Hobby Thread - June 28, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. As previewed last week, we gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it came up with lighthouses.

After all, Ace of Spades brings light to the dark places and guidance to those in need of direction.

[Top photo: Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, Florida
(photo credit: Mike Seeley]

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Why are we talking lighthouses in a Hobby Thread? Anything that captures the imagination is fertile ground for all kinds of hobbying.

Lighthouses are great destinations on road trips. If you just mapped out a trip based on lighthouses, you'd inevitably trace spectacular coastal roads. Lighthouses also are shrouded in history and legend as they keep watch over jagged coastlines. Lightkeepers, shipwrecks amid turbulent weather, and tales of hauntings spur the imagination. They come with age and patina from a pats before electricity and computers.

Lighthouses beg for photos, paintings, drawings, sculpture and crafting. They typically keep vigil on prominent real estate along the coastline. They share similar attributes of hoisting a bright light in the air, but the builds and architecture vary from there. Some are square and some are round. Some are painted and some are bare stone or brick.

They are perfect for hobbying. I have faith in the Horde, so come forth with your lighthouse stories, experiences and hobbying.

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Companion photo from Mike Seeley of the top photo:

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Point Reyes Lighthouse, California (built 1870, photo credit: tankascribe)

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Pemaquid Point Lighthouse in Maine (built 1827):

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Beavertail Lighthouse in Rhode Island (originally built in 1749 but rebuilt once after a fire and then again after the British torched it. The current building dates to 1856):

Hat tip: Jack Straw

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Portland Head Light (built 1791):

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Horde lighthouse history!

From Keith Marston: Great grandfather was Coast Guard station chief at Two Lights in Portland. He lived in the lighthouse. Edward Hopper painted this lighthouse. Gary Merrill lived there in the 1960s.

Thank you!

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Cape Hatteras - overseeing the Graveyard of the Atlantic:

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Cape Hatteras also has the distinction of moving (which is pretty rare for lighthouses).

In 1999, the Cape Hatteras Light Station, which consists of seven historic structures, was successfully relocated 2,900 feet from the spot on which it had stood since 1870. Because of the threat of shoreline erosion, a natural process, the entire light station was safely moved to a new site where the historic buildings and cisterns were placed in spatial and elevational relationship to each other, exactly as they had been at the original site. NPS Site

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Lighthouse glass art by Ben Young. Wow.

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Point Arenas in California (originally 1870, but rebuilt after 1906 earthquake):

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Split Rock Minnesota (near Duluth, built in 1910):

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Bass Harbor Light in Maine (built 185:

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Want to buy your own lighthouse? The US Government has one up for auction in Fairfield, CT right now:

Penfield Reef Lighthouse

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The Penfield Reef Lighthouse (the Property) is an 1874 Second Empire Style historic structure located one mile off Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor and is accessible only by boat. The property features a 51-foot octagonal light tower atop a two-story keeper's quarters (1,568 sf), set on a concrete foundation with rip-rap, a pier, and a boat landing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1990, with reference number 89001473.
The Property remains an active Federal Aid to Navigation (ATON) with red flashing lights for both emergency and primary use, and fog horns that have a range of one nautical mile.

Starting bid is $100k. Auction ends August 12. Let us know if you win the auction. Would be a unique MoMe location!

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Random crafting with a lighthouse theme. Good use of driftwood!

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Fresnel lens history and manufacturing:

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Modern Marvels - History of Lighthouses:

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A Lego rolling mill? Yes, please.

Can you make a 3D printer from your treadmill? Apparently so.

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Horde Hobbying - another wonderful painting from polynikes. This one keeps the theme of last week's Hobby Thread going. It is called The Vineyard. It is an oil painting and measures 16x24.

Very nice. Thank you!

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What are you hobbying these days?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Your participation does not need to limited to the theme. All hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants, as always, are optional.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We talked home brewing and winemaking. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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TRex wouldn't put a mystery click in a Hobby Thread would he? He just might. If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:30 PM (+qU29)

2 Been to Point Loma. Can't think of any other lighthouses I've been to.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:31 PM (0eaVi)

3 Besides notification downstairs, only remember going up in 1 on a vacation, Maine for sure, but Bar Harbor maybe?

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:33 PM (+qU29)

4 My hobby work today was finishing a game then packed the game board away.

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:37 PM (+qU29)

5 Someone forgot to light the lighthouse beacon. Nobody can find their way here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:38 PM (0eaVi)

6 Been to the Pemaquid Point lighthouse many times as my aunt had a cottage near there. First time we visited Pemaquid Point was the year "Jaws" came out. I enjoy lighthouses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:38 PM (2GCMq)

7 A windswept lighthouse should be a good setting for a mystery.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)

8 Heceta Head Lighthouse is a personal favorite. You can hike around the headlands from the north side and eventually reach the beautiful lighthouse perched above the crashing waves, where the coastal range quite literally meets the ocean.

Posted by: HappyFun at June 28, 2025 05:39 PM (d2+05)

9 Great topic TRex. Went to the Outer Banks years ago and read about lighthouses and always thought lighthouses were interesting but I know little about them.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 28, 2025 05:43 PM (CcOY+)

10 A windswept lighthouse should be a good setting for a mystery.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)
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There is something inherently unsettling about a lighthouse.

Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (IBQGV)

11 A windswept lighthouse should be a good setting for a mystery.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)

Totally, wish someone would finally do something like that.

Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (r2ymA)

12 When I a kid, Pemaquid was the highlight of our vacation.
Now, it's too much driving and Mount Meguntikook is better.

Posted by: Accomack at June 28, 2025 05:47 PM (Bbhox)

13 Wow! T -Rex, can I humbly suggest getting a hint of what’s next on the hobby thread the week prior?

I can see one lighthouse from my bed and can walk to another. I would have loved to send photos of both. They may not be as impressive as those on the east coast, but they are mine and I see them daily.

