This…

Posted on by August 26, 2024

Is just flat weird…

I haven’t followed baseball since the strike in 1994, but this one is apparently a first EVER event.

Weather and the MLB trade deadline led veteran catcher Danny Jansen to one of the most bizarre pieces of league history on Monday afternoon at Fenway Park in Boston. 

Jansen became the first player to ever play for both teams in the same game as the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox resumed their rain-delayed game from June 26. 

In fact, Jansen played for both teams in the same inning when he took the field for the Red Sox as the game resumed. 

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

I know it didn’t happen overnight, but dayum… I guess that is one way to get in the history books!

And I can’t help but wonder what Jansen was thinking as he got behind the plate for what ‘should’ have been his at bat for the Jays. After all, he’d already fouled one off before the game was cancelled.

Ya know, if you tried to put something like this in a novel, you’d be booed for making up s**t that couldn’t happen…

Snerk…

Posted on by August 25, 2024

Found this old one from back in the late 90s…

This has to be one of the funniest things in a long time. I think this guy should have been promoted, not fired. This is a true story from the WordPerfect Helpline, which was transcribed from a recording monitoring the customer care department…………..
Needless to say the Help Desk employee was fired; however, he/she was suing the WordPerfect organization for ‘Termination without Cause.’

Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee.
(Now I know why they record these conversations!):

Operator:         ‘Ridge Hall, computer assistance; may I help you?’
Caller:              ‘Yes, well, I’m having trouble with WordPerfect .’
Operator:         ‘What sort of trouble?’
Caller:              ‘Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away.’
Operator:         ‘Went away?’
Caller:              ‘They disappeared’
Operator:         ‘Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?’
Caller:              ‘Nothing.’
Operator:         ‘Nothing??’
Caller:              ‘It’s blank; it won’t accept anything when I type.’
Operator:         ‘Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?’
Caller:              ‘How do I tell?’
Operator:        ‘Can you see the ‘C: prompt’ on the screen?’
Caller:              ‘What’s a sea-prompt?’
Operator:         ‘Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?’
Caller:              ‘There isn’t any cursor; I told you, it won’t accept anything I type.’
Operator:         ‘Does your monitor have a power indicator?’
Caller:              ‘What’s a monitor?’
Operator:         ‘It’s the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it’s on?’
Caller:               ‘I don’t know.’
Operator:          ‘Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that??’
Caller:              ‘Yes, I think so.’
Opera tor:         ‘Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it’s plugged into the wall..
Caller:              ‘Yes, it is.’
Operator:         ‘When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just  one? ‘
Caller:               ‘No.’
Operator:          ‘Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable.’
Caller:               ‘Okay, here it is.’
Operator:          ‘Follow it for me, and tell me if it’s plugged securely into the back of your computer..’
Caller:               ‘I can’t reach.’
Operator:          ‘OK. Well, can you see if it is?’
Caller:               ‘No…’
Operator:          ‘Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?’
Caller:               ‘Well, it’s not because I don’t have the right angle — it’s because it’s dark.’
Operator:          ‘Dark?’
Caller:               ‘Yes – the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window.’
Operator:         ‘Well, turn on the office light then.’
Caller:              ‘I can’t..’
Operator:         ‘No? Why not?’
Caller:              ‘Because there’s a power failure.’
Operator:         ‘A power …. A power failure?  Aha. Okay, we’ve got it licked now.  Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff that your computer came in?’
Caller:              ‘Well, yes, I keep them in the closet..’
Operator:         ‘Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from.’
Caller:              ‘Really? Is it that bad?’
Operator:         ‘Yes, I’m afraid it is.’
Caller:               ‘Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?’
Operator:          ‘Tell them you’re too damned stupid to  own a computer!’

It’s all over…

Posted on by August 24, 2024

But the crying at Boeing…

NASA kicked the Starliner to the curb yesterday.

Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday.

With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will now have astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return via SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is expected to launch its ninth regular mission to the ISS for the agency on Sept. 24.

Ultimately, Wilmore and Williams will stay at the ISS for about six more months before flying home in February on SpaceX’s Crew-9 vehicle. The test flight was originally intended to last about nine days.

Full article, HERE from CNBC, h/t Stretch

Well, NASA finally got off the dime and made a decision. Now SpaceX gets to do a rescue, in addition to ‘building’ new suits for Wilmore and Willams since the Starliner suits won’t connect to the Dragon capsule.

