About Fnarf

Individually Wrapped For Your Protection

Recent posts

• Comment on Fnarf's answer…

  0 0 Pshaw. Seattle should be "Wanda". Fnarf commented 13 days ago

• Follow Following 1

  How can I ask a question to a specific person on Questionland?

  0 0 Funnily enough, I just bought one of these the other day, after our La Pavoni grinder bit the dust. Funnily enough, the Capresso appears to be the exact same grinder with a few slightly different exterior plastic case parts: same exact burr (the old one fits), same grind-size selector (with different symbols printed on), etc. The hopper's better, though. I'm pretty sure it came with an order form for replacement parts inside the box. Dunno if they actually honor the order form, though. Fnarf answered in Whatever 20 days ago Answer, comment & read 3 more answers »

• Follow Following 1

  Should we change the name of Washington State?

  0 0 My suggestion is to rename the state "Jackson" and change the flag to a facsimile of the $20 bill. Fnarf answered in Local News & Politics about 1 month ago Answer, comment & read 5 more answers »

• Comment on Fnarf's answer…

  1 0 Believe it or not, I don't get paid to pimp them. They don't even know who I am (I leave the gold mask at home when I visit). But it's a great shop. I buy a lot of books there, non-travel ones too -- very small selection but a very good one. Fnarf commented about 1 month ago

• Comment on Fnarf's answer…

  1 0 So, I tried it out, and you're going to have to download a ton of gigantic zipped TIF files (not just seven), extract them, and then view them in a TIF viewer like Photoshop. You need datasets from sector 92 and a couple from 102 covering the very tip. 92B (92B5, 92B6, 92B11, 92B12, 92B13, maybe 92B14); 92C (maybe 92C8, 92C9, 92C10, maybe 92C11, maybe 92C13, maybe 92C14, 92C15, 92C16); 92E (maybe 92E7, 92E8 through 92E10, 92E14 through 92E16); 92F (92F1 through 92F8, maybe 92F10, 92F11 through 92F14, maybe 92F15); 92K (92K3, 92K4, 92K5), 92L (92L1 through 92L8, 92L10 through 92L13) and 102I9 and 102I16. That's 52 sheets! Big island. If you can get by with the 1:250,000 topo sheets, that's just the seven downloads (92B, 92C, etc.) The detail should be pretty good on those, enough to cycle by I would think. They certainly show all the paved roads except the streets within the towns. Let me know if you need more help downloading these. Fnarf commented about 1 month ago

• Follow Following 1

  Are there any good road maps of Vancouver Island?

  0 0 Wide World Books and Maps in Wallingford should have copies of the British Columbia Recreational Atlas, a large format book covering the entire province. Or maybe one of the other equivalent atlases; there's one for just SW BC. None of them are as good as the DeLorme atlases for US states. Tear out the pages with the island on it. It's not going to be a whole lot better than the International Travel one, though -- I think it's 1:200,000, while the IT is 1:250,000. I've looked at the IT maps, and I would think they'd suffice for cycling. Once you get out of Victoria, Vancouver Island is pretty simple. Alternately, you could print screens of Google Maps of the tricky parts to supplement the atlas or IT maps. Best of all would be to buy the 1:50,000 topographical sheet maps from the Canada Map Office (the equivalent of our USGS sheets), but that's going to be expensive. It looks like Vancouver Island is covered by parts of seven different sheets, at $12 a pop, ouch. Wide World can order them for you, though. A cheaper way is to print them yourself, for free, but you'll have to figure out how to navigate the remarkably obtuse system here: http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=08F1CB77-F351-0F8A-EF30-CA081CA0CE61 Fnarf answered in Regional Trips about 1 month ago Answer, comment & read 3 more answers »

• Comment on MyrnaMinkoff's answer…

  0 0 This is a good idea too. Fnarf commented about 1 month ago

• Comment on Russ Campbell, NWEBS's answer…

  0 0 I like this idea! Hey, there's even a shop near me, across from Dick's in Wallingford. I'll give them a call. Fnarf commented about 1 month ago

• Comment on sublevelthree's answer…

  0 0 It's not really painted; more like anodized or something. Who knows what it is; weird sixties crap, guaranteed to be toxic, I would think. Definitely not welded, either; it's too fragile (which is why it broke off). Fnarf commented about 1 month ago

• Follow Following 1 Metal Sculpture Repair Fnarf asked in Other Arts & Music about 1 month ago 3 Answers by MyrnaMinkoff, Russ Campbell, NWEBS , sublevelthree…

• See all of my 42 Questions , 1308 Answers and 1135 Comments