texascavers Digest 1 Apr 2013 01:08:35 -0000 Issue 1730
Topics (messages 21525 through 21530):
Cave applications for the new coating
21525 by: David
21527 by: C Tiderman
Thrillers, evolution & caves
21526 by: Diana Tomchick
NSS Convention Scholarships for Graduate Students -- Free Registration
21528 by: NSS Announcements
WNS kills thousands in Pa cave
21529 by: Louise Power
arm-chair cavers guide to Windows 8
21530 by: David
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Commercial caves could use this product to coat signs and plaques in caves.
And around utility rooms in caves, such as doors, doorknobs, railing,
shelves,
Underground equipment such as elevators. kitchens, & tables.
And on the man-made walls of tunnels.
Maybe cavers could coat their helmets with it ? or the inside of their
pee-bottle. Or for expeditions, on their tarp.
Depending on the coating's flexibility, it might be good for coating
rain-flys and nylon panchos, inflatable beds.
Other uses,
Better shower-caps ? Coating tombstones, toilet seats ? Ceilings above a
shower stalll. Rain-gutters.
Depending on the products sunlight exposure resistance.
, it could be used for outdoor stuff like playgrounds, boats,
bleacher-seats, and thousands more.
David Locklear
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Inside port-a-johns at caver events.
Carol
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From: David <[email protected]>
To: CaveTex <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:07 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] Cave applications for the new coating
Commercial caves could use this product to coat signs and plaques in caves.
And around utility rooms in caves, such as doors, doorknobs, railing, shelves,
Underground equipment such as elevators. kitchens, & tables.
And on the man-made walls of tunnels.
Maybe cavers could coat their helmets with it ? or the inside of their
pee-bottle. Or for expeditions, on their tarp.
Depending on the coating's flexibility, it might be good for coating rain-flys
and nylon panchos, inflatable beds.
Other uses,
Better shower-caps ? Coating tombstones, toilet seats ? Ceilings above a
shower stalll. Rain-gutters.
Depending on the products sunlight exposure resistance.
, it could be used for outdoor stuff like playgrounds, boats, bleacher-seats,
and thousands more.
David Locklear
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>From the Powell's Book Blog, an essay on isolated species evolution that
>mentions caves:
http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/fragments-of-pandemonium-by-warren-fahy/
I've never read this author's books, so mea culpa.
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214B
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: [email protected]
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
________________________________
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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Free Registration to the 2013 Convention
Thanks to the generosity of a staff member of the 2013 NSS Convention,
three 'scholarships' are available for Graduate students. The
'scholarship' only covers the registration fee, which includes camping.
Grotto's can nominate a prospective young student for the
'scholarship'. A short writeup explaining why their member is
deserving of the 'scholarship' should be submitted by May 15. A panel
will review the submissions and notify the grotto if their member has
been selected.
Those selected will need to submit a completed registration form by June 1st.
We request the nominee be over 21, a Graduate student and that you
have verified they are available to attend.
Submit your nominations to [email protected]
[Feel free to share and distribute.]
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>From now.msn this morning:
http://now.msn.com/white-nose-kills-millions-of-bats-hibernating-in-pennsylvania
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Disclaimer: I knew almost nothing about Windows 8 until yesterday, and
still don't. This post is intended only for those who have already
played with the app
screen on a Windows 8 computer, but haven't yet bought one, but plan
to buy one in the near future.
Below is a link to a new caving video that was just uploaded to YouTube.
I stumbled onto this caving video using a Windows 8 app called PrimeTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmeRQahVUhw
What I am getting at here, is that if you are using a new Windows 8
computer, you can
click on a "free" video app such as PrimeTube, and search for caving
videos.
Prior to doing this, I was not familiar with the video app problem, and was
expecting there would
be an easy to find "free" YouTube app, and that it would be no big deal to
watch a video.
This past week, I built a Windows 8 computer and have been tinkering with
it this weekend,
trying to figure out what all the hoopla is about.
There are free apps that are easily downloaded from the "Windows Store"
that let you view
YouTube caving related videos in a touchscreen environment, or by clicking
on them on
the screen in the so-called, "Modern" environment. These apps are not
YouTube,
but they interface with YouTube in different ways.
My initial experience with Windows 8, is that Google products crash on an
hourly basis.
There are only 2 Google apps, and I like to use Google apps. Neither of
them work. One of them, the Google Chrome
browser is not on the Windows Store, but you can find it on the web. You
can still access Google products the old fashion way ( like in Windows 7 )
by clicking on a app
that takes you to a different environment, that closely mimics Windows 7.
But all of the web-sites ( not just
Google ) have major issues, like not being able to
cut and paste from the Modern environment, and crashing, so bad that you
have to turn the computer
off by unplugging it, or flipping the switch on the power-supply, if you
have a switch.
The biggest surprise to me by far, was that our 8 year old daughter loves
the free game apps
on Windows 8, and had zero problem trying to learn to play them, and soon
she had no desire
to ever go back to Windows 7. She now wants her own Windows 8 computer.
I can see now
by watching her use the new computer, that this is her generation's way of
computing, and there is no
turning back. Their mind-set is different from those of us who grew up
with a graphical-user-interface
environment, such as Windows 95, and entirely another world from the
generation that learned computers
by typing DOS commands.
One of the annoying features in Windows 8 is that you have to charge 50
cents to your credit
card to put someone under 18 on the computer as a user. This is some
kind of safety feature
related to their Family Safety software built in to the product. I am
sure there was a workaround,
but after 2 hours I got fed up, and just paid the 50 cents.
There is a feature called HomeGroup, that supposedly allows everyone in the
household to access
all the videos, photos, music, etc on the computer's drive. I found
this to be confusing, and it took
lots of head-scratching to just add the facial profile photos of my wife
and kid to the user screen.
Anyone installing this OS on their computer is very likely going to say,
"WTF," a dozen times in the
first hour or so. But the OS loads fine if you have everything like the
internet set up already, by
tethering to your cell-phone. But out of the box, the OS has almost
nothing included that is useful.
You are required to go to the Windows Store and sift through all the free
apps
to see if there are things you need. But they download in seconds. You
have to download for each user,
but that is a blessing in disguise, because I don't want my kids apps on my
screen, and she doesn't
want my commonly-used apps on her screen.
And you can't download anything from the Windows Store, without first
giving MicroSoft all your personal info,
and setting up an account. You will be typing this account log-in, so
often that it will drive you bonkers.
Unfortunately, I had to send this email, using the "desktop version" of
Gmail, and somehow I managed to
type the whole message without Windows 8 crashing.
Windows 8 is not going to simplify your computing life. But there is a
ray of hope for the product's
future, if the annoying parts become more user friendly. I guess they
will call that Windows 9.
David Locklear
Ref:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1v74XP-Xb8
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