INTERIOR WEST POWERHOUSE, GRAND COULEE DAM
Here are installed nine generators, each with a capacity of 125,000 K.W. -- the most poweful in the world.
Provenance: Purchased from some guy on Ebay, April 2011.
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The Brackets!
Active First Round Pairings
- Ghiberti v. Ghirlandaio
- Géricault v. Gertler
- Gentile da Fabriano v. Gentileschi
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 11
- Gaudier-Brzeska v. Gauguin
- Gaddi v. Gainsborough
- Froment v. Gabo
- Friedrich v. Frink
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 10 -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Frankenthaler v. Freud
- Fragonard v. Francis
- Foujita v. Fouquet -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Flavin v. Fontina -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Fautrier v. Feininger -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Fabritius v. Fantin-Latour -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
Active Second Round Pairings
Active Third Round Pairings
Active Fourth Round Matches
Left Bracket, Round 2
- Elimination: Caro v. Carrà
- Elimination: Calder v. Canova
- Elimination: Albers v. Alma-Tadema
- Appel v. Anguissola
- Antonello da Messina v. Archipenko
- Copley v. Claesz
- Claude Lorraine v. Clouet
- Christo v. Chagall
- Tie-Break: Bellows v. Bourgeois
- Tie-Break: Bingham v. Botero
- Champaigne v. De Chirico
- Böcklin v. Buren
- P. Blake v. Boltanski -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Jan Bruegel v. Bronzino
- Bomberg v. Boccioni -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
Left Bracket, Round 3
The Infinite Rice Army
Alleviating hunger through the taking of quizzes since March 21.
30,200 grains earmarked!
The Hypothetical Hypermarathon
- Michael5000's Running Avatar has left Portland and is running generally east, out into the great big world.
- June 10 -- Just outside of Roosevelt, Washington, population ~60.
- June 2 -- Back on Washington Highway 14, looking down on the John Day Dam.
- June 1 -- The Avatar crossed the Columbia again and checked out the Stonehenge Memorial on the way to the Maryhill Museum.
- May 29 -- Still in the Columbia Gorge, the Avatar crosses into Sherman County for what is probably his last stop in Oregon for a long, long time.
- May 19th -- Passing through The Dalles, Oregon.
The Humanly Prowess -- since August 2009
- June 8 -- 11.5 miles sets a running record for the 8th.
- June 2 -- 7.44 miles is a record-breaking 16th consecutive Sunday and wraps up the highest-mileage week of 2013.
- June 1 -- A big 12.3 miles is the longest run so far in 2013 and an all-time record for the first of the month.
- May 29 -- 7.09 miles gets rid of the only remaining sub-seven day-of-month record, although the 29th remains the day with the shortest record.
- May 26 -- Tied the record for consecutive Sundays run, at 15.
- May 25 -- 4.04 miles is an all-time record for New Mexico. Also, I've now run in 11 states.
Our Mission Statement
190 or Bust
- June 8 -- 201.4
- June 1 -- 202.6
- May 28 -- 204.2
- May 16 -- Weigh-in for work weight-loss contest: 208
- May 3 -- 208
- March 10 -- 205.4
- Feb 24 -- 206.0 -- but clearly we've got a little problem to work on here.
- Feb 23 -- 207.6 -- Uh-oh...
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6 comments:
Electricity is inherently boring (unless you don't have any) and I still don't understand how they get the electricity out of the water!
They extract it centrifugally, that is, they spin the water around really really fast until the electricity comes out the outside, then they pipe it to barrels where it's cleaned (fish removed, stuff like that) and put into wires so it can get to your house. Those big round things in the picture are centrifugal turbines.
Tee hee! Thank you, Aviatrix! I just wish they could keep the electricity from leaking out of the sockets; I have a hard time keeping all of them filled with plugs.
That's a "dam" fine postcard, sir.
Elaine, you can keep the electricity in the sockets by using crocheted covers. I`m told that`s what my grandmother did, to avoid having to mop up puddles of electricity from the floor. Of course that was in the old days, before they took out the fish, so it was a lot messier then.
Now *this* is a boring postcard.
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