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Did the $7 each lesson run by the park rangers, it was good, The troughs of gravel are seeded, so you do get to see if your technique sucks or not. Then you can buy a plastic pan and go down to the river where Marshall found gold and started it all and try your luck there.
The ranger said its best to go deep, so, even without any tools; all you are allowed are hands and plastic pan, I went deep. And after an hour I got one fleck of gold! A real fleck, from the very same place Marshall did 166 years ago!
Anyway, its a lot of fun. If anyone is out there its worth spending a day in lovely countryside (really, it is stunning) and having a go panning while slobbing out with a nice picnic.
Next time I have to sneak a shovel in with me..... 
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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I did something similar with a friend of mine some 6-8 years ago. We spent a few days driving up through the whole area on highway 49 and seeing sights from Oakhurts to Coloma (Clicky[^]). We walked around at the park in Coloma, but did not do the tour you mentioned.
Somewhere along the way, we drove down to one of the rivers deep in a canyon and tried our luck for a few hours. We were wading through shallow waters, panning the dirt. I think the stuff we found was Fool's Gold, but the sunburn on my back was real enough  .
All in all it was a great drive through a significant historical area with beautiful scenery.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: beautiful scenery
It reminds me a lot of NZ, really stunning.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Good for you; I did the same 50 years ago, though there weren't any rangers selling lessons. Luckily, my Dad taught me to pan on the East Fork of the San Gabriel River in the San Gabriel mountains just north of our house. I got a fair bit of gold, too, though I got more in our local river. These days I don't pan anymore, though there's plenty of gold where I live. Once in a while I did up a 5 gallon pail of dirt in the desert and bring it home, then pan it evenings. It always produces some material, but never enough to be commercially viable.
Still, it's a fun hobby, and once in a while - like Marshall - you get lucky. Good trip! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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There was this program on TV where someone claimed you could make a living "mining" the sidewalks of San Fransisco for jewelry that people dropped. It was some game show where they had to guess which claim was true.
I couldn't endure it to the end so maybe it was a false claim after all. Sounds plausible though.
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it was a Penn and Teller thing, I think.
and it was true
At least, there was someone who earns a living finding scraps of jewellery on the sidewalk in NY
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I need to push the Page Down button (PgDn) a whole bunch. I believe the actual number is 354 times.
I searched for a piece of freeware to do this.
SEO is alive and at work across the internet. All searches led to pages with ads and stuff that had about nothing to do with the topic at hand.
The closest I could find were these sites...
WINSITE[^] CNET[^] and BROTHERSOFT[^]
I welcome comments from anybody who can direct me to a piece of freeware that will...
- press a given button on the keyboard
- wait a certain amount of time (5 seconds, maybe 10)
- repeat the loop X number of times
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AutoHotKey should work.
EDIT: It seems they have a different site here[^].
(I removed the original URL)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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It is down for some reason.
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I think it came back up.
Am investigating it now.
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No, that would be too sensible, the kind of stuff written by a company that wants to create a valuable product for the user.
(In this case, a user who pays money, so I'm actually a customer).
But yes, that was my second try. No luck.
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You could try First Officer[^] - it's basically a voice recognition application that will respond with pre-recorded keypresses to voice commands.
I wrote it a while back but it basically will allow you to record keystrokes and can repeat them at the recorded speed, so you could record a few page downs with pauses then hack the xml file(I think the profile is saved to an xml file...) to get all the repetitions.
It's so long since I used it that I probably can't help much with it although it should be reasonably intuitive.
If you need the key let me know as I am giving it away for free nowadays(I don't have time for the whole support game...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Or is Bob in pink ears a bit...disturbing...?
This[^] is the only safe-for-work image I could find to sort-of explain why - a google image search for "pink bunny ears" starts to get a little unsafe fro some netnazi systems...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It could be worse. Do you remember Donnie Darko?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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He's golfing on his day off.
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Quite the Playboy, isn't he? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: google image search for "pink bunny ears" starts to get a little unsafe
And I thought my browsing habits were questionable, I get a perfectly safe bunch of people and animals wearing pink bunny ears, fully clothed and decent?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I get a perfectly safe bunch of people and animals wearing pink bunny ears, fully clothed and decent?
Me too. I didn't realize how boring my browsing habits had become. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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