Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[zoobyshoe]

Always wondered why June and July are abbreviated as Jun. and Jul. How much time does one save that way, really?

Well, it saves ink. That adds up. Over the past thousand years, those abbreviations have probably saved humanity a gallon of ink.

 

[Astronuc]

An example of someone who shouldn't own or otherwise have access to a gun.
Arizona Man Leaves Granddaughter, 5, in Desert With Loaded Gun
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/arizona-man-leaves-granddaughter-5-in-1292166895321142.html

After downing a cheeseburger and a handful of drinks Sunday evening, Paul Rater called home and ordered his wife to come get him, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says, per the Arizona Republic. But instead of his wife showing up at the South Buckeye Equestrian Center, the cops did—and hauled him into a Maricopa County jail on child endangerment and abuse charges for allegedly leaving his 5-year-old granddaughter alone in the desert with a peculiar and perilous set of instructions.

“He came across multiple people and never thought he should call 911,” deputies say in the statement.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wow, we're having quite a thunder and lightning storm here. A little while ago it was also hailing. Very unusual for San Diego.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Wow, we're having quite a thunder and lightning storm here. A little while ago it was also hailing. Very unusual for San Diego.

http://ca.gov/drought/
I think people like "wet" more than "dry". The US is almost dry. Asian countries offer best wet conditions.

 

[OmCheeto]

http://ca.gov/drought/
I think people like "wet" more than "dry". The US is almost dry. Asian countries offer best wet conditions.

I think people like to complain, no matter what the weather is.

Ignore the audio!

Stinkin' whiners...​

Our electric trains are now certified "semi-submersible safe".

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I think people like to complain, no matter what the weather is.

Ignore the audio!
​

Our electric trains are now certified "semi-submersible safe".

Complaining is human nature !
Poor the train and its operators!

 

[WWGD]

Wow, we're having quite a thunder and lightning storm here. A little while ago it was also hailing. Very unusual for San Diego.

It would behoove them to find a way of saving that water there in CA -- in the whole SW of the country for that matter..

 

[zoobyshoe]

It would behoove them to find a way of saving that water there in CA -- in the whole SW of the country for that matter..

That would be a big and expensive and complex project.

The good news is that Ca. is getting serious about desalinization of ocean water.

 

[WWGD]

That would be a big and expensive and complex project.

The good news is that Ca. is getting serious about desalinization of ocean water.

Is desalinization significantly less expensive and/or smaller, etc. though?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Is desalinization significantly less expensive and/or smaller, etc. though?

I wouldn't know about the cost comparison, but I suspect desalinization is more vetted and have read the costs are coming down as they figure out better ways to do it.

 

[lisab]

 

[WWGD]

If it was up to me, I would spring back the clock one hour every Sunday and then move it back forward Monday morning at around 1 p.m. One more hour to do nothing on Sundays and one less hour of work on Mondays.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wow, I just saw a preview on TV: they've made a movie of Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle.

It's set in an alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII. The defeated U.S. is divided between them, with the west being the Japanese sector and the East the German.

I really enjoyed the book back when I read it, and the preview looked pretty good.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, I just saw a preview on TV: they've made a movie of Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle.

It's set in an alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII. The defeated U.S. is divided between them, with the west being the Japanese sector and the East the German.

I really enjoyed the book back when I read it, and the preview looked pretty good.

I remember another book on the same topic: SS-GB by Len Deighton:

http://graemeshimmin.com/ss-gb-book-review/

 

[zoobyshoe]

I remember another book on the same topic: SS-GB by Len Deighton:

http://graemeshimmin.com/ss-gb-book-review/

Bleh. He obviously copied Dick's idea and set it in England. Dick's book came out in 1962. SS-GB came out in 1978.

 

[Borg]

Got an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner and Turducken will be on the menu.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Got an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner and Turducken will be on the menu.

Good for you. But are people celebrating Thanksgiving Christian scientists ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Got an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner and Turducken will be on the menu.

