What is going on???????? [Archive]

Jaythro

06-26-2007, 05:46 PM

Almost 95% of the visitors on the site were Yahoo Crawl programs.

Perhaps you could explain abit more for us "Ole Spanner Jockeys!" If I understand correctly these doo dahs are designed to pick up spurious e mails posted throught the forums but can only recognise them in the following format joe.bloggs@hotmail.com ? So if you are including an e mail address change the @ to an AT with a space before and after e.g. joe.bloggs AT hotmail.com

Deans BMW

06-26-2007, 05:59 PM

AB, so what does that mean, remember, I am dumber than a box of rocks........puter wise, that is.

Promethean

06-26-2007, 10:19 PM

Oh Dean....you're too modest.

Search services like Google or Yahoo use programs called "Spiders/Crawlers" to catalog all pages on a site. In the simplest sense, the spiders associate keywords with individual webpages. When a user decides to search for a word combination like "Cafe" & "heliotrope", Yahoo/Google find the link(s) associated with those words and present you with the list of links that contain those keywords. That's how a search engine works for the most part.

In our unique situation, all it means is that Yahoo is more aggressive in cataloging our site than most search engine services. Nothing to worry about.

AB, so what does that mean, remember, I am dumber than a box of rocks........puter wise, that is.

Deans BMW

06-27-2007, 09:06 AM

AHHH, Grasshopper...........I now understand.

Thanks

Rchop

06-29-2007, 11:46 PM

Oh Dean....you're too modest.

Search services like Google or Yahoo use programs called "Spiders/Crawlers" to catalog all pages on a site. In the simplest sense, the spiders associate keywords with individual webpages. When a user decides to search for a word combination like "Cafe" & "heliotrope", Yahoo/Google find the link(s) associated with those words and present you with the list of links that contain those keywords. That's how a search engine works for the most part.

In our unique situation, all it means is that Yahoo is more aggressive in cataloging our site than most search engine services. Nothing to worry about.

You know that you can't say "Heliotrope" around me without getting this:

marko

06-30-2007, 02:15 AM

Spambots!!! I have visions of the little spiders that look
for Tom Cruise in the bath in "Minority Report".
Those things were just as unstoppable!

Promethean

06-30-2007, 01:04 PM

Actually, I meant this

You know that you can't say "Heliotrope" around me without getting this:

Rchop

06-30-2007, 08:27 PM

Actually, I meant this

Except for the white legs...I like yours better LMAO

BobFV1

06-30-2007, 08:50 PM

You guys are jealous of my Giant Artichoke, aren't you!

Rchop

06-30-2007, 10:00 PM

You guys are jealous of my Giant Artichoke, aren't you!

I dunno Bob, get you in a "Heliotrope thong" and take you to the beach....hmmm, I think it looks just like you :pot:

fganger

06-30-2007, 10:53 PM

"Heliotrope" reminds me of a place "Far, far away" in another time and another place. From the old "Doug Boy" site, and Pat, a rider who I miss. I do wish he was on this site.:pftroest:

PAT, PAT where are you?

Stinkin' Frank

DarthRider

06-30-2007, 11:02 PM

Frank -
Have you heard from Pat after we "threw the tea in the harbor" over there ?

fganger

07-01-2007, 07:33 AM

Dave Lad,

It’s a bit strange how things work out: Allan and Pat get into a tiff, The Doug Boy jumps in to take Allan to task, a couple of members try to interceded and the rest is history – voila the Café.

