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Subject: helpful tip re: aa batteries
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Original Message 1/12 31-Dec-03 @ 06:36 PM - helpful tip re: aa batteries
are still full of ample juice to power my small flashlights>
even when they lack sufficient power to still drive my digital camera.
and since i require a flashlight to see my gas gauge in my truck at night.....their usefulness is no longer in question. i also use these smaller flashlights to see behind my gear at night when i need to repatch cables etc.
so don't throw those batteries away unless you really love giving more money than you need to>
to those nice power & energy companies.
i'd use a candle but my driver's-side window doesn't close all the way.
and lighting it and steering while the wind blows in....well..it's just too much hassle.
oh....my emoticons just walked through the door!!!
Message 2/12 01-Jan-04 @ 07:14 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
Message 3/12 01-Jan-04 @ 10:09 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
Message 4/12 01-Jan-04 @ 11:24 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
Message 5/12 02-Jan-04 @ 03:48 AM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
..well...i forget but it was much later than one would imagine.
i think it was like the 1600s and all light before then was derived from gas/oil torches...oil lamps....and fireplaces and bonfires.
and since wood and oil were such desperately expensive commodities....
90 percent of everybody knew ONLY darkness once it got dark. it wasn't like these movies of old which are well-lit hollywood robin hood scenes.
it was totally dark at night or very very dark if the moon was friendly.
of course you could gather round the village fire if you wanted to stand around the cold at night and risk being robbed on the way home.
anyway...candles......like midi-sequencers....cool things definitely.
Message 6/12 02-Jan-04 @ 10:31 AM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
Ape
Message 7/12 02-Jan-04 @ 04:15 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
it wasn't the candle that was invented til some much-later century>
....and if i can look it up again i will.
there was an intriguing article in national geographic which i read last year detailing it's arrival and it's subsequent effect on man's lifestyle and consciousness.
they were VERY much a luxury in a way that's difficult for us to imagine today.
a man with a candle....well....it's like wow.... what an old 2mb pc used to be back in the day.
a very big deal.
i'll see if i can't locate that piece...it was an intriguing read as the author did a good job describing what it was kind of like to experience a medieval night.
but out my ass....as always. good to see ya round pongoid.
Message 8/12 02-Jan-04 @ 04:54 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
which cannot research article by subject.
only by issue...der.
but i found this at smith college....candles; invention. not nearly as cool as the article i mentioned earlier.
apparently the first flammable wicked-devices came even before christ...and mentioned in the bible. but we wouldn't call them candles in the conventional sense.
the first wax-dipped devices appeared in the 1600's.
these were easy to store and transport....clean.
unlike some string with animal lard hanging all over it.
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Message 9/12 02-Jan-04 @ 06:01 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
of course, the advice was to take a flashlight, since the road on the hill was a dirt track with boulders popping out all over the place, and we all know what kinds of difficulties morons run into when they aren't faced with perfectly flat terrain.
i used to RUN down that hill, no moon. hiked miles through the desert hills, cactus, cliffs, no moon.
it just used to kill me to hear some horrible couple from new york or something 'now, dear,' (with incredible worst nasal tone) floundering about with their poison 'contrast-blindness' devices.
you want to go on about the woman with the dogs on the bike path.. no moon.. no light.. so smartass decides she's going to show me, and walks on the left side of the path towards me. i go around her.
she puts lights on all the dogs, and then she yells at me "i put lights on all the dogs"
i am not your fucking dog. go fuck yourself you poison bitch of hell. "i put lights on all the dogs" is that like some ultimate declaration of worth?
Message 10/12 02-Jan-04 @ 06:03 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
Message 11/12 02-Jan-04 @ 07:45 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
it seems, though, that enlightenment isn't prerequisite for attendance.
Message 12/12 02-Jan-04 @ 07:56 PM - RE: helpful tip re: aa batteries
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