The name is very unfortunate. The dish, itself, as described by wiki, sounds like one of those really excessive recipes served to decadent royalty in nursery rhymes and Olde English stories; "4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie," sort of thing.

Sounds like the meal will be quite an experience.

 

[Borg]

Sounds like the meal will be quite an experience.

The chef is a very good cook so I would look forward too the meal no matter what. I haven't had it before but I'm sure that his turducken will be most excellent.

 

[nuuskur]

The chef is a very good cook so I would look forward too the meal no matter what. I haven't had it before but I'm sure that his turducken will be most excellent.

If you call a chef a cook you better watch out :D

 

[zoobyshoe]

If you call a chef a cook you better watch out :D

And more so if you call a chef a kook.

 

[OmCheeto]

And more so if you call a chef a kook.

I would call Borg's chef friend a slacker...

The 3-Bird Turducken Has Nothing On This 17-Bird Royal Roast [NPR]

Like any good publisher, Grimod de la Reynière knew he needed to slide in some extra flair from time to time. And in 1807, he put out a recipe for rôti sans pareil, the roast without equal.

The daredevil-ish recipe calls for a tiny warbler stuffed in a bunting, inserted in a lark, squeezed in a thrush, thrown in a quail, inserted in a lapwing, introduced to a plover, piled into a partridge, wormed into a woodcock, shoehorned into a teal, kicked into a guinea fowl, rammed inside a duck, shoved into a chicken, jammed up in a pheasant, wedged deep inside a goose, logged into a turkey. And just when you think a 16-bird roast is probably enough, it's not. This meat sphere is finally crammed up into a Great Bustard, an Old World turkey-turned-wrapping paper, for this most epic of poultry meals.

ps. I googled "warbler", and found that the heaviest variety weighs about 3/4 of an ounce. De-feathered, gutted, and boned, I can't imagine anyone being able to find it, in the resulting ball of bird.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

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Exact date and time! , that means I care!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Oh no, right on Evo's forum, I mistook the chewing gum box!

 

[WWGD]

Interesting small seminar on Project Management. It seems the most effective project managers spend 21 % of time planning, 69% on executing, compared to an average of 11% and 82% respectively. Would be interesting to see if spending an even higher percentage of project time planning would lower % time executing, and if so, at what rate.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Interesting small seminar on Project Management. It seems the most effective project managers spend 21 % of time planning, 69% on executing, compared to an average of 11% and 82% respectively. Would be interesting to see if spending an even higher percentage of project time planning would lower % time executing, and if so, at what rate.

Interesting issue. I have evolved to spend about 95% of my time planning and 5% executing.

It seems when I jump in and start executing before the plan is all worked out, I end up spending 200% of my time correcting.

 

[Astronuc]

Banks do provide a community service -

https://welcome.wf.com/smallishuge/featured/16319

http://www.warriorstosummits.org/

 

[Astronuc]

A young hero - 11-Year-Old Boy Sacrifices Himself to Save His Little Sister’s Life
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/11-year-old-sacrifices-himself-to-save-his-little-170958262.html

The third of seven children, La’Darious Wylie was protective of his siblings. The 11-year-old proved how much when he gave his life for his little sister Sha’Vonta, 7, as a car sped at them while they were waiting at their bus stop in Chester, S.C., at around 7:30 a.m. last Tuesday. Seeing the vehicle headed toward them, La’Darious lunged, pushed his sister out of the way, and received the full impact of the crash

 

[WWGD]

Banks do provide a community service -

https://welcome.wf.com/smallishuge/featured/16319

http://www.warriorstosummits.org/

I don't know, it seems any benefit is offset by the rip-off of charging up to $3.50 for withdrawing any amount from an ATM -- which saves the bank money by not having to hire a human teller.

 

[WWGD]

Interesting issue. I have evolved to spend about 95% of my time planning and 5% executing.

It seems when I jump in and start executing before the plan is all worked out, I end up spending 200% of my time correcting.

It's an interesting abstraction and generalization of how to execute a project effectively. For obsessive people like me who want to save every second possible.