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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/16/24)
Quote I
Quote II “’You cannot post the images yourself because you have to remember, in Canada, we have a presumption of innocence and posting that picture could be a violation of private life’, SQ communications officer Lt. Benoit Richard
Quote II “Most importantly, if you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is our most pressing need and become a sponsor family.” MA Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll (D)
It shouldn't take the boss to drive you to work to "respect the hustle".
‘I was hoping he would just let the store be closed for the day’: Boss picks up every single worker who tried to call out during blizzard
'He really said nah y’all working TODAY.'
Check out the video in the following story. This is what we should do every time our opponents and/or enemies disrupt a public gathering. You don't have the right to commit Disorderly Conduct.
Dick’s Sporting Goods former CEO defends company’s anti-gun stance despite costly backlash The ex-CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods defended the company’s moves to restrict gun purchases at its outlets as a reaction to a 2018 school shooting, a decision that cost the popular retail chain tens of millions of dollars. Dick’s Executive Chairman Ed Stack was among the corporate leaders appearing at NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show in New York City this week and on Monday, he stood by the move that pleased gun-grabbing leftists but alienated loyal customers.
Will the last State of New York taxpayer turn off the lights when you leave?
Work authorizations before knowing if they are illegal aliens? Sure why the fvck not.
Kathy Hochul allocates $2.4 BILLION for NYC illegal immigrant crisis in new budget plan
Spending will help migrants get housing and work authorizations, according to Hochul.
Tesla supercharging station packed in Oak Brook, dead cars line parking lot due to frigid temps OAK BROOK, Ill. - Electric vehicles may be the way of the future, but many EV owners are having trouble dealing with Chicago’s bitterly cold temperatures. Public charging stations have turned into car graveyards over the past couple of days. But it was no laughing matter to people like Kevin Sumrak, who landed at O’Hare on Sunday night to find his Tesla dead. Sumlak was forced to hire a flatbed tow truck to try to find a working charging station. MORE: Chicago's Wind Chill Warning continues as arctic blast sets in Tesla didn’t respond to FOX 32's emails or calls, but a Chicago area car expert says there are some things EV owners can do when it gets this cold. "Like any new technology, there’s a learning curve for people," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.I think I have a few more Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Has left. A cousin of mine sent me this story his comment was, "Sorry, you can not pay me to have an EV as my primary transportation. A hybrid maybe but an EV is a trap."
It isn't our money we are spending but our taxpayers. Government waste and abuse is a world wide problem.
I don't follow the NFL that closely anymore. So I had my doubts that a playoff game would stream to 23 million viewers. I was wrong.
Surprisingly, Peacock managed to survive pretty well. There aren't widespread reports out there of major problems. Previously, the service had an exclusive regular-season game, a Bills-Chargers week 16 matchup on December 23 that drew 7.2 million viewers. That game helped work out the growing pains for Peacock, with users complaining of poor streaming quality and muted colors. The NFL is basically the only institution keeping traditional broadcast TV alive. Of the top 100 highest-rated US TV broadcasts in 2023, a staggering 93 of them were NFL games. Lucrative TV contracts will keep most games on broadcast TV for the foreseeable future, but even the NFL is slowly transitioning to streaming. The weekly Thursday Night Football game is now exclusive to Amazon Prime; ESPN+ gets one exclusive game per season, and Peacock has these two games this year. The biggest NFL package, NFL Sunday Ticket, which gives fans about 13 out-of-market games every Sunday, moved from DirecTV to YouTube TV this season. The NFL even has its own streaming platform, NFL+, though it takes a backseat to partner services.
Someone is satisfied. Hit man is hit.
A Serbian man who was gunned down in front of his family has reportedly been identified as a hitman on Interpol’s wanted list, according to reports. A gunman shot and killed Darko Geisler, 43, in front of his wife and three-year-old son as they returned to their home in Brazil last week. Police learned during the homicide investigation that Geisler was allegedly a hitman wanted by Interpol for multiple contract killings.
Shortly before entering Junior College and making something of himself, the man came along and made him a Genius Award Winner.
Loud Sex Noises Lead to St. Louis Robber Getting Busted
Marion Jones’ penchant for porn directly led to his arrest A robber who parked outside a Waffle House outed himself in an unusual way in 2021, court records show.
In October 2021, 49-year-old Marion Jones robbed a Footlocker store in south St. Louis. He might have gotten away with the crime, too, if he'd only used some earbuds. Or not watched porn in his car outside a Waffle House. The robbery began when Jones' accomplice Demetrius Kirksey, 35, pointed a handgun at an employee of the shoe store, telling him, "Back up, back up, I'll shoot you." Jones stole shoes while Kirksey stole $800 in cash and the two of them made off together in a maroon SUV. Kirksey was taken into custody in April 2022 and pleaded guilty to his role in the robbery earlier this week. Jones didn't make it on the lam quite as long. Two days after the robbery Jones was in a Chevy Equinox outside a Waffle House in St. Charles near the Ameristar casino. A concerned patron heard what sounded like "a female in distress" in the Equinox and called police.
Born on this day: 16 Jan 1946
Ronnie Milsap, country music singer and pianist. He became country music's first well-known blind singer, and one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time scoring the crossover hits, 'It Was Almost Like a Song,' 'Smoky Mountain Rain,' and 'Stranger in My House.' He is credited with six Grammy awards. via thisdayinmusic.com
On this day:16 Jan 2000
American singer Will Jones died aged 71 from the effects of diabetes. He is best known as the bass vocalist for The Coasters and The Cadets. The Cadets' biggest hit was ‘Stranded In The Jungle’ and his bass vocals can be heard on The Coasters' hits ‘Yakety Yak’ and ‘Charlie Brown.’ He also sang lead on The Trammps' cover version of ‘Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart’. via thisdayinmusic.com
She's busy serving our country and making us proud. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
For the first time ever, Miss America is an active-duty member of the military I told you Madison Marsh would be Miss America. She's now the first-ever active-duty member of our military to be crowned Miss America, and that is quite the accomplishment.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
How in heaven's name did we let that happen?
heh...
Congrats Hrothgar.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 16, 2024 10:02 PM (I+0gR)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2024 10:03 PM (gSZYf)
Posted by: Montec at January 16, 2024 10:03 PM (8kRtb)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
I believe you have a beach.......But it's usually foggy.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:03 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: mindful webworker - e voila! at January 16, 2024 10:03 PM (BmwFL)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:04 PM (hOUT3)
Let that be a lesson to you!
If you name your kid "Darko Geisler," he's gonna grow up to be a hitman.
Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2024 10:04 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2024 10:03 PM (gSZYf)
And has never been a productive member of commercial enterprise.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:04 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Igor at January 16, 2024 10:05 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 10:05 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra
Well, not all the time, I have been known to actually see a sunrise there.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:06 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Don Black
Penicillin cleared mine right up!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:06 PM (x7plP)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 16, 2024 10:06 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 16, 2024 10:07 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2024 10:03 PM (gSZYf)
And has never been a productive member of commercial enterprise.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:04 PM (aA3+G)
To be fair, he is a Democrap politician so neither of those attributes is required!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:07 PM (hOUT3)
No problem. Also have pinky.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 16, 2024 10:06 PM (EXyHK)
Narf!
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2024 10:08 PM (xt2dn)
Posted by: TRex at January 16, 2024 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Montec at January 16, 2024 10:08 PM (8kRtb)
Ready for summer!
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2024 10:09 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2024 10:09 PM (32nmx)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 16, 2024 10:09 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:10 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2024 10:10 PM (S6gqv)
Mohammed El-Kurd denounced Israel and called to root Zionism out of the world
http://tinyurl.com/3rpsums8
Via Instapundit.
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2024 10:10 PM (xt2dn)
Posted by: TRex at January 16, 2024 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)
Trust me, there is one in my area that I have actually seen, but I have never darkened its doors!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:10 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Montec at January 16, 2024 10:08 PM (8kRtb)
do you have any original material ? at all ?
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:10 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 16, 2024 10:07 PM (TSQkU)
You're welcome LRob, I bet at the moment you aren't home sick for Minot, ND currently at 3 with windchill of -20
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:11 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:11 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: A potential employee at January 16, 2024 10:11 PM (vFG9F)
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Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:11 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: A potential employee at January 16, 2024 10:11 PM (vFG9F)
I can hardly wait for the lawfare to begin!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:12 PM (hOUT3)
But, on the bright side, didn't need to hit the gym today.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:12 PM (x7plP)
Ready for summer!
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2024 10:09 PM (n3DL0)
So I take it you're not coming over this weekend?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:12 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm looking at you. So is my mastiff at January 16, 2024 10:13 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Star Trek Babe at January 16, 2024 10:13 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2024 10:13 PM (vFG9F)
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does not specify , so no ?
Posted by: runner
* steps into restaurant *
* places brain in jar of formaldehyde on counter *
"I can get an application with this, right?"
Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2024 10:13 PM (DgGvY)
Lovely photo up top reminds us that spring is headed our way, to be followed by the warm days of summer. Ahhh...
I'm surprised that the stockholders of Dick's Sporting Goods didn't sue the CEO for restricting gun sales since it impacted the company's profits.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 16, 2024 10:14 PM (a8Rgt)
Didn't know Misanthropic Humanitarian was such a fan.
Posted by: Hippogryph at January 16, 2024 10:14 PM (R1Eqe)
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm looking at you. So is my mastiff
My my, aren't we acting PRIVILEGED!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:14 PM (hOUT3)
You may live in House of Zod. You must be aware in advance, though, that There Are Rules.
(extends shackles, ball-gags)
You will wear these.
