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Tom McCarthy & D.T. Max Discuss David Foster Wallace
William Beutler Talks with Biblioklept About Mapping David Foster Wallace's Novel Infinite Jest
For the past few years, D.C.-based artist William Beutler has been mapping the real and fictional locations of David Foster Wallace's giant novel Infinite Jest in a project called Infinite Atlas, a Google Maps-based guide to over 600 locations described in Infinite Jest. Beutler's project has sprawled (appropriately) to include several dimensions, including Infinite Map (shown above), which identifies and describes 250 locations from the novel and Infinite Boston, a travel blog of sorts that documents and reflects on Beutler's Wallace-based trip to Boston. Beutler was kind enough to talk to me about his projects over a series of emails.
Biblioklept: How did the Infinite Atlas project start?
William Beutler: I think, like a lot of long-term projects, I'd point to a few different points of inspiration. The first is just going back and reading Infinite Jest for a second time in 2009, after I'd say it went from being a favorite novel to my actual favorite novel. I'd also become interested in infographics, I suppose as a kind of art form based on the expression of data—and what better stockpile of data than a thousand-page, encyclopedic novel? I cycled through a lot of ideas, finding that some of them had already been done before, and then finally deciding to focus on geography.
Biblioklept: How did the geography focus come about?
WB: The geography focus owes to a few different things. One is simply that I wasn't the first to arrive at the idea of creating an infographic based on Infinite Jest, so I had to take that into consideration. Sam Potts, who is the designer of John Hodgman's books, had released an elaborate graphic drawing connections between the various characters in the novel. I'd been considering that when his came out, but he did that pretty definitively, so I went with one oft he other. And hey, I just like maps. I started my career in political journalism, where districts are always being redrawn, and maps are always being shaded this much red or this much blue, so it was a natural focus in that regard. And there's always been something I've liked about adding a layer of information to geographic features. I don't know that I could have credibly called myself a geography enthusiast before this—but I have friends who definitely are, and even some who work with GIS professionally. They helped me figure out what I was doing.
Biblioklept: Did you consciously start using Google Maps? Was Google Maps a starting point in and of itself or just a tool?
WB: Google Maps was probably one of the very last decisions we made. And all the web development was relatively late in the process, starting about early summer of this year. Most of the work before that was simply building the database, which lived in Google Docs for most of this research period. The decision to use Google Maps wasn't necessarily random, although I had actually made an early conscious decision to not use it. I'd suggested Open Street Maps, partly because I like open source projects, and Foursquare had switched to it, which seemed like a noteworthy endorsement. But my developers said Google Maps was going to be less time-consuming, and less expensive, and I was willing to take this advice.
Biblioklept: Can you talk a bit about how you put the atlas together? What was your approach? How did you start?
WB: In the very early going, it was as simple and painstaking as going page-by-page through the book, scanning each one for proper nouns, and taking notes down in Google Docs. This was myself and another friend who had read the book, Olly Ruff, who is one of the credited editorial advisers. We debated what really counted as a "location"—Orin's "Norwegian deep-tissue therapist" lives "1100 meters up in the Superstition Mountains," overlooking Mesa-Scottsdale. So is that one location, or two?And once we realized we had so many locations, this was about the time I realized the original idea, which was just the map, was not going to be the comprehensive accounting for the novel's locations I had imagined. Once I decided we had to explore an interactive version as well, then we had to decide which locations were just going on the map, and how many. Then we had to figure out where certain locations were actually located, and that was a considerable amount of research as well. Sometimes it was very obvious-—Harvard Square is very easy to find, but some places I didn't even know were real until I visited Boston. We also had to figure out how to show both the scope of North America alongside the detail of central Boston, and this just took an agonizingly long time. This is where some of my friends who worked with maps for a living proved helpful. The further into this I got, the bigger of a project it kept revealing itself to be. And since the point of no return was never clear, I just kept at it, never entirely sure how long it would all take, until we actually started working with designers.
Biblioklept: How did actually visiting Boston help to inform the project?
WB: About a year into the research, I realized that I was hitting a wall with some of the local details in Boston, which has the greatest concentration of locations of anywhere in the novel. More specifically, the neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton already kind of run together, and then Wallace invented a whole new unincorporated community called Enfield, where most of the primary characters live, and its relationship to Allston-Brighton was very confusing. The trip helped me get a better sense for what was Enfield and what was Brighton, although there's only textual support for boundary lines to the east and south.Also regarding certain locations, I knew the Brighton Marine hospital complex was the basis for Enfield Marine, and I knew that the hill behind it was where the Enfield Tennis Academy would be, if it existed, but Google Maps and Google Street View have some pretty obvious limitations. So putting boots on the ground was really the only way to be sure about some of these places. I was surprised by some things I found: there's a "Professional Building" mentioned as being at one intersection when it's really another, which I had no idea until I walked right up to it. And the Infinite Boston Tumblr simply couldn't have existed without the trip, but the trip was also absolutely necessary for getting a lot of details right for Infinite Atlas and Infinite Map.
