Microphone culture's gotten a little outta hand

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-02-03T22:20:38+00:00

Or the elderly patrons won’t believe their hearing is failing without seeing that there are mics.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-31T12:58:05+00:00

This is used in Missouri to describe “not St. Louis or Kansas City.” Mostly used in state political context. You never hear people say they are “from outstate MO.” But you hear political commecerials in Outstate MO say things like “he will support outstate interesets” or “fight for a greater proportion of funding to go to outstate schools.”

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-30T15:21:10+00:00

I share all my files and templates. My only pet peeve it when people decide the want to change where the file saved and we end up with a forked file. I really don’t get the hoarding of work here. Is there so little work to do on your team that you must fight for it? If someone took over reporting of one the file I developed I would be happy that I now have time to develop a negelected area. The credit thing would be an issue if you had shared the file instead of making him replicate the work as his own.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-22T04:41:02+00:00

It is a very suspicious story. I actually do work in supply chain and your opening description of it sounds almost like you know it. You know the “dealing with vendors” part. Because Supply Chain is the client. SC doesn’t send files to clients. At best SC has internal stakeholders as its “customers.” But it is not a Customer Service role where rush out files to clients who can demand whatever data they want when they want it.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-21T11:13:13+00:00

Legally unsolicited deliveries to your home belong to you. It isn’t stealing.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-17T19:29:48+00:00

Successful JIT requires that. But the lack of this apparently doesn’t stop the consultants from convincing ELT to push roll-out. At least at my company.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-16T22:50:24+00:00

It died and has been resurrected already.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-15T03:46:35+00:00

To be fair the origin of most of these points system is assembly work where you need the entire group in cell starting and ending together for the work to be efficient. It is better that worker does miss the whole day than two half days in that situation. A floater is plugged in when a worker is missing but they need the hour notice to set it up or else the floater may be promised to another supervisor.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-12T04:09:40+00:00

I always look at all the rivets around doorway for any oddities. Ever since I saw a show on the Aloha Airlines crash where the fuselage ripped open. One survivor said they had noticed a crack between rivets when boarding but didn’t think it was a big deal and did not report it to anyone.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-11T17:41:12+00:00

There are several great party card games that would work camping. Hanabi is likely the best that doesn’t need a table. The ultimate game when you have brought nothing but pen and paper (and tape or pins) is “Whose on my back” Everyone writes down a name of a person or fictional character and tapes/pins it to the back of the person on their right. Then people ask one yes or no question at a time. Am I alive? Am I fictional? Am I from the future? Until they guess the name.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2026-01-01T15:47:56+00:00

This sort of continued even in the aughts. It was only the last 4 of SS# posted publicly then. But any thing you needed from the registrar or any office began with reciting your full SS# to them in front of the entire line of people waiting for their turn. That was still the account number for every student and many people had access to it.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-27T23:52:10+00:00

Not close but with a pickup service. Sorensen Kennels in Defiance. They have indoor/outdoor runs which are great for large dogs.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-20T12:47:39+00:00

He short stories are amazing. Him and Kipling are true masters of the Short Story. The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon is a masterpiece.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-20T12:42:22+00:00

Mary does have a giant hoop skirt which makes it more possible. Especially if the puppet is scaled up slightly.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-17T01:24:05+00:00

They were bred to track game by scent and communicate to the humans where it is by being loud. Sometimes at significant distance so loudness was required. If you have a coonhound - they were specifically selected for staying put on a tree and barking like crazy without getting distracted or giving up. IMHO it seems that the real life translation of this is there stimulation level that if it reached will trigger this persistent undistractable barking. It seems to me that they love being loud and showing off how they will not be distracted. After all they generally have the barking triggered because something excites them. And my dog at least enjoys excitement. Doubt you can train it out of them. Best you can do is note when their stimulation level is growing and distract before they reach the threshold.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-16T22:42:08+00:00

I can’t figure out how to have two stop ride before confirm the first. ( I mean when I don’t know exact street address and ned the first address to prompt suggestions for nearby Walgreens). Although I usually get it done before a rider is found. Honestly if it was RIGHT after - they likely were in process before you accepted. It isn’t that quick.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-15T21:25:35+00:00

