Random Thoughts

[kkt]

Spooky action at a distance.

Me and a friend are constantly one-upping each other, to see how far away we can make something physically happen.

We can all turn our lights on from [wherever] but...

I remote-desktopped one of my co-worker's computers ... in India ... and ejected his optical drive. Pretty sure that's about as far as one can get from Colorado and still be on the same planet.

Back in the late 1970s when the internet was in its infancy, I was so thrilled when it was possible to make a computer print something at a location on a different continent.

[Flint1979]

Italia Gardens in Flint is the best Italian restaurant in the state of Michigan by far.

[kurumi]

The English language's inconsistencies extend to contractions.

"She's not" and "She isn't" are fine; as well as "You're not" and "You aren't". However, "I'm not" is allowed, but not "I amn't".

"Are you going?" / "Yes, I'm going" ✔
"Are you going?" / "Yes, I'm." ❌

[CtrlAltDel]

The English language's inconsistencies extend to contractions.

"She's not" and "She isn't" are fine; as well as "You're not" and "You aren't". However, "I'm not" is allowed, but not "I amn't".

The contraction for am not is ain't, which for various reasons has fallen into disrepute.

"Are you going?" / "Yes, I'm going" ✔
"Are you going?" / "Yes, I'm." ❌

This is a question of stress. Contractions can't take stress, but noncontracted verbs can, and stress is required when nothing comes after them.

[Flint1979]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

[mgk920]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

There was a mid-May snowstorm here in Appleton, WI in the late 1980s that took city crews over two weeks to remove all of the fallen already leafed out tree branches.

That said, it has been an unusually cool spring here so far.

Mike

[CtrlAltDel]

When they restripe a highway, and what was before the middle of the lanes is now the edge of the lanes, I wonder how long it takes for the darker areas, filled presumably with rubber particles from the tires, take to match the new lane configuration. That is, how long it takes to go, say, from the bottom image to the top:

[Flint1979]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

There was a mid-May snowstorm here in Appleton, WI in the late 1980s that took city crews over two weeks to remove all of the fallen already leafed out tree branches.

That said, it has been an unusually cool spring here so far.

Mike

That's about how long it'll take this one to melt probably. Last time I was in the U.P. was about a month ago and I only went up to cedarville which is in the eastern U.P. they still had some snow but the temperatures were warm up there for a few days a few weeks ago so I assume most of it melted now they have it back.

[D-Dey65]

I'm glad there has been some mention of snow. When I was coming back from the New York Tri-State Area in 2021, I decided I wanted to take a detour onto US 1 so I could cross the Susquehanna River on the Conowingo Dam. So I got off of I-95 at MD 272. But I forgot that this route crosses the Maryland-Pennsylvania border.

Well as I did so, I found two things that surprised me, one of which that probably shouldn't have. 1)The headquarters of Herr's snacks and 2)Snow flurries.


Also, the power station on the dam was as rusty as all hell.

[hotdogPi]

People will come up with business models that depend on violating the Geneva conventions if we let them.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8438021,-70.8982448,3a,23.1y,173.1h,93.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJ3FRtIvSwSgFp4Ir9-843w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

You're not the Red Cross.

[zachary_amaryllis]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

I won't say it's 'common' here, but definitely possible, and has happened many times in the past.

[GaryV]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

I won't say it's 'common' here, but definitely possible, and has happened many times in the past.

Yeah, but Herman is less than 1700 feet elevation.

[JayhawkCO]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

I won't say it's 'common' here, but definitely possible, and has happened many times in the past.

Yeah, but Herman is less than 1700 feet elevation.

Sure, but elevation has less to do with it when it comes to the Front Range. Yeah, we get big snow in the mountains, but the Denver area, which is technically a desert, gets dumped on in May every few years or so and it generally keeps snowing all the way into the middle of Kansas.

[formulanone]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

I won't say it's 'common' here, but definitely possible, and has happened many times in the past.

Yeah, but Herman is less than 1700 feet elevation.

Sure, but elevation has less to do with it when it comes to the Front Range. Yeah, we get big snow in the mountains, but the Denver area, which is technically a desert, gets dumped on in May every few years or so and it generally keeps snowing all the way into the middle of Kansas.