The West Point Lighthouse I can see from my bed. It flashes red, then white every five seconds. It marks the entrance to Elliot Bay where the Port of Seattle lies.

The one I can walk to is Alki Point. That’s the name of the beach where I live. There are quite a few working lighthouses (light homes?)in the Puget Sound and outlying waterways. From a navigational standppint, lighthouses and a chart are the only way to insure you don’t run up on the rocks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 05:48 PM (mT+6a)

14 Wife and I just toured the Point Sur lighthouse last week. Pretty cool, and very cold (~30mph winds). Also toured the neighboring Point Sur Naval Facility, which was used for oceanographic research (not really) and submarine detection up to the mid-80s.

Posted by: Average Guy at June 28, 2025 05:48 PM (lPHZZ)

15 They call them lighthouses, but they're actually very heavy.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)

16 Concord Point lighthouse in Havre de Grace is one of the oldest lighthouses in have ever toured. Being from the west side of the country I am always amazed by all the old historic stuff on the east coast.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (61vGu)

17 I've been to or by a good number of those lighthouses. I used to race on a boat that was kept in CT and we sailed by Penfield Reef Lighthouse many times.

Love lighthouses. Got me home many times.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM (viF8m)

18 Totally, wish someone would finally do something like that.
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (r2ymA)

Too easy to solve. The lighthouse keeper or his wife did it. No one else was there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM (0eaVi)

19 There is something inherently unsettling about a lighthouse.

Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (IBQGV)

For some reason, a lighthouse reminds me of the Overlook Hotel in the Shining. Same kind of isolation, I think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:51 PM (bss/y)

20 Read some time ago, widows of military often were awarded Lighthouse keepers, giving them a paycheck and residence

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)

21 15 They call them lighthouses, but they're actually very heavy.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)

Heavy water is not really that much heavier than normal water.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)

22 20 Read some time ago, widows of military often were awarded Lighthouse keepers, giving them a paycheck and residence
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)

Those poor Lighthouse keepers. "here's a widow. Keep her well. Also the lighthouse.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (bss/y)

23 19 There is something inherently unsettling about a lighthouse.

Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I humbly disagree. A lighthouse tells you EXACTLY where you are. It is a homing beacon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (EuUgR)

24 My Bodie Island Lighthouse painting was the first painting TRex posted of mine . I’ve got to get in time with the Hobby post subject.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)

25 18 Too easy to solve. The lighthouse keeper or his wife did it. No one else was there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM
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Or was it the spirit of the former lighthouse keeper that now haunts the property after an unfortunate death while on duty?

Or the castaway that crashed on the rocks below, unseen amidst the storm?

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (cCn4/)

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Been to Point Loma and the one in Monterey. An automated, unmanned lighthouse is NOT a non-working lighthouse! But I'm still curious about the extent to which boats and ships rely on lighthouses to stay away from dangerous rocks and shallows.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (HuRzZ)

27 A lighthouse is not suitable in tornado country.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (61vGu)

28 They call them lighthouses, but they're actually very heavy.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)

Their heaviness depends on the materials they are built with. They are called lighthouses because they are meant to give light to incoming ships.

Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (r2ymA)

29 I got to climb the Hatteras light with my mom when I was a kid. We got to see Bodie Island and Ocracoke too but Hatteras was pretty awesome.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (31p00)

30 I also painted the lighthouse at Cape Disappointment.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)

31 My Bodie Island Lighthouse painting was the first painting TRex posted of mine . I’ve got to get in time with the Hobby post subject.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)

Maybe you can set up a lego assembly line?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (0eaVi)

32 Edgar Allan Poe started a story called "The Lighthouse" but he died before finishing it. Maybe that would make a good lighthouse mystery story.

Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 05:57 PM (vFG9F)

33 Heavy water is not really that much heavier than normal water.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

But heavy metal is much, much heavier than normal metal.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:57 PM (KAi1n)

34 13 Wow! T -Rex, can I humbly suggest getting a hint of what’s next on the hobby thread the week prior?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 05:48 PM
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I don't always, but I did post a preview last week! Must have gotten lost amidst all the other high quality content.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:57 PM (cCn4/)

35 Or was it the spirit of the former lighthouse keeper that now haunts the property after an unfortunate death while on duty?

Or the castaway that crashed on the rocks below, unseen amidst the storm?

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (cCn4/)

Or the crew of a sailing vessel, cursed to sail the waves, seeking vengeance on the descendants of a small town's council who killed them all?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:58 PM (bss/y)

36 Too easy to solve. The lighthouse keeper or his wife did it. No one else was there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM
Or was it the spirit of the former lighthouse keeper that now haunts the property after an unfortunate death while on duty?

Or the castaway that crashed on the rocks below, unseen amidst the storm?

Pirates! Because, don't all good stories involve pirates?

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (cCn4/)

Posted by: Lance Geiger at June 28, 2025 05:59 PM (0eaVi)

37 24 I’ve got to get in time with the Hobby post subject.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM
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Send me a note with what you're working on. I'll see what I can do.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:00 PM (cCn4/)

38 But I'm still curious about the extent to which boats and ships rely on lighthouses to stay away from dangerous rocks and shallows.

Quit a bit. At least recreational boats. Electronics have made it a lot easier but there's nothing like good visual aides. The Coast Guard is decomissioning lots of them, taking out buoys as well which is just flat out stupid, but boats want them to stay.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:00 PM (viF8m)

39 The family went on a tour of the North Carolina lighthouses several years ago. I've got lots of photos somewhere...some of which I've carved up and used for other purposes.

