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Captain Ned wrote:Wonder what the guy driving the semi thought (given the destruction it had to be a semi)?
paulWTAMU wrote:why is it so hard to find *good* premade first aid kits? ONes with splints, clotting agents, eye washes, small medicine bottles (with more than 2 damn tylenol though!), medical glue, thread, etc?
tanker27 wrote:My companies hiring practices suck! Especially their recruiters. grrrrr...
First of my brother is applying to the same company and the recruiter sat on calling him for a week until I asked about it. Then she sets up a phone meeting with the hiring manager for a certain day and time and then that manager doesnt call. Also no call from the recruiter to say that he couldnt make it. So when he finally get the phone interview the Manager says you'll here something back by the end of the week, if you dont email me. And oh BTW I will be out of the country for a week and a half attending a wedding so.......
Seriously. BAH! I had thought all of this was fixed 11 years ago after I was hired. Long-story-short, I was given a verbal offer from the hiring manager but couldnt do anything until a formal offer came for the recruiter. Needless to say it took me 6 weeks before it came after countless phone calls.
And dont get me started as to how a person that is roughly 3-4 years out of high school with no college degree or even ANY college becomes a recruiter for a Fortune 200 company. I can guess a bunch of things but it all boils down to one set of them. /grrrrrr
SpotTheCat wrote:Just sampled my IIPA and my PA from my keggerator. The PA is pretty nice and standard, but the IIPA tastes like hoppy rocket fuel. It needs another 2 weeks in the keg I think.
DancinJack wrote:I have a Borderlands 2 and Borderlands GOTY key for sale. I thought I'd check in with the regulars in here to see if anyone wants them. You can have both for 25 bux. Any takers?
paulWTAMU wrote:the longer teething last, th emore convinced I get that there's a malevolent omnipotent diety.
Captain Ned wrote:And leg before wicket (lbw) first appeared in the laws of cricket in 1774. Some 240 years later the precise definition is still a mystery.
monts wrote:P.S. thinking about its pretty well defined. It's just that there's so much difference in interpretation by umpires. Been watching some baseball lately and noticed the strike zone is a similar case. Commentators always talking about a big or small strike zone.
Captain Ned wrote:monts wrote:P.S. thinking about its pretty well defined. It's just that there's so much difference in interpretation by umpires. Been watching some baseball lately and noticed the strike zone is a similar case. Commentators always talking about a big or small strike zone.
As will be with any game judged in real time by humans. I'll be the first to admit that the strike zone in the rules and the strike zone as called are not congruent, but LBW rulings make MLB umpires look like paragons of consistency.
NBC Denver wrote:LOVELAND - Fire crews from six different fire departments battled a three-alarm fire at a Loveland office building that houses seven different businesses.
Loveland Fire Rescue Authority Division Chief Ned Sparks said the first response was at 9:51 p.m. Tuesday.
just brew it! wrote:So how the heck does the inside surface of a car rear window get dirty anyway? I could see it happening if someone in the family was a smoker, but my car is a no smoking zone. The used paper towels were surprisingly grimy.
Captain Ned wrote:just brew it! wrote:So how the heck does the inside surface of a car rear window get dirty anyway? I could see it happening if someone in the family was a smoker, but my car is a no smoking zone. The used paper towels were surprisingly grimy.
You ride around with the windows open? Guess where all the stuff the wind blows into the windows comes to a sudden stop. If it were a new car it'd be plastic outgassing but your old relic must have given up all the volatiles already.
Captain Ned wrote:As for the radiator cap, make sure there's nothing gritty on either sealing surface.
just brew it! wrote:Yeah, I suppose... but why does it *stick*? It's not like I'm going off-roading in the mud with the windows open; I'd think that if anything, there'd be a pile of crap collecting on on the rear deck. This phenomenon is something that has puzzled me (and others, maybe...?) for a long time!
BIF wrote:So yesterday in front of my house, I saw an old guy in a rattletrap pickup truck blow by a pizza delivery guy who was trying to make a U-turn. Going about 40 MPH in a 25 MPH zone, "pickup truck guy" passed "pizza delivery guy" on the left with no room for oncoming traffic and not even a twitch on the brake pedal or any regard for letting him complete his maneuver or at least get the hell out of the way.
It goes without saying that the pizza delivery guy's car was barely held together with chewing gum, duct tape, twine, and toothpicks; so neither car was the epitome of class or even confidence of mechanical reliability.
A major pileup in a 25 MPH zone was narrowly avoided, but it would have been a bloody mess if there were any bikers or joggers (or me) in that intersection at that moment.
Ten minutes later, pickup truck guy is now "motorcycle guy" riding his big Harley down my street; it was definitely the same dude, only this time he was moving much more slowly and much more carefully, making the traffic behind him go much more slowly than "pizza guy" was just a few minutes before.
So after a brief WTF moment, I began to think. Just how many of us lead schizophrenic lives from minute to minute? And do we recognize it in ourselves? Or are we oblivious because it's normal behavior at this point?