Biblioklept: How long have you been working on the Infinite Boston blog?
WB: The Boston trip was in July 2011, and the notion of doing a Tumblr travelogue to the project was probably in the back of my head at the time, but I didn't really start thinking about seriously doing it until earlier this year. I'd been sifting through the photos—I came back with about 4,000—since then, and in the spring I started making decisions about what I had acceptable photos of, and what I had enough to write about, then I started planning the sequence in June, and putting together notes in early July. And though I had quite a few entries planned out weeks in advance to begin with, these days I'm finishing them the night before, or up to the last few minutes before publishing.
Biblioklept: The Infinite projects clearly will resonate with fans of Wallace's novel. What do you hope they take away from your work?
WB: I can't begin to tell you the number of people who've told me they started Infinite Jest, and gave up after making it a surprisingly long way through it. One friend of mine spent the better part of a decade having read to at least page 600 before finally finishing it earlier this year. (He ended up helping out as a backup researcher.) I've heard it said that the book doesn't really start coming together until about 400 pages, and it's been much too long since I first read it for me to remember, but I know the feeling of hopelessness that goes along with struggling early in a long novel (I'm still working myself back up to revisiting Gravity's Rainbow and Europe Central…). I think a project like this can serve as a kind of promise to the uninitiated that there really is something here that people feel very strongly about, that it rewards the effort one must put into it. There's much more to it than just being a hipster status symbol. And then I think it can help those who are reading it, both to confirm details they may have misread the first time or—better still—to make connections they might never have made without this kind of tool. And of course to visualize it as David Foster Wallace surely did, if they're so inclined. That said, I'm not sure the Atlas is a resource I would have consulted when I first read the book. I tend to be very spoiler-sensitive, oftentimes purposefully going into a novel or a film or television series trying to know as little as possible. Of course, I know now that Infinite Jest can't be "ruined" by knowing about a particular story arc, and I'm sure that others so wracked with fear over knowing that two storylines connect, so I hope they'll find this a useful resource.
Biblioklept: I'm curious if you've read Houellebecq's novel The Map and the Territory?
WB: I have not actually read any Houellebecq; I'm primarily familiar with him for various controversies, and I do remember the allegations that he had plagiarized Wikipedia for The Map and the Territory, and the possibility then that his book would be judged a Creative Commons-licensed work. Anyhow, I am familiar with the map-territory relationship as described by Alfred Korzybski, and Infinite Jest was my introduction to it. I think it's very relevant here, not that anyone would necessarily mistake the atlas as anything but a supplement to the novel. Actually, one of my early working titles for the project was "Map / Territory," and the website includes a kind of epigraph, taken from the Eschaton section: "The real world's what the map here stands for!"
Biblioklept: I figured the Eschaton episode clearly resonated with your project. What sections or characters of IJ stand out as favorites to you?
WB: Believe it or not, Eschaton was one of the last location segments that I added to the Atlas. Early on we'd focused on real places where scenes actually took place, or references to North American locations that fell inside the confines of the map. And Chris Ayers of Poor Yorick Entertainment had already made a pretty nifty Eschaton infographic, so I was hesitant to do too much with that. But it became clear that we were going to take a maximalist approach, and really locate absolutely everything that could be located, so then I went through and included everything from Eschaton as best I could.If I had to name a favorite section, it might be the very last, with Gately and Fackelman holed up with Mt. Dilaudid, avoiding the wrath of Whitey Sorkin. It's just beautifully written, and for whatever criticisms anyone might still make about the novel lacking a proper ending plot-wise, it makes perfect sense emotionally. In close contention, though, is Gately's first chapter, about the disastrous burglary in a "wildly upscale part of Brookline" that turns his life around. It's the first section in the story really that took my breath away—that or I was holding my breath waiting in vain for a paragraph break to exhale. Anyway, the unsurprising answer regarding my favorite character is Don Gately. He's maybe DFW's single greatest creation.
Biblioklept: I agree with you on Gately being Wallace's greatest achievement—I love the sections you mention as well. I think many people who can't get into IJ probably don't get to that burglary/toothbrush episode quick enough.
WB: I don't know, the number of people who have made it to halfway or further and then still give up, just speaking anecdotally, is staggering. I've personally given up on much shorter books, which is probably every book I've given up on, considering I haven't bothered to try Imperial or some of Vollmann's other longer stuff. Plus, it's not like there isn't grabby material early on: the "where was the woman who said she'd come" scene with Erdedy is very dense, but I think immediately rewarding in a way some of the Hal and Orin material up front is not. And there's no way around the fact it's just a months-long project in a way few novels are.
Biblioklept: Have you had any response from Wallace's estate about your project?
