Per the tradition every year, I come from the future to wish all the roadgeek community still in the old year a happy New Year. This time we are back to normal, and thus I haven't posted this literally within seconds of midnight Central Europe, as I'm no longer on my laptop but again on my phone. This also means this post isn't the first one of 2023 (however, it is the first one sent from somewhere already in 2023), but rather this one:
Quote from: Scott5114 on December 31, 2022, 06:04:40 PM
Quote from: MultiMillionMiler on December 31, 2022, 02:46:43 PM
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Speaking of DVD sets, when I ordered the voyager set last year, they sent me DS9 by mistake. I immediately requested a switch, felt like suing for getting the worst series instead of the best one. Took another week for the correct set to come.
I hope is not considering suing for having to exchange and it taking another week. For heaven's sake. The justice system is a blunt instrument for serious inequities, not for having to wait a week for an entertainment item.
And if you really think Voyager is the best Star Trek series, well, I just feel sorry for you.
In Voyager, except for Janeway, the characters aren't all disgusting, immoral, unempathetic, tantrumy snobs.
You just described Tom Paris...
Starting the year off by talking shit on Tom Paris? I'll take it.
Calm down everyone, it's not like he performed a colvord starburst manuevre.
Oh wait...
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2022 was simultaneously the longest and shortest year ever. 2021 might as well be a century ago for how long ago it seems, yet the year flew by in real time.
(I guess I could save this line for next year, too, since I feel like that's been the case for about five straight years now. Is it just me, or is it increasingly unclear what the concept of time even means anymore?)
Quote from: webny99 on December 31, 2022, 07:14:48 PM
2022 was simultaneously the longest and shortest year ever.
The first half went by normally, but the second half just went by very slow. It feels like it's been a year since I went to Hampton Roads in July...
Quote from: Hunty2022 on December 31, 2022, 07:17:30 PM
Quote from: webny99 on December 31, 2022, 07:14:48 PM
2022 was simultaneously the longest and shortest year ever.
The first half went by normally, but the second half just went by very slow. It feels like it's been a year since I went to Hampton Roads in July...
I'm the exact opposite. My Europe trip in June feels quite recent.
Quote from: webny99 on December 31, 2022, 07:14:48 PM
2022 was simultaneously the longest and shortest year ever.
2022 went by pretty quickly. It feels like it was yesterday that I took my Virginia road trip back in August.
I was off work for all of 2022. Now that I have to get serious about looking for another job, the year wasn't long enough.
Tonight will be my traditional New Year's Eve: I went out for a drive and dayhike, and returned home just as it was getting dark. Just me, the wife, and the cat at home tonight. We made a lasagna yesterday which I just now threw in the oven for dinner, and I have plenty of fruit-flavored adult beverage to last the night.
Best wishes to all for a good 2023!
Two things about days like this
1: You just need to change one more number
2: If you're talking Resolutions? I say 8K
Quote from: webny99 on December 31, 2022, 07:14:48 PM
Is it just me, or is it increasingly unclear what the concept of time even means anymore?
That's just a symptom of getting older.
Quote from: Scott5114 on December 31, 2022, 09:06:28 PM
Quote from: webny99 on December 31, 2022, 07:14:48 PM
Is it just me, or is it increasingly unclear what the concept of time even means anymore?
That's just a symptom of getting older.
Who are you kidding, you're young when you stand next to me snakehead ;)
For the last several years, I have been posting photos of the corresponding Kentucky state route. Can't do it this year, as there is no KY 2023.
I'm sure I had photos of the US 20/US 23 concurrency on my old site, but since it's kaput, I can't share one. And that site is archived on an external drive that's who-knows-where, so I don't have immediate access to it.
Quote from: hbelkins on December 31, 2022, 10:14:03 PM
For the last several years, I have been posting photos of the corresponding Kentucky state route. Can't do it this year, as there is no KY 2023.
I'm sure I had photos of the US 20/US 23 concurrency on my old site, but since it's kaput, I can't share one. And that site is archived on an external drive that's who-knows-where, so I don't have immediate access to it.
If you're unable to track that photo down, I did find a sign assembly with that concurrency on Google Street View (although it's in Ohio). Happy 2023!
https://goo.gl/maps/ANThSPtgGkykyt6E7 (https://goo.gl/maps/ANThSPtgGkykyt6E7)
2023 in VIRGINIA!!!!
Quote from: dlsterner on December 31, 2022, 11:19:52 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on December 31, 2022, 10:14:03 PM
For the last several years, I have been posting photos of the corresponding Kentucky state route. Can't do it this year, as there is no KY 2023.
I'm sure I had photos of the US 20/US 23 concurrency on my old site, but since it's kaput, I can't share one. And that site is archived on an external drive that's who-knows-where, so I don't have immediate access to it.
If you're unable to track that photo down, I did find a sign assembly with that concurrency on Google Street View (although it's in Ohio). Happy 2023!
https://goo.gl/maps/ANThSPtgGkykyt6E7 (https://goo.gl/maps/ANThSPtgGkykyt6E7)
Texas has an RM 2023 on I-10:
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The West Coast is fashionably late to the New Year as always.
