The level of hate for one CS member had been building for a while and reached saturation by the end of summer. My thought is "If you don't like someone here, avoid their blogs" but that didn't happen. What did happen was a handful of haters followed him around and picked at his blogs like vultures, forcing him to delete their comments and locking his blogs while he was away.
Several members had wished he was gone and it appears their wishes were granted.
A few days ago in the middle of the night, the axe swung and he was gone... and so were a few other members including one who appeared most vocal in complaints about him.
I call that Collateral Damage or injury inflicted on something other than an intended target.
It doesn't matter who you know or how popular you are here. We are all guests and have some basic rules to follow.
The Florida Wildlife Federation is sending out educational signs about the Gopher Tortoise, a land animal known to dig long and deep burrows. People have confused them with sea turtles and placed them in canals where they drown as Gopher Tortoises don't swim.
Lots of stores about the Gopher Tortoise, link to one here:
Taught by a successful salesman I learned not to talk about Religion or Politics with clients.
Whenever they try to bring things up that are taboo, I steer the conversation away.
Design and price are the reasons for the meeting.
One of the strangest clients lingered on politics in the first meeting. After, I Googled their name to find a Facebook page with photos of them in costumes performing some odd bondage acts.
I priced the job considerably higher than it should have been. A week later the contractor notified me. They went with another cabinet company! Good.
Two rules. No Religion and no Politics.
I'm revising that to include a third rule. Nothing... not a word about the wife's looks.
I went to one appointment and the guy had a 'trophy wife' with stunning looks like a fashion model. I could see he was waiting for me to say something.
Sorry... no can do and that's a rule.
Witnesses reported a nearly submerged car in the Niagara River near the falls. It's believed it went in near a pedestrian bridge as it's snowing in New York and the roads are slippery.
The car was out of range for the State Park rescue team and they used a drone to determine the vehicle was occupied.
The Coast Guard dispatched a helicopter and lowered a rescue swimmer who was able to enter the car and pull out the only occupant, a woman who was motionless while being hoisted up to the helicopter.
Help came too late, the woman died.
After the rescue, emergency crews prepared to pull the car from the water and investigators will try to determine if the vehicle entered the water by accident or intentionally.
Link to news story:
The Mellotron is a musical instrument developed in England in 1963. It consists of a piano-style keyboard with recording tapes instead of strings. Each tape has several 'voices' so you can switch from sounds. Flute, human voice are some that I recall.
When you press a key, the play head runs along the tape and you hear the sound of that note. So if the Mellotron has 36 notes, there are 36 tapes, one for each note.
Unfortunately the tapes aren't endless. You only get 8 seconds before the tape ends. At that point, you have to lift the key a second for the tape head to retract and you can play the note again.
I recall there was an issue with Mellotrons and the musicians union as the recording studios who had Mellotrons didn't need to hire real musicians every time an artist wanted to add a track where the Mellotron had that voice on the tape. Want a violin to play a short solo? Use a Mellotron. Need 10 singers in a chorus? Use a Mellotron.
Here is a demo with explanation of the inner mechanism.
I rarely lose things. But it's highly possible I could misplace something for years.
Right now, it's 2 things on my list.
The first, I paid $250 for a dimensional dental x-ray they put on CD for me that I need for an upcoming appointment with the endodontist. They handed it to me and left the office and went directly to my car. It's not in the passenger seat and it didn't make it to my attache.
The other is a special 22.2 volt model aircraft battery. I had 2 and this past summer, I retired one model that uses them. I brought it back into my lineup 2 weeks ago. Unable to find the original 2 batteries I bought 2 more. Nowhere to be found, I've been looking in tool boxes, along with other standard 11.1 volt batteries and maybe... just maybe they are in a plastic case that slipped under the seat of my car.
If I'm lucky, I'll find them along with the CD.
(Note to self: Get a plan to organize things)
Every driver knows that blocking a fire hydrant could get you a ticket. In some states the fine is more than $110.
That doesn't appear to phase BMW drivers as they've become daringly notorious for parking near (and sometimes blocking) hydrants. The risk of a ticket would be nothing to someone who drives a vehicle valued at more than $100,000.
If you've seen a fire hose filled with water, it resists bending and at times unyielding. Therefore the connection to the hydrant is as direct as possible without curves or kinks. In an emergency, firefighters don't have time to play with BMW drivers blocking hydrants and they have been known to bust through side windows so they can get a 'straight shot' connection to the blocked hydrant.
Does this send out a message to a BMW driver (or any other driver) who blocks a fire hydrant? You betcha!
Okay, so it's a Series 5 at $50,000.