WB: I haven't, nor have I solicited any. In development on the project, I had considered reaching out to Bonnie Nadell, but I didn't really know what I'd be asking. This wasn't going to be the first infographic project or fan art based on the book, so I didn't think permission was an issue. A friend had offered to put me in contact with D.T. Max, if I needed, but I didn't want to bother him, either. The most response I've had is two retweets and one reblog from whomever's running social media for Little, Brown, and it's more than I would have asked for.
Biblioklept: Do you have another project on the horizon after this one?
WB: To be honest, I'm not even sure I'm totally done with Infinite Jest yet. I'm still writing Infinite Boston on a daily basis through the end of this month, and we're actually putting in some further refinements on the Infinite Atlas website. Besides that, I'd been editing a very short film when I turned to focus on this, so I'd like to complete that now. And I'm sure this isn't my last map, either.
Biblioklept: Have you ever stolen a book?
WB: Haha, that's a great question. And the answer is yes. One that comes to mind in particular I found in a teacher's lounge in the j-school at the University of Oregon, where I worked and never quite completed my journalism double major. And I don't have it handy—I'm afraid I've left stolen property on a shelf at my parents' house—but it was called something like The Declining American Newspaper and its publication date could have been no later than 1965. Even when I found it, this was still early days of the Internet. I wasn't sure whether it was prophetic or preposterous, which is basically why I pocketed it. Less a book, more a conversation piece. Next visit, I'll try to make partial amends by actually reading it.
Cover Art for New David Foster Wallace Essay Collection Both Flesh and Not
Not really news, but I somehow missed this: Both Flesh and Not has a cover, apparently, as well as a product description:
Beloved for his epic agony, brilliantly discerning eye, and hilarious and constantly self-questioning tone, David Foster Wallace was heralded by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. BOTH FLESH AND NOT gathers 15 essays never published in book form, including "Federer Both Flesh and Not," considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece; "The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2," which deftly dissects James Cameron's blockbuster; and "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young," an examination of television's effect on a new generation of writers.
Both Flesh and Not is due around Thanksgiving this year.
Book Shelves #21, 5.20.2012
Book shelves series #21, twenty-first Sunday of 2012: William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace
Sorry about the glare in the photo above. As I seem to attest weekly, photography is hard. Photographing books is hard. Lighting issues, glare etc. Anyway, this shelf is half Vollmann, half DFW. I've written so extensively about these guys on the site that I won't bother linking to anything here. A few months ago, Gaddis's JR and The Recognitions was hanging out here, but then I put Expelled and Imperial on the shelf, bought Everything and More, and also picked up some more Gaddis, and, well, anyway, had to move him up with Joyce, where he seems to belong. The paperback of The Pale King is a review copy; it has additional stuff. Maybe I should part with the hardback. It seems ridiculous to have them both.
The copy of Girl with Curious Hair is extremely important to me, as silly as that sounds. It was one of the first books I ever "reviewed" on this blog, back when I still focused almost entirely on books I'd stolen or books I'd never returned to. From that review:
Scott Martin was kind enough to loan me this book. Did he know that it would forever change the way I read? It was the first semester of my freshman year in college, and I was slowly reaching beyond stuff like Henry Miller, Wm Burroughs and Franz Kafka. David Foster Wallace's short story collection Girl With Curious Hair introduced me to a whole new world of writing. Reading DFW is like having a very witty friend tell you a moving and funny story over a few beers. He's hilarious, thought-provoking, and not nearly as hard to read as people seem to think.
I leave the bookmark I've been using in almost every book I read. When I pulled Girl from the shelf, I found a Polaroid of my cat:
He's just a kitten here. His name is Remy. He no longer lives with us, but he's still around. We moved a year ago from a bungalow set above the ground (i.e. with cat crawl space) to a ranch on a block (i.e. no crawl space). He didn't want to move because he was having this romance with a stray my daughter named Pearly. I eventually trapped him and moved him to the new place, but I foolishly forgot he'd have no place to run and hide while getting acclimated. He ran away. A few months later I found him down the street. He looked happy and came up and talked to us. He followed us back to the new place and we gave him some people food treats. Then he left again. We seem him every now and then. He's gotten surprisingly fat and seems to like the new people he's taken up with. They have two boys, a little older than my kids. Sometimes I miss my cat.
What Does the Internet Think About DFW, Franzen, Lydia Davis, Bolaño, Atwood, and Some Other Contemporaryish Writers?
What Does the Internet Think? is a somewhat addictive site that aggregates and analyzes opinions on the internet — I'm not sure exactly how it does this, but it's fun. I plugged in a few writers this morning (when I should have been working) and here share the results (and, yes, I know that this means almost nothing. Just for fun).
