The Coffee House

[snowbear120 52]

 

[vintagesnaps]

Tribute to Lucille.
Or as we used to sing it working at summer camp, 'Loose wheels'.

 

[Frank F.]

My grandparents had a house built by my great grandfather who had lots of money. Iirc the construction was finished in 1904. The house was sold in 1997 and the roof was still original only well mended slate. Very expensive then, even more so today.

Topmodernisiertes Schloss in Rheinlage bei Bad Honnef – KRAFT Immobilien GmbH Bonn – Immobilien-Makler für Wohnungen Häuser Grundstücke – Kapitalanlage Eigentumswohnung – Mieten Kaufen Verkaufen Vermieten Bauen Bewerten Projektieren

This is the house of my grandparents. They never had the money to renovate it like this.

Only the one who bought it had the money. Now he sells it again

Wow ... Ja, das ist ein modernes Schloss.

The one who bought it changed some things he should not have changed and the furniture he put in there is really ugly and cheap.

But most of the renovation was done pretty well. If I find some shots I took of the house like it was when I knew it I will post them here.

 

[Frank F.]

Telsa, the California car company, is now making glass solar shingles. Dunno the how long they will last, but glass like slate and it is made out of rocks (very small rocks).

Tesla is also working on a semi tractor.

Shale/mudstone (sometimes basalt*) -> slate.
Sand -> Glass.

* basalt = ocean floor.

Basalt is vulcanic stone. I live in an area where all the mountains are inactive volcanoes and made of basalt.

Basalt - Wikipedia

Basalt is also used to make stone wool a sustainable insulation material

 

[Frank F.]

Can anyone identify this lens? Not my photo but posting for a friend who was about to give this old film dslr and lens away... Is it the Tamron 28-300?

Is that fungus on the lens acquired in a damp cellar???

 

[snowbear120 52]

Telsa, the California car company, is now making glass solar shingles. Dunno the how long they will last, but glass like slate and it is made out of rocks (very small rocks).

Tesla is also working on a semi tractor.

Shale/mudstone (sometimes basalt*) -> slate.
Sand -> Glass.

* basalt = ocean floor.

Basalt is vulcanic stone. I live in an area where all the mountains are inactive volcanoes and made of basalt.

Basalt - Wikipedia

Basalt is also used to make stone wool a sustainable insulation material

Vulcanic, yes, and also why it is the sea floor. Magma flows out from the mid oceanic ridges and solidifies into basalt.

 

[davidharmier60]

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Saw this in social media. People are awesome.

I call Southwest airlines the cattle car.
And I would fly the cattle car anywhere they go. Southwest has a happy culture!

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[waday]

Breakfast: baked blueberry pancakes

 

[smoke665]

Breakfast: baked blueberry pancakes

That looks good. We had a southern staple, biscuits and sausage gravy.

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary are having their tea and coffee in the patio this cool and overcast morning. Classical KUSC is gently floating in the background. Gary's peach is soft and sweet, perfect. The past few days there have been front page stories in the Los Angeles Times on the end of the 2o year Cassini-Huygen Mission to Saturn. Apparently, it is a pretty big thing out here. There was a big Cassini party last night at Cal Tech ... more of a wake than a party. Cassini was built at JPL, just north of Pasadena as well as Mission Control was out of JPL. The program director put the Cassini-Huygen mission to bed with this final statement "This morning a lone explorer, a machine made by mankind, finished its mission 900 million miles away," he said choking up a little. "Thanks and farewell, little explorer." Another person commented that as Cassini burnt up in the atmosphere of Saturn, it left dust particles, finger prints of Pasadena on the surface of Saturn.

 

[SquarePeg41 3]

What no football talk? Just came from the latest doubleheader. The team lost the first very close game by 2 and then got spanked in the 2nd game. Our #2 pitcher left sick and we had to have #1 and #3 pitch both games. They usually only pitch 3-4 innings each. They were out of gas by the second game.

 

[jcdeboever]

I like blue berry pancakes

 

[limr34 4]

You want football talk?

WOOOOOOT!!!! GATORS Y'ALL!!!

Nine seconds left, tied game, and the second perfectly-thrown Hail Mary pass I have seen in my life (Doug Flutie's was the first one) and Leo is one happy Gator

 

[jcdeboever]

I love KUSC

 

[smoke665]

You want football talk?

WOOOOOOT!!!! GATORS Y'ALL!!!

Nine seconds left, tied game, and the second perfectly-thrown Hail Mary pass I have seen in my life (Doug Flutie's was the first one) and Leo is one happy Gator

I saw that!!