Post Race!

[wes4dbt]

Just saw this post.
"Split, Croatia" --> definitely explore the "city-core" (also called "old town"). basically the remains of the summer palace of roman emperor Dioclecian.
Which makes Split some 2000 years old.....
Beautiful markets on the east (??) side of old-town (can't miss it when coming from the port)

Warning: Don't engage the "Players" who lurk around the port, bus- and train-station (which are next to each other).
If you want to take a taxi, ask beforehand, what the total costs are going to be (guesstimated of course)

How i know that?
Nutshell: Split is in my "frontyard".... I "hail" from those shores (better said: my family has its roots there some 20 miles out of Split)

"Dubrovnik, Croatia" --> you do know, that a lot of scenes for "Game of Thrones" were filmed in Dubrovnik?

Thanks I'll rely that info to my daughter.

[Zvoni]

Thanks I'll rely that info to my daughter.

Keep me updated when she returns.
Would really like to know her thoughts/opinion, specifically Split

[Shaggy Hiker]

"Dubrovnik, Croatia" --> you do know, that a lot of scenes for "Game of Thrones" were filmed in Dubrovnik?

Have her bring you back a dragon. That would be cool.

[Zvoni]

Have her bring you back a dragon. That would be cool.

Don't forget to notify the TV-Stations then.
Would be a "blazing" Episode of Border Patrol USA....

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hurricanes have quieted down a bit. Early in the season, though. We've had a Beryl of fun, but nothing on the horizon at this point.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I saw a mallard with two fuzzy ducklings today. The reason that's noteworthy is that they should all have finished with nesting a long time back. I think everything generally hatches out in May, perhaps even early May.

Those ducklings were certainly aging well.

[homer13j]

The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away

[dday9]

Yeet!

[2kaud]

Went to order some stuff from Amazon UK today. Found that the minimum order value for free delivery is now £35. Ouch! Not that long ago the minimum value for free delivery was £20, then it went to £25 and now £35. When I first started to use Amazon way back when there was no minimum value for free delivery. There're trying to get every user to sign up to Prime which apart from the video service gives free next day delivery. I don't mind waiting a few days for free delivery but IMO this is bordering on extortion - get Prime or else!

[dday9]

That is what prime essentially is: prepaid shipping.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Gee, the threads in Chit-Chat are converging. The Post Race will assimilate all. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

[Peter Porter]

The National Anthem was sung a day ago at the Home Run Derby. I transcribed it exactly as performed:

Ho, say can you see...
By the Don's early lie,
What so prow-hdly we hell...
By the twilight's lass gleam-hmm,
Hoop bripe stripes whom bripes star...,
Thru the perulous fife,
Oh the ramparts we wahs (asah),
Were so gallant-ly stream-hmm,
And the rockets red glare...
The bombs bursting iyn air...
Gave prue to the lice,
That our plag was still there......
Oh, say does dat Star-Spangled Banner-yeaht wehlyeeve...
Or the land of the free-he-e-e-e-eee,
Hanah ho-ome of the prave?

I was gonna post a video of the performance, but I felt bad for the singer.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That song is a bit of a mess to begin with. We swiped the tune from an English drinking song, one of the notes can't be reached by the average human, and it commemorates a particularly stupid battle in a particularly stupid war. We have far better songs, written by Americans about broader, more national, subjects, and which can actually be sung by the average person.

On the other hand, the Star Spangled Banner has some epic failures. Perhaps a song that is easier to sing wouldn't have quite so many.

[homer13j]

one of the notes can't be reached by the average human

Meh... If I can pull it off with my sub-baritone voice it can't be that difficult. lol

Last winter I was invited to play both the US and Canadian national anthems on the chromatic harmonica at a hockey tournament and while Canada's may be easier to sing it's considerably more difficult on the chromatic harp. For what ever that's worth.

