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Welcome Louigi Verona and RicWatts, you will find plenty of like minded people here and lots of lively discussion.
 
Greetings from Oaxaca,
I'm rowrbazzle, I'm seventy one years old, and my business, such as it is right now in the middle of the 'crisis economica' in Mexico, is making fancy kaleidoscopes (my website is exelsa.com if anyone wants to look). I have a beautiful Mexican wife(you can see her on the website) and two kids. My son is 21, going to college in Kansas and living with his grandmother, and my 19 year old daughter leaves for Paris next weekend for a year studying French. (She speaks perfect English with no accent even though she was born in Oaxaca and never lived in the USA.)
I've been lurking for several years, but finally joined because I was interested in the Noah's Ark threads; unfortunately they dried up before I could post any comments. I once spent a week in Riobamba, Ecuador, waiting for a tropical storm to blow over so I could get across the Andes. I had just spent a year living with three other engineers on a project down on the coast. One of the others was a fanatic Christian with whom I had had several discussions on the Ark myth, and who nearly drove me crazy with his nonsense. I had previously worked in boatyards, designed and built boats, and studied boat design, although not formally, so I had some idea of what I was talking about.
Anyway, Riobamaba is a nice little town, but not when it's raining six inches a day, so I had a lot of time to burn, and I spent it making various studies of "Ark design". One of the calculations I came up with was that it would have taken at least, as an extreme minimum, fifty million man hours to build; comes to something like 1700 years for Noah and family.
But those threads are gone, and I don't have much more to talk about. If someone ever starts a new discussion I'll join in.
 
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Welcome, rowrbazzle! If you find a thread that you find interesting and where you think you can contribute, feel free to post, even if it's been a while since it's been active. If you have something interesting to say, others may also find the thread worth resurrecting.

I find the Noah myth quite interesting, especially as Bible-literalists attempt to defend it using science. Very amusing. :D

Hope to see you around.
 
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Hello, my name is Howard and I am a post war boomer (64) in New Orleans. I recruit medical physicists for the past 30 years. Mostly application but of course based in theory. My degree is in Industrial Psychology. I feel I have a good balance of didactic and real world experience. I was an only child of a S Louisiana trapper, Higgins boat builder and devotee to straight physics. I wanderlusted with an aeronautical engineer who worked on the Apollo mission. He emulated Richard Halliburton and had taken a Java 250 from Hong Kong to Prague, across the Himalyas. Visited Pygme's in Borneo. :DWe did a sailboat expedition ( 50' steel ketch-Libertad) from NO to SanDiego. ( 9 months, 10,000 miles) almost every island in the Caribbean, Dutch ABC's and on to visit the most primitive culture in the Caribbean the Cuna in San Blas. I swam in the Panama Canal the year Carter gave up Anchon Hill. We went to Ecuador and made our way the 650 miles to the Galapagos. After an amazing 10 days we sailed back toward Central America and were pitchpoled in the Gulf of Papagayo. After a miraculous righting we couldn't go into shore because of revolution and the Sandanistas in El Salvador and Nicaragua. We limped into Puerto Angel, Oaxaca and slept in hammocks under palapas for a number of days happily on terra firma. We then went the rest of the way to SD. I returned to NO to work as tug boat captain in Oil and gas until '81. I am interested in a balance theory where a combination of research (didactic)and application (real life experience) complement each other in the "quest". Whether or not there is a difference between the truth we can know and the whole truth. I also am a positive energy person who, of course believes in evolution, but also have reasoned that other as yet unknown forces have been /are at work.
I am heavy into S = k log W and skepticism to provoke my wanderlust. There is more to me but that should suffice, I hope.
 
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Wowsers, that's quite an introduction. I hope we get to hear lots of chapters from what sounds like your very interesting story.

Welcome to the Forum, medphys.
 
rowrbazzle said:
Greetings from Oaxaca,
I'm rowrbazzle, I'm seventy one years old, and my business, such as it is right now in the middle of the 'crisis economica' in Mexico, is making fancy kaleidoscopes (my website is exelsa.com if anyone wants to look). I have a beautiful Mexican wife(you can see her on the website) and two kids. My son is 21, going to college in Kansas and living with his grandmother, and my 19 year old daughter leaves for Paris next weekend for a year studying French. (She speaks perfect English with no accent even though she was born in Oaxaca and never lived in the USA.)
I've been lurking for several years, but finally joined because I was interested in the Noah's Ark threads; unfortunately they dried up before I could post any comments. I once spent a week in Riobamba, Ecuador, waiting for a tropical storm to blow over so I could get across the Andes. I had just spent a year living with three other engineers on a project down on the coast. One of the others was a fanatic Christian with whom I had had several discussions on the Ark myth, and who nearly drove me crazy with his nonsense. I had previously worked in boatyards, designed and built boats, and studied boat design, although not formally, so I had some idea of what I was talking about.
Anyway, Riobamaba is a nice little town, but not when it's raining six inches a day, so I had a lot of time to burn, and I spent it making various studies of "Ark design". One of the calculations I came up with was that it would have taken at least, as an extreme minimum, fifty million man hours to build; comes to something like 1700 years for Noah and family.
But those threads are gone, and I don't have much more to talk about. If someone ever starts a new discussion I'll join in.
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Hey, no fair! I thought I'd be the first to recognize Barnstable Bear's favorite oath! I see another of the old farts beat me to it, though. GREAT member name.

