User talk:Bluedawe

First off, welcome! It's always nice to be the one to start a discussion page. I'm here to thank you for the image you added (the PowerMac G4). I'm not really all that active on Wikipedia these days but a thank you and thumbs-up never goes amiss. -- grm_wnr Esc  16:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your warm welcome to Wiki. Your message is a soothing balm after the Wiki community quickly deleted the page which I created, because I thought it was requested - the topic appeared on the Requested Articles Page! I have generally found Wiki-editors incredibly rude, dismissive and arrogant, with the haughty, cavalier manner of smart-alec undergrads. SDG Bluedawe 21:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC) 21 April 07

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Hi, I hope you got my reply on my talk page OK. Is everything alright now with the infobox on the article? I just wanted to check, as I've lost track of the article. Thanks. Chevy monte  carlo  14:16, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Picton - Mittagong loop railway line, New South Wales
Thanks for your useful edits to this page. There is (rightly or wrongly) a convention that railway lines in Aust are titled xxx railway line, State (or city). This had been extensively discussed in the past (if only I could find the discussion), so I have moved the page back so that it is consistant with other railway line articles. MrHarper (talk) 22:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

The Argonauts
Hi Bluedawe,

I've just read your interview transcript and posted some thoughts on the Argonauts Club talk page under your contribution. Thanks for the wonderful glimpse of a past era. Myles325a (talk) 10:01, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

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 * Dear Dashbot. Thank you for looking after me. If only had this level of care and attention in my day-to-day life. It's true that I uploaded the pic before I wrote the article. I confess, and my sin is before me. I will be better in future, I'll go straight, strike me pink if I don't, gov. I wonder if in days to come bots will turn up in our private lives with cheery messages like 'We have detected that you are a friendless loser and have scheduled you for termination. If you believe you should be unterminated, then [Java script void].' Bluedawe  21:00, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

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Plankwall
Hi Bluedawe;

I just noticed your article Slab hut. I study historic carpentry and traditional building methods. I have been planning an article on vertical plankwall construction in the U.S. which is very similar to slab construction. I believe the words plank and slab are synonymous in American English and Australian English. I do not think anyone knows the European origin of this construction in the U.S. but vertical plank walled timber frame (plank frame) buildings were used extensively in the Plymouth Colony and in Rhode Island from the early 17th century. The U.S. also has a thinner wall, 1.25 inch vertical boards with minimal framing called a "boxed house" and many other names. These were more common after the American Civil War.

I will read your article carefully. Thanks for the large bibliography, too. Jim Derby (talk) 01:09, 22 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Jim: I hope you find my article of use. May I also refer you to my article about Bush carpentry which has more to say about Australian vernacular timber construction. My only comment on the use of the word 'plank' would be that in Australia the term is usually used of a set length of properly shaped and sawn timber, or better still, milled. 'Slab' by contrast refers to a more roughly prepared length, e.g. pit-sawn, and adze-smoothed, or perhaps the long offcuts from a trunk on its first pass through the saw table. I had a look in my old Webster's Dictionary, which seems to support this 'milled' definition of 'plank' in US usage. Definitions of 'plank' and 'slab' in my Macquarie Dict. Aust. Lang. say nothing about sawing at all! However, this is not to say that properly milled planks were not used in slab-hut construction where they were available; it is most certainly the case where contemporary slab-huts are built, e.g. a city-dweller's week-end rural retreat where the municipal building codes are less likely to apply. The contemporary home I show on the Wiki article used 'slabs', but the owner and builder both described these as 'very thick, heavy, hardwood planks', and they came from a timber mill. The gaps between the slabs/planks, by the way, were filled in with foam-rubber strips. Stephen Gard aka  Bluedawe  01:37, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the work you have done on this. Unfortunately, I am currently suffering from concussion (stupid wall, jumping out at me like that), and so it will be a few days before I can look through the changes you have made and give you any further feedback. Sorry for the inconvenience!  Harrias  talk 08:22, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
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Just wanted to know if you were still around. I saw another editor started the review back in August and it didn't go anywhere, so seeing the article yesterday, I decided to jump in.--ColonelHenry (talk) 17:02, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Michael Rush (rower)/GA1
Hi, I know you said you wouldn't be able to get around to this until sometime this month, but I just thought I'd pop my head in and remind you about this.  Harrias  talk 16:31, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Have not forgotten. Will be back at desk and task on Monday 8 October next. Bluedawe  20:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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