I recently found a round, black piece of plastic, with a hole in the middle and grooves on both sides. I picked it up and threw it. It flew for more than 300 yards.
I'm sure that must have been a record.
Let's hope it was just country..
I am now legally allowed to hide women with a particular name. I got a license for Concealed Kerry.
I don't a license to conceal that.
Yes that seals it. using the laser.
*Aims satellite laser at FAWTL chat*... none shall be forgiven!Can I be furgiven for the bad puns?There is bearly anyone posting tonight.I think It's Claws gran isn't posting his jokes. It makes things a bit more polar towards quiet without him around. Even if his jokes are a bit hairy.
Are you trying to make me see the light? Laser sharp!
Are you trying to make me see the light? Laser sharp!*Aims satellite laser at FAWTL chat*... none shall be forgiven!Can I be furgiven for the bad puns?There is bearly anyone posting tonight.I think It's Claws gran isn't posting his jokes. It makes things a bit more polar towards quiet without him around. Even if his jokes are a bit hairy.
*deadpan* hmm your sense of deduction is just brilliant.... OH NO NOW I"M DOING IT! ARGH! *retreats*
YAAR! My obese parrot died today. I'm sad, but it be a great weight off me shoulders.
I knew that you were bright.*deadpan* hmm your sense of deduction is just brilliant.... OH NO NOW I"M DOING IT! ARGH! *retreats*Are you trying to make me see the light? Laser sharp!*Aims satellite laser at FAWTL chat*... none shall be forgiven!Can I be furgiven for the bad puns?There is bearly anyone posting tonight.I think It's Claws gran isn't posting his jokes. It makes things a bit more polar towards quiet without him around. Even if his jokes are a bit hairy.
My internet date seemed excited when I invited when I invited her over for cocktails, but she quickly got annoyed and left. I guess she didn't like the stories I told of my rooster.
Stop crowing, especially at dawn.
Yep. Paizocon is online and using discord/warhorn/virtual tabletop of your choice.
Is that the one your running or just the selection?
Yep. Paizocon is online and using discord/warhorn/virtual tabletop of your choice.
I am not familiar enough with discord enough to figure this out maybe after I sleep.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CELESTIAL HEALER
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It only took 15 years but I think co-worker is finally seeing my way when it comes to building seat walls (don't glue as you go, build it all up, get approval, then take it apart and glue it).
Of course, not until we had to take apart and rebuild a seat wall.
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You know, I wouldn't mind that no one listens to me if I talked all the time.
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Another pet peeve, when someone f@#+s up and blames it on the collective.
"Oops, we'll have to be sure we don't run over any more of those!"
I'm pretty sure that was all you.
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I just did an awesome front-flip dismount off a horse and punched a skeleton in the face!
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Well, session 1 of "freeform home brew" was a HUGE success. Everyone loved it and I didn't have to worry about throwing a CR 3 critter at two 1st-level PCs because I don't have to balance XP or loot or anything else; it just "is what it is".
And now I know where Session 2 is going.
SOOOOOO much easier than an AP (so far).
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Oh, there's a new one.
A "Reply All" to 250 people...
...then a quick follow-up email apologizing for Replying All... to the same 250 people.
OK. I appreciate your apology, but I'm not sure getting 2 spam emails is better than getting 1 if one's an apology.
I guess it is, but I'm torn. At least I find it amusing.
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I used to get reply all emails to 250 people, but then my family switched exclusively to Facebook.
Now I'm not even sure on who's alive.
They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
...what?
...what?They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
OMG. You can't be a New Yorker if you haven't seen this one! (Or maybe every intersection already has lights so they never put up any new ones.)
(1) After much hemming and hawing, the city/state decides that a previously control-free intersection is in need of a light, and plans it.
(2) For reasons unknown to anyone outside of government construction projects, it takes them 1-2 days to put up the light, then 4-6 weeks to wire it. So people see the new light, see that it's disabled, get accustomed to it, and get accustomed to ignoring it.
(3) The light gets turned on. Visitors and observant people start obeying it, assuming everybody will. All the locals who have gotten used to it completely blow through it, running over pedestrians and ramming tourists with great abandon.
Happens every single time a new light gets put in around here as well.
EDIT: Though Stop signs are even better because they go up in a single day so runnage is rampant. People just tend to be more careful about Stop signs around here because they're pretty used to people running them.