I tried to get involved in local debunking of the Chinese Arkologists (read: Fundie Funnies/Phonies) in Hong Kong. They've actually opened a lying theme park, but it's not even open half the time. They take in local Baptist school groups on appointment and their presentations are all canned - there's no one to question. (I'd imagine you've heard of them - they're the crew that planted relics and actually showed up at a press conference with a chunk of wood claiming it was the real thing.) Another member from Hong Kong got interested in chasing them down but we couldn't make any headway, and she was involved in academia and I was winding down (read: forced out early) a career in logistics.

Complaint: Sorry, although my Spanish is sufficient to follow most of your web video, I can't keep my attention on the 'scopes. Your wife is too much of a distraction.

Welcome aboard - don't feel bad about bumping a zombie thread if you have something to add. We do it all the time. There are a couple of true believers on board who are always happy to ignore evidence and continue the discussion.
 
medphys114 said:
Hello, my name is Howard and I am a post war boomer (64) in New Orleans. I recruit medical physicists for the past 30 years. Mostly application but of course based in theory. My degree is in Industrial Psychology. I feel I have a good balance of didactic and real world experience. I was an only child of a S Louisiana trapper, Higgins boat builder and devotee to straight physics. I wanderlusted with an aeronautical engineer who worked on the Apollo mission. He emulated Richard Halliburton and had taken a Java 250 from Hong Kong to Prague, across the Himalyas. Visited Pygme's in Borneo. :DWe did a sailboat expedition ( 50' steel ketch-Libertad) from NO to SanDiego. ( 9 months, 10,000 miles) almost every island in the Caribbean, Dutch ABC's and on to visit the most primitive culture in the Caribbean the Cuna in San Blas. I swam in the Panama Canal the year Carter gave up Anchon Hill. We went to Ecuador and made our way the 650 miles to the Galapagos. After an amazing 10 days we sailed back toward Central America and were pitchpoled in the Gulf of Papagayo. After a miraculous righting we couldn't go into shore because of revolution and the Sandanistas in El Salvador and Nicaragua. We limped into Puerto Angel, Oaxaca and slept in hammocks under palapas for a number of days happily on terra firma. We then went the rest of the way to SD. I returned to NO to work as tug boat captain in Oil and gas until '81. I am interested in a balance theory where a combination of research (didactic)and application (real life experience) complement each other in the "quest". Whether or not there is a difference between the truth we can know and the whole truth. I also am a positive energy person who, of course believes in evolution, but also have reasoned that other as yet unknown forces have been /are at work.
I am heavy into S = k log W and skepticism to provoke my wanderlust. There is more to me but that should suffice, I hope.
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What is this AARP Week at the JREF? :p

I believe we may have a few culture points in common. I turned 63 two weeks ago and grew up in New Orleans.

Finish these lines:

At the beach, at the beach at ____________ ____________ .
You'll have fun, you'll have fun every day of the week.
You'll love the ___________ ________ laugh 'til you _______ _____ _______.
At ____________ ____________.

Or how 'bout,....

Jingle Jangle Jingle here comes _______ ____________.
(That's the only line I remember.)

I'm also a bit of a globetrotter but no where near as interesting as your travels. I did a few years with thumb and backpack covering the 48 contiguous and Canada, but most of my globetrotting has been in a comfy business seat of an airliner.

Do you know Rowrbazzle, above? Or just a coincidence that you alit in his territory at one point?

Welcome aboard, also. Put your feet up - it's an old coffee table and we won't mind. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home. Or wade right in wherever it suits you.
 
Foolmewunz said:
What is this AARP Week at the JREF? :p

I believe we may have a few culture points in common. I turned 63 two weeks ago and grew up in New Orleans.

Finish these lines:

At the beach, at the beach at __Pontchartrain Beach__________ ____________ .
You'll have fun, you'll have fun every day of the week.
You'll love the _Thrilling Rides_ ________ laugh 'til you _split you sides______ _____ _______.
At _____Pontchartrain Beach__. I was a lifeguard at the old beach. favorite ride was the flying skooters. Saw elvis there

Or how 'bout,....