Beautiful painting, polynikes.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 06:01 PM (CHHv1)

40 A lighthouse is not suitable in tornado country.
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (61vGu)

Tornadoes generally take place inland, while lighthouses are usually located in coastal areas.

Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 06:02 PM (r2ymA)

41 I watched the 2016 Lighthouse movie. Can’t believe they thought it good enough to remake it in 2019.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (VofaG)

42 Speaking of heavy metal, one thing did get out of night work is maybe 60 pound of lead

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (+qU29)

43 For some reason, a lighthouse reminds me of the Overlook Hotel in the Shining. Same kind of isolation, I think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:51 PM (bss/y)
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There's a classic Doctor Who story set in a lighthouse: The Horror of Fang Rock. The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters an alien entity that's killing off the human caretakers and some crash survivors one by one.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (IBQGV)

44 Fenelon, I only just saw your remark on the pet thread and wanted to answer you.

How does having a Greyhound compare with having other dogs, NR Pax?

They're very sweet natured and adapt quickly to being pets after a racing career. They love routine and long naps. The main caveat I give prospective owners is that they are quite thin skinned and can get injured from playing too rough.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (7xrfc)

45 My God, it's full of pictures! Neat post.

Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (YkGND)

46 Wife and I visited Cape Disappointment one gray,blustery day in May some years ago. Really neat. Love the PNW.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (Bv0Y3)

47 43 The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters an alien entity that's killing off the human caretakers and some crash survivors one by one.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM
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So not a comedy, huh?

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (cCn4/)

48 Lighthouses are so interesting and usually in dramatic settings. The two I grew up near, Castle Hill and Beavertail, perch on a rugged rocky coastline. During a storm the waves crash against the rocks and, often, the houses themselves. It is dramatic.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 06:05 PM (yTvNw)

49 Poe visits a lighthouse to research a story he is writing called "The Lighthouse" and dies mysteriously shortly after. What does the widow lighthouse keeper know, and why is her cat named Fresnel obsessively fixated on the lighthouse basement?

Posted by: fd's story ideas at June 28, 2025 06:07 PM (vFG9F)

50 Hah I thought the lighthouse painting was by a moron. I was about to post a ‘ that’s really really nice ‘ comment and say it looks like what Edward Hopper would do.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:08 PM (VofaG)

51 Link to WI lighthouses. I haven't looked through the whole site but you can explore a couple of them in 3D, which is kind of cool.

Cana Island is the main one on the page. I've been to this one. If the water level is low enough, you can walk across the causeway to the island that the lighthouse is on. Walking through ankle deep Lake Michigan water feels pretty good in the summer.

Link goes to PBSWisconsin.

https://tinyurl.com/3pk7787r

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 28, 2025 06:09 PM (144I4)

52 I seen pictures and videos of lighthouses in severe storms, amazing they stand and have to be quite a ride in one

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:09 PM (+qU29)

53 Good work, polynikes! Love the shadows. I can imagine it a hot day, and people huddling under that tree for shade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:10 PM (omVj0)

54 43 The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters an alien entity that's killing off the human caretakers and some crash survivors one by one.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM
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So not a comedy, huh?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (cCn4/)
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No, I think it's one of the darker Doctor Who episodes. Everyone not on team TARDIS dies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:11 PM (IBQGV)

55 Posted by: NR Pax at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (7xrfc

Thanks, NR Pax. The ones which I’ve encountered have always seemed like gentle dogs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 06:11 PM (2GCMq)

56 If I had an extra $100,000 or more lying around I’d love to have a lighthouse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 06:12 PM (2GCMq)

57 Had the fun of climbing to the top of the Hattaras lighthouse one summer in the early mid 80's. I think it was the last year you were able to do that.

Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 06:14 PM (lJ0H4)

58 This is one of the more famous shots, Skip. La Jument in France.

Check out the lighthouse keeper standing in front of the doorway.

https://tinyurl.com/3fwk73wr

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:14 PM (viF8m)

59 Point Reyes Lighthouse...313 steps each way.....IIRC it is remote, surrounded by farmland that CA just used eminent domain to claim, ending 100+ years of dairy farming.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:15 PM (cCn4/)

60 About six years ago there was a horribly dreary movie called The Lighthouse w/ Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Filmed in B & W, which was great, but talk about dreary and dull --! Miss Linda got it from the library, and halfway through, or earlier, I got up and went somewhere else.

That said, I'd love to live in one of those lighthouse keeper homes. Though I imagine it could get pretty hairy during storms. And you'd have to be on duty every night in bad weather, or arrange for a substitute.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:16 PM (omVj0)

61 @43 - as I recall, Robert Holmes (script editor) told Terrance Dicks "I want a story set in a lighthouse" and that was the only instruction.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 06:17 PM (CHHv1)

62 I watched the 2016 Lighthouse movie. Can’t believe they thought it good enough to remake it in 2019.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025

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There was another one????

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)

63 My attempts to sketch Castle Hill lighthouse were less than satisfactory but it was fun trying. I worked from a photo on the internet since my memory of it is too distant (over 50 years) for accuracy.

If I still lived in Rhode Island, I would be out there as a storm approached with a camera, a 28 or 35mm lens and some fast film good for low light conditions. Thinking about it, some 50 ASA or 100 ASA black and white film could make some interesting shots.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (yTvNw)

64 And you'd have to be on duty every night in bad weather, or arrange for a substitute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:16 PM (omVj0)

That'll be $300!