May 20, 2022 on my way back to the Denver airport...couldn't really believe that, but my travel department wanted me to leave early.



I guess they were right because they cancelled my scheduled direct flight home the following night.

[hotdogPi]

Non-binary flag spotted. I still haven't seen an outdoor trans flag yet. What I have seen is rainbows, "include everything" flags, an indoor trans flag at Reading Memorial High School, and now one of these.

[Flint1979]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

I won't say it's 'common' here, but definitely possible, and has happened many times in the past.

Yeah, but Herman is less than 1700 feet elevation.

Sure, but elevation has less to do with it when it comes to the Front Range. Yeah, we get big snow in the mountains, but the Denver area, which is technically a desert, gets dumped on in May every few years or so and it generally keeps snowing all the way into the middle of Kansas.

It's not really elevation up there in Herman, it's lake effect snow which happens across the Keweenaw Peninsula on a regular basis in the Winter but it's rare this late into Spring. The peninsula is surrounded on three sides by Lake Superior and you should never underestimate the power of a Great Lake. Storms have the entire width of the lake to develop and they slam that area of Michigan with over 250 inches of snow a year.

[Flint1979]

Also back in December 1996 Herman received the single largest snowstorm in Michigan history with 30 inches falling in one day.

[Flint1979]

Herman, Michigan which is in the western upper peninsula recorded 27 inches of snow yesterday and Monday that is the biggest snowfall in the eastern United States for May. Snowfall in May can happen but it's rare.

I won't say it's 'common' here, but definitely possible, and has happened many times in the past.

Yeah, but Herman is less than 1700 feet elevation.

I was looking at the average snowfall for the year up there in Herman which is 207.8 inches. The average for the month of May is 2.2 inches. January is at an average of 47.8 inches. I love going to the U.P. in the summer but hate being up there in the winter.

[D-Dey65]

Yesterday, I did something nobody would expect of me. I did a GSV of Carnaby Street in London. I wanted to see how it is today, compared to 55 years ago when it was the hip and happening place to be.

[hotdogPi]

I was at a restaurant yesterday in Lawrence where the TVs were showing Telemundo New England. Whoever was doing the chyrons kept messing up. There was one message about "dies personas" (diez), and also the municipalities of Hopkington, MA (Hopkinton) and Fall River, RI (wrong state) were mentioned.

[formulanone]

What is the minimum rate or percentage of a price increase for something to "skyrocket"?

[LilianaUwU]

What is the minimum rate or percentage of a price increase for something to "skyrocket"?

For my broke ass? Increase it by one cent and it will be a price increase worthy of the term "skyrocket".

[Flint1979]

My Ford put a Chevy at the back of the bus last night. I was on my way back to Saginaw from St. Charles which is in a rural part of Saginaw County. As I was turning right onto Swan Creek Road off of M-52 I had my cruise set at 70 in a 55 zone, right after I turn the corner a Chevy Silverado proceeds to pass me I'm speeding up to 70 and he gets in front of me and is only doing about 62-65. So I went ahead and attempted to pass him back because he was going slower than I wanted to drive. After I get in the oncoming lane and punch it to get ahead of him he punches it as well and we got up to 105 mph I'm pretty sure the computer in his truck shut off at 100 and I was doing 105 to get around him, had to avoid a car ahead of me at Miller Road then I punched it again getting up to about 85 mph. The truck never caught up to me again but really what is the reason that someone would do that? He has no idea who I am or where I'm going but he's going to do something like that? Totally ridculous.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Heading west out of Eden Prairie, MN where US 212 and Mnnesota TH 5 split, if you follow the 212 fork you'll come to the Eden Prairie Road exit. It has a blue logo sign with four restaurants on it, which are all located at the intersection of Eden Prairie Road and...TH 5.

[formulanone]

What is the minimum rate or percentage of a price increase for something to "skyrocket"?

For my broke ass? Increase it by one cent and it will be a price increase worthy of the term "skyrocket".

See, that's why I think the term is abused. I guess when an x and y axis aren't shown, anything can look like a sharp increase.