In-fucking-deed!
It not's fair to bring up the Worst of the Worst.
A school system whose graduation rates are in the same range as everybody's else's dropout rates.
In-fucking-deed!
It not's fair to bring up the Worst of the Worst.
A school system whose graduation rates are in the same range as everybody's else's dropout rates.
(Long answer will come after TheDailyMeetingsβ’ finish.)
I await the long answer!
I think I get it, but you're the expert, so I'd like to hear.
(railroading has changed a bunch, hasn't it?)
needing pilot crews to get on in case of a detour...
....pilot [train] crews.... whowouldda thunk?
Hate to be on topic, but...
@Weng You're a lot better off than +26pts for the year.
You're just looking at your bank account, but you want to look at your total wealth, assets minus debts. Looks like you paid down at least ~22k of debt, so you're ~22k+26pts ahead!
While Acela is forced to cope with some bad infrastructure (the B&P tunnel south of Baltimore's Penn Station dates to 1835 if I recall, yes 18) the train was designed with this in mind - it's got suspension systems that help it lean through some of the tight curves.
The TRWTF is this - they ended up building the thing a smidgen too wide... which would have been okay, except for the leaning-suspension deal which lets the train take the turns at high-speed.
Two trains can't pass on two parallel tracks on the existing curves at top speed - so they have to keep to a lower speed limit.
And so the whole danged thing is $$ down the rathole - I suppose it supplements the "Metroliner" capacity - but it's barely faster overall. As far as I know, nobody has any plan to deal with the deficiency - it looks like Amtrak is just whistling in the wind, hoping nobody notices they totally hosed their flagship program.
I took <abbr title="the one that had gallon size bags">one of the boxes</abbr> and wrote "GALLON" on both sides that could face out of the cupboard.
The first world solutions thread is over there.
I get pain in my leg on the same side as well.But I go to the chiropractor, and I know other people that go that only get pain in their hip.When my pain first started, it was acute and very localized. So much so that I thought I had a blood clot in my leg.
Also, potentially IT-band and/or sciatica, which can give you pain anywhere from the side of the knee to all the way to your lower back.
EDIT: added "anywhere...from...to"
This makes me sadeverymost of the time someone says this.
FTFY - the redeeming value of raising children is great, but not always infinite.
Well, as I said, I like gardening, and I've hated mowing since I was a kid and had to mow our lawn with an old-fashioned (non-motorized) push mower.
.. .and you keep going on and on and on about yard work...
;)
When I throw kids off my lawn, I'll send them to your place...
A BIG sign that you are getting older, @HardwareGeek, @Polygeekery, @another_sam , is that you spend time talking about yard care.
Thanks Discourse:
It's easier to follow community discussions and find interesting people in conversations when everyone has a unique avatar!
(like PS and PPS:)
And of course I need the CR after "Thanks Discourse:" otherwise that text disappears...
A sentient TDWTF discourse would:
I personally use the NWS for forecasts and radar imagery (they also have a very nice Doppler University subsite that will teach you the basics of interpreting all the various products a WSR-88D spits out), and FlightAware's METAR feed for recent-historical data (although a better feed of METAR data would be appreciated .
The weather-geek forum is over , well somewhere I'm sure... ;)
I just need to know if the rain is gonna start in the next fifteen minutes.. Or if it's going to snow twice as much as everybody else thinks :smug:... (oh, and like happened yesterday!)
Why don't you just go to the horse's mouth?
Mostly[1] loads faster. Localized enough that hyper-local data seems to be spot on...
[1] gets futzed up if IE (yes, i know) is rendering another site in some compatibility mode. Haven't debugged, easier to hit "new session" and move on.
Where did you see that? Everything I saw for my area, which could have been very different than your area, was <=1".
For both NoVA and North, forecast.io (the one I usually use and believe) showed 2-4" when I checked, and other sites, weather.com and WTOP all showed 1-3".
Last year they were typically pretty good about it. Well, for main-ish roads. Residential streets not so much. It looked like they had pre-treated main roads around here yesterday by about 5pm. I work from home, so I usually don't get involved.
Background: Yesterday, DC-area roadways a nightmare, even with Feds on liberal leave, many school systems first announced 2-hour delays and then switched to closed.
The whole way home yesterday, every highway department and school system kept saying "but, but, the forecast said it was only going to be 1 inch, and then all of you were driving on it and we couldn't fix it!!!"
Filed under: blame shifting and poor requirements.
Pretty common for that era. As you do repairs to those areas (sinks, vanities, toilets, etc), put the valves in for next time. You will be glad that you did.
Absolutely a must-do.
Doesn't exist. Every DIY project will bite you 2/3rds of the way through. And then it'll bite you again 2/3rds of the way through the last 1/3rd.
Harpo's Corollary: "Every project takes n+1 trips to the hardware store."
Harpo's Software Corollary: "Just one more update will fix it."
