Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Really interesting Show on PBS last night about Elevators. (Lifts to you & me).

Arguably, THE safest form of transport (transport?) in the world, with billions of daily "trips". 90% of fatalaties in Elevators in the USA involve the Engineers who install & service them. Maybe 4 or 5 fatalaties per year, though the stats exclude 9/11 & the WTC, understandably.

It was mostly quite interesting. If you think about it, life as we know it in most major connurbations could not exist without lifts/elevators, as High-Rise offices & Residences are necessary these days, & nobody is going to walk up to the 50th floor or whatever. New York or Vegas without lifts? Ain't gonna happen.   

The dumbed down part of the Show was the central running theme - "TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR".

Geezer gets trapped in an elevator in his New York Office at 11pm on Friday night, & because Security failed to monitor the CCTV, or answer the emergency phone, it was Sunday afternoon before he got out, some 43 hours later.

Before they showed his plight, they interviewed him. "Worst 2 days of my life" he says.

What?, I'm thinking?

2 days stuck in a lift is the worst 2 days of your life? You ain't lived, sunny boy.

He had really straggly long hair too, another reason not to like him. Long hair, ffs, they'll be having tattoos next.

Anyway, there was a CCTV in the lift, so we got to see him stuck in the lift for 2 days. Stand up, sit down, stand up, lay down, pick his nose, scratch his arse, prise the doors open & piss down the lift shaft, the lot.

When it was all over, he sued the Building Managers, & was awarded........$200,000.

HOW MUCH?

For 2 days stuck in a lift? $100,000 per day?

Wish I could get $100,000 a day for time-wasters. Might apply for a week, actually.

And he can afford to get his hair cut now.   

[77dave]

how about escalators

[tikay]

how about escalators

Brilliant!

That really is top class.

I actually know someone who is petrified of escalators, just as many are scared of flying.

[Doobs]

It's hard work you know!! the missus always wakes me up when she leaves to take Amelie to nursery in the morning before she goes to work, then I actually have to go offline and leave the house at 5pm to pick her up!! Then it's a whole 2hrs before she is back in bed!!

July time I could be a full time SAHD and even be expected to do some house work on top. That's when I will "realise how tough it is", apparently..

You won't have time for all those apostrophes when she is at home.   Was wondering how the heck you managed to watch 7 films in a day.

[millidonk]

It's hard work you know!! the missus always wakes me up when she leaves to take Amelie to nursery in the morning before she goes to work, then I actually have to go offline and leave the house at 5pm to pick her up!! Then it's a whole 2hrs before she is back in bed!!

July time I could be a full time SAHD and even be expected to do some house work on top. That's when I will "realise how tough it is", apparently..

You won't have time for all those apostrophes when she is at home.   Was wondering how the heck you managed to watch 7 films in a day.

Only the 1 film per day now that I am a full time grindbot.. Capt Phillips last night and saving Mr banks the night before. Highly recommend both.

Truth be told I am looking forward to it, I know it will be tough at times but highly enjoyable. Everyday at 'Daddy day care'  is an adventure.

[tikay]

2,400 +, pages & a million views in, Vegas & the Aftermath, after majoring for 7 years on such fascinating subjects as railways, bridges & concrete, as well as Level 7 analysis of poker, becomes a meeting place for the SAHD Support Group.

Here's Doobs & Millinit yesterday afternoon.

[Mohican]

2,400 +, pages & a million views in, Vegas & the Aftermath, after majoring for 7 years on such fascinating subjects as railways, bridges & concrete, as well as Level 7 analysis of poker, becomes a meeting place for the SAHD Support Group.

Here's Doobs & Millinit yesterday afternoon.

How do those stats compare to the Caravan Clubs diary?

[TightEnd]

Thought you might like this

The facade of the public library in Kansas City

[tikay]

Thought you might like this

The facade of the public library in Kansas City

Ooh, love it!

[tikay]

2,400 +, pages & a million views in, Vegas & the Aftermath, after majoring for 7 years on such fascinating subjects as railways, bridges & concrete, as well as Level 7 analysis of poker, becomes a meeting place for the SAHD Support Group.

Here's Doobs & Millinit yesterday afternoon.

How do those stats compare to the Caravan Clubs diary?

He appeals to a different audience, they prefer to discuss the finer points of farting & that sort of thing.

[tikay]

The annual Boston.com pictures of the year links.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/12/2013_year_in_pictures_part_i.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/12/2013_year_in_pictures_part_2.html

Excellent stuff.

Took me a good few hours, much of it was pretty depressing to be honest.

The underlying theme seems to be death in one shape or another. What we don't ordinarily think about is that evey one of those deaths is a tragedy for so many others, especially family.

I could discuss some of those photos for hours on end, but I've selected two that especially caught my eye, as they demonstrate, in very different ways, "scale".

The 2nd one, in particular, staggered me.

In the first one, we see the tragedy of one death, but there are so many others if those graves are anything to go by. Every one is a tragedy in it's own right, but barely a sidebar in the local news.

Click to see full-size image.

Click to see full-size image.

[DMorgan]

I had this show up on my facebook wall from an old teacher, thought it might interested you. Enjoy

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/rare-color-film-shows-what-london-looked-like-in-1927/

[tikay]

I had this show up on my facebook wall from an old teacher, thought it might interested you. Enjoy

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/rare-color-film-shows-what-london-looked-like-in-1927/

Loved that Dan, thank you, though I had to turn the sound off, that bloody music did my head in. I wonder if silence will ever come back into fashion?

So many of those views of London remain identical to this day, over 80 years on. Much of The Embankment street furniture, & of course the gates of Buck Pal, & Whitehall, are as beautiful today as they were then. On London Bridge, the granite kerbs are still there, crisp & sharp as always.

The footage in Petticoat Lane (4.19 onwards) was remarkable, every man bar one was wearing a hat. The one hatless guy was, I'm pretty sure, Karabiner. 

Thanks very much.

PS - Good luck tonight with the Doobs stake. It'd be remarkable if he could win it again, but stranger things have happened.

[tikay]

After viewing that thing Dan Posted, this one came up, London in the 1950's. Again, even though the music (Debussy) is beautiful, best turn it off, I want to look at the visions, not listen to bloody music, if I want to listen to music I'll get my Walkman out.

This is London exactly as I recall it as a young boy. Enchanting, emotional, evocative.


 

[Steve Swift]

Cheers  Dan and TK they were both superb, got to love youtube