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Quote: FaceJust turned 39. Don't feel a day over 70.
Turning 40 on friday. Sadness
They stopped the dice for 15 seconds, the dealers shook hands with one another and then they got the dice back to the shooter.
Quote: GWAETurning 40 on friday. Sadness
40 is sad because it's 10 short
years to 50, and 50 sucks, because
the majority of your productive
life is in the rear view mirror. If
you're in your 40's and look it,
people also will treat you differently.
Like you're old now.
Big deal, we all assumed you were in your mid forties anyways. I would like to say Im joking, but I believe we had this conversation before. I was like oh f***, I forgot you're not even 40 yet.Quote: GWAETurning 40 on friday. Sadness
Take it as a compliment, my thinking was you seem to have your s*** together and accomplished as much as someone in their mid-forties.
I do have one question that perhaps someone could help me with. My wife and I were watching the ABC network coverage of the celebration in Times Square, and I noticed that their countdown was running maybe four seconds behind the real time as reported by NIST and USNO (available to all via the web at time.com). Which seems more plausible to you folks: (1) The people at ABC in Times Square didn't have access to an accurate clock (or maybe didn't care) or (2) There is roughly a four-second delay between the live event in NYC and the time the network can deliver the event to the TV in my living room?
Quote: DocI was confident that someone would have already started a Happy New Year thread, but I didn't see it. Instead, I will extend right here my 2020 New Year greetings from the U.S. Eastern Time zone to all of you worldwide.
I do have one question that perhaps someone could help me with. My wife and I were watching the ABC network coverage of the celebration in Times Square, and I noticed that their countdown was running maybe four seconds behind the real time as reported by NIST and USNO (available to all via the web at time.com). Which seems more plausible to you folks: (1) The people at ABC in Times Square didn't have access to an accurate clock (or maybe didn't care) or (2) There is roughly a four-second delay between the live event in NYC and the time the network can deliver the event to the TV in my living room?
There’s definitely a delay. I imagine they need a few seconds to hit a dump button if something goes very wrong on live TV.
Next year I’m getting fireworks
I can't imagine a better way end one year and begin the next than to be shooting dice. Preferably winning, of course.Quote: Johnzimbowe ended up at Circus Circus and were playing craps and pretty much forgot about it being NYE until everyone started counting down from ten.
Digital Radio, TV, and even telephony get's lag introduced at various process stages. Even within the TV set, there can be a half second delay. The effects are cumulative.Quote: Doc(2) There is roughly a four-second delay between the live event in NYC and the time the network can deliver the event to the TV in my living room?
I get this when I have the lounge TV on at the same time as the kitchen TV. The half second delay gives me an echo effect.
I also suspect the TV networks introduce a small delay for NYE and major 'live' events in case there is a gory terrorist event.
Quote: OnceDear
I get this when I have the lounge TV.
You have a lounge in your home?
"The definition of a lounge is an area in a public place such as a hotel, airport or club, where you can sit, wait and relax. ... A room off the lobby in a hotel where people can go and relax and listen to music and drink a drink is an example of a lounge."
Do you have guest singers and piano
players? Cool..
Quote: jjjooogggThis year many are firing crackers in town.
Isn't that reverse discrimination? :)
Quote: DocI was confident that someone would have already started a Happy New Year thread, but I didn't see it. Instead, I will extend right here my 2020 New Year greetings from the U.S. Eastern Time zone to all of you worldwide.
I do have one question that perhaps someone could help me with. My wife and I were watching the ABC network coverage of the celebration in Times Square, and I noticed that their countdown was running maybe four seconds behind the real time as reported by NIST and USNO (available to all via the web at time.com). Which seems more plausible to you folks: (1) The people at ABC in Times Square didn't have access to an accurate clock (or maybe didn't care) or (2) There is roughly a four-second delay between the live event in NYC and the time the network can deliver the event to the TV in my living room?
It used to be, sort of famously a 7 second delay, for live tv. When Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, and other late night talk shows were live (and served drinks in the green room), some of the guests would get carried away and drop f bombs or other forbidden words. And the host would crack a joke about the 7 seconds.
Guess it's down to 4, but they still do it for live events. Gives them a chance to bleep whatever.
I've noticed lately they're not so good at it at sporting events. They have those focusing sidine microphones going on people who don't know they're miked, and the f-bombs seem to land a lot. For some reason, they don't bleep those any more.
Could also be for visuals, like from someone dropping trou to an on-camera murder, I guess. But I think it was originally a language issue.
And these days, I think they'd let the on-camera murder play.