I liked to read the stuff from both Allan and Pat and considered both of them friends in the Internet World – meaning I’ve never met either in person. Now Allan has gone “somewhere” and “Sir Pat” is contributing to a number of boards. Being that I have no stinking time to surf other boards, Bonnie and I are working to get our 35 year-old trawler into the “safe and reliable” category; I don’t run into either of them. I did lend Pat my Valentine radar detector for a while, but that was all. Kind of sad when I think of it: when ones friends/family, etc. fight, one takes the chance on losing both of them by trying to stay neutral. :icon_cry:

Oh well, I’m off to re-wire our navigation lights this morning; I’m told the Coast Guard is quite picky about that sort of stuff. :icon_redface:

Stinkin’ Frank

Promethean

07-01-2007, 09:52 AM

Frankie,
It's great to see you posting again. That boat must be taking up all of your time. How are things?

fganger

07-01-2007, 04:40 PM

Abhijeet my most excellent friend,

"That boat must be taking up all of your time. How are things?" You have no idea just how accurate you are. I gave the agency I was working for a month notice and my last day was a week ago last Friday. It was impossible to work in both places - the boat is the most important to me right now. It is so stinkin' hot and humid that we are only able to work about 5 hours a day on the boat. Now just to make it a bit worse, our town has an ordinance against having a boat, motor home, camper, etc., in ones driveway for over 72 hours.

So . . . we have to move the stinking thing every three days to the storage lot, wait a day, and then tow it back; what a pain. In any case I hope we are close to the end and will have it back in the water in a couple of weeks. I do want to make sure the boat is done correctly; this is hurricane season you know.:104:

Oh well, on with the battle,
Stinkin' Frank

socalrob

07-01-2007, 08:03 PM

Frank,

Post some pixs of your boat if you can. Sounds like a great project. 35ft is getting into the pretty good size. You going to be making trips out to the islands?

fganger

07-02-2007, 08:38 AM

Rob,

I'm sorry if I gave the wrong info: the boat is 35 years old, however it is 25' long and 8 1/2' wide. And I would love to post some pictures. Perhaps before and after.

Frank

jb44

07-13-2007, 09:41 AM

Frank -
Have you heard from Pat after we "threw the tea in the harbor" over there ?
Pat is posting again at that other place under the name of WhoZat.

jb

jb44

07-13-2007, 09:52 AM

Rob,

I'm sorry if I gave the wrong info: the boat is 35 years old, however it is 25' long and 8 1/2' wide. And I would love to post some pictures. Perhaps before and after.Frank
Don't be shy, Frank... you know that's my boat... :)

http://fganger.smugmug.com/gallery/1780975#88557153

jb

geechie

07-13-2007, 12:01 PM

Here's what Frank's boat looked like when he and Bonnie so graciously took me in last Fall.

Looking at it bow on...

Well, maybe that one wasn't Frank's after all. But this one is.

That's Captain Sinkin' Frank, to you, scuttlebutt.

Frank, you be careful in this heat. It ain't just stinkin' hot, it's reekin' hot!

Take care.

George

DarthRider

07-13-2007, 02:34 PM

What's the name of that little beauty..."Pit Tootsie" ?

fganger

07-15-2007, 10:20 PM

"What's the name of that little beauty..."Pit Tootsie?"

Dave - I did want to name it "The Bonnie Ann," the Pit Tootsie's real name. She would have nothing to do with it. I guess we are going to keep the "Lady Bug" for a while at least.

BTW - you notice they make us stay at the very end of the marina - you don't suppose they are trying to tell us something, do you?

The cats still ask about their "Uncle George."

JB - just in case the boat ever gets done, you and the misses need to go for a boat ride with us.

It appears the boat will be taking a back seat for a while. I just had a back "procedure” and in a week I'm having some surgery on my shoulder. All of this is going to slow me down for a while. My goal is to have the boat in the water as soon as I can without doing more harm to my stinkin’ body.

Oh well, tomorrow my wife and my youngest are going off for a week in the motorhome. This will be the last trip for a while.

Stinkin' Frank

DarthRider

07-15-2007, 10:33 PM

Damn, Stinkin...I didn't know you'd been ailing !?
I've restored some old motorcycles but I didn't know old farts could be restored too !
There is now hope for us all and I wish you the best, my friend.

fganger

07-16-2007, 12:05 AM

Dave,

You know how the “Old Folks” tell youngsters not to do something or to do something to prevent having problems when they were older? In any case, I was told/warned that the stuff I did would later come back to haunt me. I, of course, knew better than they did.

