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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

michaelskis said:
I am trying to understand that in this day and age, how a military helicopter can collide with a commerical airplane. With the level of technology that we have today, something like this should not happen.
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I was looking at some discussion on reddit and apparently the helo was flying in an established corridor over the Potomac, but its altitude was too high (you can get a lot from flight tracking websites). Supposedly they were warned of the proximity of the commercial aircraft but the copter pilot may have confused the aircraft that was hit with another one further off and thought there was adequate separation.

If the chopper had been at the correct altitude there would have been no conflict.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
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luckless pedestrian said:
Wait, are those corduroys?
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They are corduroys - tweed corduroys to be more precise.

Planit said:
Did you unfold it & it was really an advertisement for something?
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Yes I did unfold it and thankfully it wasn't an ad for something. It was sitting in a puddle of melted snow so I had to unfold it and carry it around for a while to let it dry out before stuffing it in my pocket.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
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I feel like I'm watching a European cable access channel. It probably has to do with the accents from two of the presenters. I'm sure they're extremely qualified. Four planners and a planter.
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Glad I was never forced into a panel like this. I'd rather stand up, put a death grip on the podium, and then sit down.
 
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jumbach said:
We love "Ghosts." Strangest show on television.

But we think the character Nancy is incredibly annoying. She needs to be sucked off or written out.

Jim
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The basement ghosts makes me uncomfortable but it's less to do with the characters and more to do with cholera, which is what killed them in the first place. I blame the old Oregon Trail game on Apple II.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Definitely not seersucker. That’s all been put away until around Memorial Day.

FWIW, I’m also supporting your Maine economy with these shoes that were made out there.
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Maine has two seasons: Winter and July. :)

Big Owl said:
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The basement ghosts makes me uncomfortable but it's less to do with the characters and more to do with cholera, which is what killed them in the first place. I blame the old Oregon Trail game on Apple II.
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Fun fact: If you are ever driving along I-84 near Pendleton, OR, you can see the wagon tracks in the median of the freeway. Still there.
 
Are you surprised that I don't own anything that is seersucker and corduroy ?
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Definitely not seersucker. That’s all been put away until around Memorial Day.
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Okay, but I want to point out that you are admitting to wearing seersucker, period. Do you have a straw hat and bamboo cane to go with? Or do you remove your jacket, don suspenders, and aim for the 1960s southern civil rights attorney look? ;)
 
Maister said:
Okay, but I want to point out that you are admitting to wearing seersucker, period. Do you have a straw hat and bamboo cane to go with? Or do you remove your jacket, don suspenders, and aim for the 1960s southern civil rights attorney look? ;)
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I've got a few seersucker items hanging in my closet, including a very nice custom seercuker suit in a wool/cotton blend that has a fantastic drape though I never actually wear it as a suit and have only ever worn it as separates.

I do own a couple straw hats, but the two I wear most frequently are very beat-up and dirty. They're great for wearing when I am working in the yard or sitting on a tractor at my parents farm in the summer. I actually own a straw boater that I only ever threaten to wear. One of these days I should wear the boater along with the full seersucker suit!

Every year I say I am going to get a pith helmet to wear when I'm at the farm sitting on the tractor bossing my nephews around but never actually do.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Every year I say I am going to get a pith helmet to wear when I'm at the farm sitting on the tractor bossing my nephews around but never actually do.
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I've always wanted a pith helmet too. And maybe some web straps, Wellington boots. Oh, and a Webley revolver.

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I was trying to figure out what God's Favorite Firearm is and have it down to two choices, but really don't know which one it is. Is it A) the Mauser broomhandle?

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or B) the Thompson submachine gun (with drum magazine, of course)?
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GPT doesn't get me anything useful but I am having good luck pointing google Gemini at a report and having it pull out relevant stuff I can quote/summarize for a project right now. You upload the doc to your google drive and then you can point Gemini at it and it seems better than what GPT /imagines/ is in a document when you do the same over there.
 
We got our oldest tickets to go see Hadestown for Christmas so that will be my Saturday activity. I have not been to a Broadway-style theatrical or musical performance since my parents dragged one of my sisters and me to go see Fiddler on the Roof 30-some years ago.

I was trying to go into Hadestown blind and knowing as little about the show as possible but our daughter forced me to listen to some of the soundtrack yesterday. I like what I heard so hopefully I'll enjoy the show.
 
JNA said:
Which is better -
to nap before a walk ?
or
to nap after a walk ?
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I generally prefer to walk after a nap. When I WFH, I usually take a nap from about 12:00 to 12:45 and then go for a walk for about 30 minutes... unless I have a meeting with IT who always likes to schedule stuff for exactly 1:00. :down:

No walk for me today though as it's pouring rain out there.
 
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Went to the zoo with the kid. She insisted on seeing every animal so it was a lot of walking. The animals all show off for her. The condor spread its wings, the hyena was talking to her, the big cats all paced the front of the enclosure for her, even the orangutang smiled at her. To make the day even better I went to the local hamburger place by the college for lunch and just after we got our burgers everyone came in after the big ASU/UA basketball game. Saturday was nothing but good.
 
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
 
ursus said:
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
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ursus said:
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
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Breathe - it's going to be okay - spend the day reviewing sign permits where things are safe and happy
 
ursus said:
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
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Do you want me to make a phone call? Give me the number & I'll call. You won't have to go to that Monday morning meeting. In fact you won't ever have to endure that again. Not today or the next Monday or any of them. You probably won't have to attend any meetings there again.
 
ursus said:
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
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Turn up the thermostat to 80 or 85.
 
ursus said:
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
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Construct a desk fort and when folks enter your office impatiently to ask when you're planning on joining the meeting, cut them off mid-sentence and demand they tell you the password first before you will say anything. Here's the genius part, though.....there IS NO PASSWORD! They can guess all day long and never get the right password! Then you never have to go.
 
ursus said:
My much-hated Monday morning meeting starts in 36 minutes. Somehow, I've got to keep it from happening...but how? Bomb threats and pulling the fire alarm are sooooooooo "I'm in my 30s and hate my government job", I'm a man now (save your comments, I heard it as soon as I typed it) and I want to stop this meeting in a better way, but have no ideas. Somebody stop it for me!!!
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Emergency site visit. Across town/county. Will take a few hours.
 
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