Comments on: Schuylkill, Var and Thames http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:42:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Tom http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-7654 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:38:16 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-7654 Manual Trackback. This post is cited in Blogisattva, <a href="http://blogisattva.blogspot.com/2007/01/announcement-2nd-annual-blogisattva.html" rel="nofollow">Announcement: 2nd Annual Blogisattva Award Nominees</a>. Manual Trackback. This post is cited in Blogisattva, Announcement: 2nd Annual Blogisattva Award Nominees.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-989 Sun, 28 May 2006 10:13:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-989 Won't the tobacco stain the shark teeth? Won’t the tobacco stain the shark teeth?

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-988 Sun, 28 May 2006 06:31:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-988 That's a great story. I have a tobacco tin of shark's teeth from Sarasota somewhere. One day I'll find them and I don't mind not knowing where they are now. It's kind of good just knowing I kept them That’s a great story. I have a tobacco tin of shark’s teeth from Sarasota somewhere. One day I’ll find them and I don’t mind not knowing where they are now. It’s kind of good just knowing I kept them

]]> by: restaurant gal http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-987 Sun, 28 May 2006 06:06:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-987 I don't even know how I stumbled onto your blog, but this was such a nice post, I felt I had to share a similarly themed story. When I was four years old, I found a sand dollar on the beach in the Puget Sound area of the Pacific Northwest. I was amazed by the design on it, the idea of it being a creature (or former one) and decided to wrap it up and keep it forever. I rediscovered it many, many years later, still wrapped up and in one piece, in a section of a small jewelry box I'd had as a child. A friend now sends me sand dollars from all the beaches she visits. They rest in a pewter dish with my original find, for all to see. I don’t even know how I stumbled onto your blog, but this was such a nice post, I felt I had to share a similarly themed story.

When I was four years old, I found a sand dollar on the beach in the Puget Sound area of the Pacific Northwest. I was amazed by the design on it, the idea of it being a creature (or former one) and decided to wrap it up and keep it forever. I rediscovered it many, many years later, still wrapped up and in one piece, in a section of a small jewelry box I’d had as a child.

A friend now sends me sand dollars from all the beaches she visits. They rest in a pewter dish with my original find, for all to see.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-986 Fri, 26 May 2006 21:18:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-986 OK, I'll buy the Hudson Fjord. I know some ponds that have aspirations to being lakes, and lakes that have aspirations to being seas, and seas that have aspirations toward oceanhood. Do creeks and streams want to be rivers when they grow up, or are they really just trying to be a part of the Ocean? Ambition can be so ugly. OK, I’ll buy the Hudson Fjord.
I know some ponds that have aspirations to being lakes, and lakes that have aspirations to being seas, and seas that have aspirations toward oceanhood.
Do creeks and streams want to be rivers when they grow up, or are they really just trying to be a part of the Ocean?

Ambition can be so ugly.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-985 Fri, 26 May 2006 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-985 19th - you're right. I'm a fool. I take your point but the Hudson, technically, isn't a river. There are probably loads of mountains that aren't mountains and definitely seas that are just big lakes. 19th - you’re right. I’m a fool.

I take your point but the Hudson, technically, isn’t a river.

There are probably loads of mountains that aren’t mountains and definitely seas that are just big lakes.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-984 Fri, 26 May 2006 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/26/schuylkill-var-and-thames/#comment-984 You don't think the Hudson would be called a river up by West Point? I think oyu can get near it up there. Don't really want to get near it in the city! June 12? Not June 19? OR do I need to circle another date on the calendar? I really wish you'd labelled those rocks. I only have two rocks from my youth- a piece of Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado, and a lava rock from the beach where they filmed Magnum PI. Oddly enough, both are in teh same aquarium. Maroon Bells used to be my favorite place int eh world, when I was young. My family would go to Aspen every summer in the '60s, because we lived in Colordao and my father had a friend who lived there. We, the children, took my parents to Aspen to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and found it had changted quite a bit. Not the least change was that you couldn't get to Maroon Bells any more- except by BUS. That took a lot of the romance out of it for me. OR maybe put it elsewhere. You don’t think the Hudson would be called a river up by West Point? I think oyu can get near it up there. Don’t really want to get near it in the city!
June 12? Not June 19? OR do I need to circle another date on the calendar?

I really wish you’d labelled those rocks. I only have two rocks from my youth- a piece of Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado, and a lava rock from the beach where they filmed Magnum PI.
Oddly enough, both are in teh same aquarium.
Maroon Bells used to be my favorite place int eh world, when I was young. My family would go to Aspen every summer in the ’60s, because we lived in Colordao and my father had a friend who lived there. We, the children, took my parents to Aspen to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and found it had changted quite a bit. Not the least change was that you couldn’t get to Maroon Bells any more- except by BUS. That took a lot of the romance out of it for me. OR maybe put it elsewhere.

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