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 31, 2022, 07:04:30 PM
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Aliens just don't understand our 'any excuse for a party' mentality. Let's face it. Aliens are party poopers.
^^^^^
But someone on this forum told me that pooing is cool.
Feels like the same OLD year to me.
I had come back from a trip on the 31st, so the new year felt like a reset to me. I was initially shocked when the grocery store didn't have mozzarella or mild provolone at the deli – shouldn't they have everything if it just began? Of course, they've been in normal operation. (It's still the first time they've been out of both, though.)
Happy New Year all!
2022 was a tale of two years for me. The first half was difficult for a variety of reasons. The most relevant was my collision with a deer that I've previously mentioned. It was almost three months before I got my car back which made for an alright summer albeit with lots of inconvenience. Things were a lot better in the latter months though: beginning my first full-time job, graduating university, and getting my car back to name a few.
I got to do a lot of cool roadgeeking this year as well, starting my Travel Mapping profile and reaching a total of over 40 clinched routes including my first two 2DI clinches (I-43 and I-88 IL). Hopefully this year, I'll be able to travel to some new locations and clinch some new mileage, but we'll see how the year develops.
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Happy New Year all!
Happy new year to one and all.
Happy New Year. Can't wait to see what 2023 brings.
Happy new year, everyone!
Me in 2022 - Spoilers without Context
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Happy New Year! Let's make 2023 a great one!
Am I the only one who has now resumed calling years by only the last two digits? It seems like nearly everyone I hear say the year still says all four digits.
Last year was '21. This year is '23. Anyone else doing this yet?
I think it was popular in the first decade ('06, '09), but then people stopped after that (2010, 2019) and just never resumed.
This year is probably going to suck.
But happy new year anyway.
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 09:46:38 AM
Am I the only one who has now resumed calling years by only the last two digits? It seems like nearly everyone I hear say the year still says all four digits.
Last year was '21. This year is '23. Anyone else doing this yet?
I think it was popular in the first decade ('06, '09), but then people stopped after that (2010, 2019) and just never resumed.
Not yet, but that kind of thing will probably pick back up again. It's the early 10's that just don't sound good on their own.
"Yeah, I got my house back in '10" versus "Yeah, I got my house back in '21".
Quote from: JoePCool14 on January 03, 2023, 12:52:25 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 09:46:38 AM
Am I the only one who has now resumed calling years by only the last two digits? It seems like nearly everyone I hear say the year still says all four digits.
Last year was '21. This year is '23. Anyone else doing this yet?
I think it was popular in the first decade ('06, '09), but then people stopped after that (2010, 2019) and just never resumed.
Not yet, but that kind of thing will probably pick back up again. It's the early 10's that just don't sound good on their own.
"Yeah, I got my house back in '10" versus "Yeah, I got my house back in '21".
I agree that "twenty-ten" sounds awkward. I've been saying my sons' birth years like this:
– was born in oh-eight.
– was born in twenty-ten
– was born in fourteen
I used to say that my youngest "was born in twenty-fourteen", but not anymore.
On the other hand, I have a daughter from a previous relationship who was born in 2000, and I'm sure that will never be "was born in oh-oh". :spin:
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 01:00:17 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on January 03, 2023, 12:52:25 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 09:46:38 AM
Am I the only one who has now resumed calling years by only the last two digits? It seems like nearly everyone I hear say the year still says all four digits.
Last year was '21. This year is '23. Anyone else doing this yet?
I think it was popular in the first decade ('06, '09), but then people stopped after that (2010, 2019) and just never resumed.
Not yet, but that kind of thing will probably pick back up again. It's the early 10's that just don't sound good on their own.
"Yeah, I got my house back in '10" versus "Yeah, I got my house back in '21".
I agree that "twenty-ten" sounds awkward. I've been saying my sons' birth years like this:
– was born in oh-eight.
– was born in twenty-ten
– was born in fourteen
I used to say that my youngest "was born in twenty-fourteen", but not anymore.
On the other hand, I have a daughter from a previous relationship who was born in 2000, and I'm sure that will never be "was born in oh-oh". :spin:
For the record, I was born in 2000 and I've never said I was born in "oh-oh". I might have to start just to mess with people. I usually just say I was born in "two-thousand".
Quote from: JoePCool14 on January 03, 2023, 03:57:48 PM
For the record, I was born in 2000 and I've never said I was born in "oh-oh". I might have to start just to mess with people. I usually just say I was born in "two-thousand".
We could both agree to start saying "twenty oh zero". :nod:
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 05:11:31 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on January 03, 2023, 03:57:48 PM
For the record, I was born in 2000 and I've never said I was born in "oh-oh". I might have to start just to mess with people. I usually just say I was born in "two-thousand".
We could both agree to start saying "twenty oh zero". :nod:
I'm gonna say that just to mess with people.
Some people mention their vehicle's model year and say some odd stuff: "twenty-six" (for 2006) and "two-oh-nine" (for 2009) and it's as if four digits is just too much to handle. I get that people sometimes blurt out mistakes but I hear it all over the country, so it's not a regionalism.
