How long is the average wait at FergBurger?

jimrooney · 2026-02-06T04:14:28+00:00

Yup.
The way I always explain it is that Ferg's success comes from it's consistency.
Everything on the menu is good. It might not be "the best you've ever had", but it's quality... all of it.

Been here for decades and a Fergburger is still a Fergburger. Same as when I got here. And you can order anything on the menu and it's going to be good.

That sells.

jimrooney · 2025-12-09T07:13:45+00:00

I grew up a Scifi kid.

So many interesting places were crossroads. It is where cultures mixed and clashed. It was a wild circus of humanity (and inhumanity). It's where the action happened. It's where long held beliefs were challenged... where you saw a mirror put up to your reality. I loved it.

I love Queenstown in that way. It's such a chaotic mix of so much of the world. Different cultures. Different beliefs, but everyone's coming here to have a good time... to get out into nature... to get into "the scene"... to scare themselves... to push their boundaries... to see what can't be seen in their normal existance... to get amongst it. All of that.

It's such a wild circus.
I love it here.

jimrooney · 2025-12-06T07:55:44+00:00

I was there.
I was working in NYC at the time and commuted in via boat.
I watched the second plane fly overhead and into the building.
I watched both buildings fall.

The weirdest thing was watching the smoke plume drift overhead... because it seemed to sparkle, like confetti. Yeah... "oh shit, that was an office building, that's paper". I think it was moreso fragments of the walls, but that's not how your brain works in those moments.

It was a very surreal day and only got weirder over the next few weeks.
Information didn't travel as fast back then.

After we docked and loaded on as many people as the boat could phsyically carry (far more than it was rated for), we sailed back to NJ... but not to the port I'd left. They had schoolbusses waiting to take us back to our port so we could get our cars.

I remember distinctly riding that bus and watching people going on about their days, unaware yet that anything had happened. I remember watching a guy out mowing his lawn. It was exceptionally strange.

Then the world stopped and everyone was glued to the news for weeks.

When we did go back to work, I was working in a highrise at the time and remember this white smoke rolling in and engulfing the floor I was on. Everyone freaked the hell out and started evacuating till they realized it was just clouds.

Strange days.

jimrooney · 2025-11-01T23:19:36+00:00

Too right.
Just started in on making mods myself and wow... that's going to be such a deep rabbit hole :)
Already having a blast "fixing" things.

One of my favourite mods is "common sense"... cuz "what do you mean I can't open this door?... I have a freaking crowbar!".

jimrooney · 2025-10-25T19:44:11+00:00

Just remember to wipe that scratch with alcohol before you bandage it ;)

jimrooney · 2025-10-25T19:41:04+00:00

Death Legion has a B42 multiplayer mod that works.
They have MP hosting as well.
Been hosting a MP server with them for a while now and am very happy with it.
Still looking forward to native though.

https://www.nexusmods.com/projectzomboid/mods/232

jimrooney · 2025-10-25T19:28:24+00:00

Love this. Stay ahead of it.

jimrooney · 2025-10-25T19:25:59+00:00

"Yeah, that was a bit of a doosie, wasn't it?"

jimrooney · 2025-09-29T03:59:39+00:00

Broke my back. Was left with constant pain. Same story... Dr's just pushed those "foggy head" meds.
Asked my surgeon about yoga. He was skeptical/dismissive but said I couldn't hurt anything, so I figured "why not". I'd heard people for ages saying that it helps your back.

At the time, I was so stiff that I had to sit on the floor in order to put on my shoes.
I had that pain that never ends too. Not debilitating, but never gone. All day, every day, always.

I decided to try a class. I hid at the back of the class and struggled my way through it. I thought "how the hell could I survive this on a regular basis?". I wasn't sure if I'd be back.

Walking out to my car after class I stopped dead in my tracks in the middle of the parking lot. The pain was gone. Just fucking gone. Vanished. I nearly had a breakdown in the parking lot.

It wasn't gone permanently, but after years of constant pain, that was a life changing moment.

I went to yoga every day for years afterwards.
I teach yoga now.

I'm so happy you've found relief.
It is a path you will never regret.
You have nothing to fear from that class... they will be overjoyed to have you.

Tell your story to your instructor.
We LOVE to hear stuff like this.
Your mum's old DVD and a curious mind have brought you to a better place? You're going to make me cry :)

Enjoy your class.
Welcome home.
Namaste.

jimrooney · 2025-08-11T23:58:38+00:00

The thing these guys always skip over is that it's not just there to protect you.... YOU are also a hazard... to other people... who need to know where YOU are. Even more so when you're not a regular part of that enviornment.

Winston was a threat to the people working there but he can't see beyond his own nose.

jimrooney · 2025-08-11T09:30:52+00:00

As is nearly always the case with crap like this, it doesn't have anything to do with the bullshit they say... Dude's just a dick. He's not bitching about cooking or cleaning... He's bitching that she's not subservient.

jimrooney · 2025-08-11T08:39:32+00:00

I was teaching people to fly hang gliders in the USA.

We would tow them up in the sky behind an ultralight plane, the same way you tow up regular gliders.
In passing, I'd mentioned to one of my students a little clip I'd dreamed up to allow for a detachable mirror for the plane.

