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Cobra Commander · 2005-06-28 07:25:20

I'll take a medium-well buffalo burger over an ordinary hamburger any day. Very delicious.

I like to keep 'em on the medium rare side, it's easy to overcook buffalo and dry it out. Much leaner than beef.

I was attacked by a buffalo once.

Once? Why'd they stop?

clark · 2005-06-28 07:54:27

Why did it stop?

I wasn't a tree.

Josh Cryer · 2005-06-28 10:05:12

Hey, chocolate is really good for your heart apparently.

In other news, I drive a motorcycle.

clark · 2005-06-28 10:13:25

Why?

Cobra Commander · 2005-06-28 10:14:24

In other news, I drive a motorcycle.

Something big and hog-like or one of those crotch-rockets?

I considered getting a motorcycle a few years ago, but between snow, rain and those Michigan potholes it seemed kinda pointless. So I got real job and a wife instead. :laugh:

Incidentally I'm thinking of starting a pothole registry. I figure if the diameter of the hole is larger than the tire of a midsize car it ceases to be a pothole and becomes a crater. Someone needs to name them and send that to MDOT.

clark · 2005-06-28 10:20:20

I considered getting a motorcycle a few years ago, but between snow, rain and those Michigan potholes it seemed kinda pointless. So I got real job and a wife instead.

Cobra, the eternal romantic.

Josh Cryer · 2005-06-28 10:32:52

clark, efficiency, 50-60 MPG. What with my whole search for the ultimate efficiencies and all. I started the whole http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& … motorcycle buying frenzy, you know.

Cobra, it's an old motorcycle, 1971 Honda CB350. Has just enough punch to get you moving, but it's a classic to be sure. Got it for $500 almost completely refurbished. Kind of wish I got it junked and refurbished it myself. I rebuild the carberators on it recently. It's a very simple machine. Maybe too simple (hit some bumpy roads and you feel it, not like on the newer ones with freakin' computer controlled shocks and stuff). I should get new shocks, though, I think they're the originals, and my 230 lb weight probably did not do them very nicely (I weigh 180 now).

Nothing like the feeling of air flying by you as you drive.

Oh, I had a buffalo burger visiting my mom on a motorcycle ride last december (I'd had one a few years before that), and I concur, it's a lot better than beef. After I left I wished I got a couple for the road, but ah well. Next time!

clark · 2005-06-28 10:36:53

What with my whole search for the ultimate efficiencies and all

Your sex life must be stellar.

Josh Cryer · 2005-06-28 10:41:01

I've been told that I'm good at the "orgasme simultané."

clark · 2005-06-28 10:41:51

Honey, they all say that. :laugh:

Josh Cryer · 2005-06-28 10:46:20

The questions then, do French girls lie?

So are you single or married, clark? Just wondering. For the record I am single. Going to take some time for me to find someone special.

Cobra Commander · 2005-06-28 10:46:49

Cobra, it's an old motorcycle, 1971 Honda CB350.

Okay, not bad. Big enough for non-recreational use but not ungodly huge like some. The sort of thing I was looking at when my old cargo van neared its demise.

At least you can do work on it, newer vehicles seem intentionally designed to be unserviceable.

Which reminds of another drawback to motorcycles. :hm:

BWhite · 2005-06-28 10:48:28

I considered getting a motorcycle a few years ago, but between snow, rain and those Michigan potholes it seemed kinda pointless. So I got real job and a wife instead.
Cobra, the eternal romantic.

I traded in a Mustang convertible and a sailboat on similiar terms. A "boat for a little boy" I sometimes tell people.

I have promised myself that when the boy gets a little older we will teach him to sail.

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On Sunday we took a brief tour of Ellsworth AFB and the South Dakota Air & Space Museum. Touched the casing of a real-life nuclear bomb. I believe the working parts had been removed. I hope. :;):

My wife said it gave her the creeps.

Mapquest from Chicago to Mt. Rushmore. 12 miles to I-90; 900 miles on I-90; 30 miles to Mt. Rushmore.

The high plains of South Dakota were way cool in a desolate sort of way and the Missouri River popping up as you crest a hill (on I-90 of course) was breath-taking.

See ya' all later.

clark · 2005-06-28 10:49:36

Single or married?

Hmmm, I guess, neither.

Proposed a year ago, she accepted, and now I'm on the east coast.

