Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Inch Cemetery

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- Note: One of my rules of thumb is that you never find just one of these "Tree Shaped Tombstones in a cemetery.  There are always at l...
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Monday, November 27, 2017

Tree Shaped Tombstones - Pacific

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- Note: One of my rules of thumb is that you never find just one of these "Tree Shaped Tombstones in a cemetery.  There are always at l...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Cooking the Turkey. So that was 1000 degrees for 15 minutes, right?

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In my post several years ago describing the pyrotechnic demise of Big Tom , the world's largest turkey I neglected to mention that when ...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Forgotten Brewery Caves - Under The Oaks

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Sometimes when researching a story you come across what looks like a dead end....but something just does not feel right.  Perhaps when the t...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Schells brings back Cave Lagering

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Last week I mentioned that the Potosi Brewery was putting out a "Cave Ale" as more or less a homage to the old ways of brewing.  ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Tree Shaped Tombstones - Some Fine Details

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On a fall road trip I found a number of tree shaped tombstones on a day when the conditions for photos were rather good.  It had been rainin...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Small Broken Robot Parts

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Machines Behaving Badly, 2017. Aftermath of a particularly frisky match.  The big metal bar is actually a scythe blade, one of the drop do...
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Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.
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