Got it not so different from the deadliest catch.
Except warmer and safer.
I can imagine how much fun that would have been:)

I'm sure, that would not have made for something a TV executive would find "entertaining". Usually you get application on the space programs.

OH, Dob, you get a crab net, which is a bunch of increasing size rings with neeting woven around it, tie the chicken back to the middle, drop it off a finger pier, drink a beer (when we were yung, auntie would bring a case of it, mostly for her, but she turned a blind eye) and pull it up, usually with 5-7 crabs in it. 2 or 3 hours and you had a couple sacks of them. Go home heat up big pots of water, and boil away, then clean them and eat. We used to pour the beer on them in the bags and laugh as it turned to this huge foaming mountain and overflowed onto the pier. She got mad at us wasting it.

Food prices continue to rise. That's is far scarier than gasoline, etc.

The numbers are in sequence so it's easy to remember: 1,2,3,... This trick works for other numbered lists, too.

The 10 part series on Einstein just finished; it only lasted a few months. You can watch it on reruns or on the internet. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com... But don't expect to learn his physics from it.

Less than $0.25 per pound wow! Nickursis please explain the chicken backs and crabbing. I live in the land of Ten thousand lakes. Superior is the closest to an ocean in this northland.

Call me thick, but I am not seeing how that works....

I have only seen the one episode. Of course, to be continued next season, so.... I cannot recall the show that discussed the eclipses and the competition between several astronomers, as well as the debate over whether he was right or not.

You have to keep the same words grouped together when you plug them into the numers. I thought that part was obvious.

If the 1914 eclipse observation had been done it wouldn't have been as important since he didn't have an accurate calculated prediction then, only that there would be bending.

There are a lot of fictional and false scenes, exaggerations, and propaganda in that series. They never did show what it was like to be dedicated and working hard on the problems he explored, only a crazy guy running around shouting and flapping his arms.

I was little in Biloxi Miss before Camille, we used to get a 50lb potato sack of shrimp at the pier for 12.00, could catch all the crabs in the world (usually 2-3 potato sacks worth in 4 hours) using chicken backs. Now the hurricanes killed off all the crabs and the shrimpers come in almost empty.

Oregon it used to be 6.99 before the winter where all the cows died, then if flew up to 12.99 and never came back, and now farmers complain because they have to sell off all their cows because they have too many. What happened to market forces? We see them on sale for 6.99 sometimes. Hamburger runs 249-299 for 80%.

It's the words that screw me up......

Yes, I was watching the show on one of the satellite channels Tuesday regarding him and his life, he had a lot of not so great moments he got hammered for. I do remember there was a huge effort made in the 10's and 20's to go to solar eclipses to set up special equipment to measure the exact effect of "bending" light by gravitational fields, and they had several abortive attempts then got one good observation and a second to prove his theory of relativity.

Here in FL you can get rib-eye when on sale at supermarket for $8.99 not on sale around $12.99. If you're going to spend $8 or 9, you might as well spend a few $ more and get the really good stuff.

It would be a pleasure!

Thanks for the invitation, DOB, and I will certainly let you know if I am coming that way ;^)

If you travel to the twin cities in the future We would enjoy sharing a meal with the freedomforall's

Bone in rib-eye roast was $5.39/lb yesterday here (but not grass fed, I am sure.) We just finished one that I had brought with me from the east coast, so we are sticking with making our beef-heavy marinara, bar-be-que-ing some pork ribs, and making some Coq au vin this week.
Your menu sounds very good, too!

No sir that is beyond my budget .with BOGO the 2 steaks cost about $17.50 . With strong local competition in the grocery stores in our area I just shop for the deals.
In the past I have purchased Copper River Salmon when in season I recently priced it between. $ 25-$29..95 lb . I passed on it and found raw shrimp deveined 21-25 count for $7.99lb and bought 3 lbs worth. That is a good price for Minnesota!

Don't tell everybody, DOB! You want to pay $30/lb for rib-eyes? I don't! ;^)

And a parrrrrrrrrrr-tridge in a pear tree.

Hey, you guys take this er, stuff, seriously. You must be in MENSA. My son & daughter-in-law want me to join, but as far as I can tell, all they want to do is solve puzzles. Hell, to me, that's just life -- the biggest puzzle of all.

From a letter from Planck, Rubens, Nernst and Warburg attempting to help Einstein obtain an academic position in 1913:

"That [Einstein] may occasionally have missed the mark in his speculations, as for example with his hypothesis of lightquanta, ought not be held too much against him, for it impossible to introduce new ideas, even in the exact sciences, without taking risk." [quoted in Wheaton, The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism]

Einstein was award the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for his 1905 discovery of quantized light in the photoelectric effect.