This discussion makes me remember how in the 1980s and most of the 1990s people generally referred to "the year 2000," seldom just plain "2000." That usage died out pretty quickly once said year arrived.
I think I started saying "twenty-(year)" in 2010. But I still don't truncate years in this century with one exception–some car model years (my wife's '03 RSX or my '04 TL, but I refer to my wife's TLX as a 2015 TLX and not as a '15 TLX). I generally didn't do so in the last century either, except in references to car model years or class graduation years (Class of '91). I've never said, for example, "I was born in '73."
I've actually heard people refer to 2010 as "oh-10." :banghead:
Quote from: hbelkins on January 03, 2023, 06:18:32 PM
I've actually heard people refer to 2010 as "oh-10." :banghead:
Reminds me of how some people in DC say a ZIP Code like 20005 as "two thousand five," which I find grating.
Quote from: hbelkins on January 03, 2023, 06:18:32 PM
I've actually heard people refer to 2010 as "oh-10." :banghead:
Oh, good grief. Why did you have to go and remind me that was a thing?
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 03, 2023, 06:20:46 PM
Reminds me of how some people in DC say a ZIP Code like 20005 as "two thousand five," which I find grating.
Same here. It's like you're supposed to pick up on the implied hyphen/comma/whatever, yet they don't actually pause to imply it's there. In my own context, it's field techs asking to have an 80004 code added to their work order by saying "eight thousand, four" over the phone.
Quote from: hbelkins on January 03, 2023, 06:18:32 PM
I've actually heard people refer to 2010 as "oh-10." :banghead:
Yeah, that too.
"It's an oh-twelve Mustang", but even harder to parse if it's all numbers
"yeah, my twenty-oh-sixteen three-twenty-five".
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 07:05:15 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 03, 2023, 06:18:32 PM
I've actually heard people refer to 2010 as "oh-10." :banghead:
Oh, good grief. Why did you have to go and remind me that was a thing?
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 03, 2023, 06:20:46 PM
Reminds me of how some people in DC say a ZIP Code like 20005 as "two thousand five," which I find grating.
Same here. It's like you're supposed to pick up on the implied hyphen/comma/whatever, yet they don't actually pause to imply it's there. In my own context, it's field techs asking to have an 80004 code added to their work order by saying "eight thousand, four" over the phone.
Of course, if a comma is implied, it would go three places from the right, so "80,004", so "eighty thousand, four".
Really, the root cause here is that numbers with long strings of zeros in the middle are just kind of awkward to say in English. If I have any say in the matter (like if I'm picking a code number or something like that) I'll try to fudge things so that the digits in the middle aren't zero.
A comment in the General Highway Talk thread about road numbers reflecting area codes mentioned MD-410. That, in turn, prompted me to think of the people who refer to that area code as "four-ten" instead of "four-one-zero." I've pretty much always heard area codes referred to as three distinct digits–that is, for instance, I give my work area code as "two-one-two," never as "two-twelve"–except for when those people refer to that one area code as "four-ten." It just sounds weird. I don't recite phone numbers or ZIP Codes as combinations of digits either.
Quote from: Scott5114 on January 03, 2023, 08:19:39 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2023, 07:05:15 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 03, 2023, 06:18:32 PM
I've actually heard people refer to 2010 as "oh-10." :banghead:
Oh, good grief. Why did you have to go and remind me that was a thing?
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 03, 2023, 06:20:46 PM
Reminds me of how some people in DC say a ZIP Code like 20005 as "two thousand five," which I find grating.
Same here. It's like you're supposed to pick up on the implied hyphen/comma/whatever, yet they don't actually pause to imply it's there. In my own context, it's field techs asking to have an 80004 code added to their work order by saying "eight thousand, four" over the phone.
Of course, if a comma is implied, it would go three places from the right, so "80,004", so "eighty thousand, four".
Really, the root cause here is that numbers with long strings of zeros in the middle are just kind of awkward to say in English. If I have any say in the matter (like if I'm picking a code number or something like that) I'll try to fudge things so that the digits in the middle aren't zero.
I meant that they were probably intending something like "8000–4" or "8000, 4" or "8000... 4" but failing to actually pause and imply the punctuation.
As for doing without numbers with a bunch of zeroes in the middle, it was kind of random in my work context. 80004 is a business account work order code. Codes with similar beginning digits are all somewhat related to each other, and often the final digits are related to other non-business account codes. An example of the latter is that a 27811 code is the business account equivalent of what
used to be an 811 code for residential accounts a decade ago. So, in the case of 80004, the 80 part at the beginning exists because it's a certain type of code (a generic-type video code), and there are a whole bunch of such codes beginning with 80. Work order alterations at my company were outsourced to India years ago, and we never really dealt with business account to begin with before that. But there are a few cases where my company still finds it cost-effective to just have us alter or enter a business work order, rather than going through the company in India. It's a limited set of circumstances, though: basically, the code has to (1) not change any monthly services for the customer, (2) not charge the customer any money, and (3) be something we already know the code for. And there aren't very many codes that meet those criteria. It just so happens that the one we most commonly use is 80004. (Two others that I can remember offhand are 11924 and BMOLDING.)