The Longest Thread Ever!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

...and then she used such
quite incredible timing
as if spilling milk.

(2x3)+2=8x1

[ring]

Do tell.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

In the other place,
and not on purpose, I'm sure,
but like gravity.

[BadNick]

That reminds me to look for some gravity waves for the "waves" thread Jet made for me.

[BadNick]

here's the big old willow tree next to my garage that broke off a branch last night. Made a big boom!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Was it too windy,
or did the branch just give way
under its own weight?

[BadNick]

No wind at all. It was a quiet, peaceful night. Then suddenly, multiple loud crack sounds and a final boom. Maybe a gravity wave passed through the area.

[Zooksport2]

Looks like some damage has been sustained....

[Ourcrazymodern?]

No need to worry,
I'm betting on insurance
to cover it all...

[Jetée]

I love you all.

[BadNick]

ditto, Jet.

Yes, there's insurance. Not sure whose covers what yet. Mine is $1000 deductible, not sure what deductible my neighbor has. The adjusters are coming tomorrow. It was my tree, rooted on the corner of my property, but none of our cars where hit (2 parked too far away and my dearest car is in the shop getting some cosmetic touchups) and no damage to my property at all, other than some electrical wires pulled off my house but the electric company put those back up after they cut just enough of the fallen tree so they could get to their wires and get them back up. I wish I could claim the tree itself It appears that the general consensus is that the tree is seriously weakend with some addional rotted out large branches similar to the pic above, and the advice is to have it cut down. Sad for what is probably a 100 year old willow tree Maybe when the tree surgeon shows up he'll say something else about saving it.

My neighbor's garage roof took a bit of damage. Plus his car (a Mercedes SL600 so above average $) sustained some superficial damage, a few mars on hood and roof; IMO correctable by PDR ...paintless dent removal, but I suspect he'll probably get the front end and roof repainted.

To clean up the fallen branches and debris, and to remove the rest of the tree if it comes to that, will probably cost well over $2000, maybe even $3k. We talked about it and we'll probably split any out-of-pocket expenses.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Nice to have neighbors
who deal with things equably,
isn't it BadNick?

[BadNick]

Yes, it sure is nice to have nice neighbors. Their son just left this weekend to start college ...at an Ivy League school, no less. So they just told us that they are preparing to put their house up for sale and move to a smaller place. I hope whoever buys the house is at least reasonable, since it would be hard to be as nice as this neighbor family has been ever since they moved in.

[Amaras]

Good luck with the new neighours, Nick

[BadNick]

Thanks, Amaras. But until it happens, who knows? Plans change.

I just got a book I ordered today and based on a quick perusal, I think I'm going to like it. It's "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, and in the last sentence of the Acknowledgments, they are recognizing the help from Mr. Hawking's assistants and write "Moreover, they always knew where to find the best pubs."

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Knowledge important
to sustain drinking buddies
& some social ties.

23-29=-6

[BadNick]

The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory.

The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen.

An amazing interactive virtual tour is available here: krpano.com - Armazones and Paranal

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Scrolling back & forth
across that stellar picture
is vertiginous.

[Jetée]

"Oh no! His battery fell out!"

[ring]

Originally Posted by Jetée

I love you all.

Ditto.

I used to walk home past a battery factory. The people sitting outside
on break were covered with black residue of I know not what.

Uplifting image, Nick.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Carbon, I suppose.
Makes Dalmatians Labradors,
& industry run.

[ring]

The definition of organic:
Anything that contains carbon in the form of rings or chains.

[Jetée]

I put too much pressure on myself.

What can I do for you today?
Where has Tophat gone; will Amaras return?
Does anyone else think the two messiest (drippingly-juiciest) fruits you can eat are a plump peach, and a soft tomato?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

A ring in my head
forming chains that I fancy
are hydrocarbons.

I had some fabulously sweet tomatoes from the garden. I think the fish from the disaster made them that way.

[Jetée]

Big Fish = / big tomaters = ?



*relevant context

[Jetée]

I'm so behind on everything, it's impossible for me to catch up.

[Jetée]

I don't know why i see this as a race, but for every exceptional find I happen to come across, it is my sincere wish to post its illustrious content here (and everywhere) for the benefit of those around me.

I've inadvertently gone forth in the past however seveal months to create my own interim-displaced bloggings, separated by content and theme and expositions, into about 50 or so factions (perhaps even more).

No one can me; All I do to better myself is become more efficient, more sincere, candid, and hopefully, in time, be more fully-recognized for expanding awareness. If only I could get forth on those general intuitive discussions, but as you know me, I'm a perfectionist, and I always need a way to open the discourse, and exhibit the particular piece to which I currently have come to feature.

Life is hard. Giving it meaning is immensely more difficult.


(I get carried away... score: free new blog post by accident. Hip-Hip HooYay! for my coincidence, everyone!)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

2-3-3-oh-5,
dear jet: Holy Koi, indeed!
Thank you very much!

[Jetée]

No can __ me.

I meant to state help here.


