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A couple years ago my wife called me to kill a spider in one of the small gardens that are typical here in the homes. They leave a small area open to the sky for plants and ventilation. Mine have stone walls and are attractive to spiders. I thought nothing of it and since I was on the way to my...

I used to put the cb mid table 2 spots up from the short rail and shoot the ball straight at the opposite long rail and spin the ball into the near corner pocket to kill time waiting for the rack. If I use the same English with my cf shafts the cb hits the short rail in the center. Must be my...

Black Widow by the looks of that red hourglass.

I found a guy here with a small shop specializing in Macs. He replaced my hard drive and updated the old girl as far as possible and had it ready overnight as promised. Gotta love that. He was in his forties but his worker bees were much younger.

Try changing grip tension with the cue not in fore/aft motion. How far forward did the cue move? None at all, right? Just up.

I'll need a little more about this phenomena. Since fingers of a relaxed hand point down and tightening would lift up I don't understand how that would translate to increased forward motion.

From observing the cue ball, not by mystic vision.

I'm not a physics expert but I can hear the vibration in my cue at impact with a loose grip. With a slightly tighter grip the cue is quiet. I don't know the scientific principle but it seems like I get more spin with the same effort with a looser grip (but maybe it's those 60s flashbacks...)

Then why do so many instructors and pros advise to grip the cue loosely in order to increase draw, for example? https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/gripping-the-cue-to-tight-on-impact.470886/ It seems to me from my experience that the cue is free to impart max effect without the "deadening"...

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Bob, I completely respect your opinion but disagree. The lighter the grip the more spin the cue imparts to the cb. There is no need to tighten the grip at the end. Stay loose and if the cue slips a bit, it slips. You will find that it doesn't unless you are applying significant force (I use an...

We lived in Agnes on the Rogue river. The ride into Agnes was one lane gravel roads crudely carved out of the mountainside. I was 3 the first time we made that trip.I was in the backseat of our '51 Pontiac, there were no seatbelts. I quickly learned that the growl of a jake brake meant that we...

Dad drove log truck for several years in the 50s. He gave it up after the second time he was loaded, headed downhill, rounded a corner to find the road had slid into the canyon. Both times he had to exit the vehicle before it joined the road in the bottom of the canyon. He used to complain that...

And from the looks of it they are interested in climbing or at least climbing gear and Upper Peninsula Michigan.

Yes, I was born and raised in Oregon. My earliest memories are of my dad logging in the Rogue River canyon in the early fifties. Look up Valsetz, Oregon. One of many mill towns that simply don't exist anymore.

This is Longview Washington. The yard is much larger than can be seen in this picture. These are all logs grown on private timber land being shipped to Japan to be turned into the dimensional lumber they prefer:

I'm sorry but this is fantasy. The timber companies in the 80s found that they could dramatically increase profits by shipping trees to market whole, eliminating the need and cost of the majority of mills that used to dot the countryside and without the bottleneck at the mills they were able to...

I attended a symposium at a former nunnery one time. The Nuns provided an excellent lunch with vegetarian options along with a very good beef stroganoff. Most of us had the beef but one woman went straight for the salad and began to browbeat those of us eating meat. She tried to shame us for the...