Posted by: ZOD at January 16, 2024 10:14 PM (5HQE5)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 16, 2024 10:15 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2024 10:15 PM (yWvc2)
Good evening horde. I have a vague memory of this "Dick's Sporting Goods" that you speak of, but just can't place it. Not sure it really exists. Haven't seen one in ages - certainly not up close.
Posted by: TRex
The one near me is mostly a clothing store.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 10:16 PM (63Dwl)
‘If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.’ - Anatole France
I wonder if Fromm put in the proper footnote😀
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:16 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: DOYLE at January 16, 2024 10:16 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."
The one near me is mostly closed. Permanently.
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2024 10:17 PM (vFG9F)
new hotness: Become A Sponsor Family!
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:17 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at January 16, 2024 10:18 PM (sNtYB)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:18 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:17 PM (V13WU)
"Plantation Chic."
Posted by: ZOD at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (5HQE5)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (V13WU)
Their shit is expensive as hell. And the last time I was in one (several years ago), there were maybe 5 customers and 20 employees in the store.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: runner
What would par be from here to the nearest planet?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (x7plP)
http://tinyurl.com/2nkhpw26
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (/Mbcg)
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm looking at you. So is my mastiff at January 16, 2024 10:13 PM (qfLjt)
Well that Surete de Quebec cop has his head up his ass, as per usual. Take a video of a porch pirate in the act of stealing, it's just some unidentified person apparently committing a crime. A John Doe. You cannot defame a John Doe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (sNtYB)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 16, 2024 10:20 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Hippogryph at January 16, 2024 10:14 PM (R1Eqe)
Comments of The Day are just that. Comments that I think will be worth reading, thinking about and maybe even commenting about. I've run a wide variety over the last 7+ years.
I normally don't editorialize them unless you see my comment under a quote
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:20 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2024 10:20 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 10:21 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2024 10:19 PM (/Mbcg)
Money talks, and Democrats usually walk!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:21 PM (hOUT3)
There are many things:
a. Call an Uber
b. Call a Lyft
c. ride the Bus or the El
d. ask a co-worker with a non-toy car for a lift
Posted by: Chuck C at January 16, 2024 10:21 PM (xttsV)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at January 16, 2024 10:21 PM (sNtYB)
You're just cranking out work at Mach 1, but they're mostly leaving you alone, long as you're getting it done.
Bussing tables is BACKBREAKING work, especially where I worked in a Soup & Salad restaurant. There is not a heavier bus-tub known to man; full of heavy crockery plates & bowls, wet, leftover salads, half-consumed bowls of soup and soaked, soggy breads.
Add in the glassware and utensils, and you're talking weight. Now, carry that stack of two or three full tubs back to the dishwashing station. When you're 16 y/o and weigh maybe a buck fifty.
Server? A tenth of the lifting, ten TIMES the hassle. It is NOT easy to keep a Station of four or five tables happy, even with the help of your busser, keeping glasses topped off and "finished with" plates and bowls, cleared.
Don't forget to smile!
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 16, 2024 10:21 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2024 10:21 PM (yWvc2)
Do you disagree with the quote? Marxists always unintentionally speak the truth because they all project there Faust on to others.
The Left do it every day here.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:22 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Hippogryph at January 16, 2024 10:14 PM (R1Eqe)
Sometimes it's useful to know how the lower classes think. That's why I read your comments.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (tkR6S)
“Most importantly, if you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is our most pressing need and become a sponsor family.” MA Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll (D)
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You first.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (xaFKb)
There are some countries in Latin America where formal, yet flowery, business letters still end with signatures preceded by phrases such as "Your servant forever"
Posted by: KT at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (rrtZS)
Jerry. Bob. Mickey. Bill. Phil. Pigpen.
Dead names. Pick one.
Posted by: ZOD at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (5HQE5)
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (MNhXM)
Unfortunately, Dick's hasn't paid a big price, at least as it regards their stock. Over the last five or six years, the stock has quadrupled.
The reason is simple. There are not many sporting goods stores with nationwide reach anymore. Dick's is simply the last chain standing, and they've benefited from that, even though the could have made more money selling firearms.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (u2HSD)
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Dude, your doing it wrong. You're supposed to kill them.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: DOYLE at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: mindful webworker - something like at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (BmwFL)
I appreciate your kind regards. Are you trying to hit me up for a recently made Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. fruit cake?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (aA3+G)
Around here there are fewer than 10 or so trucks equipped with a plow and/or spreaders in the entire county.
A neighbor who was out earlier insisted the Zambonis had already prepped the roadways.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:25 PM (x7plP)
OK, where is the inevitable White Privilege accusation?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2024 10:23 PM (xaFKb)
***SNORT***
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:26 PM (aA3+G)
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You first.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Yes, I note that NONE of these "leader politicians" ever adds a phrase like "Personally, I have two delightful illegal migrant families in my private residence and we are soon to be adding ten more such families at the gubernatorial palace!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:26 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:26 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with the bumper sticker slogans at January 16, 2024 10:27 PM (dtlDP)
(Make a little whipping motion with one hand when you say it. Chicks gotta dig that.)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2024 10:27 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: lin-duh at January 16, 2024 10:27 PM (QBwwm)
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2024 10:28 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (R4t5M)
Throwing maggoty loaves into the barbed-wire enclosures.
Posted by: ZOD at January 16, 2024 10:28 PM (5HQE5)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:26 PM (hOUT3)
All levels of Government spend north of 40% of GDP per year... seems like they should have plenty of room IN THEIR OFFICES for the illegals.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2024 10:28 PM (xaFKb)
Academy is a better sports store for me. . Except for the golf department.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:28 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 10:28 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2024 10:29 PM (/Mbcg)
Posted by: lin-duh
Well, it has provided entertainment for parts of the day.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:29 PM (R4t5M)
And then the murders start.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2024 10:29 PM (yWvc2)
One of the more insane things this week. Nevermind the idea that people have the presumption of privacy while on someone else's property, the idea that their a presumption while someone is committing a crime is batshit insane.
I assume the Queerbec cops cannot demand id from citizens anymore?? No, of course not. Anarcho-tyranny continues apace.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: lin-duh at January 16, 2024 10:27 PM (QBwwm)
Older neighborhoods in some cities where the youthful hipsters live don't have driveways or garages. (St. Louis for example) Street parking is it for them. Hard to run 12 gauge 500' extension cord.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:24 PM (aA3+G)
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I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a fruitcake today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (RIvkX)
-- St. Anthony the Great
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (x7plP)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:26 PM (hOUT3)
And damned few of those wetbacks are intact traditional families. Most of them are military-age males. The charitable explanation is that the clan sends those members who are likely able to find decent-paying work, so they can send remittances back to the clan in Bumfuckistan. The uncharitable explanation is that they are, plain and simple, invaders.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Weakly Reader at January 16, 2024 10:31 PM (V5BDR)
I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a fruitcake today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (RIvkX)
We will have to work something out sometime.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:31 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: 496
I loved the club clothes during the 70's.
"Hey Brother, are you pimpin', or are you limpin'?"
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:31 PM (x7plP)
And then the murders start.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2024 10:29 PM (yWvc2)
Dorothea Puente
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:32 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2024 10:32 PM (/Mbcg)
Allegory of the cave, v.2.0
Posted by: ZOD at January 16, 2024 10:32 PM (5HQE5)
Posted by: Weakly Reader at January 16, 2024 10:31 PM (V5BDR)
That was a good tune, too. I couldn't view the Mystery Click as it opened with an ad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 10:33 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
See also "The Mechanic" with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent.
Great ending!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:33 PM (x7plP)
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FIFY, Kim
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 10:33 PM (njWTi)
I read recently that the NFL may be putting a bid in to purchasing a stake in ESPN. The NFL, even with its recent PR difficulties, is still one of the most profitable brands in the world.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (u2HSD)
-- St. Anthony the Great
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When I read stuff like that, I used to think it was hyperbole. Now I know it was prophecy and we're seeing it fulfilled.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2024 10:30 PM (IG4Id)
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Well now ami that will depend on your name.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Then they shouldn't get a car that needs an extension cord...
Posted by: lin-duh at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (QBwwm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (R4t5M)
The part I loved in the pizza place I worked was changing out the kegs for the place's original bar. The kegs were on a shelf about two feet off the ground and didn't have any space between them. 130 lb me had to deadlift a full keg and move it sideways (so my hands weren't between kegs to get crushed) onto the shelf.
Second best part was moving pinball machines without dragging the legs.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 16, 2024 10:35 PM (xttsV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2024 10:32 PM (/Mbcg)
And it is usually a bylaw infraction (for sound reason) to lay an extension cord across a town sidewalk. When I lived in Calgary, it was common to see "gallows" set up to pass the extension cord well overhead so that block heaters could be plugged in.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 10:35 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
See also "The Mechanic" with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent.
Great ending!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:33 PM (x7plP)
The original is one of the best of that genre. Right up there with The Killer Elite.
I believe that they've made remakes of both movies. The remakes are, by and large, terrible.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2024 10:35 PM (u2HSD)
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:36 PM (MNhXM)
It used to be the "extension plug" gimmick. Now it's the 800A super-charging station to jack your F-150 Lightening up in a couple hours.
And you'll need a shit ton of permits, pay for the new service lines and be willing to have the CO-OP shunt that power elsewhere if needed.
And since it's been sub-freezing and damn near zero the last couple days/nights here in KY the number of Teslas on the road is about zero.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2024 10:36 PM (Q4IgG)
His book "The Sane Society" was his argument for his version of a Marxist state, which would totally, totally be democratic and different from the other ones.
