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by haroldp 12y ago
Those disclaimers are all over the videos.
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> One was an attempt to shape news coverage of car accidents. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, an industry group, established a free wire service for newspapers: reporters could send in the basic details of a traffic accident
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In a pressure cooker, time is under a half hour. I live at high altitude, so no amount of time just boiling in a pot will ever soften dry black beans.
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Railroad spikes (and assorted railroad spike art projects) and flattened pennies, check. The very best things to collect/scavenge though were the glass floats lost from Japanese fishing nets.
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The Anchor Inn had the nice arcade. It had Ms PacMan, Defender, Burger Time, Tempest, Space Invaders, Time Pilot and a couple pinball machines including "Playboy," oh my! Oh and a decent jukebox, even. The Sportsman's had M
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by haroldp 12y ago
> I'm curious as to why people choose to live in a place like that. Different people value different things. > Did you have friends to play with? Usually one or two. The school had like 55 kids k-12 when I was there. > What&#
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by haroldp 12y ago
I wish. Maybe that would be my story if I was a kid there now. But I left in `86. There was no Internet. There was no cable TV. Radio came in poorly. Gawddamn telephone calls were prohibitively expensive. I knew two kids that had com
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by haroldp 12y ago
Generally speaking, there are some EMTs around. Mostly the same crowd as the volunteer fire department. They get some minor training and they do what they can. For anything big, they just transport you to Anchorage. Back in the day, when
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by haroldp 12y ago
Most of the Army's engineering in Whittier was pretty amazing. For example, Begich Towers is built on three sections with a gap of six inches through the full height. The gap is closed in with steel, accordion-shaped baffle so that i
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by haroldp 12y ago
Most houses retained an openable window or two. Every apartment had a big vent with a fan.
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One man's backwater mudpuddle is another man's relaxing natural paradise.
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by haroldp 12y ago
Rent is very cheap. It's low speed and relaxed. Lots of people like those things, even if I m not one of them. On a side note, it's not really quiet. The railroad hauls shipping containers off huge barges, places then on train
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by haroldp 12y ago
Oh man, I remember Ross and Irma, but I got my Roy Rogers and pool from the Anchor Inn. If I recall correctly, the Sportsman's is actually older than either the Buckner Building or Beggich Tower
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One of the attractions is that rent is REALLY cheap. Everything else is really expensive, but that is true for most of Alaska.
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by haroldp 12y ago
Well the Army installed great heavy-duty double paned windows that you could totally open and close. However, they were kind of bulky and ugly, so many people (especially on the North side with a view of the Sound), have replaced them with
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by haroldp 12y ago
> I'll say that even then there was other housing and not everyone lived in the one building. When I was there last in `86, there were a few dwellings (maybe 8-12?) at the Sportsman's Inn and two old shacks right down by the ra
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by haroldp 12y ago
> Were there people moving in to replace the deceased? The population has varied considerably over the years. It looks like it's somewhat lower than when I lived there. In a lot of ways, Whittier is not a nice place to live, so pe
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All the time (if you like horizontal rain).
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Yes. Some rent, some own their condo, and all pay condo fees one way or another.
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by haroldp 12y ago
Today is a beautiful day in Whittier: http://whittierak.yukontel.com/ But most of the time it is snowing or raining. And it usually doesn't rain down. With the wind, it rains straight in your face.
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by haroldp 12y ago
It seemed to have about the same crime as anywhere. I could easily imagine a drug epidemic really getting out of hand there, though I never saw that happen. When I was there, some Alaskan religious group would rotate some "nondenomina
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by haroldp 12y ago
> 1. Why the town even exists? OK, history/geography lesson... The Kenai peninsula hangs down into the Gulf of Alaska and sort of separates those two areas. The landscape around there is very mountainous. However, Whittier has a l
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by haroldp 12y ago
It's a good port. Alaska depends on tons of stuff shipped in from other places. The Alcan is a pretty shitty drive for trucking stuff up. Alaska's biggest city is a very poor port, and second biggest city is inland, so freight
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by haroldp 12y ago
I grew up there! The weather is a lot different than Anchorage. Anchorage is colder. Whittier gets a TON more precipitation. The Army actually built Whittier during WWII because it was a good deepwater port (ironically, Anchorage has hug
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by haroldp 12y ago
W00h! I grew up in Whittier, AK. Ask me Anything! Haha, seriously, I moved to Whittier at the age of 2 in 1974 and lived there until 1986. The big change there since I left has been the tunnel. When I was there you had to drive your car
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by haroldp 12y ago
It seems like the one thing this doesn't/can't address is the IP shortage. Does help much if example.com is virtual hosted on the same IP address as 100 other sites?
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by haroldp 12y ago
That's the idea. It assumes you are using an OS with a package manager, and letting it manage your software and (to some extent) config files.
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http://synergy-project.org/
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I15SB16
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> Is it me, or is the benefit of that extremely small? It's not even a small benefit. It's a horrible interface. Streets and offices filled with people jabbering commands at machines would be just horrible. It's a gimmic

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