Random randomness

[Max Peck]

This week I learned about derechos. One swept through southern Ontario and Quebec on Saturday just before 1600. I was impressed while I watched it blow through (I say "watched" but visibility was basically a couple of meters), but not so much when the power went out. Power was finally restored to my neighbourhood at about 2230 on Tuesday, to the delight of all (people in my building were out on their balconies cheering).

Since my apartment building doesn't have a backup generator for the pumps that provide water pressure to the upper floors, I was also without running water for the duration. Luckily there was a water source on the ground floor, so I was able to get water for washing and flushing the toilet from there. Hauling a 5L load of water up 11 flights of stairs a couple times a day is a not bad leg workout.

Yeah, I'd wondered how many here were hit by that. My brother who lives in Ottawa area lost power for several days, lost cell service and had their big tree in their front yard uprooted. And from pictures I've seen, it's been a chaotic mess of downed trees all over Ottawa and Kitcher-Waterloo.

I was lucky enough not to lose cell service. There's a cell tower on top of an apartment building across the street, and it didn't lose power at all. A friend who lives about 3km away didn't lose power either, so I was able to walk there a couple of times to recharge devices and take a shower. I saw quite a few downed trees along the way, including a couple that required me to make a small detour, but luckily no downed power lines along the route.

As of today, Ottawa Hydro is reporting that there are still about 9900 customers waiting for service to be restored.

[Sudy]

We were fortunately unaffected in Richmond Hill, but my folks near London lost power for a couple days (a bunch of downed poles) as well as having three trees come down, including a 80-plus-foot tall fir that hit some non-house structures and caused about $40,000 of damage according to their insurer. There are several others still standing and if they came down on the house it could be catastrophic.

[disarm]

What are those 2 bright nodules at the base of his skull? Some kind of calcification?

Or maybe he is being tracked by aliens

I wondered the same thing before figuring it out. He had an earring in his left ear.

[Daehawk]

hahaha lol...never occurred to me that could be it. Thanks.

[Rumpy]

We were fortunately unaffected in Richmond Hill, but my folks near London lost power for a couple days (a bunch of downed poles) as well as having three trees come down, including a 80-plus-foot tall fir that hit some non-house structures and caused about $40,000 of damage according to their insurer. There are several others still standing and if they came down on the house it could be catastrophic.

I remember the year my Grandmother rented a cottage one summer for us. I don't remember the year itself, but that weekend a particularly nasty storm hit, with lots of rain and high winds. Storms can be scary, and even scarier when you're in a place you're not familiar with. The following morning, we'd woken to find that it had caused quite a bit of damage. One big tree on the property ended up falling on the neighbour's roof, and thankfully they weren't there that weekend. All I could think of was how lucky that wasn't us. "Missed us by this much!"

[dbt1949]

I remember when I was a kid we vacationed at a summer house on a lake. One night a really bad storm came thru. In the morning we saw it had knocked a tree onto the boat house and our house. A tree fell on our neighbor's sports car. Oh, how he loved that car. Then we saw this strange fog coming in across the lake.....

[Daehawk]

Then we saw this strange fog coming in across the lake.....

Dont go out there in it! Every time theres fog I think of this 80s movie. I swear even these days. Freaked me out I guess. I actually hate going out in a fog for just to go to the mailbox

[Daehawk]

Saw this Corel set for sale for $50...brought back memories as thats the ones my dad and step mom had forever in the late 70s early 80s.

[Brian]

Then we saw this strange fog coming in across the lake.....

Dont go out there in it! Every time theres fog I think of this 80s movie. I swear even these days. Freaked me out I guess. I actually hate going out in a fog for just to go to the mailbox

Except I believe DBT was specifically referencing The Mist

[Daehawk]

Cheap ripoff

[Jaymon]

Still need to defrost that big ass freezer which I may do this week.

But where will you freeze all your big asses?

[coopasonic]

Saw this Corel set for sale for $50...brought back memories as thats the ones my dad and step mom had forever in the late 70s early 80s.

It's the set I still use every day. My wife got it from her grandmother.

[hepcat]

I think I have everything I need for my Illinois Real ID. I'm going to the DMV tomorrow. If no one hears from me after 48 hours, please call the authorities and tell them "The Eagle has lost its wings". They'll know what that means.

[Jaymon]

Yes, time to order replacement wings from amazon.

[hitbyambulance]

Yes, time to order replacement wings from amazon.

that was one of my favorite books in grade school
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/707320

[Daehawk]

Looks like Walmart finally got hit with the supply issues others have had. For 2 weeks now I have checked online for 6 or 7 products Im either interested in trying or normally buy from them only to never see them in stock. There may be one Walmart with the item but it will be 35 miles away and the only one. Doesn't tell if they have 1 or 20 in stock either. Most all are out of stock. My two super centers are empty according to online searches lol. So sick of it.

It looks like next week im driving 20 miles to a whole other store...not Walmart.

[Daehawk]

Used to think Elon was ok and pretty cool. But Ive learned since then he is a garbage human.

Elon Musk tells Tesla employees: Return to the office, or else

Elon Musk is demanding that Tesla office workers return to in-person work or leave the company.
The policy, disclosed in leaked emails Musk sent to Tesla's executive staff Tuesday, was first reported by electric vehicle news site Electrek.

"Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers," Musk wrote, adding that the office must be the employee's primary workplace where the other workers they regularly interact with are based — "not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties."

Remote work and 40 hours a week in the office. Dude a normal work week is 40 hours a week. When would they do this remote stuff?

[hepcat]

I think what he's saying is that you have to come back to the office...period. Not that he's enforcing work weeks that run longer than 40 hours (although personally, I believe he wants/encourages that). He's just trying to be cute about it.

[gilraen]

I think he's about to discover that his office workers aren't nearly as devoted to Tesla as he thinks they are. And that many other tech companies will be thrilled to snap up the talent.

[LordMortis]

I think he's about to discover that his office workers aren't nearly as devoted to Tesla as he thinks they are. And that many other tech companies will be thrilled to snap up the talent.

I think he'll change his tune with all the tech talent he's been trying to... poach... attract... for the last three years who don't need him like he thinks they do. Then it's going to be his good ole boy network. If I value you, then you can do as you please. If I don't value you then:



Forget about the idea that he wants to buy Twitter, who never planned to go back to the office at all.

Honestly, I'm so sick of media looking for the Musk influencer movement of the day. Every day the news doesn't feed me with a bit of Donald Musk is a positive statement on the day.

[Smoove_B]

Wait...what?

“Yankee Rose” is a hard rock song recorded by David Lee Roth. It was written by Roth and Steve Vai and was Roth’s first single on his 1986 first full-length album Eat ‘Em and Smile. It was recorded as a tribute to the Statue of Liberty in New York City, as the statue was completing a major renovation for the 100th anniversary of its dedication in 1886.

[Blackhawk]

Remember the wood duck we rescued a couple of months ago? Well, between that and the pigeons, we now have professional rescuers/rehabbers referring people to us when there's a bird.

We just caught this guy in a town about 15 minutes north of us. He'd fallen out of the nest this afternoon. The homeowner contacted the rescue, but the woman who runs it was out on another call, so she asked us if we could go.

Spoiler:

We're guessing either a Cooper's hawk or a red shouldered hawk. We'll be taking care of him overnight, then delivering him to a vet about 30 minutes from here in the morning, where someone from Indiana Raptor Center will be by to pick him up.

[Daehawk]

Just a baby. Cute.

[dbt1949]

My vet rehabbed a Bald Eagle once. Made a big deal in our local newspaper.

[Anonymous Bosch]

Remember the wood duck we rescued a couple of months ago? Well, between that and the pigeons, we now have professional rescuers/rehabbers referring people to us when there's a bird.

We just caught this guy in a town about 15 minutes north of us. He'd fallen out of the nest this afternoon. The homeowner contacted the rescue, but the woman who runs it was out on another call, so she asked us if we could go.

Spoiler:

We're guessing either a Cooper's hawk or a red shouldered hawk. We'll be taking care of him overnight, then delivering him to a vet about 30 minutes from here in the morning, where someone from Indiana Raptor Center will be by to pick him up.

Heh, tread carefully, Cooper's hawks are voracious bird-hunters, and especially enjoy preying upon pigeons and doves.

[Blackhawk]

Remember the wood duck we rescued a couple of months ago? Well, between that and the pigeons, we now have professional rescuers/rehabbers referring people to us when there's a bird.

We just caught this guy in a town about 15 minutes north of us. He'd fallen out of the nest this afternoon. The homeowner contacted the rescue, but the woman who runs it was out on another call, so she asked us if we could go.

Spoiler:

We're guessing either a Cooper's hawk or a red shouldered hawk. We'll be taking care of him overnight, then delivering him to a vet about 30 minutes from here in the morning, where someone from Indiana Raptor Center will be by to pick him up.

Heh, tread carefully, Cooper's hawks are voracious bird-hunters, and especially enjoy preying upon pigeons and doves.

I know. It was because of a Cooper's that we have Pippin. We're just not telling Pippin that there's one in the house. The hawk is only here overnight in any case.

[disarm]

Update on breadknife-to-the-face guy...

