RidgeRaider said:

You must be related to me, cause all of my family except my immediate family booked it south!

Everyone on my dad's side went to Arizona, a lot on my mom's side went back to Mississippi, and I know a few cousins ended up in Florida I believe.

I'm like my dad. As much as the cold and snow sucks, there's too much to love about Wisconsin and Milwaukee in general for me to ever want to move. My dad was born and will die in the same city, and I plan on doing the same too. For a state with not too many reasons to like it, we just couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's a weird thing.

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Packers and the Badgers

What's not to love?!

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Bob Jewett said:

I think you could do that with a fairly simple attachment to a Dremel tool.

I don't have any problem trimming and smoothing with a sharp knife and sand paper. Here's a video:

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I was considering a dremel for convenience but then a dremel is quite expensive just for that purpose. if I was a handyman and doing a lot of work, I would have no problem purchasing one. having said that, let me look at the used market.

Jaden said:

Similar. but what I was envisioning would automatically adjust size to your shaft and you wouldn't have to rotate it, you would just push the handle down and it would auto adjust and rotate cutting the tip close to the diameter of the shaft.

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I think you could do that with a fairly simple attachment to a Dremel tool.

I don't have any problem trimming and smoothing with a sharp knife and sand paper. Here's a video:

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The first and last time I was in Chicago and Detroit was back in 1966 we rode the Empire Builder ( passenger train without sleeping cars but there was a dome car I spent a great deal of time in looking and wondering from ha ha )

That was an eye opening experience for a small kid from North Eastern Montana !

Cuebuddy said:

Thats going to be tough. I am assuming it will be an open break?

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Break as you want, then take cue ball in hand, according to the info above. I assume you have to declare your pocket before the break.

The original message was on the PoolActionTV FaceBook page. The whole announcement is above. There are several important rules details that are not mentioned. Hopefully, they will have a full rule set at the event.

muskyed said:

You could be right, but I've seen a lot of people go to carbon, then switch back to wood after awhile. So far by me, I haven't seen anyone that has switched to kielwood go back to whatever they were using before. Just something to think about.

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Yes, they switched back to wood but not kielwood.
One of the reasons to stay with wood is if you don't like to use a glove, with kielwood you need to use a glove (Yes I know there some out there who use kielwood and cf without a glove but they are the exceptional), Kielwood maybe smooth but not as slick as regular wood or CF and it catches my skin of the bridge hand. CF is the smoother and slickest but catches dirt and sweat fast and gets sticky and just wiping it down with a towel like standard wood doesn't work, got to get those alcohol wipes out and it's just a hustle during play that I just go for the glove.

I go back and forth between CF and LD wood when it matters like in a league or a tournament, and once in a while my kielwood or just standard maple when I just like to fool around.
Lately I'm using my old trusted 314-2 shafts more, I think that I just prefer to avoid the glove.

jtompilot said:

Thanks. I’ve got a trip to Charlottesville so I was just checking

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It's a really nice place. Quite a few good players there too when tournaments are going on.

couldnthinkof01 said:

Roanoke, va

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Thanks. I’ve got a trip to Charlottesville so I was just checking

Motorla Barcode set: Chapter 2

I must admit that, initially , I was satisfied to just acquire the barcode set, assuming it was a simple salute to the ingenuity of digital engineering. At the nudging of Benelli and K2, I sensibly buckled down to do a bit more research.

Studying the balls, it became obvious that the barcodes on each ball were different, and as per K2, I contacted the creator. He recalled that each code (re)represented the numeral on the ball, but also remembered some problems with the double digit balls, and was pretty sure that the cue ball probably said “cue”, but was not exactly sure what the final solutions were.

I tried scanning the balls and having them read through online services, (to no avail). Toying with downloading an application for help, there was a eureka moment when searching turned up the word “FONT. I quickly downloaded images of the alpha numeric barcode font, and a key or legend of the barcode structure. With these, it was just a matter of taking photos of each ball and code, then deciphering. Below you can see some of the results!

So, when racking up this set, there will be 16 unique digital “triggers”, or links, ready to roll around the table. Each barcode could be programed to set off a different function, or set of functions: Scan the cue ball, and it could cause an image of the cueball to be projected on a screen and turn on the pool table light, and there are still 15 more balls to go! If you are lucky, the last ball in the presentation will turn up the lights at an open bar,

Cheers!

There might even be another chapter to this tale. We shall see.

skogstokig said:

seen hennessee?

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This is not a true comparison.
Henny does not play at an average pace one day and then start the dancing chalk routine the next.
I'm not even sure it's on purpose, but what it is, is consistent.
Rialito made a conscious decision to stall in an attempt to take Oscar off his game.
He did none of that on day one. I'm a bit surprised Dunn let it go on like it did.

If you are going to sell the books, you'll probably have to take pictures that show all of what you have. Make every title and author legible.

Bob Jewett said:

Some people seem to have missed this last part. I think a 25 has a chance to be in the money.

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Thats going to be tough. I am assuming it will be an open break?

Taxi said:

Funny, you just mentioned one of my first sports heroes, Neil Johnston. Since Washington didn't then have an NBA team and my mom was from Philly, I attached myself to the Warriors in a year where they went something like 12 and 57. But IIRC Johnston still led the league in scoring.

One night a year or so later, the Warriors came to Washington for an exhibition game, and afterwards I nervously handed Neil Johnston a self-addressed postcard. A few days later, I got it returned to me with a note: "Good luck to you in sports, Andy. Neil Johnston." It was my first and most memorable sports autograph, in pool matched only by a BreatheRight nose bandage that I got for my wife from Buddy Hall right after he'd won the '98 U. S. Open. Some souvenirs are truly unforgettable.

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Nice post. I loved Neil...he was pure b-ball. We would take the elevated/subway to the games. We were safe then. Wilt was..still is my all time hero. The world and the sports world were different. And pool...from playing on tables in dusty burn to the local pool room for around $.50 an hour was the best of times. We stunk but had fun...still stink but having fun. My comment on 50years of pool...has been great before and after the 50 mark.