Which one is you?

I'm the one behind the camera. Passed these two dudes at the corner of Addison & Kedzie. They were asking about a droid, but when I showed them my phone, looked at me like I was an idiot.

Apparently it was warmer on Mars than in Minneapolis this morning.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...b448ffaf23.png

--Ian

Fucking hell. It's warmer on Mars than in Chicago?

(Dat barometric pressure, though....)


On an unrelated note, apparently my employer feels that it is a worthwhile use of corporate money and resources to create surveys in order to determine whether I understand why diversity & inclusion is important to the company.


Dafuq? We're a TV station. Ratings and revenue are what's important. And, to a lesser extent, pissing off Braineack with our liberal agenda. The shareholders don't give a shit how many gay, trans-gendered Armenian Buddhists we have working to make that happen.


I'm not making this shit up:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f31a604380.png



EDIT: god-fucking-dammit, I'm getting so tired of the image-uploader deleting everything I've written...

Every one of this sort of corporate stupidity I have seen always says somewhere that "X" company is committed to whatever it is they are wasting time with. That's a good signal to send employees.

It was 65F and sunny here today. I had to drive all over town to run errands.
I drove with the top down.

Well, they aired that show we shot in Africa with no fanfare, no promo, nothing.
They just quietly aired it on late Sunday, just after midnight. The only clue was a TV guide listing on TRT website which was posted a couple days prior.

No one had any kind of rating expectations. I mean, they used the show as some sort of a filler at midnight...

And then ratings were posted the next day.
We came in at #35 in ABC, and #48 in Total ratings for the whole day, with a share of 4.73.
Go figure...

Must have a lot of groupies

Not bad at all, for an un-promoted show buried in a graveyard timeslot.

On an unrelated note, the NB does not at all mind being left idling for 6 hours.

I watched the whole thing. I could not understand a single word, but it was still somewhat entertaining.

Battery in wife's car decided the cold was too much, and died. She was parked behind me, blocking me in. So, not only did I have to pull the battery* in sub-zero conditions, we had to borrow the neighbor's car to get the replacement.





* If I ever get my hands on the dipshit who designed the battery terminal and placement for the Ford Fusion, I am going to beat him (or her) to death with a jumper cable.

Must be different between generations of fusions. The 09 company car I have is right on top. Easy to get in and out.
I tell you though, that thing did not like being started at -20 this morning. Thankfully it's warming up, alright -7 right now should top out at -2. Yay.

That's a lot of people.
 

You may have heard about that recent record drug bust at the Nogales border crossing where, thanks to a drug sniffing dog, authorities uncovered 254 lbs. of Fentanyl hidden in a truck carrying cucumbers. The interesting part I find in all this is the shear scale of that much product, given its extreme potency. According to several medical sites online, a dosage of a mere 2 milligrams of Fentanyl is consider to be fatal for all but the most highly-tolerant individuals.

Conversion: 254 lbs. = 115,212,462 mgs .
Doling out two of those milligrams per person, you have enough to kill 57,606,231 people.
For fuck sake, are they literally trying to kill us all ?

I've never understood the appeal of recreational opioid use. I hate the fuzzy-headed feeling that they give you. It's not a pleasant buzz, like being drunk, it's just shitty and disconcerting. Plus, it screws up your ability to poop, which is unpleasant in an entirely different way.

Those drug sniffing dogs aren't all that reliable -- it might be 254 pounds of laundry detergent.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/ma...GXVS7pkSDM21K/

--Ian

Depends, when I was younger I got a nice buzz from them. The last time I had them, two separate occasions when having a bottom wisdom tooth removed.

For about 45 minutes, I had a nice wave of no pain and calm, then hours upon hours of itching like a crack head.

That said, smoking actual opium never had the negative. It was all positive.

To be fair, if you are driving around with a little plastic baggie containing 92 grams of powdered laundry detergent, and you look like Florida Man, being arrested on suspicion of drug possession really should come as no surprise. I'm not saying it's right for police officers to falsify a test, but to quote Justice Bedsworth writing the court's majority opinion in People v Foranyic (1998):

Much cheaper and easier than a full scale invasion!

Spending the week in a pretty nice ski resort in southeastern Turkey.
The mountain is better than I expected, runs are pretty decent, a detachable quad chair reaches the 2344 meter summit with great steep runs, and the staff is cool.
Best part is the price..
The hotel is less than $250 pp for the week (full board), and a 5 day unlimited lift pass is just under $10. Less than ten bucks. For five days.
And, there are no lift lines.

That is my week in a nutshell.

Update: after a brief delay (seriously, Amazon, a month?), they arrived:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d8c8f4c513.png


(Yes, they actually are packaged in a bed of silk. I don't know why Sony find this necessary or appropriate, but whatever. This is a new addition since I purchased the last set in the late 90s.)

The design and build quality is absolutely, 100% unchanged since the last pair I bought. I consider that to be a sign of a company which knows when its done something right, and does not merely do change for change' sake.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...0edf87d3e6.png



I mean, how often do headphones come with a parts list and repair diagram?

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ce3b642c84.png



Only complaint is that the bag they come with used to be leather, now it's canvas. Black canvas bags aren't as impressive as leather when you toss chicken bones out of them onto a large table containing a complicated schematic diagram plotted at ANSI E size (34" x 44"), just for show, since based on the description you're already 95% certain answer to the problem that mfg have been banging their heads over for a whole day, and are willing to take that 5% chance of looking like a complete fool in order to make a really impressive joke.

The quality of these cans has not changed a bit over the years. If anything, I think that my old ones might have been a tad worn out towards the end of their life. I may have to buy a new set of these every decade regardless of their condition.


Broke 'em in with some Blacktop Mojo:





Followed by a shouting, angry Norwegian making fun of an angry, shouting Australian:





If anyone in this thread is still looking for headphones, these are still the ones to buy after 20+ years of non-evolution.