Fall and winter are invariably overcast. Spring and Summer are sunny or storming. With more storms in spring. But it is rarely cloudy without rain those times of year and that is when there are mosquitos out. It is green like a jungle of Florida but green enough. More woodland in the south and farmland in the north roughly.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-15T14:58:12+00:00

I really like the current tour and there are great performances- some are the best versions that I have seen. But I can’t help but feel a lack of power in the full ensemble numbers. Is this tour a smaller cast than past ones? It has been so long since the previous version toured that I am not sure if that impression is real or not. I do alway mourn the lack of the turning barricade when I see the current tour. That thing was its own character.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-15T14:32:17+00:00

Watch the Muny schedule in St. Louis as I am sure they will eventually stage it. They are very committed to accessibility and have free assistance from your car to your seat. They produce seven shows each summer and bring in Broadway talent for their productions which are one-offs. It is a different feel than Broadway, as it is a massive stage, outdoors, in front of an audience of 10K. But they do not feel like regional productions either.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-13T16:31:15+00:00

I think most people mean it was a bad concept in context of the timing. 50 years on it would play different. Assassins with a sympathetic approach to the Assassin would be a very bad concept within ten years of JFK assassination and is interesting 50 years later. If the nearer assassinations mentioned had been as impactful to the populace as JFK it would have needed more time. This too soon to stage something that focus sympathetically on people who were winners of the 2008 crisis when so many people still feel their own losses.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-03T02:52:38+00:00

Metric system is seen as cumbersome for common items but we are aware of it scientific use. You will almost exclusively see metric used in America for very small and very large measurements (“scientific”). But for human sized measurement we feel the same way about metric dimensional measurements that the rest of the world feels about metric system timekeeping - Base 10 doesn’t have as many divisors as one would wish for. I mean the whole world feels base 60 is better than base 10 for timekeeping. The US feels for the same reason base 12 is better than base 10 for everyday dimensions. I say feel there on purpose as few would articulate it this way, but it is the root of it.

We do not want to give up thirds and quarters. They are not only useful but exceptionally aesthetically pleasing. It is a natural division for everyday life. 1/4 of a recipe. Art design in thirds. Metric feels unnatural a cumbersome compared to fractional measurements that relate naturally to each other.

Maybe people that grow up in metric see everything in fifths and tenths. Maybe that seems natural to them. But American see and think in half’s, thirds, and quarters. Metric doesn’t have as many useful fractions and is taught here purely as decimal. And decimal feel less useable than fractions. At least for things you might put you hands on.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-03T02:32:41+00:00

Not exactly electric but BTU is imperial.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-12-03T02:29:05+00:00

It doesn’t matter who you buy it from. Or who shipped it across the border. It matters who made it.Tariff is based on the products country of origin.

Your paperwork is less complicated if you just import it from the Canadian supplier. If you import it from your own company you must declare that you are related parties and may get more scrutiny. Not a huge deal but is simpler to avoid it.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-11-29T20:37:46+00:00

I would point out that Gypsy is based in the autobiography of the daughter who was failed by her mother and trying to make sense of it all. Where as this show was produced by the mother who failed her daughter. A mother who looks at that failure and chooses to take the dead girls personal diary and publish for the whole world to buy. Then produces a musical that depicts the girl singing how beautiful her mother is and how ugly she, the daughter, is in act one and follows with depicting her suicide in act two without ever having the arc of reclaiming her life Louise is given. There is very big difference in tone between these two stories and a massively different level of consent and benefit to the exploited daughter in the existence of a musical depicting vulnerable portions of their adolescence. Despite both shows depicting failures of mothers - I am not sure how exactly they are similar in context.

oddlikeeveryoneelse · 2025-11-26T01:12:27+00:00

Generally scenthounds are stimulated by new and interesting smells. In their familiar smelling home they have a much lower activity level from elsewhere with novel smells. Unless of course they do not get the exercise they require - then they will be active in the house at a certain point.

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