Tim Jones (Jones)

The gravitons are making it difficult for me to get out of my easy chair. Someone has turned up the gravity. 

My brother and I built an Ozone generator in our basement using a 20,000 volt transformer. Actually it was a Jacob's Ladder demo,

 but it made a lot of ozone.  Distictive odor, that ozone.  Ozone is O3. No, I don't recommend breathing it. 

Interesting ad, Bill!

Photo, me last week in Quartermaster Harbor.

Cheers

Bill Engelhardt

Classic Tollycraft, Tim. Great photo. 

Tim Jones (Jones)

Bill, it's a Skagit 31 Saratogan.  Built in LaConner by Skagit Plastics Inc. 1957. All fiberglass.  Number 3 of 3.    20+ year restoration. 

Been a fun project although I had doubts I would ever get it in the water. After 22 years, ran out of money, so had to launch her.   Been in the water ten years now. Was featured in Sea Magazine.  March 2011. Named for my daughter:  Sweet Zoanna

Boat is fast too! 

Bill Engelhardt

It has the classic lines -- and lots of teal -- that's typical of Tollys. (I had a 26.)

In all events, handsome boat, looks good on the water. 

Tom Chavez

Nobel Prize Winner Creates 5-minute Covid-19 Test!

    UC Berkeley’s Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, are joint winners of 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry, for their discovery of the CRISPR gene-editing tool*.

    CRISPR is a protein taken from a bacteria and modified to make a breakthrough tool for faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more efficient genome editing. CRISPR allows genetic material to be added, removed, or altered at specific locations in the genome. 

    CRISPR is now being used in research on cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, cancer, heart disease, mental illness, human immunodeficiency virus and various Frankenstein novel experiments. 

    One Chinese scientist has used CRISPR on a human embryo, raising ethical questions. Readers of science fiction and the Vedas can easily anticipate … “interesting” developments.

    This month Dr. Doudna announced a CRISPR test to detect the Covid-19 virus using a mobile phone camera and a simple portable device. Current tests require 1 to 10 days, but the new test takes just 5 minutes. 

    Researchers are working to commercialize the test.

Model of CRISPR protein (blue) editing DNA (green and red).

A partial DNA double helix shape can be seen to the right.

*Science magazine: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/new-test-detects-coronavirus-just-5-minutes 

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Tim......beautiful boat (and daughter).  What a project.  One of my last jobs as  I was working my way into retirement was in LaConner at a gift shop called Wyman Park.  Neat little town if anyone wants to take a day trip to the Skagit Valley.  Thanks for sharing the results of your dream boat!

Ronald Goodmansen

Interesting Bill, I also had a 26 Tolly years ago.

Tom Chavez

Flat Space Debate

Einstein says space is curved. Graviton-elyson theory says it is flat. I can’t find the word elyson in the English dictionary. What language is that?

Anyway, we should take this subject with the seriousness it deserves.

Tom Chavez

    Mother Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāj invited all the cowherd men and women to Kṛṣṇa’s first birthday celebration. As musicians played and learned brāhmaṇas chanted Vedic hymns, Mother Yaśodā bathed Kṛṣṇa. This bathing ceremony is still observed today on Kṛṣṇa’s birthday anniversary, called Janmāṣṭamī.

    Holding child Kṛṣṇa bathed and dressed on her lap, Yaśodā sat down to listen to the Vedic hymns. When Kṛṣṇa fell asleep she silently laid Him down on a cushion, beneath a handcart. 

    While Yaśodā was greeting friends and relatives, Kṛṣṇa became hungry and cried, but she did not hear Him. Kṛṣṇa became angry and began kicking his feet. He kicked the wheel of the cart, and it loudly collapsed as the wheel separated from the axle and brass utensils and dishes scattered. 

    Yaśodā, Nanda and all the cowherd folk were astonished that the cart had collapsed. Some children said that Kṛṣṇa had kicked his feet against the wheel, but people thought, “How can we believe these children?” No one could understand that the all-powerful Personality of Godhead was lying there as a baby and that He could do anything.