The BMW aHOLE mentality is still the same.
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I saw a story tonight where a couple were on vacation. He went off with family and she stayed behind. He allowed her to borrow his laptop because she didn't bring hers on the trip. She decided to create a folder with her name only to find one already there. Going through the folder she realizes he did background checks on her and her family prior to their marriage. When confronting him about it (in front of his family) he didn't think it was a big deal.
"She was horrified to find out just how extensive the background check was."
Angry, hurt she refused to discuss it in private and spent that night in a hotel. They cut the vacation short.
The woman posted an anonymous thread on the site called Reddit to get responses.
While some thought it was okay others thought it went into the 'creepy zone' that he also investigated her family. Some agreed she was right to be upset.
The story was picked up on Yahoo and some of the comments were all too real.
Typically 180 degrees of each other:
1) I support background checks. My friend's mom experienced domestic violence with her ex. She called the cops and went through the legal system. All to find out he had MULTIPLE arrests for domestic violence in the past. You can never be too careful.
2) In this present time, if I was getting interested in a woman, I would do a background check on her. You'll never know if there is something to be worried about unless you do it.
3) The wife was "hurt about the background check" and then "angry because she found out things about her family and friends that she never even knew."
4) (It would) be a little late to do a background AFTER the wedding.
5) Good job to the husband!!! All men should do the same before getting in bed with anyone.
6) The companies that provide these services regularly run ads: "check out the guy BEFORE you date him" and...women always check their husbands phones out....while very few men check out their wives phones (and if they did...oh MY GAWD...there'd be hell to pay).
7) He checked you out before you two got married. Chill woman.
8) People do that these days. Not surprising.
9) He did extensive background checks, then kept the files in his system! I wouldn’t want to stay around with someone who did that kind of thing.
My opinion is the writer was anonymous, therefore the story didn't give enough information about how or where they met or his financial status that would justify his actions. Not that what he did was wrong. However, his indiscretion for leaving that data on his laptop (and not in a secure/hidden folder) was short-sighted.
It wouldn't surprise me if that was enough for the woman to become alienated and head for a divorce.
By definition: Yelp is to give a quick, sharp, shrill cry, as a dog or fox.
There is a website named Yelp.
It's intent is to offer a service where people give reviews of businesses (typically restaurants) they have visited.
You can rate (by stars) 1 to 5 where 5 stars is the most liked rating.
Along with the rating reviewers have room to explain their experience, what they like or dislike about a place.
Let's say you want to try a new restaurant and you check their Yelp page to find 1 or 2 five stars and 20 reviews only giving one star. Would that change your mind on going there?
Reading the reviews you might find people like the food and prices but dislike the long wait to get service. So the patrons may give them a poor rating.
Air Conditioning and auto repair companies often get some harsh reviews. Many are warranted and 'Yelpers' love to report dishonest businesses.
However, there are 2 sides to some of the people doing the reports. The person doing the report leaves a trail of who they yelped on and it appears some people cannot give a like to any business they tried. I call them 'the professional complainers' as nothing pleases them. They go around only giving negative reviews.
Maybe there should be a rate the reviewer where the other people can yelp on the yelper who cannot find any business they like!
After-all, the reason for the 'yelp' is to alert people to avoid a bad business.
So why would you go to a restaurant that got 40 negative reviews?
I caught a shuffle dance video with the song Blue by Eiffel 65. Catchy melody and fun to watch the dancers. Growing up I played music and others danced as I had no interest. 20 years ago took dance lessons as the woman I was dating wanted to tango. Yeah, well that was money wasted.
There are a few YouTube videos that use this song and I researched some of the people who made the video and that also lead to the musicians who created it.
I'll play it over and over and over.
Pandemonium at CS this black Friday. Maybe people got caught up in the holiday spirit and emotions were running high. Complaints and spinoff blogs of deleted comments, banning and blogs that went poof in the night. Obviously, some people didn't have much to do.
Things appear to have calmed down now.
I happened to be involved in a construction project yesterday that involved $4,000 in lumber to remake tables at the flying field. Not much sleep as I was up around 4:30am and got to the lumber store with 6 other guys who loaded a rented truck to move all the stuff to the county park.
About 20 volunteers on and off got nearly all the work done. We have a few benches to fabricate today and that's it for the next 10 years... All the structural lumber is pressure treated and painted. The table tops are of synthetic 1x6 boards that are rated for 25 years.
We removed a bunch of warped and rusty folding tables and 'more than doubled' the amount of setup tables.
Issues, issues, let me get you some tissues...
The Dollar Store announced they will be upping their prices to $1.25 starting in the first quarter of 2022.
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