He's an old man. Cut him some slack.

The 100 folds in a chef’s toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

Today I learned that some people think adding "stipulations" to a tire thread will make any difference at all.

https://www.sport-touring.org/index.php?topic=6889.msg207920;topicseen#new

 

He's an old man. Cut him some slack.

Thank you.   

Today is National Bacon Day.

https://nationaltoday.com/national-bacon-day/

Wireless charging for elec. vehicles is coming
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130055_wireless-ev-charging-gets-a-boost-single-standard-will-harmonize-systems-up-to-11-kw
SWEET!!

I learned that I got a 24 hour FB suspension for talking about how the guards who claimed they were just doing their jobs found out otherwise at Nuremberg. They say it was because it was promoting dangerous individuals or groups. Since the content was about punishment of those people, it must be because their Faux Checkers are scared that a modern Nuremberg will rule likewise against them.

Took longer than I care to admit to realize that this wasn't about a racetrack. 

I relearned that FB Faux Checkers can't read and will suspend an account about NOT being like Nazis simply because of the photo and not the content.

I used to have a drinking problem but with much practice I became really good at it.

Threes?

Quote from: Vulcanbill on January 01, 2021, 01:00:38 PM

Threes?

We were playing and Ron said, "Key of G... now 1, 3, 5". I looked blankly at him and he explained.

If they key is G, that would be 1. Now... if G is 1 what is 2? (A). 3? (B). 5? (E).

Simple really and in common use but my instructor was all about learning to read sheet music so he wanted to avoid teaching that until later.

That's known as the Nashville Number System. It's a nice shorthand way to describe the structure of a song. All you need is the key and everything else is relative to it. It's the way I think about the notes in scales/chords. I don't memorize note names all over the fingerboard. I memorize patterns and what the notes in the pattern are relative to the root. You do need to know all the notes on the low E and A strings as that is typically where the roots are for barre chords.

Today is a Sunday.
Never would have guessed it...
 

Tonya Roberts - Midge Pinciotti on 'That 70's Show', was a Bond girl. "A View to a Kill,"  1985.

Passed away.

She was also on Charlie's Angles and she played Sheena.

Technically yesterday, but I learned that I'm Covid Negative.  My (and the wifes) massage therapist notified us over the weekend that she was sick and had tested positive. The wife and I both had seen her the prior week, so were solidly in the 'exposed' time period. Although asymptomatic, the wife and I thought it responsible to test.

I'll tell you what though, I'll have the sensation of having my brain tickled stamped in my psyche forever.

Having taken a couple days extra off over New Years, we had time to schedule for testing and I only missed one extra day of work. Oh darn... hate having an extra day for oil changes and dismantling of Xmas lights. Darn, I say again, Darn.

I'm writing this one off to the efficacy of masks. In my daily work, I can't tell you how many in a building of 60 people are solidly refusing to wear masks at work (Easily 80%). I wear mine, my people wear theirs, my massage lady wears hers, I wear mine for all interactions. Dunno where she picked it up, but it wasn't passed along to us because of those annoying little pieces of fabric. Wish I could make some of the fools I work with see this as a teaching moment, but sadly, they won't listen.

LT

I may have posted this before.

Bela Lugosi was buried in full Dracula costume—cape and all

I learned that the lids for Parmesan cheese containers also fit on Mason jars.

I learned our little town will be having bike nights every Friday evening throughout the summer  . They do car cruises on Monday nights. Which are nice to just get out and walk around town. They block off main street downtown and it is just foot traffic.  Will probably be more of a HD crowd, but that is fine. I still like to look at them to.

data  stored on M-DISC recordings will (are suppose to) last 1,000 years!

So long as you have the proper tech to read it.  I worked with the State Archivist, and migrating computer data or maintaining "historic" technology was an ongoing issue.

Case in point, some Vietnam Vets were suing the DoD for Agent Orange exposure.  The computer records of flights applying Agent Orange were still in existence, but were stored on old punch cards.  The machine to read them had been destroyed as part of decommissioning outdated tech, and the courts ruled that the DoD didn't have the duty to reconstruct the machine.  So if the ill Vets wanted to read the punch cards, they bore the financial cost of reconstructing the machine.  It would have been appx. $1 million, with no assurance of winning the case.  The case was dropped.

Oddly, an old tech like microfiche is a good choice as all you need to read it is a light and a magnifying glass.   Otherwise, a book on acid-free paper can last a long time.  I remember that 80 year old books on linen based paper were still good while 20 year old books from wood pulp paper were falling apart at my college library.

Jan 17th is the birthday for Ben Franklin and Betty White.

I wonder if they dated?

Pshaw. I'm betting Betty made Ben a man. MEMORABLY. 

working 6p to 6a is pretty freakin boring.

Quote from: Vulcanbill on Yesterday at 02:27:56 AM

working 6p to 6a is pretty freakin boring.

Some people get paid to be bored!
Luxury!!
 

Concur.  I can be bored and not get paid anytime.