_________
Marxism:
Always the same promises.
Always the same catastrophes.
Always the same excuses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2024 10:37 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Don Black
Penicillin cleared mine right up!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 10:06 PM (x7plP)
Preparation H is what most doctors recommend for the treatment of Assateague...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 16, 2024 10:37 PM (RMN7W)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Then they shouldn't get a car that needs an extension cord...
Posted by: lin-duh at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (QBwwm)
No argument from me on that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:37 PM (aA3+G)
Second Battalion, Dented Honda Tequila-Drunk Oprima Dos Tattooed Aztec Light Cavalry.
!Chingao!
Posted by: ZOD at January 16, 2024 10:38 PM (5HQE5)
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Even if they could, some a-hole would probably steal it...
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 10:39 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
And further to that comment, a lot of people that own electric bicycles live in apartments and charge them there. And when you daisy chain those bikes off of outlets, pretty soon you have battery fires.
Batteries store potential electrical energy by reversible chemical reactions. To get higher energy density, the chemical reactions might become more violent, ie, more exothermic, when charging (reversing the charge). And start fires.
Is this.....sustainable? To use that worn out "Green" cliche.
Posted by: Michael Scott! at January 16, 2024 10:39 PM (tjZg/)
_________
Buddies ran a speedboat onto a sandbar on Assawoman Bay once. At night. Drunk.
Bent some bits and pieces but was otherwise salvageable for the week of debauchery.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2024 10:39 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2024 10:41 PM (ibTVg)
Maybe if you do not want your private life photographed and given to the gendarmes, you might want to refrain from trespassing on other people's property and being recorded in the act of theft, oui?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:41 PM (hOUT3)
>>Why do all Tesla owners seem to need a charging station?? Why can't they just charge their cars at home?? Everyone in my neighborhood seems to charge theirs at home.
Because none have them have gone through the expense of installing a level 2 or level 3 charger and are usually just plugging it directly into a 110v15A outlet.
This will take approximately 8 to 12 hours to bring you from say 20pct state of charge to 80pct state of charge.
This is sub-optimal, so that's why they are constantly on the hunt for the few and working charging stations.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 16, 2024 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)
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Reminds me of that scene in Doctor Zhigago when he returns from WWI to find the proletariates have taken over his house.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:41 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 16, 2024 10:37 PM (RMN7W)
No, assateague is for when your butt is plum worn out. ass-fatigue
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2024 10:41 PM (Y6IkP)
Of course once they've lived in your house for a specific amount of time, or have a certain amount of their stuff in your house, or receive mail there, they've established residence. Then you can only get them out by going through a court process. Is that asshole democrat telling people that?
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 16, 2024 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
I saw another article on Massholeland trying to put illegals into people's homes mentioning then had 1800 "families" but later only 50 children.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2024 10:42 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:42 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024
Kind of describes the Joe Biden "cult". More of a cult than anything ascribed to Trump and his more excited followers. Because Biden has ALWAYS been and iredeeamable lying asshole. Always.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 16, 2024 10:42 PM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
See also "The Mechanic" with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent.
Great ending!
Posted by: Tonypete
That was a cool movie. Yes, great ending!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 16, 2024 10:43 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: A potential employee at January 16, 2024 10:11 PM (vFG9F)
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Well it's made of meat.....
Posted by: Ciampino - Sentient meat at January 16, 2024 10:44 PM (qfLjt)
He forgot they do promotions in the first quarter of the calendar year.
Posted by: mikeski aims for the corner office at January 16, 2024 10:44 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2024 10:44 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: MA Lt Gov Kim Driscoll (D) at January 16, 2024 10:45 PM (5h/8D)
A Brahmin killed by a colonizer for trying to molest him/her or a Brahmin killed by his wife for trying to molest a colonizer?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2024 10:46 PM (ibTVg)
Squatters.
It is unbelievable to me how difficult it is to get them out of your property. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more violent incidents.
I know if they wouldn’t leave when I told them and the police won’t remove them there is going to be trouble. And it won’t be River City trouble.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 10:46 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:46 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Star Trek Babe at January 16, 2024 10:13 PM (SYTee)
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Maybe ask Pinky?
Posted by: Ciampino - Sentient meat? at January 16, 2024 10:46 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Then they shouldn't get a car that needs an extension cord...
Posted by: lin-duh at January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (QBwwm)
No argument from me on that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:37 PM (aA3+G)
When I was in college in St. Louis, I lived in old tenement apartments, parked on the street. When a cold snap hit, I plugged my headbolt heater into an extension cord out my window. Mine was the only car running for about two days. Nobody stole the cord, which was a miracle.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 16, 2024 10:48 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2024 10:48 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: PaleRider
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Illegals are now complaining that American winters are too cold
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I'll bet it's warm in Banana-land.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:48 PM (FVME7)
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It works well to describe our current situation. Just because millions of people say it was an insurrection, that doesn't make it an insurrection.
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2024 10:51 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024
Just a guess, but I'm thinking you are not a fan of the I component of the DEI agenda?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 16, 2024 10:51 PM (hOUT3)
@EndWokeness
Illegals are now complaining that American winters are too cold
Good. Get the fuck out.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2024 10:51 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 10:52 PM (geLO8)
@EndWokeness
Illegals are now complaining that American winters are too cold
Illegal aliens vs. Global Warming Cultists! Fight!
Posted by: mikeski predicts pain at January 16, 2024 10:52 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 10:52 PM (tkR6S)
@EndWokeness
Illegals are now complaining that American winters are too cold
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I'll bet it's warm in Banana-land.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
That's a real shame. Thoughts and prayers.
Also, wear a coat.
Also, go home.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 16, 2024 10:53 PM (sAmhv)
As. If.
Maybe Masshole Lt. Gov. can give up their own 'extra suite' or "extra clothing" or whatever TF...
I've given every "extra" thing we had, to Goodwill already.
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 10:54 PM (njWTi)
Anyone cashes checks from the State is a fucking hero. You are a tool holster. Open mouth, insert jizz-maker. Retard.
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 16, 2024 10:54 PM (FRT/w)
Two Lesbians Try To Jump Start A Dead Battery
short video, 2:31
http://tinyurl.com/yckxztzc
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 10:52 PM (geLO
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Real men do not flinch when applying jumper cables. That has been drilled into my head for 40 years
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2024 10:54 PM (Bf+P4)
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Well, dumbf*ck, should've done some homework before you decided to come here! Too bad, so sad.
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 10:55 PM (njWTi)
Two Lesbians Try To Jump Start A Dead Battery
short video, 2:31
http://tinyurl.com/yckxztzc
I don't recall seeing this on Xham.....
I mean, uh, they should have read the directions. Probably in the car manual.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 16, 2024 10:56 PM (sAmhv)
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I have an extra child's room and a dormitory room that would comfortably sleep four. Both rooms share a full bath with shower.
Women only. No male visitors allowed.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 10:56 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2024 10:56 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2024 10:56 PM (/Mbcg)
Posted by: 496
In fairness, they're not good with the whole insert tab A into slot B thing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:57 PM (FVME7)
Well, that arctic air mass is getting down here. 24F here, dew point 6F. Forecast low is 18F. Supposed to get down to 15F Saturday night, and the high won't be but 36F that day.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 10:58 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2024 10:58 PM (Bf+P4)
Well, that arctic air mass is getting down here. 24F here, dew point 6F. Forecast low is 18F. Supposed to get down to 15F Saturday night, and the high won't be but 36F that day.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 10:58 PM (Mzdiz)
It's 5 outside. FIVE.
Fuck Canada.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 16, 2024 10:58 PM (rJ7Hd)
Reminds me of that scene in Doctor Zhigago when he returns from WWI to find the proletariates have taken over his house.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Hey, Bernie Sanders has three houses!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 10:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 16, 2024 10:59 PM (rJ7Hd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 11:00 PM (63Dwl)
🫣
Posted by: mindful webworker - that other one at January 16, 2024 11:01 PM (BmwFL)
They even had a spot of trouble deciding what terminal was positive and which was negative. Even though they were reading directions.
When the end times come. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 11:01 PM (x7plP)
Thousands I am guessing. EVs just don't work in this weather.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 16, 2024 11:02 PM (rJ7Hd)
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2024 10:54 PM (Bf+P4)
Best if one person makes the connections at both ends. Less chance of an error being made, and if something bad happens, there's one person clearly at fault.
And I didn't know that Subarus all had the battery in the trunk. It's usually bad policy to make the final connection to a battery post, as even a correct connection can make a spark, and batteries can evolve hydrogen. Hydrogen plus spark = bad juju. Make the final connection to a grounded engine part on the vehicle being jumped. Which is admittedly hard to do with trunk-mounted batteries.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:03 PM (tkR6S)
Glad I missed it all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA"
It was vert distressing.
Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2024 11:03 PM (oaGWv)
Women only. No male visitors allowed.
Day 1: Maria is really a help around the house and has a sweet ass...err personality.
Day 5: Maria mentioned she has a male friend that she'd like me to meet. I told her that no visitors were allowed.
Day 10: Pablo introduced himself to me today and told me that Maria has to get back to work. He really wasn't very clear but I guess she works from home somehow?
Night 10: Well, my face is healing, but I guess I see where Maria gets her bruises from. I called the cops and they told me they'll send an officer to talk with Pablo and Maria in...a few days?
Night 11: Pablo came by with Maria's clients and it all became clear. He told me I wasn't allowed in my home after 8?!? The police said they already have my report and will work on it soon.
