Random Thought Thread

[steve4vols]

Kootenay Lake, BC. A place anywhere around this lake and I'd be happy.

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[Unforgiven]

Belsombra commercial:

...walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported...

Are you kidding me. It's an insomnia drug commercial. Driving around the neighborhood in my sleep without remembering it the next day isn't a side effect, it's a tragedy waiting to happen.

 

[Dngrsone]

"Engaging in other activities" == sleep sex

 

[Gmash]

If you don't remember, how do you know you did it?

 

[steve4vols]

Exactly, very good observation.

 

[steve4vols]

If you are alone in the forest and you say something and your wife is not there to hear you, are you still wrong?

 

[steve4vols]

So if you are driving and hit another car and you don't remember it, are the police wrong?

 

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[huh]

3 more days.. And I don't want to go home!!
Tried to take a pic of the stars but it didn't come out
It was insane! Billions and billions!! Could actually see the Milky Way

 

[andruoid]

Just watched the new Mad Max via what I like to call the educational channel ...quite possibly the worst reboot movie I have seen. Hollywood, please don't mess with the classics.

 

[Dngrsone]

It's not a reboot. It's a continuation, by the same guy who did the original Mad Max movies.

Personally, I liked it.

 

[EarlyMon]

Tahquamenon Falls, as featured in Longfellow's Hiawatha, I take it.

Nice shots huh!

 

[mikedt]

It's more picturesque than looking at industrial accidents in China.

 

[EarlyMon]

It's more picturesque than looking at industrial accidents in China.

The videos are horrifying and truly sad.

 

[mikedt]

Ok...horrible industrial accidents..

Flixborough, Bophal, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Buncefield, Fukushima, ...and now Tianjin.

I just want to share some happy pictures from China ..all taken today

 

[EarlyMon]

I was going to say outstanding but I started to mentally make outstanding in a field jokes so I'm going with - most excellent!

 

[steve4vols]

Took a hike today in the mountains. Only 3 miles but uphill both ways.

 

[Unforgiven]

A pair of these (I think) chatting in the back yard. I hope my dog is OK.

 

[Clementine_3]

A pair of these (I think) chatting in the back yard.

Nice!! Can I come to your yard?

 

[Unforgiven]

Nice!! Can I come to your yard?

Sure. I'm positive on the chest and the wings, but wasn't able to get a good look at the beak or talons on either of them. The call and the territory (at least for this time of year) isn't correct based on what I find online for peregrine falcons. I'm having a tough time finding an altenative though. It was the call that had me hunting around. They weren't aggressive towards each other, almost like they were communicating.

 

[steve4vols]

Sure. I'm positive on the chest and the wings, but wasn't able to get a good look at the beak or talons on either of them. The call and the territory (at least for this time of year) isn't correct based on what I find online for peregrine falcons. I'm having a tough time finding an altenative though. It was the call that had me hunting around. They weren't aggressive towards each other, almost like they were communicating.

How about putting the picture into Google Goggles and see what it comes up with, I don't know if it will work but it might.

 

[Unforgiven]

How about putting the picture into Google Goggles and see what it comes up with, I don't know if it will work but it might.

I couldn't get a pic. Looking up through an Oak Tree with the sun coming through when I could get close enough for a shot. That pic is from the web.

 

[steve4vols]

I couldn't get a pic. Looking up through an Oak Tree with the sun coming through when I could get close enough for a shot. That pic is from the web.

Looking on the web I would have to concur that it could be a Peregrine Falcon. They say that it is the fastest animal in the world.

 

[mikedt]

Monday morning, 9AM again...let's all sing....

起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！
把我们的血肉，
筑成我们新的长城！
中华民族到了最危险的时候，
每个人被迫着发出最后的吼声。
起来！起来！起来！
我们万众一心，
冒着敌人的炮火，前进！
冒着敌人的炮火，前进！
前进！前进！进！

Arise, we who refuse to be slaves;
With our very flesh and blood
let us build our new Great Wall!
The peoples of China are at their most critical time,
Everybody must roar defiance.
Arise! Arise! Arise!
Millions of people become one,
Braving the enemy's gunfire, March on!
Braving the enemy's gunfire, March on!
March on! March on, on!