    Mother Yaśodā picked Kṛṣṇa up on her lap and called the brāhmaṇas to chant sacred mantras to counteract any evil. At the same time she allowed the baby to suck her breast. If a child sucks his mother’s breast nicely, it is understood that he is out of danger. 

    After this, Nanda Mahārāj gave the brāhmaṇas charity. He gave quantities of grain and many cows, their horns decorated with golden rings, hooves silver plated, and wearing garlands of flowers. The brāhmaṇas in return bestowed their heartfelt blessings, which were never to be baffled.

Bill Engelhardt

And now, a word from our sponsor (and still only 15 cents!)

Tim Jones (Jones)

Ken Becker

That’s a funny story, Tim. I preferred the “upscale” Lou’s burger at 19 cents each. A 4 cents difference seems ludicrous now. 

Tom Chavez

    Historical analysis of hamburger prices indicates that the almighty incredibly shrinking dollar is now worth 1/20th of its value when we were in school. Given recent trends of trillion dollar deficits we can project with high confidence that the dollar will totally vanish within 27.3 years.

    Weather is changing too. Earth goes through cycles of ice ages and warm ‘interglacials,’ like now. During the last ice age, Canada and the great lakes were under glaciers a mile thick.

Ted Comstock (Briggs-Comstock)

I remember when the McDs opened, down by the Ice Chalet. Never thought they were nearly as good as Lou's tho. I can remember also trying to decide whether I could afford the extra nickel for cheese, back in my impoverished student days.

BTW, I'm sorry to see the Tom and Gregg show has started up in the message forum again. 

Bruce Mennella

Thank you Ted, Ann, Linda, and Laurel for your comments about what some people are posting to this page, and I second your remarks.  I asked months ago for Tom and others to please trade their personal email addresses, so you guys can carry on your religion and science conversations with each other, and spare the rest of us.  This page is meant for sharing memories, current updates, and general items of interest past and present.  It is disheartening to read that people are reluctant to come to this forum because of what they see as content that they don't feel comfortable with.  Let's move forward trying to expand users, rather than having a few dominate this sites use. 

Tim Jones (Jones)

Paul Bunyan

Too much of a good thing

My brother Jim (Highline 60) and I were in Burien one day. We walked into a little sweet shop on 152nd, across from the bank and about four or five doors down from 8th.  This sweet shop had a specialty soft ice cream cone called a Paul Bunyan. True to the name, this cone was huge!  Two pounds of soft ice cream on a monster cone! Okay Okay, I exaggerate. Only one and a half pounds of ice cream.

My eyes grew large as I watched the machine extrude the soft ice cream into the cone. Kept getting higher and higher. Whoa!  Is this really happening? Jim treated me. Some 55 cents, a lot for a cone in the day. Wow, what a treat!  

About a year later I was in town riding my bicycle on a sunny July day.  I had a paper route, so had a couple bucks in my pocket.  Rode down to the sweet shop and orded a Paul Bunyan. Watched in amazement as the guy made it.  I was quite the accomplished cyclist, able to ride around Burien on my 3 speed skinny tire bike with caliper brakes and not hit anyone or drop my Paul Bunyan.  

For some reason I can't explain, I went back to the sweet shop and purchased another Paul Bunyan (mistake). The shop owner was amazed that I ordered another monster cone. "Okay, kid!  Whatever you want!"  Well the second Paul Bunyan wasn't quite as good as the first. Took almost an hour to finish it before it all melted.

This Highline 64 website is great for sharing common experiences growing up in the Seattle area in the 50's and 60's. Getting acquainted and sharing our life's interesting experiences. You can research the origins of the expression: "SUGAR BUZZ".  What you will read is that Tim Jones coined the expression in the Summer of 1959 after consuming two Paul Bunyans in a row.  Fact check it.  Would I kid you?

