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Posted By: Don Maxwell
Date Posted: Jul 21, 2019
Description: You're likely to see almost anything while flying a Searey. These are 15-20 foot tall concrete busts of the first 41* US presidents. They were originally on display in a theme park, but the park went bust, and another guy bought the busts and put them in a field near Williamsburg, Virginia, until he finds a better use for them.

Here's one of many stories about them: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-43-decaying-president-heads-looks-180958129/?no-ist
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*Many sources say there are 43 busts, but I count only 41. Or 42. Or--well, more than 40, anyhow. (It's easier to count 'em in Google Earth or Maps.)
Date Taken: 2016-07-24
Place Taken: 37.38410, -76.75320
Owner: Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Harrumph! A certain airline pilot insists that the decimal format for coordinates is ""impossible"" and that ""no one uses it."" Because he's also a Searey pilot and friend, I hereby provide the coordinates in the ancient, analog format using (180/2 and 360/2) degrees + 60 minutes + 60 seconds: N 37º 23' 03"" and W 76º 45' 12"" (which is rounded from 37°23'02.7600"", -076°45'11.5200"")

And the compromise format of degrees + decimal minutes: N 37° 23.04600', W -076° 45.19200'

For more formats, see http://www.earthpoint.us/Convert.aspx
    
  
Eric Batterman - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    How many milia passus is that from Williamsburg?     
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    About 9 sm.     
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Fortunately, we aren't allowed to discuss politics here--or I'd be tempted to say that the busts are about 30 Chinese li from downtown Williamsburg and about 8 nm from Williamsburg airport which is not Chinese-owned. And that if a certain person gets elected president #45 in November, the distances will no doubt be changed to km, the system favored by Vladimir Putin, to whom that candidate apparently owes millions of bucks and many favors.     
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Listen here, Lucastus:






(The Frantics, ""Frantic Times,"" 1984. Copyrighted; don't pass on. Available in Apple's Music app.)
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RomanNumerals_TheFrantics.mp3


    
  
Lee Coulman - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Don
Good catch. This sketch originally started with Wayne & Schuster on the Ed Sullivan Show during the 70s.
Canada broke out into the metric dark side in the 70s and this was W&S's way to explain how the simple ""new system"" worked.
How hard could it be as the rest of the world is using it?
Here we are 46 years later, so it must be really difficult for ""US"".
The Frantics have a real good twist on the story line. They have a lot more sketches on Youtube.
(you might notice that some of the Frantic characters are on the Red Green Show (rick green esp))
Cheers
Lee
    
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Here's an experiment in video stabilization, using Apple's Final Cut.

The camera is an elderly 8 MP Canon with 720p resolution. The abrupt transition in the middle of the video came when I moved the camera from shooting through the windscreen to through the open canopy. Somehow Final Cut managed to blow right through that part without losing its lock on the busts.
     Attachments:  

PresHeadsStab-720p
PresHeadsStab-720p


    
  
Chuck Cavanaugh - Jul 25,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Does anyone know how many fathoms a SeaRey needs to get on the step? I assume it's less than one but the Professor probably has a real easy formula.     
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 26,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    I think Shakespeare had it in Ariel's song to Ferdinand, in ""The Tempest"" (also where we got the expression sea-change):

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.


Full fathom five is 30 feet. But that's depth. For horizontal distance we have to convert to leagues. One league is the distance a man can walk in an hour, but the nautical league is in nautical miles, so 3 nautical miles is about 18,000 feet.

And 5 fathoms horizontally would be 30/18000= 0.00166667 league. If Shakespeare was right, that is. (I think he'd need to take off against the current to get on step in 30 feet.)
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09 FullFathomFive.mp3


    
  
Carr, Frank  - Jul 26,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks Prof., always thought a League was a group of ball teams.     
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 26,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    TMI? Well, anyway, too bad I couldn't find a recording of some tough-sounding guy singing ""Full Fathom Five,"" instead of the counter-tenor. Too many recent productions of Shakespeare's plays have been so wordy and puny, like school plays. ""To be or not to be, etc., etc."" blah blah blah. ""Oh, Ro-meo, wherefore art thou Ro-meo?"" (Which is about his name, not his location.)

But in Shakespeare's own day, the productions were very different. The plays themselves are full of drama and action--fistfights, murders, seductions, betrayals, swordfights--that you never see in school. In ""King Lear,"" for example, there's even a scene where an eye is gouged out onstage. In really juicy productions, the gouger palms a big concord grape and, with the gouge-ee's back to the audience, appears to pry out the eye with his fingers, then throws the grape onto the stage floor, where it splatters all over the first two rows. Then he gloats about it for a minute or so--and does it again with the second eye. Mean.
    
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 26,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Hey, cool! I got curious about gouging eyes and found this ""how-to"" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfS3m6SIijU

And this production, in modern dress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ZsWQD8-Fc

And then this, with a bit of license: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-CwOBqVQfI
    
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 21,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    I came across this article while cleaning out a hard drive:      Attachments:  

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Steve Kessinger - Jul 21,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    If you think that's bad....      Attachments:  

Harding: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Harding: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver


    


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