Random Thoughts

The Sandbox General
5496

For $2600 its legs should be long enough to just step up, no jumping required.

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5497

For $2600 it should answer to the name "Rosey’ and do all your household cleaning.

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5498

That should be included for just $2500. For $2600, you should be able to pick the name.

And for $3000, you should be able to pick any name except something you regularly call your spouse, so you don’t accidentally get into trouble for saying “Honey, clean up that mess”.

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5500

Scene: Wife wearing scrubs, walking past the mobile phone kiosk.

Sales guy: We’re running a special, just for you. Are you a nurse?

Wife: Nope. <opens mouth to correct, then keeps on walking>

Dude, you lost that deal.

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5501

If only he had said, “Are you an emergency medicine doctor?”. :woman_health_worker:

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5502

The great(?) thing about a hospital is even the “janitors” wear scrubs.

5503

yes, but guess high and let them correct you

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5504

Bubble Yum >>> Double Bubble

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5505

At Rush University Med Center, they went color coded, so you can tell who’s who just by what they’re wearing. The chart of color coding is one of the things they include in rooms.

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5506

I don’t recall learning about oblique asymptotes in math class.

5507

for 2600 it ought to blow in addition to sucking.

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5508

I may have told this story before. Female friend is a pilot. She was in her pilot uniform after her last flight (into the city where she is based) and was using her flight benefits to commute home. She handed her airline ID which clearly indicates she is a pilot to the gate agent as she inquired about seat availability.

Gate Agent: I’m sorry; the flight is full.

Uniformed Female Pilot: Bummer! Is the cockpit jumpseat available?

Gate Agent: Well… yes… but flight attendants aren’t allowed to sit in the cockpit jumpseat.

Uniformed Female Pilot: Yes, I know. But pilots can, right?

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5509

A story I’ve told before, but very relevant here: at least 20 years ago, on a small plane in the Caribbean where there carefully assigned seats by weight to keep the plane balanced, they assigned my wife to the second pilot seat. They told her “don’t touch anything”. She didn’t.

Fortunately the assigning seats by weight did not extend to assigning the pilot’s seat. And there was no co-pilot whose seat was reassigned to accommodate my wife’s assignment. (And her weight was a very normal adult human weight. I expect there were passengers heavier and lighter than her in traditional passenger seats. Don’t remember other passengers since it was so long ago, but I expect either all traditional passenger seats did get used, or perhaps one row was empty. Just 2 seats per row, one on each side of aisle.)

5510

:astonished:

That’s definitely not allowed in the United States! Flight attendants can’t even sit in the cockpit jumpseat, as I mentioned, although I think that might be airline policy rather than federal law. You definitely need two pilots and if the flight is long then you need three so each one can have a rest break. At least for regular scheduled commercial passenger flights.

(Per federal law you do have to have two people in the cockpit at all times. If one of the pilots needs to get up and use the restroom or anything then a flight attendant, usually the purser, will go sit in the cockpit temporarily.)

5511

Not quite a second pilot, but take a regional flight on a tiny Cessna (e.g., Cape Air from Boston to/from Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket). No separate cockpit. Weighed prior to boarding. Some luggage in the wing, some in the cabin, depending on weight balance.

I have ended up front next to the pilot; no stick, but ready access to lots of switches, throttle, etc.

EDIT: Oh, and of course nothing would have stopped me from knocking the pilot senseless.

5512

Yeah, I think the tiny planes have different regulations. Like lack of a locked cockpit door requirement.

5513

I have 5 days of PTO left and would like to not roll any over at the end of the year, and that’s after already factoring in a week off around Thanksgiving. I’ll probably just take a lot of long weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as I like working the last two weeks of the year (and someone has to). It’s a good problem to have.

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5514

I love wind chimes.

Bought a set with the house. They make me happy. (Why didn’t I put up wind chimes at the old house?)

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My guess is that your wife was of approximate weight to the pilot . . . or estimated to be such . . .