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Just moved everything to my first archive. Shiny, new, and ready for talk. Travisl (talk) 18:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Redmon.jpg)

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[edit] Image:4400-TV-icon-2.png

Could you let me know the font you used for this image, so I can create a vector version? Thanks, Stannered (talk) 23:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Done! Stannered (talk) 00:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Maps, Hood Canal

Heya, I hope you don't mind my comment at Talk:Hood Canal, just trying to share info in a friendly-like way. Also, I noticed your map requests on a bunch of waterways in the region -- good timing, I am hoping to make some maps of exactly these places tonight. I think I have a good GIS source with boundary lines for them. Pfly (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

It does seem odd to consider Hood Canal part of Puget Sound. I think in loose, common usage people don't consider Hood Canal part of Puget Sound. In terms of the communities along the two they are quite different. But then, in terms of the water in them, the ships (and submarines!), migrating sea critters, etc, to get from either to the ocean requires passing the narrows of Admiralty Inlet.
The thing about Puget Sound only being south of the Tacoma Narrows area comes from George Vancouver's maps and naming. He named the main basin Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound only for the southern part. I think this was because Vancouver sailed his big ships well into the main basin, at least to the Seattle area, but had Peter Puget explore the southern basin in boats. Something like that anyway. There's a short mention of it on the Puget Sound page.
Your Tacoma Narrows map looks nice. I usually make maps with ArcGIS. Are you familiar with GIS? It can be fairly complex and technical. And the ArcGIS software costs way too much for mortals for afford. I took a class in it and got it for relatively cheap through an educational discount (although my copy is getting increasingly out of date). There are less expensive and even free GIS packages out there, but the learning curve can be steep. Looks like the WA highway maps were made with some kind of GIS program. I think I have a GIS dataset of coastlines and waterways I can use to make some maps relatively quickly. Going to go check right now.
To make maps without GIS I sometimes find an existing map online, from some public domain source like the federal government, and then open it in a drawing program like Illustrator and painfully freehand draw over it just the parts I want (coastlines, for example). You can make some nice looking maps that way, but it is painfully slow. Pfly (talk) 22:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zombie

Thanks. I also added that info to the tetrodotoxin article. Looking through the Zombie article History, I see what you mean. Any idea why that article is the target of so much vandalism? I put both articles on my watchlist, just in case. Nightscream (talk) 06:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

"Perhaps there's a connection between mindless vandals and the shambling undead." LOL! Good one! Out of curiosity, who is violating WP:Autobio and how? Nightscream (talk) 17:00, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dungeness Crabs

Travis,

Your statement that anything is fresher when cooked immediately is simply incorrect. Many seafood species can be kept alive in aquaria until use, without noticeably affecting their quality. Dungeness crabs, however, begin starving as soon as they're brought to the surface, and anyone who's eaten a crab that was kept for a couple days in an aquarium before it was cooked can tell you the results. I've replaced my addition to the article. 24.6.157.14 (talk) 06:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)