One thing that was pointed out yesterday evening is that ‘supposedly’ there is an international agreement on ‘standardized’ fittings that will work with ANY capsule. Obviously, Boeing/Starliner didn’t do that. So until Dragon (now down two astronauts goes up in September, Wilmore and Williams are drifting in the wind if there is an emergency evac of the ISS.

I also wonder ‘when’ they will kick the Starliner off the ISS???

And how many heads will roll at NASA and Boeing over this mess? Apparently the losses (so far) are over $1B to Boeing’s bottom line.

 

Posted in ISS

Now it’s getting interesting…

Posted on by August 23, 2024

Yesterday’s announcement from RFK, Jr. was not exactly ‘unexpected’…

Robert Kennedy meets with the media for his big announcement today — but his court filings stepped on his surprise. The Associated Press took a close look at his campaign’s submission in Pennsylvania rather than in Arizona to discover what the RFK’s plan for the election will be. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said in a Pennsylvania court filing Friday that he’s endorsing Donald Trump for president.

The campaign also requested that he be removed from the Pennsylvania ballot, though it wasn’t immediately clear that he was officially dropping out of the race. It came a day after he sought to be removed from Arizona’s ballot. He is running as an independent.

Full article, HERE from HotAir.

Even more interesting, he’s ONLY dropping out in the swing states, staying on the ballot in other states he qualified for!

This, IMHO, will really set the cat among the pigeons, as they say. When you add this to the Dems failed policies and dependence on unelected bureaucrats to ‘handle’ things for them (the swamp), this has to up the worries a bit.

Of course, this will probably just up the margin of cheat they are willing to conduct, so I think the gloves will come completely off on both sides!

And early voting starts in less than a month in some states… sigh

 

Welp…

Posted on by August 22, 2024

We now know who is going to be Boeing’s ‘sacrificial lamb’…

Boeing Starliner program manager Mark Nappi told the New York Times earlier this week that it’s no surprise that the company’s Starliner crewed flight test is taking longer than expected — so far, almost ten times longer than expected. NASA astronauts Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore are on Day 77 of their eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station.

Nappi says he regrets not doing a better job of managing expectations.

“I think we all knew that it was going to go longer than that,” Nappi told the NYT. “We didn’t spend a lot of time talking about how much longer, but I think it’s my regret that we didn’t just say ‘We’re going to stay up there until we get everything done that we want to go do.'”

Full article, HERE.

And they’re not saying because they have NO idea… They’re just trying to salvage their program at this point. I hope they are at least ‘thinking’ about the astronauts as they do the evaluations.

However, the impact on the ISS ‘program plan’ is putting a lot of the upcoming operations in jeopardy. Not in the least due to the lack of food (extra bodies for now 80+ days), plus blocking a parking spot, and the potential for Crew Dragon to have to go ‘light’ with only 2 astronauts vice the 4 that are planned, along with the experiments they had scheduled.

And NASA is apparently ‘not’ making the hard decision to kick Boeing to the curb so that the program plan gets back on track. The ISS only has about five more years before it gets deorbited…

Sigh… How the mighty have fallen…

Well…

Posted on by August 20, 2024

Now we know how long an EV semi fire will burn and close a road…

EMIGRANT GAP, Calif. —

Eastbound Interstate 80 is reopening nearly 16 hours after a Tesla Semi caught fire east of Nyack early Monday, Cal Fire said.

Drivers were being kept off the interstate for at least half a mile in both directions because the Tesla electric vehicle’s battery was on fire, said Jason Lyman, a California Highway Patrol spokesperson. The toxic fumes are an inhalation danger, he sai

Cal Fire crews and a hazardous materials team contracted by Tesla were on the scene.

Full article, HERE from KCRA.com

We know lithium batteries ‘feed’ on each other when they catch fire, but 16 hours to get down to 1000 degrees… wow… And untold thousands of gallons of water, plus tying up x number of fire engines.

And it happened on I-80, so there were options to get around it, but what if…

This happens in a city or in heavy traffic? Where to people go? Get out and run? If it’s in a city, what happens to the buildings adjacent to the wreck? 2000+ degrees IS going to set off other fires just from the reflected heat.

Or on a bridge, or something like the Hoover Dam? Or in the winter? I-80 gets their share of that every winter. Or in Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, etc? Or Texas in the summer with fire danger?

And if this is in the EU, where the roads are smaller and packed? Same questions…

I don’t have any good answers folks.