[dday9]

Can you imagine being the guy who didn't unit test his code, and it caused BSODs across the planet.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/2...e-outage-issue

[wes4dbt]

Can you imagine being the guy who didn't unit test his code, and it caused BSODs across the planet.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/2...e-outage-issue

If you think about it, it's sort of scary how much of the world is controlled by software. I had a surgery a couple of years ago and the surgeon just controlled the robotic arms that did the surgery. He was @ 20ft away from the operating table.

[DrBobby]

We use CrowdStrike where I work. Our IT dept has already sent out three emails about it and im fairly certain are minutes away from drinking on the job.

[dday9]

Did you know that your username is a punchline in the TV show Friends?

[DrBobby]

I had no idea but after a quick google search I like it even more!

[dday9]

3 days of no post in the post race. Tsk tsk.

[homer13j]

On this date in 1796 General Moses Cleaveland founded our city, then got back in his boat and never returned.

[wes4dbt]

109 today. A/C don't fail me now!!!

[gaouser]

I am

[gaouser]

the youngest member of VBF

[dday9]

I am the walrus.

[wes4dbt]

Shaggy said he was going to be dodging fires. Well, if he is hiking in Northern CA he'll get his chance. There's a big one there called the Park Fire, it started @ 3miles from my sisters house. Luckily the wind blew it away from her house.

[Peter Porter]

I saw this during Men's swimming:



My guess, she's been flipping signs vertically for years.

[dday9]

Eh, it happens to the best of us.

I'm impressed by the guy doing the Lion King bit with his baby in front of her.

[wes4dbt]

I mentioned earlier that my daughter was going to Greece on vacation. She left Sunday. On the flight a passenger had a stroke. My daughter and one of her friends are RN's so they helped, luckily there was also a doctor on the plan. But they had to turn the plane around and make an emergency landing in Iceland.

They finally got to Athens today. Hell of a way to start a vacation.

[dday9]

Dang, I'd say so.

[wes4dbt]

Post Race refresh.

I tried to think of something interesting to say but came up blank. That's sad.

[dday9]

At least you didn't come up red. Because red rhymes with dead. And I'd be terrified of a dead man posting on VBForums.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I wasn't hiking in northern California, but there were forty fires burning in southern Oregon. My feet turned into bloody ruins after a few days, and rather than pounding dirt into open wounds for six hours a day, I decided to do something more constructive: Ferry hikers around the fires north of Crater Lake.

I also took a day to climb to the top of Wizard Island. I've always been curious about that island, though it is a long dormant cone. I guess I wouldn't have hiked it had it not been long dormant....

[wes4dbt]

My feet turned into bloody ruins after a few days

This sort of a recurring theme on your hikes. I'm sure you know the best types of footgear to use. Wonder why this is such a problem. There are professions that require walking 6hrs a day. Though probably not many on rough terrain.

Hope you enjoyed yourself anyway.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, my last three hikes all had this issue. I'm not sure what's going on. I thought my boots were a size too small last time, but this hike has dispelled that theory. One size larger, and the situation got worse.

When in doubt, I blame it on age.

[wes4dbt]

Yeah, my last three hikes all had this issue. I'm not sure what's going on. I thought my boots were a size too small last time, but this hike has dispelled that theory. One size larger, and the situation got worse.

When in doubt, I blame it on age.

I've had a lot of experience with people that get skin issues, mainly pressure sores (skin ulcers), and I've noticed that once they occur they easily reoccur. But it could be age, nothing about the body gets better with age.

Maybe it's time to take up swimming. lol

[dday9]

I hate Boolean logic. I almost always get my operands mixed up doing && instead of || or vice-versa.

I just spent 30 minutes wasting time on that exact issue until I realized I had my operands wrong.

[wes4dbt]

That's punishment for working on the weekend.

[dday9]

I have a contract job with a hard deadline of Monday. The requirements gathering is... well there was none. There weren't any wireframes up until last week. And the client keeps changing his mind on things. It has been an absolute nightmare.

[wes4dbt]

Getting a good product definition from the customer is one of the most difficult things. I feel your pain.

Not really, I'm having a beer. lol