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  1. stearmandriver

    Show Us Your Neerup/P. Jeppesen Pipes!

    Absolutely love Neerups. I'm surprised I only have two, but the finishes on both are magic. They both smoke great but the apple, for some reason, is the best smoking pipe I have. It seems not to matter what you put in it, it's delicious. Not an expensive pipe or anything, I think just luck...
  2. stearmandriver

    How Hard is it to Burnout a Pipe?

    I remember a thread on one of the forums years ago about a guy that set out on a mission to burn out a pipe to see how long it took. It was a cob, so nowhere near as tough as a briar. He smoked that pipe only for seriously like a year straight and couldn't burn it out. If I remember right he...
  3. stearmandriver

    Exhaust Fan For New Smoking Room?

    I have a small study at ground level in our home, and while I usually smoke a pipe outside, it is nice to be able to sit at the desk at night with a pipe sometimes. I go the window fan route, a single fan leaned against the screen to blow out. I usually smoke Latakia blends and only one time...
  4. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    But the resulting organism, if it has the desired traits, has the very same genetic structure as if that trait were achieved via hybridization. Right? There is no fundamental difference in genetic material between a human being and a potato, is there? Just the order in which it's put...
  5. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    That's an inaccurate definition, is the point. Any technique for modifying the traits of an organism is genetic modification, because the genetic material is where all these traits are encoded. Take corn again: whether you selectively breed it over thousands of generations for bigger cobs, or...
  6. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    They definitely aren't. I've been keeping bees for a while. The problem that they CAN create is over spray of gluphosate on Roundup ready crops tends to kill roadside weeds. This affects the butterflies more than the honey bees. It also doesn't happen all that often because, well, do you...
  7. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    This is an old resurrected thread, so a context review is in order before I respond: I was explaining that almost nothing humans eat today is a result of natural selection, but it has in fact all been genetically modified by us, via hybridization / selective breeding, mutagenesis, now...
  8. stearmandriver

    Youth!

    Every generation finds it in vogue to bash the next. As an example: how many of you guys know how to navigate with a sextant, even if you're sailors or outdoorsmen? There are past generations that would have looked witheringly at you for this lack of knowledge; hell, I know how to do it and...
  9. stearmandriver

    Sweet Latakia Blend Recommendations

    Plum Pudding - if it's not gone forever. Peretti Midnight is a great stand-in for Frog Morton; I only tried it recently but it strikes me as what Frog Morton was trying to be... I no longer miss FM. Peretti Cambridge Flake for something a little more restrained.
  10. stearmandriver

    Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe

    I think I already said it 😉. You're talking incredibly minor differences in force, compared to local forces. And again, if these forces affected humans, then the NEW moon, not the full moon, would be when they're aligned at their maximum... And no one sees weird behavior and goes, "damn, must...
  11. stearmandriver

    Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe

    I know absolutely nothing about dowsing, but I'm really pretty sure that tidal forces (the gravitational pull of the sun and moon) have roughly zero effect on the movement of sap in a tree. There are much more locally powerful forces at work, like capillary action. I don't see tree leaves wilt...
  12. stearmandriver

    Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe

    No but I know how tidal forces work, and they're much more significant under the conditions I mentioned. Just reference your local tide tables, you'll see what I mean. Noon under the new moon, when the sun and moon's gravitational pulls are aligned straight overhead, vs during a full moon...
  13. stearmandriver

    Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe

    If this is true then they're doing it wrong. Noon during the day of the new moon would be even more effective. Probably seen as less poetic though. 😁
  14. stearmandriver

    Fired up Grandpa's Pipe For the First Time...

    I do like those old paneled pipes... Really nice! Excellent way to remember and connect with your grandfather. Don't sweat relights. They'll always be required and they're harmless. Puffing hard to try to keep it constantly lit, now that isn't harmless; ruins the flavor and burns your mouth...
  15. stearmandriver

    Favorite Whole Album

    Dream Theater, "Images and Words"
  16. stearmandriver

    Drones over New Jersey

    You'd think they'd train a green beret to recognize an airliner... But then, probably not many of those flying where he's working lol. I literally snorted coffee out my nose when I read this elsewhere earlier. People are getting crazier and crazier. 😬
  17. stearmandriver

    Favorite Youtube Channel?

    Hobbiton Piper is a new find for me, and I enjoy him quite a bit. Stuff and Things and NWPipesmoker and Bremen Pipe Smoker are my other favorite pipe channels. I'm also a hard no on Pipe Cottage. Non-pipes sampling: James Hoffman (coffee), CW Lemoine and Ward Carroll (civilian and military...
  18. stearmandriver

    Drones over New Jersey

    Is this a Christmas ornament? I want one!
  19. stearmandriver

    Drones over New Jersey

    I know there are thousands of videos, that's the point. I can't claim to have seen every single one obviously, but I've seen at least hundreds if not over a thousand at this point, literally. I look this up every day because it fascinates me. I follow several blogs and groups dedicated to it...
  20. stearmandriver

    Drones over New Jersey

    That's the thing - I know that's what people CLAIM to have seen. But then they show the video they took .. and it's an airliner. Every. Single. Time. They seem to be susceptible to an illusion where they're seeing a string of larger aircraft on final as smaller and closer and moving in...
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