Day 12: Well I'm sure my stay in this hotel will be short while the police figure this out
Day 1421: WHAT THE HELL
Posted by: Some Gulliable Leftist at January 16, 2024 11:03 PM (ibTVg)
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Years ago when they were having sit ins around the country
a councilman negotiated with the leaders of the *black
community a peaceful sit in. However, over at the black
college they had other ideas, not peaceful ideas, and let
it be known. - Police chief and several cars full of cops showed
up and, in no uncertain terms let it be known that they would
be shot dead. End of riot.
*at this time in history, pre great society, there was a thriving
mercantile class of blacks which could not have existed without
a thriving (black) consumer class. LBJ shot that to hell.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:04 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 11:04 PM (geLO8)
The record low here for today, the 16th is -5F, set in 1893. That's just one degree higher than the all time record low of -6F, set in 1966 (that was late Jan, the 29th, I believe).
A couple days ago I was looking at the low temp records for the various states. All below zero (except Hawaii). Florida's record low was -2F in Feb, of 1899.
That was a very cold winter, must've been on hell of an arctic air mass blast. And so I looked at our Feb records, and sure enough Feb of 1899 showed up big time. It set 3 daily low records over Feb 13 - 15, as well as three daily lowest high records.
The all time lowest high was 18F on Dec 31, 1917. Winter of '17 - '18 was another cold one.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:05 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 16, 2024 10:48 PM (FVME7)
It's 17deg in this banana's land.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2024 11:06 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 11:06 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Titanium White at January 16, 2024 11:07 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The lesbo's directions mentioned the engine block. They had no idea of what was being mentioned - and, as you said - batteries in the truck throw a new wrinkle into it all.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 11:07 PM (x7plP)
Posted by: A face in the crowd...
Well, that's because he is a career politician who has spent pretty much his entire adult life in elected office. Which would be about a hundred years.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 16, 2024 11:07 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 16, 2024 11:08 PM (V8he0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2024 11:08 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 11:00 PM (63Dwl)
Barely an inconvenience. We'll just make the past cooler.
Posted by: MinTru at January 16, 2024 11:09 PM (4I/2K)
Reading through the threads today. Yeeesh.
Glad I missed it all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
You ain't seen nothin' yet
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 11:09 PM (63Dwl)
With a little work and learn some Spanish you might even become a gang leader!
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2024 11:09 PM (PTDkx)
the frigid air moved out of Colorado today, so you must be east
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 11:10 PM (geLO8)
We'll see what tonight's snowfall brings. It's still *very cold* out, so whatever falls between now & sunrise (which is when most is predicted to occur) will be dry crystals. Tomorrow? Who knows? But at least it should get above, or nearly above, "freezing"
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 11:10 PM (njWTi)
Squatters.
This is what you get when you have a culture, liberalism, that encourages people to be freeloaders. Landlords know all about the squatter problem.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 16, 2024 11:11 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2024 11:12 PM (oaGWv)
Give him some hot chocolate and a banana. He'll be fine.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 16, 2024 11:12 PM (V8he0)
Thomas Sowell: Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
Posted by: KT at January 16, 2024 11:13 PM (rrtZS)
Posted by: Ciampino - This army doesn't speak English. at January 16, 2024 11:13 PM (qfLjt)
Two Lesbians Try To Jump Start A Dead Battery
Is that one of those "two guys walk into a bar" joke?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 11:13 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:14 PM (tkR6S)
Did y'all get much frozen stuff up there in Asheville? I was watching some forecasts over the past couple of days, and they couldn't seem to make up their minds how much and of what you were going to get.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:14 PM (Mzdiz)
short video, 2:31
http://tinyurl.com/yckxztzc
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 10:52 PM (geLO
This is just...so...strangely adorable.
Also, why the hell are those car batteries in the trunks?
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2024 11:15 PM (xt2dn)
the frigid air moved out of Colorado today, so you must be east
Posted by: Don Black
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W. NC, and,
'4 degrees here in Nashville area. Going down to 0 tonight. The up side: It's supposed to be 62 next Thursday.
Posted by: Tuna'
I would appreciate it if you folks would keep that cold air west of the Appalachians.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2024 11:15 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 11:15 PM (63Dwl)
https://mol.im/a/12970861
Posted by: Ciampino - well superheroes wear it outside at January 16, 2024 11:16 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 16, 2024 11:16 PM (v23vE)
RE: STL
I assume you lived in STL City. As you probably know, the City is a fairly small part of the STL metro area these days.
Even in STL City, there are neighborhoods (St. Louis Hills; the private streets in the CWE*) where private garages abound.
* like where the idiot McCloskeys live/d.
Posted by: mnw at January 16, 2024 11:16 PM (NLIak)
So I take it you're not coming over this weekend?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at January 16, 2024 10:12 PM (aA3+G)
Maybe + 6 months!
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2024 11:17 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: KT
To a deaf person!
Posted by: FAA at January 16, 2024 11:17 PM (KAi1n)
https://mol.im/a/12971307
Posted by: Ciampino - Have it in Mumbai at January 16, 2024 11:18 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: publius
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Not so far. The weather folk have no idea what is going on. At any rate the cold has finally migrated east. Just a bit of snow this afternoon, but *cold* and windy.
I have enjoyed riding through town and watching the out-of-town wokesters freezing their collective butt off.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2024 11:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2024 11:15 PM (xt2dn)
The heat of the engine compartment is hard on batteries. And moving 40 pounds of lead from the front of the car to the rear generally helps to achieve a more balanced front/rear weight distribution, and better handling.
If you are going to do that, though, it would be prudent to provide a pair of jump-start terminals in the engine bay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (tkR6S)
https://mol.im/a/12971835
Posted by: Ciampino - After each one I feel a little older at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (qfLjt)
Ray Charles, Modern Sounds of Country, 1962.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (0lA9i)
Lowe's is really pet friendly. They keep dog treats at the cash registers.
They get a lot of power walkers without dogs these days, also.
Posted by: mnw at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Robert
who knows
my fav part is when of the persons says 'what's an engine block?'
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (geLO8)
my fav part is when of the persons says 'what's an engine block?'
Posted by: Don Black
The "Don't get sassy with me!" part was epic also.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 11:23 PM (x7plP)
Jeez, I get *snapped* when brushing my hair, donning/ doffing clothes and coats.... UGH!
And I've got TWO big pans of water, gently steaming, to help prevent this.
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 11:24 PM (njWTi)
If you are going to do that, though, it would be prudent to provide a pair of jump-start terminals in the engine bay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (tkR6S)
*The clouds part and the light of enlightenment shines down*
Ah!
Thank you.
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2024 11:24 PM (xt2dn)
http://tinyurl.com/2hrhm77f
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 16, 2024 11:26 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2024 11:27 PM (geLO8)
Bonnie Raitt, who conquered her demons, once said, "I belong to AA and Triple A, & these days I go through life Double Knit"
Posted by: mnw at January 16, 2024 11:28 PM (NLIak)
Instead, there was a very distinct Battery Junction Point up in the engine compartment, and yep, that's where you'd hook up any jumper cables, if needed.
The fleet of Ford Transit commercial vans I manage now, has a similar Battery Junction Point, up under their wee, pug-nosed hoods.
If someone here is fluent in Subaru-ese, maybe they can point out if, yes/no, the Subies have such a Junction Point, up front? If "yes", then moar evidence of our Tab B (squared) team, in fact, compounding their automotive misadventure?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 16, 2024 11:28 PM (e6UQI)
What's the current dew point where you're at? I'm betting it's way low. When it gets down very low, it takes a lot of water vapor to keep up.
Official dew point here in Simpsonville, SC is 6F, but a guy, a pilot, that lives at a little airstrip just over the way is reading 12F right here.
I've got a little humidifier going, but when it drops below 20F dew point, it can't keep up. Two could probably keep in the mid 40% RH range.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:29 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: a dude in MI at January 16, 2024 11:30 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2024 11:30 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: a dude in MI at January 16, 2024 11:31 PM (+I6Y/)
If you are going to do that, though, it would be prudent to provide a pair of jump-start terminals in the engine bay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:20 PM (tkR6S)
*pulls lever on desktop calculating machine*
Oh, no, no, no! That would add a buck 2.98 to the unit cost. That'll never do.
Posted by: Home Office Chief Bean Counter at January 16, 2024 11:31 PM (4I/2K)
http://tinyurl.com/2hrhm77f
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 16, 2024 11:26 PM (iODuv)
Note that the camera cuts away once he was outside. Maybe somebody got a rope.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2024 11:31 PM (yWvc2)
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Obviously, you have not been introduced to neither
Mr. Colt, nor Messrs. Smith and Wesson.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:32 PM (0lA9i)
I'm getting the fever for one of those wireless outdoor weather stations. That pilot over there is running this:
http://tinyurl.com/ylmkrg34
He's on the Weather Underground network, and his station is here:
http://tinyurl.com/yqvqyk63
I'm getting the fever for one of those.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:33 PM (Mzdiz)
If you got to the Weather Undergound network, you can probably find a lot of similar stations close by and get the data for closest to where you're at.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:34 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: a dude in MI at January 16, 2024 11:30 PM (+I6Y/)
That's a real good question. I don't really know. But i do know that the Toyota Prius hybrids own the taxicab market in Canada, where it can get real cold. Of course taxicabs are rarely shut down for any length of time.