Posted by: Union Army Recruiter at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (0eaVi)

65 There is something inherently unsettling about a lighthouse.

Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (IBQGV)

Dad visited the Columbia lightship stationed at the Columbia river bar, when he was a young reporter to do some article on it, I think it had been there long enough to be notable. He went out and interviewed the Coast Guard crew and he noticed that every time the fog horn blew, everyone stopped talking and resumed talking when it stopped. He thought that was pretty notable.
I don't know how he managed it, when I was a kid, he had the worst motion sickness on boats

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 06:20 PM (D7oie)

66 54 No, I think it's one of the darker Doctor Who episodes. Everyone not on team TARDIS dies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:11 PM
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Hmmm.... Maybe they needed a Stargate to teleport to another world, track down the A-Team, and then return to reclaim the lighthouse after building a super cool attack boat with the guys on the Deadliest Catch to kick alien butt.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:20 PM (cCn4/)

67 I will always love the intertubes if only for the fact that I could look up that the last major lighthouse built in the USA was in 1962.

Sullivan’s Island Lighthouse.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:20 PM (VofaG)

68 "About six years ago there was a horribly dreary movie called The Lighthouse w/ Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson"

According to wiki it started out based on Poe's story:

"According to Robert Eggers, although the final story bears little resemblance to the Poe fragment, his 2019 film The Lighthouse began as an attempt by his brother Max Eggers to do a contemporary take on the Poe story. When the project stalled, Robert offered to work with his brother and the project evolved into a period thriller with the Poe elements removed"

Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:21 PM (vFG9F)

69 watched the 2016 Lighthouse movie. Can’t believe they thought it good enough to remake it in 2019.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025

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There was another one????
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)

I think the more acclaimed on was the 2019 one with William DeFoe. I didn’t bother to watch it after watching the 2016 one.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:22 PM (VofaG)

70 A windswept lighthouse should be a good setting for a mystery.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025

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A setting tailor-made for a John Dickson Carr "impossible crime." It develops that the only people who could have committed the murder, the lighthouse keeper and his wife, could not have done it thanks to solid alibis provided by the detective himself. And the question arises: Are supernatural forces at play?

Carr really knew how to work that kind of setup.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:23 PM (omVj0)

71 Jack I would need a case of Scotch for that night in one

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:25 PM (+qU29)

72 Have to wonder what the pitch is to get someone to live in a lighthouse? They are cool, but it must be somewhat of a lonely life.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:25 PM (cCn4/)

73 If you want to get a taste of what it's like to live in a lighthouse you can book a room at Rose Island Lighthouse.

https://tinyurl.com/2v2mbe7y

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:26 PM (viF8m)

74 great commute though....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:26 PM (cCn4/)

75 Thanks for the cool, informative thread Admiral Short Arms!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2025 06:27 PM (mH6SG)

76 Light House or Fire Lookout Tower ?

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:28 PM (VofaG)

77 75 Thanks for the cool, informative thread Admiral Short Arms!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2025 06:27 PM
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Thank you Commodore Deal!

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:28 PM (cCn4/)

78 Greetings Fellow Hobbyists.....

I have an embarrassing, hobby thread-related story to share..

A month or two ago I asked on the thread if coin or stamp collecting had ever been covered and shared a story of still having my coin collection started when I was working on my coin collecting merit badge (Nixon was president...)

T-Rex (I believe) was kind enough to point me to the November, 2024 Hobby Thread which covered Numismatics.

Well...here's where it gets embarrassing....

I finally got around to locating the thread and reading thru the comments.....

What do you know....not only did I apparently read the post...I EVEN LEFT A COMMENT relating the same dumb merit badge story.....

This is embarrassing!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:29 PM (QGaXH)

79 That's a nice vineyard painting, polynikes! I like how you've suggested the broad shapes of the grape leaves. To many people want to paint them like tree leaves, LOL. Tip for enlivening greens (courtesy of my mentor): along the shadow edge where leaves are bathed in sunlight, dab in a touch of burnt sienna. It's amazing how this little bit of "transition red" between sunlight and shadow makes the green come to life. He also recommends putting just a little orange into greens to tone them down and make them look more natural (versus artificial pigment) and this works wonders, too.

Posted by: tankascribe at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (NtoJk)

80 I've turned into a slightly more than easy things like oil changes motorcycle mechanic. There's something to be said for turning wrenches. It's peaceful, purposeful, and there's a goal at the end that is rewarding.

I've always done basic maintenance on our vehicles like oil/brakes etc but this is a new level and I'm really liking it.

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (ra4xZ)

81
"The Lighthouse," 2016: Based on real events which saw two lighthouse keepers stranded for months at sea in a freak storm, the film tells a tale of death, madness and isolation; a desolate trip into the heart of human darkness.

Stars
Mark Lewis Jones, Joshua Richards, Michael Jibson

"The Lighthouse," 2019: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Stars
Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (HuRzZ)

82 In 2014 we spent three weeks in Nova Scotia and down east Maine and we saw a LOT of lighthouses.

Probable highlight was the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Lubec, Maine. Somewhat puzzlingly, the WEST Quoddy Lighthouse claims to be the easternmost point in the United States. That's because the EAST Quoddy Head Lighthouse is on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. In reality, they are just a few miles apart on different parts of the coast of Passamaquoddy Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy.

An amazingly beautiful area and Bay of Fundy scallops are definitely the food of the gods.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (FEVMW)

83 I am also envious of how prolific you are, polynikes!

And thanks to TRex for using my photo of the Pt. Reyes lighthouse! Another wonderful Hobby thread per usual!

Posted by: tankascribe at June 28, 2025 06:31 PM (NtoJk)

84 (Not a seafarer.)

