Useless Conversation

[Chimpy]

Cheapest I saw from Chicago was in August and $764. Not bad but it required flying to Atlanta then SF and came back through LAX/Minneapolis. Obviously this is a price war with just Delta.

Lucky for you that you live in a Delta town.

Thanks for the heads up though, I will keep puttering around over the weekend and see if I find a trip somewhere I can't miss out on. I shouldn't since I need to pay for a new roof but half price or less airfares are something you don't get every day.

I guess I could drive 8 hours to Minneapolis instead of the 2.5 to O'Hare and fly from there for $581 O.o

Damn you Ab! 

[Signe]

I've spent the last three hours or so watching the A-Mish rebuild a house that was damaged in a fire.  The young A-Mish blokes have bowl haircuts and silver iPhones.  Adorable.  They seem to be building a porch on the top floor.     I don't understand the A-Mish and their haircuts. 

I need better hobbies.  Like some, maybe, that don't involve annoying the A-Mish.

I can't stop saying A-Mish.

[Sky]

Men-o-nite

[Bunk]

A random Ask Reddit thread today:

"What are lesser known biological differences between men and women?"

Best answer:

"There is a vas deferens."

[lamaros]

Way too late I know, but visit Sydney. It's a great place for a visit, especially in spring.

It's hard to know when it's just jokes or otherwise, but Sydney and Melbourne are large, diverse and interesting cities. They have flaws and annoying things about them, but they don't really match any Australian cliches you typically hear from foreigners about the country. Those tend to apply to regional or 'outback' areas where most of the population doesn't live (and many havent' ever visited).

Obviously you tend to notice the things different from what you're sued to when you travel, but as an Australian who has seen a bit of the world I always enjoy coming home. It's an egalitarian place, and Melbourne and Sydney are world class places to eat and be entertained, with all of the comfort and luxury you'd expect anywhere else. They are very urban areas, and you're much likely to put off by the humidity (if you're not used to it) than any native animal experience.

Sydney in particular is good for beaches, harbour sight-seeing, trips to the blue mountains, eating and events, and perhaps even longer trips out to places like the hunter valley.

[apocrypha]

A random Ask Reddit thread today:

"What are lesser known biological differences between men and women?"

Best answer:

"There is a vas deferens."

[Rasix]

I should really not be trying to crash systems at 12:30.   

[Pennilenko]

Mountain Dew Throwback with real sugar is fucking delicious.

[WayAbvPar]

I take it you don't need to sleep for the next few days?

[Sky]

Went to the high school performance of Beauty and the Beast, an old friend's daughter was the lead, Bella. I've seen almost every school play she's been in, because she's been Broadway-level talent in every category since 9th grade. She always kills it and the rest is usually mediocre.

This time was the absolute worst in school plays (except her, she was better than all but a couple in the touring company of Phantom I saw last week, ffs). The entire brass section was out of tune and off-time, kept blowing (hah) entire passages. It gave me a literal headache and my fiancee kept giving me eyes as I would groan. Then I told her (and English major and librarian) to imagine reading a book where everything was misspelled and there were constant grammatical errors, but a compelling lead character.

She's a senior, so kinda bummed I won't see her perform around here again, but man. No more school musicals is pretty awesome.

[Furiously]

Mountain Dew Throwback with real sugar is fucking delicious.

Mexican Coke > Dew. And as a bonus you get to say Mexican Coke....

[Yegolev]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/accuweather-issues-90-day-forecasts-and-meteorologists-are-not-amused/

Gist is in the URL.

[Sky]

Makes me nuts when the fiancee doesn't use the NWS.

[01101010]

Vegas is bonkers. I can't wrap my head around any part of it and I don't care. Free trips on the research and development account are even better here for some reason.

[schild]

I'm going back for a convention in May. It's kinda nice that the convention is at the Sands expo center at the Venetian. Makes my trip REAL, REAL EASY.

[lamaros]

You guys are internet boffins, how do I make it so the rubbish crap like nosleep doesn't show up on the reddit frontpage for me?

[Trippy]

reddit has a front page?

[Viin]

You guys are internet boffins, how do I make it so the rubbish crap like nosleep doesn't show up on the reddit frontpage for me?

I think reddit frontpage only shows what you subscribed to, so unsubscribe? (just started using reddit as a user myself, seems like it starts you with a bunch of random subscriptions)

[Rasix]

Just click on My Subreddits in the upper left and select Edit Subscriptions.  Also, if you don't log in, you end up with a bunch of stupid garbage like Shower Thoughts.

[MahrinSkel]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/accuweather-issues-90-day-forecasts-and-meteorologists-are-not-amused/

Gist is in the URL.

I just assumed that everything more than a week or so out was just based on historical record and not actually a prediction in any meaningful sense. Certainly wouldn't plan a trip or an outdoor event based on what it was telling me.

