Out of the Blue

Over the years I've cleared a couple of abandoned mud wasp nests from the BlueTower. They're small and easy enough to scrape off a wall, since they basically seem like dried mud. However, the one MrsBlue recently found was different, as it was brown and sealed instead of gray and open. This lead to concerns that scraping at it would lead to some sort of live wasp encounter I wanted no part of. So we called back the exterminator that recently dealt with our carpenter bee situation who cleared this up easily. It was only after the fact that I did a little more research to learn that the mud dauber wasps that make such nests are not aggressive, and basically harmless to humans. They are also helpful at controlling other pests, so there is an argument for just leaving them be (bee?). But this was right over the front door of the house, and however benign they may be, these wasps look at least as scary as the more aggressive varieties. Now I feel bad, but leaving the nest there would terrorize visitors, so it's probably best that we had it removed.

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jdreyer wrote on Aug 14, 2018, 05:11:
CJ_Parker wrote on Aug 13, 2018, 20:20:
Lezz do it... "Operation Forest Freedom". Send them B-52s for some nature loving tender care!

Are you referring to the forest fires, or the blueberry-eating birds?

Why not strike two birds with one B-52?
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jdreyer wrote on Aug 14, 2018, 05:07:
We Hope Someday We Can Love Something As Much As This Sheep Loves Bouncing On A Trampoline.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ people.

This is not rocket surgery: HOLD YOUR FUCKING PHONE SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU SHOOT VIDEOS. I swear to fucking God, people are morans.

Exception: you are shooting a Space X launch or landing.

You obviously don't have kids, portrait is the preferred viewing and filming method for them. Pretty much everything you see on Instagram is taken this way. People don't like auto-orientation on phones and often take video the "wrong" way when they attempt to flip their phone.

So yeah expect this trend to continue and intensify.
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jdreyer wrote on Aug 14, 2018, 05:07:
We Hope Someday We Can Love Something As Much As This Sheep Loves Bouncing On A Trampoline.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ people.

This is not rocket surgery: HOLD YOUR FUCKING PHONE SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU SHOOT VIDEOS. I swear to fucking God, people are morans.

Exception: you are shooting a Space X launch or landing.

This problem is the fault of phone makers (well, at least with iPhones). When you record sideways, the video is up-side-down. This result occurs because Apple requires the user to hold the phone "backwards" sideways. These problems could be fixed if the developer added code where the video always appears in the correct orientation whether shot sideways from top-down or down-top.
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Aug 14, 2018, 12:57
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jdreyer wrote on Aug 14, 2018, 05:07:
We Hope Someday We Can Love Something As Much As This Sheep Loves Bouncing On A Trampoline.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ people.

This is not rocket surgery: HOLD YOUR FUCKING PHONE SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU SHOOT VIDEOS. I swear to fucking God, people are morans.

Exception: you are shooting a Space X launch or landing.

I mentioned this before, but I've never understood how people immediately 'sperge off on every vertical video they see, but no one dislikes or bitches in the comments about all these videos and broadcasts that are squashed or stretched into the wrong aspect ratio. How does that not bother people?

It's easier to hold a phone in portrait orientation, and if there was anything important going on off to the side, they would have stepped back or flipped their phone. I don't get the big deal. People and their faces are also more suited to portrait orientation than landscape, but no one flips out about all that wasted space.
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Aug 14, 2018, 05:12
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Growers Are Beaming Over The Success Of Lasers To Stave Off Thieving Birds.

Researchers at Purdue University are studying the risk of injury to birds. Principal investigator Esteban Fernandez-Juricic says very little is known about whether lasers can harm the animals' retinas.

Narrow that beam and aim it at center mass. Then the birds get a nip of pain from the laser and fly away, retinas intact.

Just leave blueberries alone!
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CJ_Parker wrote on Aug 13, 2018, 20:20:
Lezz do it... "Operation Forest Freedom". Send them B-52s for some nature loving tender care!

Are you referring to the forest fires, or the blueberry-eating birds?
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Aug 14, 2018, 05:07
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Aug 14, 2018, 05:07
 
We Hope Someday We Can Love Something As Much As This Sheep Loves Bouncing On A Trampoline.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ people.

This is not rocket surgery: HOLD YOUR FUCKING PHONE SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU SHOOT VIDEOS. I swear to fucking God, people are morans.

Exception: you are shooting a Space X launch or landing.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Aug 14, 2018, 05:02
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Armengar wrote on Aug 14, 2018, 02:31:
whilst we love bees and spiders in our household, wasps are kill on sight. The kids are well versed on the procedure. Even bigger wasps nests are dealt with (although the actual poisoning is usually left to me as i can run quicker.

wasps are just plain evil.

Not sure why you'd say that...



On the other hand, it's like saying sharks are evil, when in fact they serve an important ecological function.
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Eventually some specie of birds will figure it out, but until then, good!
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DangerDog wrote on Aug 13, 2018, 14:00:

I doubt there would be such repercussions of nuking California though


You do realize that Hawaii is perhaps the most liberal state in the nation, yes?
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whilst we love bees and spiders in our household, wasps are kill on sight. The kids are well versed on the procedure. Even bigger wasps nests are dealt with (although the actual poisoning is usually left to me as i can run quicker.

wasps are just plain evil.
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Aug 14, 2018, 01:41
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"Only you can bomb forrest fires!" /S. Bear

~Finis~
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Lezz do it... "Operation Forest Freedom". Send them B-52s for some nature loving tender care!
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Dotard talks for 28 Minutes on bill named for John McCain. Not mentioned: John McCain.

It's time to use the 25th Amendment.

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Aug 13, 2018, 14:35
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Did anyone see the Parker Solar probe rocket launch on Sunday? So awesome!
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California wildfires?

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

We've tried bombing volcano lava with mixed results.

On Dec. 27, 1935, 10 Army bombers, then biplanes with cloth wings, set out to defeat nature, according to Historic Wings, an online aviation magazine. Each plane carried two 600-pound demolition bombs.

The mission: Bomb the lava flow source.

The planes dropped 20 bombs on Mauna Loa that day, five landed directly in the lava flow, creating giant craters that were quickly filled by the molten rock. The other bombs missed and one even turned out to be a dud.

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Additionally, local Hawaiians were disturbed by the bombing, but they weren’t upset over whether it worked or not. They believed the practice to be an affront to Pele, the Hawaiian volcano deity.

In a book titled “Pele, Volcano Goddess of Hawaii: A History,” H. Arlo Nimmo, a cultural anthropologist, wrote that many feared the bombs “would only anger the goddess to further destruction.”

As legend has it, less than a month later, Pele extracted a measure of revenge. Two planes collided over Oahu and six men who participated in the bombing were killed.

I doubt there would be such repercussions of nuking California though

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Aug 13, 2018, 13:56
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Hearing fellow business professionals use "your guys’s" on the phone, is quite possibly one of the most annoying things to hear.

Amateur: "How long do you expect to setup the servers on your guys's end?"

versus

Professional: "How long do you expect to setup the servers on your end?"

This comment was edited on Aug 13, 2018, 14:42.
"...and in stonks, Fizzy Squeezy Stocklebocks leaped over Droopy Whoopy Bondfluffs, hitting 300-gigglebits to their 150-snorebucks. Meanwhile, in Whimsyland's market, the pancakes reached parity with pogo sticks."
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Cutter wrote on Aug 13, 2018, 11:45:
Can forest fires stop the U.S. Air Force?!

A slight breeze and cloudy skies will stop the Chair Farce.
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Can forest fires stop the U.S. Air Force?!
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