Were the lights on each lighthouse somehow distinctive and denoted on the maps?

If I came back to shore after a storm, away from my home port, I would certainly want to know if I then needed to go north or south to make it back home.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 28, 2025 06:31 PM (HlyYF)

85 My favorite is Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla NC. Modest fee to climb it. Also a bookstore nearby, so we go there whenever we do outer banks vacation.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 28, 2025 06:32 PM (KaHlS)

86 An amazingly beautiful area and Bay of Fundy scallops are definitely the food of the gods.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (FEVMW)

Bay scallops....Pass.

A scallop should be wider than a 3-tine fork at minimum.

Sea Scallops are the shizznitiest.

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:34 PM (ra4xZ)

87 What do you know....not only did I apparently read the post...I EVEN LEFT A COMMENT relating the same merit badge story.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:29 PM
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It was a good story. Worthy of re-telling. Please repeat if/when we do another coin collecting theme.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:35 PM (cCn4/)

88 84 (Not a seafarer.)

Were the lights on each lighthouse somehow distinctive and denoted on the maps?

If I came back to shore after a storm, away from my home port, I would certainly want to know if I then needed to go north or south to make it back home.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

PI,

Yes, lighthouses all have a distinct pattern so you can identify them. The lights are at different intervals, or alternate red and white. The West Point Lighthouse I see from my bed alternates red with white every five seconds. That is noted on the chart. So, even at night with a new moon, and in a storm, you can identify it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 06:37 PM (IkM4W)

89 The last lighthouse I saw up close was Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island. A very beautiful setting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 06:37 PM (RIvkX)

90 Not on topic, but my hobby now are making cross stitch Christmas ornaments. We are inside the 6 months til the big day, so the clock is ticking....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (cCn4/)

91
Another lighthouse-related movie: The Light at the Edge of the World starring Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Kirk Douglas.

Wreckers take over a lighthouse and douse the light so that ships will wreck, which will allow the wreckers to steal cargo. Mayhem ensues, some of it disturbing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (HuRzZ)

92 15 They call them lighthouses, but they're actually very heavy.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)

Chuckle!

Dad joke.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (QGaXH)

93 Were the lights on each lighthouse somehow distinctive and denoted on the maps?

I don't remember if it's the light, the horn, or some combination of the two. But, yes, each lighthouse has a distinct signal so that you'll know which one it is.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 06:39 PM (ojCLR)

94 Scallops are merely a vector for garlic butter or a marinade.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 06:39 PM (bss/y)

95 I think all hobbies are topic, at least hope so

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:39 PM (+qU29)

96 Not on topic, but my hobby now are making cross stitch Christmas ornaments. We are inside the 6 months til the big day, so the clock is ticking....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (cCn4/)

Any hobby News is on topic. Look forward to seeing them when we get to the Christmas season.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM (VofaG)

97 >>Were the lights on each lighthouse somehow distinctive and denoted on the maps?

They are listed on charts. As JTB noted above, Beavertail and Castle Hill Lighthouses are located on either side of the east passage of Narraganett Bay. You can see both from a pretty good distance so heading between them is pretty straightforward.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM (viF8m)

98 I've got a picture of my parents in front of the Kilauea Point lighthouse on Kauai, the westernmost lighthouse in the USA, taken on their 50th anniversary trip.

Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

99 And nurse answered better than I could hope to. Ignore what I said, pay attention to her.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 06:41 PM (ojCLR)

100 I have lived all my life inland, far from any coast or even lakeshore, often in dry arid zones. I don’t think I have ever intentionally or unintentionally visited a lighthouse though I used to frequent a certain mountaintop observatory, at least on weekends. I spent a week on the Big Island of Hawaii and took a tour driving all around it (it doesn’t take that long) and there must have been lighthouses, both on the windward and leeward sides of the island, but I don’t remember any. I took a harbor tour from Honolulu (a three hour tour!), but I don’t remember any lighthouses there either (there’s supposed to be one at Diamond Head - missed it). I do remember seeing a Fresnel lens display in a science museum - can’t remember if it was Chicago or London - that was fascinating. Enjoy your lighthouses you devotees - I can take them or leave them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 06:41 PM (F7P5/)

101 I've got a picture of my parents in front of the Kilauea Point lighthouse on Kauai, the westernmost lighthouse in the USA, taken on their 50th anniversary trip.
Posted by: fd'
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What an incredible keepsake!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:42 PM (cCn4/)

102 There's a Fresnel Lens on display at the Beavertail Museum. Really cool design. The lightbuld that was used behind the lens is pretty small but the design of the lens made it appear like a huge beam.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:44 PM (viF8m)

103 I haven't been to the shore in probably close to 10 years, despite living 30-45 minutes from it.

Tourists and traffic wreck it all. Nobody vacations in Tulsa.

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:44 PM (ra4xZ)

104 100 I have lived all my life inland, far from any coast or even lakeshore, often in dry arid zones.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 06:41 PM
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With a nickname that includes "Nemo," I would have guessed you had far more aquatic experience.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:44 PM (cCn4/)

105 Hobbies

Golf
Tennis
Astronomy
Numismatist
Guns/ Folding Knives
Painting
Women

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:45 PM (VofaG)

106 96 Any hobby News is on topic. Look forward to seeing them when we get to the Christmas season.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM
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Emphasizing - any hobbying is on topic.

We're going to a Christmas theme several months before Christmas to get you in the mindset well in advance so you can complete your projects in time.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:46 PM (cCn4/)

107 105 Hobbies

Golf
Tennis
Astronomy
Numismatist
Guns/ Folding Knives
Painting
Women
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:45 PM (VofaG)

Pretty good hobbies. Drop the women and you can afford the rest.

