August 29th, 2009
Friends and Family
Friends and Family
May 7th, 2009
westcoast portraits : jim nims and evan davies
April 7th, 2009
Ned Buntline
Ned Buntline (March 20, c. 1821 – July 16, 1886), was a pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson (E. Z. C. Judson), an American publisher, journalist writer and publicist best known for his dime novels and the Colt Buntline Special he commissioned from Colt’s Manufacturing Company.
Edward Judson was born in Stamford, Delaware County, New York. As a boy, Ned ran away to sea. “Buntline” is a nautical term for a rope at the bottom of a square sail. As a seaman, he fought in the Seminole Wars, though he saw little combat. After four years he resigned, having reached the rank of midshipman. Buntline spent several years in the east starting up newspapers and story papers, only to have most of them fail. An early success that helped launch his fame was a gritty serial story of the Bowery and slums of New York City titled The Mysteries and Miseries of New York. An opinionated man, he strongly advocated nativism and temperance. Through his writing and his association with New York City’s notorious gangs of the early 1800s, he was one of the instigators of the Astor Place Riot which left 23 people dead. He also had an involvement in a nativist riot in St. Louis - an involvement that would later come back to haunt him. Although a heavy drinker, he traveled around the country giving lectures about temperance. It was on one of these lecture tours that he encountered Buffalo Bill.
April 7th, 2009
how much is in a bushel?
Exactly how much is a bushel?
You hear this term for measurement all of the time, particularly in agriculture reports, but exactly how much is a bushel?
In the United States, a bushel is a unit of volume used for the dry measurement of things such as vegetables, fruits or grains and is equivalent to 4 pecks. In the U.S. Customary System, a bushel is equal to 2,150.42 cubic inches, or 35.24 liter.
When used as a British capacity of measure, or in the British Imperial System, a bushel is used as both a dry and liquid measure and equals 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.37 liters.
To better visualize the capacity of a bushel, one can use the following list to get a better idea regarding the actual size of a bushel:
42-48 pounds of apples
60 pounds of potatoes
45 pounds of tomatoes
42 pounds of white flour
56 pounds of shelled corn
50 pounds of rutabagas
48 pounds of barley
32 pounds of oats
42 pounds of turnips
The average person may never actually measure anything in terms of a bushel, but having a basic understanding of this form of measurement may certainly help city folk during that next visit to the orchard or farm
April 7th, 2009
lines of bunt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cody/program/
Watch chapter three of the buffalo bill PBS special. Mr. “Buntline” is a real character
March 19th, 2009
Test your ham Tina
Thought it was about time for another issue of Bunty the book for girls. Thought it also extremely necessary to include the extra bunty back cover of the issue. couple testers… ya gotta
March 9th, 2009
Codin’ Power Moves.
140 Visitors and 1511 Page loads for the month of February. Not bad at all! March isn’t going to shabby either, so far: 56 Visitors and 256 Page Loads. An incredible start to a community web page.
I was hoping to address a few issues, it would super helpful if responses, criticisms, questions, etc… could go into the comments.
- We have ads. Go daddy ads. SUPER bunty. Unfortunately, those can not be solved without a 60$ payment to go daddy. This 60 dawwwas will be good for a year….details here (we would just need the economy plan). I was hoping within this community of bunty-folk, we could all pitch in 5-10$ using paypal to get rid of those damn ads (use cone.rc [at] gmail.com if your in a hurry to juice the trippp). What do you think? Do we even care about ads?
- Aesthetics. What does everyone want to see as to visual design? Is there anyone else who want to help with designing the site? I actually awoke to an interesting idea last night, we’ll see how it turns out. Let me know. Look at this crazy wordpress site: http://ma.tt and get inspired.
- Organization. How do we want to organize our posts, pages, pictures? Should we create specific categories or let them be created infinitely? I want to implement a bit of magic that “features posts”. For example, the best 3 posts during a week, month, what have you…would stick at the top, and get more “page time” so to say. Allowing us to post a bunch of bunty riff raff, but still having quality content at the top of the blog and “featured”.
discuss.
