Notes to the Wall

This House/Barn is located a little outside of a small town called Mulberry Grove, Illinois...I hope you enjoy...



View from the outside...

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Here has visited one more thrown school. Certainly some can not like a state, in comparison with last is worse... But also in this there is a snap. Any autumn spirit when you look out of a beaten window and you see orange-red trees and when so the sun beautifully sits down... Much all school, any figures, posters, a heap of school desks, chairs, sports hall and many other things in this report.

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

I love this place and I visited this again) Now still a horse and carriage court yard. Plus sorts of a palace, lakes and one more building nearby to manor.

for $10 you can own a hippo sitting on a toilet that serves no other purpose. I was expecting maybe a bank? But nope.
bigger version here: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/4096616674_2212f0da15_o.jpg

Seeing as it's Armistice Day, I felt this is probably the perfect day to post this.

Last week was spent going through all of my eighty three year old Great Uncle Jack's photographs and scanning them in so that the entire family can have copies of each others pictures. I got to the very bottom of the pile and there was a small brown book there. I pick it up and Uncle Jack then tells me it's photographs from when he was in the army. He was stationed at Goslar, Germany, on the slopes of the Harz mountain range from 1942-1945.

My Uncle Jack has always been a keen photographer (see my icon for proof) and when he joined the army, being a non-smoker and cigarettes being scarce, he was able to keep his cigarettes and swap them for a camera when he got enough. He also developed the pictures while he was stationed at Goslar.

Here they are:


Uncle Jack's company

( The book, photographs and a few more... )

Hi all!

Here some pics from a glass factory near Cuneo.
It closed down in the early 80's..Huge place in the heart of town.
People there say it might be demolished pretty soon....

 



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Some more: http://s947.photobucket.com/albums/ad311/Carignian/Abandoned%20Factory/

Kaliningrad (Königsberg), fort 2 (Bronsart bei Mandein)
 

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prepare for yourself a bed of rose petals then with intimate attention soar above the treetops. the scent will enter your body your pure heart will be enkinded (?)

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If this is not appropriate, I will hastily delete. I don't have much opportunity to explore abandoned places, but I really enjoy all of the wonderful photos the members of this community have posted.

I was wondering, for any of you members in and around Philly, if anyone happened to catch the implosion of the Philly PRR steam plant yesterday? I was hoping to find a video of it or something but haven't had any luck.

Thank you in advance!

And here is a very small contribution (like I said, I don't have much opportunity to explore abandoned places...which sucks!), just so this isn't text-only.

This is a house I pass on the bike path I ride on. I've been trying to summon up the courage to get a bit closer, but it's kind of out in the open and since I'm usually alone on my bike trips, haven't been brave enough.



It's unfortunate that LiveJournal and this community didn't exist in the mid-90s. On the street I grew up on in rural South Jersey there was an abandoned house. The first couple of years we lived there, it was inhabited by a reclusive older man who had apparently lived there for a very long time. One day in 1995 he just up and left...practically disappeared. My brothers, our neighbors and I would explore the house. It was pretty crazy, the house seemed to be stuck in time. It was decorated in that 60s-70s style of orange, green, and yellow, and had a retro TV and kitchen appliances. Even older spice bottles from maybe the 70s. The man had literally left pretty much everything in the house...we found old phone books, bills, letters, postcards, and church bulletins. There was even an old car in the garage in the back yard. I'm not sure if the car ran, but someone stole it, somehow. The neighborhood kids (myself included) pretty much destroyed the house, which I regretted for a long time. My best friend's brother and his friends turned it into a home base for playing paintball, since the house was surrounded by woods.

They tore down the house several years ago to develop the land, which was pretty sad. My stepmother, around 1996 or 97, even attempted to contact someone to find out about buying the house, but never got a response.

Not exactly the "take only pictures" approach but the defenestration of a dump truck in Detroit in September is truly to be cherished. Video HERE.

Islam is Peace

    



No more squatters, they're long gone

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