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

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From Iceland — Icelandic Opera Accused of "Yellowface"

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SlaveToTheGrind said:
Should that be a case of Zatarain's?
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I enjoy crappy ultra-processed food and Cajun and Creole cooking so I thought I would like Zatarain's. Boy was I wrong! :puke:

As a child, I used to love Rice-A-Roni but my mom would only buy it once or twice a year. Even back then, my mother who was probably smoking 2 packs a day, knew how unhealthy Rice-A-Roni was with its 8000mg of salt.













*That figure may be hyperbole.
 
The church behind my house (they are actually a cult, but I've been advised it is impolite to call them that, so I'm not) have private security lights on two utility poles owned by the local electric utility. On Saturday, I noticed a truck parked on the cross street with a utility worker and thought it was probably the cable company and gave it no further thought. Later that night my son pointed out that the kitchen was lit up like daytime and light was streaming through the windows. It seems the electric company changed out the sodium vapor elements for LEDs on the security lights. Half of my house and most of my and my neighbor's backyard are lit up like daytime.

Emails and phone calls will be made until this is fixed.
 
Computers were supposed to make our lives easier, right?

Then how come I can't get into my email or calendar?

Looks like MS 365 is on the fritz.
 
Gedunker said:
The church behind my house (they are actually a cult, but I've been advised it is impolite to call them that, so I'm not) have private security lights on two utility poles owned by the local electric utility. On Saturday, I noticed a truck parked on the cross street with a utility worker and thought it was probably the cable company and gave it no further thought. Later that night my son pointed out that the kitchen was lit up like daytime and light was streaming through the windows. It seems the electric company changed out the sodium vapor elements for LEDs on the security lights. Half of my house and most of my and my neighbor's backyard are lit up like daytime.

Emails and phone calls will be made until this is fixed.
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If I may observe: Maybe the cult is trying to make your lives intolerable and then low-ball you to buy your houses so they can expand. They may have tunneled under your house already so they can try to scare you off your property, or maybe make part of your foundation sink so it looks like you need to spend too much on the property to want to stay. That's what I'd do if I was running a cult next to you and I wanted your land. :) Like the great, under-appreciated band The Unforgiven sang..."Hang on to your sister, son, when the Preacher comes."
 
dandy_warhol said:
We go in June. Do you think you could put a rush on it?
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Dandy, just don't plan on parking in those spaces. If they're still not striped by the time you get there, I encourage you to park in between the lava flows and not directly in them. At least not for any length of time.
 
Can you believe it - I have been retired for 11 months now, and just today I get a work related phone call about NFIP data.
At lease I was in a good mood to help.
Was told trying to justify a USGS stream gauge in the county, closest one is two counties up stream.
 
JNA said:
Can you believe it - I have been retired for 11 months now, and just today I get a work related phone call about NFIP data.
At lease I was in a good mood to help.
Was told trying to justify a USGS stream gauge in the county, closest one is two counties up stream.
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Show me the money
 
My big grey main coon aka "house panther" knows how to open flat handle doors, he learned as a youngin once he grew into full size. For the past 11 years, I have been trying to teach him how to open Knob doors. But whenever I try to demonstrate, he either meows for attention or just walks away. All he has to do is grip the knob with his two front paws and twist, some cats are able to learn, some are not.
 
The Terminator said:
My big grey main coon aka "house panther" knows how to open flat handle doors, he learned as a youngin once he grew into full size. For the past 11 years, I have been trying to teach him how to open Knob doors. But whenever I try to demonstrate, he either meows for attention or just walks away. All he has to do is grip the knob with his two front paws and twist, some cats are able to learn, some are not.
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I think our Maine Coon has figured it out. We keep the bedroom door shut at night because otherwise he comes in and turns the night light on on our air filter (who decided that all appliances a have to have bright LED lights on them?)

When he puts his paw on my hand it's like having a person put their hand on my hand.
 
The Terminator said:
My big grey main coon aka "house panther" knows how to open flat handle doors, he learned as a youngin once he grew into full size. For the past 11 years, I have been trying to teach him how to open Knob doors. But whenever I try to demonstrate, he either meows for attention or just walks away. All he has to do is grip the knob with his two front paws and twist, some cats are able to learn, some are not.
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If he is a Tom he is king of his jungle. He needs no training
 
The Terminator said:
My big grey main coon aka "house panther" knows how to open flat handle doors, he learned as a youngin once he grew into full size. For the past 11 years, I have been trying to teach him how to open Knob doors. But whenever I try to demonstrate, he either meows for attention or just walks away. All he has to do is grip the knob with his two front paws and twist, some cats are able to learn, some are not.
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Faust_Motel said:
I think our Maine Coon has figured it out. We keep the bedroom door shut at night because otherwise he comes in and turns the night light on on our air filter (who decided that all appliances a have to have bright LED lights on them?)