Jingle Jangle Jingle here comes ____Mr Bingle_ ____________.
(That's the only line I remember.) Maison Blanche dept store

I'm also a bit of a globetrotter but no where near as interesting as your travels. I did a few years with thumb and backpack covering the 48 contiguous and Canada, but most of my globetrotting has been in a comfy business seat of an airliner.

Do you know Rowrbazzle, above? Or just a coincidence that you alit in his territory at one point?

Welcome aboard, also. Put your feet up - it's an old coffee table and we won't mind. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home. Or wade right in wherever it suits you.
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Actually grew up in Old Arabi. I noticed Rowrbazzle's intro when I arrived, coincidence, unless he served me huevos rancheros in Puerto Angel, by some chance. Thanks for saying hi and whodat?
 
Akhenaten said:
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Wowsers, that's quite an introduction. I hope we get to hear lots of chapters from what sounds like your very interesting story.

Welcome to the Forum, medphys.[qimg]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/209954b06e8b167056.gif[/qimg]
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Thanks, actually I met an Aussie sailing with an american girl in the san blas as we visited the cuna. He had been in GB for a year since his sailboat was hit by a tanker in the English Channel, and he had it refit and had just traversed the Atlantic. Im not surprised since he was always on auto pilot and down below shagging his mate. His dad was ill and he was heading back to Australia...sailing back! he a German and I went pout drinking in the canal zone. i had no money but he offered to lend me some bucks that i could pay back on the pacific side. he went backroom in the bodega and told me to go back to the yacht club and he'd be alright. next early am I'm up to pee and looking through the portlight, I see him slumped over the 24 hr YC bar. as im watching the guardia nationale came in and took him away, seems he burnt down the bodega. Luckily my boat';s number was up and we headed through the canal. I caught the ferro carillo back to Colon but couldn't get him out. Oh, he was from Adelaide
 
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Foolmewunz said:
What is this AARP Week at the JREF? :p

I believe we may have a few culture points in common. I turned 63 two weeks ago and grew up in New Orleans.

Finish these lines:

At the beach, at the beach at Ponchatrain Beach.
You'll have fun, you'll have fun every day of the week.
You'll love the thrilling rides laugh 'til yousplit your sides.
At Ponchatrain Beach.

Or how 'bout,....

Jingle Jangle Jingle here comes _______ ____________.
(That's the only line I remember.)

I'm also a bit of a globetrotter but no where near as interesting as your travels. I did a few years with thumb and backpack covering the 48 contiguous and Canada, but most of my globetrotting has been in a comfy business seat of an airliner.

Do you know Rowrbazzle, above? Or just a coincidence that you alit in his territory at one point?

Welcome aboard, also. Put your feet up - it's an old coffee table and we won't mind. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home. Or wade right in wherever it suits you.
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I do not know Rowrbazzle. Yet. Impressed that you knew Barnstable's name...

Ponchatrain Beach was just across the Bayou (by Texas standards) from where I went to Seminary. In 1983 we also lost another local park, Legend City in Tempe.

(BTW no clue on the "Jingle" jingle...I'd guess it rhymes /c "Kringle", but I do not know its source...)

"AARP week". *snerk*
 
Jingle Jangle Jingle, here comes Mr. Bingle...

It was purportedly a puppet show of 15 minutes on the afternoon "kids hours" (after 3 when grammar school let out) during the Christmas season and the episodes did usually have some sort of plot, but essentially they were pretty close to infomercials. Mr. Bingle, a snowman, was the mascot for Maison Blanche department store during the Christmas season and purportedly Santa's helper. Even as a kid I noticed that he only helped Santa at Maison Blanche and not at D.H. Holmes, the competing department store.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Jingle Jangle Jingle, here comes Mr. Bingle...

It was purportedly a puppet show of 15 minutes on the afternoon "kids hours" (after 3 when grammar school let out) during the Christmas season and the episodes did usually have some sort of plot, but essentially they were pretty close to infomercials. Mr. Bingle, a snowman, was the mascot for Maison Blanche department store during the Christmas season and purportedly Santa's helper. Even as a kid I noticed that he only helped Santa at Maison Blanche and not at D.H. Holmes, the competing department store.
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where'd you go to HS? I went in the 9th ward to an all boys catholic school who's motto is crux spes unica.
 
Slowvehicle said:
I do not know Rowrbazzle. Yet. Impressed that you knew Barnstable's name...

Ponchatrain Beach was just across the Bayou (by Texas standards) from where I went to Seminary. In 1983 we also lost another local park, Legend City in Tempe.

(BTW no clue on the "Jingle" jingle...I'd guess it rhymes /c "Kringle", but I do not know its source...)

"AARP week". *snerk*
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In addition to Mr. Bingle, there is "Jingle, jangle, jingle dah dah dah dah Old Kris Kringle" AND "I've got spurs that jingle, jamgle jingle.." (Ritter wrote it and it was used in a forest service movie (about, not by)).
 
