Post Race!

[dday9]

Ohhh, that one took me a moment.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And now we're onto a new page.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I asked a question in a meeting, yesterday. The point was mostly to make a pun, but I spent so much time embedding the pun into a reasonable question that I believe it went over the heads of the several dozen people in the meeting without them even realizing it wasn't a totally serious question.

Well, it WAS a serious question, it just had a really fun play on words in it, and it blew past the audience without them even noticing.

[dday9]

Not I. My page sizes are enormous, so I’m towards the bottom of page 1160.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Young salmon are called parr. There was a study conducted to see whether or not exercising the fish would increase their survival. To that end, some obstacles were added to a raceway to create different velocities, thereby challenging the fish a bit. This was unusual, which means that it wasn't par for the course to have a course for the parr.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Not I. My page sizes are enormous, so I’m towards the bottom of page 1160.

Do you have one of those wide monitors in a vertical orientation?

[dday9]

Oh no. I just scroll a lot. On desktop, it's easy. Just hit the end key. On mobile press and hold the scroll bar and go all the way down.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Odd, I scroll a bunch, too, but I'm on page 1740, so far fewer per page. I don't remember setting that...but I have been here a time.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Expected: Perhaps a dusting of snow, or just rain.
Result: A few inches of heavy snow, the greatest accumulation of the season.

[dday9]

That’s awesome!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Now the sun is out and it's all melting off. I shoveled my sidewalk, and that of my neighbors on either side. That's always a bit of a puzzle. If you shovel the sidewalk, whatever remains will certainly melt, and it has, but if that leaves the sidewalk wet, then it will turn into a sheet of ice overnight. The sidewalks can be so slippery in the winter that I tend to walk down the road on my way to and from the gym. With almost no traffic when I go, the road is safer than the icy sidewalks. By this point, it's such a habit that I tend not to walk on the sidewalks during the summer, either.

[Peter Porter]

The left side of my car currently looks like it got vandalized by blind graffiti artist after it got sprayed with liquid salt two days ago. There was no way for me to avoid this brine truck driving in the opposite direction that was spraying both sides of the road. I slowed down in hope he would at least lesson the pressure of the sprayer when he passes me, but he didn't! My car wouldn't look so bad if I would've maintained the speed limit.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Did it take the paint off the side? We have salt trucks out here, but they don't spray with any force, and it's just downwards, not sideways.

[Peter Porter]

Did it take the paint off the side? We have salt trucks out here, but they don't spray with any force, and it's just downwards, not sideways.

I haven't had a chance to wash my car, but I don't believe there is any damage. I'll see on Monday.

[wes4dbt]

I haven't had a chance to wash my car, but I don't believe there is any damage. I'll see on Monday.

Is it ok to leave salt on the paint that long? Maybe just hose that area off.

They don't salt roads where I live so I've never had to deal with it.

[Peter Porter]

Is it ok to leave salt on the paint that long? Maybe just hose that area off.

They don't salt roads where I live so I've never had to deal with it.

I'll wash it tomorrow with dishwashing soap. I'll then take it to a regular car wash on Monday to get the undercarríage besides the body.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Excellent morning of skiing. The conditions were almost perfect...except that the skies were gray and snowing lightly, which meant that it was very hard to see topographic relief. Not much to complain about, though. I hope this lasts for a couple weeks. It won't but I can hope.

[Peter Porter]

Excellent morning of skiing. The conditions were almost perfect...except that the skies were gray and snowing lightly, which meant that it was very hard to see topographic relief. Not much to complain about, though. I hope this lasts for a couple weeks. It won't but I can hope.

My wife's side of the family loves to go skiing. I never been on one of their trips, but the next time they go, I'll be hanging out at a guest house at the bottom of the hill since I can't skii. Maybe take some pics when they come down.

[dday9]

Germany's basically Switzerland, right? I just assumed you skied (skid?).

[Shaggy Hiker]

My wife's side of the family loves to go skiing. I never been on one of their trips, but the next time they go, I'll be hanging out at a guest house at the bottom of the hill since I can't skii. Maybe take some pics when they come down.

That's the way to do it. I don't do downhill anymore, as I want to save my knees for other things. I do cross country, though.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And then there's Super Skier

[wes4dbt]

Check out what some of the athletes get paid.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cristiano-r...121544515.html

Wonder what the highest paid coders make. Probably a lot more than that.

[Zvoni]

Right, just finished setting up a Yealink Conferencing system in one of our Meeting-rooms.
It's one of those "MS Teams"-capable thingies.

The bundle also had a Camera, Soundbar and 2 extension microphones.

It was running, i was testing.....

.... when i noticed the camera following my movements (testing different spots in the Meeting room if microphones catch everything)

That was just creepy......

I expected to see a red light in the camera lens....

"I'm sorry, Zvoni. I can't do that"

..would have pulled the plug, immediately ....
Consequences and trouble with the Boss be damned

[dday9]

I want to say that Macs do that out of the box.

There's also some stupid stuff with them too, like if you raise your thumb Teams will do a thumbs up animation. Not really appropriate when the chief architect is listing the things going wrong and he starts counting from his thumb.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Check out what some of the athletes get paid.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cristiano-r...121544515.html

Wonder what the highest paid coders make. Probably a lot more than that.

I think it depends on whether you count people writing the actual code, or people who went on to form a business around that. I'd be surprised if an individual coder, who was still in the trenches, got paid at those levels.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I want to say that Macs do that out of the box.

There's also some stupid stuff with them too, like if you raise your thumb Teams will do a thumbs up animation. Not really appropriate when the chief architect is listing the things going wrong and he starts counting from his thumb.

The important question is this:
Do they do other fingers, as well?

[wes4dbt]

I think it depends on whether you count people writing the actual code, or people who went on to form a business around that. I'd be surprised if an individual coder, who was still in the trenches, got paid at those levels.

I was just joking but it made me curious. This is what Google said,

In the US, the salary range for a software engineer is $65,000–$325,000, with an average salary of $137,353.

I was actually impressed by the top end.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I guess I'd have to say that I'm not surprised. The cost of living is high in some places, and certain skills are quite rare. Combine those two and that upper end doesn't seem unreasonable.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I only posted this because this is the post race.

[wes4dbt]

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Going to go have lunch with my daughter and then take a nap. Life is good.

[dday9]

Shoot, it's cold here. It was in the 70s all week, but then last night it dropped down to the low 40s and this morning it dropped down to 29 with a "feels like" of 21! I did my nightly walk last night and that wind would cut you right down to the bone.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm in Albuquerque. Should have taken that left.

[dday9]

I recently found out that MeTV (a free over the air tv station) does Looney Toons on Saturday mornings and one of the last Bugs Bunny ones they did last week used that line

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, the line is from that. Whenever I say I'm going to Albuquerque, somebody makes some reference to the line.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Figured I'd beat the rush and lead off with the reference.

[wes4dbt]

10 days with no activity in Post Race. Slackers!!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm waiting for the weather to decide whether or not.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It's not quite warm enough to be spring, but too warm for cross country skiing. Might make it up one more time on Thursday. On the other hand, we usually get one last bout of cold and snow just after I put the skis up for the year.

[Shaggy Hiker]

My maple tree thinks it's spring. It's blooming, which it should not do. That's overly optimistic.

[wes4dbt]

Now this takes courage.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/ente...184941451.html

Both for the promoter and anyone willing to pay to go.