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What did you learn today?

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BurnOut said:
  1. I learned not to post band pics from our gigs online anymore. A certain guitar player doesn't like how he looks now. A fan also objected to how she looked in pictures she posed for, same reason. It's a shame, we have a guy that comes to our gigs, takes tons of cool professional pictures, all out of the goodness of his heart.
  2. I learned to get the bowl at Chipotles, and roll my own. I stood in line watching them make heaping bowl after heaping bowl. I ordered the burrito, it looked like a child's portion sitting in the middle of all the gargantuan bowl servings.
  3. I Learned the cart escalator at Menards to the upstairs takes like 10 minutes of your life you can never get back.
  4. I Learned don't take the younger dog on a ride if he has eaten very recently. You will have said dog food on the floor of the car.
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Regarding #1, i learned to ALWAYS get band photos to be posted approved prior by each band member :thumbsup:

Same goes for any pic that includes a friend or any recognizable acquaintance.
 
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Pilgrim said:
I learned that our new HR person may be more of a rules fanatic than I expected.

I don't need someone to tell me what the letter of the rules is, I need someone who will tell me how to get things done while staying just within the rules.

Those are the most valuable people in any bureaucratic system - the ones who will say "well, the rules say (this), but here's how to actually get it done."
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I didn't learn this today... but, growing up, I always heard my Dad (AKA the Ol' Sarge) say "You want to know how to get things done? Give the job to a lazy man"..:thumbsup:
 
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BurnOut said:
Yes, I know, I messed up, my bad, I've ruined everything, just like I always do.
I resign.
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Naww, don't be so hard on yourself. Chalk it up to lesson learned, possibly even apologize to your mates & friend/aquaintence, and just run the best shots you wanna post by them beforehand next time.

I enjoy many of your contributions here :)
 
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catcauphonic said:
Naww, don't be so hard on yourself. Chalk it up to lesson learned, possibly even apologize to your mates & friend/aquaintence, and just run the best shots you wanna post by them beforehand next time.

I enjoy many of your contributions here :)
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I'm not sweating it, they were good shots, I filtered and cropped em nice. They received a bunch of positive comments on them, as I knew they would. In the end I pulled em down, a distant memory in the land of social media. The guitar player's girlfriend called upset I took em down, can't win this one either way.
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement.
 
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Today, I learned, after roughly a year away from this site, that people don't change.

Imagine my surprise when I logged in, I see that, a(nother) thread was locked because of an individuals persistence to set society straight. Grammatically or otherwise.

Keep on rockin' in the free world y'all.
 
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I blew the engine on my Mercedes! 224,000 miles broke a valve, damaged the piston RIP
tons of gigs under her belt.
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paste said:
TIL in 1990 the USSR and PepsiCo made a deal to exchange Pepsi syrup for vodka and a small fleet of Soviet warships including 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer. Until PepsiCo sold the ships to Sweden a few days later for scrap, Pepsi was the 6th largest navy in the world.

PepsiCo - Wikipedia
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That could have been bad news for Coca Cola. It would have been worse than the great Sprite/7UP conflict of the 80's.
 
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Johnny Crab said:
That ERCOT(Electric Reliability Council of Texas) requires off-grid generators that are or can be connected to the public grid to have PMU's(Phasor Measurement Unit) installed and sending telemetry.

Also learned that some folks get animated when they find out a certain gas turbine generator manufacturer did not include that in a purchase. AND you can't startup(with a grid tie) without having PMU's in place and "talking" to ERCOT.

Curious?
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Not having that equipment, or an A/B isolation switch, will result in the destruction of your generator the first time you are careless and attempt to engage it without first disconnecting your line feeds. It may also result in a fire when the fuel line is broken or as the generator is flopping around and spills fuel from the integral fuel tank.
 
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Invalid Link Removed has, apparently, been clod-hopping across the page, and, subsequently, elsewhere, since the mid 16th century.

The Puss in Boots fairy tale is a story known all over the world; re-adapted, appropriated and changed by many cultures. The plot centres around a cat (or in some cases a jackal, a gazelle, or even a fairy-in-disguise) that uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess for his penniless and low-born master. It is unusual in folkloric storytelling, in that there is no obvious moral – with riches gained through double-dealing, rightful owners deprived of their lands, and innocent princesses given falsely in marriage.

The story first appeared in print with Giovanni Francesco Straparola’s The Facetious Nights (published between 1550 and 1553). …
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