Experience is such a great teacher. Never did that again........

Anyone else have a Paul Bunyan story? 

Ann Lally (Keane)

At this age memories are triggered by interesting ques like ice cream.

I was warching Dancing with the Srars last night which is all the classic dance steps inxluding Ball Room  like the waltz. In my memory I was at the bowling alley at five corners having one of the best times of my life.

My kids would have been horrified to be caught ballroom dancing. They were squimish about Country Music and ,line dancing until they noticed every other car in the school parking lot was blaring Country as Skagig Valley was Agricultural and they were farm kids.  We had the twist and help me here?

The other dancehall was out on 99 called the? I wasn't allowed  to go there as the kids wewe a little older than us. Sorry if this off the subject bur we are rhe same age and share some amazing memories.Blessings Ann Keane. ps I do remember Lou's. they had the best fries and the best tarter sauce for ten cents. I wasn't allowed to go there either so we paeked next door. I am so bad!

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

The other dance hall on 99 was the Spanish Castle.  Wow, what an experience it was to go there.  It was always just packed, everyone danced, poodle skirts, colored tennis shoes to match.  We were really stunning! Great memories. 

Ken Becker

The old Chelsea Park Elementary building was demolished this week. It lived out it’s life as the Burien Annex and was the home to 7 non-profits including the Burien Little Theater, the Hiliners, a coop preschool, a food & clothing bank, and others.  The Annex was abruptly closed by the City Council over potential hazards & the long term tenants were displaced. The demolition was budgeted at $300,000 but actually cost $600,000. To date there’s no plan (or money) for replacing this facility. 

Shirley Widerski (Miller)

to Bruce and Ted.....thanks again for trying to curtail the comments on this message forum that are not appropriate.   Definitely there is a need to exchange personal email addresses to continue lengthy discussions.

Ted Comstock (Briggs-Comstock)

Ken -- sorry to hear Chelsea Park got torn down. Not surprised, tho. Some of the buildings were "temporary" buildings when we went there, put up shortly after the war to accomodate the baby boom. That makes pretty much a clean sweep of my schools, as Puget Sound Jr High was torn down some years ago, I guess Seahurst is now a grade school? Highline still exists, but as a mere shadow of what I knew. It's lasted awhile tho, and will outlast me! 

Bill Engelhardt

And speaking of the '60s....Pat & Lan check in. 

Ed Hesner

For any of you who attended Gregory Heights Elementary in the 6th grade, I had wondered why I don't have a class photo from Mr. Fisher's class, and then I had a comment from someone on this web site saying that they didn't have one either. This last summer, sometime in July I think, I contacted Cheryl Smith who's the current office manager at Gregory Heights and asked her about old class photos. She asked me to give her until the end of August to do some looking and see what she could find. By the end of the first week in September, I still hadn't heard from her, so I gave her another call, and, as I suspected, she was really busy because of the Covid situation. She called me back 2 or 3 days later and told me that she and someone else had done some looking and were amazed that they had been able to find class photos all the way back into the '50's, BUT they never found any photos from our 6th grade year (1957/58). Her only guess was that the class photos didn't get taken that year for some reason. Not sure why that might have been. If any of you happen to know differently, or happen to have that photo from Mr Fisher's or Mr. Kunkle's class, I'd be interested in hearing from you.

Bill Engelhardt

I was in your 6th-grade class at Gregory Heights, Ed (a transfer from Hazel Valley), and like you, have no picture from Mr. Fisher's flock. I thought maybe it'd been misplaced in the ensuing years, but based on your research, looks like we never had one.  

Bill

Ken Becker

To Ed & Bill - I went to Hazel Valley, & we don’t have 6th grade class pictures either. I didn’t realize it was a district wide thing.  Not sure what the reason could be. The normal excuse would be a levy failure, but I would think that class pictures were self-supporting.  Hmm, I guess we’ll never know the reason.