The Pale King Paperback (Book Acquired, 4.07.2012)
I was happy to get a trade paperback of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King this weekend (thanks Hachette!) for a few reasons. First, I detest hardback books — that didn't stop me from picking up (and reviewing) TPK when it debuted last year — but I know I'll prefer this paperback for rereadings. More to the point, the paperback boasts four vignettes not published with the hardback last year, which I'm sure is in no way a cynical marketing ploy cooked up by the publishers. On those scenes:
Okay, so yes, I read them. They're short, and they don't really add to the novel; actually, they probably take away from the Michael Pietsch's fine editing work. Still, DFW fans will eat them up. I'll try to reflect more later.
There's also one of those reading group guide sections, which cracks me up. Are book clubs gonna read this book? I mean, I hope they do, but they'll likely hate it. Here's a question that caught my eye, mostly because I wrote a bit about §19 this summer.
David Foster Wallace on Commercial Literature and the Dread of Reading
A Few Thoughts On DFW's "Wiggle Room"
The New Critics' biggest contribution to literary criticism was the dictum that analysis was to be applied strictly to the text itself, without the muddying impurities of biography or any other outside knowledge influencing the reader. A context-free reading is pretty hard to come by, though, isn't it? School syllabi are arranged around era or genre, or both; our teachers preface each novel or poem or story or essay with a nod to its relevance; a friend hands us a book because it's "good." We furtively flip through Tropic of Capricorn, knowing its rep; we look down our noses at abstinence vampire novels. In short, it's hard to get to that pure reading the New Critics favor. Still, I've always thought it's a pretty good strategy to put aside biographical/author psychology, and just stick to a good close reading of the text. Today, reading David Foster Wallace's "Wiggle Room," I was completely unable to do that.The context of Wallace's recentish suicide hung over each page, each sentence. It was a distraction that led to a (necessary) rereading, a distraction that colored the reading–and then the rereading. A strange little voice popped into Wallace's dense narration that kept whispering, "posthumous, unfinished novel." But now that I've complicated and contextualized and complained, perhaps I should simply comment a bit on the story now.
In dense, thick sentences, Wallace relates a work morning for Lane Dean, an IRS rote examiner who detests his Sisyphean job. Like many cubicle-dwellers, Lane spends much of his day trying not to look at the clock. He also tries to use an inspirational photo of his son sparingly, so that the effect might be more intense. However, the boredom on this particular day overwhelms Lane and he "had the sensation of a great type of hole or emptiness falling through him and continuing to fall and never hitting the floor. Never before in his life up to now had he once thought of suicide." Trying to truck through it is no good: "Lane Dean summoned all his will and bore down and did three returns in a row, and began imagining different high places to jump off of." These thoughts of suicide are mixed with a strange humor. As Lane's depression becomes frantic, Wallace writes, "Unbidden came ways to kill himself with Jell-O." As Lane becomes more and more anxious, it becomes apparent that–paradoxically–his boredom literally excites him. He gets all worked up about it, about the thought of having to devote a whole lifetime to such meaningless, boring work. The scene culminates in an horrific image:
When he started to see the baby's photo face melting and lengthening and growing a long cleft jaw and aging years in just seconds and finally caving in from old age and falling away from the grinning yellow skull underneath, he knew he was half asleep and dreaming but did not know his own face was in his hands until he heard a human voice and opened his eyes but couldn't see who it went with and then smelled the pinkie's rubber right under his nose.
The "human voice" that wakes up Lane is a strange cyclopean figure, an older man who delivers a weird lecture on the origins of the word "bore." The scene is pure Wallacian, filled with plenty of erudite references and jostling with a love for etymology. It literally zaps life-force back into the text, and punctuates Lane's boring day–which Wallace has so expertly made the reader suffer as well–with some strange, frightening fun. Wallace's narration makes clear that the appearance of this strange man is not simply Lane going crazy from his boredom–Lane clearly cannot understand half of what the man refers to. Instead, we are given this nugget: "The phantom of the hallucination of repetitive concentration held for too long a time, like saying a word over and over until it kind of melted and got foreign." After philosophical reflection on why the need for a word for a condition like boredom might have arisen, the episode ends with the phantom leaving and Lane looking up to see that "no time had passed at all, again."
The emphasis on the ways a person's soul might be bored into, how one might become bored, and what that might mean, proliferates the short text, and perhaps evokes some of the themes we'll find in the whole of The Pale King. As the quotes I pulled suggest, the idea that boredom might feed a suicidal impulse resonates strongly in light of Wallace's unfortunate death. But there I go again, letting context color my analysis. But if we're only left fragments, isn't it natural to want to pull them together, to frame them–to give them order–context? Its hard to say and probably not worth guessing if Lane Dean and the phantom will be major parts of The Pale King or not, but as the text progressed, I found myself more and more interested. Apparently, The Pale King will be published with notes and outlines–some bits of context–perhaps giving readers a clue as to how the text was meant to progress. Who knows. A lot of readers felt that Infinite Jest didn't have a proper ending (not me, though). While I think that the "Wiggle Room" episode stands well on its own, I'd certainly be happy to read more about the phantom. Still, Infinite Jest was larded with lots of little vignettes that added to the whole, but it's important to point out that there was a whole to be added to–not just a series of vignettes. I'm really hoping that, even unfinished, Wallace has left us something of substance and depth, something that narrativizes–contextualizes–its themes into a meaningful work of art.
