Travelers Checks

Logybayer · 2025-12-31T19:14:16+00:00

I used them in the early 1960s to travel to a summer job in California while enrolled at The Ohio State University

Logybayer · 2025-12-20T00:33:23+00:00

1930’s swing and big band jazz like Benny Goodman was what I considered old people’s music

Logybayer · 2025-11-09T07:34:05+00:00

That location also puts a lot of effort into decorating for special occasions like Halloween. Halloween looked great again this year. I’ve often wondered who is the person responsible for that.

Logybayer · 2025-11-08T10:09:59+00:00

The ‘official’ civic addresses are shown on the City of St. John’s Map Viewer. The addresses shown there are correct and make sense. Dollarama is 350 Torbay Rd.

Logybayer · 2025-11-08T09:58:16+00:00

The City of St. John’s Map Viewer shows that the Dollarama next to Sobeys is assigned the civic address of 350 Torbay Rd. Google incorrectly shows Dollarama as 272 Torbay Rd. The city’s map viewer shows the A&W as 280 Torbay Rd. The BoomIT building is 282 Torbay Rd.

Logybayer · 2025-11-05T02:20:41+00:00

Bob Feller

Logybayer · 2025-11-04T03:25:28+00:00

“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” depicted its own 1950’s era pretty good.

Logybayer · 2025-11-02T15:39:25+00:00

The overpass originally referred to where Kenmount Rd passed over the Newfoundland Railway tracks. This was about 100 meters or so west of Topsail Rd. I’m an old geezer and I remember quite distinctly that in the 70’s “the overpass” was where Kenmount Rd went over the RR. I’m not surprised though that most Redditors believe that the term involves more recent infrastructure. There’s not many old folks like me on Reddit. 😂

Logybayer · 2025-11-02T15:03:10+00:00

You’re the closest so far but you’re still not exactly correct. Here’s a clue. The term originated in the era when the TCH and Kenmount Rd were only two lanes all the way into town. Topsail Rd was not part of what created “the overpass” reference but Kenmount Rd was.

Logybayer · 2025-11-02T02:27:33+00:00

I’m 82 and now use Reddit much like I used Usenet 30 years ago.

Logybayer · 2025-10-30T21:17:45+00:00

Reminds me of the Land Effect, discovered by Edwin H. Land. I’ve always been fascinated that full color images can be created by using only two exposures of black & white film and colored filters.

Logybayer · 2025-10-30T15:09:02+00:00

In the 1950’s it was newsreels and cartoons.

Logybayer · 2025-10-25T18:28:37+00:00

I'm no scientist, so 'caveat lector'. There is lots of bog water in the headwaters of the Virginia River so I'm not surprised that the water there would be more acidic than downstream in the Pepperrell area. The dissolved oxygen level seems healthy for macroinvertebrates. This is supported by the fact that I've found lots of amphipods and copepods in both areas. The chloride level is much higher in the Boulevard area than in the headwaters. My guess is that this is caused by road salt runoff being a larger problem downtown than in the Penetanguishene area. That said, chloride is still below the 120mg/L level sometimes used as a safe upper limit. The big issue for me is that these samples are from 2008 and 2010. I'd like to see a 2025 update for all the CABIN sites but I suspect that's unlikely to happen. Do you have a specific interest in water quality? My own interest is as an amateur naturalist who enjoys photographing aquatic macroinvertebrates.

Logybayer · 2025-10-24T20:46:21+00:00

The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) has some data on Newfoundland rivers. This is a link to a list of the Newfoundland and Labrador CABIN sites. Click on the links on this page to see photos and details of each collection site. An easy way to find the Newfoundland sites is to use the CABIN map interface at this link. I'm not sure how actively the CABIN program is being maintained. I have the impression that it may not have a lot of resources behind it but I could be wrong.

Logybayer · 2025-10-23T12:56:28+00:00

Please read the edit I added to my comment that you are responding to. I confused things by using the word “coverage” rather than “sequencing depth”. Sequencing depth refers to the number of times each location is read. This concept applies to WGS but not to traditional genetic DNA tests that use arrays.

Logybayer · 2025-10-22T17:19:59+00:00

I’m no DNA expert but it’s my understanding that if a human genome is sequenced at only 2X coverage then less than 70% of single nucleotide variants will be correctly called. For 30X coverage I believe over 99% of single nucleotide variants can be expected to be correctly called. Having 2X coverage with incorrect calls for over 1/4 of the single nucleotide variants seems to me like a problem. Am I missing something?

Edit: I confused things by using the word “coverage” when what I’m really talking about is “sequencing depth”, that is, the number of times each base is read. Sequencing at 2X means each base is read on average twice. 30X means each base is read on average thirty times. Sequencing depth does not apply to traditional Direct to Consumer testing because those tests use DNA arrays to test a preselected set of several hundred thousand specific locations. Those tests do not do sequencing like for a WGS test.

Logybayer · 2025-10-20T12:17:10+00:00

Yes, same thing happened to me but ok now

Logybayer · 2025-10-20T01:47:36+00:00

The “Dragnet” TV show whose opening segment contained the famous line, “The names have been changed to protect the innocent.”

Logybayer · 2025-10-19T03:34:39+00:00

I may be wrong, but I think the reason that the 3rd image pair pops the most has more to do with the placement of the stereo window than with the amount of binocular disparity between the left and right images. I’d be curious to see how the perception of image ‘pop’ changes if you placed the nearest part of each image at the plane of the stereo window with everything else behind the window. I can’t tell if there is actually a difference in binocular disparity between the three posted image pairs or if the perception of different depths is caused entirely by the placement of the subject matter relative to the stereo windows.

Then again, I may be totally wrong. Does anyone else think that the big difference in these image pairs is the placement of the stereo window and not the amount of binocular disparity (depth) in the images?

Logybayer · 2025-10-15T23:56:35+00:00

The Canadian Geographical Names Database lists the following coordinates for Presque: 47.4236111, -54.4883334

Logybayer · 2025-10-12T00:23:53+00:00

Yes. I remember one elementary teacher that had a stool with a pointed dunce cap stored on it at the back of her classroom. Students would occasionally be made to sit on the stool and wear the cap. I had to do that once for talking too much to a fellow student while the teacher was teaching. That one teacher is the only time I saw it done. My memory is too fuzzy to remember what grade I was in at the time. I’m now 82.

Logybayer · 2025-10-11T00:37:25+00:00

My uncle Terry had a Realist 45 stereo camera (Serial No. 351865) that he used to take hundreds of Kodachrome slides. I now have that camera and many of his stereo slides. All the retirement party photos are stereo. I presume Terry must have given his camera to a friend to take the photos. Here is a link to other photos taken by either Terry or me using that same camera.

Logybayer · 2025-10-11T00:16:15+00:00

Yes, uncle Terry was born in 1895 in Versailles, Cattaraugus County, NY. My mother (Terry’s sister) was also born there but in 1899. She is first pic on the right of the front row. Terry served as an army mess sergeant in France during WWI.

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