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...what?They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
OMG. You can't be a New Yorker if you haven't seen this one! (Or maybe every intersection already has lights so they never put up any new ones.)
(1) After much hemming and hawing, the city/state decides that a previously control-free intersection is in need of a light, and plans it.
(2) For reasons unknown to anyone outside of government construction projects, it takes them 1-2 days to put up the light, then 4-6 weeks to wire it. So people see the new light, see that it's disabled, get accustomed to it, and get accustomed to ignoring it.
(3) The light gets turned on. Visitors and observant people start obeying it, assuming everybody will. All the locals who have gotten used to it completely blow through it, running over pedestrians and ramming tourists with great abandon.
Happens every single time a new light gets put in around here as well.
EDIT: Though Stop signs are even better because they go up in a single day so runnage is rampant. People just tend to be more careful about Stop signs around here because they're pretty used to people running them.
In NY, all non functioning traffic lights are considered stop signs. Cops are known for hanging out by them and will gladly ticket anyone who runs through it.
...what?They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
OMG. You can't be a New Yorker if you haven't seen this one! (Or maybe every intersection already has lights so they never put up any new ones.)
(1) After much hemming and hawing, the city/state decides that a previously control-free intersection is in need of a light, and plans it.
(2) For reasons unknown to anyone outside of government construction projects, it takes them 1-2 days to put up the light, then 4-6 weeks to wire it. So people see the new light, see that it's disabled, get accustomed to it, and get accustomed to ignoring it.
(3) The light gets turned on. Visitors and observant people start obeying it, assuming everybody will. All the locals who have gotten used to it completely blow through it, running over pedestrians and ramming tourists with great abandon.
Happens every single time a new light gets put in around here as well.
EDIT: Though Stop signs are even better because they go up in a single day so runnage is rampant. People just tend to be more careful about Stop signs around here because they're pretty used to people running them.
We had a new light go in (seemingly unnecessarily) a couple miles from my house. They put up construction signs with "NEW SIGNAL WILL BE ACTIVE ON 5/18/20" or whatever the date was. Couple weeks ago now.
In NY, all non functioning traffic lights are considered stop signs. Cops are known for hanging out by them and will gladly ticket anyone who runs through it....what?They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
OMG. You can't be a New Yorker if you haven't seen this one! (Or maybe every intersection already has lights so they never put up any new ones.)
(1) After much hemming and hawing, the city/state decides that a previously control-free intersection is in need of a light, and plans it.
(2) For reasons unknown to anyone outside of government construction projects, it takes them 1-2 days to put up the light, then 4-6 weeks to wire it. So people see the new light, see that it's disabled, get accustomed to it, and get accustomed to ignoring it.
(3) The light gets turned on. Visitors and observant people start obeying it, assuming everybody will. All the locals who have gotten used to it completely blow through it, running over pedestrians and ramming tourists with great abandon.
Happens every single time a new light gets put in around here as well.
EDIT: Though Stop signs are even better because they go up in a single day so runnage is rampant. People just tend to be more careful about Stop signs around here because they're pretty used to people running them.
Yeah, if it already existed and is currently non-functional it's a 4 way stop, but if it's being put in and not yet active then it's whatever the rules of the intersection were before the light poles went up.
Yeah, if it already existed and is currently non-functional it's a 4 way stop, but if it's being put in and not yet active then it's whatever the rules of the intersection were before the light poles went up.In NY, all non functioning traffic lights are considered stop signs. Cops are known for hanging out by them and will gladly ticket anyone who runs through it....what?They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
OMG. You can't be a New Yorker if you haven't seen this one! (Or maybe every intersection already has lights so they never put up any new ones.)
(1) After much hemming and hawing, the city/state decides that a previously control-free intersection is in need of a light, and plans it.
(2) For reasons unknown to anyone outside of government construction projects, it takes them 1-2 days to put up the light, then 4-6 weeks to wire it. So people see the new light, see that it's disabled, get accustomed to it, and get accustomed to ignoring it.
(3) The light gets turned on. Visitors and observant people start obeying it, assuming everybody will. All the locals who have gotten used to it completely blow through it, running over pedestrians and ramming tourists with great abandon.
Happens every single time a new light gets put in around here as well.
EDIT: Though Stop signs are even better because they go up in a single day so runnage is rampant. People just tend to be more careful about Stop signs around here because they're pretty used to people running them.
I *think* FH's saying that in NY even the new ones are stop signs, which is an amazingly sensible idea. In CA until the first time it's turned on it's just an ornament; you can blow through it legally with impunity.
