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

dandy_warhol said:
2025 is already gonna be messed up. Maybe my switch will help butterfly effect some positive change.
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No! Don't you see!? The chaos has begun just in the consideration: I drunkledged my own post by TALKING to you about putting your watch on the wrong wrist! Will we never learn?! :)
 
I think it's messed up that people think that just because you are quiet and don't engage with their bad opinions that it is some kind of signal of passivity and that they then think they have free reign to walk all over you. There's a purpose behind that quietness.
 
JNA said:
Are you surprised that I don't wear or own a watch?
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As our resident luddite, I figured you would wear a watch. It's mechanical and far more simple/easy to access than a cell phone.

Maister said:
Yeah, I could get used to a regular four day work week too.

If you were going to have a four day work week, how would you want the week set up?
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4/10 schedule with Fridays off is pretty nice. Though other countries have already figured out that 4/36s are just as productive, but not the US.

ursus said:
Yes. And people who schedule meetings that START at exactly 1:00 p.m. - what the hell? Lunch is sacred. For many of us, it's all we have. Literally. I want to read, sleep, watch, walk, chat. I'm not coming back early for your stupid meeting; schedule it at 1:30, moron. The only thing worse than a 1:00 p.m. meeting is when there is an office function for lunch. I am a social person, but I cannot stress enough that lunch. Is. Sacred.
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I usually skip breakfast, but lunch and dinner are sacred. Only sadists schedule 1pm meetings. We need to enjoy our lunch and our work-free headspace, and also have some buffer for a post-lunch bathroom break.
 
Watching the New Orleans press briefing. At the very end, there was a question that was unanswered: Will Bourbon Street become a permanent pedestrian-only street now?

I am not familiar with the area, but, in general, converting a street to ped-only doesn't work. There are a couple exceptions, but lately, the trend is to get away from those and revert streets that had been converted decades ago back to allowing traffic.

Jim
 
jumbach said:
Watching the New Orleans press briefing. At the very end, there was a question that was unanswered: Will Bourbon Street become a permanent pedestrian-only street now?

I am not familiar with the area, but, in general, converting a street to ped-only doesn't work. There are a couple exceptions, but lately, the trend is to get away from those and revert streets that had been converted decades ago back to allowing traffic.

Jim
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Why do you need traffic on Bourbon Street? Emergency vehicles? Deliveries? You could have retractable bollards that would selectively be lowered to allow vehicles though.
 
Doohickie said:
Why do you need traffic on Bourbon Street? Emergency vehicles? Deliveries? You could have retractable bollards that would selectively be lowered to allow vehicles though.
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Agreed - Burlington, Vermont did it over 30 years ago and it's a thriving downtown
 
Doohickie said:
Why do you need traffic on Bourbon Street? Emergency vehicles? Deliveries? You could have retractable bollards that would selectively be lowered to allow vehicles though.
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Ever been to Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras?

I have.

You definitely need sanitation vehicle access, including water trucks:puke: and street sweepers:sv:.
 
ursus said:
I drunkledged my own post by
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luckless pedestrian said:
Agreed - Burlington, Vermont did it over 30 years ago and it's a thriving downtown
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We have a one block section of Main Street in Fort Worth that goes through Sundance Square that's been annexed to the square itself and is bollarded off from traffic. It's a good spot for a Christmas tree. The plaza opened about ten years ago; prior to that it was just two parking lots on either side of Main Street. Two of the small buildings on the plaza are older- the one with the mural above the tree, and the shortest section of the building at the bottom of the picture. The rest are new built; opened in 2013. The new buildings were built in the Art Deco style of some of the older downtown buildings.

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Trivia: When it was still just two parking lots, ESPN broadcast College Game Day program from Fort Worth from those lots several times. When designing the plaza, ESPN was consulted on what needed to be incorporated into the design to make it broadcast friendly. Thus there are loudspeakers driven by a professional sound system, masts for mounting lights, network/electrical connections in strategic places, etc. There is also a stage incorporated into the white building at the base of the clock tower at the center of the building. During nice weather various musical groups provide background music to the plaza.
 
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How long can I go in blaming / holding a gurdge against Maister for deleting my posts ?
 
JNA said:
How long can I go in blaming / holding a gurdge against Maister for deleting my posts ?
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I believe in your capacity to hold grudges. I think you have it in you, you just have to dig deep. Feel that resentment settling in. Breathe in - feel it crystalizing in your joints - breathe out, saying the name of the begrudged aaahhhhmaaaaiisssteerrrrrrrrrraahhhhh - that's right, push all your breath out. Now repeat.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
First day back to work in over 3 weeks! I definitely should have taken today and tomorrow off.
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I'm still sifting through 3+ weeks of missed emails and the best one so far is an automated email from HR/Workday that arrived this morning and tells me that I'm approaching the maximum allowable number of vacation hours on the books again.

