Random Thoughts

[kphoger]

I can't listen to the first movement of Carmina Burana and NOT hear "salsa cookies, windmill cookies".

IYKYK

[Max Rockatansky]

Much like Homer Simpson I had no idea what Cesar Chavez looked like.  That was until I just passed a picture of him in hall in front of my office.

[Poiponen13]

Why all time zone threads are eventually locked?

[Max Rockatansky]

You pushed the DST button, you'd shouldn't have done that. 

[Poiponen13]

You pushed the DST button, you'd shouldn't have done that.

What DST-related did I post in "Time zones 2" thread?

[1995hoo]

To give a serious answer, I believe it's because most time-related threads tend to devolve into the same few arguments that have been repeated ad nauseam.

[kphoger]

Why all time zone threads are eventually locked?

To give a serious answer, I believe it's because most time-related threads tend to devolve into the same few arguments that have been repeated ad nauseam.

It got quite heated.  On more than one occasion, I think.

So DST is an unspoken/unwritten off-limits topic.  Religion and politics are officially banned but are often tolerated.  DST is not officially banned but is never tolerated.

[mgk920]

Why all time zone threads are eventually locked?

To give a serious answer, I believe it's because most time-related threads tend to devolve into the same few arguments that have been repeated ad nauseam.

It got quite heated.  On more than one occasion, I think.

So DST is an unspoken/unwritten off-limits topic.  Religion and politics are officially banned but are often tolerated.  DST is not officially banned but is never tolerated.

I just don't have time for those sorts of threads, either.

Mike

[Max Rockatansky]

I don't understand the obsession with time and time zones.  I stayed out of most of the threads but the carnage they wrought was something notable.

[formulanone]

I don't understand the obsession with time and time zones.  I stayed out of most of the threads but the carnage they wrought was something notable.

Cliffs Notes version

Poster 1: "I know what's best for everyone by making things entirely more complex"

Poster 2: "Make no changes at all or ever at any time, and deal with it."

Poster 3: "Um, it's fine as is...though imperfect like everything else."

Poster 1&2: "poster three is demonstrably an idiot"

Poster 4: "clearly the best of both worlds is to put every county in their own time zone"

Poster 1&2: "please expound upon your ridiculous idea you've spent years planning out, so we can pick apart how you're a fool for thinking Chumbatron County, Floribaska and Kuwashima County, East Thumberthorpe could possibly be on +2:18 and +2:39 respectively; they're each off by 68 seconds!"

[kphoger]

Maybe the darkness problem (on either side of the argument) could be alleviated by bringing arc sodium streetlamps back into vogue.

[Scott5114]

Since, to the wiki folks, just saying "AARoads" is ambiguous (do you mean the wiki or the forum?) they always have to call this place "AARoads Forum". But that's a lot of typing, so now some people are just typing "aarf". 🐶

[Hunty2022]

Since, to the wiki folks, just saying "AARoads" is ambiguous (do you mean the wiki or the forum?) they always have to call this place "AARoads Forum". But that's a lot of typing, so now some people are just typing "aarf". 🐶

AARF (forum)
AARW (wiki)
AAR (actual website)

[Big John]

 Do we have one for people? 

[GaryV]

Since, to the wiki folks, just saying "AARoads" is ambiguous (do you mean the wiki or the forum?) they always have to call this place "AARoads Forum". But that's a lot of typing, so now some people are just typing "aarf". 🐶

AARF (forum)
AARW (wiki)
AAR (actual website)

Too bad - you missed "Talk Like A Pirate Day" by only 1 day.

[1995hoo]

Some guy in our neighborhood posted this question. He hasn't responded to everyone who replied with the very obvious question.

[D-Dey65]

Evidently, New York State wants to tear down the dam that makes Woodlands Lake in Ardsley;
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlands_Dam_Removal_sign_2023_jeh.jpg
I took pictures of that place in 2021 because of the former rest area/restaurant pff the Saw Mill River Parkway that's located in the park next to that lake, and I also wrote a major expansion on the Wikipedia article on it. 

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.032156,-73.8459588,3a,75y,44.18h,89.92t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOaI5_C6BoBvkTyf186VoFJwPVXEb97Gu6OoTdh!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOaI5_C6BoBvkTyf186VoFJwPVXEb97Gu6OoTdh%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya246.42227-ro-0-fo100!7i7168!8i3584?hl=en&entry=ttu

See the ducks in the link above? They're not going to be able to swim there for long.

The City of Yonkers and Town of Greenburgh had better prepare themselves for more flooding in the future.

[hotdogPi]

One of the now-deleted (it contained a quote by the user™) posts by Bobby5280 had him using Wallethub to rank states all the way back in 2017.

[Max Rockatansky]

One of the now-deleted (it contained a quote by the user™) posts by Bobby5280 had him using Wallethub to rank states all the way back in 2017.

How flat.

[D-Dey65]

I've been in Florida for over 24 years, and for some reason I only realized in recent months how seldom I hear the music of Zebra on any local album-oriented rock radio stations.

I tried to think of other similar bands I don't hear about that often in Florida as opposed to Long Island and other segments of the New York Tri-State Area, but I still don't remember any.

In the alternative scene, one band I don't hear too much of in the south is Lush. In fact, I swear the only time anyone else in the Tampa Bay Metro Area hears this band is when I play their tunes on my PC, my car stereo, or some personal music device.

[kurumi]

I've been in Florida for over 24 years, and for some reason I only realized in recent months how seldom I hear the music of Zebra on any local album-oriented rock radio stations.

I tried to think of other similar bands I don't hear about that often in Florida as opposed to Long Island and other segments of the New York Tri-State Area, but I still don't remember any.

In the alternative scene, one band I don't hear too much of in the south is Lush. In fact, I swear the only time anyone else in the Tampa Bay Metro Area hears this band is when I play their tunes on my PC, my car stereo, or some personal music device.

Zebra had a few classic hair-metal near-prog hits, especially "Who's Behind the Door".

But Lush... I had 2 of their CDs/EPs back in the day. Shoegaze in its prime.

Here's "Sweetness and Light":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YarHCFGFYg

[kphoger]

Birds are dinosaurs.
Birds are reptiles.

How did I not find out about this earth-shaking revolution in scientific thought until yesterday?

[Max Rockatansky]

Never seen the original Jurassic Park?  Quaint to recall a time when "birds are dinosaurs" was a controversial theory.

[Flint1979]

I heard that Busch Gardens in Tampa is an overrated tourist attraction. After being there I agree. But I was there in 1995 so not anytime recently but I remember it.

[GaryV]

I heard that Busch Gardens in Tampa is an overrated tourist attraction. After being there I agree.

But don't they have birds? So ... dinosaurs?