Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!9dYadZ3yg7+EEuom1z2jfQ.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> Newsgroups: alt.polyamory Subject: Re: Stopping by Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 18:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1foglh-ro7.ln1@anthive.com> <956olh-h43.ln1@anthive.com> <1cq2mh-p25.ln1@anthive.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 9dYadZ3yg7+EEuom1z2jfQ.user.gioia.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.polyamory:32450 On 2021-05-02, songbird wrote: > pill bugs are edible, supposed to taste like shrimp, i've > not tried them yet or been that desperate but a good thing to > remember. Pill bugs are crustaceans. I think they even belong to the same branch as shrimp (malacostraca? something like that). I seem to recall there are a fair number of fossil crustaceans that resemble pill bugs. > i'd love a commuter rail station anywhere within walking > distance of here. not likely ever, but who knows, when > perhaps they figure out how much less it costs to maintain > rail than pavement and the world runs out of oils/tars... > or ... heh. well, we can dream right? :) I have some old railroad timetables from the 1940s and 1950s. One of our radio stations is in a town in NH with a beautiful brick former Boston and Maine depot. In 1948, I could have caught a train at Boston's North Station, changed trains in Concord, NH, and got off within a block of the radio station... except that the radio station wasn't there in 1948. The track leading to that station is gone; like many New England railroad lines it was abandoned after most of the regions factories and mills shut down. Parts of it are now a bike trail, and two covered bridges still stand that used to carry trains across the river. There is an Amtrak train that stops about ten miles from there, but it goes to NYC not Boston, and it isn't running at the moment due to Covid. One of our employees has a 7.5-inch guage railroad on his land, and uses it to move dirt, gravel, and building materials around. He's building himself a new house. umar