When he puts his paw on my hand it's like having a person put their hand on my hand.
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If I get another cat (Ringo is my wife's, but he loves me) I would really like a Maine Coon.
 
Lately, I've been really wanting a cat. Our oldest daughter used to have really bad allergies but they seem to have lessened quite a bit over the past couple years. Maybe we'll have to test the waters...
 
JNA said:
Who thinks his work life is tough ?
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I've got no real complaints.

I began working here years ago when I was just starting out in grad school and one of my professors told me I was really lucky to get a county job because (at least here in Michigan and other "Home Rule" states) county-level employment in planning and economic development is infinitely less stressful than employment at either the city/township level or the state level. We're sort of the forgotten level of government.

Also, I work primarily on the economic development side of things and I've learned that no RFPs or new projects ever seem to come in from around the start of hunting season until early January. Combine that with the fact that our office is not open to the public and doesn't have a "counter" and that I rarely receive calls from random citizens (maybe once or twice a year?), and life is good.
 
Faust_Motel said:
In my experience they are the most "doglike" cats out there. We also have a Siberian- smaller, just as fluffy, similar temperament, but a little more of a "lap cat."
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As a teen/young adult, my family had a large male blue-tip Siamese and he was definitely the most 'dog-like' cat we'd ever had.

He'd follow us on walks around the neighborhood, greet us at the door, was overly vocal and liked to snuggle like a dog.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I've got no real complaints.

I began working here years ago when I was just starting out in grad school and one of my professors told me I was really lucky to get a county job because (at least here in Michigan and other "Home Rule" states) county-level employment in planning and economic development is infinitely less stressful than employment at either the city/township level or the state level. We're sort of the forgotten level of government.

Also, I work primarily on the economic development side of things and I've learned that no RFPs or new projects ever seem to come in from around the start of hunting season until early January. Combine that with the fact that our office is not open to the public and doesn't have a "counter" and that I rarely receive calls from random citizens (maybe once or twice a year?), and life is good.
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Yeah that sounds pretty good from the "packet day/staff a big meeting four times/month" treadmill us local planners are typically on. Thanksgiving week? who cares, there's development review tonight and a long-range planning commission needs a packet out on Friday for next tuesday!
 
Faust_Motel said:
Yeah that sounds pretty good from the "packet day/staff a big meeting four times/month" treadmill us local planners are typically on. Thanksgiving week? who cares, there's development review tonight and a long-range planning commission needs a packet out on Friday for next tuesday!
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Yep.

I've got PZB this evening, but the only case a discretionary development-wide sign plan amendment that should take no more than 20 minutes...27 for the entire meeting.
 
When you bring home groceries, some gets placed in the "refrigerator" but you never here the term "frigerator" other than perhaps colloquially. There is also "fridge" such as "milk is in the fridge." When a food item is first chilled, likely at the manufacturing plant, does that item go into the "fridgerator" since anytime past that in new cooling appliance the item is now in the refrigerator? "Re" being the prefix meaning again or indication repetition. Important topic for a Tuesday.
 
I'm sure somebody could pinpoint an earlier moment that Black Friday deals "jumped the shark" but I'll peg that moment to the time a few minutes ago when I got an email from my dentist offering Black Friday deals on teeth whitening.

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SlaveToTheGrind said:
When you bring home groceries, some gets placed in the "refrigerator" but you never here the term "frigerator" other than perhaps colloquially. There is also "fridge" such as "milk is in the fridge." When a food item is first chilled, likely at the manufacturing plant, does that item go into the "fridgerator" since anytime past that in new cooling appliance the item is now in the refrigerator? "Re" being the prefix meaning again or indication repetition. Important topic for a Tuesday.
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Would refrigerator be an "unpaired word" like disgruntled (one cannot be "gruntled" though that has sort of morphed into a word over the past few decades based on some humor-based etymology) or irritate (I may irritate you, but I cannot ritate you).
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Would refrigerator be an "unpaired word" like disgruntled (one cannot be "gruntled" though that has sort of morphed into a word over the past few decades based on some humor-based etymology) or irritate (I may irritate you, but I cannot ritate you).
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The things I ruminate about on a slow holiday week.
 
mendelman said:
Yep.

I've got PZB this evening, but the only case a discretionary development-wide sign plan amendment that should take no more than 20 minutes...27 for the entire meeting.
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We have a zoning amendment cooking that will make those master sign plans administrative. I don't think the board has modified a staff recommendation on a sign plan in over a decade!
 
I have to be in court tomorrow afternoon with one of our ne'er-do-wells. Pretty sure the Mayor will allow staff to depart early while I'll be in the dock giving sworn testimony.
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