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:46 PM (ra4xZ)

108 I thought the only hobbies were mountain climbing, motor racing and bull fighting

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:50 PM (+qU29)

109
"This Hobby Thread is another example of the phallocracy that oppresses womyn. It is the embodiment of rape."

- Your local university's Feminist Studies professor

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:50 PM (/HVsR)

110 105 Hobbies

Golf
Tennis
Astronomy
Numismatist
Guns/ Folding Knives
Painting
Women
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:45 PM (VofaG)

In that order?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (QGaXH)

111 This week I actually got to do a little hobby stuff. Reassembled a linear power supply that I had torn apart to get rust off it. Someone a few decades back let something spill on it and some of that got inside where it proceeded to oxidize whatever it could. Nice long vinegar soak and some quality time with a wire brush took care of that. The metal is pretty badly pitted but still solid. Unfortunately what I thought was a clear coat for rust prevention was really white, but other than that it's all back together and working again.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (ojCLR)

112 "What an incredible keepsake!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady"

They always wanted to go back to Hawaii after dad was stationed there in the late 60s. So they did. And took the family including grandkids. Yes it was a once in a lifetime trip with great memories.

Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)

113 A personal favorite. St David's Lighthouse in Bermuda.

https://tinyurl.com/yu99mnsn

I would have done just about anythingJacqueline Bisset asked me to do.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:52 PM (viF8m)

114 thought the only hobbies were mountain climbing, motor racing and bull fighting
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:50 PM (+qU29)

I believe Free soloing mountain climbers have a death wish.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:53 PM (VofaG)

115 In The Day of the Triffids, a British Sci Fi film, there is a long sequence where scientist Tom Goodwin and his wife Karen (played by Janette Scott) are isolated in a lighthouse and fight a triffid that spits poison and kills!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 06:54 PM (F7P5/)

116 Painting
Women
Posted by: polynikes

This alone might make you famous!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 06:54 PM (//7/7)

117 personal favorite. St David's Lighthouse in Bermuda.

https://tinyurl.com/yu99mnsn

I would have done just about anythingJacqueline Bisset asked me to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:52 PM (viF8m)

Hah. Just watched The Deep a few nights ago. Hadn’t seen it in decades. Lou Gossett got his head crushed.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:54 PM (VofaG)

118 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (QGaXH

I listed the most expensive last.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:56 PM (VofaG)

119
Really thinking about it, I have no hobbies. Her Majesty has one, you betcha. Which, perforce, I participate in but at which I have no great expertise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:56 PM (/HVsR)

120 I regard learning about history as a hobby so it was fun going back into the history of the lighthouses near me growing up. Newport RI has one of the best natural harbors in the world but the entrance from the Atlantic is guarded by ship killing rocks. Castle Hill and Beavertail were needed for regular commerce as well as for pirates and smugglers. Their importance was indicated by the British destroying them as they retreated in 1779. A nasty farewell to their occupation of the island which had almost wrecked Newport.

We were taught a lot of local history in grade school back then: Roger Williams establishing the state after he pissed off the Pilgrim fathers, King Philip's War, American Revolution (especially the British occupation), etc.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 06:57 PM (yTvNw)

121 My hobby this week was that I put a new garbage disposal on my kitchen sink with no assist. Old one had rusted out inside, parts were flying.
ok maybe not really a hobby but i did it, and no leaks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 06:58 PM (uWKK8)

122 We went by the ugly Sullivan island lighthouse on the way to Fort Sullivan/Moultrie near Charleston. There are some better looking lighthouses around there. Also, I thought Ft Moultrie was more interesting than Ft Sumter, and definitely easier to get to.

Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)

123 The burned Beavertail as well, JTB.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 07:00 PM (viF8m)

124 Needs a new hobby.

https://tinyurl.com/ycmb7dbd

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 07:01 PM (ra4xZ)

125 122 We went by the ugly Sullivan island lighthouse on the way to Fort Sullivan/Moultrie near Charleston. There are some better looking lighthouses around there. Also, I thought Ft Moultrie was more interesting than Ft Sumter, and definitely easier to get to.
Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)

Fort Sumter is cool. I used to love the Battery and those little pubs down near the market.

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 07:02 PM (ra4xZ)

126 polynikes,
I like your painting. I find vineyards to have a peaceful feel and you really capture that with the shades of green and especially the way the shadows fall. There is a sense of quiet and warmth in the painting that is just pleasant.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:04 PM (yTvNw)

127 Pretty much the view from my lab in Pacific Grove, CA. circa 2012.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3be2z8

Point Pinos, Monterey, CA.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (Q4IgG)

128 Family comes.from Scituate MA, which has two lighthouses, one for the harbor entrance, and another, Minot Light, for ledges just to the north.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (n4GiU)

129 112 "What an incredible keepsake!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady"

They always wanted to go back to Hawaii after dad was stationed there in the late 60s. So they did. And took the family including grandkids. Yes it was a once in a lifetime trip with great memories.
Posted by: fd'
*********
I just love stories like this. Good for them to make the most of the return trip. This was not only a gift for them, but for all of you. Priceless

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (cCn4/)

130

The movie "Tormented" prominently featured a lighthouse.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054393

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (63Dwl)

131 You know who likes lighthouses? bluebell likes lighthouses.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)

132 127 Pretty much the view from my lab in Pacific Grove, CA. circa 2012.
https://tinyurl.com/mr3be2z8
Point Pinos, Monterey, CA.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM
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Endorsed.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 07:08 PM (cCn4/)

133 128 Family comes.from Scituate MA, which has two lighthouses, one for the harbor entrance, and another, Minot Light, for ledges just to the north.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (n4GiU)

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Pffft.

