Mama? It's three feet high and rising... http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=963651&rss=1 Tue, 24 May 2005 22:05 GMT A Jag that starts on request, or without smoke, just isn't a Jag. And what self-respecting sportscar would have itself at #2 on JD Powers? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=962704&rss=1 Mon, 23 May 2005 00:16 GMT "She has said things seemingly for the sole purpose of hurting me..." This is not someone you need in your life. Perhaps a gear shift is in order. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=962701&rss=1 Mon, 23 May 2005 00:08 GMT ...something your Round Party can never seem to manage. Even in a two-dimensional world, we Square can manage four points at once. Eight points when debates are fully attended. And, while your campaign promises roll about, our promises remain put - "stackable" even. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=958588&rss=1 Thu, 12 May 2005 10:54 GMT B., How might I otherwise impress my neighbors but before a flaming slab of beef. Smoke is an indicator of status in thine 'hood, no? Anyways, prepare yourself. Post-purchase come the cold calls selling knife sets, 'tater peelers and a time share in Boca. I'm hungry. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=956842&rss=1 Sat, 7 May 2005 23:13 GMT Yes. And you could refer to your cabinet meetings as Circle Jerks. I'll start the Square Party. Guided by the Golden Section, my political advantage will be calculated as 1.6180339887 to 1. Ultimately, we will both lose to the party of the Rhombic Dodecahedrons. Their perspective is extraodinary. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=956668&rss=1 Sat, 7 May 2005 12:15 GMT A Spring without Brimfield would be life without long lines, soggy feet, cash void accounts and indigestion. No fun, in other words. The May's field always breaks me. Love that ratty paint. Happy hunting. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=955930&rss=1 Thu, 5 May 2005 15:39 GMT Route 100 in the Fall, under the Maples, along the rivers Deerfield and Hoosic. Got caught in the rain driving a ramshackle TR3A. Hit the gas and huddled down. Over the border in Spring on Route 131 towards Cavendish. Full bore on board the aforementioned shitbox through a Black River Mayfly hatch. Smiled with delight and got a mouth full of bugs. Route 89 down from Highgate. Our last Grateful Dead show. High on life... and blow-by. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=954901&rss=1 Tue, 3 May 2005 14:01 GMT No (living) writer illustrates the experience of fly fishing quite like John Gierach. Scratch the surface and you quickly realize there's a little more to his picture. It's rough and tumble, black not latte. Ripples on the water and all. >> You're a cab driver in New York City in 1971, trying to make a right hand turn at a busy Manhattan intersection but there's some cocky bike messenger in your way and he won&#146;t move... so you nudge him. Not hard, just enough to let him know that you're in a cab and he's on a bike and if he doesn't move and soon you might run his ass over. But the bike messenger does a strange thing. He doesn't move out of your way. He gets off his bike, walks to the front of your cab, and swiftly kicks your headlight in. Then he invites you to step outside and discuss the matter further. You, as the cab driver, make a wise choice and roll up the window instead. Because you've just met John Gierach on a bad day and getting out of your car would only make it worse. << http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=954880&rss=1 Tue, 3 May 2005 13:02 GMT The cancer that killed America. One of my friends - we'll call him "Chuck", 'cause that's his name - believes that every man and woman should earn the same wage regardless of their professional choice. (Easy for Chuck to say, he's resigned himself to a life sorting mail on the second shift.) So, according to Chuck, the rest of us, those who have paid their OWN way through degree programs, started their OWN companies and hung their OWN asses to the wind by way of enormous financial risk, should earn $12.75 per hour. Some paint with too broad a brush. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=938750&rss=1 Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:29 GMT I like Todd Snider's version: They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain 97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain I&#146;ll never know which one I am but I&#146;ll bet you my last dime 99 percent think with 3 percent 100 percent of the time 64 percent of all the world&#146;s statistics are made up right there on the spot 82.4 percent of people believe &#145;em whether they&#146;re accurate statistics or not I don&#146;t know what you believe but I do know there&#146;s no doubt I need another double shot of something 90 proof I got too much to think about Too much to figure out They say 92 percent of everything you learned in school was just bullshit you&#146;ll never need 84 percent of everything you got you bought to satisfy your greed Because 90 percent of the world&#146;s population links possessions to success Even though 80 percent of the wealthiest 1 percent of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money, more stress It&#146;s too much to think about Too much to figure out 84 percent of all statisticians truly hate their jobs They say the average bank robber lives within say about 20 miles of the bank that he robs There&#146;s this little bank not far from here I&#146;ve been watching now for a while Lately all I can think about&#146;s how bad I wanna go out in style And it&#146;s too much to think about Too much to figure out http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=938744&rss=1 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:57 GMT 25 years behind a flyrod and I've fished Opening Day all but maybe twice. I can tally the catch on four blue fingers and a thumb. But bad stats never stop me. 1) I am the eternal optimist. 2) After a long winter I simply need to get out. Someday I'll learn. With age will come wisdom. And Raynaud's disease... http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=936898&rss=1 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:07 GMT Photoshop questions? Long term commercial user, happy to help. Fire Away... http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=935976&rss=1 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:21 GMT Use the text input below to search brickboard.com query http://www.brickboard.com/FIND/