I guess I better schedule some more time off of work!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I'm still sifting through 3+ weeks of missed emails and the best one so far is an automated email from HR/Workday that arrived this morning and tells me that I'm approaching the maximum allowable number of vacation hours on the books again.

I guess I better schedule some more time off of work!
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jumbach said:
Watching the New Orleans press briefing. At the very end, there was a question that was unanswered: Will Bourbon Street become a permanent pedestrian-only street now?

I am not familiar with the area, but, in general, converting a street to ped-only doesn't work. There are a couple exceptions, but lately, the trend is to get away from those and revert streets that had been converted decades ago back to allowing traffic.

Jim
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There are plenty of retractable bollards on Bourbon. I was just there 6 weeks ago and stood several times at the intersection of Canal and Bourbon. For the most part Bourbon has not vehicular traffic on it at night but you have to allow access for deliveries and other work vehicles.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I'm still sifting through 3+ weeks of missed emails and the best one so far is an automated email from HR/Workday that arrived this morning and tells me that I'm approaching the maximum allowable number of vacation hours on the books again.

I guess I better schedule some more time off of work!
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Talk about a having to RJ or take vacation.
 
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away. But baby, I just need one good one to stay.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Speaking of watches, maybe this belongs in The Vintage Crap threak but I'm wearing a 52-year-old Seiko today... on my right wrist (I'm a lefty).
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I have a 30+ year old Omega on today, but on my left wrist (also a fellow lefty). I do enjoy the 40ish mm dial size watches, but I also do enjoy the fit of the Omega's 32mm.
 
dw914er said:
I have a 30+ year old Omega on today, but on my left wrist (also a fellow lefty). I do enjoy the 40ish mm dial size watches, but I also do enjoy the fit of the Omega's 32mm.
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I think the King Seiko I'm wearing today is about 36mm and while I like big chunky dive watches, I've decided that 36 - 38mm is really my sweet spot in most instances. Over the past decade it has become pretty trendy for watch companies to bring back some of their dive watch designs but they would take what started out as a 38mm case in the 1960s or '70s and then reproduce it today with something like a 45mm case. :r: Thankfully, a lot of the makers have wised up and are now starting to offer those vintage designs with actual vintage dimensions!
 
Our local library system only lets you have 31 items on hold at any given time. I tried to add #32 today, and it booted me out of the whole computer and I had to log back in. I suspect it has to do with an 8-bit mainframe hiding somewhere in the background.

Well, woulda been nice if you had advertised that!

(I use the library hold queue like a Netflix queue, with books waiting for me to get to them, one after another. Once I near completion of a book, I "unsuspend" the next one, and continue that way.)

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In related news, they have gone back to having due dates 3 weeks out from checkout date. For several years, the default due dates were always December 31, 2099 on everything. That has switched in the recent past: the book I got today is due January 23, 2024, with everything else's due dates changed from December 31, 2099 to January 22, 2024 suddenly. It also looks like they somehow got manually checked in and then back out to me without my asking or getting involved or even visiting the library that day.
 
I learned to love New Orleans once I knew to stay the hell away from Bourbon Street and 75% of the French Quarter for that matter.
 
TOFB said:
I learned to love New Orleans once I knew to stay the hell away from Bourbon Street and 75% of the French Quarter for that matter.
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The Quarter is nice when there aren't a lot of tourists around. Morning is my favorite time of day in the FQ.

I have fond memories of the FQ from APA, even after getting hit in the head with a bunch of beads while walking down Bourbon Street with The One.
 
dandy_warhol said:
The Quarter is nice when there aren't a lot of tourists around. Morning is my favorite time of day in the FQ.

I have fond memories of the FQ from APA, even after getting hit in the head with a bunch of beads while walking down Bourbon Street with The One.
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I walked around Fremont St Experience in Vegas at 6 a.m. a few months ago. They do the shows every hour, on the hour, even at 6 a.m. Advantage then is nobody else is around to get in your way!

Jim
 
TOFB said:
I learned to love New Orleans once I knew to stay the hell away from Bourbon Street and 75% of the French Quarter for that matter.
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I really like New Orleans and Quarter. My de facto honeymoon was there. It is a truly unique with great food. It is sad for both New Orleans and the Nation as a whole.
 
Well. I just ate the last of the Costco trail mix that somebody put on the unofficial snack counter at the back of the office. It's been sitting there, all peanut-buttery m&m-y and delicious looking in the bottom of that Hoody's plastic jar all day. One little handful, and none of these wimps would just take it. So a minute ago, I walked up, picked up the jar, and took it to my office to put it out of its misery. Dennis from Sunny in Philadelphia is my Patron Saint. "I summon the very fact that I am man!!!"
 
Plane crash into a building in Fullerton, CA.

I am 99% sure it was an accident based on eyewitness descriptions.
 
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