Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28 (Fri Sep 1 22:12:47 2023)
https://youtu.be/K7bgQLn7UCE?si=8GwMqaxknjW-6ei0&t=138
I guess my idea of the existence of Denver wasn’t original to me. The link should start just as he talks about the people going across the plains, stopping in Denver. (better quality but part of the other one)
I once typed this up, on a typewriter, back in the long-ago days before word processors, and mailed it to the woman I’m now married to.
Yeah, the “we’re all Europeans” comment’s a bit racist and wrong, but the rest of it’s superb.
Fri Sep 1 21:52:08 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
So there is a reason why I am watching old Gallagher videos tonight. I almost died today because someone didn’t share the same understanding that I did about yellow lights. This links to the moment where he talks about making left hand turns and yellow lights. For better or worse, I have had this as my practice for almost 40 years.
So here in Colorado, they started having flashing yellow lights a couple years ago, whereas before they really didn’t. In Michigan, if it wasn’t a “Michigan left” where you go past the street you want to go left on, then you do a u-turn at the light or stop sign that is about 50 yards down the road, then you turn right onto the other street. If there isn’t one of those, it often would go you’re sitting at the light in the left-hand turn lane, then it goes to flashing yellow and you can make the turn if it’s safe, but then you get a green arrow when you and the left-hand turners going the other way have the intersection, then it turns yellow, and then red again. Easy peasy, you can see the light changing out of the corner of your eye, you can make the turn earlier if the traffic isn’t that bad, and you have a clear idea of when it’s safe.
In Colorado, they started having it go red light, then green arrow, then flashing yellow, then solid yellow for a couple seconds and then red again. This has the effect where you and the speed demon going straight the other way are competing for the ability to safely get out of the intersection. Today, I’m the dude who didn’t make it through the green arrow, i’m waiting during the flashing yellow part, it turns yellow and I start to complete my turn but NO!!!!! there’s this speed demon going straight to beat the yellow light on his side. Came within a few feet of having a head-on collision.
AITA?
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Fri Sep 1 21:33:09 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
Yeah funny how that not smoking turned out. So eventually, they moved me to an office that was away from the main campus, I called it the island of unwanted contractors. There was an interesting racist thing in North Carolina that I wasn’t expecting, that is that they didn’t like folks who came from southern Asia and had accents. I expected some different racism there but whatever. They built this office out of a building that had been a warehouse, on the other side of the parking structure. High ceilings, cheap carpeting, lots of echoes. This meant that you had to go outside in 90+ degree humid heat to get to a meeting and some folks just dialed in from their desk. Who knew they were rehearsing for having people work truly remote. I was told by one of my fellow contractors that it was just like the kind of office you’d find in Bangalore.
Anyway, back to the smoking. They had a prohibition on smoking anywhere on the campus. As it turned out, the Island of Unwanted Contractors was right near the edge of the property, over by the railroad tracks. Eventually, being a nicotine addict at the time, I started wanting to smoke cigarettes during the work day, so I would go outside, cross over to the other side of the tracks, and smoke a cig. Maybe two, it was a long walk.
Also about smoking cigarettes: I saw the movie “Golda” today because it was friggin’ hot out (98, I don’t think we’ve broken 100 so far this year) and that’s what you would do on a hot day when I was young. The movie was good but damn did that woman smoke a lot of cigarettes. My companion was disgusted, but I found myself craving a cigarette for the first time in many years. Lucky for me, I don’t have any smokers in my close group of associates. The movie was good, it was about the Yom Kippur war that happened in 1973 between the as-yet-to-be-recognized nation of Israel and its neighbors.
I’ve taken to paying attention to more of the names during the credits like Producers and Exectutive Producers. EP’s are the people who write the checks and sometimes the movie expresses something that they want to say through the movie. I think there were as many Executive Producers as there were named actors.
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Fri Sep 1 13:37:29 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
PSA: to the “children can’t give consent” crowd, consider that this applies to posting their pics on social media as well. I get it, it’s complicated in the world we have built.
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Fri Sep 1 13:22:58 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
There was no reason this had to happen. I learned once that there is a small industry dedicated to restoring it, but damn, this is interesting.
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Thu Aug 31 19:48:29 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
Someone has posted flyers around the office that say “Archery Dodgeball”. That’s a nope from me.
https://archerygamesdenver.com/
https://archerygamesdenver.com/
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Thu Aug 31 08:37:40 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
This is quite possibly the most exciting news I have seen in Quite Some Time, no irony. I have often wondered, in the social network melee of the last few years, if it would be possible to just go and start using it again. Turns out there is some new management.
Usenet was probably my first true internet obsession. Moderation was a problem back in the day, and now that someone has turned the lights back on, maybe there could be a non-corporate alternative to the mess that has become Reddit.. ok, i’ll shut up now and see what clients are available for my toys.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
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Wed Aug 30 15:47:24 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
I forgot i wrote this. I’ve enjoyed having the plastic model skull (helpfully labeled, as i remember, “human skull” on the outside of the box) as a reminder. Memento mori.
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Wed Aug 30 15:43:25 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
https://gdigraphics.com/police-car-ghost-graphics/
This is a relatively new thing. In the last couple weeks here in Longmont, Colorado, I have seen a silver cop “car” (SUV) with white lettering and a brown one with black lettering that was pretty easy to overlook.
I don’t have constant fear of cops like I used to when I was almost always a walking bust. I’d have never survived a “stop and frisk” as our friends in places like NYC have had because I was “carrying” contraband. I am sure the color of my skin had at least a little bit to do with that. Nowadays, I believe there is also an age privilege.
This is still something to be aware of for whatever reason you want to know where your public servants are.
https://gdigraphics.com/police-car-ghost-graphics/
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Tue Aug 29 14:34:17 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
Relevant again. I was in the grocery store recently. I have seen more people lately masking up, but some were wearing those cheap blue ones, which have been considered ineffective since at least Omicron. The office where I work also has a pile of those mostly useless masks next to the door.
I haven’t seen any analyses of the new variants (my recent quick poll of articles listed Eris, Pi and Arcturus) and their effectiveness, but it’s probably a good idea to expect that an N95 or equivalent is probably the safest.
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Mon Aug 28 21:50:27 2023
Weekly Facebook 2023-08-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkJLKl66s8
Highlights of Men’s OST include Lesley Duncan’s 70’s brit classic ‘’Love Song’’.
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/6xy6YN2GwTKDUelknTNxHW?si=NKjtZCSAR7GC2kfknDrnfA
Film: https://a24films.com/films/men
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