So . . . after two broken backs, getting run down by cars and trucks, getting shot four times, six knee operations (one of them done in the old Soviet Union – gasp!), etc. . . . well you get the idea. Once I figured up the total time I spent in the hospital – over nine months. In any case, 49 operations or “medical procedures” which required a general anesthetic to repair the damage, and bunches of stuff which were done just with a local, here I am - living proof that all that crap our grandparents told us was . . . well . . . sort of true.:icon_redface:

The Pit Tootsie tells me that I’m just a “slow learner.” She goes on to say that most people, for example, learn after one broken back or even just getting shot once – perhaps twice; but not me. Hmmm . . . perhaps she is right.

In any case, I do not intend to allow any of this crap slow down my riding very much. As a matter-of-fact, my brother recalls when I just got out of the hospital with a full cast on my left leg; I had bought a brand new Gold Wing (first one in town) and had it delivered to my house. I tried to ride it but the cast was getting in the way. So I did what any self-respecting biker would do – I cut off the cast and took off to visit some friends 1200 miles away. Hmmm . . . you don’t suppose that is why my left side hurts more than my right does you? Nah! Just a coincidence I’m sure.:028:

The latest repair (shoulder and back) is to prepare me to have my knees replaced. I know that must sound strange but one needs to be on a walker and crutches for a while after knee joint replacement. One cannot use a walker or crutches with a bad back or bad shoulders.:ymca:

So for me this is double trouble; I can’t ride and I can’t work/use my boat. I think I’ll find something to “keep me out of trouble.” Of course, if I don’t you can bet Bonnie Ann will.

Lastly, thank you for your kind comments and well wishes.:pftroest:

Stinkin’ Frank

DarthRider

07-16-2007, 08:50 AM

Damn, Stinkin'...what a record !
So...what happened getting shot 4 times ? Or would you have to shoot me if you told me ?
Riding with a cut-off cast reminds me of one of my escapades...I broke my wrist in 7 places in a skydiving meet. Had a shoulder to hand plaster cast. Our skydiving club was going to make a demonstration "water-jump" into an area lake for a small-town celebration.
I wanted to participate BAD, and I needed a water-jump for a certification.
I talked the Club Safety Officer into letting me make the jump. We trimmed the cast slightly, covered it in plastic & tape, leaving my "peace-sign" fingers sticking out so I could use the parachute steering control on the left side.
The cast was in an L-shape, perfect for what we used to call the "French Frog" position (Roger will laugh!) favored by experienced free-fall guys, so free-fall position & control would work OK.
The jump went fine, as planned. But the plastic leaked when I went under water briefly...I had a "Mae West" type flotation device.
I ended up losing more of the cast and got my ass ate out good when I later went to the crusty old family doc to have it removed.
The small West Texas town girls were sure impressed by us in our red jumpsuits...the small West Texas town boys mostly just wanted to whip our asses, and sometimes did ! Sometimes it went the other way.
Wish we could go back and re-live some of those "good old days" !

jamming

07-16-2007, 09:32 AM

[quote=DarthRider;43160]Damn, Stinkin'...what a record !
So...what happened getting shot 4 times ? Or would you have to shoot me if you told me ?

I wanted to participate BAD, and I needed a water-jump for a certification.
The cast was in an L-shape, perfect for what we used to call the "French Frog" position (Roger will laugh!) favored by experienced free-fall guys, so free-fall position & control would work OK.
quote]

Yea Frank, what Dave said!!! Jeez man, I thought I had been hard on my body, but I bow at the feet of the master :bowdown:
Take care of yourself.

Dave, yea I laughed. Had to earn that "D" license huh? I got plenty of water jumps in the military, but here's a funny thing, well, not funny haha, but funny ya know. I had the WORST luck with " Mae West" floatation devices. I NEVER had one work until on my 7th, yea 7th water jump as a civilian. It was the ONE thing at my DZ I was most famous for. Fortunately due to my military training I could hit the water, get out of the harness, and not drown.

Wild Will

07-16-2007, 12:12 PM

Hey Stinkin' Frank...I'm going to go out to the sweat lodge tonight and make whoopie to the Great Spirit on your behalf. This time don't think about cutting off your own cast.

