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Kolohe wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 11:58 Good quick analysis video of the United flight out of Denver this past weekend whose engine went kablooey.

Apparently the house where the front ring of the nacelle cowling landed was the super for the building where my company has its main office.

Aresen wrote: ↑11 Feb 2021, 11:47

Warren wrote: ↑11 Feb 2021, 10:51

Kolohe wrote: ↑11 Feb 2021, 10:15 I know who she is, but tbf ‘London Breed’ does sound like a UK skinhead football hooligan gang.

That. Or some kind of roast.

My thoughts turned to the American Kennel Club.

Or when a OK skinhead football hooligan really screwed the pooch.

Ellie wrote: ↑12 Feb 2021, 12:51 Also I remember really enjoying the Carl Hiassen audio books if you're into him.

It took me a couple minutes to figure out that this wasn't just me mis-hearing Mara Liasson for all these years.

I have very little to contribute but I'll leave this here anyway.

JD wrote: ↑25 Feb 2021, 17:00 Undersea fiber optic cables (and specifically, disturbances in the polarization of the light passing through them) may help us detect undersea earthquakes.

We're finally gonna be able to track that Soviet supersub!

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dhex wrote: ↑21 Feb 2021, 14:16 My wife and son are fond of the reboot. It's fine? Charming I guess.

You are the face of toxic PBS fandom.

Oh, I'm happy to hear that finally dropped. I'd heard about it a while ago. I was a fan of the PBS show and even read a few of his books afterward becasue of it. The production values are higher, and make for a more enjoyable watch. Can't say the writing or acting is better. I wish I could remember...

I used to listen to him on occasion in the early 90's. Before Clinton won he had a sense of humor. Very partisan humor, sometimes mean spirited, but humor. Lots of songs, sound effects, impersonations, gags, etc. After Clinton won he just ranted. Yeah, '91/'92 he was transgressive. By Jan '93 he wa...

dbcooper wrote: ↑18 Feb 2021, 20:43

That's right up there with OwlKitty.

The state's purported desire to be energy independent of border states and, of course, the federal government, is dumb and actually anti-market FWIW, I'm seeing the claim that their *reason* for being independent was to evade federal regulation. Could that constitute a net-pro-market tradeoff? Doub...

dbcooper wrote: ↑14 Feb 2021, 09:15 Big storm tonight here, but my big old cat (12 yo, 14 lb) is inside on his favorite chair, and that's all that matters.

We ran out of degrees Fahrenheit for a good chunk of this weekend but a 15+lb Maine floof and an 11lb tuxedocat made it less awful.

JasonL wrote: ↑12 Feb 2021, 09:52 For clarity - athleisure is pajamas in this model.

Ah I consider athleisure to be sweats.

My co-worker accused me of being "fancy" today (on Zoom) because I was wearing a cardigan. I always change out of my sweats for a zoom call. I carefully explain that my security software keeps my laptop from recognizing the camera on my external monitor and IT won't fix it for a zoom call. My secur...

Chick Korea. Recently heard a cover of "Spain" on ukulele and am deeply ashamed not to have hated it. It's Corea (probably autospell?) but, yeah, that's sad. Great musician. I own a number of albums, two or three of his and many more where he sat in on piano. Derp at spelling. Not so much autocorre...

We can probably safely close (clothes?) this thread down. The battle is over, pajamas won. I've been converted. It was already going anyway but COVID killed more fashion sense than people by a mile. I refuse to wear pajamas out of the house. I mean to take out the trash, sure, as long as it's after...

Chick Korea.

Recently heard a cover of "Spain" on ukulele and am deeply ashamed not to have hated it.

Pham Nuwen wrote: ↑08 Feb 2021, 20:51 I feel Colorado has done better than other states. But I dont have any data to back that up.

It's definitely doing well by some metrics.

That's even better than the guy whose kid had been the last one to use Zoom, and signed into a meeting as something like Captain Fart.

It was 54F at 4PM. Insects were out flying about in early February.

Five hours later is is currently 13F. Colorado gon' Colorad.

Your organization has done little for its members, and nothing for me - besides collecting dues and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas... You can keep your empty platitude spewing inaugural poet laureate. ? Deep down, Warren still believes "Hillary would've been worse." (I admit she...

Man I thought Plummer had passed sometime in the last few months. I thought he died a few years ago! Not in the general "oh, [elderly celebrity] was still alive? Huh" kind of way but like I have really specific memories of people posting their fond memories of Sound of Music and stuff. Total Mandel...

Man I thought Plummer had passed sometime in the last few months.

This seems as good a thread for this as any: an argument on whether technological stagnation is real (also at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gMszBSAX23uqYhytR/technological-stagnation-why-i-came-around) Honestly, I think a lot of the pro-stagnation arguments boil down to "I expected this thing to ...

I started off saving up some episodes and hoping that mrs lunch would catch up, but she won't and I got busy with stupid crap and so now I'm gonna churn through the full S5 in pretty much one fell swoop.

Mrs lunch had dental work today, so we ordered Panera so she could have a smoothie. They apparently let their delivery drivers choose a profile pic. I suspect that my driver has a very lively personality and that were we to meet at a party we'd run out of topics of conversation in a max of two minut...