Supernovice

rain/ sleet here- def not snow. ground isn't white at all. roads wet.  I'm at 210' at the Lowell/ Tewksbury/ Andover line.

Mowed yesterday after raking all the pine needles from my arborvitae’s that fell during the storm. 3 bags later…

Anyone else seeing their arborvitae’s shed internal needles at a ridiculous rate this yr? Read up a bit and it’s either the spring/ summer drought or they are all doing a periodic shedding at the same time. Weird 

I dunno if anyone else saw this but pretty cool move by The Godfather.

https://universalhub.com/2022/mensch-does-mitzvah-channel-5

Update: power back and potential white Christmas if this band doesn’t die. Talk about a range of emotions.

Hosting brunch and Christmas dinner tomm. No power. Can’t get the generator to turn over even a bit. I can feel wifeys icey stares as we listen to the wind howl…if you listen closely you can hear the food going bad. Thoughts and prayers pls.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Britney Griner was released from Russian prison !

Prisoner swap between her and some Russian arms dealer known as the 'the merchant of death' apparently. Reminds me of that awesome Spielberg movie, 'Bridge of spies'

2 things:

1) awful trade we all know about Griner's height and athleticism by Viktor has that killer instinct you just can't teach- boom.

2) I believe @Chrisrotary12 among others are interested in the below topic. When you have the best podcast on the planet covering this issue- like I had to link it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/odd-lots-podcast-how-climate-change-impacts-reinsurance-catastrophe-bonds?srnd=oddlots-podcast

May I suggest you all put on ESPNU for some MACtion ( c. Mich vs w mich) in an absolute blizzard.

Nothing better than football in the snow.

This is pretty interesting… also with respect to analogs.

Edit: 1975 anyone? What’d that winter do?

With the forecast- thinking I might take the opp and drop some more milorganite before the eventual cool down. Any thoughts?

You have my attention 

Headlines of this ilk are something else … twisting and turning to avoid saying the words ‘climate change’.

Anyways this is all very normal and nothing to worry about.

https://news.yahoo.com/why-did-one-billion-alaskan-162814859.html

3 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

Besides, their uptime minus scheduled maintenance numbers are quite good considering the radar system was installed in the late 80's and early 90's, and are operational 24/7.  Some parts of the 88D radar system are still from the original installs and only get replaced when they fail (from what I've read).

Ok ok I’m being too tough. Just seems whenever I look at the radar which admittedly isn’t as much as I used to- it’s down.

Why is the BOS radar down for days at a time at least once every 2 months? What a joke

say, do you remember?
dancin' in September
golden dreams were shiny days

 say, do you remember?
dancin' in September
never was a cloudy day

4 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Thatching and over-seeding time?

Was just going to ask this…ideally need 45 days between seeding and first frost… something to think about at least 

RIP Bruce S. What a legend

My buddy got 500k outta Celsius yesterday morning- cutting it close much? This is what capitulation looks like- or not who knows.

On 5/27/2022 at 7:27 PM, Damage In Tolland said:

Looks like a couple days of 75-80 interior SNE after the early week heatwave and by late next weekend reheat . Any beach areas late week 65-70

Another in a long line of stellar forecasts 

On 5/29/2022 at 6:53 PM, STILL N OF PIKE said:

I hear China is lovely 

This is legit the laziest and dumbest type of reply. Ya he’s a commie because he wants the cultural norm of killing kids in their classrooms to stop.

take a f-ing lap, christ. Laziest shit ever.

Anyone saying this signals the decay of America isn’t paying attention, this IS America.

Where else can you devote 40% of your municipal budget to have a bunch of LARP-ing power hungry morons with unresolved daddy issues in their costumes with their big military surplus shooty shooty bang bangs harassing people over missed turn signals, that when the real shit goes down, run and hide, then handcuff and detain parents of victims only to turn out to be so dumb that they then lie about it to the national media??

Which leaves me with two questions: if cops would lie about this, in front of worldwide media scrutiny what do they lie about when no one’s watching? And- how would a police force that were made up of people that were actually loved by their dads function?

9 minutes ago, Supernovice said:

Crazy that thoughts and prayers haven’t stopped school shootings yet. Oh well let’s try again.

Success? Only time will tell

Crazy that thoughts and prayers haven’t stopped school shootings yet. Oh well let’s try again.

Is radar down(again)?

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Most folks would quit . Balls up and walk 

Is it your lack of height, lack of hair or lack of….(ahem, cough, cough) something else…that you’re constantly trying to compensate for?

On 4/20/2022 at 4:32 PM, Typhoon Tip said:

has anyone ever taken a technical assessment/eval at Codingame.com ?

Wondering what the questions - it'll likely be true/false and multi-choice for database - will be like. 

Thing is, I'm a notoriously bad exam taker.   I could copy and past the correct answers into the correct fields, and I'd pull down a D-  ...  

I'm kinda annoyed they are asking me to do this.   They reached out to me for this gig... It's not a headhunter, either - the company did.  I come from a certain technology manifold that is similar, but not an exact fit.  They know this.  So I've been through 3 rounds of interviews ( Zoom), aggregating 4 and half hours worth, and now they send me this tech assessment link at the above url... I'm like WHY!  You look me up and waste a day of interviewing to prove I'm not a fit?   ... 

'Course, I'm just pissy because I hate taking test, too.   Still, a- nnoying

Just saw this but google it- I think they have different testing modules depending on language. You will at least get a feel for how that particular service does their exams.

it is odd that they are asking you to do it after approaching you for the role. Bizarro world. We used similar things to test python and sql for lower level roles- just to make sure no ones time was wasted.  Maybe it’s a company standard- no way around it, like a proverbial drug test. Anyways- good luck.