That reminds me about the time I rode my mo'sicle to the doc who gave me my vasectomy. It was in Sonoma, about a hundred miles away. No big deal, I can take lots of pain. He said don't try it, but he looked sort of milk toasty and I figured he avoided crowded planes, etc.

So, it all went quickly, and I was back in the saddle again and rode home, only the previously viable, omnipotent family jewels were the size of a soft ball, and felt like they'd been punted out of the ball park, if you will. The Aerostich was a bulgin' painfully.

Wish I'd had a damned cast to cut off that time.

I could go on, but what's the point...I wanted to tell you how important you are to all of us here, and you just get through this thing and heal well. I plan on coming east with Miss Vicki someday to see your boat, and torment you and Pit Tootsie just a little bit. I really hope we see you in October, but that's all up in the air now, as they say.

Please keep us informed and drop us a line or two frequently reporting on your progress, and entertaining us with your incomparable tales of derring do. I'm still awaiting some about the time you kissed Marilyn Monroe at your Uncle's NYC restaurant. What was it called...The Stork Club???

Deans BMW

07-16-2007, 05:48 PM

Damn Frank, Holy Cow, be care ful, take care and heal well. I plan to see you in October at Daytona.

I think that without question that there are several members of the Cafe that can and should write their story, Stinkin, you are definitely at the top of that list. We are waiting.

DarthRider

07-16-2007, 06:24 PM

I think that without question that there are several members of the Cafe that can and should write their story, Stinkin, you are definitely at the top of that list. We are waiting.

Geeze, Dean-O...then he would have to kill us all !

jb44

07-16-2007, 08:30 PM

So for me this is double trouble; I can’t ride and I can’t work/use my boat.Stinkin’ Frank
Frank,

Best wishes on your multiple recoveries.

If your have a few small jobs that need to be done on the Albin, I'd be willing to donate a few days time.

I'm back and forth between FL and NC once or twice a month, and am over your way regularly to visit friends in Ormond Beach.

I'm more of a laborer than an expert. This is my current project (1990 BW)
Email me if I can be of help.

jb

DarthRider

07-16-2007, 08:37 PM

Go back and look at how this thread has evolved...is this a great place or not ?

jamming

07-16-2007, 08:41 PM

Go back and look at how this thread has evolved...is this a great place or not ?

I was thinking the SAME thing Brother Dave, kinda like a party, or coffee house. The subject matter of the conversation ebbs and flows with the people who come and go.

How the hell did we get to boats and skydiving??? I don't know a thing about boats.

Gord

07-16-2007, 09:28 PM

Who would have thought that a thread that started out as a technocratic chronicle of geekisms (sorry Abhijeet! Don't take it personally!) would end up telling us more about Stinkin' Frank than we have ever known up until now! But then again, maybe SF will be a living monument to technocratic geekdom! I think by the time they rebuild you Frank, you will have more sophisticated hardware in you than the 6 Million Dollar Man!

Take care of yourself Stinkin'! You're a keeper and we needs you 'round here for a long time to come!
:058:

fganger

07-21-2007, 09:30 AM

Wow! What can I say; I’m overwhelmed. I certainly did not expect all of this – I’m truly touched.:icon_redface:

Dave – I wish my four gunshots were from some noble deed I performed while helping to save the Empire, but it wasn’t. My brother and I gold mined in Alaska for a number of years. To make a long story shorter, ten guys hit our camp when I was the only one at the cabin. It was a hot a furious time until my brother heard the shooting and got in behind them. Three got away – with a couple of souvenirs of their encounter with us. The other seven were “recycled.” I had souvenirs of my own; one bullet went into my shin and broke the leg, one into my left knee, and one into my left side, with the worst one going into my chest. That one went through my intestines, gall bladder, and right lung and went out my right side. The worst part was that it took us walking and boating for two days until we were able to flag-down a BLM aircraft.:icon_cry:

Roger – I do hope this is not a contest; I can’t take much more.:icon_cry:

Will – I do look forward to seeing you “guys.” I’m sure the boat will get done; however not at the schedule we had for it.