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where'd you go to HS? I went in the 9th ward to an all boys catholic school who's motto is crux spes unica.
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I never done gone to high school (Ahem, in New Orleans). I did grammar school at R.M. Lusher, maybe the best in the city if not the whole of the South. The school was five blocks from Newcomb - the Tulane run/owned teacher's college, so they got the cream of the crop. I did a year of JHS at Colton. That's about as far up St. Claude as I ever hung out (we like to call it Ramparts in our area).

Grew up for the most part in the Quarter, but mom had us on the NOPSI buses (3 transfers) to get down to the University area to get to school. We wouldn't go near Arabi. It was off limits to bad guys of the swarthier complexion (my dad's family were Sicilians and Sicilian-American). None of the uncles wanted to mess with the good old boy infrastructure in St. Bernard.

I think about half the city was in Catholic schools when I was there. Totally subsidized by the church structure if I remember correctly, and tiny tiny tuition (which would be waived if Father Dominic simply said the word). Light brown khaki uniforms?
 
Just wanted to stop by and say Hi from the wonderful Commonwealth of Kentucky, not exactly a skeptic wonderland, but those of here are doing our best.

I've learned quite a bit in the couple months I've been lurking here and am looking forward to be able to learn even more now that I can join in the discussions.
 
Foolmewunz said:
I never done gone to high school (Ahem, in New Orleans). I did grammar school at R.M. Lusher, maybe the best in the city if not the whole of the South. The school was five blocks from Newcomb - the Tulane run/owned teacher's college, so they got the cream of the crop. I did a year of JHS at Colton. That's about as far up St. Claude as I ever hung out (we like to call it Ramparts in our area).

Grew up for the most part in the Quarter, but mom had us on the NOPSI buses (3 transfers) to get down to the University area to get to school. We wouldn't go near Arabi. It was off limits to bad guys of the swarthier complexion (my dad's family were Sicilians and Sicilian-American). None of the uncles wanted to mess with the good old boy infrastructure in St. Bernard.

I think about half the city was in Catholic schools when I was there. Totally subsidized by the church structure if I remember correctly, and tiny tiny tuition (which would be waived if Father Dominic simply said the word). Light brown khaki uniforms?
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and now Rocky and Carlo's is the big thing in da parish. I was friends with Cosmo Matassa's (bar and recording studio) in the 1/4 and worked with Little Vincent Marcella, as a door man at the Old Absinthe Bar. true about the tuition for elementary but the gender separated HS was around 3k then, close to 7k now. Uptown's good. Drew Brees lives close to Lusher.
 
cwart12 said:
Just wanted to stop by and say Hi from the wonderful Commonwealth of Kentucky, not exactly a skeptic wonderland, but those of here are doing our best.

I've learned quite a bit in the couple months I've been lurking here and am looking forward to be able to learn even more now that I can join in the discussions.
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Skeptics need to know: Cardinals or Wildcats? And don't go saying you don't follow college hoops. One is not allowed to live in Kentucky and not follow college roundball. (We have an annual NCAA hoops thread in sports which I usually start because I'm a hoops junkie, not an enviable condition when you're in Thailand with no network coverage and having to watch major games from 8 a.m. to noon, but we all have our cross to bear.)

Settle in, check out some of the Forum Community threads to get to know who some of your fellow reprobates are,.... and as always, Welcome Aboard.
 
medphys114 said:
and now Rocky and Carlo's is the big thing in da parish. I was friends with Cosmo Matassa's (bar and recording studio) in the 1/4 and worked with Little Vincent Marcella, as a door man at the Old Absinthe Bar. true about the tuition for elementary but the gender separated HS was around 3k then, close to 7k now. Uptown's good. Drew Brees lives close to Lusher.
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Is that Vincent Marcello with an "o"? I inadvertently named my son Marcello. I didn't remember "Uncle Carlo" (his name was Carlos, but all the family called him Carlo), who was not really my uncle as far as I know. He's some sort of relative, but my family name isn't the same - yet might be recognizable to family er, uh, "associates" from the area. Most of my direct family spread out from the green grocer business in New Orleans. (Not unlike "Uncle" Carlo. For a genuine laugh, check out the Warren Commission on Carlos Marcello. Some investigator for the commission who'd clearly been gotten to, said that Carlos Marcello was not even a part of organized crime but was in the business of importing tomatoes - if that sounds remarkably similar to that fictional olive oil importer, it's likely not a coincidence at all from what I've heard. Puzo based a lot of Don Corleone on parts of real people from Luciano to Giancana to Marcello.)

I suppose this is enough of a derail. This is Teh Welcome Thread, not Memory Lane.
 
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