The even randomer thread

[Doohicksie]

On 1/18/2025 at 3:05 PM, shrader said:

Uh oh, it’s thin mint season. 

[LabattBlue]

Random?  Crazy snowfall in Florida Panhandle, and about to hit GA, SC & NC beaches 3-6”. 

[SwampD]

24 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Random?  Crazy snowfall in Florida Panhandle, and about to hit GA, SC & NC beaches 3-6”. 

Crazy. Those camera shots in New Orleans were nuts.

[Stoner]

Sad day. Also, there was a tragedy last night.

[sabremike]

Happy World Zebra Day!!!

 

[Stoner]

Do I have this right? Not one commercial aviation accident in the US involving a fatality from Colgan Air in 2009 through the beginning of this year. And now FOUR in less than two weeks?

[Weave]

27 minutes ago, Stoner said:

Do I have this right? Not one commercial aviation accident in the US involving a fatality from Colgan Air in 2009 through the beginning of this year. And now FOUR in less than two weeks?

Seems so……… not random.

[Doohicksie]

11 hours ago, Stoner said:

Do I have this right? Not one commercial aviation accident in the US involving a fatality from Colgan Air in 2009 through the beginning of this year. And now FOUR in less than two weeks?

I don't think yesterday's incident was "commercial aviation" since it was two private jets involved.

[rickshaw]

Canadians in the group, how ya feeling about the current climate with our neighbours to the South? I’ve canceled trips.l to the US. Time to explore our country again. Sad times. Tough to take really. 

[Stoner]

On 2/10/2025 at 8:51 PM, Weave said:

Seems so……… not random.

Another one.

[Doohicksie]

16 hours ago, Stoner said:

Another one.

What are the odds that a passenger aircraft flips over on landing and everyone survives?  Wild.

I poked around a little bit.  Apparently the wind speed was measured at about 40 mph just before they landed.  Max wind speed for a CRJ to land in?  40 mph.  I think that's ultimately going to be determined to be the major cause of that incident.

[Doohicksie]

In other news, my family room remodel is coming along.

There was probably 50-year-old water damage that was covered up by paneling and popcorn ceiling.  After scraping the popcorn I found an area that really should be replaced but the drywall seems solid enough so I've just primed it with a sealing primer and skim coating it for now.  If it gives me more trouble down the road then I'll replace it.  I think I'd have to hire someone out for that and I'm avoiding that for now.

The wall in that area I decided to completely re-do.  I disconnected the outdated electrical circuit on that side of the room and ran new electrical.  I have a known good (modern wire, grounded) feed on the plug that circuit connected to, but the rest of the wiring was ungrounded stuff that was not close to being to code.  Then as I replaced the drywall, I also ran the electrical behind it, one sheet of drywall at a time.

The room has loose fill fiberglass insulation.  I found that if I was careful about it, I could remove the old drywall and the insulation would stay in place in some cases (in others it just tumbled out).  So where the insulation stayed up I left it, and put up new insulation batting where I needed to.  The foundation for the exterior walls juts into the room an inch or two at the bottom of the wall, so I encased the concrete foundation in dimensional lumber and will paint it the same color as the walls, and that will give me something to attach the baseboard trim to after I eventually put down plank flooring.

Last weekend I got the new electrical hooked up on that side of the room and all is good.  Then I turned my attention to the ceiling and it's getting there.  Next will be taping/mudding the walls on that side of the room, then painting the ceiling and walls, then moving the furniture and junk to that side of the room and do the same on the other side. 

It's been interesting seeing how the house was built.  I felt that this room, structurally a garage, was never used as one, since there's a corner fireplace that blocks where the garage door opening would be.  I've changed my mind; in the wall I've been working on I can see the header structure for the garage door, and can see where they added the concrete footing wall in the garage door gap.  The builder/original owner must have planned that fireplace from the beginning though, because the fireplace brick matches the home's exterior brick.

Working on old homes can be really interesting.  And terrifying.

Edited Tuesday at 02:05 PM by Doohicksie

[Stoner]

Here's exclusive footage of the youngest team in hockey making itself seem big and scary to the rest of the league.

 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

On 2/18/2025 at 10:14 AM, Stoner said:

Here's exclusive footage of the youngest team in hockey making itself seem big and scary to the rest of the league.

 

She knew here bears.  Good thing it looks to be a Grizzle.  If not that could have turned out differently.

To your point - the Sabres don't even scream a bit.  And run away a lot sooner.

 

Edited Thursday at 02:04 PM by Sabres Fan in NS

[Doohicksie]

14 hours ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

She knew here bears.  Good thing it looks to be a Grizzle.  If not that could have turned out differently.

To your point - the Sabres don't even scream a bit.  And run away a lot sooner.

 

[Wyldnwoody44]

Isn't it, if it's black; fight back

If it's brown; lay down 

If it's white.... Good night. 

 

Those were Grizzlies, so she did what she could, not sure what is the right/wrong answer, but she's alive so phewww

[shrader]

Is Carl Spackler a villain?

[SwampD]

3 hours ago, shrader said:

Is Carl Spackler a villain?

Not a villain. Maybe an anti-hero, but definitely not a villain.

[shrader]

4 hours ago, SwampD said:

Not a villain. Maybe an anti-hero, but definitely not a villain.

So maybe he becomes a villain towards the end? I feel like we’re supposed to be rooting for the gopher.