Wisdom (and sometimes the cereal guy): 08/01/2021

31.8.21

Fear the air, kiddo

Former Flyer: pic

b1-66er: SO GREAT!

No wonder I never go to Bandera.

FF: Great news coverage; "scary clouds..."

b1: Bandera journalists understand the power of second grade english.

30.8.21

PTA - Public Text Announcement

The only thing everyone at KTXT can agree on is we're all staunchly pro-text...

...Making it easier for you to imagine the joy, wonder and relief when we spotted a caption lurking below a pic of the most recent hurricane Ida devastation...

Editor's Note: (Is your power out or device's battery charge low? Bookmark CNN's lite site¹ for text-only top stories.)

¹ http://lite.cnn.com/en

29.8.21

Wink wink blink

b1-66er: (flashing lights, reflectivity and a very strong color contrast. Again.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/28/tesla-model-3-hit-a-parked-police-car-in-orlando-driver-said-she-was-in-autopilot.html

b1-67er: They clearly have a problem there. If self driving cars hang in there, it may drive new specs on emergency vehicles. Either frequency of flashing emergency lights, or wavelength of light so self drivers can readily identify them. My guess is the bright light is saturating a sensor, or overwhelming some averaging software. Maybe it fails if the sampling is in phase with the flashing.

22.8.21

Flaming Lips

b1-66er: https://youtu.be/fNINWMqxQQc

D4rw1n: Good use of harp

Old musician joke:

What's the best use of a burning oboe?

Use that to set the bassoon on fire

20.8.21

"Let us all remember that which has not yet happened"

Special K: Commence watching Reminiscence (2021).

b1-66er: Whoa•

Sardonically, I don't even know that movie.

K: It just came out today.

b1: WELL IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY HARD TO REMINISCE, ISN'T IT?

K: Oh yes.

AL mighty

Special K: "An Alabama man thought he'd been shot by an intruder. It turns out it was his wife's boyfriend, secretly living in their house"

The eternal sawbuck

b1-66er: https://thepointsguy.com/guide/budget-las-vegas/

Major Math: Right on a lot...

...wrong on rentals. They are crazy expensive

The Accomplice: Everyplace is gross right now. I'm trying to rent in Seattle to see my grandbaby, and it's over $100/day.

They're not super close to the airport, and I'd like to save them the drive.

Plus nowadays you have to pay for parking, too. Oof

It used to be our best-kept LV secret. So much so that we'd go rent a car at the airport the night before traveling, and drive ourselves from home as our airport shuttle.

I think there's a train that'll get me 2/3 of the way there. That's my current plan. They can pick me up at the metro station

MM: Yeah. It's nuts

The Corporal is in Minnesota now and took a shuttle instead of renting

b1: It must be hard to live like the lower classes.

Corporal Math: I love the shuttle. I hate driving.

b1: Then I misspoke.

And I'm more with, than against, you.

I like driving highways or mountains.

I don't like driving cities OR PARKING.

TA: Ah! Is it the kind that might drive you to five other people's drop-offs first? (That's the part that I don't like about old-fashioned airport shuttles.)

MM: She flies into Minneapolis, but is really going to Rochester (Mayo clinic), about an hour away

We NEVER take those horrible airport shuttles

CM: No. Shuttle that takes you from MSP to downtown Rochester. I slipped him an extra 10 bucks off the books to take me to my mom's house.¹

MM: Especially when we travel together. The price of two shuttle tickets is usually in the same order as an Uber

After the main drop off, or on the way?

CM: After. Not the kind of thing to negotiate in front of others.

b1: That's exactly the right trick...

... Enlarge the sociological interactions of Las Vegas into the inhabitants of the United States.

CM: Exactly. Good life training.

MM: I'm impressed. It's not like you to talk to people -- especially in "wheeler/dealer" situations

What exactly did you say to him?

CM: I asked him to take me as far south as he could and then I was going to Uber. After the last person got out, he asked if I had called the Uber. I read that as an opening...

...I said I'll give you 10 bucks to drive me to my mom's across from XYZ school. And he said yep. I can do that. And thanks for waiting to ask until the last person got out.

You trained me well Major Math.

MM: 💰

I'm so proud right now!

TA: Awesome!

b1: And with that dissertation,

Corporal Math graduated with Honors and a PhD from the University of Life's School of Hard Knocks•

CM: Woot. I'll take it. I didn't save any money. Just time and the hubsters pride I guess.

b1: If there's ONE THING I've learned in my

69 HOURS²

of meditation...

It's that ONLY ONE THING MATTERS IN LIFE

All the rest of "being" is just living in an exact moment...

MM: Whiskey?

b1: ... And that's

HUSTLER'S PRIDE

Everything else is just living in an exact moment...

(and to a lesser extent whiskey)

MM: On that note...did you see the outrageous vaxx add from AR?

b1: No!

MM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQh2up5JKow

b1: Humanity...

... As we know it ...

... IS DOOMED•

¹b1's grandfather was a railroader whose family lived in a Union Pacific house just off the tracks in Rawlins...

When b1's mom was a college student, en route from Salt Lake City to Laramie train would stop across from the family house to let her off. (75 years ago)

²not me being pervy. Just happens to be the actual number right now.

19.8.21

The opposite of stripper

Special K: "Man didn't expose himself during anti-mask rant, CA police say."

b1-66er: You know what's funny...

...I behaved EXACTLY the same way when being accused of an illegal U-turn in Denver, 35 years ago.

K: As one does.

17.8.21

iLoveAGoodTitle

Special K: "iLikeBatteries

The Weekly Podcast that explores the world of batteries"

b1-66er: ILikeTheEntireConcept ESPECIALLY the naming rationale.

16.8.21

Rage-in-a-can

b1-66er:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/376835

b1-67er: I generally keep my phone ringer off. My usual work pattern is work an hour or two, pause to get water or soda, and look at my phone in those pauses. Before I had a cell phone it was the same pattern, without checking the phone. Still the phone is a temptation when I'm doing tedious work.

66: I think managing in this kind of environment would be difficult.

I used to have (weekly) walking one-on-ones with the few dozen people who worked for me. Partially to get away from 'other distractions.'

Only one of my reports said they liked it.

67: Interesting.

66: Maybe it's possible all the directed internal hatred is what gave me MS?

Maybe amplified through a can of Mountain Dew?

D4rw1n: Mountain Dew: Focusing Your Rage Inward Since 1969