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Back in the middle of April, we were eating at the Ryan’s in Conroe, TX.

When we got inside, it was hotter in there than it was outside. When I asked our waitress when the AC was going to be fixed, she said, “Apparently, never.”

She said a couple of months ago Corporate starting controlling all of Ryan’s restaurant temperatures from . . . Eagan, Minnesota.

She said that they’d lost a lot of business with people leaving and asking for their money back, ever since it started to get warmer down in Conroe.

I checked after we got home. The high in Eagan, MN that day was 57.

IF I were Hobby Lobby I would have someone outside each store also handing out condoms, saying that if everyone used condoms, then they wouldn’t need the 4 contraceptives that they won’t pay for.

Rush always says the best way to conserve a species is to eat it.

That’s why I said “sites with multiple pads.” My wife and I are RV’ers and we gate guard 3 or 4 months a year.

This past year we were at a ranch near Whitsett, TX with 3 pads in production, 3 being fracked, and 2 drill rigs in operation, as well as a tank farm. They were also bringing in a pipeline to connect it all up.

So, plenty of gas to go around.

Drill rigs and Frac rigs are all powered by big tractor-trailer size diesel generators, usually more than one.

This means a constant stream of diesel tankers coming and going.

But many of these generators are being converted to also run on flare natural gas where it’s available, usually on sites with multiple pads.

Nice!

But that’s a Mustang, not a Hellcat.

The original poster referenced Dr. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory sitcom. The character is supposedly high functioning Asperger’s. Anyway, one of his famous lines is, “I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested.”

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Yes, but Sheldon’s mother later regretted she didn’t take him to that specialist in Houston.

No way to do co-generation at the sites? Burn it in generators and get electrical energy as you do? Pollution is merely a resource out of place.
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A lot of rigs in TX do this. That’s one of the reasons their flareoff is so much less.

What’s the problem with the bag of money in the snow?

Isn’t this what Abraham Lincoln was supposed to have had?

Correct, but the ER people at, I think St Lukes/Roosevelt said her injuries did not lend themselves as being inflicted by only one perp.

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Wouldn’t they have left DNA attacking her?

FWIW I seem to remember reading that the DNA found matched the guy who confessed, and none of the 5.

I fell in love with the J.C. Whitney catalog in 1967 right after I bought my first car on my own, a 1965 Triumph Spitfire.

I knew when I bought it that it would need front disc pads soon, but when I checked the Triumph dealer, I found that a set of 4 pads was $32, a lot of money for me at the time.

Then someone told me about the J.C. Whitney catalog. I checked it and found a set of 4 pads for $7.98.
Figuring I had nothing to lose, I ordered a set.

When they came a couple of weeks later, I found they were Girling disc pads, made in England, the original equipment on the car.

Used the catalog regularly after that.

That’s not what Martha Stewart was convicted of.

She was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to public officials.

But the other thing is when you go here -

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm

and enter her weight and height, she comes back with a BMI of 19.3, i.e. normal

How can you leave out Bailey Quarters?

My wife and I spend 3 or 4 months a year working as oilfield gate guards down in south Texas.

The oil companies and contractors are begging for drivers. There are billboards along the Interstates advertising for them.

Drivers delivering water or diesel are making $80,000 - $100,000 a year and are home every night.

I’ve been told that one of the big problems is finding drivers who can pass and keep passing the drug tests.

In the technical fields, that unit of measurement is referred to as an ‘RCH’.

See, and I thought this was going to end up as a ‘meet cute’ storybook romance.

And all you got were cupcakes.

According to the last comment at the bottom of the article, the Country Club has backed down.

Looks like to me 'flounder' is correct as well _______________________________________________________ floun·der 1 (floun′dər) intr.v. floun·dered, floun·der·ing, floun·ders 1. To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance. 2. To move or act clumsily and in confusion. See Synonyms at blunder. See Usage Note at founder1. n. The act of floundering.

I seem to remember a Saturday morning TV program, something like Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe.

Once again, their bridge, their ‘historic’.

They can call it what they want, or describe it how they want.

The present one was built over 40 years ago. For some people that’s ancient history. Thus ‘historic’.

Once again you’ve wandered off course.

The relevant article mentioned the historic London Bridge in England.

The one in Arizona was never mentioned.

Try and keep up.

Right now it is ‘the’ because it’s ‘the’ only one.

Like I said, their bridge, their ‘a’, their ‘the’, their ‘historical’.

It’s their bridge.

They get to decide what’s historic and what’s not.

Nope. Right now it is THE historical London Bridge. There have been others.

From the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on “London Bridge”:

London Bridge refers to several historical bridges that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London.

There have been several ‘London Bridges’.

I check out the sample on Amazon and I’m pretty sure that’s not it.

No Martians in the one I’m thinking about.

But thanks, anyway.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Thanks.

I went though all these, but didn’t see what I was looking for.

But the list looks interesting anyway, so thanks again.

Looking to track down two different Science Fiction books.

The first one was set in the age of the pyramids. The civilization (Atlantis?) got its power by conducting electricity down from skies (controlled lightning) to the apex of the pyramids which was then broadcast around the world.

Although a highly technological civilization, all the buildings were stone for insulation due to the way they handled their power. Then something went wrong and the civilization was destroyed leaving only the stone megaliths we see today.

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The second one was about the present-day US under threat from the Soviet Union. A company based in Washington (Hanford area?) developed three type of autonomous weapons to fight back.

