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popcorn
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Things To Look At Around Town
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Jan 25 03:32 UTC 1994 |
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kami
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response 1 of 56:
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Jan 25 03:54 UTC 1994 |
isn't it ice-sculpture time or something?
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scg
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response 2 of 56:
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Jan 25 04:46 UTC 1994 |
Oh yeah, that was last weekend. I meant to go, but I forgot. I wonder if
it's still there.
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danr
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response 3 of 56:
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Jan 25 12:10 UTC 1994 |
I was downtown yesterday morning, and due to the warm weather, there's
very little of the ice sculptures left to look at. :(
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srw
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response 4 of 56:
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Jan 25 18:07 UTC 1994 |
They really got the timing wrong on the ice sculptures this year.
I missed them altogether. :-(
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vidar
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response 5 of 56:
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Jan 25 21:03 UTC 1994 |
Well, we can't be too lienient with out time.
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kami
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response 6 of 56:
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Jan 26 03:24 UTC 1994 |
I was downtown today, and they seemed fine. I didn't have time to look for
details, though.
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srw
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response 7 of 56:
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Jan 26 06:28 UTC 1994 |
Well if they *did* survive, they won't melt now. It has gotten
very cold again. I'll see if I can manage to check 'em out.
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popcorn
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response 8 of 56:
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Jan 27 19:38 UTC 1994 |
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kami
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response 9 of 56:
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Jan 28 05:16 UTC 1994 |
they were on main street. now they're on every tree, car and house :)
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rcurl
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response 10 of 56:
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Jan 28 06:44 UTC 1994 |
When visitors come to town, I take them on a dam tour (that's what
they call it for years afterward - "When you took me on that dam tour."),
starting at Barton Dam, and heading down stream. Each is different,
slightly hard to get to, and they all have lots of tumbling water to
stare at.
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kaplan
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response 11 of 56:
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Jan 28 18:28 UTC 1994 |
Barton, Argo, Dixboro Road, LeForge Road, I think there's another
one South of Michigan Ave before you get to Ford Lake. Please be
specific! What dams are on your dam tour? Sounds interesting!
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katie
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response 12 of 56:
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Jan 28 22:02 UTC 1994 |
The Hands On museum, the arb, the Ark...
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vidar
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response 13 of 56:
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Jan 28 23:20 UTC 1994 |
This is a very uninteresting topic.
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rcurl
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response 14 of 56:
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Jan 29 05:35 UTC 1994 |
Spoken like a closed mind.
It is usually enough to visit Barton, Argo, and Dixboro, before heading
off for a meal somewhere. Especially in winter, and its below freezing,
when each dam is the most intriguing. In the summer, you can ask the
fishermen, "how's fishin'?"
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srw
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response 15 of 56:
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Jan 29 06:02 UTC 1994 |
There are now hiking/biking/jogging paths that go all the way from
Barton Dam, past Argo Dam, to Geddes Dam (It's on Dixboro Road, but
is actually named *Geddes* Dam).
This is the wrong time of year for those paths, of course, but
in season, they are very nice. You can avoid using roads for the
entire distance except for a very short stretch of Barton Road
along the river just downstream from the M14 overpass.
You also have to cross Maiden Lane and Geddes Road each once.
It's an interesting variant on the Dam tour and takes you through
a lot of Ann Arbor's more interesting Parks.
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chelsea
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response 16 of 56:
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Jan 29 15:24 UTC 1994 |
One of my favorite things to do this this time of year is visit
the Mathaei Botanical Gardens. The enclosed greenhouses are warm,
and lush, with many flowering plants in full bloom. Bring a book
as there are benches available and the staff understands why you're
there and essentially leaves you alone.
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katie
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response 17 of 56:
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Jan 30 04:57 UTC 1994 |
It's called Geddes Dam because it sits at the site of the former town of
Geddesburg, MI. There is a plaque on the builk er, buikl er, building,
way up above eye level, that tells the tale of Geddesburg.
If I don't get my backso er, backspace back, I shall stop calling Grex.
I don't say this a er, as a er, an act of spite, but just because it is
too damned annoying to type a response 16 times before I can enter it.
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kami
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response 18 of 56:
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Jan 30 06:32 UTC 1994 |
Katie, are you and Meg the same family for which were Geddesburg, Geddes Rd,.
etc. named? How do YOU say it? Doesn't [control H] work as a backspace for
you?
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rcurl
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response 19 of 56:
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Jan 30 06:55 UTC 1994 |
Are you using an editor? You can fix your text without backspace in
a visual editor (like the easy one, pico).
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scg
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response 20 of 56:
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Jan 30 07:05 UTC 1994 |
Yes, Rane, but for short responses it is still simpler not to have to go into
an editor.
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rcurl
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response 21 of 56:
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Jan 30 07:20 UTC 1994 |
Sure, but when one is entering immortal lines, one has to go to any
lengths.
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scg
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response 22 of 56:
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Jan 30 07:29 UTC 1994 |
I tend to use the editor for anything over about ten lines, or anything that
I want to be coherent (the coherency department is also greatly helped by
it not being this late at night).
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katie
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response 23 of 56:
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Jan 30 17:29 UTC 1994 |
It is pronounced "Geddis", for lack of a schwa on my keyboard. "Geddeez"
is incorrect, but very commonly heard. I even have people coe er, correct
me when I tell them my name: "Oh, Geddeez." Yeah, right.
I want my backspace key to do the backspace thing. I shouldn't have to type
control-anything. Not that control-anything would work, anyway.
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scg
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response 24 of 56:
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Jan 30 18:47 UTC 1994 |
katie, try typing "stty erase '^H'" seperately from where it does it in
your .profile, and see if it does anything.
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