For DFW
This post will be full of typos and rhetorical slips and just generally bad writing. I'm just gonna write and post and I won't bother editing. Sorry.
This morning, after BLTs with wife and child I checked my email. My buddy Damon sent me this article from the New York Times. Damon's subject line, "David Foster Wallace dead at 46 (suicide)" kinda blew my mind. I didn't get past the first lines of the Times report before tears started coming out of my eyes.
I've read all of DFW's books, and, as corny as it sounds, the majority of them spoke so directly to me, so intimately, that I feel as if I've lost someone I knew. I'm sure that this isn't the case at all, because he's a writer and I'm his audience. He's not friends or family. But reading him doesn't feel that way. I would describe his style as a really, really good friend sitting on the couch with you, telling you stories that were both painfully funny and painfully sad. Infinite Jest provided a world of escape–a world I became addicted to–when I felt lonely in a foreign country I'd moved to. Girl with Curious Hair changed forever the way I thought about writing and reading–it opened me up to a whole new bank of authors and styles. But it's probably DFW's essays that hit me most directly.
Anyone who's read the title essay from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, or "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All" from that same collection knows just how funny and insightful and analytical Wallace could be–all without any of the caustic meanness a lesser writer might employ. DFW's essays–and fiction–are always negotiating the razor line between earnest emotion and ironic detachment. He hated the latter but understood it was part of a cultural mode, part of the counter-tradition of post- or meta- fiction that he was continuing and responding to with his own writing. The two essays that probably best exemplify this are a Fun Thing's "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (this should be required reading for every thinking person) and "Authority and American Usage," DFW's take on who-decides-what-is-proper-grammar-and-diction (collected in Consider the Lobster). I was re-reading the essay last Thursday and last night, with the intention to finish it today, with the intention to use it as part of something else I had planned to write. It will be impossible to finish it with the same reading schema in mind.
Just last week I listened to DFW reading from some as-yet-unpublished stuff; one section, on an overachieving boy that everyone hates is hilarious. The crowd is sometimes laughing too hard for DFW to maintain his rhythm and he has to slow down. In the interview that follows the reading, DFW seems like a really sweet, honest guy.
I remember distinctly my cousin calling me, well over a decade ago now, to tell me that Kurt Cobain had shot himself. I felt nothing then–it seemed perfectly logical. I was a huge Nirvana fan; they were my first concert and a big musical/cultural determiner in my young life. But his suicide seemed normal, natural even to me. I remember thinking "Of course." When Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, it seemed strange to me that he'd taken so long to do it. And when one of my favorite writers of all time, Kurt Vonnegut, passed away last year, I felt sad, but not so sad. So it goes.
This, this devastates me though. How could he hang himself? Why? I feel selfish and sad. Will we get another novel? Is it wrong to feel this way? I'm pretty sure that it's wrong. I think about his body, hanged, and it makes me sick. I honestly felt close to this person. Unlike DeLillo or Pynchon or Barth, there was no veil or mediation in Wallace's greatest work, no distance between his voice, or his speakers' voices and my own burning internal ear. I have no pithy statement or philosophical wax for this piece, I have no way of summing up here. I feel sick.
Girl With Curious Hair–David Foster Wallace
Scott Martin was kind enough to loan me this book. Did he know that it would forever change the way I read? It was the first semester of my freshman year in college, and I was slowly reaching beyond stuff like Henry Miller, Wm Burroughs and Franz Kafka. David Foster Wallace's short story collection Girl With Curious Hair introduced me to a whole new world of writing. Reading DFW is like having a very witty friend tell you a moving and funny story over a few beers. He's hilarious, thought-provoking, and not nearly as hard to read as people seem to think (by the way, simply googling "David Foster Wallace" will yield several vitriolic essays by people who think that DFW is somehow duping his readers. He's not. These people don't know a good story when they read one.)
Girl features "real people" like Alex Trebek, David Letterman, and Lyndon Johnson as characters, but constantly destabilizes any realism these figures might lend to the story. The novella included in this collection, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, alludes directly to John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse (another book I've loaned out and never gotten back). Westward takes a critical but humorous look at how culture is commodified: the plot centers around a reunion for everyone who has ever acted in a McDonald's commercial. At the reunion, plans are revealed for a series of real-life "Funhouses," based on the work of "Dr. Ambrose" (Barth's stand-in in Westward).
