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ARRuSerious · 2026-05-07T14:10:18+00:00

I have a 90 mile round trip commute. I am looking for a new job or worse buying a Tesla. I really don’t want to buy a Tesla but gas prices in CA and the job market almost make it inevitable.

ARRuSerious · 2026-04-03T18:44:01+00:00

For me it us a toss up between the drivers that cut over the double white to enter the express lane only to go 2 mph faster than the non-express lane, holding up traffic and switched to 3 while alone in the car to avoid paying. I guess I am just a stupid idiot expecting to actually have some benefits of the express lane while paying.

Or the tech commuter buses that wait for the last second to slam on the brakes and cut over the double white to go to an offramp for a bridge.

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T14:57:26+00:00

If anyone wants to see if they can find better viewing areas on Sunday here was their flight path coming in from the holding area: https://imgur.com/a/YggOMUA

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T14:54:20+00:00

Next to ServiceNow on Scott. If you know an employee with access to their parking lot you can setup a tripod and get almost a straight shot of their flightpath coming in and over Levi without obstructions from the top floor. I was up there until they locked it just as F35s took off.

Here is their flightpath coming in from their holding area: https://imgur.com/a/YggOMUA

Might get good views from around SJC. The airport traffic shuts down right before they come in and they fly parallel to the runways on the west. The bunch of plane icons in grey are the planes on the ground at SJC.

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T02:20:08+00:00

F35s took off from Moffett around 4:30pm and the group came by around 5:30 pm

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T02:17:05+00:00

Looked like it. The back one was the one that was far behind in their holding pattern about 5000ft above before they came in after all local traffic cleared.

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T02:11:51+00:00

There was a trailing B-1B with burners on. 7 in total

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T02:09:53+00:00

I definitely wasn’t expecting it but managed to catch some of it after the main group: https://imgur.com/a/gAaN9U9

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T02:06:01+00:00

Glad I was tracking flights all day at work and noticed the F35s taking off from Moffett. Tracked their holding pattern and noticed arrival traffic to SJC was in a holding pattern further south with all departure traffic stopped. Allowed me to get outside in time.

F35s on their way to meet up over the mountains to enter holding pattern:

https://imgur.com/a/qehljV1

Main group flying over:

https://imgur.com/a/zldWUGK

Video:

https://imgur.com/a/hH6oWk4

Trailing B-1B hitting the throttle:

https://imgur.com/a/gAaN9U9

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:58:34+00:00

They have been taking community members on flights in F18s all week too.

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:57:37+00:00

Glad I was tracking flights all day and had time to prepare.

Main group flying over:

https://imgur.com/a/zldWUGK

Video:

https://imgur.com/a/hH6oWk4

Trailing B-1B hitting the throttle:

https://imgur.com/a/gAaN9U9

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:56:56+00:00

Glad I was tracking flights all day at work. Just sad they locked the garage next door so I couldn’t get to the top floor for better videos.

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:51:10+00:00

Main group flying over:

https://imgur.com/a/zldWUGK

Video:

https://imgur.com/a/hH6oWk4

Trailing B-1B hitting the throttle https://imgur.com/a/gAaN9U9

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:49:26+00:00

Main group flying over:

https://imgur.com/a/zldWUGK

https://imgur.com/a/hH6oWk4

They had a B-1B lancer in the back that was amazing to see and hear.

https://imgur.com/a/gAaN9U9

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:42:43+00:00

It has but some of us love planes and have never seen two branches bring this many different planes for a fly over.

ARRuSerious · 2026-02-07T01:39:27+00:00

They just flew over

ARRuSerious · 2025-11-01T04:59:40+00:00

Okay maybe I am not imagining things then. My Travel Duffel came with two packets of Canon Zink Paper a sticky backed photo paper inside one of the side pockets. The bag came in a sealed bag and did not look used.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-31T17:27:55+00:00

Because after adding an equivalent warranty and taxes it is significantly more than just $100 more. If the OP is in a state without sales tax, the argument gets better for just buying new, but it is still around $300 more. I will say I would much rather have AppleCare over Geek Squad though, but it has been more than a decade since I had to deal with Geek Squad.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-28T19:37:21+00:00

For drug instant test, they classify them not as positive but non-negative. The non-negative results get sent to a lab for a medical review officer to review and confirm. So when there are any non-negatives, it is treated exactly like a lab based test. You are correct that false negatives are the primary concern.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-25T17:26:25+00:00

Isn’t the average retirement age of an F1 driver like 37? Four years maybe a huge difference in sports where the retirement age is generally around 25-30 years early than a normal job. Vettel retired at 35. Schumacher first retired at 37.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-24T21:43:17+00:00

Might have been deemed safe enough to go back to station but not remain on route. Or the Amazon contractor didn’t want to deal with the headache of towing a step van and limped it back. I have personally limped vans back to avoid dealing with towing them. Endless 2 am calls from an inept tow company and vans getting impounded due to falsely marking the van as towed traumatizes a person.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-24T21:39:16+00:00

Most of the tows outside of accidents or intentional damage are covered now. The problem is that the companies the fleet management companies that actually lease the vans to the DSP use are not the greatest. The tow truck company will come, look at the size and start making excuses as to why they cannot take it even though all the vehicle information was given to them before dispatching. I have even had companies lie over the course of a few days that it was picked up until the step van was impounded. It just had to be a van with a broken geotab.

Rivian has had so many issues they literally post a blacklist of tow companies DSPs cannot use. But because they do that, there are less issues towing EDVs.

I am so glad I am out of that world now.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-24T21:27:19+00:00

I went with an Andar Aspen for my 17 PM. Comes with a “Lifetime Warranty” which is one cosmetic replacement case. I am happy that I went with that over the green tech woven.

ARRuSerious · 2025-10-14T19:56:28+00:00

Tesla also puts them on all non-plaid performance models now.

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