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oblong

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  1. I don't know if I believe it was on the Tigers. If it were why did they announce what they did a few weeks ago? I'm not yet buying into anything cynical about this.
  2. Jennifer Lopez, born 1969, played Selena in the movie about her. She was born in 1971. is that a major motion picture? I don't know. But it's what I could come up with after a few minutes.
  3. blasphemous is too strong a word for a stadium 25 years old but it stinks nontheless. No personality.
  4. March 16 is a good date for “firsts” in the space program. Gemini VIIII launched on this day in 1966. It had two notable firsts involving a crew that performed their own “firsts” later on. Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott performed the first space docking. This was after Gemini 6 failed to do it because the target agent rocket had issues and blew up. Docking was a huge objective in going to the moon. Both in terms of physically being able to connect but in learning about trajectories and orbital mechanics and proving that the math and computers were spot on. Shortly after docking their combined craft became to roll. They undocked the agena and that made it worse. Almost a revolution a second. They had to activate the reentry control system to stabilize as nothing else worked. The problem was a stuck thruster kept moving them. This was the first in flight space emergency. It happened during a communication blackout and the crew themselves almost blacked out. They wouldn’t have survived. The flight lasted 10 hours and 6 orbits. The astronauts involved later had their own firsts. Neil obviously was the first to walk on the moon. Dave Scott was the first person to drive on the moon and also the first person to dock to a lunar module on Apollo 9. The egos of the astronauts led to rumors that some thought Neil “screwed the pooch” but obviously NASA management disagreed. Both guys were put into early Apollo assignments that led to commands of lunar missions and Dave Scott is one of 4 to fly in two Apollo missions. There would have been more if not for cancellation
  5. The memory thing is real. I’ve been in charge of the same system for 23 years. I go back and look at notes from, say, 2009 and I can’t believe I wrote it. Yes I have done other things in my career but this thing has been “mine” all that time too. Luckily my boss is my age and he was at one time my backup as it relates to that. We joke around “together we can figure it out” and its replacement will be our retirement gift to the company.
  6. She was charged with assault.
  7. regarding Biden and all that... I don't hold it against members of congress who thought he shouldn't run again. It was clear he shouldn't have. The first debate told us that. I'll never forget the shudder that went down my spine at one particular moment. That's when I knew he couldn't campaign and win. But I'm not expected to know that. People in DC who are connected.... they are. I'm sure things were discussed and that's the source for all the whispers and "backstabbing" we saw. They were right. People close to him should have come up with some kind of a succession plan.
  8. RFK's burial site is beautiful. At the foot of the hill that Arlington House sits on. Simple headstone.
  9. as I always say..... "Prospects are prospects." Make them earn it. Put yourself in a position where they force your hand at the ML level rather than opening it up for them.
  10. We're going there in October. Some friends have a son at Carnegie Mellon and they visit him a few times a year for the weekend, they rent a place. We're joining them. They say it's a fun place to go to. I'm looking forward to it.
  11. I began to meticulously track my expsenses this year and already have become annoyed how institutions process transactions. I yelled at my wife for spending too much on Starbucks but I realized depending on which day of the week she reloads her card, it will show up multiple times, then resolve itself. You'll reload it on one day, it shows up immediately, then a few days later the same transaction shows up again with a different date, then that other transaction goes away after a period of time. I had to spend a probably 15 minutes yesterday making sure I didn't get it wrong. I had 3 transactions logged for every 2 legit. It's the same amount as she reloads it at work and she and a work partner take turns buying for each other so she couldn't remember. It's not critical as I am not doing any kind of audit and it doesn't really matter other than me being right or wrong when I try to yell at my wife 🙂
  12. Too many of these guys think it's 1993 where you get together after hours and have a drink and sort it out. GOP plays dirty and the dems thing it's still gentlemanly.
  13. I read that book 3 times, along with the one he did on the majors.
  14. When i see someone use the word woke I assume it’s a replacement for the N word in their hearts.
  15. He's gonna run for POTUS. And I think part of it is strategic. Yes he lives here and South Bend literally borders MI but he'd still be considered a bit of an outsider and the dems do have a deep bench of quality candidates. Going directly from the Senate to POTUS is rare (Obama, Kennedy, and Harding).
  16. John McHale was a nerd. And I don't just say that because he wore a bow tie and had glasses. He told an interview once he was in the middle of reading Sophacles.
  17. "What did he do?" "It's on TV" "WHat is it? What did he do?" "It's here on TV.... he's got a visa" "He has a green card not a visa" "He supports terrorists. It's on the TV. His visa" "He has a green card"
  18. this ****er is deliberately trying to engineer a war. He wants an excuse to go after canada and europe. And if you expect me to "support the troops" for that bull****? Nope. They are not robots. Any soldier asked to fight for that has options. Of course our usual defenders of this admin have fled like cowards because even they realize this is not good.
  19. The US offered Henry Ford II VW as a thank you for the company efforts. He said no.
  20. Who's going to enforce it though?
  21. Weren't there rumors in 2017 that Trump had an affair with Margaret Trudeau and people were doing the math....
  22. Bob Sackamano
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