Does anybody???

Blue Flu???

Posted on by August 19, 2024

Has it hit Chiraq???

“Chicago 2024 won’t be like Chicago 1968. That is the promise of law-enforcement officials and protest organizers alike as the curtain prepares to lift on this year’s Democratic National Convention,” the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend. “Each side says it aims to maintain the peace even as thousands are expected to demonstrate against the war in Gaza, abortion restrictions and on other hotly contested issues.”

That may just be wishful thinking. According to some reports on social media, more than 1,000 officers are calling in sick.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Interestingly, Monday night at 11pm on the east coast and STILL no Joe Biden at the DNC. It’s well past his naptime… One wonders what is going on with that.

The ‘protesters’ have apparently already started as of noon Monday, but I’m not seeing ANY coverage of it on any of the media.

With over 1000 CPD officers out, now the ‘rumors’ we were hearing last week about ‘extra’ LEOs being called in to work the DNC make a lot more sense. I can’t help but wonder if/how many National Guard have been alerted or sent to Chiraq that we’re also not hearing about.

I dipped in a couple of times (known thine enemy), and it seems like more of the same DNC blather, nothing is your fault, we’re going to ‘fix’ everything, and free (insert whatever here).

I also noted a couple of YouTube videos that had ‘ads’ asking for donations to the DNC yesterday, and that is something I’d never seen.

I wonder if the Fibbies are geofencing the cell phones up there this week?

Compare and constrast…

Posted on by August 18, 2024

The RNC went to Milwaukee, which wasn’t necessarily ‘friendly’ territory, but there were no riots, no looting, no burning, etc. The expectation was around $200M increase in business, HERE, but the Wisconsin papers seemed to downplay the actual impact without giving any numbers, HERE.

Contrast that with the DNC going into the ‘friendly’ city of Chicago, a dem stronghold for over 50 years.

Having a political convention in your city is usually seen as likely to bring a welcome economic boon, but that cannot be said of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, which is set to begin in Chicago on Monday. In fact, downtown businesses are bracing for violence, chaos, and looting as many thousands of pro-Hamas activists and protesters are expected to descend upon the city, threatening to make Chicago in 2024 look like Minneapolis in 2020.

According to a report from the New York Post, businesses started boarding up their windows and doors last week. 

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

This coming week should be ‘interesting’, to put it mildly! And I, for one, am glad I’m not in Chiraq or the vicinity.

Oh yeah, and you can also get a vasectomy or an abortion while you’re there… Believe it or not, HERE.

We might need some popcorn to watch this cluster… 1968 anyone???

 

 

Gah!!!

Posted on by August 17, 2024

This…is just beyond the pale!!!

On Oct. 5, 2023, Jeffrey Piccolo, his mother, and his wife, Kanokporn “Amy” Tangsuan, a 42-year-old doctor from New York, dined at an Irish pub at a Walt Disney World resort, choosing the location because it was advertised on Disney’s website as offering “allergen free food.” The doctor, who had a severe allergy to nuts and dairy, informed wait staff numerous times of her allergy when ordering the vegan fritter, scallops, onion rings and a vegan shepherd’s pie, and she was “guaranteed” the items were allergen-free. Less than an hour after finishing the meal, however, Tangsuan began having trouble breathing. Despite administering an EpiPen, she eventually died at a nearby hospital, with a medical examiner determining the cause of death as “anaphylaxis due to elevated levels of dairy and nut in her system,” according to a lawsuit her husband filed in February. The tragic incident has now made headlines over Disney’s response, which Piccolo’s attorney Brian Denney said “borders on absurd.” 

Full article, HERE from TownHall.

Yet ANOTHER reason not to spend a penny on ANYTHING Disney…

Disney lawyers say he agreed to settle any lawsuits against Disney out of court via the arbitration process when he signed up for a one-month trial of Disney+ in 2019!

Vert the ferk???

Soooo, if you EVER signed up anything Disney related, you’ve just waived your ‘rights’ to sue forever?

I don’t frikking think so!

But sadly, I’m betting this one will be tied up in court for years, just like Oberlin did to Gibson’s Bakery. Filed in 2017, the case was decided for the Gibsons in 2019, but they didn’t see the money until 2022, after the senior Gibson had passed away.

Now I’m wondering what other ‘programs’ out there are pulling the same crap in their TOS???

Sigh…