Random Thoughts Thread

[Robert Hall]

8 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Auugggghhhh....I worked for Wells Fargo in Chandler, AZ from 2009 to 2011...what a truly, deeply awful company...absolute sweatshop environment in IT/Software Development.    Too many 70 hr weeks, 5am emergency calls, Friday night implementations...not to mention a 50 mile round trip commute in awful traffic... in 2011, after 3 people in my 25 person department had heart attacks in 6 months (one fatal), I had had enough.  And I went somewhere even worse--McKesson, home of 90hr work weeks... I don't miss any of that.

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Robert Hall

[trinacriabob]

2 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Thought this was an interesting drawing of two women, you can't quite tell what is going on, a bit of mystery to the art. So many stories in such a simple hand drawn picture. 

I went into Walmart last night and got a "Pat."  These types are generally not friendly to me because I might appear Republican and conservative, so I am the establishment. (Yeah ... right ... eye roll)  However, this one was nice to me.

[oldshurst442]

3 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

A violent lass....she seems so full of remorse...

Literally phoque around

and find out

 

I say good on her!!!  That lyin' cheatin' bastehd wont be cheatin' anymore.  Good lookin' too.  Probably smaht as well as she more than likely succesfully calculated on how to convinced him to look at their wedding photos to slam it shut on his nuts. 

[A Horse With No Name]

4 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Auugggghhhh....I worked for Wells Fargo in Chandler, AZ from 2009 to 2011...what a truly, deeply awful company...absolute sweatshop environment in IT/Software Development.    Too many 70 hr weeks, 5am emergency calls, Friday night impelmentations...not to mention a 50 mile round trip commute in awful traffic... in 2011, after 3 people in my 25 person department had heart attacks in 6 months (one fatal), I had had enough.  And I went somewhere even worse--McKesson, home of 90hr work weeks... I don't miss any of that.

 

Its unreal what employers expect

Studying aviation accidents. This was a plane that was destroyed in an accident....wild livery/paint scheme. Kind of a good looking plane in a way. 

https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/318833

[A Horse With No Name]

One of the planes that hit the world trade center. A co worker at the time had his wife planning on taking that flight, she got to the airport late that morning and missed the flight...needless to say he was a bit frantic for a few at work that day.

Lufthansa 747 lost on takeoff in the early 1970's....

[A Horse With No Name]

The Korean Airlines plane lost because navigational errors took them into Russian airspace...

The air cargo 747 destroyed in Afghanistan due to improper flight loading/securing of cargo. 

Love this livery.  Might be one of my favorite 747 liveries. 

Every accident is so interesting in terms of human/mechanical failure of some sort...

The South African accident was one of the most interesting to me. 

[A Horse With No Name]

She is such a pretty girl in this picture, I feel like she is a beautiful woman about to be murdered, given her future...

Memorial to the crew/passengers lost....

Pictures of the plane on the bottom of the ocean....amazing that we can dive deep like that. 

The Iran Air civilian Airbus A 300 our military mistakenly shot down. 

[A Horse With No Name]

Last pic, the A 340 that crashed in Toronto, everyone made it off, amazingly. 

Somebody's thanksgiving dinner, not mine. 

 

The Raisins in concert in Cincinnati. They broke up as a band in 1885, folks convinced them to get back together to do a few shows. 

Went last night, fantastic show. 

[A Horse With No Name]

Woodward, the 1913 theater where they played

Two of my Debate Students, Rinee and Vai, after getting an award...

Last picture-From a hike in Missouri. I urgently need to be back on the road, or trail again. Feeling footloose. 

[G. David Felt]

Have to say that Nissan had every chance to own the EV world and someone fell asleep at the wheel when they launched the LEAF and did not move fast enough to capitalize on the market, the tech, etc.. I can easily see the brand dying by 2030.

'Real reason' for Nissan collapse revealed as finance chief steps down

[trinacriabob]

4 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Last pic, the A 340 that crashed in Toronto, everyone made it off, amazingly. 

This is the one I remember well.  It went all the way down the runway, kept going, and then down an embankment next to the 401, a 16, +/-, highway/freeway north of Toronto and inboard from Lake Ontario.  Everyone got out.  It was raining heavily as this A340 was landing.

[G. David Felt]

6 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Last pic, the A 340 that crashed in Toronto, everyone made it off, amazingly. 

Somebody's thanksgiving dinner, not mine. 

 

The Raisins in concert in Cincinnati. They broke up as a band in 1885, folks convinced them to get back together to do a few shows. 

Went last night, fantastic show. 

Heavy PASS on the Creamed Possum.

Are you sure they broke up in 1885??????????