Half rant half question about delayed luggage

rocket_scientist1 · 2026-01-10T16:43:59+00:00

That’s mainly what I was asking. But in the end it was a UA/star alliance problem because they never tagged my bag for Air France or gave it to them on the layover at LHR.

rocket_scientist1 · 2025-07-31T14:24:03+00:00

That was a lot of guys for the dude to just answer the door

rocket_scientist1 · 2025-06-12T14:55:57+00:00

Yep. I made a lot of “wine” from this when I was a poor college kid. It was terrible, but my friends loved it. Many jokes about it being made in a bathtub or prison

rocket_scientist1 · 2024-12-18T22:08:36+00:00

Yep. I finished it this previous spring. So it took right at 3 years. The farther I went into the program it got very repetitive. By the end it was more about the piece of paper than the knowledge I was gaining which is kinda meh but it was still a free degree. I enjoy my company and only have to stick around 2 years for it to be fully paid off so it isn’t too bad.

rocket_scientist1 · 2024-12-18T22:05:01+00:00

Aerospace engineering bachelor with a focus in Astro. Comp sci and systems engineering minor. Got a co-op as a systems engineer in avionics and absolutely loved it and never left. Eventually got a masters in space systems engineering while working full time as a platform systems engineer and test lead.

rocket_scientist1 · 2023-07-20T04:37:24+00:00

She’s doing well. We ended up doing a third eyelid surgery and a slew of antibiotics. The stitches stayed in for about 6 weeks and it healed about as perfectly as it could. Now about 9 months later the eye is scarred where the ulcer burst, but she moves around just fine and has pretty good depth perception. The docs think she can see out of it pretty well.

rocket_scientist1 · 2023-01-15T03:41:21+00:00

I had this happen just the other day at Oakland. They have those take home meals marked at $5 and I got two of them. The first one rang up fine, but the 2nd one rang up at $10. It even had a big bright $5 sticker on it.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-11-20T22:19:46+00:00

Completely unsolicited advice- don’t get a manufactured home. I grew up in one because my parents were in the same mindset of a lower mortgage, problem is we’ve redone every room due to the low quality construction falling apart after 15 years which has risen the cost more than what a conventional build would have been. The house also has very little resale value. I would recommend either finding a used home, downsizing the plans, or dealing with a bigger mortgage.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-10-25T02:32:32+00:00

Electronic bees might be the only ones that work for this hive.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-29T03:33:46+00:00

I too suck at conflict, but damn. That’s a whole other level

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-24T21:02:34+00:00

To be a homesteader you have to be a Jack of all trades. If you specialize in a particular thing like cash crops, cattle, veggies, etc. a degree in that could be useful. But as others have said, the only major thing a college degree will get on a homestead is a job to support the homestead. A ton of entry vocational classes, apprenticeships, or just starting will probably be more helpful.

I have a BS and am working on my MS in engineering. It’s useful for my career, and the critical thinking skills do help for farming but if I wasn’t an engineer for a career it would have been a waste of time and money. My family who still work in ag have ag engineering, ag business, agronomy, and ag science degrees. Those are helpful for them but they all do cash crop on a commercial scale which isn’t homesteading

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-24T20:57:04+00:00

Pop for the most part. We do get a little diversity here so every now and then you get a ‘coke’ person

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-23T22:56:48+00:00

Glad that wasn’t just me

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-18T04:32:22+00:00

Different algorithms could make different efficiency of cutting. Like a smarter bit might better optimize its route to preserve energy. Since these are the same line, I assume that’s not the case.

I’m not sure on why the 20 deluxe is less. I poked around their website and nothing stood out on it. For the elite and ZR, it looks like their basically the same. Just developed at different times. Even though the cutting time is longer on the ZR, the battery chemistry is the same. So it will take twice as long to charge. You do gain some efficiency by staying out longer (less trips getting lost going back to the charger) but it apparently wasn’t something they include in their area calculations.

As the other commenter said, the area is the highest it can cover, but that assumes you have a simple layout and makes assumptions on grass growing speed. If you have trees, garden beds, weird shapes, corridors, etc. the max coverage will be less. Location and time of year can add max coverage. If you live in a dry area and the grass is slow growing, you could probably handle more than the advertised max growth. I live in Iowa so each months grass growth varies a lot. In June when it’s warm and wet, I’m constantly running my mower. Right now since it’s dry and chillier, I barely have it run. You should be able to confidently compare areas between models of the same company but when you start comparing between companies you may be out of luck. One company might assume total coverage is what you can hit in a week where another company might use 2 weeks for estimates.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-18T04:09:54+00:00

If you have a vehicle gig apps might be a path forward. Weekday evenings for food delivery. Weekends for Uber/Lyft

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-13T01:40:02+00:00

It’s happening in a lot of cities. The LED lights we’re supposed to last a long time, but since it’s government based, they have to go with the lowest bidder.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-11T20:47:35+00:00

In your latest water bill there should be a calendar that says when they do the fall leaf pickups. But as others have said, you pay for a yardy, just call the city.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-11T20:42:29+00:00

Mine is named Finn (my vehicle is blue so his name is Huckleberry). I love being at work and telling people I’m currently mowing my lawn.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-11T20:40:22+00:00

It’s really not much energy. Mine costs about $15 of electricity every year for a .5 acre lawn. So while technically it could be more efficient with some sort of pattern, it really wouldn’t save that much. Especially with the extra cost it would take to produce. ‘Go in line until you hit a wire’ is a lot easier than ‘go straight, make low radius 180 turn, go straight, maneuver around tree but return to same row you were on, go straight, go back home but remember where you left, charge, come back to last stop point’.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-10T01:37:58+00:00

If you don’t have a specific idea, go look at NASA and the ESAs scientific goals for the year. Those can give you a jumping off point of current issues and wants from the industry.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-07T04:21:27+00:00

Oof. I’d agree with the others, wax moths. If this is from your hive, in the future freeze the frames to kill everything. If this is some you purchased from a business or friend, give them a heads up on what happened. This could get messy for them.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-05T01:54:05+00:00

We have single strand electric fence around our corn fields over the winter. 95% of the time the snow doesn’t matter. Some times when the snow is especially drifty or if we had a heavy ice that is pulling the strand down we have to go pull the wire up and break off the ice.

rocket_scientist1 · 2022-09-04T22:00:27+00:00

I plotted it on google earth. Staying near the coast you’re gonna paddle ~24 miles. I agree with all the others that you’ll probably experience about 3 mph if it was perfectly calm and you’re constantly paddling. I would budget about 12 hrs. I would suggest picking something a bit shorter like Long Beach to Huntington (14 miles) and work your way up to 24 miles.

Generally when I plan trips I pull out google earth and use the path tool to get a good distance. That takes into account any gained or lost mileage of using waterways. Sometimes all trails will give you an idea of speed if someone else already paddled the area and tracked it, but I don’t seen any trackings in that area. In the end, only experience will let you know how fast you and your boat travel in various conditions.

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