I'm very glad to provide any relevant or tangential food for thought in the form of random intrigue. I'm like The Twilight Zone, if it ever gained an "awareness".
It's a right shame, though, in which I keep expecting it to receive any more than a passing word, when what I more fully intended was to initialize a topical discussion on the matter. (I'm ranting in my head now why my interests doesn't interest any others.)

[Zooksport2]

All righty.. guess I better finish of this story... Longest short story ever!
....

...I don't see feathers or anything in the mirrors, and don't have a great view out the left hand mirror, to see if he's off to the side, so I'm thinking all is cool, and get back into it...

So there I am, tootlin' along, and I start coming up behind another road train, and as there is a bend coming up, I have to lift off the gas a bit until I get to a long enough passing straight..... The right foot comes off, but I don't slow down... That’s weird.... Give the pedal a couple of stabs, and still nothing.... Crap, I'm thinking, the accelerator is stuck. Never happened before. (on this truck, anyways) Whilst I'm deciding on a course of action, the gas suddenly comes off on it's own, then back on, off again, on, and then off again. Now this is really weird. I decide not to pass the road train yet, whilst I sort out my own little drama.

I let the speed come down a bit, then plant the pedal again, and off, to see what happens. Normal. Then it's on again all of its own accord. Then on and off again a couple of more times...

Fine. Time to stop and lift the cab and have a bit of a look at the linkages, and sort a solution.... I'm letting the truck slow down under normal engine braking, as I see a nice wide floodway ahead, good for getting off the road, and yet still be on the bitumen. Something catches my eye, in the reflection on the chrome housing of one of the spotlights. As the light is so round, its hard to tell, but I reckon I just found that bloody Eagle. He must be jamming the linkage. Makes perfect sense.

For some weird sun stroked moment, I decide that I'm gonna catch me an eagle. Hell I had a kangaroo, an emu and a dingo as pets over the years, why not an eagle. FYI. Kangaroos make great pets, if you get them young enough. Emu's are turd factories on long legs.

So I pulls up, jumps out and head to the front. Sure enough, the Eagle has landed. He has his head between his feet, and his body is pushed back into the "grill" of the truck, right where the accelerator linkage runs. He doesn't look very happy. Mega pissed off, really. But they always look like that, right?

I grab the spanner to undo the 2 bolts that keep the bull bar upright. Once these 2 bolts are removed, the bar can swing down, to allow the cab to be raised. I don't need to raise the cab, but I'm going to have to lower the bar, to get a hold of this fine specimen of roast dinner.

I've got no gloves, rags, blankets, or anything. Barely even a plan. I'm thinking I'll just lower the bar, grab him, and chuck him in the cab.... how hard can it be, right? That's what we do with calves, at branding time, and they are heaps bigger.

I lower the bar, and we talk to each other for a bit. Well I talk, he just listens, with this strange "I'll rip your throat out" kinda look in his eye.

I'm starting to get nervous. What if he does'nt want to come for a ride in the cab? Bravado deserts me, and I stand back to re-assess. Sudenly, he shuffles around, and he's free! He extricates himself, and struggles to his feet, and perches on the bull bar, glaring at me. I step back a little more. He looks unhappy. Fuck knows why. I just saved his life, didn't I?

He stares a bit more, then leaps off the bar, and slowly flies off and perches in a nearby tree. I decide I've done my good deed, and tighten up the bar, and set off again.

Probably make a lousy pet anyways...

.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

What great recounting,
with such numerous sidebars,
I'm hungry for more!

2+3-3-1=1

[BadNick]

I agree with that assessment! though the "hungry for more" reminds me that eagles probably don't taste too good. Do they?

Great story, Zook. Do you have any stories about raising a baby 'roo?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

(2/3 x 3) + 1 = 3

//!//
You can't take it back
is a really good reason
to watch what you say.
//?//

[Jetée]

Maybe I get lost easily, but a question: Is what I'm hearing to mean that you ran over an eagle, had it stuck under the cab of your truck for some time, checked to see what was the matter with your gas and brakes, and found this bird to be the culprit? And he was alive, none (too) worse for the wear? That's right incredible! (Though I do have an inclination to believe it more if it was a high-enough carriage like a Suzuki is known to sport.)

[Zooksport2]

I can assure you that every word is true.
Although, I didn't run over it... I "rear ended" him, as he was flying away.

I do not know if he had any injuries, but he did survive to fly off.
We never met again, so I don't know if he lived to a ripe old age or not...

Suzuki? as in Sierra/Samurai?

Nope.. Nissan UD, COE, (cab over)
.

[Jetée]

I also thought by the middle part of the story that you were going to eat the bird, so there is something to my (in)ability to follow closely.

[BadNick]

mmmmm, raptor meat

[Amaras]

Originally Posted by BadNick

mmmmm, raptor meat

Aah, cannibalism!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Eating dinosaurs
has hardly been our pleasure
unless we count birds.

(which I surely do;
first to entertain children,
then thinking it true)

(2x3)+3x1=9

[BadNick]

I wouldn't show this vid to the children, and it even made me shed a tear into my mayonnaise: