PresidentMerkinMuffley

1701 pts ยท December 26, 2015


A simple lesson in Newton's first law; body following a straight line and bridge being pull out from under it.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Their shirts are not quite as brown as tradition would have it.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cool!

5 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I went straight to spying the book titles, and I am happy with what I saw!

5 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There will come a day when they run out of ribbed tanks for you to haul, but today is not that day.

6 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yes. Yes they do.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nice bike. You ever take if off of any sweet jumps?

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just imagine the sheer embarrassment this young person is likely to experience when this clip is shared again in 15 years. Either they will have smartened up enough to feel deep shame, or will have become so inured in it all that they will relish this moment for the rest of their life. I have to believe in the former because the latter makes them just another lost soul. Such brainwashing is straight up child abuse.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#5 I live close to the 30th Ave station and every stinking time I walking across avenues in the area I get mightily confused by 30th Rd and 30th Dr.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reminds me of trying to play "Olympic Decathlon" for the TRS-80 Color Computer back in the 80's.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fair. I imagine it was the newness, oddness, and/or technical prowess for most people.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which one? Bertha or Mildred? I hope it wasn't Mildred as she was confined to a wheelchair at that point.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A photo I took in England in 2006 presented here in honor of OP: Lineman's Golgotha

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I work in schools for 30 years. We did try to keep phones out. Not a chance. What we are NOT doing in this most recent iteration is talking about teaching the students. Banning phones puts the problem off until they leave K-12. We should be teaching them how to navigate phones now, in schools. You will never administrate phones away, so teach young people how to cope with phones. Prohibition didn't work. Just say no didn't work. Phones are not even a minor problem in an engaging classroom.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If I finished my long-ass PhD dissertation, you can finish your thesis. Remember that no written work is ever "finished", it is just the latest draft. Make a draft you can live with and submit it to your reviewers. Pull that proverbial trigger.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

From living there, Louisiana, and Abu Dhabi, there are more humid places than Orlando, but in the other places you don't have to be in Florida.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Love some Vermont hockey action!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Already earned B by doing B-C first.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#2 In sociology we call people like the librarian in this story "street level bureaucrats" - they are the people who have to implement policies put in place by others, and so have tremendous power in making sure the systems actually work. If you are a street level bureaucrat, thank you for short circuiting so much bullshit. Unless you are one of the ones who work from a place of evil; power hungry asshats.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

No being an idiot.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The first two cars are not 8 inches different in width. Not even close.

2 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Finally a post in which I belong...

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nature don't need no help.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

I'm proud of you. We're proud of you.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was a forester for several years, and had dropped hundreds of trees. My mom asked me to take down a hundred footer into her back yard. I said I loved her, and there was a 90% chance that it would be fine, but no. She asked why, and I said professionals are insured. $600 and 48 hrs later she was happy and I had not accidentally destroyed my mom's house.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I am impressed with your improvement! I've said it before, and I'll say it again: your diligence is awesome.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This Vermonter who lives in NYC used to be a forest researcher in Maine. My biggest research project I did in a forest research station just outside Fredericton, NB. Loved it there, in a cabin in the woods. Your posts always take me way back to a simpler time in my life. I definitely appreciate your posts.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0