Posted by: The Lighthouse at Alexandria at June 28, 2025 07:08 PM (BK31K)

134 Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:04 PM (yTvNw)

Thanks JTB and others who said they liked the painting. The rest of ya ……… of course just kidding. As my website motto says. You Like What You Like.

I’m trying to do a more loose brushwork style with the post Impressionism color theory.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (VofaG)

135 eeds a new hobby.

https://tinyurl.com/ycmb7dbd
Posted by: jsg

2A should have fixed the problem...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (//7/7)

136 JackStraw -

Yes, you just put your point-like light at the focal point of the Fresnel lens and the light fills the breadth of the lens, coming out parallel to the optical axis, i.e., the line from the focal point (the focus) to the center of the lens. The Fresnel lens is so economical: you take a regular focusing lens, divvy it up in annular rings about the center of the lens, then remove most of the bits of lens material between the front and back surfaces of the lens and then reassemble it. You get the focusing power of a big heavy lens without the weight of a big heavy lens! It’s ingenious!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (F7P5/)

137 In reading about the history of lighthouses, which goes back to pre-Christian times, I was surprised the Vikings didn't use them. They did use signal fires (shades of the Beacons of Gondor) but apparently not elevated buildings. Maybe all the good timber went into making mead halls.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:11 PM (yTvNw)

138 137 In reading about the history of lighthouses, which goes back to pre-Christian times, I was surprised the Vikings didn't use them.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:11 PM
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Pre-christian lore suggests that dinosaurs missed the signal fires that it was time to get on the ark.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 07:14 PM (cCn4/)

139 > In reading about the history of lighthouses, which goes back to pre-Christian times, I was surprised the Vikings didn't use them. They did use signal fires (shades of the Beacons of Gondor) but apparently not elevated buildings. Maybe all the good timber went into making mead halls.
Posted by: JTB
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Don't discount not being able to visualize in 3D and then building something. Or thinking it didn't matter as "the erf is flat."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:16 PM (Q4IgG)

140 NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (F7P5/)

That sounds like a better description than cool design.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 07:16 PM (viF8m)

141 Anyone remember the old Shirley Temple movie, "Captain January"? It takes place in a lighthouse.

Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 07:16 PM (lJ0H4)

142 we see this one when we stay with my siwter in Santa barbara.
https://is.gd/3Tqo3Z

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:17 PM (//7/7)

143 The only hobby stuff I'm doing is setting up the power tool area of the wood shop. And I thought the hand tool side of the room was tough. I'm going to have to live to 1000 to get all this crap done.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:18 PM (snZF9)

144 eeds a new hobby.

https://tinyurl.com/ycmb7dbd
Posted by: jsg

2A should have fixed the problem...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (//7/7)

I shouldn’t have but I laughed at the one at the dock . He’s lucky he wasn’t eliminated.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:18 PM (VofaG)

145 Maybe all the good timber went into making mead halls.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:11 PM (yTvNw)

Priorities. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (snZF9)

146 and I still can't touch type with the left hand. suxs!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (//7/7)

147 The only hobby stuff I'm doing is setting up the power tool area of the wood shop. And I thought the hand tool side of the room was tough. I'm going to have to live to 1000 to get all this crap done.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:18 PM (snZF9)

Are you still working on bikes?

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (VofaG)

148 Time to say good night and thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for reading, commenting and submitting. Shout out to the lurkers - I know you're out there.

Come back next week for a different theme! See y'all in Club ONT later tonight.

Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 07:22 PM (cCn4/)

149 I'll mention a couple of lights, with pics:

Montauk Light, out at the tip of Long Island. Commissioned by Geo. Washington, 1792:

http://tiny.cc/kb7o001

Oakracoke Light, 1823, is the oldest operating light station in North Carolina and the second oldest lighthouse still standing in the state:
http://tiny.cc/db7o001

Tybee light (Savannah):
http://tiny.cc/ob7o001

Have visited all, and, the Hatteras light while it was being moved. The Tybee light was a constant presence at night when I was a kid.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:22 PM (XeU6L)

150 I forgot all about Montauk Light, it's been many a year since I've been there.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:24 PM (cCn4/)

151
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (Q4IgG)

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NOAA? I always kind of dreamed of getting a job there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (HuRzZ)

152 Was doing my other favorite hobby, napping. Because thete is no sleeping on night shift

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (+qU29)

153 I recollect being miles at sea in the Atlantic on a gloomy night, with a cold September sea running, and just being able to detect the St. John's Newfoundland light sweeping the underside of lowering clouds. Also thinking, that was going to be the last connection with land for a very long time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

154 Skip, do you work just night shift or rotating shifts?

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:27 PM (cCn4/)

155 Are you still working on bikes?

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (VofaG)

Yeah, and I don't see that stopping any time soon. The dealers don't seem to work on anything they can't plug into a computer, so the indy shops have to take up the slack. I got called in yesterday to lace up and true a rear wheel with new spokes. Dealers won't do that, they probably don't know how to. Definitely an arthritis test though. If you can get through that, you don't have arthritis.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:27 PM (snZF9)

156
Yeeesh, living in a lighthouse must be awful with the foghorn going a lot of the time.

No sleep for you, Lighthouse keeper.