Cobra Commander · 2005-06-28 10:52:38

Proposed a year ago, she accepted, and now I'm on the east coast.

Which explains a few things.

Josh Cryer · 2005-06-28 10:53:18

Cobra, ugh, I simply can't understand the need for the huge ones. 500cc is the limit for a good motorcycle, imho.

Bill, sounds wonderful! Most my my trips have been on I-10, not too much beautiful scenery, next time I'm taking the coastal 98 (I think that's the road, not completely sure). It has some wonderful scenery, though it takes a lot longer because of red lights and such. Hope you have a good one.

clark, congrats!

clark · 2005-06-28 10:54:10

:laugh:

Just realized how that could be interpreted in a way I did not intend.

So, okay, I followed her.

clark · 2005-06-28 10:59:37

Thanks Josh.

We're talking about eloping off in some northern country sometime after her dissertation.

Cobra Commander · 2005-06-28 11:01:01

On Sunday we took a brief tour of Ellsworth AFB and the South Dakota Air & Space Museum. Touched the casing of a real-life nuclear bomb. I believe the working parts had been removed. I hope.

I remember the first time I was in the museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, quite young, 9 or ten. I insisted on being lifted up high enough to touch the side of Bock's Car, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki for those reaching for Google. Don't really know why, I knew the significance having built a model of it not long before, but why the need to touch the aircraft . . . :hm:

I try to go back there every few years, probably about due.
Last time they had one of Reagan's nuclear launch railcars on display.

Palomar · 2005-06-28 11:33:57

*The Trinity test site is only 130 miles or so to the N-NE of where we live. Last I knew, it was open to the public once a year. My husband suggested visiting it and I'll admit to a certain curiosity, but ... no, I don't think the likely resulting stomachache would be worth it.

--Cindy

Cobra Commander · 2005-06-28 11:43:31

*The Trinity test site is only 130 miles or so to the N-NE of where we live. Last I knew, it was open to the public once a year. My husband suggested visiting it and I'll admit to a certain curiosity, but ... no, I don't think the likely resulting stomachache would be worth it.

You should go. Seriously, even if it's uncomfortable you should go. Actually being in the place where key events occured or direct contact with the artifacts really cements those events in the mind and on some level helps grasp the full import. At least for me, anyway.

One of the most interesting things about the museum at Wright-Patterson is that unlike the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum you can touch everything, at least last time I was there. Walking amongst all these machines of war, displayed chronologically and ever increasing in complexity and effectiveness then all of a sudden. . . There's an Apollo capsule. 15 if I recall correctly. No plastic cover, no barrier, just a felt railing a foot or so away. You can reach right over, place your hand on it and get space-soot all over yourself.

Walking the grounds of Gettysburg was also an odd experience, particularly given that there really wasn't anyone else there.

clark · 2005-06-28 11:46:09

Pearl Harbor.

Still recall the oil bubbiling up.

BWhite · 2005-06-28 13:44:59

Pearl Harbor.
Still recall the oil bubbiling up.

Yup. Lets see that was about 5 years ago.

The presence of a crying 5 year old daughter ruled out a tour of the battleship Missouri. A Tarawa class Marine troop carrier was docked across the bay from the Arizona memorial. That was pretty cool.

= = =

Just came back from Mt. Rushmore. Only thing bigger than the granite statues themselves was the gift shop.

Saw the Crazy Horse monument the other night along with a night-time dynamite display set to mimic Indian drums. Music via dynamite! The explosions are part of the carving process.

So many exhibits and reminders that the Amer-Indians suffered their final defeats here in the Dakotas. Irony abounds.

The Black Hills are well worth visiting.

I will read a few more posts while lunch is cooking. :;):

BWhite · 2005-06-28 13:46:47

Oh yeah, Ellsworth AFB also had maps of the nearby Minuteman II missile fields.

That was creepy.

Grypd · 2005-06-28 14:00:04

2 years ago I went Scuba diving amongst the sunken German grand fleet.

Something earie about all those machines of war and of there deadly purpose. And also the intagible feeling of loss that comes from them sitting there at the bottom of Scapa flo.

Actually rather ironic I found what was a german fw-200 condor just off a place called Cromarty the other week. It had been designated to attack the fleet harbored off Invergordon. It never made it and it was a bit of a shock to find it just embedded in the shifting sea floor. It had a similar feeling.

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