Girl with Curious Hair is probably the best starting point for anyone interested in DFW but daunted by 1000 pages of Infinite Jest (IJ is yet another one I loaned out and never got back). Girl's stories have a little more 'pop' to them than DFW's latest collection, Oblivion, and Girl tends to be easier to find used than DFW's other collections, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (actually a better collection, in my opinion) and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (a collection of hilarious essays and nonfiction).
To sum up: if you still haven't read DFW go consume this book; when you're done you'll be left wondering: "What other good stuff have I been missing out on?"


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What aprox. years did they cease using square nails??
We were discussing house age yesterday. Older part of this house has ALL square nails,siding,trim,inside and outside.
Then I guess they started out without a kitchen,cause the kitchen was added later. Old part is north- south, gable end roof. Kitchen addition done later was a east -west gable, added onto existing house. SO from aerial view of house,roof ridge forms a "T". Kitchen is all round nails.
Couldnt been MANY years between the two,,,does this narrow down house age any???
Oh and while we are asking dumb questions,,,is there ANY value of antiquity to saving square nails? Are they worth 'anything' over iron value??
You can still buy square nails - new or used. :laughing: I keep a few around in a jar for fun. Otherwise = scrap.
The truth is, while nail shape can give you some general idea about relative age (kitchen was built at a different time as the rest) they aren't conclusive. Have you tried looking at your municipality's record office? I have been able to date the age of some boxwoods on my property based on a photo of a neighbor's house that I found in at the local historical society.
Don't forget to talk to the Old Timers. My mailman's mother used to live on the farm that is now my neighborhood. She remembered a blacksmith shop on my property - and subsequent research confirms her story. Cool.
I have a box of square nails too
Are they BIG square nails
or about the same size?
It's called a "cut nail",
history is here:
I do keep all the broken crockery, brick and anthracite coal I dig up out of my yard. Can't put a spade in the ground without finding one or the other. The bricks I stack and use in landscaping projects. The anthracite I wash and put in a mason jar. It looks pretty.
Now we see why your such a warm lady,,,coal fired.
Interesting bit of history of nails. I suppose this puts house built between 1900 and 1910 or so because they said 90% of nails in former were cut,by 1910 90% were wire (round) nails.
There are several 'burn' pits still visible in the back yard. they are gonna get a cap of dirt soon. I am sure there would be barn remnants there too,,cause everybody had to have a barn to store there horse and buggy
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Battlefield Management System (BMS) in most foreign militaries, especially in advanced countries, implies an operational information system that integrates all Services, flowing from the very military apex down to the fighting echelons in the Tactical Battle Area (TBA). However, in the case of the Indian Army the BMS is visualised at the Battalion Group/Combat Group level and below. This is so, because the BMS was an afterthought in the army while arrangements for battlefield management above the Battalion Group/Combat Group level were already underway through initiation of other operational information systems, especially under the Tactical Command Control and Communications System (Tac C3I). The Army initiated the BMS when realisation dawned that a while the army would get networked above Battalion Group/Combat Group levels in due course of time, the cutting edge (Battalion Group/Combat Group level and below) will not be able to benefit from this higher level net-centricity in absence of the BMS and overall net-centric warfare capacity of the army would remain deficient. What about our Para Military Forces (PMF) and Central Police Forces (CPOs), particularly those battling the Maoists? There appears to be little thought being given to upgrading their combat capacity by providing them a system like the BMS.
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It is a well known fact that conflicts and wars are no more the domain of a single Service. Future military operations will necessarily have to be combined and joint. Practically all conflict situations will involve at least two if not all the three Services. Conventional war, on the other hand, without doubt will be a Tri-Service affair. The implications are that the combat force will comprise of all arms and inter-Services elements. Operations will require all arms cooperation including units and sub-units of other arms operating and being subordinated to each other,
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Like the title says: '86 toyota 4runner, good running driving trail rig or daily driver. I got this from
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I believe the brakes were done recently(it stops well), along with having a tune-up not long ago.
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Axles have 5.29 gears, rear has a full spool, and front has welded spiders. This thing goes through the snow very well, haven't had it in the mud but I bet it does very well there too.
Nice black rockcrawler rims with 33x13.5x15 tsl's on them. the rear tires are like brand new, the front's are about 60% tread and there is a full size spare with about 60% tread.
nice winch bumper up front and heavy duty rear bumper with shackle mounts and receiver. A little bit of lift, about 3" rear flexes real well, front still i.f.s., so the torsions were cranked up a bit.
I haven't been driving this much due to it needing some inner fenderwell's made up for the rear. Also needs front seal on the oil pan, neither of shouldn't be hard to do, just haven't had the time. when I was driving it(a few times a week) I was checking the oil everyday just in case. I doesn't leak real bad but will need replace if you are going to drive it everyday.