Maybe they have protective circuitry for the batteries that limits their charge/discharge rate in extreme temperatures, and simply run the gas engine more?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:35 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: raimondo at January 16, 2024 11:37 PM (oRhjN)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2024 11:38 PM (yWvc2)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2024 11:38 PM (x7plP)
🎼 A case of C - O - Vee-eee - I - D..... 🎵🎶
🤒🥵🤧😷🥶
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at January 16, 2024 11:39 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Won't matter. The usual suspects will still be screaming; BOILING EARF!!! KLIMATE CHANGE!!! MELTING POLAR CAPS!!! EAT BUGS, LIVE IN PODS, STOP BREEDING!!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 16, 2024 11:39 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:40 PM (0lA9i)
Glad I missed it all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Just think, it's only January!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 16, 2024 11:40 PM (sAmhv)
🎼 A case of C - O - Vee-eee - I - D..... 🎵🎶
🤒🥵🤧😷🥶
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at January 16, 2024 11:39 PM (SRRAx)
Bummer, bro.
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2024 11:41 PM (xt2dn)
Posted by: Raimondo's Mom at January 16, 2024 11:43 PM (xt2dn)
I'm fascinated how the rain gauge works in those weather stations. It's a tipping bucket design. The rain collector feeds a funnel, which flows the water into a little see-saw contraption, with two "buckets". When one bucket fills up, it tips over, spilling out and flipping the other bucket into position. There's a catch affair there to lock into any given position until it gets heavy enough to trip.
Each trip triggers a counter, and that's how it measures rainfall rate and accumulation.
They don't work so well with snow and ice...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:43 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:43 PM (0lA9i)
Jim, is Galveston bay frozen?
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:40 PM (0lA9i)
I remember, as a little kid, seeing ice on the salt water at the beach in Vancouver, B.C. It was an unusually cold spell of weather. Hit zero F, which was bitter cold for that climate.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:44 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Host a foreign military-aged man. What could go wrong? at January 16, 2024 11:44 PM (pjs7m)
We have 3 launches coming up. First one from China, second Cape Canaveral and third from New Zealan
_________________
CHINESE LAUNCH
CASC - Long March 7 - Tianzhou 7 - LC-201 -
Wenchang SLS, China
Launch time: January 17th at 10:27 p.m. BJT
(9:27 a.m. EST, 1427 UTC)
http://tinyurl.com/mskjkx4w
_________________
SPACEX LAUNCH
SpaceX/Axiom - Falcon 9 - Axiom 3 - LC-39A -
Cape Canaveral SFS
New ISS Crew
January 17, 2024, 5:11 p.m. EST
http://tinyurl.com/2x4ft8b8
_________________
New Zealand Launch
RocketLab Electron 42 :
Four Of A Kind Launch
January 18, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. NZDT (1:15 a.m. EST, 0615 UTC)
http://tinyurl.com/yhhpyr5k
Posted by: Ciampino - ROCKET SCIENCE at January 16, 2024 11:45 PM (qfLjt)
Reading through the threads today. Yeeesh.
Glad I missed it all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Just think, it's only January!!
Posted by: Puddleglum
I got a feeling of dejavu for a place I've never been. LGF
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2024 11:45 PM (63Dwl)
What's the current dew point where you're at? I'm betting it's way low. When it gets down very low, it takes a lot of water vapor to keep up.
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'Official' dew point in A'ville is 7 deg. But, that's at the airport which way east of here, and considerably lower elevation.
My humidifier has been putting at least 2 gallons a day into the air, but that has not been able to lift the number aove 35%. Current temp down to 10.5, dropping.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2024 11:45 PM (XeU6L)
I may also be the only owner of a (modern) Dodge Challenger who ever had to ponder this issue. Maybe it was a bigger issue back in the heyday of CB radio.
Posted by: PabloD at January 16, 2024 11:46 PM (COBMC)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 16, 2024 11:46 PM (8sMut)
short video, 2:31
http://tinyurl.com/yckxztzc
Debated whether I wanted to watch this.
Disappointing.
"Lesbians Try To Jump Start A Dead Battery" turned out not to be a euphemism.
And the inconclusive end was... anticlimactic.
Hey-oh, it's off to my bunk I go.
💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - so it goes at January 16, 2024 11:47 PM (BmwFL)
Nope. Beachside and Bay water temps are about 51/52 degrees, f. Quite the "fog" they give off when the cold air first hits 'em.
Publius, gimme a min, and I'll post a link of the weather station I've already ordered.
It's going up to an "arm" on the 20 ft. antenna pole I'm working on, now. OTA TV antenna, weather station, and I'm conversing with Duncanthrax as to what HAM antenna type(s) might best suit.
I really want to get them all installed onto their welded-on "arms", before I set the pole vertical, into the fixtures, and tighten the guy-wires.
The "Cable Cutting" task, has turned into Frankenproject's Monster. (as usual) lol
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 16, 2024 11:47 PM (e6UQI)
They don't work so well with snow and ice...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:43 PM (Mzdiz)
What's the smallest increment of rainfall it can measure? And the largest?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:47 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Yay! It's such a great feelin' ain't it?!
We have "warmed up" to 17F in NP county
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 11:48 PM (njWTi)
How batshit crazy would you have to be?
Posted by: Host a foreign military-aged man. What could go wrong? at January 16, 2024 11:44 PM (pjs7m)
The Lt Gov is just deeply, intensely upset that in order to enter the country, you HAVE to present a passport to a CBP official at a port of entry.
Is MA arresting and imprisoning all CBP officers assigned to the state?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 16, 2024 11:49 PM (8sMut)
Gonna have that witchy flyaway hair for a while, I reckon!
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2024 11:49 PM (njWTi)
tinyurl.com/tortureart
"Heimrich Himmler inside the Cheka (communist torture and execution installation) Vallmajor, Barcelona 1940.
Why is there some kind of pattern on the wall?
These were cells inspired by the Bauhaus and Surrealist art movements. Let's see who built them and how they worked."
Maybe no. Pretty horrible though interesting read.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2024 11:50 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: PabloD at January 16, 2024 11:46 PM (COBMC)
Well, the real early CB radios were vacuum tube jobs, and they must have used 10 to 20 amps of DC power, at a guess. Once the transistorized ones hit the market, power requirements plummeted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2024 11:51 PM (tkR6S)
0.01" is usually the bucket capacity. When it really gets to pouring and the see-saw gets to flipping rapidly) it can overwhelm it, and I don't know what the maximum rate they can measure.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:54 PM (Mzdiz)
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Having tracked/recorded outdoor temperatures, I became curious about how NOAA erath stations do that. Raw samples of air temp produces wide swings. Even a light breeze can produce +/- 3 deg. changes. As it happens, the National Data Center is here, and I happened to know the the Manager. She connected me with one of their boffins, who in turn sent me a .pdf of their methodolgy. It's about what you would expect. Here, I'm working from memory, something like a running 5 sample average every 5 minutes or so.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2024 11:54 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2024 11:55 PM (XeU6L)
Here's what I do. Get a little piece of metal, like a key or something. Hold it tightly with your thumb and finger and touch that to whatever you're going to touch first. That keeps the spark off your skin.
You can still feel a little jolt from the current spike when you've really built up a charge, but it cuts down the annoyance factor.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:55 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
The US Air Force; Cable TV, warm beds, Hot Chicks!
Aim High, yo!
Posted by: Puddleglum, USAF Vet at January 16, 2024 11:56 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up
--------------------------------
Pot was being stirred vigorously.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 16, 2024 11:58 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 17, 2024 12:00 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 16, 2024 11:55 PM (Mzdiz)
Put a handle on an 18" fluorescent tube so it looks like a light saber, and use it to discharge your static buildup in a flash of light. Bonus points if you make the "zoomp-zoomp" noise while doing it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:00 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
The US Air Force; Cable TV, warm beds, Hot Chicks!
Aim High, yo!
Posted by: Puddleglum, USAF Vet at January 16, 2024 11:56 PM (sAmhv)
Yeah, good to see that Air Force Pilots have such... important... stuff to do.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:01 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 17, 2024 12:00 AM (sAmhv)
It was 54 degrees here 2 hours ago, when I went to the store.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:01 AM (tkR6S)
Is MA arresting and imprisoning all CBP officers assigned to the state?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 16, 2024 11:49 PM (8sMut)
But if you are White, you must produce ID anytime a Cop asks, or they can arrest you... at least according to them.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:02 AM (xaFKb)
Aim High, yo!
Posted by: Puddleglum, USAF Vet at January 16, 2024 11:56 PM (sAmhv)
What's a hardship tour in the Air Force?
Being assigned to a base that has only one golf course.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2024 12:04 AM (yWvc2)
I got to reading about how some of the really fancy ASOS/AWOS official stations do it, and some of it gets really complex and expensive.
For example, some of them now use ultrasonic wind speed and direction sensors. Bounce those ultrasonic pulses in several directions and wind speed and direction can be computed from time-of-flight.
Dew point measurement can get fancy as well. One desing was a chilled (and heated) mirror using optical sensors. You tried to keep the mirror temp just where a thin film of moisture would condense and the optical sensors would detect that. That was problematic.
Now a lot them use a hygrometer, supposed to be very accurate (it directly measures RH, how I'm not sure) and then dew point is calculated.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:04 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
HAHAHAHAHA! That sounds like *FUN*
Thanks for the giggle!
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 12:04 AM (njWTi)
Being assigned to a base that has only one golf course.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Damn it! The cable's out!!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 12:07 AM (x7plP)
Being assigned to a base that has only one golf course.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2024 12:04 AM (yWvc2)
I grew up right next to a SAC base... B-52s and KC 135s.... F-105s for awhile.
Talking to the guys who flew 52s in Nam, they said the weirdest thing was going from their hotel like conditions in Guam... flying into the war zone... then cocktails at the Officer club...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:07 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
The US Air Force; Cable TV, warm beds, Hot Chicks!