There's also the chance that it was just a tripped breaker all along,
Just don't forget how old your water heater is, you might have to figure all this out relatively soon.
Give it a look-see (among other things there should be an anode that you can pull to see how close you are to needing a new tank).
We have to wait until spring for a new water heater because the exhaust will have to exit the house underground and through a basement wall, which will not be a fun hole to dig with frozen ground...
But you have the Bobcat now....
Interesting. I never knew that.
AAA in Virginia/Maryland/(DC too I suppose) had this as of 1+ years ago. YMMV.
We were forecast to get about an inch here, but it looks more like 3 or 4.
Well your here ~= my here...
Yesterday my forecasting service was giving totals of 3-4",
starting after I leave for work and ending before I come home, so I call it "minimal".
Oh, wait. The driving is the easy part... everybody else, that's the hard part.
FWIW: the beltway was fine (road-wise), but everything off the beltway was already covered and packed down at 6 am.
Does Virginia pay anybody to clear roads?
"Back in the Day" after one blizfiasco the newsies passed along the information that Virginia snow plowing was contracted out - mostly to folks living away from DC - for this one storm, the highway folks didn't call the plows until it was too late, and they couldn't even make it to NoVa until the storm was over.
Is that still how it works?
Which is the most stupidly dangerous option? I'll pick thatβ¦
From my POV, the most stupidly dangerous option was 25 mph...
it ensured that I would get stuck behind you and get tail-gated by someone who figures it'll be safer if our bumpers are already touching before the accident...
Filed under: before you ask, I drive a small car, not an Uber-truck that would camouflage/hide the slow guy in front of me.
You know you've been at TDWTF too long when you take devil's advocacy so far you argue for Blakeyrat's presumed side.Also: will they actually swap your battery, or just tow you to a garage/Autozone/dealer?
They will swap it out on the spot.
They've got special non-towing trucks for jump starts and the like - and they've got extra batteries.
I've never been to DC, but if the drivers are anything like Michigan's, the answer will be all of the above.
Really?? I had always assumed that in the Lands Bordering the Great White North people knew how to drive in this stuff.
(At least for snow < 1")
i don't care. i'ma work from home today and not have to deal with idiots that don't know how to drive in snow.
I came in because the snow is snow minimal and I could earn brownie points to use with other "storms"...
... and the boss, who grew up in Pittsburgh, just called because he is turning around and going home.
Claims "traffic".
Annndd today's thrills and chills from one nation's capitol...
Weather: 20F, light snow falling but so light there's no noticeable loss of visibility. Wisps of snow on the Interstate.
Imaginary Poll: people are driving at what speed?
And every week, people ride into town, past the huge cemetery, and try to challenge The Rifleman...
"Jesse, there's five of us and one of him!".
"I know, Clem."
"Jesse, we're out-numbered!!"
"I know, Clem, but the script says we gotta die. So, we gotta die."
I will imagine along side you though. is that close enough?
Well, it is likely you have been to one, and can rely on your memory!
Or perhaps the experience was so transcendent you don't even remember
that other
people were there...
I don't want to pry, and feel free not to answer, but that sounds a bit like how I used to be as a kid (I have mild Asperger's).
He lives in that neighborhood, or near it, maybe sub-letting a place?
That's to say, it's useful when trying to raise him, teach him, and lead him to pull out various lenses to figure him out... one is to view him as 2-4 years younger than he is, another is the Asperger's/Autism lens.
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I don't bother much with labeling it, since mostly we all have "these issues" on a sliding scale... for many values of "issues".
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OTOH, go to a LEGO store some weekend (but don't be creepy ) and observe. You can even tell when you're getting close to the store just by watching the number of "interesting" kids in the hallways.
...Adults, too. This guy checking out at the cashier next to me had this 3-ring binder open and I happened to see it was his personal-organizer - he had appointments blocked out for "Commuting to [work]" and "Drive Home".... I 'd out of recognition...I do that, too.
I'm just too self-conscious to carry around a big binder. Or too disorganized - I'd lose it. I have some "interesting" myself.
I know. But the result is that he started a fight. Maybe we could quibble on the use of "picked."
I fear to quibble with you... your quibbling has been honed to great heights by Blakey. ;)
I only know the tin vs aluminum foil story from a Parent Teacher conference... his teachers were laughing so hard they were practically in tears.
Maybe less of a fight, and more of "de-railing of the thread".
He's the only kid who would notice tin vs. aluminum and realize they're two different things.
I know the type. Sounds just like my son.
I see your point, and I can't explain the difference, but it's really not in him - he get's really mad/frutstrated and argues, but he's not fighting exactly.
To be fair, he was picking a fight,because he honestly didn't get it.
When did you meet him?
a fine pendant he will be one day,
Literal he is.
To be fair, he wasn't picking a fight, he honestly didn't get it.
"Dude, it could be foil, paper, a rug, anything! It's just l*w = area."
"She said tin foil, but the example said aluminum!!!"
