The New Coffee Room

Or a Rolex.

I don't own a Mont Blanc.

I got this watch for my birthday. It's my first Citizen and the most expensive watch I have ever owned. I think it looks much better than the $430k watch that phibes posted. It's solar powered with a 20 year battery that can be replaced. I suppose the battery will still have to be manufactured in 20 years for that to be possible. Whatever, I hope I live to see the battery die.

I have an opportunity to buy a Rolex but even with the great deal of 1/3 it's actual value, it's still way too much to spend on a watch. And it's not something I could sell due to me valuing a friendship over money. If did buy it, which I won't, I would wear it but not every day.

spin, spin, spin.

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Yeah they do but it took me a minute. Those flat metal pieces go through a slot in the bottom horizontal bar. If you slide either of them out you can slide the bar out. Both locks need to be secured to prevent sliding them out.

... and you can spin the shaft to slide the bar out.

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

Except for the fact that you would be dead within a few seconds and would never know what's it like to survive the fall impact.

The average temperature of Venus's atmosphere at the surface is around 462 degrees Celsius (864 degrees Fahrenheit), making it the hottest planet in our solar system due to a strong greenhouse effect caused by its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere; this temperature remains relatively consistent day and night.

@Copper said in Helicopter Crash in DC:

If you have any type of safety event while flying you are encouraged to file an ASRS report with NASA. I have filed a number of these reports.

In order to encourage pilots to file these reports, they are anonymous.

Here is one from just a few days before the crash, it sounds familiar:

Events

Anomaly.ATC Issue : All Types
Anomaly.Conflict : NMAC
Detector.Automation : Aircraft RA
When Detected : In-flight
Result.Flight Crew : Took Evasive Action

Narrative: 1

While we were flying the river visual to Runway 19 into DCA we received a TCAS alert. We were around SETOC or just past it and fully configured to land. There was, what I could only guess as I never saw it, a helicopter about 300ft below us. The TCAS showed it climbing but at a very very slow rate as it never showed closer than 300ft to us. When we flew over top of it, we got a “monitor vertical speed alert from TCAS which we then pitched into the green arc on the VSI which was -300fpm or greater. After we received the “clear of conflict” the FO corrected and got back on glide path. I assessed that we were still within stable approach criteria and we continued the approach and landed in DCA without further issue. We never received a warning of the traffic from ATC so we were unaware it was there. Suggestion: Need to have better separation for DCA traffic on the river visual to the helicopter traffic that is flying up and down the river. Maybe by timing the separation of when we began the approach to where that traffic will be when we cross overhead.

Synopsis

Air carrier Captain reported a NMAC with a helicopter while on visual approach. Flight crew responded to the TCAS alert and continued the approach.

If you want to search the ASRS database you can go here:

https://akama.arc.nasa.gov/ASRSDBOnline/QueryWizard_Filter.aspx

Doesn't such a report immediately start an investigation and possible action for remedy? This sounds like complacency and indifference at the very least, contributing to what ultimately happened.

Interesting. We are all caught up with the episodes. Why are people so damn greedy? Give the credit and royalties where they are due ffs.

Sad to hear this.

My mother passed away this morning.

Survived by her six children, brother and many more extended family members, she assumed the role of Matriarch when her mother died at age 102.

She just celebrated her 89th birthday.

Mom survived cervical cancer which was diagnosed in her 50s. The treatment, while saving her life, and giving her almost 40 years of life extension, had long term side effects that really started to rob her quality of life especially during the past 10 years. It was ultimately her undoing.

She was a good hearted, good natured human who always had time for anyone. She had no addictions, never a smoker or a drinker.

I will miss her terribly.

Rest in Peace Mom. You were the best mother anyone could hope to have.

Thanks all. I had a bad night. Sleep was elusive the past two nights. The sore throat and cough are the worst parts. The lack of energy is also annoying.

I got it. Ugh. I meant to get a vaccine but forgot and now it's too late.

Tamiflu incoming. Does anyone have experience with it?

Sould Mrs Mark get the vaccine today?

I haven't felt this miserable is a long time.

@Horace said in What are you listening to now?:

My piano teacher Thomas Schwan is doing a small tour playing Chopin's complete nocturnes. I noticed he'll be around where a few forumites live. He's previously played the complete WTC1 and WTC2, and the houses are not always packed, as you can see from the videos. I wish I could have gone to his recital near Dallas tonight. He'll be in Chicago in November. I doubt the houses will be packed, if his WTC recitals are an indication.

https://www.thomasschwan.com/events

Link to video

Link to video

Listening to his Bach WTC I now. Just about 5-6 minutes in and I am enjoying this immensely.

@Mik said in What's the one thing you feel your education lacked?:

The financial life cycle for most people, and how to build wealth, a rudimentary understanding of one's legal rights and responsibilities. We send kids out into the world with no real clue how it works.

This 100%

Sorry to hear about your Rob Petrie style of welcoming in the new year.

Hope you mend quickly. I had my right knee give out on me while descending the basement stairs the day before New Year's Eve. Felt like something snapped in the back of the knee and down I went. Painful as hell and I could not walk on it for a couple of hours. I could use a cane but was still in a lot of pain. Went to CC and they x-rayed the knee. That came back negative. On Meloxicam for two weeks then to see an ortho doc on the 29th.

@George-K said in What are you watching now?:

Nice. Very nice.

Is your piano in a different room? I don't recognize the curtains.

Those are the same curtains that have hung on that window since long before we even moved in here 27 years ago. My best guess is 70s or 80s vintage.

The last two pieces by Chopin.