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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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Gedunker said:
Stumpy was on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt the other night, with a bottle of Maker's Mark at it's base. (Overpriced middling Kentucky bourbon whisky, if you ask me.)
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Lester Holt is a fellow Sacramento State alum. I minored in journalism so I had a couple classes with him, but didn't know him or really talk to him. Rather quiet. Now he interviews people on TV for a living. Go figure.

Jim
 
dandy_warhol said:
I just found a website that is a live stream of a lock at a river in the Netherlands. When fish arrive at the lock you can push a doorbell button that alerts the operators of the lock to open the lock.

I have a new obsession. ❤️❤️🐠🐟🛎️
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we are going to need a link!!!
 
dandy_warhol said:
I just found a website that is a live stream of a lock at a river in the Netherlands. When fish arrive at the lock you can push a doorbell button that alerts the operators of the lock to open the lock.

I have a new obsession. ❤️❤️🐠🐟🛎️
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Reminds me of the old days of the Internet, when there was a dorm at Stanford that allowed anyone to check a particular vending machine in a dorm to see how many of each type of soda were left in the machine. Must have been too difficult to walk downstairs to find out. :) I was even checking from my home, more than a hundred miles from the campus, where I had no intention of going to buy a soda.

Jim
 
Gotta love the Planning Commission meeting last night.

Call to order at exactly 1800, discussed two items and went through all the staff reports, etc. Both approved, adjourned at 1818. That, my friends, is a record.

It took me longer to drive up the windy twisty mountain road to the county courthouse and back than it took to go to the actual meeting!

Jim
 
jumbach said:
Reminds me of the old days of the Internet, when there was a dorm at Stanford that allowed anyone to check a particular vending machine in a dorm to see how many of each type of soda were left in the machine. Must have been too difficult to walk downstairs to find out. :) I was even checking from my home, more than a hundred miles from the campus, where I had no intention of going to buy a soda.

Jim
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Sorta related - if you get the peculiarities at work in my brain: When I was a freshman in college (1978-'79) my little school was on the verge of bankruptcy and would admit anyone that could pay anything toward the college's soaring debt, I mean tuition. (Might be how I got accepted, though they didn't say so in so many words...) Anyway, Spring semester, my dorm fills up with a boatload of Iranian refugees, whom I learned later were Christians fleeing the return to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Apparently, these guys were paying full freight for a small, private school New England education (or to hide from the Ayatollah, or both perhaps) and were genuinely a lifesaver for the college, at least until they graduated. These were the days of payphones in college dorms and apparently, these guys had family overseas. You gotta load a lot of nickels, dimes,and quarters to keep a long distance overseas phone call going for a few minutes. Enough to fill the change box on a payphone, in no time, actually. And once the box is full, the phone is dead until the box is emptied again. Whenever I needed to check in with my parents, I would have to trundle up and down the stairs to each floor of the dorm to see if the phone boxes weren't filled with coins. It was a pita, so I can see the value in being able to see if there's pop in the vending machine ...

TL/dr: Payphones could only hold so many coins before they became inoperative.
 
dandy_warhol said:
I just found a website that is a live stream of a lock at a river in the Netherlands. When fish arrive at the lock you can push a doorbell button that alerts the operators of the lock to open the lock.

I have a new obsession. ❤️❤️🐠🐟🛎️
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Going through the locks on the River Rhine last summer was a cool experience. We did not get doorbelled, though.
 
I just sent a email that included the phrase "Do you have any insight as to why the resident might have thought that?" I figured it was better than "what the F#@& are they thinking?" I deserve a post work beer.
 
Gedunker said:
Sorta related - if you get the peculiarities at work in my brain: When I was a freshman in college (1978-'79) my little school was on the verge of bankruptcy and would admit anyone that could pay anything toward the college's soaring debt, I mean tuition. (Might be how I got accepted, though they didn't say so in so many words...) Anyway, Spring semester, my dorm fills up with a boatload of Iranian refugees, whom I learned later were Christians fleeing the return to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Apparently, these guys were paying full freight for a small, private school New England education (or to hide from the Ayatollah, or both perhaps) and were genuinely a lifesaver for the college, at least until they graduated. These were the days of payphones in college dorms and apparently, these guys had family overseas. You gotta load a lot of nickels, dimes,and quarters to keep a long distance overseas phone call going for a few minutes. Enough to fill the change box on a payphone, in no time, actually. And once the box is full, the phone is dead until the box is emptied again. Whenever I needed to check in with my parents, I would have to trundle up and down the stairs to each floor of the dorm to see if the phone boxes weren't filled with coins. It was a pita, so I can see the value in being able to see if there's pop in the vending machine ...

