Comments on: When is a Leak not a Leak? http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/ America's favorite blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:13:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15583 Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:05:56 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15583 I would have preferred more banana and less slug. Sounds like something a fellow member of the White House press corps might have whispered to the Hot Military Stud/Former Favorite of Scottie Mac. I would have preferred more banana and less slug.

Sounds like something a fellow member of the White House press corps might have whispered to the Hot Military Stud/Former Favorite of Scottie Mac.

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15573 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:10:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15573 I saw my first banana slug in the Muir Woods on Thursday. I would have preferred more banana and less slug. I saw my first banana slug in the Muir Woods on Thursday.

I would have preferred more banana and less slug.

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15572 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:08:09 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15572 It's a little hard to defend the administration's attempt to REDEFINE wetlands. If every time you go somewhere your boot sinks into ankle deep muck, it's easy to call it a wetland. On the other hand many wetlands are vernal (wet in the spring). They have wetland plants, insects, birds, and even mammals, they perform the same function as a wetland (even if it isn't full time). So in the past these were classified as wetlands. This administration set the bar much lower and started to call most of these "drylands" - “Dick, fire up the grader”! It’s a little hard to defend the administration’s attempt to REDEFINE wetlands. If every time you go somewhere your boot sinks into ankle deep muck, it’s easy to call it a wetland. On the other hand many wetlands are vernal (wet in the spring). They have wetland plants, insects, birds, and even mammals, they perform the same function as a wetland (even if it isn’t full time). So in the past these were classified as wetlands. This administration set the bar much lower and started to call most of these “drylands” - “Dick, fire up the grader”!

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15571 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:48:29 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15571 If you leave picking a mascot up to the students, the next thing you know you're the Trinity Trolls. (class of 74, my son, class of 97) If you leave picking a mascot up to the students, the next thing you know you’re the Trinity Trolls. (class of 74, my son, class of 97)

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15529 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:43:40 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15529 Yes, Cooper. DeBary is over on the East-West and up I-4 and 17-92 about 45 minutes from Clermont (an hour if it's close to the end of the month and the people with the blue light special interceptors are behind in their quotas). Yes, Cooper. DeBary is over on the East-West and up I-4 and 17-92 about 45 minutes from Clermont (an hour if it’s close to the end of the month and the people with the blue light special interceptors are behind in their quotas).

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15518 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:06:23 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15518 David, since you're on the edge of the Green Swamp and you taught at a school in Leesburg, might one assume that you live in that general vicinity now? My sister just moved back to Florida (DeBary) after 33 years as an elementary school guidance counselor in Gwinnett County, GA - north of HotLanta. David, since you’re on the edge of the Green Swamp and you taught at a school in Leesburg, might one assume that you live in that general vicinity now? My sister just moved back to Florida (DeBary) after 33 years as an elementary school guidance counselor in Gwinnett County, GA - north of HotLanta.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15497 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:40:22 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15497 Cooper, I didn't teach at UCF. A very close friend was a biology prof there, but I was up the road a piece at Lake-Sumter Community College in Leesburg (Florida, not Virginia). Cooper,

I didn’t teach at UCF. A very close friend was a biology prof there, but I was up the road a piece at Lake-Sumter Community College in Leesburg (Florida, not Virginia).

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15486 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:52:22 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15486 Cooper, Mid-Florida Tech was (still is) a different school (on Oak Ridge Road in Orlando). FTU, now UCF, is out east of Orlando near Oviedo (former celery capital of the world - the bank's exterior sign featured a stalk of celery). hedera, Always loved the Banana Slugs. Didn't know about the Robber Barons. That's great. The trivia question I used to nail my colleagues with: Is the University of Southern California a public or a private university? I assume this is a mystery only east of the Missississippi River. Meanwhile, huzzahs for our Leaker-in-Chief, who was just trying to get information out that the public needed to know, Lobster love his public-spirited essence (or did he just fart in our faces?) Cooper,

Mid-Florida Tech was (still is) a different school (on Oak Ridge Road in Orlando). FTU, now UCF, is out east of Orlando near Oviedo (former celery capital of the world - the bank’s exterior sign featured a stalk of celery).

hedera,

Always loved the Banana Slugs. Didn’t know about the Robber Barons. That’s great. The trivia question I used to nail my colleagues with: Is the University of Southern California a public or a private university? I assume this is a mystery only east of the Missississippi River.

Meanwhile, huzzahs for our Leaker-in-Chief, who was just trying to get information out that the public needed to know, Lobster love his public-spirited essence (or did he just fart in our faces?)

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15484 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:17:20 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15484 hedera, where I went to school, the occasional soccer team (when enough players could be rounded up to actually play a game, and not forfeit it) was called the Goddard Gods. I have always admired the Banana Slugs, but the Robber Barons would have been right up there. hedera, where I went to school, the occasional soccer team (when enough players could be rounded up to actually play a game, and not forfeit it) was called the Goddard Gods. I have always admired the Banana Slugs, but the Robber Barons would have been right up there.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15480 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:05:44 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/04/07/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak/#comment-15480 Hedera, I can think of many other good water treatment plants... Lodi, always a champion; Blythe, Tiburon, Bolinas... blah blah blah I said I'd stop and now I really will. But I think Tule Lake still exists, unless there were two. Well, there <i>were</i> two - there <i>were</i> many tule lakes in the state; but I don't know if there was more than one called Tule Lake. There is still a Tule Lake up in the Klamath Basin. (You know, the place where the water is being diverted, killing off the salmon run, and thus creating havoc for salmon fishermen up and down the coast.) That's a non-success story on water issues, so we're back to where we started on this line of thought. Hedera, I can think of many other good water treatment plants… Lodi, always a champion; Blythe, Tiburon, Bolinas… blah blah blah I said I’d stop and now I really will.

But I think Tule Lake still exists, unless there were two. Well, there were two - there were many tule lakes in the state; but I don’t know if there was more than one called Tule Lake. There is still a Tule Lake up in the Klamath Basin. (You know, the place where the water is being diverted, killing off the salmon run, and thus creating havoc for salmon fishermen up and down the coast.) That’s a non-success story on water issues, so we’re back to where we started on this line of thought.

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