OTOH, over the weekend he managed to orbit his own Kerbal Space Creation with only the second example (the Kerbal-5) as inspiration. So his abstraction skills are growing.
To be both Pendant and Free-Thinking, we desire for him.
PS: No, It was his brother who exploded Bill Kerman into the Sun
and eyt it is still coloquially called tin foil.no pedantry flag for you!
My youngest argued with his math teacher for 15 minutes about whether was "tin foil" or "aluminum foil" in the example problem.
She retired.
He still doesn't like math.
I generally try not to pass people on the right, but if I'm getting close to my exit or just got on, and there's some dude going slower to my left, I don't sweat it. I wouldn't bet that this morning's geniuses were doing something like that, of course.
Oddly, no one was particularly stupid. It all could have been better if everybody was thinking, tho.
It just seemed like if this is the new normal, it's a bad omen.
On top of seeing three big[1] wrecks yesterday....
On the positive side - my wife got me a new GPS with traffic built in.
[1] Big in this case was 6+ cars in each case, but fortunately just big fender-benders.
I'd entertain that suggestion more seriously if I were doing 65 in a 72 mph zone ;)
It's more or less standard round these parts that it's OK to cruise in the 3rd lane.
Somehow, with a quarter-mile of empty road front and back we had six cars in passing situations, and I was noticeably the slowest (but at 72 mph certainly not stupid slow).
January 2, 2015 19:22 EST
About High Noon Kerbin ST
IJIJ-Family Cosmonautics regrets to announce the catastrophic explosion of it's largest-ever space vehicle, the Spider-2.
The resulting shock wave launched Hero of the People Bill Kerman out of Kerbal's atmosphere and towards Kerbal's mighty Sun.
Kerman had managed to evacuate from his capsule just after the initial detonation and was sent into space unprotected, save for his space suit.
After ten Kerbal-days, the posthumously promoted Gen. Kerman was finally lost to the IFC Tracking Facility, having reached a velocity of over 30 Mm/sec.
Hero of the People Gen. Bill Kerman
RIP
2015-2015
if I'm not mistaken that's about .1c
yea, I know people are blowing up all the time, but no one's mentioned actually ejecting a Kerbalnaut into space!
Two new computers for Christmas and I still can't get my hands on one. I have gotten as far as flying Kerbel-1...
Experienced this AM before 5:
Driving in lane 3 of 4 (fastest to slowest) at 72 in a 65 mph zone of open road.
Within 10 seconds I'm passed on the left by 3 cars and on the right by 2.
The two cars on the right were the fastest of the five.
It's gonna be an exciting winter.
Basically what I thought - except I figured that @FrostCat's rent doubled.
Haven't been to the Wegman's - it's waaaay out there in the country.
When they first moved in I was heavily ADD and friend advised me "No, no go, too much shiny..."
And then they opened a Wegman's literally across the street from the apartment complex.
Was that good or bad?
15 minutes is a fairly reasonable tradeoff between granularity and fuck off, I'm not going into that much detail.
Ditto here. Although we seldom need the granularity.
I usually use my leave in hour chunks, so I don't have to feel like I'm using a stopwatch to time lunch hour/breaks or whatever.
When the drive to work takes an extra hour, I don't have to leave an hour late and guarantee the drive home takes an extra two hours. [Yes, hours, this is DC]
So, I often bleed away a couple of hours per pay period, but I'm usually home for dinner!
There's a lot of rabbit hole in that particular discussion.
Which is basically why I've left myself largely ignorant on the issue...
I know what you're thinking... :stop: uhuh, don't go there!
Nearly everything about the F-35 is a boondoggle. For one thing, even though it's slated to replace the A-10, it isn't actually designed to do the things the A-10 does.
And what aircraft does??
They've been trying to retire the A-10, for what, 25 years?
I live near an A-10 unit. I weep a small tear of gratitude every time one of them roars overhead.
Oh! A relevant answer!! ;)
I guess you're confirming what I thought which is that, except for the meaningful ones already assigned (countries, .com, etc..) the new TLDs are basically a free-for-all?
The Navy dropped the requirement for a gun from the F-4 back in the sixties - since everybody "knew" that all combat would occur at long-range via radar-guided missiles.
That didn't work out very well either, and they re-instituted the requirement.
Also note how the radar-guided Sparrow was developed through normal contracting channels, while the far less expensive and very effective heat-seeking Sidewinder was hacked together by some engineers at China Lake.
Do I even need to bring up the comparison between a fighter plane without a gun and a certain software product we all know...??
All right, I'll stick my neck out...
:guillotine:
What is the .wtf domain "supposed" to be for?
Is any .abc domain name vaild? (how about .unicodeunicodeunicode?)
Filed under: wanted :guillotine: could only find
ok, I can actually understand that one...
Laughing because my son just showed me a screenshot of his Kindle - scanned on the inkjet and printed out.
He even trimmed it to size.
Or maybe I should be crying - my son, might grow up to be.... a user.