The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Three Identical Strangers. A documentary of triplets separated as infants. Not pure entertainment, but some twists and turns and it will make you think.

...That was the one where the triplets were part of an experiment that's still ongoing that also involves a bunch of other siblings that were also separated at birth (even though they don't know) and where everything is being held confidential until around 2060?

Yep ... 2075. (Don't give away the plot )

 

[waday]

Three Identical Strangers. A documentary of triplets separated as infants. Not pure entertainment, but some twists and turns and it will make you think.

...That was the one where the triplets were part of an experiment that's still ongoing that also involves a bunch of other siblings that were also separated at birth (even though they don't know) and where everything is being held confidential until around 2060?

Yep ... 2075. (Don't give away the plot )

I read an article about it....

I'll put my previous post in spoiler quotes...

 

[davidharmier60]

A few seconds after noon folks.
For the last hour or so was working in the milk cooler where I put in liners the other day. Took a Lot of scraping sweeping and mopping to get the stinky stuff up off the floor. Much kneeling, squatting and getting head down to floor level. About kicked my butt. Just enjoyed chicken tenders and gravy at the deli. PO and then the box at the front of the neighborhood and then home.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[vintagesnaps]

I had my share of triplets and quadruplets when I was working... even one family that had a set of each, still young enough to not be in school yet. Mealtime at their house was an interesting experience!

I would go get something done but international lacrosse is on, USA leading Australia. Haven't seen much of the tournament, only US or Canada games were on and with the time difference they started out showing later replays of early morning/middle of the night games but weren't showing those anymore. And the US and Canada both qualified early and had bye days so the tourney's almost over and I hardly saw much of it. I think it'll be the US and Canada in the consolation and championship games tomorrow and Saturday.

 

[Fujidave]

Got about about an hour ago from a fantastic day taking photos and getting help setting up a site on FB for my singers photos. Walk in and I get an ashtray thrown at me by the wife who then says Why did I send our boy off and what have I been doing today. So after sorting out my arm and head I tell her go to bed or I call the police. Yes we lost our son, but I lost our son and my brother, so if she is still bad with me in the morning she can have a divorce and I can live my life, I am sorry but I am fed up of been hit and slapped and accused of killing our boy. Sorry about this rant but I have to say it to get it off my chest.

 

[snowbear137 68]

I had a fun day at work.

The Fire/EMS Department has to check if any new residential development is within seven minutes of an existing fire station; any parcels outside seven minutes have a fee levied. I set up a web app that allows the Investigators run the check. The problem is, and I can't really do anything about it, proposed roads are probably not in the database, so the we can't readily run those in the coverage analysis.

In that event, we have to add the roads into the database, rebuild the road network, and run the analysis locally. It's not difficult, but adding the roads can be very time consuming. We need at least a drawing (drafting or another map). I can then take that image, "paste" it to my map (georeferencing) by making registration points on both the drawing and the map, then trace the developer's roads as new data records for my roads. I then set speed limits and relative elevation (typically zero), run a calculation to determine how long it takes to drive across each road segment, then I tell the computer to "build network." Once that's done, I run the time analysis, make a final map, add a narrative to the email and it's off to the Fire folks. The longest part is georeferencing and tracing the roads. I grabbed a PNG the developer emailed - just a copy of a map with their lines drawn on it. Pasted it to my work map, traced the roads and BAM - most of the development is covered. It was a little over four hours, only because I had some issues with the network so I ran it a second time. Unfortunately, what they REALLY wanted was the area that wasn't covered; they didn't draw those lines on the little map. It's OK, the boss sent on.

Now comes the rest of the day (and some of Monday). I extracted the large scale drawings (1" = 30') from the supplied PDF (I think there were 16 of them) using a screen capture tool. Now I'll bring each into Photoshop, then stitch them together so I have one big-@$$ image (60" x 60" should cover it), then georeference THAT bad boy. Once those roads are added, I'll run it again, though I don't think it will matter much - there are no additional access roads.

The boss is going to tell / suggest that either the developers run the analysis themselves, or supply us with the electronic CAD (drafting) files, and we will run everything. If they want us to do it, he's going to say he needs another full time contractor just to handle this.

 

[snowbear137 68]

Got about about an hour ago from a fantastic day taking photos and getting help setting up a site on FB for my singers photos. Walk in and I get an ashtray thrown at me by the wife who then says Why did I send our boy off and what have I been doing today. So after sorting out my arm and head I tell her go to bed or I call the police. Yes we lost our son, but I lost our son and my brother, so if she is still bad with me in the morning she can have a divorce and I can live my life, I am sorry but I am fed up of been hit and slapped and accused of killing our boy. Sorry about this rant but I have to say it to get it off my chest.

 

[Gary A.]

Got about about an hour ago from a fantastic day taking photos and getting help setting up a site on FB for my singers photos. Walk in and I get an ashtray thrown at me by the wife who then says Why did I send our boy off and what have I been doing today. So after sorting out my arm and head I tell her go to bed or I call the police. Yes we lost our son, but I lost our son and my brother, so if she is still bad with me in the morning she can have a divorce and I can live my life, I am sorry but I am fed up of been hit and slapped and accused of killing our boy. Sorry about this rant but I have to say it to get it off my chest.

 

[limr48 1]

Got about about an hour ago from a fantastic day taking photos and getting help setting up a site on FB for my singers photos. Walk in and I get an ashtray thrown at me by the wife who then says Why did I send our boy off and what have I been doing today. So after sorting out my arm and head I tell her go to bed or I call the police. Yes we lost our son, but I lost our son and my brother, so if she is still bad with me in the morning she can have a divorce and I can live my life, I am sorry but I am fed up of been hit and slapped and accused of killing our boy. Sorry about this rant but I have to say it to get it off my chest.

I'm sorry

 

[davidharmier60]

Geez FD I know not what to say. Hang in there buddy!

 

[SquarePeg]

I had my share of triplets and quadruplets when I was working... even one family that had a set of each, still young enough to not be in school yet. Mealtime at their house was an interesting experience!

I would go get something done but international lacrosse is on, USA leading Australia. Haven't seen much of the tournament, only US or Canada games were on and with the time difference they started out showing later replays of early morning/middle of the night games but weren't showing those anymore. And the US and Canada both qualified early and had bye days so the tourney's almost over and I hardly saw much of it. I think it'll be the US and Canada in the consolation and championship games tomorrow and Saturday.

I’m sorry, are you seriously telling me that people watch lacrosse even though they don’t have a kid on the team?

@Fujidave I’m so sorry for your troubles. Sounds like your wife is in pain and lashing out. Don’t let this tragedy tear you apart.

 

[snowbear137 68]

I’m sorry, are you seriously telling me that people watch lacrosse even though they don’t have a kid on the team?

Strange, isn't it. Kinda like watching baseball without a kid on the team.

 

[limr48 1]

I’m sorry, are you seriously telling me that people watch lacrosse even though they don’t have a kid on the team?

Strange, isn't it. Kinda like watching baseball without a kid on the team.

Nah. Baseball is boring. Lacrosse is more fun to watch.

 

[Gary A.]

Maggie and M͠a͠x͠

We are dog sitting M͠a͠x͠, until his human returns from a six day trip.

 

[Gary A.]

This is Philippe’s, home of the original French Dip. Philippe’s claims to have invented the French Dip. The sandwiches here are absolutely Delish. Mary Lou and Gary will be watching The Humans tonight at the Ahmanson Theatre.