You are probably quite correct and I was off on the amount of the delay. I was unaware of the deliberate delay and was wondering about possible delays associated with communication with satellites, transfers to my cable provider, etc.Quote: beachbumbabsIt used to be, sort of famously a 7 second delay, for live tv.
After noticing that there was "some" delay present, I very likely got a tad confused by the various clocks available to me at the moment that were not in perfect sync: my cellphone which reports the carrier's network time (with Verizon around here tending to be about a second behind the"real" time), my wristwatch (which I try to keep close to correct but today is about 2 seconds ahead), and a forty-some-year-old wind-up mantle clock (which varies speed slightly depending on just how fully it is wound) that chimed midnight a few seconds before ABC declared the new year. My brain apparently hadn't consolidated the discrepancies between the various sources properly when I made my post.
Anyways, I just fell asleep on the couch and would still be sleeping but my snoring woke myself up. Not sure I ever did that, I must have been loud
Quote: JohnzimboIsn't that reverse discrimination? :)
haha.
There really was alot of fireworks. I video taped some of it. I had a free show. Some of them sounded like rapid fire. It must have gave veterans flashbacks, litterally.
Yes, I belong to an elite group called the Zombie Outbreak response team. Not at liberty to discuss though.
I don't even remember the question, link please.Quote: jjjooogggAxel,
Yes, I belong to an elite group called the Zombie Outbreak response team. Not at liberty to discuss though.
Quote: MintyIt's so easy to let a sleep cycle get totally disrupted. I've been pretty much cooped up at home for the greater part of the last couple weeks and it makes it feel like time doesn't matter. I watched something like 17 continuous episodes of The Good Place last night and went to bed as it was getting light out. I don't like the concept of regularity and the 9-5 Monday to Friday, so it suits me fine.
I have been retired for 9 years yet I still go by a sleep schedule as most older people do. I go to bed at 12:00 am (usually) and get up 7-8 am. The difference is if I wake up during the night and can't get back to sleep I get up and watch tv or go on the computer until I get tired. I also don't sleep during the day unless I had a bad night.
When I worked I always thought I would sleep whenever once I retired but I still sleep about the same as before retirement.
Quote: vegasI have been retired for 9 years yet I still go by a sleep schedule as most older people do. I go to bed at 12:00 am (usually) and get up 7-8 am. The difference is if I wake up during the night and can't get back to sleep I get up and watch tv or go on the computer until I get tired. I also don't sleep during the day unless I had a bad night.
When I worked I always thought I would sleep whenever once I retired but I still sleep about the same as before retirement.
So no naps? If I was retired, half my free time would be napping. Hahaha.
Quote: mcallister3200I envy people who are even able to take naps or don’t have trouble sleeping. I have little chance of being able to sleep during daytime unless running a pretty bad sleep deficit. Zero chance of sleeping in a plane or any sort of moving vehicle unless completely skipped a night.
I try to plan as many as my trips as possible to be Red-eye flights. I pop an Ambien and will sleep the whole way accross country. As long as I get four hoursof sleep I function fine after that.
Quote: mcallister3200I envy people who are even able to take naps or don’t have trouble sleeping. I have little chance of being able to sleep during daytime unless running a pretty bad sleep deficit. Zero chance of sleeping in a plane or any sort of moving vehicle unless completely skipped a night.
I am another person who does not sleep in a plane. We took a red eye from Vegas and I still did not sleep a wink and that is after being up from 8 am the morning of the flight. I remember getting up to use the washroom at 4am and did not see another person awake. I watched ed two movies to kill time until the plane landed. I then had a 90 minute drive home.
I certainly have the time to nap but it does interfere with my night time sleep if I do. Really don't seem to get tired much. I used to watch my dad go to bet at 9pm when he was old and then would wake up at 5am. He would complain he always woke up too early. I said stay up later but of course he was too tired at night. That might be the reason I stay up until midnight most nights.
I used to be exactly like you on both aspects. At some point, that all changed.Quote: mcallister3200I envy people who are even able to take naps or don’t have trouble sleeping. I have little chance of being able to sleep during daytime unless running a pretty bad sleep deficit. Zero chance of sleeping in a plane or any sort of moving vehicle unless completely skipped a night.
Quote: DRichInteresting fact: Four babies are born each second and only two people die each second.
that is interesting. I am always astonished by worlwide numbers. So weird to think that in the typing of this message 8 people died.
Quote: DRichInteresting fact: Four babies are born each second and only two people die each second.
that is interesting. I am always astonished by worlwide numbers. So weird to think that in the typing of this message 8 people died.
Quote: DRichInteresting fact: Four babies are born each second and only two people die each second.
So the earths population increases by 172,800 people every day.
That sounds very high. I’m surprised the food supply is able to keep up with that.