Aim High, yo!
Posted by: Puddleglum, USAF Vet at January 16, 2024 11:56 PM (sAmhv)
Oh! Oh! I know this! World Peace!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2024 12:07 AM (W/lyH)
Aim High, yo!
Posted by: Puddleglum, USAF Vet at January 16, 2024 11:56 PM (sAmhv)
What's a hardship tour in the Air Force?
Being assigned to a base that has only one golf course.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Heh! My final assignment in the USAF was MacDill. It had a golf course because it's Florida. You have to have a golf course. The first half of my time was on stations in the middle of nowhere (Nebraska-cornfield, literally and UK-Sheep grazed on what was a WWII airfield but now had antennas). My time at MacDill, it had no official Wing there. The air traffic was mostly SOCOM, CENTCOM, NOAA, Reserves/Guard.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 17, 2024 12:08 AM (sAmhv)
This'll be the "station" at the Casa New Dawn.
http://tinyurl.com/ycke9z7z
I've tried to find one that would compute Density Altitude. Bet your Pilot friend would really like one, too.
Doesn't seem the electronic weather-kit boffins have grokked the market's need of such. Kestrel's upper-end hand held models offer that reading, and it'd be a simple matter of a few lines of software in the home-stations, too. If only they would!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 12:09 AM (e6UQI)
Yeah, can't really complain about Air Force Golf Courses, after being stationed in San Diego for the Navy.
Multiple Golf courses there... if you could get a T time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:09 AM (xaFKb)
Mike, my little humidifier is about the same. 1 gallon tank, and it will put out about 2 gallons per day on the high setting, 1 gallon per day on the low.
It varies a bit depending on ambient conditions. When the RH gets down to about 40%, it will dump a gallon in a bit less than 10 hours. Low 50%, and it's about 12 hours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:10 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:11 AM (Mzdiz)
What's a hardship tour in the Air Force?
Being assigned to a base that has only one golf course.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
There was a miniature golf course on the Navy base at Subic Bay back in 1972.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2024 12:12 AM (63Dwl)
You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.
Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 17, 2024 12:13 AM (ufFY8)
Most of these little weather stations use some type of hygrometer (RH directly). The accuracy on those, depending is not as accurate.
I was just reading. The fancy official ones use a capacitive method to determine RH. Someone, the capacitance of something depends on RH. It has to be heated, though, as you're going for some equilibrium thing,just like keep the mirror right at the dew point.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:13 AM (Mzdiz)
Yeah, can't really complain about Air Force Golf Courses, after being stationed in San Diego for the Navy.
Multiple Golf courses there... if you could get a T time.
Posted by: Romeo13
MacDill had a nice one. Just one though. Never had a chance to play it. I was deployed, A LOT, during my time there. When I was on base, I was busy destroying my liver in Ybor City and elsewhere in Tampa.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 17, 2024 12:14 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:04 AM (Mzdiz)
The dielectric constant of air varies with relative humidity, and also with pressure and temperature. So you could build a capacitance bridge with two air-dielectric capacitors, one using ambient air, and one using dry air behind an elastic membrane. Use these capacitors to determine frequency of a RF oscillator, and count the frequency, and do some math. Using two capacitors means you could null out deltas due to air pressure alone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:15 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
After going out and threatening people at the Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer hospital yesterday, anything against them should be fair game.
Every face should be plastered around NYC and the internet, letting the world know these people find joy in screaming at parole, and many children, with cancer.
But tell us again how your protesting for human rights you complete sacks of shit.
Posted by: Rbastid at January 17, 2024 12:16 AM (yRwlf)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 12:18 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Rbastid at January 17, 2024 12:16 AM (yRwlf)
When you root for evil... you have chosen your side.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:19 AM (xaFKb)
Mount Mitchell State Park, Weather Conditions
Weather Conditions at 01/17/24 00:15:00
Outside temperature: -3.4°F; Barometer: 29.950 inHg; Wind: 9 mph from 354°; Rain rate: 0.00 in/hr; Inside temperature: 68.9°F
They use Davis instruments.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:20 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
Are witch's tits calibrated in decimal degrees?
I got new corded mouse for the computer. And it is working just fine. Put the wireless mouse away. I think I will pack it with my laptop. Much easier than using the touchpad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:21 AM (tkR6S)
Being assigned to a base that has only one golf course.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2024 12:04 AM (yWvc2)
No, it's a base WITHOUT a golf course.
(The view from the clubhouse on Kadena AB was spectacular.)
Posted by: pookysgirl has heard this joke sooo many times at January 17, 2024 12:21 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 17, 2024 12:13 AM (ufFY
That's easy for you: Stop 'writing'.
Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2024 12:22 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wait...did you clean the mouse nest out of the wireless model?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:23 AM (XeU6L)
Day 12: Well I'm sure my stay in this hotel will be short while the police figure this out
Day 1421: WHAT THE HELL
Then who was phone?!?
Posted by: Concerned and Puzzled Slavic Person at January 17, 2024 12:23 AM (vKBCZ)
(The view from the clubhouse on Kadena AB was spectacular.)
Posted by: pookysgirl has heard this joke sooo many times at January 17, 2024 12:21 AM (dtlDP)
Hmmmmm.... actually.... Castle Air Force Base, Merced CA... SAC base... shooting range... but no Golf Course that I can remember...
Oh, and Enlisted club pretty much sucked... O club was pretty nice though.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:24 AM (xaFKb)
My Brother-in-law: "I wasn't in the military...I was in the Air Force"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:25 AM (XeU6L)
Meme on the Intertubes: A Southerner Complains of the Cold.
"To all my Northern friends: Your weather is down here in my yard, drunk. I'm gonna need you to come down here and get it."
Posted by: Ciampino - whether weather at January 17, 2024 12:25 AM (qfLjt)
You're right on track. It's based on measuring capacitance, but it has to be heated, so the exact methodology, I'm not sure.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:26 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2024 12:27 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 12:28 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:28 AM (Mzdiz)
Oh, and Enlisted club pretty much sucked... O club was pretty nice though.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2024 12:24 AM (xaFKb)
Well, there you go. They probably shut it down to stop having to pay hardship.
Posted by: pookysgirl had to look that one up at January 17, 2024 12:28 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:23 AM (XeU6L)
No, I cleaned out the old corded mouse. Pulled out all the fluff and grime, washed it with Mac's Electronic Cleaner from a spray can, reassembled it, and it was stone dead. The red LED for the optic motion tracker wouldn't light, and the mouse buttons were dead, too. And I handled it carefully, too.
I had an old almost New In Box cordless mouse and keyboard set, and I took that mouse, installed new batteries, and it worked on this machine. But with a desktop PC, cordless peripherals are useless frippery. The tower is right there, and the keyboard and mouse are on the pull-out tray directly above it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:29 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Concerned and Puzzled Slavic Person at January 17, 2024 12:30 AM (vKBCZ)
Posted by: pookysgirl wants to go back someday at January 17, 2024 12:31 AM (dtlDP)
You're right on track. It's based on measuring capacitance, but it has to be heated, so the exact methodology, I'm not sure.
Posted by: publius
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There are several varieties of solid-state detectors.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:32 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Agreed. My desktop uses wired.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:33 AM (XeU6L)
My Brother-in-law: "I wasn't in the military...I was in the Air Force"
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Heh! My transition from USAF life to civilian life was a quick one!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 17, 2024 12:34 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:26 AM (Mzdiz)
Well, I was just spitballing there. Figured you want precision, and the ability to measure very small deltas, then rig a device that uses the measured parameter to affect something you can count, because digital electronics can be very good at counting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:34 AM (tkR6S)
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Our stay at Misawa was over 40yrs ago. AP alley is gone... I'd like to go back too, but imagine it would be disappointing now. Base is *much* larger now. Too many
Meh. You can never 'go home' they say...
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 12:36 AM (njWTi)
He's doing better currently, and conducting himself properly ...
Posted by: Ciampino - a potential positive at January 17, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)
Meh. You can never 'go home' they say...
Posted by: JQ
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Literally true, after the many base-closings.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:38 AM (XeU6L)
He's doing better currently, and conducting himself properly ...
Posted by: Ciampino - a potential positive at January 17, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)
You did well! Unimpeded cord chewers constantly die electrically.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:40 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Thomas Wolfe at January 17, 2024 12:40 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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They find it impossible to resist.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 12:42 AM (XeU6L)
CASC - Long March 7 - Tianzhou 7 - LC-201 -
Wenchang SLS, China
Launch time: January 17th at 10:27 p.m. BJT
(9:27 a.m. EST, 1427 UTC)
http://tinyurl.com/mskjkx4w
Posted by: Ciampino - a potential positive at January 17, 2024 12:43 AM (qfLjt)
21F here, 10F dew point (outside RH 63%), but no wind at all.
Just filled up the humidifier, it was just about 8 hours, maybe less for the gallon. Indoor RH has dropped to 41%, but a shower I took a couple hours helped. Stilled more moist in the bathroom. By a little bit.
It will get down in the 30% range under these conditions, and it will get very sparky. My electronics don't like sparky.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:43 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 17, 2024 12:46 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 12:48 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 12:50 AM (njWTi)
They have those units, I forget what they're called. Blows air with a fan over a wetted element and measured wet bulb temp. There is likely some reason these aren't too suited from the automated stations, but I don't know why.
Psychrometry is one of the most complex sub branches of thermodynamics. Makes my head hurt. But this holds:
Dry bulb T > Wet bulb T > dew point. They converge to the same value at 100% RH. If you know two, you know the other.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:53 AM (Mzdiz)
Check out the Kestrel line of hand held weather stations.