He was discharged from the hospital yesterday with no apparent ill affects, only four days after having four inches of a foot-long knife embedded in his face. It took a couple days for swelling to go down enough to safely remove his breathing tubes, but after that he was pretty much normal and walked out with his girlfriend. Crazy

[Blackhawk]

Remember the wood duck we rescued a couple of months ago? Well, between that and the pigeons, we now have professional rescuers/rehabbers referring people to us when there's a bird.

We just caught this guy in a town about 15 minutes north of us. He'd fallen out of the nest this afternoon. The homeowner contacted the rescue, but the woman who runs it was out on another call, so she asked us if we could go.

Spoiler:

We're guessing either a Cooper's hawk or a red shouldered hawk. We'll be taking care of him overnight, then delivering him to a vet about 30 minutes from here in the morning, where someone from Indiana Raptor Center will be by to pick him up.

So Klaus (he was skinny, threadbare, and intense, so it seemed like a good name) was passed on to the Raptor Center this morning. I'll miss him, but it was cool taking care of a hawk, even if the actual interaction part was limited to about ten minutes when we first got him home to check for visible injuries and syringe-feed him some water. After that we just tried to keep him quiet and undisturbed.

[Isgrimnur]

Update on breadknife-to-the-face guy...

He was discharged from the hospital yesterday with no apparent ill affects, only four days after having four inches of a foot-long knife embedded in his face. It took a couple days for swelling to go down enough to safely remove his breathing tubes, but after that he was pretty much normal and walked out with his girlfriend. Crazy

I hope he steers clear of any bakeries or delis for a while.

[telcta]

I would ask for a copy of the X-ray to show people when they think I’m embellishing a story. That’s amazing after 4 days he walks out.

[Daehawk]

It was probably his girlfriend that did it.

[Blackhawk]

Possibly. It looks like someone shorter than him tried to stab him in with an underhand grip, went for the eye, and missed. The position is right (and it's surprisingly hard to aim a knife through a curved motion with precision), the force required means underhand grip, and the angle - it looked close to horizontal - means they'd have to be shorter. /edit - unless the victim was lying down, in which case height wouldn't be certain.)

Personally, I'd be looking for the person with a cut on the palm of their hand. It is very unlikely that someone struck him with that much force with a smooth-handled knife and didn't have their hand slide down onto the blade. There are ways to do it, but most people don't know them (and that is why fighting knives have guards - it's to keep your hand away from the sharp bits.)

And all of this assumes it wasn't a freak accident involving a fall while carrying a knife. Unlikely, but not impossible.

[Holman]

All hail the return of curved-blade discourse!

[Daehawk]

I was just thinking of the great comedians I grew up on in the 70s that you never hear of now days. Granted a lot died years ago but they never play their specials or tv shows anymore from way back.

People like Nipsey Russel , Rich Little , Flip Wilson , Redd Foxx , Andy Kaufman.

These were guys I grew up on in my young childhood. Either they had their own tv shows or were guests many many times on other's shows.

EDIT: For an offbeat comment I will say I loved Monster Squad in the 70s! .... I used to get it and Mod Squad mixed up..but it was Monster Squad I enjoyed.

[Daehawk]

7am YAWN. So early. But my money came today and I have gone without certain items long enough. Now to sparingly spend for a few needed items after 2 and 3 weeks.

[LordMortis]

Izzie, I need you! I can't find out if Costco quit carrying Folger's coffee. This figures directly in to whether I renew my membership in July. The best I can find is "out of stock" when it comes to looking at their online warehouse.

[Daehawk]

So so so much is out of stock all over. Sucks.

[stessier]

Izzie, I need you! I can't find out if Costco quit carrying Folger's coffee. This figures directly in to whether I renew my membership in July. The best I can find is "out of stock" when it comes to looking at their online warehouse.

If you go here (https://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffee) and click Buy Now, Costco is never shown as one of the options (at least for the ones I checked giving Dearborn as the location).

[Isgrimnur]

Izzie, I need you! I can't find out if Costco quit carrying Folger's coffee. This figures directly in to whether I renew my membership in July. The best I can find is "out of stock" when it comes to looking at their online warehouse.

Start your own business

[LordMortis]

Izzie, I need you! I can't find out if Costco quit carrying Folger's coffee. This figures directly in to whether I renew my membership in July. The best I can find is "out of stock" when it comes to looking at their online warehouse.

If you go here (https://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffee) and click Buy Now, Costco is never shown as one of the options (at least for the ones I checked giving Dearborn as the location).

I don't see Sam's Club listed either and I know they also sell the 51 oz cans at a price equitable to Costco. But I do see WallMart.