The frame is real solid as is the body, the only thing it really needs in the dent on the pass. side door bumped out so it works better.
I will sell this with all my other parts from my 92, which are listed in my for sale add in the parts for sale section. front diff., c.v. axles, b.d.s. lift etc.
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- I've never owned any sort of firearm before so I am a complete newbie.
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Took both my kids (4 year old boy and 7 year old girl) out this past Saturday to hunt muzzleloader. Had this 8 pointer come into the feeder about 7:15 pm. Made a nice clean shot on him and man, we're my kids jacked! First deer hunt with Daddy and something I'll remember the rest of my life. Everything was going perfect until I got careless skinning him and ended the evening in the ER getting 6 stitches in my thumb. But, all is well and would do it all over again if given the chance. Hope I got the pictures attached correctly.
congrats on the buck and having a great family memory. Last November I had to wheel my buddy to the PA ER to get 6 in his thumb. he's a guy with over 40 years deer hunting under his belt, happens to anybody.
That is awesome the Kids looked Stoked Congrats & hope the hand heals fast
Congratulations!!! The hand, No Biggie, we've all had those moments at one time or another. Good Luck
Looks like you guys had a great time. It's always fun to take the kids.
Great memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait until my son is old enough to come out with me, must have been an amazing experience for all of you.
Hope the thumb recovers quickly!
AWESOME man! I wish my 4 year old could go with me but he's WAAAY too loud and would probably have to poop or pee 5 minutes into the hunt. haha
I love him to death, but he's just not ready for hunting yet. :)
That's awesome man! I think I'm going to try him out next year when he's 5. I think he'll sit still a little longer and be a little more quieter!
Congrats to you again!
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Welcome to the forum..from South Carolina. I will defer to someone else on your question.
This is a discussion on I need some CCW advice please. within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I am thinking about a new Hi-Power Standard, 13 rounds mag, for daily CCW ( Hi-Power Standard, , Browning Firearms Product ). I wonder if ...
I am thinking about a new Hi-Power Standard, 13 rounds mag, for daily CCW (Hi-Power Standard, , Browning Firearms Product). I wonder if anyone here carry one and then can tell me if they are easy to conceal. I live in Florida, which means very hot weather. All advices and opinions are welcome
Welcome to the forum..from South Carolina. I will defer to someone else on your question.
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Do you plan on OWB or IWB? I'm of the opinion that you can CCW just about anything depending on how you intend to carry it and how much discomfort you're willing to deal with. OWB that Hi-Power might be just fine but IWB may be more than you want to deal with. It all depends on the person and the situation involved. I carry an XD9 Service IWB all the time and it's not a problem. I also carry it OWB when the weather gets colder up here and XL sweatshirts are the top-coat of the day. My S&W 686 357 will ride OWB during the colder months as well. But sometimes, when the weather gets damn well humid nasty, the Kahr MK9 in a pocket holster in my cargo shorts pocket is just fine and dandy.
Great gun in the High-Power, it just all depends on what you're willing to put up with during those nasty days.
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I have that very gun, live in NC so I am familiar with hot (raised in NY so this is very hot to me), and carry it IWB no problem. It is by far my favorite gun! I carried it in a cheapy holster until my Side Guard Double Snap came a couple weeks ago, and even in the cheapy it was easy to carry. In the Double Snap it is even better. I am also a female, so even with all the challenges female clothing presents I can still carry and conceal this gun with almost anything I wear. I got the Double Snap with a 20 degree cant.
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You can learn to CC anything (almost), but what may be comfortable for someone else, may not work of you...experiment.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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I comfortably carry a full-size 1911 in a Milt Sparks VM2 IWB.
I also recommend Pure Kustom Holsters. Rocky makes a beautiful combo IWB/OWB that works as well in both positions.
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I carry a Kahr CW9. Designed and built for concealment. I have others for the range.
I routinely carry an older, '80s vintage pre-MkIII gun. I carry it IWB in a Don Hume 715M holster.
It's one of my favorite guns.
Welcome to the forum from Virginia.
Shouldn't be a problem with the proper holster/belt combination. There are members here who carry the full size CZ75 which was patterned after the Browning Hi-Power. As someone else mentioned carrying a full size 1911 isn't that big a problem, so your Hi Power should be very easy to do also.
Welcome from Daytona Beach. Just be careful of the finish. You will probably need to wipe it down frequently to keep the blued finish from rusting against your skin.
I am planning to carry IWB; something else should be almost impossible when living in a place that is like a stem room 24/7. The size of the BHP is very close to the size of the XD9 Service and the Kahr CW9, while the barrel length of the BHP is 4 5/8".
The Browning's site does not say anything about the height; I found at Wikipedia that it is 5", but it refers to an older model; could you please tell me about it? Although the Browning's site does to mention it, the FN Herstal's site (HP MKIII) says that it accepts Nato ammo. Did you ever try +p ammo?