Dean – Well lad, I can’t wait to see BMW kick some butt – again.

JB – Thank you for your well wishes, and your offer of assistance. Thank goodness for my strong wife, a stronger younger brother, and a technical wiz of a daughter. Mostly I just grouse and give orders.

Gord – Thank you for your kind words. BTW – my father had an on-going joke about the insurance companies getting a “hit-man” to “minimize their losses.” Too late I’d say.:028:

Thank you all,
Stinkin' Frank

DarthRider

07-21-2007, 09:55 AM

My God, what a tough 'ol SOB...!
When was that...back in the Gold Rush ? I think Dean-O may have been one that got away ?
Count on me and my 9 buddies to NEVER jump *your* gold claim, compadre' !
Man, I have just got to meet you & your clan sometime. :eusa_clap:

Promethean

07-21-2007, 10:07 AM

:eek2:

Damn Frankie! You're something else.

Deans BMW

07-21-2007, 10:36 AM

Good Lord, Frank, Holy Cow, Great Scott, WOW, that must have been the gun battle to end all gun battles. What were you using as wepons?

Sounds to me that you define the term "Tough old Buzzard"

The "Cafe" does have its characters........We are honored.

Gord

07-21-2007, 12:19 PM

If it ever comes down to choosing teams, I want Frank on my side! With a couple of Glocks, Sig Sauers, Schmeisers, Thompsons, M-16's and AK-47's thrown in!

I want to know who would star as Frank in the Hollywood version of his life?

fganger

07-21-2007, 01:03 PM

Dave – “Man, I have just got to meet you & your clan sometime.” Dave I’m sorry to say that my younger brother Mike was lost on the same river (The Forty Mile) a couple of years later. He was quite the man; he earned a number of medals, three Purple Hearts and a silver star while in Vietnam. As a matter of fact, he was lost going down in the river to try and save the wife of another miner whose boat flipped; neither came up.:icon_cry:

Abhijeet – “Damn Frankie! You're something else.” You know that is exactly what my Bonnie says. Only I don’t think she means it as a good thing.

Dean – “What were you using as weapons?” Dean the first thing, which warned me, was the weapons they carried: automatic pistols in shoulder holsters and semi-automatic military rifles. These are not the weapons miners use, I knew they were up to no good. I had my S&W.44 mag revolver, a .22 semi-auto rifle, a 12-gauge pump, and my .444 Marlin lever gun. I used them all – not aiming, just shooting out the windows trying to appear like I was more than just one person. I guess I didn’t fool them very much.

Gord – All I can say is that for the next couple of years we had weapons just as you described – only used. The rest of their weapons were dropped in the river.

Will – "I'm still awaiting some about the time you kissed Marilyn Monroe at your Uncle's NYC restaurant. What was it called...The Stork Club???" Almost correct, I was kissed by her at my grandfathers house. However, my grandfather did build the Stork Club.

Oh well, it's all in the past now.
Stinkin' Frank

DarthRider

07-21-2007, 02:26 PM

Hey Stinker, you need to write a book !
Hmmm...I think I have said that to a number of other Cafe' Bros...

Wild Will

07-21-2007, 03:53 PM

Frank,
I have never met a tougher guy than you, and I've met some 2X12 bastards that deserved a vasectomy with a pliers. I'm at a loss for words, which is unusual.
In October, don't mind me if I prod you for some stories. BTW, how well did your mining venture go?

fganger

07-21-2007, 05:23 PM

Will,

Now you must remember that we are talking about the late 60's/early to mid 70's, money was a bit different then. In any case, we made about $100 per hour per man. Before you start packing for Alaska, we could only work about four hours a day. Seriously, the work was that hard and alas dangerous. But my brother and I were young, strong, and hungry.

We made enough money to pay for our college education, and that was my goal. My brother was still hungry, even after our encounter with robbers; he went back another couple of years while I moved full-time to Alaska to teach. In June, at the end of my first year teaching, we lost him. The family agrees that he died the way he would have chosen – if he had the choice that is.

Stinkin' Frank