Preamble: Yes, I know that Facebook is the devil. But it's actually proved quite useful in reuniting with a lot of people who I knew many years ago (before the world wide web), and has enabled two rather passionate and emotionally fulfilling romantic relationships. Granted, one of those ended in flames which make Chernobyl look like a minor incident, but I still have no regrets.


Anyway, Bekki Reuter was a classmate of mine in high school. She was one of the cheerleader-types. Not my style, but the kind of person you remember. We interacted by way of the fact that I was the yearbook editor (nerd alert) and she was the kind of person who was willing to expend capital (well, her parents' capital) to ensure favorable treatment in the yearbook, and I was the kind of person with the moral flexibility to accommodate such requests.

As with many of our age, she's now a stay-at-home mother of three who is involved in one of these MLM schemes hawking nutrition products on the side, which allows her to claim to be an "entrepreneur / business owner."

(Seriously, didn't we debunk that with Tupperware / Avon in the 80s? Why is this still a thing?)

She''s apparently quite proud of the fact that, over the past few years, she has transformed herself from a soft, huggable, Rubenesque woman into a semi-masculine hardbody.

Like, *REALLY* proud. Despite being a heterosexual woman who is married to a man whom I pity.

Example:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ad&oe=5DF54B70

(I did not edit the above in any way. That exact A/B comparison photo is exactly as originally posted, with the implication that "B" (right) is preferable over "A" (left).)



Anyway, here's the point of this post: If you want to remain FB friends with someone, don't reply to the photo above with "Wow, you used to be really cute."

That sort of comment is not received well, apparently.

Also, add this to the list of stupid shit that I ought to have recognized long ago:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...da0349141a.png



Yes, you're an awesome organization that services "difficult to house" dogs, but more to the point, your logo is a silhouette of the Hancock Tower (which I only just noticed), which means that my aux transmitter antenna is a part of your logo.

And it spells CCR.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...82cc6d4109.jpg

Beautifully complex conduit work pleases me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rf...w3840-h1868-no

Beautiful. My first thought was "wonder what order it was done in"

The silhouette is an apron and that organization is Korean.

That particular room was renovated at the same time that the UPS was installed, so in this case, all of the conduit was designed / installed at the same time.

There are many other areas of the building in which conduit from each decade since the 1960s is interwoven in a complex ballet. Those areas are less aesthetically pleasing.


Unrelated: For some reason, we have a box of Tribbles sitting on a cabinet outside the prop room.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...de0f5a3c93.png

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...a5ffefeb40.png

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...616210e542.png

Possibly be used along side Rubber Ducks?

I really don't see why this is so difficult for auto manufacturers to grasp. I find Toyota still does a pretty good job of designing tactile controls. But I had a Maxima a few years back that had an array of buttons two rows tall and like 20 buttons wide that did everything from control the radio to the a/c fan speed to the rear defroster. I hated that so much. If I wanted something done, I'd just ask my wife to find and push the button for me so I wouldn't have to take my eyes off the road and spend 30 seconds doing a Where's Waldo for the gatdammed defrost button.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...4ceed92a46.png

The reference book on such topics as control mapping, etc.

^ I love that book. It was required reading at PR&E, and for good reason.

One of our advertizing slogans was "finger friendly." Get your mind out of the gutter. It just means that we really went out of our way to make all the buttons / knobs / switches / etc on our machines extremely intuitive and easy to operate.

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I wish FBVideo were consistent.

Joe vs Braineack.

TL, DW.


Unrelated:

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net...39&oe=5E0395C6

dat chocolate milk.

Those drone skills.

I'm going with "I can see the pixels" on that one. Because I can't wrap my mind around taht.

sorry cant embed:
video listed as graphic for some reason.

Have you seen this guy?