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syadasti

i heart mac
Apr 15, 2002
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jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
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CrabJoe StretchPants

Reincarnated Crab Walking Head Spinning Bruce Dick
Nov 30, 2003
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Groton, MA
I bought a guitar for $190 and 3 days later sold it for $1200 and a camper. I bought a Fender twin amp at Garage Sale in Quebec last year for $60 and sold for $2200. I sold a pizza oven that I got for free for $2000. Sold the Stairs from my old house in Boston for $1500 (actually I sold them years ago and I am just getting paid for it). Phugging raking it in..... Happy new years mohambies.....
what guitar?
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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Portland, OR
I just read a geology report on the California Drought. Man we could all be seriously effed here. The eastern Sierras usually have snow. They have none. No snow = no water for 30 million people. The collective weight of the water has a stabilizing effect on the local geology. I think you can see where I am going with this....
And yet people still ask why I moved to Portland. My home town is in the center of the San Joaquin valley with nothing but irrigation for massive amounts of farmland. With less than an inch of rain a year, it's not self sustainable and maybe that's a bad idea.
 

jdcamb

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And yet people still ask why I moved to Portland. My home town is in the center of the San Joaquin valley with nothing but irrigation for massive amounts of farmland. With less than an inch of rain a year, it's not self sustainable and maybe that's a bad idea.
Part of the problem is for several decade they weighted the land with billons of gallons of water. Now suddenly the land has been relieved of this weight. Aquifers dry up and collapse. Faults are compromised. The compressed land will surely rebound. As water can only seek its own level.

By 1906 Urbanization of the San Francisco Peninsula reached it's Pinnacle. The Wells and the Water Table were altered so severely that it effected the Geology along the San Andreas in the years prior to 1906. And then bang. So instead of talking about a disaster on a Metropolitan scale, we could be talking a regional event. Even small rebound event would be truly epic. It has happened before and will happen again. This process created the Sierras, The Cascades, and somewhat the Coastal Ranges up and down the west coast. It doesn't help that the area is a subduction zone and littered with Dormant Volcanoes...
 

jdcamb

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The kid we caught tagging the wall at my buddies house got 5 years supervised probation. His Mother and Father have to pay $15K in restitution. The Father stood up and asked the Judge why he had to pay for the mistakes of his Son. I guess he was unaware that he was responsible for his child until its 18th birthday....
 

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
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Scottish people love putting Scottish flag stickers on their car, is it a pride thing? I would feel like a complete dick driving around in another country with an Aussie flag on my car.