The first one was based on Jerry Pournelle's Rods from God proposals (Project Thor), utilizing solid rods from 6 feet long (used to take out vehicles and tanks) up to telephone pole-sized ones (used to take out battleships). Dropped from orbit, and strictly kinetic, they were guided by cameras in the nose and fins on the tail. The small ones attacking tank formations would talk to each other so only one would hit each tank.

The second one was an autonomous airplane that would loiter over battlefield listening for command and control radio signals and then take out the buildings involved.

The third one I'm a little fuzzy on, but it was some kind of autonomous land vehicle that would also attack the enemy.

This book was originally done in, or had something to do with Apple's HyperCard Stack program.

Both of these books were from the 1980's timeframe.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

In case they scale the walls?

Over the years, I’ve owned the following Chrysler products:

1968 Simca - Chrysler product
1978 Plymouth Horizon
1980 Plymouth Champ
1983 Chrysler LeBaron
1990 Plymouth Acclaim
1998 Dodge Intrepid
2004 Dodge Dakota

All went 200,000+ with no major problems. The Acclaim went over 300,000.

Still have the Dakota. 280,000 and still going strong.

Believe

One Word:

Metalstorm

Well, it was supposedly an ‘unused’ one. And do you really think they used the embryo without the permission of the parents?

From what I understand, to be sure that they get enough embryos to use, they create more than are needed. How long do they keep embryos after the parents no longer want or need them? What happens to them? Are they just kept forever?

The list goes on.. but based on a lot of the comments on this post if you’re convicted but the court forgets to send you paperwork but your a good person a long time after you commit a crime, it’s ok.

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Where did I say anything like that? I was merely commenting on your post that his lawyer was an ass for telling him to wait for the court.

I made no comment about the crime. Just that he was only doing what the court told him. The court didn’t tell him to turn himself in, but to wait for them.

Besides, how serious was the court taking this in allowing him to wait for them. Why wasn’t he taken into custody at his sentencing?

His lawyer was an ass to begin with and should have warned the guy to turn himself in.

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Why?

The court told him to go home and wait to hear from them.

You’re saying he should disobey the court? They didn’t tell him to check back with them in a week, or a month. Just wait to hear from us.

So he waited.

If he turned his life around, did he compensate the victim?

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And exactly would he ‘compensate’ a lady he pointed a BB gun at 14 years?

Think about a typical cafeteria, you walk into the food service area, get a tray, pick up your entrée and fill a cup. You go to the register and pay. If you want to refill you have to go back into the food service area. I don’t understand why he would think that is a free refill. And knowing the way a lot of people act towards service folks these days, I could imagine the customer making a scene

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Don’t know about your ‘typical’ cafeteria, but in the last week, I’ve been at two different hospital cafeterias.

Both had the drink dispenser right before the cash register and both have free drink refills. Plus the local Luby’s chain is exactly the same way.

Who wants to implant an embryo that has had a chunk taken out of it?

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Based on how the article said it was done, not sure that ONE CELL could be classified as a CHUNK

There’s two restaurants, one in La Grange, TX (home of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) and another one in Brenham, TX (home of Blue Bell Ice Cream), that go by that name. So take your pick (from either category)

in La Grange?

Was flying on SW and ended up in aisle one. The gentlemen across the aisle was complaining that his company jet wasn’t available and was suppose to be in first class. So he got free drinks, pillow, hand wipes and extra peanuts. Because I chuckled at the service he was getting they decided I was in first class too. Lots of laughs the entire trip !

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I LUV Southwest, but they only have one class: CATTLE

Was a big Southwest fan for many years until they messed with the boarding process and changed the planes they use for cross country travel.

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What did they change to?

SW has always flown 737’s, except for 5 727’s they owned back in the late 70’s, early 80’s.

So you’re saying that if the burnthru had happened opposite the ET, the Challenger would have still have blown up?

Is that what you’re going with?

OK, go from the other direction. What did the cold really have to do with it, besides Feynman dunking a gasket in ice water?

Do you accept NASA’s admission that burnthru’s had happened before, even during summertime launches? Look it up.

Do you also accept the fact that these burnthrus had self-sealed in the past, just as it did this time.

Or did these burnthru’s cause Shuttle disasters that NASA didn’t tell us about?

Again, if the high winds had not happened right at throttle up, the burnthru probably would not have reopened.

Again, if the burnthru had opened opposite the ET, the Shuttle would not have exploded.

You can talk politics and political decisions all the way back to the Redstone if you want.

But the fact that this Shuttle exploded during this launch on this day, was BAD LUCK. Period

Sorry, I meant that nobody was talking about the Flyback Booster on this thread. I was always for the concept.

You ‘lived’ through that period. I ‘worked’ through that period.

And we were not talking about What If’s.

As in what if Congress had allowed the boosters to be built in Fla? They would not have been segmented, thus no joints, no gaskets.

What if the fact that NASA needed more funding, meant that the military got to dictate the size of the cargo bay, thus making design changes all the way down the line?

What if the EPA hadn’t mandated a change to the foam insulation?

And yes, all that was politics.

But the proximate cause was bad luck. Higher winds than ever recorded before at exactly the wrong time, and sheer bad luck on the location of the burnthru.

Take away one of these and accident probably would not have happened. Take away both and it certainly wouldn’t have happened, politics, or no politics.