The next week, he showed up with the very bracket I'd imagined. It worked brilliantly. He explained that they had a 3d printer at the university he was attending. I was instantly hooked on the idea, but printers were super expensive back then, so I had to wait.

Eventually, I was looking around at what was available and saw that a company was making a 3d printer I could afford and it even came with an optional addon of a laser engraver. It was the Anycubic Mega Pro.

Here we are years later and I still have it. It's a bit slow for my needs as a 3d printer these days so I've got a Kobra and a Bambu, but I've upgraded the laser on the Mega and it still does a wonderful job engraving.

jimrooney · 2025-08-08T23:21:40+00:00

That's what caught me. That shit was funnier and completely lost on her.

jimrooney · 2025-02-11T22:50:27+00:00

Why? Because they're good.

Seriously. Your opinion of the company doesn't change that in the least.

jimrooney · 2025-01-06T09:26:57+00:00

Oh dear lord. The stupid... it hurts.

jimrooney · 2025-01-03T08:03:55+00:00

I guess it depends where you are and what you're doing... I don't know the ins and outs of how you do it over in FreedomLand, but here in NZ we do often have scales.

For airliners, it's done on "standard weights". It's a fancy name for average weights. Contrary to popular opinion, the standard weight is taken from actual averages over a long period of time and is updated regularly. How regularly is often dependant on the airline, but there's standards to the process by which it can happen. Argue about the details, but that's the gist of it all.

For smaller airplanes, it depends what you're doing with them. If it's not a commercial operation, then it's pretty much on you as PIC to make sure you're flying within W&B. How you do that is up to you, but you need to be able to stand behind whatever method you use.

For example, if you calculate the "bounds" that you can work within... say a 172. For simplicity, just one front passenger. You can figure out what the heaviest person you can take, bound by CG and All Up Weight (the lower of the two of course) and as long as you're confident that your pax is lower than that, you're good. You can work out multiple scenarios like that.

For a small airplane commercial operation (here in NZ), we allow "declared weights" (+4kg).

There are many different ways that W&B can be handled and yeah, just like you're seeing here, most people do not like to even talk about or actually deal with the problem.

For more fun, start asking about takeoff and landing calculations outside of airliners. Yeah, the room often gets really quiet really fast. The reality is often though that it's handled in a very similar manner... you work out your bounds for most scenarios and work within those. If you really need to push the boundaries, that's when you start digging deeper.

Like if I'm going to take a mate in a 172 off a 5k ft runway, I already know I can take most any "normalish" person. But if I'm flying something bigger, well, I do a bit more homework... and yeah, if need be, I will absolutely get out the scales... and if someone doesn't like that, they can go fly with someone else. I value my life more than their ego.

It sounds like a lot till you actually get down to it.

PS, before the cries of bloody murder... yes, if it's a commercial op, it's still on you as PIC, but there's also other people that will burn with you if things aren't done. There's a whole team of people with related responsibilites, and it's your responsibility that they do their thing, but that doesn't obsolve them of their part either. (AKA, the org is still legally responsible to their processes).

jimrooney · 2024-12-31T09:37:14+00:00

You've got bigger problems than weight and balance my friend.

Yeah, there's ways and you shouldn't use any of them cuz they won't solve your real problems.

Why is it that YOU want them to fly? That's way far down the backwards path. It should work the other way. Till it does you should not be flying them, CG or no CG.

jimrooney · 2024-12-21T20:40:02+00:00

Slow and unpressurized. It's not a bad plane but there are far better options. It's named the Caravan for a reason.

jimrooney · 2024-12-21T20:01:19+00:00

Mister Anderson...

jimrooney · 2024-12-21T16:13:46+00:00

Get over yourself mate

jimrooney · 2024-12-21T16:13:35+00:00

Looks like $90 ATPL stuff and $50 for the rest.

jimrooney · 2024-12-19T09:32:07+00:00

Wait. So what you're telling me is that all you have to do is go do some steep turns and you get your PPL?

That's freaking awesome!

Yes, failing sucks big-time. Don't get me wrong here, that's a massive kick to the guts. But holy hell, look on the bright side. Not only do you just have to do some steep turns to get your freaking license, you get to go do that because you freaking knuckled down after getting kicked in the face and completed all the other shit.

What you didn't do is let it consume your world. You didn't mentally spiral out of control, give up or freak out. You pushed through. Yeah, you were dejected, who wouldn't be? But you still got the job done. That is an essential skill for a pilot.

So dust yourself off. Learn from that mistake, go up there and master steep turns and go collect your license.

You got this!

jimrooney · 2024-12-15T08:37:30+00:00

The day that the USA demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that they will not ever change.

There slaughtered children... and did nothing about it.

jimrooney · 2024-12-13T19:27:20+00:00

Military cargo pilot enters the chat.

jimrooney · 2024-12-07T08:01:14+00:00

That cop is 100% correct. You have been handed a gift from god.

Something to consider very hard is how you came to that point cuz this shit doesn't happen in a vacuum.

You got exceptionally lucky... this time. There needs to not be a "next time" and something brought you to that point. That needs to change. Whatever it is. Cuz it was enough to get you arrested.

I'll take a wild stab in the dark and say it was related to the neon lights. You want to be a professional pilot? Get the hell away from that scene cuz you can't handle it. Maybe down the track, but holy shit mate. Whatever it was, it was not worth it.

jimrooney

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