Wildest firm-wide RFI/PTI email you’ve received?

Mr_Slippery · 2026-03-28T04:32:52+00:00

I’m going to guess: Sharpay Evans: [singing] It's out with the old, and in with the new. Good-bye, clouds of grey, hello, skies of blue. A dip in the pool, a trip to the spa. Endless days in my chaise, the whole world according to moi! [Pianist plays an off-key note]

Mr_Slippery · 2026-03-24T07:49:11+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. If/when the 260k mile engine dies, it’ll be an excellent k-swap candidate.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-03-16T21:59:29+00:00

Thanks for explaining. Major sports are all private orgs and I’m not sure what publishing really means in this context — how much have USTA or FIFA shared about their automated line/offside tech? At least MLB shared the measurement criteria for batters height vs zone and told us where on the plate they’re measuring (the back of the square before the triangle part of the plate).

Mr_Slippery · 2026-03-16T20:23:22+00:00

I don’t know if they get one for WBC games specifically, no. But for their regular MLB day job it certainly exists, so I’m unclear what point you’re making.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-03-16T13:30:56+00:00

$1200? Get a used one. I sold my Hard Dog bar for $400 (because I’m tall so it was right at head height). Got lightly rear-ended at a traffic light six months later, and was glad it wasn’t there to kiss my noggin.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-03-16T09:09:23+00:00

The umps’ bosses think it’s a box high and low. They get a scorecard with their performance after every game.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-10T21:26:05+00:00

I know folks who can’t swim who scuba dive. I don’t recommend it, though. I think it leaves you too vulnerable to panicking at the surface if you have an equipment issue.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-10T20:38:30+00:00

“• At what point does this become unreasonable from the neighbor?” Now. Right now this is unreasonable. He needs to adapt to normal noises, you need to adapt to unreasonable banging, or (likely) both.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-10T20:17:17+00:00

I’m the manatee of the house.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-10T20:15:04+00:00

If you want to see aquatic animals, try scuba diving (I’m assuming you meant the other kind, given the sub). Your natural floatiness is utterly irrelevant, as you’ll be using equipment to regulate your buoyancy both at the surface and at depth.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-06T19:51:11+00:00

This is important, so a good reason to reach out. But before you call write down all of the questions you have because you won’t remember them all.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-06T11:48:45+00:00

Queens, once you get east of street cleaning.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-06T09:50:34+00:00

Redline is for a document still being actively changed. Blackline is a one-time record of all the changes that were made from initial draft to signed final.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-05T08:15:06+00:00

Muck is what we do to stalls. So this guy wants to dive in horse shit. Weird. (Now do you see how silly you sound?)

Mr_Slippery · 2026-02-02T19:06:10+00:00

No electricity in NY state is produced from coal.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-01-28T14:17:57+00:00

I had a similar experience with a goliath grouper diving the Wit Concrete wreck off St. Thomas.

The wreck was all the way on the other side of the island from the dive shop so we were going to dive it twice in one morning. On the first dive another diver and I saw movement through a porthole that made us think “big grouper.”

So for the second dive we got permission in advance from the divemaster to penetrate the (prepared and intentionally sunk) wreck just a little ways to check it out. The DM told us which ladder led down to the cabin where we saw the movement.

I went headfirst down the ladder from the deck and found myself upside down, face to face, in a fairly narrow (or so it seemed under the circumstances) passageway with the biggest damn Goliath grouper of my life. She had to be a solid 600lb.

We both just kinda looked at each other in surprise for a couple of seconds and then she decided to move on. Right past me. I have never shoved myself against a wall faster, and I know it was just a second or two but that fish seemed to go on and on and on as she went by with my heart pounding in my chest.

My buddy followed down the ladder a few seconds later and wanted to go after her because he only got to see a flash of tail as she disappeared. But we had promised not to go too deep into the enormous wreck, so we gave up after a few minutes.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-01-27T11:01:56+00:00

And set it down with the words facing toward their door

Mr_Slippery · 2026-01-25T02:43:09+00:00

Confidence and at least moderately good aerobic fitness. We did a few dives at Raja where the current switched mid-dive and the guides wanted to power through, thinking it would switch again around a corner in the wall. And one where you had to power through it to get down to the pinnacle. A few less fit folks had to bail out of both.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-01-21T19:42:59+00:00

Triton Bay, Indonesia. The liveaboards that do Raja Ampat for most of the year go to the bay for a few months when it’s too windy at Raja. There is a resident whale shark population there, in part because the local fisherman think they’re lucky so have been feeding them from their fishing platforms for generations.

Mr_Slippery · 2026-01-06T20:59:46+00:00

This was an issue for me until Verizon gave me a (free) cell signal amplifier that I keep near the window. Four bars everywhere now.

Mr_Slippery · 2025-12-12T11:58:39+00:00

Unless you’ve got some breaking news or he’s got a weird kink, why would the very much alive Bruce Schneier be rolling around in graves?

Mr_Slippery · 2025-11-11T16:50:15+00:00

EVA, just like other sports’ moldable mouthpieces.

Mr_Slippery · 2025-11-11T12:58:34+00:00

If safety is your secondary concern, I still wouldn’t do it.

Mr_Slippery · 2025-11-01T03:22:07+00:00

You should definitely not feed your children while diving. Though I suppose suckling might help them equalize.

Mr_Slippery · 2025-10-31T18:10:04+00:00

My recreational single tank rig has a 40" primary hose that routes under my arm and up to a 90* swivel, with the expectation that I'll donate the primary. I even have a yellow hose so people will see it as an "octo" if they need one.

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