'Round about the $350 price point, they feature readouts not only for windspeed, barometric pressure and relative humidity, but run all those numbers to produce the Pilot's and Shooter's Holy Grail.
Density Altitude.
They're about the size of a 1960s photographer's Gossen-Pro hand-held light meter. But they do lack a rain-gauge, I'll admit.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 12:55 AM (e6UQI)
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Jim, that hits on one of the points I'd asked when we had 'problems' in the loading room. Didn't know what to call it, and had figured it had something to do with dewpoint or some such...
During changing weather, we had problems getting P & V to stay "in spec"
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 01:01 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I have done this, on a larger scale. LM34 temp. sensor mounted on the intake of a variac-controlled vacuum cleaner, cotton gauze pad wrapped around sensor. Matched the 3 (different) instruments I have around the house.
I have also linked to a psychometric chart, for the uninitiated; http://tinyurl.com/mvk84ydy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:03 AM (XeU6L)
Psychrometry is one of the most complex sub branches of thermodynamics. Makes my head hurt. But this holds:
Dry bulb T > Wet bulb T > dew point. They converge to the same value at 100% RH. If you know two, you know the other.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 12:53 AM (Mzdiz)
For an automated station, the fact that it consumes water would be a deal-breaker, I expect. And in sub-freezing temperatures, your water supply might freeze. And a moist pad, with air blowing over might get colonized by molds, etc.
Yeah, the Kestrels sound like a dandy gadget to own, and quite affordable if one is engaged in some activity where precise knowledge of local atmospheric conditions is crucial, like flying or long-range shooting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 01:03 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:04 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Jukin at January 17, 2024 01:10 AM (17s+e)
I have also linked to a psychometric chart, for the uninitiated; http://tinyurl.com/mvk84ydy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:03 AM (XeU6L)
Oooh! That chart makes my brain hurt, just looking at it. I expect that an hour lecture from a meteorologist might make it possible for me to understand it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 01:10 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Jukin
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In some jurisdictions, after 30 days or so residence, they would have to be legally evicted.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:04 AM (XeU6L)
I totally missed that typo.
Posted by: Hari Seldon at January 17, 2024 01:12 AM (tkR6S)
Take a box of 100 bullets. Sierra 140 gr. Match King, HPBT, in 6.5 mm/.264 diameter.
He'll weight and sort them, one by one. Heaviest 10% are rejected, same for lightest 10%.
Now, he'll put 'em all through a tool, that measures the diameter of the Ogive, to a very precise stack of tens of thousands of inches, from the base of the bullet, to where the Ogive "touches" the tool. Bullets that fall SHORT of touching that tool by the appointed height, get sorted out. Bullets that touch it too soon, the same.
He does not load a cartridge by "OVERALL length", but by the measurement of the bottom of the cartridge rim, to where the Ogive meets a VERY SPECIFIC diameter, which determines how many hundreds or thousandths of an inch, the bullet travels, before contacting the rifling, after the chamber itself.
Which, determines INTERNAL PRESSURE, given EXACT precision, as to charge weight, case mouth concentricity, perfectly true case mouth wall thickness, perfect primer seating, and more.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 01:12 AM (e6UQI)
Oooh! That chart makes my brain hurt, just looking at it. I expect that an hour lecture from a meteorologist might make it possible for me to understand it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Ha! Probably not, they don't understand it either. Long-term thermo prof is the right answer...but your head would still hurt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:13 AM (XeU6L)
You can define psychrometry as the study of gas-vapor mixtures. But you have to use the definition of gas as meaning above critical temperature.
At any rate, one or more of the components of the mixture can change phase over the range of conditions of interest.
The most important one for meteorology and weather is air-water vapor mixtures. It's all the condensing and evaporating and sublimating and deposition (inverse sublimation) that makes things very complex.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 01:19 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:13 AM (XeU6L)
Heh. True, dat. Seems to me that charts that are too dense with parameters become unwieldy to use. Keep it simple. If you have to chart in three or more parameters, have a book of charts, where one parameter varies by page.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 01:20 AM (tkR6S)
Not practical for mass production.
Let's all hope that New Owners will do "the best" with our facility, going forward.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 01:21 AM (njWTi)
They are trying to impose that definition of vapor vs gas, but it's not set in stone. At any rate, a vapor could be condensed to a liquid (or desublimated to solid, depending) by isothermal compression alone. A gas, above critical temperature could never be liquefied by compression alone. It would have to be cooled as well.
And I'm trying to remember something interesting about air-water mixtures from a class in thermo way back. There is some complex term, in the general case, that becomes unity and drops out with air-water mixtures.
It was complex mess, but for the range of interest of air-water mixes on Erf at least, it becomes one. If it didn't, it would make the "wet bulb" thing be a very, very complicated expression indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 01:23 AM (Mzdiz)
Can you say "bus man's holiday?"
Sure. I knew you could.
LOL
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 01:24 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 01:29 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:31 AM (XeU6L)
My cousin, the retired meteorologist got his start in the Air Force. His father wanted him to go to college, but he ran off and joined the Air Force, and that's where he learned the trade.
His first posting was in AK. His job was, when he was on duty, to go out and take readings and measurements every hour on the hour. The wet-bulb with a sling psychrometer was one of those measurements.
Now, what if it's freezing? Technically, you do "wet bulb" with ice, but it would take a very long time to equilibriate and be useless. So, they used some time of antifreeze in the water. You'd think that would mess things up, but the right antifreeze won't. He couldn't remember what they used. Maybe someone here who knows some chemistry might know what it was.
Anyway, take your wet-bulb, then come back in and use the psychrometric chart to read dew point.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 01:34 AM (Mzdiz)
19F here now. Dew point inreased a smidge to just under 12F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 01:34 AM (Mzdiz)
At 500 yards, one is dropping shots out of the "X" ring.
At 1000 yards, one is dropping shots out of the "10" ring. And even ONE of those, you don't just "lose" the match. You're not on the podium, you're not even in the Top Ten.
The diagnosis that Velocity Spread is your shooting problem? Vertical Stringing. They've all GOT to be going (as close as humanly possible) the SAME SPEED to hit the SAME POINT OF IMPACT, at those distances.
Oh, and for EACH rifle and it's OWN CHAMBER, a separate set of loading dies is made. Send off a handful of fired cases from THAT rifle, and the dies are made from the dimensions of THOSE cases.
Yeah. World's Records are not lightly achieved, nor won.
(Weasel's squad, still holds the unbroken Worlds Record, fired at the 2017 Ontario, Canada World F Class Championship Matches.)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 01:36 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 17, 2024 01:37 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:31 AM (XeU6L)
Surfboard weather!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2024 01:38 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:40 AM (XeU6L)
You first, dickhead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2024 01:41 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:42 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:40 AM (XeU6L)
Yeah, no oceanfront here. That shit costs stooooopid money. I mean like retarded money.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2024 01:43 AM (VwHCD)
It's ALWAYS Surfboard Weather.... down at my local pub.
Where they have a vintage Hobie board, with much wear n' tear, mounted up, over the bottles at the back of the bar.
Kowabunga, Dude!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 01:43 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 17, 2024 01:44 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:46 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2024 01:48 AM (emlEe)
Again... I don't handload. I know damned little about long-range shooting. (never was my "thing" regardless of employment)
Can't afford ammo these days anyway... We're *broke* now, thanks to FJB and his sh!tty policies. Got a small stash, properly stored, but that's IT.
We'll be among the first to bite it, when TSHTF. That's OK. We've had a good life... and won't be goin' down alone LOL
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 01:49 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2024 01:46 AM (XeU6L)
Most actual surfers aren't tossing lines with actual DEAD FISH BAIT, from their surfboards, while a mile offshore.
Horses for Courses.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 01:49 AM (e6UQI)
Big fire breaks out tonight on a vacant building. It was rumoured to be used for Asylum Seekers.
Posted by: 13times at January 17, 2024 01:50 AM (sKkve)
I was just looking -- there's quite a few people with these weather stations around here on the Wunderground network. There's one guy, about 2 -3 miles from here. His readings are always flaky. In the summer, he gets crazy high temp reading, and now, in winter, he's getting crazy low readings.
I'm wondering if he's got his station mounted to close to a heat pump unit. That would blow very hot air in the summer, and cold air in the winter. But then I got to looking, his dew point numbers are jumping all over the place, as well.
His temp and dew point have been jumping up and down, range of 5 - 10F. His pressure reading did a little crazy jump as well.
He's got that thing mounted somewhere he shouldn't, or his unit is just messed up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 17, 2024 01:52 AM (Mzdiz)
But knowing a bit of how HE does the reloading thing, should make any of US a bit better at it, should we dive down even the BASIC loading rabbit hole, ourselves.
I'm thankful that simple, straight-wall pistol reloads, ain't quite so demanding?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 01:58 AM (e6UQI)
A story for another day...
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 17, 2024 02:03 AM (TDvv2)
Really, we only have about 60k 22s and maybe 3-5k each of larger handgub, plus few cases of ss, and maybe 2k each of various riffle. We'll be alright, until it runs out.
Good neighbor also knows what's up-- will receive a large portion from us if SHTF.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:04 AM (njWTi)
I'm NOT doing PRECISION rifle reloading, as I haven't invested in the myriad specialty measuring tools to make THAT happen.
But yeah. Most Pistol Ammo is best delivered by the case, via UPS, to the front door.
The 3rd bedroom here is "The Gun Room". It's closet is the Ammo Locker. Descriptive, enough?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 02:11 AM (e6UQI)
We have... various stuff... around this place.