TL/dr: Payphones could only hold so many coins before they became inoperative.
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Supposedly, the same thing happened with the first "Pac Man" game. (Or some old video game.) The box became so stuffed with quarters, the game stopped working!
 
^^^
NCAA men's Basketball 14 seed lost to 3 seed Baylor or the toothpaste ?
 
Doohickie said:
Eight days ago I stepped on the scale and weighed more than I ever had: 267.5 pounds. I decided enough was enough and simply started eating less. This morning I'm down to 258.8. I'd like to get down to about 200.
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Down to 256. I actually lost almost two pounds on Saturday and kind of ate like a pig, but only two meals. I also rode my bicycle 30 miles on a breakfast ride, mowed the lawn and walked the dogs. According to Strava was 1,750 calories burned.

This was breakfast. The restaurant called it The Big Bad Wolf and it had
  • Brisket
  • Bacon
  • Potatoes
  • Scrambled eggs
  • Chili
  • Queso
  • Tomato serrano salsa

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Follow me for more dieting tips.
 
TOFB said:
I randomly dropped the term "Industrial Orifice" during our walk today and am now convinced it is the perfect band name.
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Great name... I wouldn't expect a band named "Industrial Orifice" to be anything more than an opening act. :ha:
 
We took the children camping this weekend and the older kept escaping from the tent after bedtime. It took a long time before we could get them to sleep and sit in the hammock.

About 4am, i am awakened by a scared child's voice going "daddy? daddy?" outside the tent. I am unable to investigate the actual occupants of the tent in the dark and against all the warnings of mythology and culture I open the tent to look out. Thankfully, instead of a merciless changeling beast who had assumed the mien of my child to lure me to my death, it actually was the child who wanted back inside. Apparently the dark and cold campsite was not as fun as it seemed at bedtime and no more escapes occurred.
 
Gedunker said:
Some men came and raped the land
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
And Jesus people bought them
They called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea
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The Eagles song Last Resort off the Hotel California album
 
Are fasnachts just a Buffalo thing? Don't recall ever seeing them elsewhere, well at least the Chicago area.
 
jsk1983 said:
Are fasnachts just a Buffalo thing? Don't recall ever seeing them elsewhere, well at least the Chicago area.
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TIL: Fasnacht is a fried doughnut of German origin in Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine, served traditionally in the days of Carnival and Fastnacht or on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent starts. Fasnachts were made as a way to empty the pantry of lard, sugar, fat, and butter, which were traditionally fasted from during Lent.
 
I feel that Cyburbia is really behind on the amount of food pictures that we post. Honestly, like we should be seeing at least one or two great photos of food daily. I know everyone is eating at unique places, and eating cool things. Why are you keeping that all to yourself?
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
TIL: Fasnacht is a fried doughnut of German origin in Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine, served traditionally in the days of Carnival and Fastnacht or on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent starts. Fasnachts were made as a way to empty the pantry of lard, sugar, fat, and butter, which were traditionally fasted from during Lent.
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The Buffalo version would be pączki.
 
MD Planner said:
They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise
Kiss it goodbye

EDIT: Probably one of my favorite Eagles tunes. Henley killed it on that one. There's a reason they call it his opus.
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The Eagles are one of those band that's been overplayed so much I just don't like them anymore. They used to be one of my favorites.
 

I was fortunate enough to actually see this from offstage as I was a stagehand at the Kennedy Center Honors that night in 2012. I never saw it on TV later and just recently found the uploaded video. I've never really been a Heart fan but they crushed this with Jason Bonham on drums. When Led Zeppelin is moved to tears I guess you're doing it right.
 
Hink said:
I feel that Cyburbia is really behind on the amount of food pictures that we post. Honestly, like we should be seeing at least one or two great photos of food daily. I know everyone is eating at unique places, and eating cool things. Why are you keeping that all to yourself?
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This is all I got. If I eat somewhere interesting on accident I promise to remember to take a picture and post it. Love you, Hinky. :)
 
MD Planner said:

I was fortunate enough to actually see this from offstage as I was a stagehand at the Kennedy Center Honors that night in 2012. I never saw it on TV later and just recently found the uploaded video. I've never really been a Heart fan but they crushed this with Jason Bonham on drums. When Led Zeppelin is moved to tears I guess you're doing it right.
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The best female voice in the business and likely best of all voices. Heart was my first concert in 1987. They will be back here later this year with Cheap Trick and I will be in attendance.
 
i am deeply troubled by people's ability of reading comprehension.. especially boomers when it comes to land development.
 
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