Not to mention Willem Dafoe, wandering around the place farting with sea life glued to his head.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 07:29 PM (iJfKG)

157 I recollect being miles at sea in the Atlantic on a gloomy night, with a cold September sea running, and just being able to detect the St. John's Newfoundland light sweeping the underside of lowering clouds. Also thinking, that was going to be the last connection with land for a very long time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

Get to the part with the sea monsters. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:30 PM (snZF9)

158 Definitely an arthritis test though. If you can get through that, you don't have arthritis.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

good to hear you are still helping riders!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:30 PM (//7/7)

159 The Tybee light has been damaged, rebuilt numerous times. Last, about 1871.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

160 Been on solid night shift last month or two

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 07:31 PM (+qU29)

161 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:27 PM (snZF9)

A lot of spoke nuts to loosen.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)

162 Hopefully might be over in a month or so

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 07:32 PM (+qU29)

163 Been on solid night shift last month or two
Posted by: Skip
*********
I found it easier to be on the same shift, versus one job where you worked evening shift only to have to return for day shift the very next day. Why even go home?

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:33 PM (cCn4/)

164 Light houses are a pain to climb with an arm full of kid. They're a million steps, lots of places to fall, so you are holding your kid. Not enough head room to carry them on your shoulder so you have one arm holding up a kid and the other for the railing. Around the five hundred thousand step mark the kid starts weighing a ton on that one arm. You can't switch because the railing is only on one side.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 28, 2025 07:35 PM (cduTK)

165 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:27 PM (snZF9)

A lot of spoke nuts to loosen.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)

And then install all the new ones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:38 PM (snZF9)

166 Might be cool to live in a lighthouse for a little bit. Emphasis on "little".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:40 PM (snZF9)

167 164 Light houses are a pain to climb with an arm full of kid. They're a million steps, lots of places to fall, so you are holding your kid. Not enough head room to carry them on your shoulder so you have one arm holding up a kid and the other for the railing. Around the five hundred thousand step mark the kid starts weighing a ton on that one arm. You can't switch because the railing is only on one side.
Posted by: banana Dream

And now that memory is among your most cherished.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (mT+6a)

168 I watched the u tube video about Fresnel Lens Manufacturing. There is a lot of pretty brass work in the video which didn’t interest me that much. I was more interested in the optics: they are using the prisms at the top and bottom of the assembly as mirrors, using total internal reflection at the mirroring surface. They were tinting the glass they used to match the green tint of the glass in old Fresnel lenses! Why don’t they just use cheap iron contaminated glass like we use for window panes and glass table tops that is naturally tinted green? Why go to the expense of pure white glass then tinting it? The video seemed to emphasize how pretty the Fresnel lens assembly looked, rather than how it worked!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (F7P5/)

169 Light house ok.
Fog horns are fuggin skeery. Climed down cliff in front of beeg one to surf fish. Dreading climb back if the fog came in. Sonic damn weapons.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (Uqkzt)

170 Ohhh looks like Trump got involved in that eminent domain case in jersey where the town is trying to steal a 21 acre farm thats been in the same family for 175 years just to build low income housing. The USDA came in and said uh..no. prime farmland, protected, no crack house for you.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (snZF9)

171 Finish up with 'The Eddystone Light', by the Weavers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0Jw3wxuTg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:43 PM (XeU6L)

172 Light houses are a pain to climb with an arm full of kid. They're a million steps, lots of places to fall, so you are holding your kid. Not enough head room to carry them on your shoulder so you have one arm holding up a kid and the other for the railing. Around the five hundred thousand step mark the kid starts weighing a ton on that one arm. You can't switch because the railing is only on one side.
Posted by: banana Dream

My husband carried our son on his shoulders all the way up and down the Hatteras lighthouse. I still remember the sound my sandals made on the metal stairs. Clop, clop, clop. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 07:46 PM (lJ0H4)

173
My husband carried our son on his shoulders all the way up and down the Hatteras lighthouse. I still remember the sound my sandals made on the metal stairs. Clop, clop, clop. LOL
Posted by: Tuna
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Those stairs were grated. As you climbed, you could see down through them the full 250 (?) feet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:48 PM (XeU6L)

174 164 Light houses are a pain to climb with an arm full of kid. They're a million steps, lots of places to fall, so you are holding your kid. Not enough head room to carry them on your shoulder so you have one arm holding up a kid and the other for the railing. Around the five hundred thousand step mark the kid starts weighing a ton on that one arm. You can't switch because the railing is only on one side.
Posted by: banana Dream

Why don’t you just roast your cabrito at the base of the lighthouse?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:49 PM (F7P5/)

175 170 Ohhh looks like Trump got involved in that eminent domain case in jersey where the town is trying to steal a 21 acre farm thats been in the same family for 175 years just to build low income housing. The USDA came in and said uh..no. prime farmland, protected, no crack house for you.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

God bless President Trump!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:54 PM (F7P5/)

176 My grandkids decided they were going to climb to the top of Pensacola Lighthouse. No way we're hubs and I going to do that. We waited for them in the grass and took pictures of them waving from the top. We later went through the little museum and they were playing old tunes on the speakers. Stand by Me came on and our grandson had just sung that at his choir recital. He started singing along, I joined him and the entire museum started singing with us. It makes me smile to think of it.

Posted by: Megthered at June 28, 2025 07:56 PM (GOJbT)

177 Nood - Movie Sequels

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:58 PM (F7P5/)

178 My Dad caught a lot of fish off the South Haven, MI lighthouse pier.

Posted by: mrp at June 28, 2025 07:59 PM (rj6Yv)

179 It makes me smile to think of it.
Posted by: Megthered

That’s an awesome memory. Thank
You for sharing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 07:59 PM (mT+6a)

180 I saw a chart where Trump had more injunctions in the first four months of his second term than the previous Presidents had over twenty years.

Bush, Obama and Biden combined.

Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:06 PM (r2ymA)

181 polynikes, "The Vineyard"

Really beautiful!

Posted by: m at June 29, 2025 03:35 AM (CQE5S)

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