Not keeping all in one basket.
There's a few k of primers too. Trading stock, if nothing else. I dunno. I just h8 what has happened to US.
'nuff said
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:15 AM (njWTi)
Think we'll be stayin' home for another couple days!
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:17 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:19 AM (njWTi)
To warm me up, the host asked if I'd like to try some of his home-concocted spicy vodka. He had put around 6 orange colored peppers into the bottle.
The peppers were a variety bred by Ed Currie. Not the Reaper but somewhere south of it. I was smart enough not to gulp back the amount which filled the bottom of my glass. I suppose I took a bit more than a teaspoon to taste.
F I R E ! ! !
Now, I'm a guy who likes spicy but this was way above anything I've had until now. It took a lot of bread and water to stop the eye watering and reduce the throat and mouth burn to a glowing coal level.
Lesson learned. At least my sinuses are cleared.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 02:22 AM (dgZCh)
Forgot, now.
TRRUMPASUZLUREAMN!
*as I Roomba off the stage?*
*dons Aviators*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 02:22 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:23 AM (njWTi)
Big fire breaks out tonight on a vacant building. It was rumoured to be used for Asylum Seekers.
Posted by: 13times at January 17, 2024 01:50 AM (sKkve)
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Asylum ahleikum to you, too!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 02:23 AM (dgZCh)
Hot peppers are fantastic for clearing the sinuses!
Heck, even a steaming beverage will help, but spicy peppers are The Best.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:26 AM (njWTi)
RCBS. Thanks for the reminder!
And, I know, and have PRESSED some sample bullets from Copper Wire out of that exact same tool.
Back in the 1970s, in fact, when I was a wee teen, newly LEARNING the shooty world.
Sucked being a poor kid, then. I could look, learn, sometimes touch and do. But never able to own.
I own some, now.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 02:27 AM (e6UQI)
He's doing better currently, and conducting himself properly ...
Posted by: Ciampino - a potential positive at January 17, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)
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Ohm my goodness! I'm shocked, Watt did you tell him to not revolt and resist temptation the next time? Had it been my kid, I would socket to him!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 02:29 AM (dgZCh)
Hot peppers are fantastic for clearing the sinuses!
Heck, even a steaming beverage will help, but spicy peppers are The Best.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:26 AM (njWTi)
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Not quite sure I still have sinuses.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 02:30 AM (dgZCh)
I took a tour of the other plant areas (having been only working in the "assembly" sections) and, wow!
Bullet production was the most interesting. They took the lead billets (~80-90lb each) and put them into hydraulic presses... out came hot lead wire! Kinda like a Play-Doh machine. Then, threaded thru another machine what cut the wire into chunks. Then, the chunks went thru a processor and ended up in a dial-feed thing what swaged them into rough (or final) forms. Then, (maybe) on to copper plating. Then, to "re-strike" (a final swaging process) ... Awesome to behold.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:36 AM (njWTi)
For me, a good Japanese Curry does the sinus trick.
And TASTES BETTER in the doing.
Is best with some previously cooked, slightly charred meat, atop the rice and under the sauce.
Oh, and the rice. I cook my own blend, the old way in a saucepan and lid, steamed with boiled-off water with some chicken stock and unsalted butter.
You'd all envy my rice. Everyone who has tried it, does.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 02:36 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 02:38 AM (dgZCh)
Guaranteed to getcha breathin' right again!
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:39 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:39 AM (njWTi)
Did you know, that GoldDot am.mo is *all* hand inspected? And then Re-inspected, before final packaging?
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:43 AM (njWTi)
See if you can find a U toob on 'em making the Hornady "Partition" bullet.
That is a ballet of copper and lead, the likes of which you've never imagined, or seen.
The Barnes Bullet version is the "A-Frame". Same idea, different factories. And volumes.
But, both are awesome, Big Game bullets, that tend to remain intact, even if the game is Elk, Buffalo or Elephant.
We've come a long way since the Long Hunter cast his own lead ball, while on prairie, mountain and trail.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 02:45 AM (e6UQI)
I make wasabi from the powdered wasabi that comes in small glass jars. I need to step back once or twice while blending in the water.
We eat sushi out for the convenience and change of scenery (Mrs. BD doesn't have to look over a sink post meal). I haven't been to a great sushi restaurant in years. Keeping kosher limits our selection of restaurants.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 02:45 AM (dgZCh)
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This is what I call "coughing powder". Also, there's a Hot Wings Seasoning, that I've given the same name LOL
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:51 AM (njWTi)
Go far back enough, and my Duty Round was the CCI Lawman, 158 gr. JHP, .357 Magnum. Late 1970s, early '80s. Yellow, plastic "reloaders" hinged lid box.
Before the Lawyers.
They were HOT rounds. Flattened primers. HURT to shoot, even from the S&W Model 28, N frame revolver.
But shot to "X" ring accuracy at 50 yards, because the ammo was THAT consistent, every shot the same.
IRRC, they were loaded to an even higher SAMMI pressure, than is published or allowed for, now.
MUCH higher. Would've made Elmer Keith smile, though.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 02:51 AM (e6UQI)
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Oh, Yeah!!!
"Made by 'The Good Ol' Boys' in Lewiston, Idaho"
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:57 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 02:57 AM (njWTi)
Chosen as if my life depended on those.
Because, it did.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 03:00 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:04 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:10 AM (njWTi)
Here's a recipe for Japanese eggplant in the microwave I discovered years ago. Takes about 20 minutes:
Japanese eggplant halved lengthwise, making a few slits in the flesh, then placed cut side down in a microwave safe dish with Kikkoman lite soy to cover about half to three-quarters up the eggplant, sprinkling in garlic slices and grated/minced ginger. Cook on high about 20 minutes, no cover, checking after 15 minutes and so on, just to make sure you don't lose all the liquid. Once fully cooked (knife tender), put it on a plate cut side up and just scoop it out and eat. If you have some kind of duk/sweet and sour sauce hanging around, you can put a little of that on top as well.
Eggplant cooks surprisingly well in a microwave. Glad I found that out. I like eggplant.
Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2024 03:12 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:12 AM (njWTi)
I ended my career though, opting for the Winchester Silvertip .357 Mag, in the 145 gr. loading.
Two reasons. Tests showing the aluminum jacket really played sneaky with denim, leather and other obstructive clothing.
And. Seeing a full autopsy of a felon shot by an officer with two rounds of the Silvertip. Liver and Lung SOUP, is not something you want to see on your menu, trust me on that.
Oh, and by then, the truly HOT "Lawman" rounds? They'd been watered down, into something less, than the originals.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 03:13 AM (e6UQI)
Every shooter has their preference. I respect that! Experiences are key, as to ammo choice. (And recco's from brothers in arms!)
The BEST ROUND, is the one in your chamber, what fires when you need it, no matter who/where it's made.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:19 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:21 AM (njWTi)
.22 LR (.223)
.38 Special. (.357)
.41 Magnum. (.410)
.44 Magnum (.429)
.22 and .38 diameters, affected by old blackpowder days, "heel" loaded bullets, there the external dimater of the brass case, was also the diameter of the projectile itself.
The .22 LR, was the HEEL diameter. The .38 Special was the CASE diameter. The .357 mag used the same bullet as the .38, but used the HEEL nomenclature, so as to separate the two, in peoples minds. (and ammo lockers).
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 03:27 AM (e6UQI)
That gub is oh-so-heavy
Got a half case of .44mag SWC to get rid of-- BOOM! it's just too much for me to 'target' shoot anymore... bang bang bang, when I need to let off steam, hahaha.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:28 AM (njWTi)
Yeah, like I said-- memory gap on diameters. It's been a while!
Last decade, I merely ran a packaging machine. Lost track of most 'line' duties.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:30 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:33 AM (njWTi)
Sweet Spot seems to be the "Special +P" pressure levels.
Bit more oomph than the Special, not the crackenloudenboomen of the Magnums.
Oh, and that 145 gr. Silvertip? Full Magnum performance, but only +P blast and recoil. Don't ask me how they did that, but they did.
I still keep those loads for that gun, to this day.
Hasta la nite nite, Horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 17, 2024 03:40 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:42 AM (njWTi)
'Tis 27 F. here -- nowhere near as low as the apocalyptic, Antarctic temps the TV weather mavens predicted. That's the temp at the local CBS outlet, which is located on the edge of the French Quarter. Might be a little lower where I am, farther from the city center. I've gone to work in worse in Denver -- and here for that matter.
Anyway! Up early, going to stretch and do my calisthenics. Got my doctor visit this pm. Perhaps I'll find out if my no-junk-food regimen of the last three months has achieved anything (aside from my losing an inch or so off my waist).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2024 03:42 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:43 AM (njWTi)
I'd be in Nevada right now if I didn't have electricity and water.
Don't know about job, last I heard their water is frozen which means operations are on hold. Don't much care.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 17, 2024 03:44 AM (J3ryZ)
Posted by: Farmer at January 17, 2024 03:47 AM (55Qr6)
17F now, hoping for 35-37 high for Wednesday. But also getting snow now, and more expected tonight and throughout the day.... Ugh.
Hope you're able to stay warm and dry!
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:49 AM (njWTi)
Hope you're OK as well!
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:51 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2024 03:12 AM (emlEe)
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Thanks.
Always top off your eggplant with fried whole garlic cloves.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 03:53 AM (dgZCh)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:54 AM (njWTi)
Pulled out hamburger and breakfast sausage for next couple days. Got beans soaking for ham & beans tonight.
I do not miss going to work in this kind of crappy weather.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2024 03:57 AM (njWTi)
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World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)