--Dave

[01101010]

I'm going back for a convention in May. It's kinda nice that the convention is at the Sands expo center at the Venetian. Makes my trip REAL, REAL EASY.

Exactly where I am, actually.

[schild]

I'm going back for a convention in May. It's kinda nice that the convention is at the Sands expo center at the Venetian. Makes my trip REAL, REAL EASY.

Exactly where I am, actually.

Eat Kobe at Cut. Eat the reserve steak at Carnevino. The latter tastes like blue cheese and unraveled DNA. It's insane.

[Strazos]

Eat Kobe at Cut. Eat the reserve steak at Carnevino. The latter tastes like blue cheese and unraveled DNA. It's insane.

Hmmm, I may do exactly that when I'm back there in August before going to play in the sandbox; figure I might as well try a different resort.

Apropos of nothing, but how's the spa there?

[schild]

It's one of, if not the best spa in the country that's "open to the public." My wife looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooves it.

I will probably never switch to a different resort unless everyone else ups their food game immensely.

[lamaros]

Just click on My Subreddits in the upper left and select Edit Subscriptions.  Also, if you don't log in, you end up with a bunch of stupid garbage like Shower Thoughts.

Ah, thanks. For some reason I thought the front page would be just the most upvoted shit in all subreddits, not random crap they've given me when making an account.

[Merusk]

The default is a collection of subscriptions to subs with the most people.  That's why you get shower thoughts and atheism.  They modified the defaults a while back to make the site more inclusive and ad-friendly by adding things like two X chromosomes and dataisbeautiful and I think science. Made those guys angry as they had to really up the moderation to keep the sub from devolving into what you'd expect from being thrown out to random internet schlubs.   

What you're looking for is the All tab in the grey bar at the top. I haven't ever gone hunting for specifics but It means smaller subs won't show often because they move so slow. I keep to the front page and edited my list instead, which is what you need to do to really enjoy the site anyway.  There's a hidden subforum for everything you could think of. If you've got a hobby or an interest search it.

[01101010]

I'm going back for a convention in May. It's kinda nice that the convention is at the Sands expo center at the Venetian. Makes my trip REAL, REAL EASY.

Exactly where I am, actually.

Eat Kobe at Cut. Eat the reserve steak at Carnevino. The latter tastes like blue cheese and unraveled DNA. It's insane.

I shall do one of those. I'll save the other for when I return. The conference is supplying most of the meals, but dinner is not reserved so that will be the place. Thanks.

[Yegolev]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/accuweather-issues-90-day-forecasts-and-meteorologists-are-not-amused/

Gist is in the URL.

I just assumed that everything more than a week or so out was just based on historical record and not actually a prediction in any meaningful sense. Certainly wouldn't plan a trip or an outdoor event based on what it was telling me.

--Dave

Naturally everyone has their own science, but if you get to more than maybe 5 days out you start getting into climatology, and anything more than 10 days is guesswork.  I'm happy to be in the org with the least-wrong guesses.

I now know so much and yet so little about weather prediction.

[apocrypha]

This is all moot if you live in Lancashire, UK, where if you predict "rain" you'll be right 95% of the time at any point in the future.

[Rendakor]

The One Bridge (to rule them all!) from NJ into DE is in my town, and suddenly yesterday afternoon they decided they needed to do emergency maintenance on it for the rest of the week. This has made traffic everywhere both in town and nearby into an awful clusterfuck, moreso because we're basically a commuter suburb, plus both major roads through NJ (295 and the turnpike) end at this bridge so they're all backed up forever too. Ugh.

[Yegolev]

Can you find Atlanta?

[Hawkbit]

You guys got VLC all up in there.

I count driving through Atlanta on 75 rush hour as one of my top bad driving experiences. And I live in Seattle.

[Yegolev]

Very Long Commutes?  Yes.  I don't remember any time during which I did not commute through a construction project.  Now I get to experience SunTrust Park, the NorthWest Expressway, and the never-ending Hiram Bypass projects.  So close to declaring myself a remote worker.

[Selby]

Found out the 13 year old cut her (very distinct) name into the wall of a restaurant we frequent in town, along with her friend while we were there a few weeks ago.  Part of me wants to get out the tire iron and go to the woodshed out back and the other part of me wants to know why I happen to have the world's dumbest kid who thought "I know, I'll put MY NAME on the wall, NO ONE will figure out it's me!!!" And this isn't the kind of place where people do that regularly like a dive bar either, so no clue what possessed the world's stupidest kid to think this was ok.

[Rendakor]

We have constant construction too, but this is the first time I've seen it slow traffic down in town; it usually just fucks the highways. It doesn't help that the bridge in question is located centrally between my house and my job, so I have to take (different) elaborate detours to and from work to avoid sitting for hours.