Recent content by MarzNC

You haven't traveled around the South much, have you? In addition to fried seafood, there is plenty of fried chicken. ;) Mainly shrimp or crawfish or crab along the Atlantic coast south of Delaware. Even heard of Rock Shrimp? We get them when we stay in Orlando. Worth a day trip to a small...

Unless someone really wants to be oceanside, I think of reasons to live inland. My aunt lived in Ft. Lauderdale for the last decade or so of her long life. She had a condo on the coast with a view of the ocean. More than once she had to evacuate because of a hurricane. She was a professor...

In New York City when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, a lot of the K-12 teachers as well as professors were Jewish. My father was a professor at Brooklyn College, part of the City College of NY (CCNY) system. The NYC public schools were usually closed for major Jewish holidays. Not...

To me, Dartmouth and Brown are in the next tier for Ivy League. I grew up in New York City. Lived very close to Columbia. My older brother attended Harvard. In the 1960s, he attended a long-time "magnet" high school in NYC (Bronx Science, founded 1938) for science/math geeks and was more...

What I found more interesting is the info about the source for The NY Times quiz: " . . . Those who say bubbler are proud of it, and not afraid to defend it – it’s an icon of the Boston accent. However, the word bubbler is not native to the Bay State. There are two regions in the United States...

There are a lot of former New Yorkers who moved to Florida in the last few decades. ;) In the Triangle area of North Carolina it's very hard to find "natives" who grew up mainly hearing southern accents. In fact the town of Cary came to be known as Containment Area for Relocated Yankees by the...

Interesting, since I didn't screenshot the overall map I did the quiz again. Got some different questions. This overall map is fairly similar from what I remember. But the question "What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?" made a city in FL one of the key three instead...

I vaguely remember seeing that quiz before. Given that I moved from NYC to Chapel Hill in central NC in high school and stayed in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) area after that, the results now reflect where I've lived pretty well. Plus I went to school in the Boston area for a...

Don't think you would say that after a long visit to the Boston area and the Massachusetts and Maine coastline. I went to high school near Boston. Trips to Boston or Maine usually include lobster, although not always a lobster roll. On one trip a while back with my husband and his old friend...

More about Oregon and liability laws that impact the ski industry. June 30, 2025 https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2025/06/30/timberline-lodge-oregon-rec-liability/84422125007/ July 2, 2025...

Could say the same for ski resorts with slopeside lodging in New England (VT, NH, ME) during holiday periods. Especially true for Christmas week. Of course, there are families that shell out the money since that's the only times their kids are available to travel more than a couple hours away...

For detailed snow conditions reports, can check the ongoing threads on the Aussie ski forum. This post has recent pics from Buller. late July 2025 (Australia) https://www.ski.com.au/xf/threads/mt-buller-winter-2025-reports-pics-news.96164/page-26#post-6007310

Another company paid a consulting company to convert from Huddler. Took a long time. Afterwards the consultant never wanted to deal with Huddler stuff again, for any amount of money. Huddler was the wrong type of software and database for what EpicSki was at the time the partnership was...

How about Cannon and Loon? Or Stowe and Smuggs? Massanutten, Wintergreen, and Bryce are pretty close together in northern VA. Fair to say that not only are snow totals often different during the rare snowstorm, wet bulb conditions can vary enough that Bryce can make snow when Massanutten...

Yes and no. Wayback only has the first few pages for threads. Meaning if a thread was long, most likely most of the content was lost.