Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Old Magic is still there. Just in case the media thought anyone was listening to them but the bubble…

New on Fourmilab today (so new, in fact, it isn’t yet linked to the home or index pages) is a Web edition of Peter B. Kyne’s 1921 novelette (11,000 words, 62 print pages with reasonably large type) The Go-Getter.  Subtitled “A Story That Tells You How to be One” (capitalisation … MORE… →

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/balldiamondball.com

We have improved by 195,397 in the last three months. (Okay, so we started from “zero” but it still ain’t bad.)

For those who don’t know this is an Amazon site that ranks Internet sites. The lower the number the better. High traffic sites are below 100.

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Boymoose, you told me you have a drone and I want to see some great pictures. I loved your swamp/lake/bog/fen/marsh/mud puddle video.

Something  like this.

I am disgusted, angry, and hostile at my so-called party:

Im posting this just for fun.  This is a time lapse of Lake Verette, LA. shot in 2016.  The home of the Swamp people.

I didn’t know everybody would be alerted to my signing up here! Thanks for the welcome, BDB, and everybody who commented.

10 Cents emailed me to let me know about this, the new place to waste time on the internet. Which is good, because I had become too conservative for Ricochet, … MORE… →

I am asking for “a friend”.

For our callers abroad, BDB reports that the local dial-in numbers can try to trick you into hanging up by prematurely and erroneously informing you that there are no other callers. Upon your entering the access code, the voice tells you there are no other callers even if there are. Then … MORE… →

You have duly been upgraded.  The whole place is now accessible toyou.

Side note:  Please post something so we know it all works — and I recommend that everybody (who has never posted)  put up a post, to help validate a couple of things.

Thanks for joining us!