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In this case it's a stretch of highway with a road crossing it. They put in a light, it took a month of construction, but that was during the lock down so no one paid any attention.
I *think* FH's saying that in NY even the new ones are stop signs, which is an amazingly sensible idea. In CA until the first time it's turned on it's just an ornament; you can blow through it legally with impunity.Yeah, if it already existed and is currently non-functional it's a 4 way stop, but if it's being put in and not yet active then it's whatever the rules of the intersection were before the light poles went up.In NY, all non functioning traffic lights are considered stop signs. Cops are known for hanging out by them and will gladly ticket anyone who runs through it....what?They installed a light and a crosswalk at the intersection a block away from our job.
We've already heard two ambulances stop there today.
OMG. You can't be a New Yorker if you haven't seen this one! (Or maybe every intersection already has lights so they never put up any new ones.)
(1) After much hemming and hawing, the city/state decides that a previously control-free intersection is in need of a light, and plans it.
(2) For reasons unknown to anyone outside of government construction projects, it takes them 1-2 days to put up the light, then 4-6 weeks to wire it. So people see the new light, see that it's disabled, get accustomed to it, and get accustomed to ignoring it.
(3) The light gets turned on. Visitors and observant people start obeying it, assuming everybody will. All the locals who have gotten used to it completely blow through it, running over pedestrians and ramming tourists with great abandon.
Happens every single time a new light gets put in around here as well.
EDIT: Though Stop signs are even better because they go up in a single day so runnage is rampant. People just tend to be more careful about Stop signs around here because they're pretty used to people running them.
that's nuts.
You know, I wouldn't mind that no one listens to me if I talked all the time.
That's why I talk ALL the time. I guess?
O_oPeople ask me, "Don't you ever get embarrassed? Just holding conversations with yourself?"
I reply, "Nope. It's only embarrassing when I'm ARGUING with myself. And then I lose,..."
>_<
Another pet peeve, when someone f%!&s up and blames it on the collective.
"Oops, we'll have to be sure we don't run over any more of those!"
I'm pretty sure that was all you.
Yep. THAT'S annoying.
<Walk off, whistling innocently,...>
Not too many new stop lights around here. Maybe a new one every couple of years. Not THAT big iof a college town that we have that many new streets! :P
What IS popping up around here is the BANE of ALL intelligent drivers.
Traffic. Circles.
Everywhere.
Not bad enough they're putting them at intersections that are too tiny for the amount of traffic that they get. They are putting them in NEIGHBORHOODS. Where no truck & trailer can EVER get through it. Legally.
Your opinion may vary. But in MY long wizzie lifetime, I have found that traffic circles do NOT, EVER 'increase the speed and flow of traffic at a given intersection in a safe and reliable manner, and reduce traffic accidents'.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Yet somehow, they are the 'great new thing' here.
Old wizzie's theory? Some one in local government has a relative who owns a construction company. (Or said local rep owns his own business too) The only possible explanation for such a major and sudden influx of road construction stupidity.
O_o
(Sorry, but I REEEELY don't like traffic circles.) ;P
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Not too many new stop lights around here. Maybe a new one every couple of years. Not THAT big iof a college town that we have that many new streets! :P
What IS popping up around here is the BANE of ALL intelligent drivers.
Traffic. Circles.
Everywhere.Not bad enough they're putting them at intersections that are too tiny for the amount of traffic that they get. They are putting them in NEIGHBORHOODS. Where no truck & trailer can EVER get through it. Legally.
Your opinion may vary. But in MY long wizzie lifetime, I have found that traffic circles do NOT, EVER 'increase the speed and flow of traffic at a given intersection in a safe and reliable manner, and reduce traffic accidents'.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Yet somehow, they are the 'great new thing' here.Old wizzie's theory? Some one in local government has a relative who owns a construction company. (Or said local rep owns his own business too) The only possible explanation for such a major and sudden influx of road construction stupidity.
O_o(Sorry, but I REEEELY don't like traffic circles.) ;P
That just proves that you're 'Merican.
Traffic circles work wonderfully in Europe... because people know how to use them.
In the U.S., even the people who build them have no clue what the **** they're doing. "We should put a Stop sign at every entrance to the circle."
