tkdguy Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Point and shoot? For some folks, point and laugh would be more appropriate. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Football. Finally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 No-one is saying bad things about Joan Rivers following her death. Out of fear she'll come back and have a go at them.... Pariah and BlueCloud2k2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 No-one is saying bad things about Joan Rivers following her death. Out of fear she'll come back and have a go at them.... I'm stealing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 "The North Wind wept because the Bluebird of Happiness was dead." Just a line from a storybook I read in a dream years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 Girl, what you are going through now, I went through a year ago. When I said good bye to her, I wept. She would really have been something. So I sympathize, a little. But only a little. Because it is your own damn fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 7, 2014 Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 I think it's telling that when I have dreams/nightmares about job stress. I'm till dreaming about the bank. Still running from room to room trying to get a transaction right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 7, 2014 Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 I will never, ever, understand the phenomenon of high-heel sneakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Oscar Pistorius has been cleared of the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. I'm glad of this as he always came across as remorseful at what he had done and never appeared smug or that he would walk away scot free. He killed her and is suffering for it regardless of what the court, sponsors, the public or his peers do to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 In a bit of synchroncity at least for a British audience Donald Sinden has passed away. He did a show with Elaine Strutch called Two's Company. She died in July. One of the Eastenders cast has also passed away. But the big news is the daeth of Ian Paisley, a Northern Irish politician. I have nothing good to say about him so won't comment any further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 My car is about 4 tenths of a mile short of rolling over to 100,000 on the odometer. I forget: does it spontaneously combust, or do they just stack another zero on the service prices, when that happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Let's say that you want to pull the journal "Aviation" out of automated storage at the libarry. This is hard. There are millions of items down there. You do a limited search for "Aviation" under serials, limit it to the storage llbrary. You pull up... "The Convention Journal," of Capetown, South Africa as top search item. "Aviation Psychology" is next ...closer, followed by the "Journal of Aviation Management," the "Monthly Aviation Accident Report," and "Vestnik." I won't go on, because I would have to list 161 items, including Canadian Aviation and Aviation's old rival, Aero Digest, (but not Aeroplane, Aircraft Engineering, or Flight, all down there in storage) before I finally get to Aviation. Their internet holdings come up higher in search priority than the physical holdings --and remember that I specifically limited the search to the library location. Awesome work, database guys. Have you considered just using Google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Watching some of Hell's Kitchen USA with Ramsey giving contestants grief is entertaining and in some cases oh boy did they have it coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Well, we had elections yesterday, and doggone it if the results aren't in. To make a understatement, the parliamentarian situation is kind of interesting. No great changes in the mandates it seems, apart from the "conservative" Moderate party losing seven percent of the voters; the anti-immigrant, we-are-not-Nazis-at-all Sweden Democrats gaining almost as many; and the left-leaning feminist Initiative almost making it over the 4% line. The Left Block (politically center-left, the Greens, the Social Democrats, and the Left Party [former Communists]) got 43.7% of the votes, while the Alliance (politically center-right, the People's Party [liberal], the Center, The Moderates, and the Christian Democrats) got 39.3%. The PM, Fredrik Reinfeld (Moderate), announced his resignation when the results came in. The Speaker of the Riksdag will give the task of forming a government to Stefan Löfvén, chairman of the Social Democrats.In all probability, he'll form a minority government with the Greens, counting on support from the Left and the center-liberals in the Center and People's Party on individual issues. He'll get the government through the Riksdag, probably, but the budget might be an entirely different kettle of fish. There exists a palpable risk/chance of a general re-election for the first time since the Seventies. The browns in the Sweden Democrats gained a lot of seats; for me that's deeply troubling, and I am not alone in this. The other parties has vowed not to co-operate directly with them on any issues, and that's all in line with the wishes of the electorate. But as of now, they have a pivotal role in the Riksdag, being the third(!) largest party. Politically speaking, this is certainly interesting times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Angue Lennie has died. Who he I hear you ask ? Ever seen the Great Escape ? The Scots guy who partners Steve McQueen, that is Angue Lennie. That makes three actors from the film to have died this year, Lord Attenborough, James Garner and Angus. The only well known one left is David McCallum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 It's bad enough that the weather has to be like this, but for the love of f__k please stop bitching about it. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 By 1943 the Kirishima, laid down prior to WWI, was hopelessly underarmored in terms of both thickness and metallurgy. She had just enough armor to guarantee that armor-piercing shells would detonate, without being able to resist penetration. So when the Washington opened up on her at close range with 16" guns, she didn't really stand a chance. The shells easily penetrated her armored belt, some below the waterline, detonating in critical areas. By the second salvo she was already doomed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 So this is happening outside my office window right now: Hard to concentrate on work. tkdguy and death tribble 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rails Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 The heck with work. It'll still be there later. Enjoy the show! Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 I just heard "You Only Live Twice" sung in Finnish. Weird thing is, I haven't seen the movie in at least a decade, but I still recognized the theme song. Should I find that disturbing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 The Ryder Cup was retained by Europe. Easier than 2 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 I am rooting desperately for the Texas Rangers today, and I have very little hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 I've been plowing through a new web comic -- Stand Still, Stay Silent. It's a Post-Apoc story where the only remnants of civilization -- indeed the only known rest om Mankind -- is Iceland and some enclaves in the other Nordic countries. The rest of the world was either wiped out in a plague ninety years ago, or transformed into ... things. It's in English, but seems to be written by a Scandinavian. The art is downright amazing at times (check the first panel!) and the characters are believable. Lawnmower Boy and bigbywolfe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 I'm not sure I like what I have been made into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Forty years ago today I attended my first class as an undergraduate. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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