thud/crunch
Sat Apr 1 13:21:01 EDT 2017
I think I just heard a car crash outside. You can re-design the road, but it doesn't make people better drivers.
Saturday 15:01
You know how the U-Haul trucks have artwork on the side celebrating individual states? I just saw one for the Northwest Territories. I don't think I'd seen any Canadian provinces honoured before. I'd be disappointed (offended, rather) if the feature celebrated was not my home's native beauty but Long-Haul Trucking. ☹
Saturday 16:05
With taxes, cigarettes are now $8/pack in California. ($2.87 in taxes with a new $2 tax, and will probably go up even more.) I think there's 20 cigarettes in a pack, so that's 40¢ each. 14¢ in taxes each.
If I were a smoker, I'd probably be angry. If I were a smart smoker, I'd quit smoking. (Anyone smart would never have started smoking.)
[That sounded like a lot to me when I was writing this. On reflection, if you're addicted (and employed), 40¢/hit is a cheap high.]
That's something that NPR/PBS could mention on pledge membership drives: "What do you spend on cigarettes every week?" Of course, we'd like to think that the NPR/PBS audience is above the thrall of tobacco. Instead, they ask "What do you spend on coffee every day?" (Don't ask me; I don't drink coffee.) "What do you pay for your cable-TV service?" We dropped cable TV when Comcast decided to encrypt everything; doesn't work with our DVR.
Tuesday 20:0037 celebrities who married ordinary people CelebChatter
There's a photo of a tallish attractive woman and a short guy. I guess I'm supposed to recognize one of them as a celebrity? I don't. Which one's the ordinary person? Which one's not an ordinary person?
It's probably going to be one of those lists with each item on a separate page (so they can show us more ads?) - I don't do those. Load all the content on my first click, or you're losing my eyeballs. I'm not going to wait through 37 page loads for 37 pieces of trivia.How a TV viewer cost this golfer a major championship Start Slideshow
Again, not for me. I don't even know who the golfer is from her photo. I've heard bits of the story on the news, but no details of what the infraction was that someone spotted watching on TV. And I'm not going to sit through a slideshow to find out. Even though video and audio are rich media, text is often plenty effective enough. I don't need to see the infraction myself; I just want to know what the broken rule was.
Thank you, search engines:Lexi Thompson Loses LPGA Tournament After TV Viewer Calls Penalty
The fan alerted the LPGA of a mistake that Thompson had made during her round on Saturday, when she was on the putting green on the 17th hole with just one more hole to go in the round.
Footage shows that Thompson slightly moved her golf ball after marking it, even though there's no way of telling if it was done intentionally.
In the middle of her final round at the tournament, Thompson was told that she was going to be losing four strokes - two for moving the ball and another two for signing her scorecard incorrectly on Saturday.
The page had some videos, but I don't need to play them. The last 2 sentences quoted above tell me what I wanted to know. It doesn't even matter to me who it was. Her name isn't familiar to me.
The same page that started all this also mentioned the "ab crack", without providing a link as directly informative as this one.
I don't find the ab crack attractive, now that I know what it is. (If you've got one, I'm sorry.)
The initial page: Update: Tri-City Airport operations back to normal after tech glitch cancels some flightsAn apparent power failure in a key computer system forced four Pasco[, Washington]-bound commercial flights to land in Seattle Tuesday night.
... a power outage knocked out a computer system that feeds weather information to commercial pilots about conditions at the airport.
The outage forced four Pasco-bound flights to divert to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport....
... the problem affected the Airport Surface Observation Weather System.... ASOS is a National Weather Service system that supplies local weather conditions to in-bound pilots when local control towers are not staffed.
Pasco's tower closes nightly at 10 p.m. and reopens at 6 a.m.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/877089.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
I think I just heard a car crash outside. You can re-design the road, but it doesn't make people better drivers.
Saturday 15:01
You know how the U-Haul trucks have artwork on the side celebrating individual states? I just saw one for the Northwest Territories. I don't think I'd seen any Canadian provinces honoured before. I'd be disappointed (offended, rather) if the feature celebrated was not my home's native beauty but Long-Haul Trucking. ☹
Saturday 16:05
With taxes, cigarettes are now $8/pack in California. ($2.87 in taxes with a new $2 tax, and will probably go up even more.) I think there's 20 cigarettes in a pack, so that's 40¢ each. 14¢ in taxes each.
If I were a smoker, I'd probably be angry. If I were a smart smoker, I'd quit smoking. (Anyone smart would never have started smoking.)
[That sounded like a lot to me when I was writing this. On reflection, if you're addicted (and employed), 40¢/hit is a cheap high.]
That's something that NPR/PBS could mention on pledge membership drives: "What do you spend on cigarettes every week?" Of course, we'd like to think that the NPR/PBS audience is above the thrall of tobacco. Instead, they ask "What do you spend on coffee every day?" (Don't ask me; I don't drink coffee.) "What do you pay for your cable-TV service?" We dropped cable TV when Comcast decided to encrypt everything; doesn't work with our DVR.
Tuesday 20:0037 celebrities who married ordinary people CelebChatter
There's a photo of a tallish attractive woman and a short guy. I guess I'm supposed to recognize one of them as a celebrity? I don't. Which one's the ordinary person? Which one's not an ordinary person?
It's probably going to be one of those lists with each item on a separate page (so they can show us more ads?) - I don't do those. Load all the content on my first click, or you're losing my eyeballs. I'm not going to wait through 37 page loads for 37 pieces of trivia.How a TV viewer cost this golfer a major championship Start Slideshow
Again, not for me. I don't even know who the golfer is from her photo. I've heard bits of the story on the news, but no details of what the infraction was that someone spotted watching on TV. And I'm not going to sit through a slideshow to find out. Even though video and audio are rich media, text is often plenty effective enough. I don't need to see the infraction myself; I just want to know what the broken rule was.
Thank you, search engines:Lexi Thompson Loses LPGA Tournament After TV Viewer Calls Penalty
The fan alerted the LPGA of a mistake that Thompson had made during her round on Saturday, when she was on the putting green on the 17th hole with just one more hole to go in the round.
Footage shows that Thompson slightly moved her golf ball after marking it, even though there's no way of telling if it was done intentionally.
In the middle of her final round at the tournament, Thompson was told that she was going to be losing four strokes - two for moving the ball and another two for signing her scorecard incorrectly on Saturday.
The page had some videos, but I don't need to play them. The last 2 sentences quoted above tell me what I wanted to know. It doesn't even matter to me who it was. Her name isn't familiar to me.
The same page that started all this also mentioned the "ab crack", without providing a link as directly informative as this one.
I don't find the ab crack attractive, now that I know what it is. (If you've got one, I'm sorry.)
The initial page: Update: Tri-City Airport operations back to normal after tech glitch cancels some flightsAn apparent power failure in a key computer system forced four Pasco[, Washington]-bound commercial flights to land in Seattle Tuesday night.
... a power outage knocked out a computer system that feeds weather information to commercial pilots about conditions at the airport.
The outage forced four Pasco-bound flights to divert to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport....
... the problem affected the Airport Surface Observation Weather System.... ASOS is a National Weather Service system that supplies local weather conditions to in-bound pilots when local control towers are not staffed.
Pasco's tower closes nightly at 10 p.m. and reopens at 6 a.m.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/877089.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]