No no no no no no NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
There's a great Mythbusters episode where they test traffic circles to see whether they actually improve the flow of traffic, and it's pathetic to see the Americans unable to work with the concept for a while, then once they get it the traffic flows MUCH more smoothly than with Stop signs.
As usual, traffic circles are a learned art, Americans don't learn that art, people put in traffic circles anyway, and everybody suffers. (In Berkeley and El Cerrito they literally use traffic circles as 'calming measures' to slow down traffic because they're so confusing to people that they slow way down to go through them.)
Personally, I love traffic circles. They make everything SO much easier. But the people around you have to know what they're doing. And that's a rarity in the U.S.
I think I hate traffic circles.
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Happy birthday, CH!
Today, I ran a 'Four Against Darkness' adventure for ALL (DE) and daughter.
Tubwe the halfling (ALL DE)), Miss Kier the elf (ALL (DE)'s daughter), Vashti the cleric and Erol the thief went to the Ogre's End, a famous tavern, to experience the exquisite creations of Monsieur Colombier, the renowned chef. Colombier, being a bad 'un, drugged the otherwise delicious meals he served them, then ran off to the caves above the village with Miss Kier's spellbook, Tubwe's bag of snacks, and the landlord of the tavern's prize barrel of Old Guffton's Pride ale.
The party followed him there, fought hobgoblins and skeletons, retrieved an amulet in order to free an imprisoned naga, nobly decided not to disturb some meditating fungi folk, then successfully got back the stolen objects and rescued M. Colombier from Zagrob the orc chieftan, who had falsely promised to buy the deceitful chef's ill-gotten goods from him, but instead, captured him and put him in a cauldron to cook. M. Colombier was quite upset, not least because the orc had used the wrong herbs.
As a result of their successful recapture of the beer, they now have free room and board at the Ogre's End for life, as well as a Mysterious Serpent Ring.
I have a feeling that traffic circles are common in rural areas here, and they seem to work fine (for what I can see as a non-driver who is very occasionally driven by other across the land).
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Me few days ago: Facebook hadn't suggested me I might know Shiro in a long time (thought coming in the contest of me becoming friends with Woran, which usually triggers a new wave of suggestions)
Facebook today: Here you are.
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That just proves that you're 'Merican.Traffic circles work wonderfully in Europe... because people know how to use them.
In the U.S., even the people who build them have no clue what the **** they're doing. "We should put a Stop sign at every entrance to the circle."
No no no no no no NOOOOOOOO!!!!!There's a great Mythbusters episode where they test traffic circles to see whether they actually improve the flow of traffic, and it's pathetic to see the Americans unable to work with the concept for a while, then once they get it the traffic flows MUCH more smoothly than with Stop signs.
As usual, traffic circles are a learned art, Americans don't learn that art, people put in traffic circles anyway, and everybody suffers. (In Berkeley and El Cerrito they literally use traffic circles as 'calming measures' to slow down traffic because they're so confusing to people that...
I love traffic circles...
...when the people around me aren't doing it wrong...
...or performing other acts of stupid...
...I have a great track record of working well with those types of people, I feel.
Here it is. The roundabout allowed almost 20% more cars through in busy traffic, *and* you don't have to stop in light traffic. They beat Stop signs in all ways except pedestrian and bicyclist safety, though I'm sure Woran can regale us with how Utrecht solved the bicycle issue...
*looks at the video* I see one way when roundabout might terrible (again, with a caveat I am not motorist, so it is an impression) - when driving in country which uses the opposite system of movement (British vs Continental/USA) than you are used to, it will mess with your conditional responses and instincts even more so than a regular crossroads.
Traffic circles work for some intersections, not so much for others.
The problem is they don't have me deciding which goes where.
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What I've been telling co-worker since I started two years ago: With seat walls what we should do is build them first, make sure they like them, then glue it all together.
Co-worker at the end of the day: I don't want to glue it until after we get the okay.
*looks at the video* I see one way when roundabout might terrible (again, with a caveat I am not motorist, so it is an impression) - when driving in country which uses the opposite system of movement (British vs Continental/USA) than you are used to, it will mess with your conditional responses and instincts even more so than a regular crossroads.
They're actually a *lot* easier. Your brain understands, "Everyone's moving in a circle counterclockwise instead of clockwise. Follow the circle."
Try being accustomed to driving on the right and turning left into the left lane at a standard perpendicular intersection. It ain't easy.
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Happy birthday Celestial Healer.
Happy BDay CH!
~sings Happy Birthday to You in a very off key way~