I own a CZ 75 Shadow, and that thing is heavy and tall. I love it when shooting, but to carry it is other story. Once I carried it all day long, and it was one time too much :-)
Tanks every body for all advices; I truly hope to get more.
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In my highly educated and professional opinion, I think that gun is ugly.
Back to the OP. The Browning is a fine weapon, and very capable of CCing. Wether it is right for you is something only you can answer. There are so many variables, lifestyle, type of clothing, physical shape, etc....... Seldom does anyone get it right the first time and most of us have several ( a safe full) of guns that can be used for different occassions. What works for me may be totally wrong for you. So good luck in finding the carry combo that works for you and your lifestyle.
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I say that with the right belt and holster combination, the Browning will be most agreeable for concealed carry. There are other semi-auto pistols that are smaller and more compact, but none that will be more reliable, accurate or easy to shoot. Plus, if you get the Browning and don't like it, you will find a ready market for it near the price you paid--assuming you get a reasonable deal. It's not like you only have one chance to get it right. That said, I think you will be pleased.
The largest gun I have been able to carry daily is a G26, approx 20oz, especially in hot weather. For me, weight and thickness are the 2 most important factors in comfort. I have never been able to wear a IWB holster.
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Chief of British Army Gen. Sir Peter Anthony Wall, who wrapped up his six-day visit to Nepal on Wednesday, spoke to Nepalnews correspondents Bigyan Sharma and Kishor Paudel on several issues including Nepal-Britain relationship, Gurkha soldiers issues and Gorkha Welfare Scheme among others. Excerpts:
What is the main objective of your Nepal visit?
Mainly, there are two purposes of my visit. I was invited by Nepal Army to visit them to understand how we can forge better relationship between the two armies. We have been working together for a long time. In future also, there are many ways to develop relationship and work together with Nepal Army. I am here to talk about that to General Gaurav Rana. It is the primary purpose. But I was also taking an opportunity to visit the British Gorkha arrangement in Kathmandu and Pokhara and within that to see the welfare scheme that we run through charity of which I am chairman of trustees called Gurkha Welfare Trust. The scheme has 19 welfare centers in Nepal. They are important part of British army's network that recruits Gurkha soldiers into British Army. It supports Gurkha community and also looks after pensioners including those who are very senior, over 90 in age who also fought in the World War-II.
How do you describe the Gurkhas role in the British military?
Its immense pleasure of us to be able to attract such high quality soldiers. They perform their unique role in the British army. We are very proud to have them.
Gurkha soldiers have been fighting for the UK over the years. Ex-Gurkha soldiers have been demanding equal facilities on par with their British counterparts in recognition to their role. What is your position on their demands?
Well, I think we need to recognise that in a bygone era. They were recruited on very different terms of service from British soldiers. They were afforded minimum 15 years service. Many of them served much longer than that period. Those who retire after 15 years are given pension suited to living back in Nepal and living in Europe.
Are you aware of concerns from some Nepali political parties to stop Gurkha recruitment? How long does the UK government plan to recruit the Gurkha soldiers in the British Army?
Wsell. I understand there have been such concerns from some leaders, but as long as we are afforded the privilege by the Nepali government and people of Nepal, we will carry on the recruitments.
Currently the UK government has enforced redundancy plan by which Gorkha soldiers have been also affected. What in your view actually caused the UK to cut the numbers of national army?
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Does the British army have any plan to support Nepal Army in terms of strengthening its capacity?
During my visit, I spoke to General Gaurav Rana. We discussed how we can help one another in making our service more effective in future. For example while British army has been busy in campaign in places like Iraq and Afghanistan over last 10 years, we reduced the engagement with UN operations. I am well aware that Nepal Army was ranked 6th around the world in terms of size of its contribution to the UN. It is significant achievement. There are many areas where we can exchange our support.
Did General Rana make request for assistance in a particular area?
Yes, he was talking about how we can exchange the support in modernising the army. We talked about where we can share education opportunities to the army.
You also met President Dr Ram Baran Yadav and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai. What actually transpired during those meetings?
The meetings were very cordial. It was great privilege for me to talk to the President and the Prime Minister. We talked about the continued importance of Gurkha soldiers in the British Army and welfare arrangements for retired Gurkha soldiers. The meetings were quite productive for me.
You also took stock of activities of Gurkha Welfare Scheme. How effective are the programmes running under the Scheme?
I think it is very effective scheme in many aspects. First of all, it is a network of welfare centers which allows us to understand the people who have difficulties and who might be in need. Another focus is on paying pension to the retired soldiers. It does looks after their dependents. It provides medical supports and also provides support for the development works in the locality of the Gurkha community. The scheme is working well. I would like to pay tribute to those who run the scheme, ex- Gurkha soldiers and Nepali civilian. nepalnews.com


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