Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Ohmmmm Ohmmmm Ohmmmm
I have been meditating all day on Ed's article about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/09/build/state/32-where-is-emt.inc" target="_new">where Eastern (note the capital) Montana</a> lies. The Gazette has a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/elements/EASTWEST.pdf" target="_new">map</a> (I hate web pages that are PDF) that shows where different people think Eastern Montana divides from the rest of the state. <br />n<br />nI don't know that you…
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Truth
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/09/build/state/30-elbo-room_x.inc: target="_new">So True</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Thomas Power, chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Montana, doesn't see a massive movement of permanent residents to these remote areas of the Great Plains, no matter how many people want to escape the trials of city living. <br />n<br />n<br />n"We're talking about frontier levels of…
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McDonald’s versus Submarines
I come across this while searching how to resize a reiserfs partition. I thought I was going to die laughing. Most of this humor will only be understood by another submariner but they are very good. Enjoy.<br />n<br />n<br />n<br />n<b>The Top 100 Reasons McDonald's is better than Submarines</b><br />n<br />n<br />n 1) No McORSE<br…
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C Revolution
I mentioned before <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/899-Business-Blogging.html" target="_new">Blogs were going towards business</a> and found one that I thought was a blog of this kind but didn't mention it until I knew what the deal was. I finally figured it out, it isn't really related to a buisness but it is sponsered by the Maryland Lottery and whether…
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Firefox Alert
It's amazing how the more people use a product the more vulnerabilities are discovered. <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" target="_new">Firefox</a>, one of my browswers, has a new <a href="http://secunia.com/advisories/15292/" target="_new">security alert</a> that is rated extremely critical. The site recommends turning off javascript which can be done in the preferences. On the <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=262461&sid=9bb5062c8f9763a7db9bf05fdaab54d9" target="_new">firefox forums</a> they say to…
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Submarine Crash
I have been waiting to see what the situation was and now the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=738316&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312" target="_new">report is out</a>. The Submarine crash that took a life, injured others, and took a Submarine out of commission was an <b>avoidable</b> accident that never should have happened. What a tragedy.<br />n<br />n<b>Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us…
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Premium Beef
Now I find <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR2005050601345.html" target="_new">this idea</a> out of South Dakota interesting. Make a premium beef product, from calf to slaughter, and market it via the state name. I don't particularly like the Government doing such a thing, a co-op might be a better idea, but the basic plan is interesting.<br />n<br />nMontana would have…
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Just a Wee Shower
We got this <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/08/build/state/55-underpass-flood.inc" target="_new">same storm</a> here, what I would call a turd roller, and we really ran a lot of water. We are so high on the watersheds that we didn't have much flooding problems but the people down country might. We needed another shot of moisture but it could have come a…
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Selling Calves
Talked to a cattle buyer who contacted me about selling my calves. It is early for me to sell calves so I didn't act real interested and was loathe to set a price. He offered me $1.25/lb. for our calves. <br />n<br />nI laughed in his face, I told him I wouldn't take a penny…
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Unsettling Times
I see this morning a new multimedia item on the Gazette sidebar called <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/modules/flash/20050408eastmt/20050408eastmt.html" target="_new">Unsettling Times</a>. It's about a new series the paper is putting together about Eastern Montana and the ever shrinking population. The pictures alone in the intro are wonderful and the first part of the series is supposed to be out…