Quote: mcallister3200For the second time in my life I was checked into a hotel room that was already occupied. How does that even happen? At least this time I could hear a tv and knocked so didn’t barge in on them. Mistake like that could potentially go sideways real fast if someone thought it was an intruder. Ever happen to anyone else?
I hear those stories all the time. Never been on either side of it
Quote: mcallister3200For the second time in my life I was checked into a hotel room that was already occupied. How does that even happen? At least this time I could hear a tv and knocked so didn’t barge in on them. Mistake like that could potentially go sideways real fast if someone thought it was an intruder. Ever happen to anyone else?
It’s happened to me at Borgata on 3 separate occasions.
I’ve been told that their system doesn’t update immediately when a guest checks in. So that if 2 people are at 2 different check-in employees at the same time, the employees can give both the same room
It happens also with what are known as "Dead Runs" because these are entered into the system by hand.Quote: michael99000
I’ve been told that their system doesn’t update immediately when a guest checks in. So that if 2 people are at 2 different check-in employees at the same time, the employees can give both the same room
DEAD RUN: Favored Player arrives and is COMPED to a certain good but not great suite and is told "just leave your bags immediately inside the door and tomorrow morning while you are in the casino we will send a Bell Man to your room who will deliver them to this Great Super Duper Comped suite worthy of a customer with your action.
Such runs are entered by hand and often involve transposition errors irrespective of screen refresh rates.
Quote: mcallister3200For the second time in my life I was checked into a hotel room that was already occupied. How does that even happen? At least this time I could hear a tv and knocked so didn’t barge in on them. Mistake like that could potentially go sideways real fast if someone thought it was an intruder. Ever happen to anyone else?
Its happened to me twice,once the room just had luggage in it,but the other time a guy was sleeping and i quickly backed out of the room.I was really scared he would wake up.
Also happened to me when I was in a room but I had the chain on so they couldn't get in.
Quote: GWAEI hear those stories all the time. Never been on either side of it
I was staying with a friend who was comped at Encore and we opened our room to a sleeping Asian couple. They didn’t seem impressed lol. We got a new room and this one came with a beat up pink teddy bear. Encore wasn’t on their game that day.
Currently infomercial about pack and stack. Interesting. May purchase. It is a vaccum sealer for clothes. Let's you get more into suit case or storage if you save clothes. Wondering if it ruins the clothes
You would think, but we had this happen back when I was a kid in the early 80's. Our family was staying at one of the motels near Disney World, and when we got to 'our' room, there was a Japanese family already in it. They didn't speak much English, and as you might expect, we didn't know any Japanese.Quote: rxwineWouldn't happen in the days of metal key entry.
But, the other family's father and my Dad could communicate enough to realize what happened, so they went back to the front desk and got it all sorted out.
Might be OK for packing away sweaters for the season, but I wouldn't want to do it for travelling. I would imagine it wrinkles the hell out of your clothes.Quote: GWAECurrently infomercial about pack and stack. Interesting. May purchase. It is a vaccum sealer for clothes. Let's you get more into suit case or storage if you save clothes. Wondering if it ruins the clothes
Plus, if you vacuum pack your suitcase for Vegas, what happens when you go to pack to come home? I guess you could pack the pump & bags as well, but doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of trying to save space?
I suggest you take Nancy Reagan's advice and "Just Say No" to infomercials. ;)
Quote: JoemanMight be OK for packing away sweaters for the season, but I wouldn't want to do it for travelling. I would imagine it wrinkles the hell out of your clothes.
Plus, if you vacuum pack your suitcase for Vegas, what happens when you go to pack to come home? I guess you could pack the pump & bags as well, but doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of trying to save space?
I suggest you take Nancy Reagan's advice and "Just Say No" to infomercials. ;)
Once you learn how to pack the bags, your clothes don't wrinkle and the pump takes up as much space as a can of deodorant or hair spray. You can also suck the air out the old fashioned way. Start with a bear hug and then sit on the bag.
Space bags are invaluable to road warriors or people living in small quarters.
I'm a bit skeptical of the no wrinkles aspect.Quote: billryanOnce you learn how to pack the bags, your clothes don't wrinkle and the pump takes up as much space as a can of deodorant or hair spray. You can also suck the air out the old fashioned way. Start with a bear hug and then sit on the bag.
Space bags are invaluable to road warriors or people living in small quarters.
I hope you understand that I was joking. Sometimes those things fall through the cracks, and I neglected to include a smiley. Anyway, I was basically teasing that someone else had been able to come up with the same joke you did but in time to get it published a day before you did. Clever for both of you, in my opinion.Quote: darkozI didnt steal or plagiarize anything. First time I saw that.
